What's going on with me?

3-27-07 - I have been so busy this year. I never get to write any more :-(

Weekends are busy with Sarah, I play racquetball and ultimate frisbee once a week each, I swing dance twice a week, and I have random other social things all the time. I just know too many people. I know it�s better to have a lot of friends and do a lot than to know no one and do nothing, but MAN is this exhausting! Life�s great, though.

My shin splints that I got probably about half a year ago (which went away within a few weeks) are back. That sucks. They�re not super terrible, but I was able to tell they were there during swing dancing last night. Hopefully they�ll go away soon.

Sarah and I are going to Asheville this weekend. It�s gonna be tons o� fun! I�m excited! I�m then taking Monday and Tuesday off. It�ll be nice to have a couple days off from work. After I take those days, I�ll still have two and a half days left over from last year to take off before the end of June.

Time for the obligatory nerd section of my entry. I beat Twilight Princess the other day...finally. I�ve started playing Final Fantasy X again. I love that game. Blitzball = uber fun! I�m nowhere near where I can play it yet, but I�m anxious to play! The only thing that sucks about it is that your team gets better five times more quickly than the other teams do (since there are five other teams and they only get better in games they play, which are games against you), so after a certain point, it�s nearly impossible to lose. Oh, well.

My computer parts that I bought 7 months ago are still just sitting around. I think I�m gonna take my chances and get a motherboard on Friday and hope that I just got a bad one when I bought them and that it�ll work with this. I�m sick of the parts sitting around :-(

I�ve started reading. Weird, I know. I read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown in a little over a week and now I�m a little more than 2/3 of the way through The Da Vinci Code. Me likee. I do believe I�m gonna reread In Lieu of Heaven by my buddy Kevin Archer next. It�s a good book. Read it. I dare you.

3-7-07 - Today marks two months since Sarah and I started dating. We�ve had an amazing time and we�re extremely excited to continue this! :-D

So yesterday, I was talking to my dad and he was telling me that they finally upgraded to DSL from dial-up. My mom had called AOL the night before to cancel their service. The guy tried to talk them out of it since they�d been customers for 5 1/2 years, but she said to cancel it. The guy said, �Well, ok, but you�ll have to answer the security question before I can close your account.� �Ok.� �What is the name of your family pet?� This stumped my mom. We�d never had a family pet. While my dad was telling me this, I just started laughing, because I knew the answer. My mom had a moment of intelligence and realized that I�d set up the account, so she said to the guy, �Try �Gus.�� He said it was correct and she started laughing. She then explained to the guy why it was funny and he laughed as well. Hahahaha!

So just a few hours ago, I was at lunch at Ruby Tuesday in Oak Ridge. Randi had a break in her meeting, so when she got there ahead of us, she went ahead and got a table and ordered her food so she could get out of there quickly and get back to her meeting. Wease, Cheryl, and I showed up shortly after.

Randi already had a water sitting in front of her. I ordered a water with lemon, Cheryl ordered a tea, and Wease ordered a Coke. The waiter came back with two waters (one with lemon), a tea, and a Coke. He put the second water in between Cheryl and me and said something about bringing a lemon shortly. Cheryl said, �Ok,� so I assumed she�d ordered a water, too, and I missed it somehow. I later learned this wasn�t true.

Randi got her steak and then 5 or 10 minutes later, the waiter walked by and freaked out saying our food was on its way. He then scuttled off and immediately came back with two more glasses of water. He sat them in front of me. They weren�t Randi�s. They were mine. Now anyone that�s ever gone out to eat with me knows that I devour water like crazy in restaurants. Today wasn�t one of those days. I now had 3 1/2 glasses of water in front of me, for some reason. We all found this hilarious. I asked them if I was somehow screaming, �I just got out of the Mojave!�

At some point, not long before Randi left, the waiter asked her if she needed any more water. No joke. We all had to fight to not laugh right in the waiter�s face. Later, Cheryl said I should drink from all of them. I drank about a third of each cup. She then said that I should ask for some to-go cups when we left. I told her I�d need a to-go Big Gulp. When we were about to leave, the waiter said to me, �I�ll get these out of your way.� He reached for them and then stood there, confused. �Which one of these were you working on?� Cheryl lost it at that point. Honestly, I wanted to slap him and say, �The one with the straw in it.� Instead, I just smiled really big, trying not to laugh, and said, �I actually drank out of all of them.� He again looked confused, so I told him to just take all of them. I just don�t understand people sometimes. At least I had five gallons of water at my disposal, had I decided I needed to drink that much.