James Cameron's brilliance...

...has now dispelled this silly notion of Jesus' resurrection. He and his crew have found Jesus' tomb. Apparently Jesus died as husband of Mary Magdalene and father of Judah - and there was of course no resurrection. Cameron even has DNA evidence. It's so good to know that this great Biblical archeologist and scholar is relentless in his search for the unbiased truth. More here

Apologies... sort of...

I realize that i've had a bad case of babyitis... And i'm sure (that if you're anything like me) you think it's great that someone has a new baby, but it's not like it's going to your own world upside down. New parents can truly be annoying... I've never cared for them much; all they are capable of talking about is their baby. I vowed to NOT become one of those parents. (If you, dear reader, are a new parent and love nothing more than to talk about your baby - i hope i have not caused offence - but for crying out loud; there are other things happening in the world). And before anyone of you can accuse me of doing otherwise; I LOVE MY SON! It's just that i don't think that every post needs to be about how many times he pooped or what kind of new and funny face he makes...

So on to other, but far from better, things.

I went to Wal-Mart yesterday. I hate the parking lot there. There's always people waiting in the middle of the lane for a spot as close to the entrance as possible. Thus causing others to be stuck behind them with nowhere to go. The funny thing is, that the majority of the people who are willing to wait half an hour for parking right by the door, are the people who really could use the extra fifty yard walk if they had parked a little further back! Wow, that was negative... but that is probably one of the-top-ten-annoying-things to me.

So I'm a dad now...

... well I guess I've been for the past 9 months, but now it's for real...

Leah did most of the laboring at home on Tuesday, but had to go in for an emergency c-section. Matias had a collapsed lung, which meant he had to stay at the NICU for a few days. But now they're both home and everything is going great.

Matias Aleksander Tjemsland

A little drama Tuesday and yesterday, but today he's doing great!

Confucius and Inductions...

I have been trying to get a paper on Confucius finished for the past four days, finally got it done three minutes ago. It is of such a poor quality it is almost embarrassing, but I just had to get rid of it. Normally, a paper on somebody like him would be very interesting to me. But sadly, this weekend was just bad timing on his part.... He should have know better than to try to hang out the last weekend of this WAY over-due pregnancy. If nothing happens in the next 36 hours we're going to have to go in for an induction on Wed at 8am. It's apparently not same for the baby or mom to go much past 2 weeks. This means giving up our plan to have the birth at home. This saddens us, but at the same time all we can do is trust God and his divine plan for the three of us. All we can do in the end is leave it up to Him. He can 'kick' Leah into labor as I am writing this if He wishes. If He chooses not to, we can only see this as it not being His time yet.

I am so sick of this Anna Nicole thing... It is so sickening to me that the news media chooses this kind of soap-opera-fluff, rather than to report on actual news.

HTML ignorance...

does anyone know how i can right-align the "...listen intently" in the header? (HTML is not exactly one of my strengths) For some reason it just bothers me where it is now...

I have to admit it...

I am now a regular watcher of both Lost and 24... I don’t really know how this happened. I prefer to not be hooked on any show, but somehow this happened. It is more a need to know what will happen next, rather than loving every second of every episode. Anyone else struggle with similar addictions?

Little else happening... still no baby... can't remember whether or not I mentioned that our heater busted. It's so old that we're not sure whether it's worth fixing. Either way, the cost is going to be ridiculous. The timing is of course impeccable...

I'm still eating awesome bread - it makes me smile...

My good friend Kjell emailed me this pic. It made me laugh, so i figured i'd share it:

Success!!!

We got another week. They've also moved the date back to the original date of Jan 31st, which means that L is officially only one week late, rather than three - which is a pretty big difference. We've got another week to try to have it at home, before it has to be induced next Wed (14th).

i'm sure that this is totally uninteresting to the two of you that will read this post, but it's good for me to vent. Just wish it was over and done with. We're all ready to move on and see the little guy.

Labor developments...

...or rather, lack thereof. Leah is now 3 weeks overdue according to most recent ultrasound. It was changed sometime in Dec from Jan 31. Of course it now seems as though this change was a mistake. If we go by the 31, she's only a week late. It's all wonderfully confusing. Leah was scheduled for an induction tomorrow (Wed 2/7), but we wanted to wait another week if this was medically responsible. We went to the doctor this morning and he agreed to postpone the induction another week, contingent on Leah going in for a contraction stress test tomorrow morning. If the results are negative (which is good), we'll wait another week, if they are positive (which is bad), they'll induce straight away. Strange to live in such limbo. We would love to have the extra time in order for nature (and God) to take it's course, as well as having the birth at home, but we are not so fanatical as to risk anything happening to the baby or mom.

On a lighter, but more annoying note, i got to spend $102 on an audio CD for a class at school today... That's of course on top of the five books and the regular tuition that I paid last week for the same class. Higher Education often seems like a gyp.... I always liked Will Hunting's attitude that all we really need, to be educated, is a library card.

I had awesome bread today

This really ticks me off!

"SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The government on Tuesday said it will resume its program to provide free "morning-after" contraceptives to girls as young as 14"
More here

The morning after pill is bad enough (because it's murder), but for the state to offer it to 14 year old without parental knowledge is a new low! In what kind of a messed up mind does this make any sense. As I am writing this I am honestly trying to see things from their point of view, but it just does not compute. How can any government encourage a 14 to abort a human being without letting the parent's of the 14 have knowledge and input into the situation? If the 14 year old were caught shoplifting they would notify the parents, if the child (as I think most of us agree 14 year old still are) got in a fight at school or were caught cheating on a test, the parents would be involved. But somehow murder is not within the scope of parental responsibility. Is there not something here that seems terribly distorted?

I wonder why...

Sometimes I ask myself why I make my life so (seemingly) complicated. I know that all that matters is God and living in His will. But somehow it all too often gets muddled. I forget to live in His will. I forget that He is present in everything I say, think and do. Most of the time I think it’s just plain and simple laziness – it’s easier to just limp along in life, than it is to stop everything and cry out to Him. If I am completely honest I would all too often rather watch an episode of Battlestar Galactica, that spend 45 minutes in the Word and/or prayer. Why is this? I know what I should do, yet I don’t. (I realize the similarity to Rom 7:15-16 and I am in a strange way comforted that even Paul struggled with this). The only conclusion I have come to so far is that it comes down to love. Those I truly love I want to spend as much time with as I possibly can. So therefore it seems as though I do not love God in the way I ought. What is hindering me? Why don’t I love Him as I should? Here I struggle to find answers… My sinful nature maybe?

Snow!?!?!

That's a first!