This has been quite a weekend and the weekend has hardly even started. Well, the break from school started on wednesday afternoon, but I think the weekend is probably always just at the end of the week.
On Wednesday evening, after telling my mom about ten different times I would be at the cottage, we made it there just in time for a 7 o'clock dinner. In fact, my sister Amy pulled in right behind us and even called me on the way to let me know she was behind me and I was driving too slowly.
We had some good lasagna and other stuff Wednesday night. The Black Hole, as I think Ou decided to call Dave for his ability to ingest large amounts of food which then disappears, finished off the food as we sat at the table and conversed about China, CLEP tests, and crazy family, among other things.
The next day, Thanksgiving, was a fun filled day beginning with a breakfast of eggs and sausage and toast (toast nobody ate). Following breakfast, Ou, Kassie and I decided to go for a walk around the lake to the peninsula, the park, the basketball court and back. Ou decided as we were walking on a path through some trees that we were in a horror film and somebody was waiting to attack us, so I fought them off with snowballs. At the campground he decided he would not like to stay in one of the cabins there alone. We made our way to the basketball "playground" as Ou calls it. When I made a snow angel he didn't think the head was big enough and so sat on it to make it bigger.
As we returned from our walk my family was raking snow (there might have been some leaves in there somewhere). So we joined in. After a while, Mom decided to start making a snowman. I joined in. We raked some more leaves and snow and then we all stopped raking and made snowmen and had a snowball fight. It was quite fun. One of the snowmen became more like a totem pole with about 5 snowballs or something. We had a hard time agreeing to a truce in the snowball fight to get a picture with the snowmen before the tall one came crashing down.
We spent the rest of the day eating, playing games, talking, watching movies. We played a card game called hand and foot and realized Kassie is afraid of feet. Literally she used to hate feet but not as much anymore. In the game, though,there is a set of cards called the foot that you are supposed to play with after you get rid of your hand (or first set of cards) and Kassie never made it to her foot. Fun times. She did better at the next card game, which we call Bid. She was winning for quite a while but ended up in second place with Dave and I trying to sabotage her.
I forgot to mention our crazy game of Aggravation in the afternoon in which Dave and Kassie were supposed to be partners. Dave started out not exactly playing as if Kassie were his partner. As the game progressed, though, they came together to win.
Today Dave took my car to work in the morning and Ou went with him back to MP. Kassie and I stayed until later and came back with the fam.
Now, I am home (at the Men's House) alone. A strange feeling for several reasons: I live with 8 other guys, so it isn't often that none are here. Also, I just spent a couple days with three friends and three family members.
Now Dave is here. Bye. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The rest of you weekend should be swell, too.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
One man's trash is another man's treasure
Tonight we cleaned our house. While cleaning, I noticed that somebody had put a jaw harp in the trash so I took it out of the trash because it is a musical instrument.
Speaking of which...I didnt really mean to go into this story but it came up. I went to Kassie's house on Sunday with her to pick up her laundry and spend some time with her parents and then grandparents who live down the road. When we went to her grandparents's house, her grandma started showing me a couple instruments, I think because she heard I am into music. She has a beautiful old accordian. I am not much of an accordian expert but this one looked pretty sweet and she got it from a friend for $75 or something. I got to try it out, which was fun. Then she let me try out the organ she is trying to get rid of. That was fun too. I am not great at piano, but it was still cool. Anyway, I basically like to try out any musical instrument I can.
Back to the jaw harp. I carried it with me with the goal of learning how to play it after devos (we didn't really have devos so much because we just cleaned the house mostly). So then I went over to the women's house to visit Kassie and she was upstairs. So before she came down I used the computer to look up how to play a jaw harp, and I think I am getting pretty good.
Maybe I will start playing at church soon. Probably not so much, but it's fun nonetheless.
I need to work on a project and then sleep. Goodnight.
Speaking of which...I didnt really mean to go into this story but it came up. I went to Kassie's house on Sunday with her to pick up her laundry and spend some time with her parents and then grandparents who live down the road. When we went to her grandparents's house, her grandma started showing me a couple instruments, I think because she heard I am into music. She has a beautiful old accordian. I am not much of an accordian expert but this one looked pretty sweet and she got it from a friend for $75 or something. I got to try it out, which was fun. Then she let me try out the organ she is trying to get rid of. That was fun too. I am not great at piano, but it was still cool. Anyway, I basically like to try out any musical instrument I can.
