My parents picked out a red Honda CRV for my post mission car because I was back in the USA for only 1.5 weeks before I needed to drive from Texas to Utah to start my last semester of college. They said they picked it because it was like my old red jeep (which they knew I loved) except got better gas mileage. It’s a ’98 with 160k miles so I’ve expected that I would just drive it until it died! It’s been a glorious 5 years and I’m thinking that just like the movie ‘Get Low’ we may have to throw an epic funeral party while it’s still alive in order to get it to die. It’s been stalling at super inconvenient times (like the time it was just me and WEjr and I didn’t have my cell phone with me and then again this morning on my way to work. It will start back up again but has stalled now a total of 7 times. When we take it to the shop, the stubborn thing won’t stall!!!! So they can’t diagnos the problem. We’ve been to Christian Brothers twice already and it won’t die, I even drove it around with the tech and it ran like a champ – ughh! Not very often you are wishing your car would die, huh? Well I’m thinking it’s time for a new car…whaddaya think Vern????
Well I got released from YW and am now serving as the choir director at church. I survived our first performance today (Easter! no pressure) without fainting, passing out, or getting off beat haha, I exaggerate… but I was a little nervous about it.
I wanted to keep it simple so I went with Beautiful Savior from the childrens song book. Well known but awesome tune and lyrics. Sam accompanied as we do not have a pianist yet.
I wouldnt say it was breath taking but respectable for sure. And I guess we might as well leave something to work towards, right?!??
I hope that I eventually learn to love this calling. I just gotta find a way to make it more about the people and less about the music. Any suggestions for me??
In honor of WE (who hates to make New Years Resolutions – or at least to call them that…), I’ve decided today that I’m going to take credit for completing a resolution that I didn’t actually make until about 3 seconds ago – which I might add was after I’d already completed it How’s that for never getting down on yourself for unmet goals!
Anyway, our garage is now completely spotless! Yesterday we spent a good portion of the afternoon cleaning, organizing, and purging. Now we no longer have anything sitting in the garage that we do not use or don’t have plans to use in the next year. In fact, some of the stuff WE put on craigslist this morning and it was AMAZING how fast it disappeared. That’s the world we live in, I guess. People will take anything if it’s ‘free’!
Now both of our cars (which fit in the garage beforehand) have even more wiggle room and best of all we actually know where everything is out there. We’ll see how long stuff stays in it’s place. But for now, it feels oh so good!
I accidentally feel asleep at my desk at work. By the time I woke up, my boss had gone home for the day but had taken down the cubicle walls so that everyone else could see me sleeping at my desk. He also left a note saying that if I wanted my computer back – it was sitting in the VP’s office. When I went to get my computer, it was not the skinny greek man I was expecting to be sitting there in his office. It was my high school basketball coach (a big, tall black man). I still called him JP, though. When I asked for my computer back he told me that I would have to tell him a nursery rhyme first. I was surprised at the request but quickly rattled off the story of the tortoise and the hare. Once I had my office back in place, I ran out of the office to head home for the day. Problem was: I wasn’t in Texas anymore – rather in Bulgaria. As I was walking to catch the underground metro like I usually took home in Bulgaria, a teenager and his girlfriend walked by. I turned my head to avert my face from the cigarette smoke, but when the young man saw me do that – he spit not only the smoke into my face. So I turned the other way and ran as fast as I could to catch the bus home instead of the metro. When I made it to the stop, I jumped on the first bus that pulled up. But since I was too busy worrying that the teen gang was following me – I failed to see that I got on #33 rather that #37. Now I had to figure out what stop to get off and what other bus I’d need to catch home. But as we were traveling through the city, I suddenly realized that it must have rained ALOT while I was at work. There was water everywhere. In fact, I think that the city was flooding. When we went across this one street, it was like we were crossing a river on the ‘Ride the Ducks’ tour in Branson and the windows of the bus were open allowing the water to splash inside all over me. So instead of focusing on the bus route map in my hands, I finally looked up to gauge what was going on with the driver and if we were going to drown in the bus. Turns out, when I looked up I saw these huge, funny looking rocks in the water a little ways away from us. I was confused, so I looked closer and realized – those are NOT rocks. They are huge, scary water beasts that look like a cross between a gorilla and a whale. Before I could blink, one was coming out of it’s disguise as rock and started chasing after the bus. His eyes were bulging out of his head and I felt like he was staring right at me. He kept getting closer and closer as I was screaming at the bus driver to go faster! Just when the gorilla water beast was about to pull me by the hair and drag me out of the bus kicking and screaming…I woke up.
I love playing Scrabble! I like the real board game and I like the iphone app ‘Words with Friends’ too. It’s the perfect combination of skill and luck.
It’s been stalling at super inconvenient times (like the time it was just me and WEjr and I didn’t have my cell phone with me and then again this morning on my way to work. It will start back up again but has stalled now a total of 7 times. When we take it to the shop, the stubborn thing won’t stall!!!! So they can’t diagnos the problem. We’ve been to Christian Brothers twice already and it won’t die, I even drove it around with the tech and it ran like a champ – ughh! Not very often you are wishing your car would die, huh? Well I’m thinking it’s time for a new car…whaddaya think Vern????
How’s that for never getting down on yourself for unmet goals!