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Going Out More

I’m not in the mood to post right now, but I haven’t in awhile so I need to.

Long story short, I’ve been going out a lot more the last few weeks than I normally do.  We’re talking 2 to 3 times a week. Compared to 0 to 1 time a week, that’s a lot.

I’ve been hanging more with an expanded group of friends.  Amy, Shenaira, and various friends of theirs (plug Darren, Lisa, etc).

I’ve started going to Zapatas in Collinsville more often.  We’re thinking we’re going to make it more of a normal thing.  Go there on Fridays.  They have karaoke, dancing, $2 Coronas, etc.  I like the atmosphere, not true bar, but you could dance if you want to.

I also think I might start going to Wild Country again on Thursdays.  Anyone who knows me knows I used to go all of the time.  Then I stopped going for awhile.  Then, I started going sometimes.  Now, I go from time to time.  But I think I’m going to start going every week.  I’m starting to make a new group of friends there.  My old WC friends don’t go anymore.  So I need to make friends with the current regulars.  Last week was a lot of fun, so I think I’m going to make more of a habit of it.

And then I’ll make a habit of Zapatas on Friday nights.

Born on the 4th of July

No, I wasn’t born on the 4th of July.  But given that this past weekend was the 4th, it seemed a fitting title nonetheless.

I haven’t posted in awhile, so there are a couple odds and ends to catch up on.

I’ve still been running.  I find I lose about 2 pounds the days after I run gain 1 pound the days that I don’t run.  So I guess it’s a simple numbers game.

I’ve also been playing more guitar lately.  I’m trying to play an hour a day.  To help make time, I switched my Netflix plan to 2 at a time instead of 3.  It saves a couple bucks, but more importantly allows me to do other things, like practice.

Last week was pretty busy for me.  I’m having a sizeable get together on July 26.  Because of this, I needed to get done a few things that I had been putting off for just such an incentive.  On Monday and Tuesday night, I painted the breezeway.  I did it all white, which is what it used to be, but the new bright white makes a big difference.

Wednesday we grilled out at Darren’s.

Thursday Darren, Lisa, and I went Roboskis.  Amy and Theresa met us there after the game.  I had never been there before.  It gets pretty crazy after the games.  I myself got crazy after the game, a little too crazy if you know what I mean.  I crashed and Darren and Lisa’s.

Friday (the 4th), Amy had a thing at her house.  I carpooled with Shenaira how is a friend of hers who lives pretty close.  I didn’t have too much on Friday because I overdid it a bit the night before so I wasn’t exactly in the mood.  After grilling and stuff, a few of us went to the Jury Room in Eville to hang out.  We ended up staying pretty late.  I got back like 2:30.

Saturday, bright and early, my parents came over and helped me paint the staircase–which is something else I wanted to get done before the 26th.  It went fine, but took a little longer than expected.  While we were painting, a tree trimmer was going door to door to stir up some business.  I needed to get my trees trimmed anyway, so it seemed as good of time as any.  They trimmed the crap out of 3 of my trees.  Right now, all of it is piled in my front yard.  It looks pretty trashy.  The trimmer said that there’s one tree I should take out soon because it could fall on the house.  It is in pretty bad shape, but I think I’ll give it a little while.  I think it has some time left in it.  After all that on Saturday, I just hung out.  I was pretty beat from the week.

Today, we played my arrangement of America the Beautiful during the offering.  I think it went pretty well.  I had my doubts because it’s a little envelope pushing for Lutherans (it uses distortion on the guitars).  And, the sound is always jacked up and you can never hear anything right.  But, it went pretty well.  I only missed a couple of notes on the solo and they were some of the less important ones. It seems as if you could hear everyone ok, so all in all I was pleased.

After that and lunch, I came back and laid around and watched TV all day.  After all last week being so busy, I was really looking forward to a day when I would  be able to do just that.

Going into this week, it’s pretty much back to normal.