Back to the jaw harp. I carried it with me with the goal of learning how to play it after devos (we didn't really have devos so much because we just cleaned the house mostly). So then I went over to the women's house to visit Kassie and she was upstairs. So before she came down I used the computer to look up how to play a jaw harp, and I think I am getting pretty good.
Maybe I will start playing at church soon. Probably not so much, but it's fun nonetheless.
I need to work on a project and then sleep. Goodnight.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
greasy hair
I'm sure you all want to know that my hair is pretty greasy right now. It happens quite often since me taking a shower doesn't happen really often.
That's not really what this post is about, though. I just want to tell you about today. It wasn't anythign fantastic but good enough to write about.
1. Woke up and went to work. did work for the first little bit. had about 15 customers all day. I crocheted a hat at work. I also finished the book Jesus Wants to Save Christians (something like that) by Rob Bell. I played some guitar, read the Bible and did some homework type of stuff also. fairly productive work day.
2. Came home and ate and jammed with Matt Martin, Chris Cadogan, Tim Novak. talked to Aaron Klenke for a while...good talk about God and life.
3. Hot dogs. For those who don't know, we give out free hot dogs and sometimes, such as tonight, free hot chocolate at our house on Saturday nights. tonight was the last Hot Dogs night of the season due to the weather and such. we also usually have lightening going on during hot dogs. tonight I ended up playing about 3 hours of lightening, from 10 when hot dogs started until about 1 after we ran out of hot dogs. It was a good night and I met some sweet people. A few might be coming over for dinner in the near future.
Well, that's about it. I am pretty exhausted. I am about to go to sleep. church tomorrow. sweet. adios.
That's not really what this post is about, though. I just want to tell you about today. It wasn't anythign fantastic but good enough to write about.
1. Woke up and went to work. did work for the first little bit. had about 15 customers all day. I crocheted a hat at work. I also finished the book Jesus Wants to Save Christians (something like that) by Rob Bell. I played some guitar, read the Bible and did some homework type of stuff also. fairly productive work day.
2. Came home and ate and jammed with Matt Martin, Chris Cadogan, Tim Novak. talked to Aaron Klenke for a while...good talk about God and life.
3. Hot dogs. For those who don't know, we give out free hot dogs and sometimes, such as tonight, free hot chocolate at our house on Saturday nights. tonight was the last Hot Dogs night of the season due to the weather and such. we also usually have lightening going on during hot dogs. tonight I ended up playing about 3 hours of lightening, from 10 when hot dogs started until about 1 after we ran out of hot dogs. It was a good night and I met some sweet people. A few might be coming over for dinner in the near future.
Well, that's about it. I am pretty exhausted. I am about to go to sleep. church tomorrow. sweet. adios.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
School Work?
Tonight I am realizing how little work I have put into school this semester. I have a project due tomorrow and I am having a hard time finishing it. I just spent about 2 hours on it and expect to have about 1 or 2 more hours of work to be done, but I am feeling like I have worked all day on it or something. Just because I haven't really worked on anything this semester.
One thing i have worked on is spanish homework, but I always put that off until the day before all of the chapter assignments are due. So that does take quite a bit of time, but I guess this is just different. It is the first real paper I have had to write. I have written a couple of spanish compositions but they were short and in spanish so they weren't too bad.
Anyway, I am kind of taking a break/procrastinating on the last part of this project. The project really isn't too bad. I just have a couple more pages of writing.
Now, I am going to visit Kassie. In my defense, I will not really able to see her this weekend because she is busy tomorrow after His House and then is leaving for the weekend.
Anyway, I will get the project done and it won't be too bad, but also not fun and I really ready tobe done with school. I hope my classes next semester don't require much work.
One thing i have worked on is spanish homework, but I always put that off until the day before all of the chapter assignments are due. So that does take quite a bit of time, but I guess this is just different. It is the first real paper I have had to write. I have written a couple of spanish compositions but they were short and in spanish so they weren't too bad.
Anyway, I am kind of taking a break/procrastinating on the last part of this project. The project really isn't too bad. I just have a couple more pages of writing.
Now, I am going to visit Kassie. In my defense, I will not really able to see her this weekend because she is busy tomorrow after His House and then is leaving for the weekend.
Anyway, I will get the project done and it won't be too bad, but also not fun and I really ready tobe done with school. I hope my classes next semester don't require much work.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Crazy Day
I don't normally work on Mondays, but I worked today because nobody else could or something, and I had time from 11 30 to 6, so that is when I worked. I had class from 10-11, work, cook, eat, clean, devos, ... (I'll get to that later).
