When mom was up last week for Mother’s day I purchased the book in my title to compliment the book mom gave me for last Christmas, A man, a can, a plan. I decided to try out one of their recipes on this patchy & cool day. The name is “Greenhouse Grinder”, it consists sour dough crusty bread, pesto, caponata, tomato and mushrooms. Top it with butter and grill it for 5+ minutes. It was very filling. A few nights ago I made a spicy burger consisting of Angus hamburger (80/20) mixed with pepper, crushed red peppers seasoning, A-1 steak sauce, topped with American cheese, honey mustard, sweet pickles (to counter the spice) and tomato. I had a chocolate and banana smoothie to wash it down.

My Sunday school class at Cornerstone Baptist starting on the “The way of the Master” study plan, it basically gives you the knowledge and courage to witness to others. I’m really excited about it and hope that I will be able to use whatever I learn in class.

Obligatory photos: Spicy burger | Greenhouse Grinder

Another birthday as come and gone and left me a year older. Yesterday was my birthday and am now 24. Dad and Karen took me to Applebee’s last Friday. I tried something other than my normal chicken fingers- Chicken Cordon Bleu- which turned out to be very good and filling. After we ate, we went to Wal-Mart and I was surprised to see an Xbox 360 Premium for sale, so I purchased it and sold it to one of my friends that were in search for one. I helped him hook it up Saturday night.

Sunday I went to Church and Sunday school, after I headed to Grammies for dinner and cake. That afternoon I read the first book in Left Behind for an hour or so. I am really enjoying this series. If anyone is interested, head over to the Left Behind website. Mom bought me the last book in the series, The Glorious Appearing and a gift card to Lambs.

Snows here and it’s cold. If anyone has read The Chronicles of Narnia, please let me know what you thought of the book. I really enjoyed the first three books- I still have the others to read, which I am in the process of reading. What I really enjoy about the first two books is that they run parallel to the Bible in many ways. I am glad that the recent movie follows very closely with the book. I highly recommend that everyone should go see this movie and read the book.

Once I finish The Return of the King, I am going to start on the Left Behind book series. Mom gave me books 2-11, I’m going to buy the first book from Church next week.

It looks like Maine is going to have another rainy week… which is unfortunate because fall is one of Maine’s best seasons. I’m at work right now, on break, waiting for four laptops to finish getting imaged. It used to not take so long to image devices, but I think our Cisco switch in the shop is dying.

I’ve been thinking Lord of the Rings a lot today, I watched the extended editions of Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers this past weekend on my widescreen… yes, I keep talking about it because I am really enjoying it… it’s my first 16×9. I also read Return of the King a little bit last night. I love the way Tolkien writes. My favorite portion of the book is Tom Bombadil and the Ents. I love the Ents, Treebeard, Quickbeam, etc. The Last March of the Ents… it’s pretty exciting. My mom bought me a book named “Finding God in Lord of the Rings”. Even before reading that book, a lot of Christianity is in LOTR, Tolkien was a Christian as was C.S. Lewis. I am in the processes of reading through The Chronicles of Narnia which is also really good series if you like fantasy. If you want a good Encyclopedia of LOTR, check out The Encyclopedia of Arda.

After work I went to the gym for a little bit and headed to Best Buy and purchased Batman Begins on DVD, $15.