LiT

we had the second LiT meeting today. that was fun. and i might get to go driving later, that'd be nice.

awesome

Monday was awesome.

Tuesday was slightly less awesome, but still fairly good.

I know... its been a while.

I am subscribed to this email newsletter called This Is True. It finds funny stories or headlines in newspapers, and then emails them to us along with some sort of funny comment. Sometimes those comments are a bit inappropriate, or slightly offensive to persons of faith like me, but overall its worth it.

Especially today. This is what came in:

"THE FORECASTERS AGREE: "Our Summer Will Be Cooler ... Unless It's Not" --
Minneapolis Star Tribune headline"

yay!

Yay, huzzah, etc.!

I have finished Les Miserables! And it only took me 5 weeks! not counting the three or four books I read while I was reading it...

Now all I must do is decide what to read next? I'm thinking, perhaps Crime and Punishment....

Adam

I finished reading Ted Dekker's novel Adam today. good book. now I really must get back to Les Miserables. I only have 150 pages left!

Today I read Obsessed. Technically, I started reading yesterday, but most of it was done today. I must say, the ending seemed a little cliche to me. Something about "true love (not necessarily romantic, though) conquers all" seems a bit anticlimactic and a little vacuous. Oh well. Otherwise, really excellent book.

Also: I hung out with Mark. We didn't help his mom build a fence. Then we went over to one of their renters and installed a cabinet. This made us late to church to program the lights and slides for the mime concert on friday. I managed to figure out how to properly use MediaShout, have everything ready, make MediaShout lock up and thus have to restart the computer, find out that I didn't save the file, and recreate the file, all in an hour and a half. I recreated the file in 8 minutes =)

Then there was the VBS meeting, in which it was officially decided that I am going to do the sound/projection jobs. yay.

Saint

I finished reading Ted Dekker's Saint. It was a good book. Is a good book.

However, I am left with a conundrum: I am about 3/4 of the way through Les Miserables, at a very good stopping place. Going back to that from Ted Dekker is a very big leap; lets just say that Les Mis had me falling asleep. Now what? lol

This week

Well, good things happened this week. But, I didn't post. Mainly because I didn't have a computer to post from ;) So...

Monday: Not too bad. Weeded my gutter... of baby maple trees. Then went driving for an hour. Now I can sort of park!

Tuesday: Again, fairly pleasant. Got to drive for about half an hour. Now I can go around cars, and I can drive at 30 mph! Then went to the Tuesday night EMF meeting. Then went to the "Committee on Nominations and Lay Leadership Development" meeting. This was funny for several reasons. The humor mainly came from the age split: there is clearly a group of 'old people' and a group of 'young people.' We also decided that LiT is better than most other leadership teaching things out there. We looked at a leadership teaching thing which looked really slick, but which cost way too much for what you got ($450!!).
Then, I talked to MaryCarol for a little while. Turns out, I've officially done it! I've broken into the LiT leadership! Yay! But this creates an odd prideful feeling in me. "I'm so honored." "Well, why? Shouldn't I expect to be put into leadership positions? Everyone tells me I'm great..." "Isn't that getting a little prideful? Isn't that bad?" "Umm..." grrr.

Wednesday: Not the bestest day ever, but still relatively pleasant.

Thursday: Not much happened today. I kick derriere at this game I'm playing. Took my siblings (Debbie, Rachel, and Jon) to swim practice today. Got to talk to some people I haven't seen in a while. I might be able to get a job there, cuz one of the coaches is leaving in a month or so. Except for CYMA, and maybe VBS too... And we have a new head coach (for the second year in a row). She's been in 8 other coaching positions... hm... I suspect because she's not the greatest coach! Her sets look ridiculously easy, I don't care if these aren't USS-quality swimmers!

Friday: Worked on the tent today. Mainly, I filled in the ditch I dug some of the other days I was working (lol). Then, there's mime in an hour and a half. I'm looking forward to that.

VeggieTales quote of the day: "Great! Cuz I've always wanted to be a chicken!"