Daily Update

On Friday night Josh and I thought we'd have enough time to run over to Costco to get muffins for Harry Potter night before 8pm. That didn't work out so well. It turns out there was lots of stuff that we needed to look at when we were there; and we were still late. But in the long run we still started the movie before we had in the last few weeks. It was funny cause we started the movie with the dedicated core group, but by the end there were at least 20 people there. It was fun... except for the neighbors, they had to come up and tell us the volume/bass was way to loud. I was quick to blame Josh and then give them his phone number for any further complaints.

On Saturday I treated myself to pancakes in the morning before I slowly made my way over to the ward building clean-up. I brought my j-pod to help pass the time, it was fantastic. Luckily Jessica con'd me into going the night before, cause there were only two other people there. So much for the sign up list. After that I hung out at my place and did laundry, worked on my movie and painting, and was productive at the same time as I watched movies on my computer, and Computer games too mixed into the morning. I was in Science Fiction Fantasy Land.

We also had a softball game which interrupted the brief 'battle of my life'. As I strolled up to our game Russ was there to tell me we just fore-fitted. Dang, and I had already loaded up on Big League Chew. There were still enough people to play a game though. I strapped my boots on and was second up to bat. Upon smashing the ball into the back of the out field, I exploded off of home plate. In doing so, without warming up, I must have torn something in my mid-upper quad muscle. So after leaping from my stationary position, I felt pain and then start limping dramatically. With the next person up to bat, they hit it, I limped out a couple of steps, and had to sacrifice myself to being tagged out, just not to injure my poor self any more. I really didn't care cause I only knew Russ anyway. As I sat out I saw Jeff coming so I took the opportunity to leave after 5 minutes of being there.

From there we tried to visit Sara, who has recently returned from the distant land of India, she wasn't there; so then we went to visit Kami who's in the ucla hospital. We hung out for a few minutes, and shot the breeze. I decided it was time to leave when jeff started asking her more about the food she was eating for lunch than her kidney stones. (the lunch guy got there minutes after we did, and the tray was on the wheeled desk that you can't see above when laying down. Then when she did try to eat he'd ask her about every little thing she was about to put in her mouth. "oh, is that a tomato? is that broccoli? is that a carrot?". I think I understand that its hard to explain every little vegetable you put in your mouth when doped up/ when eating/ when in pain as much as she was. But Jeff's a part time chef, so its his job I guess.)

Later that night I was planning on hanging out with some of my school friends at a bar, but those plans changed when Kristen called and said that a bunch of cool chicks were on their way to go eat fancy food and watch movies. So of course I was into that! A group of us went to some Thai place on Westwood Blvd. and then went to see Oceans 13. They were both really good. A new girl in the ward came with named Julia. After a short interrogation, I still couldn't think of a nickname for her, and I'm still working on one as I type, soon though. I have to take care to craft nicknames to be unique and memorable, more than just the typical playground names.
My bar friends called just after midnight wondering if I was going to make it... I told them I was in no shape to drive at that point.

At church I got anxious when one of the stake presidency came in to sac.meeting. I anticipated the release of the bishop, but not so. a false alarm. and I got really annoyed when one of the sun.school teachers went over the time limit by 10 minutes. After church we hung out at Jeff's place. We played a stock market type game called 'Pit', and Jeff made cookies. Then after the party cooled off we went over to Greenfield to watch a movie. Maggie had a German friend over from her work. I tested him on his knowledge of dirty german words, and he knows more than I do, thats for sure! He used one phrase where I didn't know the word, but with all the other verbs and adjectives, I knew what he ment. (I didn't quite hear anything like that on the mission.) Sara brought a souviner home from india, I cant remember his name, but I think he's a sherpa. I want to go to india and get a sherpa now too. He's either that or Sara is building up an army to take over the world. I've heard her speak of that in times past. This could get interesting.

It was a very eventfull weekend.

We got a new guy at work.

Lunch was sponsored by Burger King. (I know, I know, not my finest hour, but I spent all my lunch time at the hospital visiting Kami, so I had to resort to going there. She's there reconing with a supposed 'kidney stone'. She's been in pain for almost 4 weeks now. Poor girl. She's defiantly tougher than most guys I know that's for sure. When I got there she was just recovering from a yelling match with the doctors. They didn't know what they were doing, and they hadn't been doing it right. She was throwing stuff around like Donkey Kong. She settled down for a minute when I arrived, then the medication kicked in cause she got real nice and quiet and friendly at the end of our visit. I hate hospitals. They make me nervous/angry from all my visits to them in the past. )

I'm listening to 'Plain White T's' right now.