I know its been a while since I last posted but I just haven't desired too sorry.

So I just got back from camp and it went pretty well. It was a little hot though. It was a busy few weeks for me. My brother and I met my parents in Ruidoso for the weekend two weeks ago. It was good to get away from town. Then, Camp, and then right after that I went to Dallas for a few days for a buddy of mine's wedding. It was fun but it is good to know that I will be home for a while.

Nothing much else going on with me. Hope everyone is having a good summer. Well laterz.

I hope everyone had a good weekend. I know I did. We went to go see the Mavs game. They lost due to referee interference as far as Im concerned. But it was good to get away for a day.

Things are going pretty well with me as of late. Just plugging along with my two jobs and with the class I am taking (although the subject material is quite frankly very boring as far as im concerned!). March was a pretty busy month so I didn't hang out with Krystal as much as I would like to. April looks to be pretty open so that will be good.

I got three out of the four final four teams right (I had Pitt). So that was pretty cool. Nothing much else goin on with me. I hope everyone has a good rest of the week well laterz.

I hope everyone had a great weekend. This weekend was our High School Retreat and it went really well. In fact it went, a lot better than I thought it was going to so that was good.

Not much else is going on with me, just subbing and working.

Things with Krystal and I are going well, we celebrated Valentine's Day despite the fact that I was suffering from food poisoning, (don't ever eat pancake on a stick!). But it went well. She is has been such a great blessing to me. Wells thats all that is goin on with me well laterz.

A now with one hour left in 2008, it is now time for the Chris Carpenter 2008 year in review. In many ways this has really been a tough year for me. Even before everything happened with me in August, I just struggled this whole year with issues. In all honesty, I am not goin to miss this year and am looking forward to the next one. However, there has been some good things about this year like: planning my first retreat as Youth Minister, seeing George Strait in concert, meeting two of the presidential candidates (Huckabee, and McCain), turning 25, our Mission Trip to Iowa, going to see Tech play A&M play in College Station, seeing Carol of the Lights for the first time, getting a new dog in the family (welcome George!), my dad continuing to get better and looking more like he used to be, finding a church that has been with me to pick up the pieces, finding out who my true friends were, and finally most definitely the high point of this year was meeting my girlfriend Krystal. I know we have only been dating about two and a half months but she definitely came into my life at the right time when I needed her. I pray our relationship continues to grow. Now with the good there has been mad including: having to move three times, gaining the weight back that I worked so hard to lose, allowing depression and bitterness to rule my life more than it ought to, my brothers' continued downfall, and of course losing my full time position at Shallowater. I have to be honest with you, I have allowed that one event to rule my life too much lately. One major resolution I have is to forget what happened there and move on. I need everyone's prayers to let not bitternesss rule my life anymore. I pray that everyone has a great 2009! Happy New Year.

I hope everyone had a good weekend. I did.

HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!!! What a great win for them. They really had their back up against the walls with everything on the field and off the field and they somehow got it together to beat the Giants. Let's hope this is a spring board for a good playoff run.We will see with the upcoming game against Baltimore.

So in my last post I told you about how I was smitten with a girl and I thought I would elaborate further. For the last two months I have been dating a girl, her name is Krystal. It has been great. I really love spending time with her and I look forward to continuing to getting to know her more and more. Well I hope everyone has a good week. Well laterz.

I know I am sorry I have not posted in like forever, but I am going to try and post more. I have been twittering more. Well a lot has happened since I last wrote. For starters I have two new jobs. I am now a part time Youth Minister at Community Christian Church. Yes I am no longer in a Church of Christ (I am sure some will be condemning me to Hades now :) ). Truthfully I don't know if this is a permanent move since it is only part time. It is going ok. It's been a really weird transition because it was one that four months ago I did not expect to make. I really intended to stay a long time at Shallowater.

My other position is as Substitute Teacher for LISD. I am enjoying it for the most part. I am going to go back to South Plains college starting in the spring to take some History classes so I can get certified to teach. I still want to do Youth Ministry but I want to have some back up just in case I get the rug pulled out from under me again by Church leaders.

I am not going to lie its been a tough several months but I think I might finally be back on the upswing. I promise to start updating more because there is a lot more changes that have happened to me like moving into a house with my friend Alan and having a girlfriend that I am really smitten with :) . Well laterz.

Well a lot has happened since I have last written.

The first and biggest change is that I am no longer at the church in Shallowater. I do not want to get into all the details but needless to say it just did not work out. Please be in prayer for the teens there, I think that this came as a major surprise to them. Also pray for me, I still want to do Youth Ministry but I am not sure if that will be possible for a while. As of this moment I will hopefully be substitute teaching and working on my teacher's certification. In addition, I will be moving out of my apartment and in with my friend Alan, who just bought a house. Be in prayer, I need a lot of healing at the moment.

It is hard to believe that is has been seven years since 9/11. I still remember clearly what I was doing that day and my feelings on that day. Let us never forget.

The election is certainly heating up. As much as I support McCain-Palin, I still feel like that this is the democrats year to win with the mood of our country right now about the administration.

HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!! They looked real good and with Brady's injury you got to think that they are now the favorite. I sure hope this is the year!!

Very sad about Don Haskins. He was such a great coach.