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Update 11/ 23/ 2008
Nov. 23rd, 2008 07:42 pmThis past week has been a lot of go and stop (as opposed to stop and go). As far as projects go, I've started a lot and find myself having a hard time finishing any of them really. I've worked my way through a few of them, with help of course, so I'm feeling a bit better now than I did going through the week. I finished a huge research paper (huge as far as points are concerned) for Biology and that lifted quite the weight, and Spanish is almost over with (it actually finished before the other classes as far as work goes) and so with the class projects near their end things are getting smoother. I'm lucky enough to not really have to worry about finals all that much coming up.
I got pretty jumbled with the coffee committee stuff this week. I was supposed to send a copy of the schedule to the director of the religious education department because some of the youth were going to volunteer, on top of that, I was supposed to send one to the main office since two people had quit, and we had a new volunteer who's at least interested, although the scheduling won't happen until we're a little ways into the new year. I couldn't for the life of me find the schedule so of course that didn't get done. Luckily for me I have an amazing wife, and Sam helped me out with coffee today (including training the new guy Dan who was awesome) and typed out a new schedule for us while I was at the Covenant Group meeting today.
Things have been tough with our loss of Dillinger, CD's dog (mainly). He was fifteen years old, and probably had a lot of adventures in addition to those he had with the family when he eventually found the girls (CD and Sam). We were all pretty worried about how CD was going to take it, because he was her main companion for the last few years, and they were so very devoted to each other. She's been doing quite well given the circumstances, and we've all been mourning with chocolate and nachos. The big hit to me was that Byron and I didn't know Sam or CD without Dillinger in the picture. He has always been such a constant, and such a powerful personality and figure. A house without Dillinger is like a house without a grandfather. It was always hard for me to imagine how people who lost their pets could mourn them the same way they would mourn a human being, but it's a lot different actually experiencing that. I didn't show it as much as CD did when it happened, but when the vet injected him with the mixture, there was kind of a disbelief as to whether he was really gone. Sitting there half on their comfort couch, half on the floor with him and CD, the transition was almost seamless. Was he really gone?
That same week then I learned that our dog Sam passed away in Kansas. We got him when we first moved to America. That would make him about ten or eleven when he passed. I hadn't seen him in a good few years of course, since he stayed in Kansas with my step-father Tony and my sister Terri when my mother divorced him and we moved away, but he was a big part of our lives and the transition. It was hard to believe, but I had so far removed myself from things, I don't think the full impact hit me.
We've been going to the foot hills a lot lately, and I've had a really fun time climbing the rocks and trying to make it to the top. I've gotten pretty close, but it's quite the trip, and when the cacti are hitting you so badly that you bruise, it might be a sign to pace yourself. We've brought Zia too and of course she had a wonderful time, the little goat that she is. She hops from rock to rock like it's nothing, even putting us long-leggers to shame. I've had so much fun climbing around up there. This last weekend that we went we went dinosaur hunting. On Friday I looked up some information on New Mexico native dinosaurs (including the likes of Parasaurolophus and Torosaurus). When we went climbing in the foot hills we had a lot to look out for. There were all kinds of dinos out that day, it must have been the mild weather. It was challenging to hide from all of them in the rocky hillside, but it was a great time.
We've been going pretty crazy with the movies lately, and I can't say I mind. NetFlix has been pretty awesome, and now we all have our own accounts that link up to the master account, so we can all get the movies we like, and we're thinking about upgrading to having more at a time. I've been doing my best to be more open-minded with my choices and not just choosing movies I know I like or know I would like, but also picking some of the less main stream ones and some I have no clue about (like foreign horror and musical movies). We have been spending most of our evenings watching TV and movies, but it doesn't add up to our limit pretty much so I don't really feel too guilty about spending the time we are in front of the boob-tube.
I'm going to do my best to be better about keeping regular updates on here at least on a weekly basis and probably adding some little posts here and there about seemingly random things. I hope that'll make things a bit more interesting around here for those of you who check my page occasionally.
I got pretty jumbled with the coffee committee stuff this week. I was supposed to send a copy of the schedule to the director of the religious education department because some of the youth were going to volunteer, on top of that, I was supposed to send one to the main office since two people had quit, and we had a new volunteer who's at least interested, although the scheduling won't happen until we're a little ways into the new year. I couldn't for the life of me find the schedule so of course that didn't get done. Luckily for me I have an amazing wife, and Sam helped me out with coffee today (including training the new guy Dan who was awesome) and typed out a new schedule for us while I was at the Covenant Group meeting today.
Things have been tough with our loss of Dillinger, CD's dog (mainly). He was fifteen years old, and probably had a lot of adventures in addition to those he had with the family when he eventually found the girls (CD and Sam). We were all pretty worried about how CD was going to take it, because he was her main companion for the last few years, and they were so very devoted to each other. She's been doing quite well given the circumstances, and we've all been mourning with chocolate and nachos. The big hit to me was that Byron and I didn't know Sam or CD without Dillinger in the picture. He has always been such a constant, and such a powerful personality and figure. A house without Dillinger is like a house without a grandfather. It was always hard for me to imagine how people who lost their pets could mourn them the same way they would mourn a human being, but it's a lot different actually experiencing that. I didn't show it as much as CD did when it happened, but when the vet injected him with the mixture, there was kind of a disbelief as to whether he was really gone. Sitting there half on their comfort couch, half on the floor with him and CD, the transition was almost seamless. Was he really gone?
That same week then I learned that our dog Sam passed away in Kansas. We got him when we first moved to America. That would make him about ten or eleven when he passed. I hadn't seen him in a good few years of course, since he stayed in Kansas with my step-father Tony and my sister Terri when my mother divorced him and we moved away, but he was a big part of our lives and the transition. It was hard to believe, but I had so far removed myself from things, I don't think the full impact hit me.
We've been going to the foot hills a lot lately, and I've had a really fun time climbing the rocks and trying to make it to the top. I've gotten pretty close, but it's quite the trip, and when the cacti are hitting you so badly that you bruise, it might be a sign to pace yourself. We've brought Zia too and of course she had a wonderful time, the little goat that she is. She hops from rock to rock like it's nothing, even putting us long-leggers to shame. I've had so much fun climbing around up there. This last weekend that we went we went dinosaur hunting. On Friday I looked up some information on New Mexico native dinosaurs (including the likes of Parasaurolophus and Torosaurus). When we went climbing in the foot hills we had a lot to look out for. There were all kinds of dinos out that day, it must have been the mild weather. It was challenging to hide from all of them in the rocky hillside, but it was a great time.
We've been going pretty crazy with the movies lately, and I can't say I mind. NetFlix has been pretty awesome, and now we all have our own accounts that link up to the master account, so we can all get the movies we like, and we're thinking about upgrading to having more at a time. I've been doing my best to be more open-minded with my choices and not just choosing movies I know I like or know I would like, but also picking some of the less main stream ones and some I have no clue about (like foreign horror and musical movies). We have been spending most of our evenings watching TV and movies, but it doesn't add up to our limit pretty much so I don't really feel too guilty about spending the time we are in front of the boob-tube.
I'm going to do my best to be better about keeping regular updates on here at least on a weekly basis and probably adding some little posts here and there about seemingly random things. I hope that'll make things a bit more interesting around here for those of you who check my page occasionally.
