Things I don’t want to forget…

Things happen and before I forget them I have to write them down somewhere.

On Saturday our parents finally met and hung out for a while. They came over after we packed all of Emily’s college things. It was so much fun. Our mothers talked about baking and their kids. And something I will probably never live down is that game of fooseball. My dad and I were playing against Emily and her dad. We lost!?! 10 – 5 I couldn’t believe it and neither could my dad. We’ll beat them next time. I know we will.

Memories of the Lilac Festival are also very important to me. Last year the festival was very pretty but the best part of this year was that Emily’s parents came along. It was so funny. Right at the end Emily’s dad bought a turkey leg. It is like a huge drumstick. It was so funny to watch them eat it. Emily could hardly get her cute little mouth around it to take a bite. There are pictures on facebook!! And we took the shuttle bus this year. That was lots of fun too! We rode in the very front of the bus on the way to the festival and in the very back on the way back to the car. Emily and I really enjoyed that!!! Oh and we can’t forget cleaning off the knife!

Another experience I’ve really enjoyed has been exploring instruments. I’m teaching myself how to play piano right now. I know that is kinda hard to forget but I just thought I’d include it.

The family road trip!! Hind sight is 20-20. I wish I had blogged more. I’d have to say that my favorite thing was probably seeing the petrified forest. It was so different than I expected. That cavern we walked through was pretty cool too! Both figuratively and literally. My family is amazing.

Trips up to the cabin. I’ve only been up there a couple times now, but everytime has been amazing. During one of Emily’s first trips up, before we owned our cabin, at uncle Craig’s I remember going on a canoe ride with Emily early in the morning. That was so precious. My dad got a great candid picture of us. I also remember those wonderfully terrible ping pong games with Gabe. Another fun thing I remember is sledding down onto the pond. That was a blast!! Emily, Gabe, Lydia and I had some toboggans and the pond was frozen over. AMAZING!! Again my dad, always with camera in hand posted a video on his youtube channel. You should check it out. http://www.youtube.com/user/SMKaction He has some pretty cool stuff up there.

Something amazing I’ve been getting to do is love Emily. I love her and I also love being her boyfriend. We live and we learn. Everyday I learn how to put words to things that were just second nature to us before. We are reading Cracking the Communication Code by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs. It is a great book. I read about things that I already do, which is awesome because now I have the words to explain them to people. And even better I’m reading about things I can do to improve the beautiful relationship Emily and I have. She loves me well and I hope I can do the same.

If I think of more I’ll be sure to post it!!

A Time to Reflect

It is truly incredible how many resources are out there right at our fingertips, even just a mouse click away. Recently my beautiful girl has been reading blogs online and then passing along that I should read some of them. Specifically Bethany Dillon and her sister Kate McDonald. Bethany’s is cute and exciting but I feel like Kate has been through a lot more.

http://bethanydillon.wordpress.com/

http://katemcdonald.wordpress.com/

Emily had already filled me in on the details of what has been going on in Kate’s life. Emily told me that she had just gone through a divorce with a music artist I had really enjoyed. So with my sadness I approached her writings. And no, my sadness was not just because I had lost an artist. My sadness was mournful. I was sad that their marriage hadn’t worked. I was just blue.

But as I read I didn’t find a broken or mourning woman. I found someone who was free to let God be her lover. Someone who was free to live. I’m not advocating divorce by any means but what I found was not what I expected. Kate shared stories of being a single mother and stories of her sister Beth and Beth’s husband Shane. An incredible amount of joy and peace was flowing out of this woman who had been through so much.

God really does work things together for good. Everytime I think about what she wrote I can feel that well rising up inside of me. That joy disguised as sadness. The thankfulness disguised as watery eyes. I reflect on the beautiful friend and lover God has so graciously given me. The way her eyes glisten and glimmer when she looks at me. The strength we give each other when we are weak. Kate’s words poured through my soul and put a divine spotlight on something I rarely see. GOD WORKS ALL THINGS TOGETHER FOR GOOD!!!

