Just to cool

A replay of my pastor

RT @mikeglenn: God is the master chef – He can cook a gourmet meal with whatever ingredients – good or bad – you or anyone else throws into your life.

Fathers day

This tweet was to big to retweet but I had to pass it on.

RT @waynebrady: Happy Fathers Day 2 all my dads holding it down & taking care of their families. Any man can be a baby daddy, but not all can be Fathers.

Dinner date

So tonight we have been given a great gift. The gift is a paid dinner night without the boys. Not only are they paying for the meal but they are watching our boys. Although Nickie and I feel like we are going through a huge blizzard during this winter of our life we have still been blessed by God in numerous ways.

Buying Christmas Presents

So Saturday I got on the WWW. and was cruising along looking for Christmas presents. When I found what I wanted I ordered it. Then right after I hit submit I saw the shipping was way more than I expected so I immediately cancelled. So  I continue on down the WWW and find something else that I wanted and ordered it. Now, you would have thought that I would have learned from my first order to pay attention to the shipping. Well, I would have if they would have showed me but they didn’t until 3 pages of more advertisements to buy more of their product and then boom the bill and your order is being processed. WHAT!!!!!! Now all would have been well if it was item but I was ordering three of the same product and they were charging me shipping per item. Which made know sense to me but of course made sense to them to make a profit. So I immediately call support to find out they are only open M – F. So I emailed them. Now Monday roles around and I call and spent 45 minutes of “Please be patient as the call load is very heavy”  So I am thinking I am screwed and will be stuck with a bill. The rest of the day went buy and just a few minutes again I checked the status of my  order and it said “Canceled”. Praise the Lord. I then went to my email to see an email saying your order has been cancelled let us know if you want to reorder. I don’t think I will make that mistake again.

 

Derek

How Are You?

How are you? I never really hear from you. I give you multiple ways to connect with me but for whatever you choose not to. When I write my blog it goes to mulitlple place to make it as accessible as possible so you can’t say well I didn’t know that happened. I also make multiple post on twitter which also goes to multiple sites like facebook, linkedin,myspace, buzz and multiple other places. I am very accessible. So why is it that you still don’t try to connect with me. You have a phone ,you have a computer and you might even have a phone that can access this digital info. So you say well I am to busy. I find that hard to believe. You have access to the web, and I know you are on there it’s just obviously not that much of a priority. So please commment on my blog, facebook and twitter. If this sounds like I am begging, well I am not. I just will not take the excuse that you don’t know what’s going on in my life.

Does this sound like friends and family of yours. I am sure it is. I believe it boils down to a priority and obviously you and I are not a priority. In this digital age it does not take long to just drop someone a message. So don’t you be that person either.

Wow, Been Awhile

To all my adoring fans I am so sorry that I have left you sitting there waiting for that email saying that I have posted another blog or your RSS feed for that matter. Needless to say my life has been a whirlwind lately. This past winter Iost my job but picked up another one with Go Live Productions. They are contracted by Women of Faith to do all their production work. It was somewhat of a dream come true. I got to be in the production world that I have such a huge heart and passion for. We only had two gigs in the spring and then nothing till this fall. Once the fall hit I did three shows before i got a phone call saying “Sorry but this isn’t gonna work.” Nothing personal it’s just business. Those where some very hard words to hear. So as I wallowed in self-pity and felt like I was the biggest loser I got a Direct Message through twitter from the lighting designer of Women of Faith, he also just finished a tour with Keith Urban and now was out with Steven Curtis Chapman. His direct message said. “Want a job? I might have something for you” and he did. The job is not the most glorious job in the world but it’s with the greatest group of people. Drum Roll please………… It is for Steven Curtis Chapman. They started out hauling everything around in trailers attached to the bus’s. Money wise it was a great idea but when SCC would not want to show up to the venue till a few hours before the show or or would have to go to another town and a do Women of Faith show it got real sticky. So they put their brains together and said all the gear would fit into a box truck. So thats where I come in. So in the midst of losing a job God was putting another one together for me.   Now for the whip cream. The very first show I showed up to I met a crew member who was just filling in for the normal guy and was normally out with Mandissa. The following week instead of me tracking him down on facebook he found me. A few weeks later he came back out on the tour and was filling in again. While we were waiting for the go ahead to unload the truck he said hey I liked to talk to you about something. He went on to say that due to a another well know manager / sound-guy leaving the industry there were some holes to fill  and he would like to help me be the one to fill those holes. I was just blown away because literally the night before I was thinking to myself I want to catch up with this guy after the tour and see if he knew of any possible work or was willing to help me get more established in the industry. It was just so refreshing to have someone come to me vs. me tracking them down.

Collecting Shoes

Well, I am doing again what I did last year and that is collecting shoes for Soles4Souls. Last year tho was probably more out of selfishness in the sense I knew I would need as much motivation to run a 5k as possible since I hadn’t run one since I was 10.  So after reading a tweet from @MichaelHyatt who is the CEO of Thomas Nelson Book publishers about this great organization I just thought the shoe fit ( pun intended.) So I started tweeting and adding post to facebook thinking it would be really easy to get people to walk into their closets grab some old shoes and bring them to the race or after the race people would just drop by the booth and drop of their shoes on their feet .I was proven wrong but not discouraged. I was able to collect shoes but just cause it’s a race and you are running for a good cause does not mean the people are going to show up in droves. I unfortunately  got a lot of I did not know you were going to be here, or I just gave all mine to Good Will. So it was a little frustrating. At the same time I really enjoyed doing this ,met some great people, had some great conversations and my wife even said for the first time today I saw you in your element.  So who knows where collecting something as simple as a pair of shoes could lead me. I am currently looking for employment with a possible job in the wing but who knows where all my experiences will take me. 

So I ask you to go into your closet , grab any shoes you know you will never wear, come out to the Menchies South Nash Dash, run , walk, stroll with your baby or dog, just have a good time ,come to me to drop off your shoes, hang out and have some good conversations. 

5 weeks till Baby R

Wow, It's hard to belive in this day and age that God felt secure in Nickie and I that we needed another child in our lives right now. We get excited at times and at times start pulling our hair and banging our heads. This was not our plan but it was Gods plan. So I feel God has a sense of humor a ,knows what we are capable of and is shaping and molding us for bigger things. Why do I say a sense of humor. Well, it's because we are three floors up in a 2 bed 1 bath condo that is currently for sale but no offers as of yet. So, you can only imagine how fun things will get when family starts coming into town. So during this unique times of our lives we appreciate any and all prayers. Also keep Nickie in mind as she has a little more work on her plate when I am out of town with Women of Faith.
Derek D. Robertson
www.DerekDRobertson.com

8 Weeks Out

We are currently 8 weeks out from being parents again. It is an exiciting yet scarry time. It is also a frustrating time because we have had no luck in selling our condo in hopes to upgrade into a bigger home. God has a funny sense of humor sometimes when it comes to things like this. At the same time I know we can make it work and when we are able to sell our condo Will be very thankful for the upgrade. At the same time I am getting excited about going out on the road with Women of Faith. It will be a hard transition but God has prepared us by lettiing me go out on the road of couple of times in the spring and early summer to give us a taste of what is to com. So keep us in your prayers as we begin these two new journeys.

Our baby moon

Derek D. Robertson
www.DerekDRobertson.com