Running Like Crazy

Not that there's anything unusual about that.

So Friday night, Casey and I were supposed to met up at my office at 5 to move him out of his dorm room. Only problem was I wasn't in my office at 5. When I returned at 5:05, he'd come and gone. We spent 30 minutes trying to find each other. But we finally did connect. He had more stuff then would fit in my car, so we left half of it in my office and loaded the rest up in my car. Then I grabbed dinner and we ate while waiting for his RA to check him out. Whlie grabbing dinner, I said hi to Brad really fast. (Yes, that was for Matt.)

Saturday morning, I woke up at 6:30, which worked out well. I went for a run before Casey and I headed out to graduation. On the way, we stopped and loaded the rest of Casey's stuff into my car. You should see my garage. It's so full of stuff right now since that's where we put most of it.

Anyway, we got to graduation just before it started. And, frankly, I'm glad we didn't get there any sooner. It was HOT!!! For the first time, the college was holding their graduation outside. The weather went from mid 70's earlier in the week to near 100 Saturday. Casey and I both got sun burned in spite of the sun screen we put on. Ok, so obviously I didn't put it on very well. We finally got through. Then we went to a party for Kurt and Kellie. Had lunch and played volleyball. It was a nice time. Came back, went for a swim, and headed to game night. My old roommate Erik was there. He was my roommate my last semester in college. I got to meet his wife. It was great to see him again, even if he did cost me the game by forgetting he had one of the Clue cards I was asking for. :)

Sunday was almost the usual. Church in the morning and evening. Talked to my family. But no worship team practice since we don't have Bible study Thursday. We had a SNYF. Most of the people went swimming, but it had cooled off so much I didn't get in. The kids drove me crazy on the way there. Why is it my car is a toy to them?

Today, I had a job interview. The company sounds great and they apparently liked me. We'll see what happens. There are at least two interviews to go. It's further away then I really want, but still reasonable. Don't know if I want it or not. Hopefully I'll get a better idea once they make an offer of money and I find out what benefits are. Which I should have asked in the interview. Oops.

Right now, I'm watching the Survivor finale with Casey. I accidentally heard what happened today, and I'm happy with the outcome.

Time Again for Word Association

But first, something I forgot to blog about Friday. Check out my number of reviews. I guess I'm evil. :)

Now, our main attraction, taken from here.

1. Grandma:: Cookies
2. Pet:: Rock
3. Desolate:: Island
4. Backspace:: Key
5. Common ground:: Basis for relationship
6. Storm:: Clouds
7. Dark:: Side
8. Water bottle:: Drink
9. Training:: Job
10. Dot coms:: Amazon

Hardly Unlucky

So today was Friday the 13th. I've never put much stock in it being lucky or unlucky going along with the theory that people just notice things more on one day over the other.

You see, I found out my new roommate Casey got the job here on campus he was going for. So there's a chance that he'll become a permanent roommate and not just a summer roommate. At least I hope it works out like that.

Of course, with Casey as a roommate, I guess I'll have to stop complaining about my roommates on this blog since some of you know him. :)

In other news, I hardly slept Wednesday night. No idea why, but my heart was racing and mind racing. Probably having something to do with everything going on in the next few days.

I am feeling better today. In fact, I'm feeling better today then I have felt in about a week. I got allergy shots yesterday. Wonder if there's something out there that was putting me over the top.

Youth group went well last night. We finally watched the video presentation of the pictures from the scavenger hunt last month. My team lost. :( Let Jared take a song on his own during worship because I just wasn't getting the hang of it during rehersal. No one commented, so if they noticed, it obviously didn't make a big impression.

Then I went over to Kurt and Kellie's house to watch the year end show video. Ok, so I'd just seen it the week before. But I desided that I should take them up on a chance to hang out and be social. And I'm glad I went. Had lots of fun. (Have I mention K&K on my blog before? They're both on jr. high staff and got married two weeks ago.)

And a rant about my roommates. Two of them are going home to Kansas for Memorial Day weekend. How did I find this out? By evasdropping. Never mind the fact that they know that Casey moves in tonight since the dorms close. They are leaving the Thursday before and will be back the 31st or the 1st. Now I don't know why they are going, but does it seem smart to you to plan a trip out of state for the time when you've known for three months you're moving? And not discuss it with your land lord? I've been joking about changing the locks on the 1st. Maybe I really need to.