The second half of that verse is very vital. “For those who love him and are called according to his purpose.” Seeing a small glimpse into the life that Kate has lived I can see that verse is so true for her. I know it is for my life with Emily. It can be for you too!

The Week Of Many Things

This was the week which brought a light to things in my life. It has definitely been a long week. A week with few things to looks forward to, and many things to put off. Of the many things to put off were homework, studying, more homework… you know the routine. For those of you who don’t know Brockport was off on vacation this week and therefore, so was Emily. Yes, I spent an entire week without Emily. Emily and I have learned a lot. We’ve only learned because we have submitted ourselves to God. Without His hand on everything we hear, we would probably be in a much different place right now. But we have submitted ourselves to God and one major thing I’ve learned this week is that I love her unconditionally. No matter what happens I Love her. And the people said, “AWWW”. It was difficult but this week and the end of last week was a large wake up call for me. Things are beginning to come together in my head. I know that sometimes when we put things together without God’s influence they fall apart. But when God has His hand on the pieces he is assembling in your mind, be ready, because he will test you. I’ve had God speak to me in many ways; prophecies, sometimes a thought in my head, conferences I’ve attended, the encounter. I can see that he has been building things inside of me. It is so incredible to see the works he is doing. I know getting ahead of myself is wrong, so everything I do I’m going to submit to God before I take action. He is calling me to be a friend, a leader, a companion, a good example, a radical saint (Maybe not all right now). Looking back I’ve seen God strengthen me over the past couple of years. At the encounter, He changed my people outlook. He is teaching me how to receive things and submit them to Him instead of reacting. God is building a strength inside of me. The closer I draw to God the stronger I feel His presence. I am so excited to see what God is doing in me. He is helping me to remove the veil over my head. Helping me to see patterns in my life that I didn’t even believe were wrong. God is on the move, He is coming, I am so ready, are You?

Lots of Reading

I did a LOT of reading today. For my devotions I read Haggai and Zechariah (through chapter 10). Then I read a book Emily got me for Valentine’s Day, The Heart of the Five Love Languages. That boo really changed the way I view love. It took the “mystery” and turned it into something I could actually work on. If you find love just that, a mystery, then I suggest you read it. It simplifies things.

Well Haggai and Zechariah both had some very interesting passages that touched me in numerous ways. In Haggai 2:11-14 the Lord spoke through the prophet Haggai and told the people that by mere association, the people can be defiled, though people cannot be consecrated through association alone. Consecration is a choice and is something that must be worked toward in a person’s heart. Basically guard your heart and pray hard for those you want to see brought into the kingdom.

Zechariah 1:15 I felt really tied in with the guy’s small group message last night. It says, “but I am very angry with the nations that feel secure.” Now for a little context. In the previous verse He says that He is jealous for Jerusalem and Zion. So God isn’t angry with His children who feel secure in Him. He was angry with the people who felt secure where they were, with or without God. You are probably saying to yourself, “You just said He wasn’t angry with His children who feel secure in Him.” Yes I did say that, but God is constantly on the move. A key point in life group was that the only constant in our lives is change itself. If we feel secure where we are then we are not allowing God to change us and move us. When we are secure in Him, we are moving with Him, not staying put spiritually.

Zechariah 3 was entirely incredible for me personally, see if you feel the same. In this chapter the prophet Zechariah is seeing a vision that the Lord has given Him. We see Joshua standing with an angel before the Lord. Joshua has come to the Lord in His filthy garments, all that he had. The Lord told the angels to reclothe him in clean garments. If we come to the Lord he will take away our “filthy garments” whatever they may be, and replace them with clean garments. Then in Zechariah 3:7 God makes a promise to Joshua, which I believe holds true for all His people, “If you walk in my ways and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among those standing here.” God is referring to the angels standing among Him.

Another verse that stuck out was Zechariah 6:12. In this verse the Lord has told Joshua his name is Branch, for he shall branch out from his place. I really feel that God has called me to reach out to others around me, specifically other Christian men who I link arms with and march in the army of the Lord.

