Wedding Dress Photo!

This is way overdue...

The 2009 Grand Champion in Sewing:

This is the wedding dress I, with long suffering instruction from my expert seamstress sisters, was able to enter in the Bell County Youth Fair where it netted the highest award possible in the sewing category.

For those of you who have been waiting for this photo since February...

You can advertise on my blog for two months at no cost! : )

Thanks for waiting,

-Trent

P.S. Did I mention the dress is for sale?

(Editors Note: Read the story of my first impression on hearing I had won Grand Champion at the 2009 Bell County Youth Fair: Wedding Dress Wins! - also includes contact info.)

Back From Patriot Academy

Patriot Academy 2009 was phenomenal!

If you are interested in politics, or are confused by government, Patriot Academy is the place for you.

Update

I have some good news and some even better news...

1. My bill (ending no-fault divorce in Texas) passed!

2. Michael Bullock won the race for Speaker of the House!

I ran for Speaker, learned a lot, and did a whole lot better than my first few attempts at campaigning. In the end I lost, but it was a outstanding experience.

I rank my race as:

Terrible

Respectable

Out-Of-This-World

Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Friday, July 31, 2009

Temple, TX. - Trent Williams announced his bid for Speaker of the House as he began his campaign for the future of Patriot Academy early this Friday. Supporters lined the walkway wishing Trent well, congratulating him for entering the race, and speculating the future of Patriot Academy with him in office as he left the rally.

Asked if he would run again Trent assured the patriots present that once elected he would never run for another Academy office: “No, I don’t think they need me to hog the cabinet!”

To another question he answered: “If you think you can do the job an office requires: don’t run for it; when you know you can go beyond accomplishing to excelling in that position, go for it!” An avid writer and go-getter, Representative Williams returns with the skills and experience needed to excel at Speaker of the House.

He concluded with: “The people running for, and holding, the offices are just a sideshow; the real people making it happen are y’all bringing the bills and doing all the other “normal” stuff. I plan to serve you in your efforts to turn the world right side up!”

Before climbing into his “tour bus” he called back:

“Just remember, for Speaker: Write Williams!”

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Paid for by Trent Williams for Speaker.

The Flight Back

In Midway airport with forty minutes left on the clock...

I tried chasing down a Mormon in Midway airport, but he lost me in a crowded restaurant (well, I it’s not that he lost me it’s just that he became less accessible and completely preoccupied with devouring his sandwich). While thinking of some way to engage him in conversation I ran across three guys wearing shirts ties and backpacks. Why talk to one Mormon when you can take on three at once? 


So I followed them, and to my delight they headed in the direction I needed to be going anyway (chasing the Mormon had taken me in the opposite direction of my gate). Unfortunately they were not on my flight. I sat next to them at their gate and waited for their conversation to lull. Sure enough an opportunity came. “Where are y’all heading?” I asked (Pretty dumb question but I had to start somewhere…). I found out that they were heading to New Hampshire for Seminary to become Catholic Priests. I should have known better. I’ve never seen a group of Mormons wearing matching ties, and cufflinks? 

After discussing the very complicated subject of how to get to heaven if you are a Catholic (according to the answers they gave to my questions you have to basically get try as many rituals, wear as many charms, and put a lot of hope in what someone tells you – as it isn’t in the Bible. I’m exaggerating, but you get the point. They couldn’t tell me where purgatory was in the Bible and finally agreed that you could get to heaven without it or even baptism. They seemed to think that they and I agreed almost completely on how to get to heaven. I was in the middle of telling them why an aborigine who had lived a basically “good” life couldn’t get to heaven… when their plane started boarding. I left each with a tract, and got back to my gate.

On the way to Houston, the guys in my row and I were busy reading our Bibles (NASB on my left, and NIV on my right) – wild!

Chicago Bound!

Well, I'm headed to "Obama-land" or what used to be it.

When: This Saturday

What for: An in depth Bible study (that's it in simplified sort of way)

How: By plane

I won't be blogging until I get back.

But when I do...

I'll let you know how it went and all the hilarious predicaments I got myself into.

Till then,

-Trent

P.S. I'm hoping to get back to actively blogging when I come back. Right now I'm down with the flu (it's better than being "gone with the wind") which is possibly THE flu, yep, swine flu (possibly).

Mistakes (lessons from a magic show)

"The lack of avoidable mistakes is the lack of positive assumption" - Trent Williams, 2009.

This I know, mistakes will happen, no matter what you expect. That's why you should "Expect the worst. Prepare for the worst." (another quote I have deceived myself into believing is possibly original).

I was painfully reminded of this truth at my annual children's magic show (which this year was a clown and magic show). I have believed time and time again that certain things can be done without practice, it isn't true. Other assumptions that I have briefly entertained are that the right words will magically come into my mouth at the right time for the right situation, that hecklers don't exist, that all children are mostly good, and that the little details (like what the clowns will do and when) will fall into place, you guessed it, magically (automatically).

Moral:

Minimize assumptions, the positive ones that is. Dreaming is only five times better than doing when you do what you have dreamt.

Back again (for a little while at least),

- Trent