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We (Amanda and me) were looking at our queue and our list of subscriptions the other day on Hulu. We have so many dang shows in our subscriptions. There’s so many I’m glad they aren’t all on at the same time. There’s no way we would be able to watch them.

I wanted to share our list (please remember that some of these shows are only for Amanda):

• 10 Things I Hate About you
• Being Erica
• Better Off Ted
• The Biggest Loser
• Bones
• Burn Notice
• Castle
• Chuck
• Community
• Cops
• Covert Affairs
• The Deep End
• Desperate Housewives
• Glee
• Greek
• Happy Town
• Heroes
• House
• How I Met Your Mother
• Huge
• Human Target
• John Doe
• Justified
• Lie To Me
• Make It Or Break It
• Minute to Win It
• Modern Family
• The Office
• Parenthood
• Parks and Recreation
• Past Life
• The Pretender
• Pretty Little Liars
• Psych
• Rookie Blue
• Scrubs
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager
• Solitary
• White Collar
• Wipeout

It should be longer because we’ve gone through once or twice already and purged things we didn’t watch anymore.

Last Sunday was me and Amanda’s one-year anniversary. I can’t believe it has already been an entire year since we took the plunge. I remember going shopping with Amand and my mom a few days before Sunday and they were reminiscing about what they were doing on that day one year ago. Most of their comments consisted of either freaking out, shopping, or more freaking out.

So here we are. One year into our marriage. Has it been easy? You know, for the most part yes. I’m not going to try and say that we haven’t had some disagreements, or that we haven’t gone through some rough times, but it has been very easy to live, talk, and do life with Amanda. I think that a major factor behind all of that is that Amanda is incredibly patient. She’d have to be to live with me, AM I RIGHT? Through all the ups and down with where we’re living, the money situations, how often I’m home, and my spiritual learning curve, she’s been really great.

I could on for hours and hours about how awesome my wife is, but that’s not really what the point of this post was intended to be. It’s more to simply just celebrate our first year together, pray for 50 or 60 more, and know that one year ago I got the better end of the deal.

I did have a lot of time to think, as far as how many hours have passed since I read yesterday, but my mind was kind of busy at work taking orders, refilling drinks, and running food last night.

“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” —Genesis 22:12

I think the biggest thing that I got out of reading was that nothing is yours. Nothing is mine. Everything belongs to God. It’s only because of Him that we have any of our possessions. Abraham was called to take his son Isaac and sacrifice him. He led his son to an altar, bound him, and raised a knife in the air. That’s nuts to think about.

I wonder what the world would be like if everyone always acted like nothing they had wasn’t worth giving up for God. It’s a struggle for me to give 10 minutes a day let alone one of my prized possessions. I know we dedicate babies at church and I will probably do the same at same point, so I hope to be like Abraham and remember that it’s not mine anyway.

Introducing my new nephew Karson Avery Lunsford.

(for the entire set of pictures, click here)

Born on Thursday, May 27, 2010, at 7:43pm, weighing 7 pounds and 15.4oz, and laying 20.75” tall.

Congrats Anna and Kris!

Earlier today the power went out. I’m sure you’ve all heard the saying “save early, save often” at some point in your life. Especially if you work with/on computers for a living. Well, add another reason to the list of reasons why you should save early and often.

Amanda was entering our finances into Quicken and the power went out. I went outside to go knock on a neighbors door to see if their power went out too when I saw a Georgia Power truck. I went around to the side of the building and started talking to the employee. He was replacing a defective meter — our defective meter. In order to replace the meter, they have to cut the power. I asked him if he usually knocked on people’s doors before cutting the power to their house. He said they usually don’t and he took it for granted that their might be someone home. I politely made him feel bad for cutting our power in the middle of Amanda doing some work and went back inside.

Dear Georgia Power: Thanks for the warning.

Jerks.

PS — I wonder if we’ve been overcharged all this time. I should probably call them. Might be cathartic to complain a little bit too.