EPCOT.. Experimental Planned Community Of Tomorrow

Today we explored EPCOT and the world showcase. Once again the family had us run over to the newest ride to get fast pass tickets. The newest ride is entitled Soarin’. It was pretty cool. It give they simulated feeling of handgliding over vast landscapes and cities. All this is being displayed to you on a huge vision filling screen. There was even a synthetic breeze. The ride we did while waiting for our Fastpasses on Soarin’ was GM’s Test Track. It was just as amazing as I remember it last time. The acceleration test, speed test.. all amazing and hair raising. After Test track we went on over to Mission Space by HP. That ride was amazing. G forces and twists and spins. I really felt like I was in a space ship. I’m surprised there was only a 5 minute wait time. We also went through the world showcases. We went to the Canada show and the Norway show. We weren’t able to stay for illuminations though. The last ride we did before we left was the spaceship earth. A nice slow ride that lets you sit there and rest. The cast member who helped us get to the handicapped entrance was pretty funny. His name was Gary and he really enjoyed picking on Lydia. She loved it though. Gary kept on whispering to people about Lydia and by the time we got on everyone knew her name. It made her blush and smile. It was cute.

Today was my parents’ 25^th anniversary so we left the park at about 3 so they could go out to dinner. They had a great day. I love my parents so much. Sometimes I take them for granted. But I should always remember how many people didn’t grow up with 2 parents in the house. Someone was always there to take care of us. I continue to pray every day that I will be even a fraction of the parent that my dad was.

Later Everyone

One Down Three to Go

Today me and the family conquered Magic Kingdom. There were so many rides. It was pretty crazy, the lines were quite nonexistent. We got there bright and early for the opening of the park at 9:00 and from there we had non-stop fun. First thing we did was the Haunted Mansion. Seven years ago Lydia was too freaked out to get on the ride so she took the chicken exit. This time Lydia was ready for all the chills and thrills. She enjoyed so much we did it twice. The second ride we went on was Thunder Mountain Railroad. That is the crazy train roller coaster. The wait was 5 minutes the first time we rode it, so after the first ride we decided to get right back on. The second time the wait was only ten minutes. It was a great ride. The second ride we went on was Splash Mountain. This ride was themed after the story of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear. It is a log ride but if you look at my pictures you’ll see that I was gutsy enough to pull my camera out on the ride. Gabe was worried it was going to get wet. I decided to listen to him right at the top of the very last hill where we all got soaked. After Splash Mountain we went on the pirates of the Caribbean cruise. It was an air-conditioned boat ride. It was pretty cool. No pun intended. We then headed over to Tomorrowland to hop on Space Mountain. That was the craziest ride I have ever been on. You have no idea where you are headed. And you have to be ready for anything. We hung out in Tomorrowland and did a few more of the rides there. We did the new Monster’s Inc. Laugh Floor. It was so cool because they animated it as you went. Like the animated character said things relating to what the crowd did. It was very innovative. Then we went to Stitches Great Escape. I would not recommend this ride. It was fun if you like rides that pop your protective bubble. It didn’t smell that great either. We then boarded the Tomorrowland Transit Authority tram. It was a nice relaxing ride showing us the ins and outs of Tomorrowland. And we got to see a side of Space Mountain that we will never ever see again. Apparently they were doing maintenance because all the lights were on in the mountain and you could see the entire track. It was like a cart was stuck or something. I so should have gotten some pictures. But I didn’t. gah.. ahh well. After that we went down to Main Street USA to watch the Founder’s Parade. It was so amazing. Except for being a million degrees, it was so much fun. We saw so many characters sitting on their floats. You’ll just have to look at the pictures.

I do greatly miss my friends. My Disney Connoisseur, Alicia, continues to keep in contact. She is always making sure she knows which park we went to and where we are headed. I know it sounds crazy but it feels as though we’ve grown a little closer as friends. Not just because of my vacation but it definitely helped. We’ve been talking a lot and it really feels like we’ve been able rebuild the friendship we lost when we graduated. We’ll never get to where we were, but it feels good to be friends again. Thanks Alicia. Later Everyone.

