Alleluia, the end is finally here..

...or rather it will be by the end of this week. Not the end of the world as we know it, but the end of living in two travel trailers waiting for the work on our property to be completed, and and our mobile home finished being built. It hasn't been THAT bad. Except for the constant dampness, having to constantly wash stuff to prevent mold growth, and various other nusciances.

Our home was scheduled to be delivered today, but do to a lack of communication on the part of our contractor , it won't be delivered until tomorrow. Big Bummer, but at least the house is on its way. Then after they deliver it, they have to get the two halves connected, put in our wood stove, hook up our electrical and water, and finally come and dig our septic field. Then after all of this is done, we have to have a county inspector come out and approve the house for habitation. Hopefully, if all goes according to plan, we should be able to start moving into our house by the weekend.

We plan on having a big party to celebrate, complete with a bon-fire, much running around and playing of games, and food! Lots of FOOD!!! But we probably won't be able to get around to doing this until summer, just so we can get everything in order, and get some better weather. Maybe we can even connive to get the homeschool picnic involved in it! The possibilitie's are endless!

Anyway, this is me, signing out!

ITS FRIDAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats right! Only 11 more hours until my weekend officially starts, and its shaping up to be a marvelous weekend. First off, its just gorgeous outside, and what more could you want in a weekend besides that! But, to top it all off, I'm going flying tomorrow! Huzzah!

What is everyone else doing over the weekend?

There is a time for everything...

... And in a few weeks, it will be time for the Lenten season in the liturgical year. For one I am extremely looking forward to it, spefically as a time for spiritual growth. I will try to establish some sort of a tradition , such as daily reflections or something. If you have any ideas for me, just put'em in the comments box and I will see what I can do.

Alien Vs. Predator...

If you're a fan of the "Alien" movies, or the "Predator" movies, here's a movie that you should see. Chock full of science fiction fun, multiple battle sequences involving the title mentioned, and all out a guy movie. Its also suprisingly clean with a sum total of three swear- words in it, which makes it all the more enjoyable. If you're a guy and you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favour and rent it.

Whatever I feel like doing...GOSH!!!

I've finally done it. I've seen, " Napoleon Dynamite", and I must say I rather enjoyed it. It was an hiliarious movie, in the stupid kind of humour that tends to make one laugh for no apparent reason. The star is a geeky nerd and, as a matter of fact, there are several characters in the movie who fall into this category. And to top it all off, his grandma owns a llama named Tina! If you are a fan of the stupid movies that make you laugh for no apparent reason, "Napoleon Dynamite", is a must see movie!

Up in the wild blue yonder...

I went flying today, and it was glorious! It wasn't too warm, it wasn't too cold, it wasn't too bright, as a matter of fact it wasn't too much of anything. Thereby it was a perfect day in the happy medium of Washington. After pre- flighting the airplane, my instructor and I hopped in and took off from Paine Field in Everett, and headed off East and then North to the Arlington Airport to do touch and go's. This was loads of fun for several reasons. First, I had never flown from one airport to another, and so had to do infinitely more than I had ever done while flying the airplane. Second, I love Arlington's airport. And I could go on and on about the reasons I like to fly and today in particuliar, but I will continue with the narrative.

After leaving Paine we headed out over Lake Stevens, and flew around in there while I got my bearings and started getting Arlington's weather, and changing all of my frequencies. Then after listening to the weather, and determining which runway was in use, I manuevered the airplane to get in the traffic pattern. Once we reached there, we did about five touch and go's and then headed back to Paine field. I made a near flawless approach and landing there, and then came to the library. I love flying!

Almost there!

Well, the PUD has been coming up to our property and getting things ready to get our power hooked up, which they say they will be doing sometime next week. HUZZAH!!! It will be so nice to have constant power at our property. This also means that we're just one step closer to having everything in place for our house to come out there, which is an even bigger... HUZZAH!!!

I might even go so far as to say Two Yars and A Huzzah for the house thats almost here! Yar, Yar, Huzzah!

Needless to say we're all very excited at the Wilson Homestead. That is all.

Happy Anneversiary!

While riding on the bus with John to Olympia, we were enjoying ourselves immensely talking about anything and everything. One topic which we happened to be covering was that of asking girls out, which happens to be something of which we are both fairly naive. It was during this conversation that Claire came up to us, and reaching her hand over to shake mine, she said, " Happy Anneversiary Mr. Zest!"

" Why thank you very much!"

Just as she had gotten out of earshot while working her way back to her seat, John leaned over to me with a slightly befuddled look on his face and said, "Uh, Kodi, what was that all about?"