Word Association and Thursday Threesome

And now it time to catch up in my memes.

First, Sunday's word association.

1. Android:: Not Quite Human
2. Revenge:: Best served cold
3. Knight:: Horse
4. Stranded:: Island
5. Weakness:: Strength
6. Greed:: Money
7. Walter:: Michael (Lost reference)
8. Dense:: Packed together
9. Sheep:: Shepherd
10. Propane:: Tank

And now for today's Thursday Threesome brought to us this week by kids on a road trip (or my mom on a trip) and The Back Porch.

Onesome: Are--Are you planning on heading out this Memorial Day? ...or is it a 'stay at home and chill' kind of holiday for you?
I usually try to stay home on Memorial Day weekend. And that's what I'll be doing this year. Heck, game night is at my place that week. :)

Twosome: we-- ....and who is "we" when you go traveling? Any preferences that you can state here in blogland ?
Usually my family. Otherwise, I travel alone.

Threesome: there yet?-- ...and when you get there, what are you going to do? ...or if you're staying in, what's on the menu? Are you cooking out or just opening a can of tuna?
Excuse me? I haven't planned what I'm eating next week. Memorial Day is a little too far away to plan. :)

Speedy Update

I have 15 minutes before Lost starts. Let's see if I can do this.

I had a great weekend with my parents. And Mom must have thanked me a million times for coming up, so I think I made her Mother's Day. :) Friday night I stopped and saw Donald and Heather on the way up. We played Clue. The men won games. Unfortunately, we didn't have time for a third game because it was obviously Heather's turn to win. :) We also found the best ice cream ever. You must try Breyer's All That and Caramel. Ok, so my favorite is still Dryer's Dreamery's Coney Island Waffle Cone, but this is close.

11 minutes.

Saturday we got together with the Irwins and played mini-golf. Mr. Irwin won individual, but the Baker family won team.

Sunday my uncle and his mother-in-law (who we're close to) came up to visit.

Monday, I came back to the reality that one of the two people I thought was moving in isn't. So at the moment, it's just going to be Casey and I this summer. Which honestly sounds like lots of fun. I don't think I'm going to try too hard to get another guy in here unless it's someone one of us knows.

Today I called a couple places about potential jobs I'd been meaning to call for over a week. One of them set me up with a client right away and I have an interview Monday at 1. We'll see how it goes. The job is in Van Nuys, so it's not as close as I would like. But it does sound promising.

Meanwhile, they changed my job while I was gone. Suddenly, the on-line credit card system is beginning to accept student payments. I've told them before that if they're going to do that, they need to give me lots of notice and we need to talk through how this will work because it's going to create lots of extra work for me. But do they listen? Nope. They hold a meeting on Monday and start using the system that day. They'd better start listening soon because it's going to be murder when I go on vacation next month.

3 minutes. I made it!

And I'm Outta Here

On my way out the door to spend Mother's Day weekend with Mom (and Dad).

No youth group last night because of the annual carnival the Christian school puts on. I wonder how it did yesterday due to all the rain.

And the other guy who might move in is still stringing me along. He says he should know by Monday. I guess that's fine since I don't have any time to worry about it right now anyway.

I thought every thing was finished in that department. It was supposed to be easy!

Anyway, hope everyone has a good weekend.

Thursday Threesome for 5/5/5

We interrupt your regularly scheduled post to bring you this important service announcement. Today is 5/5/5. Enjoy!

And now, without firther ado, we present this week's Thursday Threesome brought to us by The Back Porch.

Onesome: This--is the one thing you need to get finished today! What would that be?
At work, I need to get today's loan roster processed and the transfer made. We won't get into what I need to do at home.

Twosome: and a-- project you'd like to get started on this weekend would be?
Nothing, since I'm going to visit my parents this weekend. Not exactly good on the project department.

Threesome: Day--Scenario: tomorrow is suddenly 'your day'--school is out, the kids are covered; you're shift is handled at work; you have no obligations! ...and you have gas and spending money. What are you going to do with your time?
Disneyland! I've been dying to go back for a couple months. I'm also dying to go to the beach, so that would be a close second.

