My weekend and Soap Boxes

Ok First off Rachel, the only reason I am posting today is because of your remark about it being 4 days. Ok with that out of the way , this weekend was great. On Thursday of last week I got to have dinner with a friend of mine whom I haven’t seen in forever! It was a blast we talked about old times and brought each other up to speed on where we are at in our lives now. I am still riding the high from that night. It’s amazing how you can pick up where you left off over a decade ago. I look forward to many more good times with him and hope we can get our good friendship back.
Friday night was a blast as well. It was couples night and we had a new couple join us. It was a great time with games and food and Amy telling everyone she got knocked up again. Way to go Dan! On Saturday I went to the church to get things ready for Sunday when I struck up a conversation with a guy I go to church with. We talked about history mainly but I feel the roots of a friendship were planted. I sure hope so. After that my mom and dad came out to the house to spend time with Glenna, they are completely head over heels for her. Then came Sunday, Church was awesome, Pastors message was great as usual, but I have found something that really bothers me. Talking/whispering during the message!!! Call me old but I think that is the biggest sigh of disrespect one can have. We are taught when we are little that we are not to be talking when ever someone else is talking, so why is it any different to do it while the pastor is preaching? I see it this way and I have told the Jr. Highers in my former youth group this exact thing “ I do not put pastors on a pedestal. They are mere humans just like I am, they are no closer to God than any of us, BUT they do bring the message of God to us and when we talk and do other things during their message we are not only disrespecting then we are also disrespecting God as well.” Ok I am now stepping off of my soap box! I hope you all have a gooooood week and Look out for my Crazy Grandma Fridays…oh this is gonna be fun!!

Just in case you didn't belive me

This picture came from the Lawrence Journal World....And yes that is my Grandma being escorted by the police to her lunch date...I'm so proud!

Spring time brings out the crazy in everyone

AH it’s that time of year again, time for the grass to start turning green, the trees to start budding, the temperature getting warmer and my grandmother getting a police escort down her street. What’s that you say? Grandma getting a police escort? Welcome once again the randomness that is my life.
Let me start off by giving you a little background on my grandmother, When my mom was a child my grandmother was abusive, she often tried to kill all of her kids, and no one knew why. Many years later my grandma was diagnosed with schizophrenia and Bi-polar disease. The doctors ended up putting her on some pretty potent medicine. The side effects of this medicine were not know until the last about 10 years. This stuff has made my grandma nuttier then squirrel poop( but in a good and funny way). Ok so now that I have set the background somewhat let me tell you what happened this weekend. On Sunday my grandmother was supposed to go eat lunch with her sister and her mother when she got a call from my Uncle Dave who happens to be the Lt. Chief of police in Lawrence (where my grandmother lives) he told her that she is going to see a bunch of police cars outside her house and to NOT go outside under any circumstance, Well the time came for my grandma to go eat and she was worried that her sister wouldn’t wait for her or that she would get confused so what does my grandma do? She gets ready and goes outside to look for her sister. Upon doing this a policeman promptly ran up to her and told her to go back inside because there was a guy across the street trying to kill his wife and steal there kids. But my grandma refused. The poor officer was trying to get her back into the house when she played the ultimate trump card..She said” My son is Lt. David Cobb and I will not be treated like this” when the cop asked “who” My grandma replied “Lt.David Cobb your boss now let me got to lunch with my sister.” So the police called the chief in who in turn had to call my uncle for verification. And when all was said and done my grandmother was escorted by the police to her sister’s car so she wouldn’t miss lunch.
I feel so sorry for my poor uncle Dave. He is going to get the ball busting of a lifetime today at work. If your ever interested in more of these stories..let me know I have a whole bunch of them. Many of them are the reasons my mom is embarrassed to show her face in Lawrence.

life

So here is what is happening in my world lately. As you probably read in my previous post I have had a bit of car trouble. Well hopefully those problems are solved. I got a new car yesterday, a 1991 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Elite. This car is awesome. It is DEFINATLY pimp mobile # 2. My wife drives a 1990 olds Ninety-Eight Regency broughm , Hers has a white exterior with red button and tuck leather interior. Mine is maroon with red leather. I am currently working on building a fleet of pimp mobiles. So that way when someone says their car broke down I can say hey you wanna drive a pimp mobile? And they can be all like Heck yeah.
As far as our house search is going we are really starting to talk about a few in general. It still is very exciting to be looking at these houses, I finally feel all grown up and fully independent. In other news I have been having a real hard time lately with loneliness. I know I am ALWAYS around people here at work and my wife and daughter at home but I still feel lonely. I don’t know why. I think a lot of it has to do with my lack of friends, Growing up there was always 4 of us. Scott, Ric, Paul and Myself. We did EVERYTHING together. But as time has gone on we have all moved away from each other. Flash forward to now, Same situation- I have some friends now Paul and Dan who I feel like I did around the fab 4 from high school. But it seems like the same scenario is starting to play out again. When Dan moved up to the city I had a feeling things would change, and they have. The one thing I used to look forward to was knowing I was going to get that phone call from Dan saying I’m bored and I’m coming over to play xbox ( that was a regular occurrence). I loved that fact that Dan could not sit still for 5 minutes he always had to be doing something which made it to where I always had to be doing something. Now I have nothing to do. Paul on the other hand lives like 5 miles away. I think him and I have a lot in common but I am always afraid to call him to see if he would like to hang out. He works this crazy schedule and I don’t want to take away from anytime he has to spend with Rachel and Nathan, so every time I think about calling I don’t because I don’t want to make anyone mad. So here I am. I am lonely. I don’t really know what to do about it but all I know is that it sucks, but I guess that’s just life huh.
I find myself wondering how people who don’t know Jesus deal with this stuff. I mean although I am lonely I know that atleast I still have Jesus and that is an awesome feeling!

