Hello from sunny Scramento, California! I’m here for the National Youthworkers’ Convention, and using this amazing five-day event faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away from my youth group (I love them all, and they were very disappointed to hear I wouldn’t be at Starbucks with them today) to get a jumpstart on this blog and a few other writing and organizing projects that have been pushed to the side by my general laziness and the ease with which I procrastinate.
I’ve always joked that when procrastination stopped working, I’d stop doing it. Well, that happened this year, and it’s time to live up to my joke. (It’s like the time someone’s uncle gave up watermelon for Lent every year, and then suddenly watermelons were being imported from countries where they were actually *ripe* during Lent and he had to live up to his sacrifice!) This year the ministry at St. Michael’s is big enough, has enough volunteers who need training, enough kids who need care and enough events that need planning that I’ve come to the edges of my successful putting-off! And with school and various personal things all waiting to be crammed into the week, along with time for God and time for my comfortable couch, it’s time to practice the discipline and habits I try to teach all the time!
Today Marty and I ate at Amarin Thai Cuisine here in Sacramento, and I can completely recommend it. There’s a lot of great spicy Thai food on their menu, they have a terrifically friendly staff, and it’s an easy walk from the Convention Center, on 12th and I Streets. If you’re hungry…
I’ll be finishing up Chris Folmsbee’s Critical Concerns course on nurturing volunteers tomorrow morning; stop by and say hi if you have the chance; I’ll be the guy looking for a place to plug in all morning!
