Archive for December, 2004
How has christmas been?
pdearmen| December 22, 2004 1:02 pmWell break has been….interesting? I think thats the word one would use, yeah, I am almost sure thats the work one would use to describe it. LOL. I know its been a while since I last updated my blog spot, so I thought I would go ahead and just do one big old update since the last one was done and then continue on in doing more regular updates from here on out. Well, where to start? Hmmm…
TOP TEN THINGS THAT I HAVE DONE THIS CHRISTMAS BREAK:
10) Had my younger cousin over and played video games and talked with him–even though he’s 15, he’s more mature then some 20/21/22 year olds that I know
9) Had a phone conversation with Rachael “ma deats” Deater the first day I got back home, that was entertaining. She’s random for sure. 
Put up the Christmas tree and all lights on it in under a day (I know that sounds weird, but around here, the lights used to take two to three days to do)
7) Got to play at church again, man is that fun, and I miss doing it. I know I do Evensong, but I miss my church.
6) Recording a cd with the church band of all original music
5) Got to talk to Michelle a few times on the phone, she’s coming out to Wisconsin on the 27th
4) My dog. Can anything else be said?
3) Made a mess in my new bedroom with all my stuff as is getting reorganized on what I amtakin and leavin here.
2) Ordered DDR for the PC as well as two matts for it.
1) SLEEPIN IN LATE!!!
Yeah, I know thats a pretty boring list there of top ten things I have done, but I could just have
easily listed numbers 1-10 as all sleep. LOL. I did a lot of that the first two to three days I was
home, now I am usually in bed around 2, and then am up around 7 now. Dog wants out everyday. I tell ya, thats one way to wake a person up. Dog whines until you pull yourself out of bed and then when you go and take her out, your hit by a winter chill. Oh man that sucks at times! Oh well, she’s my dog and I love my dog. Always have loved dogs, and don’t know why.
Well, I am 700 dollars poorer this upcoming semester. My car decided to break once I got back. I took it in for squealing coming from the front of the car when I turned, and thought maybe it was just the belt for power steering, so I took it in to have them check it out. Well lo and behold, there was more than just that issue with the car. The car actually was having problems with the tire rods, both in the car were about to break. And then the radiator seal broke too, so I had to get a new radiator. ::Sigh:: Oh well, at least the car is back in action and will be for some time again. At least this break hasn’t been totally boring, I mean, I did get to have a good time of relaxation before the next semester begins(oh wait, did I mention that I am a total slacker next semester? LOL. 13 credits total, and only 10 of them are during the spring semester, the other three are during j-term) Anyways, it has been, like I said, interesting. Almost another family brawl and my aunt’s and uncle’s cousin’s house, followed by a family argument and telling off of one another in a restaurant five mins later, followed by people storming off. That was day 4 of me being home. Follow that up with family fighting the rest of the break and you got yourself a grand old fun time that no one wants to deal with, especially not me right now. At least I havent gotten sick yet. My mom got the pnemonia and flu shots
and within a few days was down for the count. Glad I didn’t get them. speaking of which, got my mom a sweet gift for christmas. She broke her gold necklace a few weeks ago, and right now around here money is tight, technically I am the richest one in the family(which isn’t saying much–and in all reality is very very sad), so she doesnt have enough money to get a new chain. Well I just happened to go to KMART on Monday, and noticed that all their jewlery was 70% off. Thats right, 70% off! I saw that percetage off, and thought it would be good to at least check out how much a gold necklace for her would be. Well, without the discount it would have been 110 dollars, not that bad actually, but once the discount and taxes were applied, it was a whopin 34 dollars! HeHeHe. So she’s getting that for christmas, that way she can hang her cross back on her necklace like she used to do. Actually, the gift is sitting on the tree right now. Yes, I said sitting ON the tree. WHy? Well my dog(Snuggles) loves to chew on things, and if its on the ground, its fair game for being chewed upon. And I was not about to let her chew on this thing, so I just put it high up in the branches. As long as the cats stay downstairs it should be all good.
Well, that was enough random dribble about my life, wouldn’t one say? In all actuality though, it has been a good interesting break as well, at least from a spiritial standpoint and all. You know, God has good timing. He knows exactly what to do and when to do it all the times, at just the right time each time to lift, encourage, correct, or to enforce somthing(yea, and all four can happen at the same time too! Which did happen to me this week.) I won’t go into the details on it(mostly because it aint appropriate for a web blog), but lets just say that God knows what he is doing, and exactly when to do it.
Well I better get going, cause I have to teach my brother how to find textbooks online. ::Sigh::
Well, until I post again, peace, and later
Gus.