Rebuilding

It is always a great thing to do. Whether it be a friendship, relationship. Anything you rebuild will be better when you are finished. Even Legos, when you take apart your model and rebuild it into something completely different it is so much better. Any way I’m losing my train of thought. Today was a real day of growth for me and my brother; we spent a lot of time together. He made me laugh so hard today. He started quoting Brian Regan. I don’t know what it is but it just sound so much funnier the way Gabe says it. I feel closer to Gabe than I ever have.

As well as rebuilding my relationship with my brother I have been rebuilding a friendship over the past few months. God really set in my head that I can’t live with the thought that someone wronged me. The two friendships I have been rebuilding have turned out two different ways. The first friendship has grown stale already. Sadly I feel like we are growing apart. We used to be so close. Now it feels like with every passing day I am less and less attached. The other friendship has gone in completely the opposite direction. We talk regularly and pray for each other on a daily basis. That is my favorite part about friends. The ones who really care ya know. I do have a third friendship brewing. I haven’t had to rebuild this one yet, but I’ve realized that as I grow they will need reconstruction and storms will come. But God lets us weather these storms so we can rebuild stronger the second time. So we can learn where to fortify our walls, and which walls are strong enough. I don’t want to weather the storms with her but I know I have to eventually. I just hope we don’t build ourselves a tower so high that it hurts when it comes crumbling down. This is my prayer but I also hope it is God’s will. If you let God give you strong friends he will. Don’t think you can be a solitary Christian. It’s impossible. God Bless Everyone. Later

Jesus’ Blood

Never ever fails me. It has never failed me and I know it never will. God has given me a great talent, guitar. I don’t think I’ve ever told you how much I love playing my guitar. Tonight I think I played for at least an hour straight. The best part about it is that I get to use it to praise God. Now that I am part of Mr. Vanhooft’s worship I have a constant stream of music flowing into my notebook. I have three all time favorite songs. Yes all three of them are slow but all three of them really touch me and move me closer to Him. Jesus’ Blood, Holy of Holies, and Let it Rain. Let it Rain is probably the newest of all three. The lyrics go like this:

Let it Rain

Let it Rain

Open the Floodgates of Heaven

Thos same lines just keep repeating over and over. I’ll try to put these song up on my music MySpace so you can hear them. This song reflects the desire of my heart for God to just pour out all his power upon me and everything around me so I can bask in His glory. The second song, Holy of Holies, Is a mixture of Let it Rain and Jesus Blood. The chorus goes like this:

Take me into the Holy of Holies

Take me in by the blood of the Lamb

Take me in to the Holy of Holies

Take the coal, cleanse my lips, here I am

In this song I am asking God to bring me in to his presence so he can cleanse me and make me new again so that I can worship Him with my whole heart un blackened by my sin. And some of you may be skeptical. You may be thinking, “Yeah right like would wipe all my sins away just like that.” Every time you sincerely ask God, He will clean the slate and make you whole again to do his will. Jesus’ Blood goes like this:

Jesus’ blood never fails me (3X)

Jesus’ blood, Jesus’ blood

This song is telling it like it is. Jesus died on the the cross and shed His blood for me and you. Every time I remember that it brings me great joy to know that in doing so God will always be there to catch me in his open arms. By way of the cross we have been re-connected to God. This doesn’t mean bad things won’t happen to me. They happen a lot. But by the blood of Christ I am forgiven and have been given passage to heaven.

I hope you can get as much out of these three simple songs as I did. God Bless you. Later Everyone.

New Page and a Grad Party

Another wonderful day in the neighborhood. Lol, oops I forgot this isn’t Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. So today was kind of a boring day. I got up around 11 and then went to work at 3. I have good and bad news from the library. First the bad news, Ethan Cornell is leaving us. Ethan has been working there 2 years now right alongside me. I believe his 2 years was sometime in May. He is a very diligent worker and an even better friend. There are a few things in particular which I will always remember about working with Ethan. Rubber bands, Biking, and video gaming. Ethan had a profound infatuation with the box of rubber bands. Before his shift began or after his shift ended he always picked up a rubber band and either shot it at you, or used it to aim at the numerous cubbies in the back room. Ethan was a biker for sure. Not like a motorcycler a cyclist. From his last tally I believe he told me he has like 3 or 4 bicycles. And he frequently used them as transport to the library. My favorite thing that we would discuss is video games. Wii, Xbox 360, Zelda, Halo 3, you name it we discussed it. We even tried to outdo each other with our Zelda apparel. Ethan It has been a great pleasure working with you. I hope you enjoy your next job. I will always remember you. The good news is that I believe we have hired an excellent new page. David Anderson. He seems like a very level-headed, diligent kid. From what I’ve seen so far he is pretty good at shelving books as well. Good luck to you David.

