So I branched out of my blog and decided to start a comic website. The comic is called, “I am Hobab” and can be found here http://hobab.endurelife.com I am posting the first one on here just to wet your appetite. I love drawing even though I’m not that talented. hah
issue 1
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I bought this Tom Clancy book a few weeks ago from our local thrift shop for about $3. I bought it for the purpose of making a secret Book Safe. Last night, I finally started it, but Whitney might took it over after I was about halfway through. She was not trying to do it for me, but simply offered to help. Either way, it was definitely a joint effort! We are both really pleased overall with the outcome.
This was a very easy project, just took a little muscle to get through the pages with my Xacto knife. We also went through a couple blades. The sharper the blades, the easier it was to get through the pages. The corners are a bit of a nuisance. Hard to get them really clean. However, the roughness just gives it that cool handmade quality. I am excited to put my cigars in them!
Can you tell from the above photo that the watered down Mod Podge bled onto the top red page on the outer edges? I may go over that page with the Mod Podge to just finish it off. I think it would look nicer this way. The opening is pretty deep. Could it hold your secrets?
This project was a lot of fun, but it sure was messy! Nothing that wasn’t easily cleaned up.
If you’d like to try this project, Bre Pettis has a great video tutorial here.
I’m by no means a movie critic. Ok, that is a lie, but I don’t normally write about movies. Last night Whitney and I went to see, “He’s just not that into you”. While I must say it was something to do besides watching TV at home I wouldn’t watch it again. That isn’t because it wasn’t entertaining, but rather what I felt during the movie.
I think what bothered me so much about this movie was how accurate it was about the American world-view of marriage. For so long men have made jokes about marriage and referred to his wife as the ol’ ball and chain. Women have also made jokes about the laziness of their husbands which often times comes in the form of how he grabs his crotch or how he only likes to watch sports. Neither forms of the jokes are very honoring to the other spouse, and while they are referenced in a joking manner there seems to be genuine sentiment about those issues.
I’m not an expert on marriage, but I have been married for almost 4 years. In those 4 years I have grown lazy in trying to impress my wife or even just trying to be gentlemanly to her as I was before marriage. Last night my eyes were opened a little bit more about how people can have affairs and boring marriages. What seems like a momentary slip of effort or complacency in our love can greatly affect our future care on concern for our marriages. Somewhere down the line one or two socks left on the floor becomes the ammunition to start an apt war or house war in the future. Obviously socks are not the problems…at least I hope they aren’t. It seems that when life moves faster than our love for spouse something is lost. The joy, excitement, anticipation and love that we had for our spouse is now something of a distant memory in our past.
How did we as Americans get to the place where we are “ok” with giving up on love with the ONE we have loved? I’m not going to get into how society affects our view on love, but I will say that our view of society should not be equal with our marriages. If society and life are moving too fast then slow down in your marriage. Marriages should be the driving force in our lives and not the other way around. At what point do we reschedule our lives around our families instead of our families around our lives?
Just somethings to think about for me. I have to remember that the commitment of “I do” doesn’t become an “I did”. To love just as passionately and desire my wife as I did before is where things begin to change. As someone once said, “When women are truly loved the world comes into alignment.” If a woman is truly loved than that man loving becomes the best version of himself.
May we all be truly loved because of the love that we give.
dustin
Hey everyone!
Check out the new photos on my flickr page. or just click on the photos page.
Dustin 
As 2009 is upon us I am always encouraged by people to “make resolutions!” Well as much as I don’t want to “make resolutions” just because it is 2009 I feel compelled to. Just thought I’d share a few new ones.
I want to serve my wife more. She works so hard and loves me so well that I want to pour into her what she pours into me.
Make more defined times to study the word, not just do a devotional.
Wake up every morning to watch the sun rise…Even if it is cloudy. (This is going to be the hardest of them all.)
Fast more than I have in the past.
blah blah blah the list goes on. I think the ones I really want to try that are different are the waking up early for study and watching the sun rise. There is something so beautiful about the sun rising. I don’t know if it is because a new day is upon us, or because it is a day of second, third infitiny chances to love God in a deeper way. Who knows, but what I do know is that God is in the sunrise. He is in the warmth of the rays that shine upon us. I love that He uses creation to bring glory to Himself.
To a new day.
Dustin