Cars, Houses and all kinds of crap

So here is an update on what is going on with me lately, Two weeks ago my father in-law and I drove all they way to beautiful Springdale Arkansas to get me a car we found on the internet. It was a 1994 Pontiac Bonneville it was only $1600!! And it looked great. So we embarked on our journey which was the longest amount of time him and I have spent together alone and it was fun. Four hours later we arrive at our destination. We look at the car and it’s not in quite as good of shape as we thought, but it still looked decent for the price. We took it for a test drive and noticed a noise in the wheel area and thought a CV joint was going out, I figured I could fix that with no problem due to how cheap the car was. So it finally came down to whether or not I was going to buy it I wrestled back in forth between yes and no before finally deciding yes. We started our trip back home with my Father in-law driving my “new car” and when we stopped to eat lunch he told me it wasn’t shifting into overdrive. I was immediately angry and he calmed me down telling me he thought it was just a sensor that had gone out and it probably wouldn’t be REAL expensive to fix. So we got it home and scheduled a time for the mechanic to look at it. He called us two days later with some news, He said the CV joint wasn’t out it was just a loose piece of metal and he fixed that. SWEET!! And then came the bombshell..the transmission was bad and he said looking at the car putting in a new transmission wouldn’t be worth it.
So here I am with a car I just paid $1600 for and I am being told it’s worthless. My father in law told me that since he doesn’t drive much that he would take my car and let me use his car as a work car. Flash forward to 2 days ago, I get a call at work from Brooke asking me if her dad had called me, I said no why? She then proceeded to tell me that the car had died on him. It was completely out of oil which it shouldn’t have been seeings how he just changed the oil a couple days before. So now on top of that the engine is blown as well and we had to tow it home on Monday. I hate cars!
On another note Brooke and I are starting to look at buying a house in Ottawa. We really don’t want to live in the city but it’s the best option for us right now. Our plan is to buy a house live there fir 5 to 10 years and when the housing market is back up again, Sell it and build our own house on some land that was given to us. It has been exciting though looking at homes and trying to figure out what we can afford. I will be sure to keep you posted on what we find!!

I'm just trying to be like everyone else

So everyone else I know is posting music stuff on their blogs So me not being one that want’s to be left off the bandwagon I am going to do the same. I wrote this song about a year and a half ago when I was feeling pretty down and I was fighting battles I didn’t think I could win and I finally just gave it up and let God take it. The Song is called one left standing and it will be on my band’s new Cd when we are done mastering it.

something has happened to me/but everything’s the same
born into new life/everything has changed/
demons swirling around my head/
tearing my inside/can’t take anymore, my God, hear my cry/

save me/from this life I’m living/
save me/let me know I’m forgiven/

You take this fight from me/when I try I fail
Holy Spirit rescue me/pull me from this hell
I feel the Spirit in me/I’ve found a place to hide
my God/my Refuge/my God/

save me/from this life I’m living/save me/let me know I’m forgiven/save me/from this life I’m living/save me/let me know I’m forgiven

Copyright 2006 Dead Now Rise

I still get to this point almost everyday. And I still use this as my prayer.

Weddings and such

Have you ever been in a state of mind where all you can seem to do is think? I don’t mean like what are you going to have for dinner thinking, I’m talking about deep thinking and good ol’ soul searching. Well I was in one of those moods yesterday. It all started when Brooke and I along with the rest of her family went to a wedding for her cousin Ryan. We arrived at the venue , a real upscale golf clubhouse, we walked into the area where the wedding was to take place and immediately my mind flashed back my wedding. I started to really remember how awesome that day was, how beautiful Brooke looked and as I was thinking about that I looked over and saw my Brother in law Caleb and his fiancée Jenny. I got excited for them, their wedding is in July and I could see the excitement in their eyes as they looked upon the ceremony. It brought a few tears to my eyes. And as I sat there almost crying I heard those two words that put me over the edge …….OPEN BAR! Holy crap I was in heaven. I haven’t been to an open bar reception in alooooong time. Don’t worry I didn’t go over bored I only had two beers which is good for me. Trust me If you knew me back in the day 2 beers are nothing…I hooked you and then I reeled you in ..I am awesome!