This evening I saw my favorite people in the whole entire world. Laurel Reisig and Sarah Haller. I just feel so full of joy even when I just type their names. I’m sure I’ve said this before but I love them. Sarah can bring a smile to my face no matter what is going on and Laurel has a fount of infinite wisdom inside her. Those 2 will be my lifelong friends. I trust them with anything and everything in my life. And thanks for walking me out to my car Sarah. How can I not talk abouit why I saw them. We all went to Rachel Stoikovic’s graduation party. Rachel and Laurel and I don’t know who else, are graduating this year and Laurel is coming to BROCKPORT!!! Yay, I’m so excited. Rachel thank you so much for throwing an excellent party. God bless ya.

That is about it for tonight. Later Everyone.

AIM: communication tool? Or Waste Of Time?

Yeah its already 11:17, a late start and I don’t think I’d be able to write all that I wanted, to write about the second most integral part of life. But what can I talk about. Hmm. Well like I told Alicia on AIM, maybe I’ll discuss AIM tonight. And so begins the controversial discussion over AIM.

In my mind AIM is both wonderful and terrible, so I guess that means it is wonderible, or maybe terriful. I don’t know but it has its strengths and its weaknesses. I love talking with friends and teachers. And although I say teachers, they’re my friends too. Okay maybe that should be singular, I only have one teacher who I know has AIM and she is definitely my friend. When I haven’t seen someone or heard from them in a long time it is fun to just chat and catch up on AIM. I only got AIM like a year ago when I got my computer and I was on it like I was addicted until like November/Decemberish, then I just figured that I should probably be writing my college papers instead. And ever since then I’ll log on like once or twice a month to catch up with my friends. AIM has caused me lots and lots of trouble though. At a certain point a conversation on AIM becomes stale. And as a rookie I used to try and try to extend a chat past that window of time. Terrible, once the conversation becomes stale do not touch it. Unless you think of something meaningful to say or converse about. It is much too easy to say the wrong thing or put across the wrong message to the other person when you just begin to babble after the conversation has fallen flat. It also depends on who you talk to on AIM. Generally, I don’t say a whole lot unless I haven’t seen the person in forever. Everyone’s style is different too, the way some people have accents. On aim everyone has a chaccent. You can tell just by the vocabulary and length of sentences whether the person is chatting with someone else or even if they are becoming irritated because you continue to bother them. What is really fun is when you are talking to someone and you say something then something happens to their computer. If you are anything like me than you begin to wonder if you said something that offended them, until they return and say something like, “My brother accidentally hit the switch on the power supply.” I’ve never actually heard that one but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone told me that. Then there is one person in specific with whom I chat who abhors chat speak. Like idk wut they r talking about. LOL was the one she didn’t like the most. I guess she has become more lenient since then but she used to hate it. Although, “lol” kinda grows on you. And it can grow on you in the wrong way. I think my online status still says this, “You know you are on AIM too much if something funny happens and you think to yourself, ‘lol’.”. I did that a couple of times when I was on for days and weeks in a row. That is when I knew it was a problem. So I guess I only really like AIM every once in a while. I guess that could have been more interesting but I tried.

Today what did I do? Ahh, I had church this morning. I began training our newest addition to the video ministry, Mr. Brian Duff. He is a quick learner. He said he use to do this kind of stuff at his old church so he came into it knowing a little bit of what to do. On the 29^th he’s going to be running the system and I will be observing. I’m sure he is going to do just fine. He is only like a computer science person, so he has a little experience with computers already.