"Oh, today is just the one year anneversiary of the birth of Mr. Zest!", I replied nochalantly.

"Oh, good, because I was gonna say that I thought I knew you better!"

We both had a good laugh over this as we resumed our previous conversation.

George W. Bush Sworn In For Second Term

January 20, 2005
By KOMO Staff & News Services

WASHINGTON, D.C. - George W. Bush swore the presidential oath for a second term in turbulent times Thursday and issued a sweeping pledge to spread liberty and freedom "to the darkest corners of the world."

to read the rest of the article go here!

A Day Well Spent...

...For indeed that was what yesterday was! It started rather interestingly, what with getting only a couple hours sleep, getting up at six o'clock, taking a three minute shower, and then jetting on our way down to Shoreline to catch the St. Mark's bus down to Olympia. My usually wonderful driving wasn't helped by the fact that I thought we were going to miss the dictated departure time of 8 am. So being the resourceful boys that we are, we called Mrs. Kennedy at home and got the number to their cell phone, and then attempted to call Mr. and Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the clan and ask them to hold the bus for us. After not having gotten through, we realized the fruitlessness of our efforts when we exited right behind them.

When we finally arrived at the Church, we found much to our delight that not only was the bus still there, but that it wasn't leaving until after mass. So we hurriedly ran inside and sat down just at the end of the epistle.

After Mass we all hopped on the bus, and started a rather jolly trip down to the Capitol. About fifteen minutes into the trip we started the rosary, after which we all resumed our seats. My traveling companion was, as it is every year, John Kennedy. We had a wonderful time talking about pretty much everything until we arrived at our destination.

Upon arrival all the occupants of the bus teamed up in little groups and started going around perusing the capitol building with the hour and a half we had before the march started. Almost all of the YFLers went into the governor's office and left her notes. That was rather delightful, even though I'm sure she won't be reading all of the individual notes, but it felt good to write it. Another adventure was volunteering to go and pass out roses to the politicians.

And then came the actual march, which was loads of fun and very inspiring! The four politicians they allowed to make speeches were all very good, despite the fact that they had to contest with the yelling of the Pro- abortion advocates who had gathered to make a scene. They all cut rather...interesting figures, what with their peircings, colored hair, and tattoes. But we countered any all of their yelling with cheers and clapping for the various inspirational speakers.

After this we all got back on the bus and had an equally enjoyable ride home, talking, holding our collective breath through all the tunnels, and eating a well earned lunch. Ah, I love having days like yesterday!

Tomorrow is an exciting day!

To start it all off, the annual March for Life is being held in Olympia. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a demonstration held on the capital steps every year by pro-life advocates. It is a peaceful demonstration which shows the goverment that abortion should be illegal. The bus ride down there is always jolly good fun, and this year will be no exception. What better way is there to spend a day than spending a couple of hours with your friends while helping out for a good cause.

Coincedentially, tomorrow is also the first anneversiary of the infamous Mr. Zest, for those of you who are in the know about such things, or even care!

A little bit about me...

...I suppose you might be wondering what type of person it is that is the author of this blog. I will tell you. It all began on a fateful day in the early part of the year 1986, when two normal American parents welcomed into the world their first born, a son whom they named Kodilee. However most people took to just calling him Kodi, and the longer was reserved for instances when he was in trouble.

Kodi has lived in many places ranging from eastern Washington to Massachusetts to Arizona over a period of 18 years, but has finally ended up in the small town of Arlington, Washington. He lives there with his Mother, Father, four brothers and two sisters, all of whom he loves very much.

He has had many hobbies, loves, and interests throughout the years, some of which were passing fancy, others which have stayed with him. One such love is flying, and all things aviation which was fed with many books, and the occasional flight in a small airplane. And in the summer of 2004, he was able to start the necessary training to become a pilot. He is still only a student pilot, but hopes to one day make a career out of flying.

His love for flying, however, is second to one thing, and that is his belief in his Catholic faith. He has been Catholic most of his life, having been baptized at age three, and has had many experiences which have led to deeper love, and appreciation of his faith. Two such experiences were his parents decision to home school him and his siblings, and secondly his confirmation in his faith in may of 2002.

Other hobbies and interests that have stayed with him are reading, drawing, and especially spending time with family and friends.

A good Blog

If you haven't checked this blog out give it a gander! Its run by me brother and two of my friends, and I daresay is run quite a bit better than most I have seen.

Testing...

Well, as my first official publicized thought on the world wide web, I would like to ask anyone who might read this to be extremely patient with me, as I am very new at this. I will try to write something of greater interest in the near sometime, such as hopefully a small autobio. But please, patience for a learner!