Happy 5 year anniversary, Heather. I love you so much.
Back To Blogging
11 05 2009My official two week vacation/break from blogging is over. I will be picking back up my normal writing schedule starting today. I am excited to share all the experiences, thoughts, and randomness that has been floating around in my head.
I really did miss blogging and hearing from you on a consistent basis. Check back later today. Let’s get rolling again…
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Most Useless Things In My House
20 04 2009
Have you ever thought of all the useless things that you have in your house? While eating my bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios and looking around my house this morning, I realized that I have some useless things that I have in my house. To give you an idea of what I am talking about, here are some examples of the most useless things in my house…
A VCR. We have not 1, but 2 VCRs. Do we use either one? No. Is either one actually hooked up to a TV? No. Since getting our new TV a few months ago, we finally unhooked all the VCRs in the house. For the longest time, one of the VCRs was only used for a clock in the living room. We did not even have it hooked up to the TV. When Gaby was a puppy, she ate the remote for that VCR and that was pretty much the end of using that electronic device because I was not going to actually get off my butt to start/stop the VCR.
$50 DOG BED IN THE LIVING ROOM. We spoil our two dogs. It’s true, I know it. We are still in the dog stage and we spoil them. We have two dog beds in our house. One is in the kitchen and gets used everyday. The other is in our living room and never gets used. We bought this $50 dog bed for the living room and our dogs have never slept on it one time. (For the record, if I had a choice between a dog bed on the floor and a nice couch, I would sleep on the couch too.) The worst part about this dog bed is that we bought it because it matched our color scheme of our living room. Take away my man card now.
THE KITCHEN TABLE. Unless it is a special occasion, our kitchen table does not get used. When it is just Heather and I, we are either using TV trays in the living room or at the stools at the kitchen counter. I am positive that will change when we have kids. We will start having more “family dinners”. Until then, TV trays work just fine.
THE FOLLOWING DVDs: THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR?, CLASH OF THE TITANS, & A MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL. Enough said.
MY ALARM CLOCKS WHEN THEY ARE SET BEFORE THE SUN COMES UP. Can you say snooze?
ALL OF OUR NICE CUPS. We have all these really nice glassware that we have used like 3 times in almost 5 years of marriage. Why use nice cups when SOLO makes such a classy, sturdy, red plastic cup?
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What about you? What are some of the most useless things in your house?
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Fantasy Baseball Draft
28 03 2009Last night I had a fantasy baseball draft. Every year I play fantasy baseball with some of my best friends on this planet. This year we are only using National League players. Here’s my fantasy baseball team, CHIN MUSIC…
HITTERS
- C Pablo Sandoval, San Francisco Giants
- IB Ryan Howard, Philadelphia Phillies
- 2B Dan Uggla, Florida Marlins
- 3B Aramis Ramirez, Chicago Cubs
- SS J.J. Hardy, Milwaukee Brewers
- OF Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers
- OF Nate McLouth, Pittsburgh Pirates
- OF Raul Ibanez, Philadelphia Phillies
- OF Lastings Milledge, Washington Nationals
- OF Milton Bradley, Chicago Cubs
- OF Cameron Maybin, Florida Marlins
- OF Michael Bourn, Houston Astros
PITCHERS
- SP Cole Hamels, Philadelphia Phillies
- SP Roy Oswalt, Houston Astros
- SP Yovanni Gallardo, Milwaukee Brewers
- SP Adam Wainwright, St Louis Cardinals
- SP Derek Lowe, Atlanta Braves
- SP Hiroki Kuroda, Los Angeles Dodgers
- RP Matt Lindstrom, Florida Marlins
- RP Heath Bell, San Diego Padres
- RP Manny Corpas, Colorado Rockies
- RP Jason Motte, St Louis Cardinals
- RP J.J. Putz, New York Mets
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I am Preaching…
2 02 2009One more thing you can be praying for this week…
I have been asked to preach this Sunday at the Shannon Oaks Church.
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Downward Escalator
30 12 2008
If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.
Or, to use another metaphor more familiar to city people, we are on a never-ending downward escalator. In order to grow, we have to turn around and sprint up the escalator, putting up with the perturbed looks from everyone else who is gradually moving downward.
I believe that much of the American churchgoing population, while not specifically swimming downstream, is slowly floating away from Christ. It isn’t a conscious choice, but it is nonetheless happening because little in their lives propels them towards Christ.