I also went over and played guitar with Kyle today. We started working on composing our own song. We’ll let you know how that goes. It sounds good so far but I’m not sure how the lyrics are going to come out. Just pray God blesses it and give your talents to praise Him and you never know what the results will be. Talk at everyone tomorrow. If anyone has visited my blog for at least two days just comment, I’d like to know if I know the people who read this or not. And there are people visiting from facebook It just doesn’t tell me who. So I know that I know some of you. If you choose to remain anonymous that’s cool too. I promise I won’t change what I’m writing to fit the audience I’ll still write whatever is on my heart. Later

Work, work, work… it seems like all I do

Ahh, another wonderful God-given day. I woke up at 9:40 today to hear those wonderful birds chirping through my window. Sadly though, today wasn’t all too productive. I did get to go to lunch with my mom though. She was scrapbooking with the neighbor until noon. When she got home we went out to arby’s for some grub.

Yes something remotely exciting did happen today. I paid for my plane flight to Baton Rouge, LA. I am so excited for this retreat. About 4 years ago our church took a group of 15 people down to Baton Rouge for the Radical by Nature Youth Conference. It was radonkulous. One of the preachers, Joel Stockstill, invented that word while we were down there. God really changed my life. It was my freshman or sophomore year in high school and it just opened my eyes to the way I should be living my life. Bottom line, my life has never been the same. On June 17, Chad, Becca, Joy Giardino, Anna Dupre and I are going back to Baton Rouge for this year’s conference, “The Storm”. I can’t wait!!!

What else… At work I had a page scheduling meeting. Yeah not too exciting. Unfortunately we found out that two, if not three, pages are leaving the library in the next 3 months. Kinda scary, considering one of my duties as senior page is to train all the new pages. That means that I could possibly be training all of them at the same time. At least one of the other pages is staying. Thank you so much Kyrie. =)

Pages of the Past

My employment at the BSL has been pretty positive, I’ve really enjoyed my time there. I started working there in February 2006 so I’ve been working there 2 years and almost 4 months. I’ve seen pages come and I’ve even seen pages go. Sam, Kate, Nicole, Colin, Kara, Emily, and Josh I had so much fun working with you guys. Getting to know you was the best part. Sam, I still remember my first day at work when Chris was running through all the rules with me. You popped your head into the break room and gave me a friendly, “Helloo” and then you disappeared as quickly as you had appeared. Kate, It was always a great pleasure working with you. I really appreciated your humility. You showed me that even though I was new to the job, I could take as much time as I needed to get acquainted with stuff. Driver’s Ed was a Blast!! Nicole, you were the page I looked up to. I was always in awe of how efficient and effective you were at getting your work done. I remember not being able to wait until I could do what you could. Colin, well we didn’t work together for very long, all I can say is that the answering machine still has the button with the red lips around it. Haha. Kara, you were the first page I ever trained. I was nervous as could be that I would mess up. You made it fun though. I know you never did like closing either, those darned handicapped switches. =P Emily, soo much fun to work with. You were able to make the job so much fun. I still remember the first time I saw you punch your time card. You got over it though. Thanks for all the great times.  I wish you hadn’t left as abruptly as you had but I always had fun working with you. And my greatest ally in the fight for Christianity, Josh. Dude, every day you worked with me I felt as though I grew closer to God. Whether you taught me humility or an end-time prophesy I always had a great time. You are and always will be my brother in Christ.

Interesting tangent for the day. Well I’ll post again tomorrow, maybe I’ll write about all the clerks and librarians who’ve left in my time. Anywho I’ll be here tomorrow.

The Exciting Month of May

So a lot has happened in may, I know today is june 1st but May was really interesting.  To start the month off great on May 4th I went to the Flower City Work Camp 2008 reunion at Hope Lutheran Church.  I got to re-unite with Sarah and Laurel.  They are so great, when I’m with these two I don’t have to worry about what I say, I know they’ll understand me.  Whenever I talk to either of them I know they are listening and that they really understand or try to understand what I am going through.  And these two can make me smile like no other.  The love and care of God pours out of them in a way no one could know.  After hanging out with them the CCC group piled into our van and went off to the switchfoot concert.  That was fun but I think I lost some of my hearing.

