Gone Away....

I thought about making up some wild story to explain my latest injury, but I’m too tired. xD So if you’re under the impression that you’re going to get a harrowing tale of woe like the baseball chronicles of last year, you can forget it.

The straight and narrow of it: I fell.

Me!

Perilous fisherman adventurer!

-Sigh-

I wasn’t entirely to blame, however. I was involved in a game of ‘Protect the President’, which is a variation of dodgeball. For those of you that have never played it, the rules are somewhat like this: the ‘president’ is surrounded by a group of people, all of whom are trying to hit him/her. The catch is that the president has a protector. The protector can get hit without consequences, while the president is out if he/she gets hit. The protector, then, tries to block the balls as they are thrown.

I was employed as a protector. My president and I were doing a very well, until a leader threw the dodgeball at the president’s feet. Competent bodyguard that I am, I went down to block it. At the same time, however, the president jumped out of the way of the ball, tripping me. I fell, my left leg twisting to the side. Doctor’s verdict: Type 1 ripped tendon. (Type 1 is better than type 2 or 3, by the way.)

This is the president/culprit:

Months, is it? Quite a while. ‘Extended leave’, I call it…. xP

Anyway, here I am. No broken bones, not even a twisted ankle. What am I to write about?

I should probably introduce a new blogger first. My very good friend Lauri is now PrettyInPunk of HSB. =D Please welcome her, all of you that still come by here and read this. www.homeschoolblogger.com/PrettyInPunk. Cha.

And, I have a new favorite band. Paramore. Please pardon me if I rant about them any, I don’t mean to. =P

This picture I have stolen from Sami, but she won’t mind….. or if she does, I’ll give her some oreos. Fair trade.

Amazed?

I’m happy to say that I’ve been awarded the blogger reflection award by LadyJaneGrey, a fantastic blogger who you should go check out. (www.homeschoolblogger.com/castleonacloud).

I don’t really know the rules of this, but it seems I get to award it to some worthy people. So, here goes my list of bloggers who are (somewhat) serious (at times), reflective, and whose writing is a blessing to read.

BookFreak: (www.homeschoolblogger.com/BookFreak) You have a quiet thoughtfulness that communicates itself very well on your blog, and I’m often struck with your deep ideas and huge heart for the Lord.

Soccergal: (www.homeschoolblogger.com/soccergal) I admire your unaltered honesty. You also have a very Godly view of life, an example of which I’m taking from one of your posts. "Our church has suffered a huge loss but God will use that in a way I cannot even imagine." That is biblical truth at its finest.

TC: (www.homeschoolblogger.com/TC) Although you have probably received this award (and others) more times then I can count, I really wanted to give it to you. HSB lost a huge part of itself when you left, and I think most of HSB’s population will agree with me. Good luck wherever you go.

SouthernBelle: (www.homeschoolblogger.com/SouthernBelle) As I was looking through your posts, I realized that not only had you already received this award, but you had also given it to me. I’m really sorry I didn’t see that before. You have been an awesome best friend, and your leaving has also hurt HSB immensly. Rock on.

Hopeful: (www.homeschoolblogger.com/hopeful) You’re a very encouraging person, and I never leave your blog with a sense of unhappiness. Keep on loving Jesus in all that you do.

KJo101: (www.homeschoolblogger.com/KJo101) Kristen, you’re a really fun person who is incredibly gifted at writing. Time to get another entry up, mi’girl!

If I had the time, there are many more people who deserve this award. Just because I didn’t mention you on this short list doesn’t mean I haven’t been blessed by your words.

In Him, Fisher

Okay, you can stop whining at me now, I’m posting…. =P

So, New York City was awesome. It’s a completely different world up there, being (of course) in Yankee territory. Do you know most people in New York don’t have a car? Or if they do, they use it sparingly? I dunno about you, but we couldn’t survive without at least one car. Dad couldn’t get to work, we couldn’t get food, ect. Up there, you usually either walk or take the subway. Everything’s so tall, too. Your best friend wouldn’t be on the other side of the neighborhood, or a few houses down, he/she would be a few floors up. Also, there’s NO GRASS. The only place I went through the entire week that had space to throw a football was Central Park, and there’s fifty billion people walking through there every day. Being an outdoors-y type guy who likes to play sports, I started to get this itch to run. Just run somewhere, anywhere, as fast I could. Most likely, you can’t relate to that and are wondering why I’m so weird, but perhaps you can. Of course, you can’t run in New York, not only because there’s no space, but because there’s so many people in the way.

Our project while we were up there was to renovate this tiny three-room government housing apartment a Bronx slum. Eight people were trying to live in this little dirty hovel. It would probably bore you to give all the details of what we did, but we turned that place upside down. Paint, furniture, tiles, cleaning, we turned it into the best apartment in the place. Considering we only had a little over $5,000 to do it with, we, Pastor Dimas, and (most of all) God accomplished a miracle.

Here’s a few pictures taken by Mom:

This was in the lobby of one of the Word Trade Center buildings when the terrorists hit. Notice the real grass around it. =D

This is the famous Grand Central Station.

One of many awesome churches in NYC, except this is the one from National Treasure.

The Empire State Building. (Though we worked in a Bronx slum, we stayed at a downtown Manhattan apartment building two blocks away from this huge landmark.)

Our team and the family we helped. The family is in the middle.

Am I writing too many entries for y’all? =P

So, my All-Star team finished in the top two in the District tourny, so we get to go compete at state. Happyness. If you’ve read my blog at all, you know how mad I was at missing so much of the season, and this will help me catch up on baseball. I can use it as an excuse, too, having baseball every day of the week makes it hard to get on the computer and post when I usually have the most time….

And NO, I have not broken any bones lately. Summer incidents have been confined to little things like our vaccum cleaner exploding. (We now have a new, PURPLE, vaccum cleaner, which has so many odds and ends that I can never figure out what hooks on to what. You can’t even touch the thing without hose add-ons falling off, or cleaning pipes coming out of place. I think it was designed to vaccum up anything  in the house, from speck of dirt, to my little brother. xD)

That’s it for now, folks, tune in NEXT month for the newest edition.

*Ducks rotten tomatoes* Just kidding! Stop! *Runs*