Dancing Alley

i never thought that i could possibly be as proud of having a clean car interior as i am now. it only took me like 5 hours, but i managed to completely detail the whole inside of my car [whom i named 雞炒車 — lit. 'chicken fried car' but actually 'chicken car accident' in spoken cantonese] which, if you ask my brother or wife, was definitely necessary. i don't think i had ever cleaned the center console in the entire time i've owned the car, which would be over 2 years now. anyway, it looks great. i'd post a picture, but by the time i was finished it was too dark. maybe tomorrow.

work was mostly good, but bittersweet, as it's going to be sad not having the mack doodle around anymore. that's okay, it just makes me want kids that much more, the prospect of which is starting to become increasingly exciting! finished almost all of the last page of the website i've been doing, which i slowed down on because it doesn't need to be finished until sunday afternoon. i'm a sucker for taking any reason to procrastinate and running with it.

tonight, as i'd mentioned yesterday, i was supposed to visit my maternal grandfather in the hospital, but he had his procedure today [which went exactly how they wanted it to, so good news] so we're going in the morning instead. i could've gone out, but since i'll be busy tomorrow morning, i wanted to get some cleaning/organizing done tonight. i got some done, but took a bit of time out to go get dinner with my sister. it was good times! we went to denny's, which is not a good restaurant by any stretch of the imagination but its inherent nostalgia makes up for that.

cat, why do you only sit on me when i don't want you to?

did i mention lately that i love my wife? i don't think i mention it here enough. she's been such an encouragement to me in the last few weeks, reading me her sermon notes from sunday morning and telling me about her morning devotionals [piper sermons for now] and all that the Lord has been teaching her. it's really great, and she seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. the one she listened to today was on proverbs 31, which i was nervous about because i've heard so many sermons on this verse that it's almost become trite, but it was really great.

it got me thinking about the concept of 'fearing the Lord' and what exactly that means and why we should fear God and how we should fear God. piper said that if we run from God because we fear Him, we don't fear Him enough. how true is that? if you were truly afraid of the Lord, you'd be running toward Him, because you would know that He is as merciful as He is inescapable. if the expression 'food for thought' were ever appropriate, now would be the time. i'll leave you with that.

p.s. my wife is awesome and she wins forever.