Sunday May 11th was a sad day.  That was the last day all the Brockport college students would be at church.  I am going to miss them soo much.  They all made this semester so special.  I grew so close to all of them.  Nate, Joel, Jason, Kerri, and Emily, I miss you guys so much already.  You guys had a really profound impact on my life.  You’ve shown me that God will bring me great christian friends if I be the christian He wants me to be, not the christian I want to be.  Thanks soo much.  And I will see you on the 20th. =)

On May 17th I went to my second junior-senior prom.  This year it was more fun than it was last year.  I think it depends a lot on what your expectations are.  Last year I really felt like I had to make sure that it was going to be perfect otherwise my date wouldn’t have any fun.  lol.  I had my expectations set way too high and I came home disappointed.  This time though I went with a determination to have fun no matter what happened.  That was a way better attitude to go with.  Marianne and I had a lot of fun.  Just go with whatever happens and you’ll have a great time.  God will be sure to make that a definite.  I also had the pleasure of meeting my best friend’s boyfriend.

The week leading up to prom was very very crazy though.  It was the last week of classes so all the teachers were piling on homework assignments and to top it all off I was dying… well kind of.  So on wednesday I went into the healthservices office at MCC because I had an ear-ache.  So the nurse looks at my ear and I hear the standard, OoOoo and ahh, before she tells me that is looks really red.  Thanks but I coulda told her it felt bad.  so she prescribes me some death medicine, haha, that’s what it felt like later that night.  She prescribed some erythromicin.  I took a pill that night at dinner and needless to say my stomach rejected it at about midnight that night.  So I didn’t go to school on thursday.  My partner wasn’t too pleased with me because we were supposed to finish our presentation and project that day.  Only I wasn’t there.  Phil if you are reading this, I’m sorry.  Anywho, I went back to school on friday and told the health services office that my stomach didn’t like the medicine.  They told me I had a fever of 101 and gave me a prescription for amoxicillan.  So I left school after I described my ailment to both Phil and team Protoedge.  They weren’t too delighted that I was sick but they didn’t want to catch whatever I had so they sent me home.  Luckily I felt better by Saturday afternoon (Prom).  I did miss two days of work which hurt me because I lost 8 hours of pay and that was no good.  Prom was a lot of fun like I said before.

Then lucky for me.. finals week.  Yeah after like zero study time.  Well Monday, May 19 at 7:45am was the time at which my Calculus 3 exam began.  That test was probably the hardest of all my finals.  After much prayer and less studying I didn’t feel ready but I put my faith in God.  I got my grade 2 days later C+.  YAY!!! I actually passed the class and got credit for it. lol.  All that was left was University Physics, Digital Electronics, Engineering Design and Technical Writing.  I got a B and three A’s, respectively.  Professor Goho made it extremely clear that it would be difficult to get an A in his class and he was right.

Mary I will miss you. I’m so glad God led me to be such great friends with you.  One week after prom I drove out to ontario to see another one of my best friends.  This was probably the last time I’ll see her for a while.  We started at her house and 10.15 miles later we were at Webster park.  That was so much fun.  We ate some lunch, hung out on the pier and then we biked back to her house with a little pit stop at Red Robin where her brother and my friend, Stephen, works.  Total round trip, 20.3 miles.  I’m surprised my legs didn’t fall off.  I wish I had all the musical talent of the Doan family.  I think everyone in their family plays one if not two instruments.  After our wonderful bike adventure, Mary, her brother Chris and I Jammed for a while.  Chris and me on guitar and Mary on viola.  That was a lot of fun.  I learned a lot just watching them play together and Chris taught me a couple of things.

Not much happened after that.  My ear has healed, praise Jesus.  I’ve still been pretty active with my guitar, still finding new things to play each and every day.  At the moment I’m working on learning a song entitled “The Empty”, by Scott Phillips from his album Next Stop Willoughby.  So that’s what May was like.