- from CRAZY LOVE by Francis Chan
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Tags: Books, Escalators, Faith, Life, Metaphor, Ministry, Spirituality
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Top 5 Christmas Movies
22 12 2008Tis the season of sitting around the house bored out of your mind. Watching the cornucopia of Christmas movies is a great way to pass the time and escape reality. I wanted to make your holiday entertainment viewing a little easier by giving you my top five Christmas movies of all time. Grab some eggnog, light a fire in the fireplace, go to Blockbuster, rent these movies, and have a great, entertaining Christmas…
5 – ERNEST SAVES CHRISTMAS. I remember watching this 1988 classic in a Memphis movie theater. This movie is often (and I can’t understand why) left off most top Christmas movie lists. When Santa is in some serious trouble and Christmas needs saving, who does humanity turn towards? The great Ernest P. Worrel. Ernest Saves Christmas is arguably the best Ernest movie (along with Ernest Goes to Camp and Ernest Goes to Jail) and is a great Christmas movie.
4 – DIE HARD. Another awesome Christmas movie from 1988. Because of the incredible-ness of this movie, people often forget that it is a Christmas movie (along with its sequel Die Hard 2). This 80’s action classic is not your traditional Christmas movie with Santa, presents, and reindeer. However, Die Hard is full of one-liners, killing, and a shoeless hero who saves the day. You don’t get much better than that. Also, John McClain is on my Top 10 Fictional Characters of All-Time list.
3 – A CHRISTMAS STORY. I’m sorry. No top Christmas movies of all-time list is not complete without A Christmas Story on it. Moviefone’s list has it ranked number one. This movie, originally released in 1983, tells the story of Ralphie’s quest to obtain the Christmas present of his dreams, a Red Rider B.B. Gun. TBS for the past few years have shown this Christmas classic for 24 straight hours on Christmas day. So if you have somehow missed this movie, get cable.
2 – HOME ALONE. Heather and I have watched this movie already a couple of times this holiday season. I finally jumped out of the 1980s with this one, but just barely. This movie was released in 1990 and instantly became a classic. Sure the cute, non-jacked up Macaulay Culkin is good, but Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern take this movie to another level as the “Wet Bandits.” This is one of those movies that makes me laugh every time I see it. Good story too.
1. ELF. In my opinion, this movie is the best Christmas movie of all-time. I am a big fan of Will Ferrell. I have seen the majority of his movies. I believe that this is the funniest character he has ever played. His expressions and reactions as a grown man who really thinks he is an elf are (as weird as this sounds) extremely believable. Be careful drinking while watching this movie because Elf has so many hilarious parts that you could possibly make your drink come out of your nose.
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What’s your list? What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Which ones did I leave out?
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Mini-Makover
28 04 2008The blog has undergone a mini-makeover today. No more “iBRIAN”. Hello “briancromer.com”. Also added my picture so that nobody gets confused with any other Brian Cromers in this world that you would be interested enough to read his blog. I appreciate you! Bless God.
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Need Help
15 04 2008Hey guys. I want to change the picture that is at the top of my blog. I am not a huge fan of the rainbow colored paint swatches picture. There’s nothing wrong with it, I just want something different. I need your help finding a different picture that will fit in its place. I can upload a different picture that can be used as my image header. There is also a feature where you can crop a specific part of a picture to fit in that space. If it helps, the exact size of that space is 780 x 95 pixels. I am not looking for a picture of me, sports, or anything super specific. I am looking for something creative and cool. Any ideas? I need your help!
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Guilty Pleasures
12 03 2008I strongly believe that there are two type of people in the world: (1) People who are geeks and know they are geeks. (2) People who are geeks but don’t know they are geeks. I definitely fit it group number 1. I embrace my inner geek and my uncoolness.
We all have guilty pleasures. Whether you are a big burly guy that secretly has a cry every Sunday night watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition or you are a prim and proper lady who enjoys watching MMA. I decided to share some of my guilty pleasures from my iPOD. These are all songs that I actually have on my iPOD but songs that I normally wouldn’t brag about.
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Boston – Augustana (if you know me, you know why this on that list)
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My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
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Bad Boy This, Bad Boy That – Da Band
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How Do You Talk To An Angel – The Heights
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What Is Love – Haddaway (the song from the SNL club skits)
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Good Vibrations – Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
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U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer
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On the Way Down – Ryan Cabrera
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Pump Up the Jam – Technotronic
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Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
I laughed a lot looking over this list. I hope you did too. Feel free to take a few jabs or share your guilty pleasures on your iPOD.
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Starting to Blog
11 03 2008Yes, I am going to attempt to start blogging. I hope to share a little of my brain with world wide web from time to time. I will try to write from time to time on a variety of subjects…life, faith, family, sports, random, etc. If you know me, then you know that my brain is always going. I think from the time I wake up till the time I go to bed. Let’s see if I can get some of those thoughts out on the world wide web so the entire global civilization with a computer can see them. What a brilliant idea!
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