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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.

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