new years blog

its the first blog i've written this year! i will break it inot three sections as follows: 1. intersting facts. 2 updates 3. resolutions. here it goes.
1. intersting facts:
-as of this year i have been alive in four decades
-my brother predicted a change in the new years glasses sporting the numerical value of the new year across your face. he said they would shift the left eye to the 0, but not have anything to do for 2011. and i predicted they would merely make the one a bubble letter, thus keeping the letters evenly across your face. we both were right. usually when i put up something my brother and i disagreed on, its to point out i was right and he wrong. not this time.


2. my new years resolution (note the singularity of the word resolution. this is to properly reflect my number of resolutions. only one)for the year is as follows my resolution is to remember that "a lot" has a space in the middle. set your goals easy, its easier to succeed.


2. updates.
-i got some really awesome clothes for Christmas, and a new guitar pedal. most of you don't care. the rest probably are annoyed that I'm bragging about my Christmas. whatevs.
-today is only the second time i have had to write 2010 in anything. i haven't been to the bank, or written any papers yet. its weird.

-i have spent the entirety of 2010 crush free. i'm really proud of that. its a personal record for me. i haven't gone this long withoug really liking someone since, um, 6th grade? watch. now tomorrow I'll fall flat on my face for someone and get a black eye in the process...

-i haven't hung out with people enough, once again, in true andrew fashion, i spent a break as a hermit.

-i am beginning to realize that in fact my sections one and three of this blog could be consolidated into one. oh well.



okay. here's the main point of my blog. if you read all of this, and you don't read the next part, you've missed the whole point.

-i think that the whole colors thing on facebook is a cool idea but falls short on many many levels. girls post the color of the bra they are wearing on facebook as their status. its a breast cancer awareness campaign, but it is secretive (so that the guys don't catch on) so it does not raise awareness. and it makes all your friends think of boobs. which guys do not need any help doing. we do that enough on our own. most importantly, its also a figurative slap in the face to those who have had breast cancer. i read this blog and it made me cry. stop reading my useless crap and click on this link. everything else i have said is meaningless. this is the part that has real worth.

"in the name of awareness"

no seriously. if you skipped it, go back and click the link. read the blog. don't skim it. don't look at the link and hope I'll summarize it,because i won't. read it.

if you want to raise awareness, do it in a way that actually shows respect to the struggles of those who are all too aware of breast cancer, in a way that shows hope, not a way that reminds them of the pain and the loss.


the other day i had a headache. God reminded me we live in a broken world full of pain and loss. of suffering and of horrible diseases. we have beauty in his creation, but we also have brokenness. and we have a lot of horrible brokenness. its there to remind us of how amazing the beauty is. we look around and see how horrible our world is, and yet God still loves us. and so we see the beauty in brokenness. without the evil, the sin, the cancer, the death, grief pain suffering, and the weeping and gnashing of teeth, there would be no need for a healer. and no NEED for a one who brings hope and renewal. without the fall, there is no getting back up, and without getting back up, there is no hand reaching down to help us get up.