Today was... different. I stayed up pretty late last night on this gospel study kick, breaking my red day streak. Anyways, I had a really late, spiritual night. I was up till at least 3:00. I don't know for sure. Then, I had an irritating dream that I finally woke up from. It was dark in my room and I hadn't heard my alarm yet, so I lied there for a while. I fell asleep again and woke up to noise upstairs. I checked my clock and it read 12:09 P.M. It took me a while to realize that it said P.M. and that it couldn't possibly say A.M. I jumped awake and hurried to work as fast as I could. I got there at about 1:00. My mentor had been working on the project we're doing all morning, so I missed a chance to work with him on that all morning.
I was still able to work with him a bit in the afternoon and I'm going in early tomorrow to work with him at 6:00 until 9:00, when he gets busy. I got a lot done after he left too. It's been pretty good. I just felt really bad that I slept til noon. I don't really have hours that I'm required to be there, so it was okay. Just weird. At any rate. I'm going to work from 6:00 to 5:00 tomorrow, and hopefully on Thursday too. Then I can have a little overtime even and get some make up for this holiday weekend. Plus, I'll get more time with my mentor.
I have to find a new apartment for August. Turns out my land lady isn't going to work with me at all for the last month. Seeca asked her land lady if she might have a spot open for just august. She says she'll look into it and get back to her soon. The rent would actually be about 10 dollars less, and the room would be a shared room, but I don't care. I need somewhere. If I can't do that, I'm just going to live out of my suit case at peoples houses for like a week at a time. I could probably live at Dan's and each of the bishopric's houses. I'd rather just have an apartment though.
Today's Theme Song: Let Go ~ Red
1:00 - 7:00
The Montony of Repitition
Today was a pretty normal day. I went to work. I didn't get very much done because I'm confused on what we're doing exactly. My mentor is never around to help, so I try to figure things out. I read today instead of going for a walk. I got through 40 pages of my book during that time. It was good.
After work, I played Contra and Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers with Steve. It was pretty fun, but I wish there was something else to do. After that, Brock and I ran to 7-11 for some ice cream, and then we watched Slumdog Millionaire. Anyways, it's late and I'm going to bed.
Today's Theme Song: The Fallen Interlude ~ Blink-182
Indonesia Raya
This weekend was pretty fun. I went to go play laser tag with my cousin Esther and her YSA group. It was really fun. I got 2nd place out of the 20 players that we had. After that we went to Leatherby's Creamery and got some ice cream. It was delicious. Then we went to one of Esther's friend's house and played taboo for hours. Esther and I ended up winning that. Everyone accused us of having all these connections, but we hadn't talked to each other for like 3 years before that day. I got home around 2:30 A.M. and was surprised to find that everything in my room was wet. It was all soaked.
I called my land lady this morning and apparently the next door neighbor thought it would be a brilliant idea to put an extension on their gutter drain that pointed straight to the window in my bedroom. It rained really hard, and the water just flowed straight into my room. It was also the one day that I left my backpack with my work computer on the floor in my bedroom. I always leave it in the living room, but since Esther was waiting for me after work, I just ran down there and changed and left the back pack down there. I hope the computer didn't get wet and has some problem now. Anyways, there is a couple of fans constantly blowing on my carpet for the next few days to try to dry it out.
I went grocery shopping today and bought a lot of food. I got all of it on this special sale price and it was awesome. For instance, I got 5 pounds of beef for like $6.27. It was awesome!
After shopping, I went to another mission reunion dinner thing at David Neilsen's house. It was pretty fun and I met some new Indonesians that aren't members of the church yet, but we get along really good. I'll probably end up doing more stuff with them and it could turn into a really good missionary opportunity. But that's about all I've done for today.
Today's Theme Song: One Down ~ Ben Folds
Movies and Music
Today was pretty fun. I won't write much because it is late and I have a meeting at 8:00 A.M. tomorrow. After work, Joe and Walmart, but with much better movies. It was 5.99 a movie, with a buy 2 get one free, so I got three good movies for like 12.00. I also bought a Ben Folds live concert cd. That's also pretty exciting. After that, we went to Barnes and Noble and I used the gift card kindy got me to buy a the next 2 books in the series I'm reading. I also read quite a bit today. I read the scriptures and I'm going on a full week here with no red days in a bit. I've had some slip ups, but June is overall white. Anyways, that's it for today.