So, I am pretty sure Mondays are the days for everybody to ask for April (my boss) or ask hard questions that need to be referred to April or somebody who knows, or to ask questions that would be difficult for anybody to asnwer.
One of the questions was a lady asking if we had a book about miracles with a dog in sunglasses on the front cover. I asked her about the title or author and she said she didn't really know but maybe the title has the word Angel in it. Well, I tried the best I could to make it seem like that was a perfectly fine request, when really, unless I would have known what book she was talking about, there wasn't much of a way to find it. Then after I told her I don't think we have it, she started reminiscing about a dog she had that she believes saved her life, and I didn't really know how to respond to this unexpected monologue. Needless to say, work was interesting and somewhat frustrating.
Then I came home after picking up sour cream for dinner and Joe V.(my cooking partner) had all the cooking stuff under control and it went smoothly and we had a good dinner. After dinner, Grant helped wash dishes, which was very nice, and then we had devos.
Devos was a good time. We did an inductive Bible study on 1 Thess and split up into groups of three to discuss. We had some good discussion about love and encouragement and living a Godly life and such and after praying and ending devos we all beseiged the women's house with our marshmallow guns.
All was going well with good times being had on both sides until Katie Bennett stole my bag of ammo (marshmallows). I was chasing her to get them back and she tripped or something and I basically ended up tackling her into the island in her kitchen. She hit her head and went down. Needless to say I felt really bad, but she seemed to be doing fine after a few minutes. Then, after the battle had wound down and we were cleaning up, she started having problems. I don't know exactly what happened but it got pretty scary for a while and she was taken to the hospital. She is doing fine now and is staying at the hospital overnight just to make sure. Praise God for his healing and also for his comfort and goodness in our time of need. I can't say I am glad this happened, but I am glad God was able to use it to teach me things and bring me closer to him. Anyway, it was really scary, but God was definitely present through it all, as he will always be.
On a completely different note, Kassie and I are "dating". It basically happened Wednesday when I told her how I felt about her and she reciprocated. She was gone for the weekend, and we talked again tonight and made it more official or something (not referring to putting it on facebook).
God is awesome! Life is crazy, but God is there at every turn.
So, I am pretty sure Mondays are the days for everybody to ask for April (my boss) or ask hard questions that need to be referred to April or somebody who knows, or to ask questions that would be difficult for anybody to asnwer.
One of the questions was a lady asking if we had a book about miracles with a dog in sunglasses on the front cover. I asked her about the title or author and she said she didn't really know but maybe the title has the word Angel in it. Well, I tried the best I could to make it seem like that was a perfectly fine request, when really, unless I would have known what book she was talking about, there wasn't much of a way to find it. Then after I told her I don't think we have it, she started reminiscing about a dog she had that she believes saved her life, and I didn't really know how to respond to this unexpected monologue. Needless to say, work was interesting and somewhat frustrating.
Then I came home after picking up sour cream for dinner and Joe V.(my cooking partner) had all the cooking stuff under control and it went smoothly and we had a good dinner. After dinner, Grant helped wash dishes, which was very nice, and then we had devos.
Devos was a good time. We did an inductive Bible study on 1 Thess and split up into groups of three to discuss. We had some good discussion about love and encouragement and living a Godly life and such and after praying and ending devos we all beseiged the women's house with our marshmallow guns.
All was going well with good times being had on both sides until Katie Bennett stole my bag of ammo (marshmallows). I was chasing her to get them back and she tripped or something and I basically ended up tackling her into the island in her kitchen. She hit her head and went down. Needless to say I felt really bad, but she seemed to be doing fine after a few minutes. Then, after the battle had wound down and we were cleaning up, she started having problems. I don't know exactly what happened but it got pretty scary for a while and she was taken to the hospital. She is doing fine now and is staying at the hospital overnight just to make sure. Praise God for his healing and also for his comfort and goodness in our time of need. I can't say I am glad this happened, but I am glad God was able to use it to teach me things and bring me closer to him. Anyway, it was really scary, but God was definitely present through it all, as he will always be.
On a completely different note, Kassie and I are "dating". It basically happened Wednesday when I told her how I felt about her and she reciprocated. She was gone for the weekend, and we talked again tonight and made it more official or something (not referring to putting it on facebook).
God is awesome! Life is crazy, but God is there at every turn.
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