so i guess it's that time of the week when i should blog again. this last week has been fairly busy - maybe not intense stuff everyday, but keeping busy day to day. let's see, where to start...

07.04: got off work at 12:30, the usual for a friday. went back uptown and while i was on the bus, ran into an old chum from high school. it was nice to see hes doing well and enjoying his university experience as well. james picked me up at warden & steeles, then we went to go run some errands (aka fix the big bubble on our tire) unfortunately, we didnt have all the right papers with us so the mechanic sent us away (big surprise) *tangent: i dont think there's any occupation that i disrespect any more than mechanics. this is a generalized biased comment, based mostly on personal experiences with mechanics, so please, if you're aspiring to be a mechanic, let me know. i'd love to meet one good honest mechanic before i die.* anyways, then we went to markville so james could get some softball socks, and we walked around looking for other stuff, but there wasnt much there. so we left to go buy potatoes (only $.99 per bag) and went over to sharons house to make mashed potatoes for pot luck at fellowship that night. welps, we started playing mario tennis and didnt really end up doing much about the potatoes. we DID wash, peel, and cut them, if that counts for anything. but then auntie rose took over and did the rest for us. haha cuz we're so lame :) but oh well, mario tennis is too much fun to pass over. i love waluigi. but he cant do the cheap quickie serve like yoshi or any of the other faster characters. haha so great. so we were playing that for a while (try 4 hrs) and then alli and bri came over to pick us all up to go to church. i was sposed to play for prayer meeting and i got there like 3 minutes late and they'd already sorta started (an overhead was up) but then norm saw me and was like, oh good, we can do real songs now! har har. so i played for that (pretty poorly i must say) *tangent2: my guitar skills have deteriorated so badly these past few months. more on this later* and then all us uni kids went to b's house for the pot luck, which was fun. lots of good food, followed by a few of arnold's catch lines from kindergarten cop (im a cop you idiot!), then karaoke in the basement (sharon and jo with a 95 rating), then some of us went to dunk on b's lowered net (brian had a nasty jacknife dunk - just sick), then back in for karaoke and a rousing rendition of old man river from b. all in all a fun night, though very tiring.

07.05: didnt go to basketball in the morning - just too tired. couldnt sleep much that night either, too pumped for softball. anyways killed time in the morning (forgot what i did) then went to softball at 1 for a doubleheader from 2-6. it was pretty fun, i didnt play too poorly, so that was good. i did my first devo about God stretching us to see if he can trust us or not, citing Abraham as an example. the games were fun - especially against the messengers.. those peeps are very fun and encouraging. thanks to all the fans for coming to cheer us on. after the game we all went to pho (like 25 of us) and then loitered in the parking lot for about 45 mins, before finally deciding to go to eugene's. we got there, then some of us (older kiddos) decided why not get a couple of brewskys. so we went to the beer store with some of the guys - a truly hilarious ride. got backto euge's house, hung around and ended up playing mafia, very fun (i didnt play though, moderated). i could see a lot of barriers and walls being broken and the fellowship amongst the teams was starting to grow. made me really happy. again, got home quite late.

07.06: church nice and early, especially cuz i was on worship team. in keeping with my personal goal of getting better at electric, i played elec instead of the usual acoustic. it started out okay, but got pretty bad. by the response song after the message, i was so unbelievably out of tune *tangent2b: again, i really need to stop playing from now on. its just getting ugly out there* anyways, after church i signed this petition against the same-sex marriage thing.. perhaps more thoughts on this later too. oh, and signed up for summer conference as well (james and i took the last two spots) then james and i had to jet for lunch with our grandparents. and that was simply a blessing for us. it was a great time, just getting to sit down with them and talk to them, but more importantly, listen. great time. so after that we dropped them back off, and met up with everyone else at scarbtown where they were eating. some of them went to go buy stuff for the bbq later, while edmund, carter, jin and i hung around and walked around various shops and had some ice cream. fun time just hanging out. we met back up with them later and went to glamorgan (i think) to watch the lumas play their game. we could only manage 1 inning before we left, however, for our own 6 o clock game with the paladins at wigmore. that was definitely a learning experience. hard fought game, and they came away with the win. definitely a good team, but more importantly we learned a lot about ourselves as a team. hard to say, but im glad we lost - and learned. anyways, after that we bbq'd it up at wigmore, resulting in a run-in with a fire truck and a police car. oh the joys of softball :) anyways tim and jo also showed up, which i thought was very good, just to encourage the unity amongst everyone there and the church as a whole. got home not too late that night, also good.

07.07: work, nothing much to do on mondays around here. but that was okay, managed to find SOME stuff to do at least. after work, bussed back and had james get me again, went home to dinner with bri, jo, and alli. then i went to get sharon for our weekly monday date and we had a great time at chapters just sitting on the floor in the kids section reading books. her with harry potter, me with my zits comic. great times. very relaxing, just a welcome change from all the craziness of softball that weekend. very fun. then we went back to my place to meet up with everyone else (plus will) and watched for love or money. the ending was a bit dissapointing i must say, he picked the wrong girl, she screwed him over by picking the money, then screwed herself over by betting it all again. even more dissapointing, however, is the fact that i will most likely, similarly to sharon, be sucked into watching the next however many episodes. ai ya. please, tsn, global, anybody, save me from this show.

07.08: work work, early in the morning. lots of stuff to do yesterday, kept pretty busy, which is good. after work, went home for not even two minutes, just to change into softball gear, and then out the door to softball! lotta people showed yesterday (again from all 3 etcbc teams), and even jordan! (he even made a hero diving catch during this drill we were doing) it was good to see so many ppl out there. afterwards, most of them went out to see a movie, but i didnt really wanna get home so late so i went home a little early. pegs drove me home, and i commented how it was the first time i think shes ever driven me home, and how she was growing up. then i kinda realized we all were (and are). got home, gave sharon a ring, ate soem dinner, watched a bit of tv, took a nice shower, and went to sleep. great.

07.09: work again, here i am, got in at 7:50(ish) and now its 10:00, still haven't done any real work. i know if i finish it i'll run out of stuff to do, so im taking my sweet time. doesnt seem like anyone really cares either, many ppl have walked by and seen my blogging or surfing. haha :) good times. anyways, thats about it for now. things im looking forward to the rest of the week? a. seeing sharon on friday b. softball on saturday c. chilling with alex on sunday d. perhaps another blog from rani?!? (thanks for finally blogging, its about time!)

thanks for reading, til next time!