Twisting and Turning

I need a better paying job. I can't stand all these twists and turns!

Last night at dinner, Casey told me that he would have a job on campus this summer no matter what, so he was going to move in. Great, I thought. I now have all roommates found. The other guy was going to come over and check the place out last night, but I thought he was a sure thing.

And the other guy did come over and check the place out. After 10 minutes of looking for parking. Don't know if that has anything to do with it or not, but when he was leaving, he told me that he needed to run numbers and would let me know by the end of the week if he planned to move in or not. Um, what was that last week about wanting to move in for sure? So now I get to wait longer to find out how many roommates I'll have next month. And this is after I told someone he couldn't move in cause I had found all the roommates I needed.

Meanwhile, Casey needs to move in in a week and a half because that's when the dorms close. My roommates had told me they'd work around it two weeks ago. Suddenly it's going to be a problem. Yep, the same roommates who thought having 5 people there for two weeks back in Feb. was ok. "Where's he going to put his stuff?" "With us packing up it'll be hard." Excuse me?! I have bent over backwards to work around you. You can work around me.

Maybe I should have kicked them all out in March like I was tempted to do.

Meanwhile, I got to have lunch with David today. Great to catch up with him. And we're planning to start swimming on our lunch hours once the students go to get ready for the trathlon we're both planning on doing in July. It's the same one I've done in years past up at Castaic. Should be good.

How about an update?

I thought it was about time myself.

Friday night was career Bible study. And inspite of the fact that I intended to leave early, I was about the last to leave as always.

Saturday, in spite of my wishes, I woke up nice and early. So I got on the internet before going for a run and getting ready to leave for the day.

At 11 AM, I walked out the door. First stop was the theater, where I bought 7 tickets for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Then I went to Kurt and Kellie's wedding. It was very nice and I wasn't ready to leave the reception three hours later. But I had to leave. Came back to campus, picked up Matt and Casey, and headed to the theater for the movie. We all loved it. Very funny and in the spirit of the book. Or at least what I remember of the book. After the movie was dinner at Johnny Rockets then Uno.

Did I mention that Josh and Bonnie were there? It had been over a year since I'd seen them, and it was wonderful to spend time with them and "meet" their son. Man, I've missed them!

Sunday was the usual church stuff. Master's College choral sang at church for the evening service, which was very nice. And for lunch Nick and I finally went out for my birthday. Almost two months late, but that's the way things turned out.

This week promises to be social week for me as I'm meeting some friends for lunch the rest of the week. Meanwhile, last night I took a couple friends out for dinner to say goodbye since they seem to think they can move to Phoenix. Plus, they'd had me over and taken me out to dinner, so I thought it was time I reciprocated.

Plus Donald was in town over night, so I headed over to his sister and bro-in-law's for a little while. Got to see pictures of his trip to Seattle. I've discovered the down side of digital cameras. People take more pictures then they would otherwise, so it takes longer to go through them. We also saw the first video of the baby that his sister is expecting in November. They're are positively thrilled about that, and it's wonderful to see.

Tonight promises to be my down night. So I hope to catch up on 24, watch extras on National Treasure, and catch tonight's TV shows. I had hoped to get a couple CD reviews written today, but it didn't happen. Maybe tomorrow?

Speaking of which, I've decided that the "Currently Listening to" list on the side is going away. I usually have about six CD's here in the office at any one time plus listen to two or three CD's in the car. It's just way too much work to even pretend to keep it up to date.

I was a bad boy today. On impulse, I bought the first season of the Bob Newhart show. Not even a super big fan, but a marginal one. I just couldn't pass up the price. If my common sense gets the better of me in a few days, I'll be taking it back. I'm not opening it until them. It's just so cheap for a set like that....

Word Association for May 1st

Gotta run. Worship team practice starts in 10 minutes!

Found here.

1. Texas:: Brother and Sister-in-law
2. Scholarship:: College
3. Runner-up:: Second Place
4. Mustang Sally:: A student at Masters?
5. Jones:: Keeping up with
6. Hard to get:: Rich Mullin's song
7. Jewish:: Israel
8. Crew:: Cut
9. Cable:: TV
10. Assistant:: Secretary

(For those who don't know, the mustangs are the school mascott at Master's. Now, can someone help me with Mustange Sally?)