Today's Theme Song: Whiskey For My Men, Beer For My Horses ~ Toby Keith
Laziness
The last few days have been okay. I had my date on Saturday. It didn't really go as I had hoped. We hadn't really spoken a lot to each other before, but as we started talking we both realized pretty quick that we didn't really have much in common. We both like hiking and camping, but other than that, we really didn't do anything similar. There were several awkward silence moments and overall it was a little disappointing. It did help me get over my awkwardness a little though. I need to go on more before I'm "nomral" again.
Other than that, not a whole lot has really happened. Esther invited me to go to a stake activity of hers with her. They're playing laser tag somewhere. I'm probably going to go ahead and do that with her instead of going to my wards activity in Manti that night. I haven't seen my cousin in a long time, and I'd get to know some different people.
Work is going okay. I realized today that I only have 2 more months left of my internship after this week. This week should be better than the last few. My mentor is done doing the dev plan and from what I've heard I'm going to be working with a guy named jax on certain parts of the world server project. It should be a lot more fun than what I've been doing for the last few weeks.
Today's Theme Song: Free and Easy ~ Dierk's Bentley
Ensign Peak
Today was okay. Work was pretty boring. I have nothing to do again, and my mentor is out of town tomorrow for some scout thing. Anyways, I have nothing really planned for the day. I'll have to try to figure something out. Today I worked on some little things as I thought of them, but for the most part I sat around trying to think of something to do. I had lunch with Dale & Becky today. It's been so long since I've talked to them. It took a while to get a conversation going, but it was actually a pretty fun lunch. They gave me all kinds of ideas about things to do here in Salt Lake that are cheap and should be pretty fun.
After work, Joe, Seeca, and I hiked up to the top of Ensign Peak. It was a pretty easy hike, and it didn't take long at all, but the view was really nice. I took several pictures and just enjoyed the time I had up there looking over the valley. It's hard to believe that this little forest looking city was a complete desert once upon a time.
After the hike we got some ice cream at McDonald's and then we came home and played Rock Band for a while. It was fun. I really enjoyed going on that hike. Plus, Dale and Becky have told me about some more hikes that I can take. Apparently Thomas and Henry going hiking quite a bit, so I'll have to call them sometime and go on one with them. It sounds really fun to me. I might have to get some better shoes for hiking in since all i have are flat bottomed shoes and my fake athletic ones. Well... I better get to bed so I can get to work on time for... uhh... something. Oh! I have a meeting with the AV department guys on Monday, so that should pick up again next week. That's the one thing I'm looking forward to right now.
Today's Theme Song: Learn To Fly ~ Foo Fighters
BBQ Birthday
It's been almost a week since I wrote in here last. It's been an interesting week overall. Seeca's been calling me and making sure I have activities to go to. It's been fun, but I need something else. Yesterday I finally called Krista and asked her on a date. It was probably the most awkward phone call I've ever made, but she did accept, so it worked out. I'm way nervous. I just hope we have fun. We're going to go shopping since I need some smaller clothes with the 9 pounds I've lost in the last few weeks. We'll probably get an Orange Julius to drink while we shop, since there isn't a Jamba Juice at the Gateway mall. After that, we're going to come back to my place to meet up with Brock and Kate and play games. I have no idea what games we're going to play, but we'll come up with something.
Today's my actual birthday. Work was okay. I spent all day trying to figure out ruby on rails, but couldn't really do anything. Something is messed up with my installation, so nothing will run. Of course, I spent hours trying other things before I figured this out. Not that it matters. I don't know how to fix it. Oh well. Hopefully I see my mentor for a little bit so he can figure out what's wrong with it.
After work, I came home and cut my hair. It feels so much better when it's short. After that, Joe and I ran to Walmart and bought some hamburgers, buns, and "gourmet" burger seasoning from Walmart. It was delicious. I cooked it for me, Joe, and Steven. Brock had eaten earlier, but he wanted one. I could tell.
Once we were all stuffed we watched Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. That was fun too. I haven't seen it in forever. I remember hell being much scarier when I was like 7 years old. It was an awesome. Then Joe and I watched Transformers it was cool. After that, we're going to run to Walmart again because I forgot to buy contact solution, and I really need some. I put some new pictures in facebook and changed my profile picture. I hope it shows that I've lost some weight, compared to my San Antonio pictures.
Today's Theme Song: I'd Do Anything ~ Simple Plan