I Never Thought I'd Be a Georgian

Okay, a few confessions about my new Georgian life...

• I've temporarily been listening to country music. It feels prescriptive when you drive across the Chattahoochee River every day. (I honestly didn't know how much that muddy water would mean to me.)
• My wife Ainsley got reunited with her best friend Kelly from childhood who lives in Canton, which has been really good. Kelly named her daughter Ainsley and gave my wife the distinguishing identity of "Big Ainsley" which is not so good.
• I worked at the White House in 1996, but I think it's quite possible the Catalyst calling card garners more returned phone calls. Have I mentioned I love my job?
• Who else gets to chit chat with Erwin, Craig Groeschel, Batterson, Furtick and Noble all in one day?
• I just bought the biggest, baddest black F-150 4x4 I could find. It could literally swallow your car, belch, and keep on going. All I need is a gun rack.
• Every time I go to Brad Lomenick with an idea, he never rejects it... he just makes it bigger and better.
• I'm thinking of starting an upscale hair salon called The Mullet Shop.

Comments

[matt]

well we northerners sure do miss ya'll. indie rock and prius' rule!

[Michael Harrison]

My wife and 2 of our children are from Georgia, and I do not hold that against them. You must join their ranks. Did my time and was paroled, Ben, after a decade of living in the Peach State. Enjoy, as you are (remember that country music is NOT the genre of heaven!!!).

[Scott Cheatham]

LOL...Yes, I know the culture shift thing well. My wife and I lived most of our married life in rural Missouri just south of St. Louis when I was a manager for a radio station conglomerate. (Prior to becoming a church planter!).

Now, when you start purchasing your Lloyd Cross cowboy hat and your shirt with the white pearl snaps at the local western store, you'll truly have become "all things to all people" that you might reach some!

The move to Denver was quite a culture shock for me going from that to the Starbucks culture. We were prepared for the shock but still, it takes a while to enter in.

Glad to see all is well with the Arments and that your wife found an old friend. That always helps.

[Subversive Pastor]

I know a guy who can build you a custom gunrack for your truck. Just let me know.

Also, you need those mud flaps for the rear tires with either a women's silhouette or Yosemite Sam firing his guns. Either one will work fine.

[Abby]

WOW! Be careful with that truck. And tell Ainsley that she should referr to herself as #1. This will help.

[p rogers]

The Mullet Shop is a GREAT name for a salon. I really think you should go for it!

[Ben Arment]

progers, that's what i'm talking about. you see the vision.

And yes, mudflaps. gotta think about those.

[Nic]

"that muddy water"...Gotta' love some Alan Jackson. Texas and Georgia probably have about the same amount of country music.