Daily Update

Friday night led us to our final installment of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, with the Return of the King. It started off sketchy, cause I had arranged everything except for the Extended version of our movie. Allana didn't have it after all, Josh took his back to his home, my apartment only had the first two, and I couldn't get a hold of anyone. I was on my way to best buy to purchase a copy for us when Chris called. Video Editor to the rescue! We didn't want to resort to Only the regular version; we wanted the full 4 hours. It turned into a good four hours of gay jokes. First Chris and I were the only ones being funny, but then every one else joined in in a glorious manner. It was great comedy fun.

Saturday morning brought us the delight of the annoyingly timed Flag football game against the usc ward. I remembered why I left that ward as I saw all those 'pretty boy' preppy retards come onto our field, as if they were doing us a favor. I guess they didn't think then needed Flags in our Flag-Football match. They had no observation of any rules, or organization, or uniforms, or manners and sportsmanship. So in sum, it was still a bad idea to play that game, just like almost everyone had thought. Next time I won't be so quick to let a game like this be pushed onto us.

Later in the day we met up at Jeff's house to go out to dinner, in celebration of My, Josh's and Bethany's birthdays. We went to Claim Jumper up in Northridge. There were 20 of us. It was a LOT of good food. Afterwords a bunch of us went to Steve's house for a lovely Christmas Party. It was wonderfully beautiful. The rooms we were in looked like they were straight from a magazine. And even funnier yet, is that Trisha's work had decorated it. Right when we got there, Josh found a comfortable corner to hide in, Jeff asked everyone as many awkward questions as possible, and I just hung around the food. As much as I wanted to sample the wonderful looking food, I couldn't stuff myself any more. Simply Marvelous.

On Sunday I gave a talk in church. It was maybe five minutes. I didn't want to go too long in fear of me telling inappropriate stories. I was also released from my calling. I was kind of surprised that they got around to it so soon, but whatever. A moment of excitement overcame me as I was informed of this. I saw all my free time, and hobbies, and video games, and TV watching, and movies and the like, flash before my eyes. It was glorious. It was a lot of hard work, as I was only on board the Activity-Boat for the busy season from July to now. And I still have to deal with some of the service auction stuff, but thats mostly the fault of the other ward not properly handling the stuff.

In the evening we went to Trisha's for her second annual Cookie party. It was great! not that she needs my validation. I ate five cookies before anyone else. The second time I tried five at once they clogged my throat, but luckily someone brought Milk to the rescue. Milk is like Drain-O for the Cookie-clogged throat. Trisha made us dinner too. And had birthday cake for us. It was fabulously delicious. In the first 10 minutes of being there, I was both stuffed, and reaching a sugar overload. I had to ease myself off the sugar high gradually after the 30 minute binge. Every 10 minutes I'd eat a cookie, then 15 minutes, then 20 (all frosted of course), till it became just eating plain cookies and milk. Oh, I can't wait till next week's Gingerbread house Extravaganza at Greenfield!

I'm listening to The lion, the witch and the wardrobe right now. Actually I just finished it. It was only ok. I got sick of it at the end. It may have been great in the 60's but now, I just wanted to see what they had done with the movie. Its a very juvenile story it seems. Who would ever want to read anything else by that author other than kids? I'm debating not continuing reading the series, and waiting for the movies.

Lunch was sponsored by some cafe up on ucla campus. It was in the ugly neuro-science building. It was the worst thing ever! I had lunch with Kim today. I ordered what I thought would be the quickest thing to get, pizza. Not only did they charge me more than the posted price for not being a student there, it took them 25 minutes to make it! Holy Crap, I should have called ahead! I had to bug them twice about it, in fear of them having forgotten or something. Oh no, its coming. 10 minutes go by. Oh they are getting it ready right now. 5 minutes later, finally! It wasn't a matter of hunger, it was a matter of principal. I was really close to demanding a refund.