Wine Makes the Heart Glad

Background:
My 28yr old friend at work had a baby two months ago (yes him, not his wife). He has not had sex with his wife since the baby's conception 11 months ago. He has been utterly miserable as any guy could imagine. We even tried to help him come up with ways to seduce her, be it dressing up in gladiator attire, feeding her aphrodisiacs, drugging her, pretending to be knocked unconcscious while she's over in the shower so she'd have to come out and peform CPR on him while she's naked then he "awakens" and convinces her that since she's already half-way there they might as well do it, or a combination of these 4. Alas, nothing worked. All was hopeless until...

Friday, November 24th, after having a few glasses of thanksgiving wine, love was made.

Monday, November 27th at Snelling Dining Hall:
Martin: Hey 28yr-old friend, how was your thanksgiving?
28yr-old friend: (smiling from ear to cheek bone) Amazing, can you guess why?
Martin: No way! The gladiator attire worked????
28yr-old friend: Better. I didn't even have to dress up.
(Martin, 28yr old friend, 65 yr old friend, and Mark Vinson danced for the next 45 minutes in the freezers singing "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey)

Blog Slavery

Don't you hate it when you feel obligated to make a blog post, but you have nothing to write or anything to put up?


(a hornless unicorn)

NBA Anthem Playoffs

I can't help but think about the body of Christ, and how the church should be more like this. Here you have the entire building helping out the weak, the one who has messed up and desperately needs help. And you have coach Maurice Cheeks, the friend who selflessly helps out the person who is struggling despite the fact that he can't sing and is risking embarrassment.

Instead of being a group of people who are morally and spiritually self-sufficient (so that they really have no need for Jesus), the church is for people who are screw-ups and don't have all their ducks in a row, and know it. The church is for people who desperately need Jesus and desire for others to see their need as well.

I think we too often fail to believe this and that is why the church isn't more like this video. "We are trying so hard to be people who look like Jesus, instead of looking like people who need Jesus."

Dear Ladies

What ticks me off about all the women's magazines is that they have helped create one of the biggest lies around today: girls must have this skinny, perfect figure, or they are physically flawed. The second lie is that this is pretty much what all guys want. As a result, you have a generation plagued with eating disorders, insecurity, and an obession for physical beauty. I will try to destroy some of the myths that most girls believe are fact.

1) Every female I've ever met thinks "I could lose 5lbs." Yes, even the skinny girls say that. When honestly, let's say of all the girls I know in RUF, there may be 4 that I could see them being prettier if they lost a few pounds. That's 4 girls...not 140. When I walk in to the crowded Snelling Dining hall, I will probably find more girls that need to gain weight than need to lose weight.

2) Other girls see those tanned, bleach-blonde haired, girls with a decent amount of make-up on and think "those girls are what most guys want." Which makes sense because you mainly see those fake looking girls getting hit on all the time by guys. The truth is that those girls are hit on mainly because their tanning-bed tan, caked-on make-up face sends guys a message that says "I am easy!" So guys go for these girls, not because they actually find them more attractive and beautiful, but because they just want to get some play. In my opinion, most guys I've known seem to desire a tad bit of make-up or no make-up at all. Guys would much rather date a Sandra Bullock than a Pamela Anderson.

3) A friend of mine is always conscious of her big hips even though she is a physically fit girl. Other girls would agree with her that big hips are unattractive. I beg to differ. Yes there are guys who would find big hips unattractive as well, but there's an equal amount of guys who either are completely indifferent to the big hips or actually find it attractive. The same goes with most of girls' physical traits. The physical flaws that girls claim to have are really just like any given pro-baseball team...you have guys that are bothered by that team, guys that are indifferent to that team, and guys who love that team. There's no one baseball team that everyone hates nor one that everyone loves.

If any girls are actually reading this right now you are probably thinking as you read these 3 myths "well i am probably one of those girls in the dining hall that needs to lose weight....yeah i know, but if i was tanner and bustier, i would get more guys (yes i would be attracting shallow guys, but that doesn't matter b/c what I'm really after is a self-esteem boost).....ok, but have you seen my thighs, they're huge; no guy is attracted to those." Isn't it sad what years of brainwashing can do? Ladies, I promise you that your physical flaw(s) is a much bigger deal in your eyes than in others'.