awake and alive

Kristie’s old roommate Mara came to visit this weekend.  We hadn’t seen her since around Christmas time, so we were very excited to see her again.  She first flew in and was picked up by her friend Diane that lives in Ann Arbor.  So Saturday afternoon Kristie and I went to pick Mara up from Ann Arbor.  We decided beforehand that we would eat lunch with her and Diane.  It was kinda weird because they wouldn’t give us concrete directions to get anywhere in the city until we were close by.

Anyway, we ended up going to a sushi place there and ate some great sushi.  I ordered this one roll called “yum yum”, and the name definitely fit.  It had like crab, tuna, salmon, egg, and was done tempura style.  I’m so glad that my sister introduced me to the world of good sushi.  I never thought I would like raw fish….

Anyway, we brought Mara back home and went to the Saturday nite at Riverview.  Mara stayed the night and we took her back the next afternoon/evening.  When we got in Ann Arbor again, we went to this Indian restaurant called Raja Rani.  The food was so good.  I don’t think that I’ve ever eaten real Indian food before, and I must say that it was a very pleasant experience.  Then to add to the India experience, we went and saw The Namesake.  I’m not going to ruin the plot or anything, but I thought it was a good film.  Afterwards we went and got ice cream from a shop right across from the theater.

Interestingly enough, all of our outings were in downtown Ann Arbor (sadly I didn’t visit Ashley’s), which turns out is a pretty sweet town.  All in all, put together the meals and the movie, and it was a super great time.  The company of Mara and Diane (not to mention my beautiful wife) brought everything up a notch (thank you Emeril for polluting that phrase).

…who discovers in their own hands endless entertainment, I have finally broken down and started using Facebook.  It has eaten much of my time today, hopefully tomorrow is better.

So, this is my thirteenth post since I started my blog again. Not as much posting as I would hope since I started 7 weeks ago. I suppose that I haven’t mastered the art of blogging yet.

It was cool to see Kyle again this Saturday, although Noel stole him for quite a while during the party at the Price’s.

I’ve been really tired lately, sleeping in till 10 or so everyday.  This really sucks since I want to get a lot of stuff done for work and around the house.  I haven’t been feeling well lately either (which is one of the reasons I’m sleeping in), hopefully I’ll be getting better soon so my tasks don’t pile up.

(What an eclectic post)

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a Christian.  For a few months now, Brett and I have been having breakfast with some high school guys.  There are a lot of purposes to our hanging out with the guys, but one of them is to model and communicate for them what it means to be a Christian in this world (as opposed to another world?).  Also, Brett and I have had a few [short] discussions about how so many people are consumer Christians, and won’t commit to or serve much.  So, is there idea of what it means to be a Christian askew?  Or are they just too busy?  Whatever their problem is, I decided that I want to write a paper on what it means to be a Christian as far as I can find in the bible.  I don’t know how long it will take me to write it, and I’m sure others have written something like this before, but I am determined to eventually write it.

It’s not that I don’t want to post, and not that I don’t have time to post. It’s more that I’m not sure what I should post. I’ve thought about alot of things, but haven’t really found anything that I like that much. Oh well.

For the most part, I finished the Riverview website last week. I pulled my first (I think) all nighter since high school finishing the website before I left for Kentucky. This is not really a accurate depiction of my devotion to deadlines, but rather and ode to my tendency to procrastinate. I’m very happy with how the site has turned out so far. I was very afraid that I was going to get bored with the design very quickly after working with it for a long time. Praise be to the wife on her excellent design; I have yet to get bored/displeased with the design. The only thing I am getting slightly irritated with is my implementation of the design on the individual pages. I still have alot of things left to complete on the website, so look forward to cool new features!

Kentucky was amazing. The weather was absolutely fantastic; not too hot and not too cold. It seemed like there was less drinking going on despite the fact that we bought a keg. It was a super fantastic time of hanging out, climbing, rappelling, eating, boozing, talking, and campfires in an old grill. For pictures check out Brett’s amazing photo album.

I mowed my own lawn for the first time ever yesterday, despite having owned my own home for over 8 months. I have mowed lawns at houses I’ve lived in since I moved out of my parents house, but I haven’t had a mower (thanks to KT for letting me borrow hers) or the time since the purchase. It makes me realize just how much a house takes of your time.

Well, I suppose that is enough for now, I should probably work on the RiverBrew site now.