Stuck In The Head

so the other day i had this song pop in my head, so why not.

Band Practice

no i am not in a band. i myself do not play and instrument. however i am a big lover of music. one of the reasons that i love working sound for the church. sometime it is a drag, but most of the time i do not mind it. tonight is practice for sunday. having the band play in service is mostly new and we are working out the details how it all works together. but i have a issue with the organization of the group, or the lack there of. also the fact that half of the singers and some of the band members are not there is a bit annoying. grant it we have 2 drummers and 2 bass players. more then anything i get annoyed with the singers not showing up then expecting to sing on sunday when they have not practiced with the group. i suppose i the notion that if you are not there for practice you should not participate. maybe to many years of playing sports and that was the policy. oh well. i just felt like ranting while i was sitting here.

House Cleaning

my daughter has been back from all her traveling now for about a week. and since she has been back she has been cleaning the apartment. this is something new, since she was young she has been very slobbish. she has been doing laundry and cleaning the bedroom, and the kitchen. she has even been keeping the bathroom straight, it is rather strange. it would be nice if she kept up with it, it is rather helpful.

A Little Grease In Your Life

so i was sitting at home and songs from grease popped into my head. not that strange really. i always have some song running through my head. sometimes even when i am sleeping.

Friend

i posted last week sometime about a friend that came into town. i had hoped to see her, but it was not looking like it was going to work out. well she extended her stay this last weekend and i got to see her yesterday, sunday. we went to a natural kind restaurant that she loved when she lived here. then we just hung out and talked. we had a good time just visiting.

A Little School House

well it is friday again and here is a little something different. though not really from me i suppose.

Bowling

i went bowling tonight with friends. it was a good time. i have not bowled in about 6 months, and i feel pretty good about the out come of my games. the first i was stinking it up during the first of it, but found my groove by the 9th frame. and turned a barely 100 game into a 125 game. one of the ladies, and several others, though was going to lose to her. i however won. my second game i was still working on my groove and ended with a 132. one of the guys decided that he was going to try and compete with me. he scored a 147. i was just there to have fun so i did not care. my 3rd game i had another guy trying to compete with me. and he was always with in a few pins of me. but my the 8th frame i took the lead and finished with a 166, only 5 pins short of my highest score. i do not know why everyone decided to compete with me, i am not that good of a bowler. but i am happy with my scores, win or lose.

The Kids Are Back

well both the kids came back this weekend. my daughter was not suppose to come back until this next week. however with some breakdowns in communication she no longer had a ride back from her sisters. her sisters live about 460 miles away on the other side of the state. as it also works out i had other things going on this weekend so was not able go and get her. so my roommate drove out there and got her for me. i paid for gas and after 15 hours they got home sunday morning about 5 am. my son came home from camp saturday afternoon. i was working the concession stand at the College World Series that day, and my friend that drove down there as a counselor got back before i was done, so they went to relay for life. that is were i picked him up. ironically, the two guys that brought my kids back home are brothers. i think it kind of funny.

so my son had a really good time at camp. he has come back with a new interest in the bible. it is really touching, i have had to stop myself several times from crying with joy at his asking questions. saturday evening he was in the living room reading matthew, while i tried to get a nap.

my daughter was bored most of the time with her sisters. but she got to see her nephew be born. she is glad to be back. she is also decided not to be a vegetarian anymore. while she was visiting she did not tell her sisters that she did not eat meat. so she just ate what was there. she has decided to continue eating meat.

i volunteered to work the concession stand at the College World Series for a fund raiser. i am working it again on thursday. it was a lot of fun but a lot of work. i made about 200 nachos. and not just the chips and cheese nachos, but with meat, lettuce, onion, black olive, jalapenos, salsa and sour cream. they looked good but i was not about to eat anything, not because it was bad stuff, i was just not hungry. working with food does that to me. i think i would make a rather skinny chief. but then it would be the first time in my life that i was skinny. i also started with a group that plays dungeons and dragons on friday nights. this is the first time that i have ever played dnd, i have played other role playing games. i was fun, i look forward to getting to know the rest of the group. i was invited to the group by the sister and brother-in-law of a friend to the group. as it turns out i also knew one of the other guys, and he helped me with a lot of how to play. so that is this weekends updates.

Woo Hoo

here is a little something different.

Traveling Friend

as it i posted yesterday, my friend flew in today. she flew into Des Moines instead of Omaha because it was cheaper. but as it turns out she was not able to get a rental car. so she was stuck in Iowa until her parents could pick her up. so i would seem that i am not going to get to see her. kind of a bummer.

Visitor

i have a friend coming into town today from Washington state. she has not been back here in almost 2 years. the sad thing is that she is coming back because her grandmother died. but i will get to see her before she heads out to her parents. i am very excited that we will get to hang out together, even if it is for one night.

Joining A Group

as if i do not have enough to do during the week, i have joined a Dungeons and Dragons group that meets on friday night. i have never played Dungeons and Dragons before, though i have played other role playing games. so this should be fun.