Back to reality

It's back to work today. I'm still sick, I can feel it, but supposedly, not contagious anymore. Who knows. All I know is that, counting today, there's six days of work left, and it's increasingly harder to find the work ethic needed to finish out. I couldn't take the last two days off, because that would empty out my remaining time off, and I am hoping to get paid for that the week before I leave. We shall see.

It sucked missing church last night. I really enjoy youth group, and I only have two left. They "rehearsed" for Sunday last night. Sunday is youth Sunday, and there's so much going on. I've done a lot of preparation, yet still feel un-prepared. It's my first sermon in front of an actual congregation. I've given them or "talks," if you will, at camp, but this is a whole new monster, equipped with a baptism and everything. It shall be interesting, that's for sure.

We have our worship rehearsal tonight, so that should put me in a great mood. I love worship practice, even if we suck, because it's how I praise the best. I enjoy the company of the others around me as well, so that makes it even better. We will have two to three more tonight and maybe even more on Sunday, so I'm extremely excited. Anyone that's free should come out (421 Park Avenue - - Park Avenue and Harney).

After that, we will be meeting three people to hopefully create a technology team. I'm going to go over with them what has been done in the past, and what the current needs are. Then, I'm excited to hear their vision for the future and see it take off. Hopefully, I can get home over Christmas and see everyone and the improvements they're making.

The car is still in my possession, which is depressing in itself. I enjoy not having to figure out rides everywhere, but I still want to have that sold by the end of the month. So once again, if anyone's interested, please let me know.

I teach my last lessons this Sunday afternoon, and then I will be student-less. It will be weird not teaching trumpet lessons for a while since I've been doing it so long. However, I guess there will be a lot of changes. I'm looking forward to most of them.

I've got work to get caught up on today, so we shall see how much of it I can actually get done. My goal is to have this project completed by the time I leave. There's just a little to do, but so much to do inside of that.

Enough for now. Laters!

Sick Money

So, today royally sucked! I went to the doctor's this morning. I guess there's some sort of virus going around, and I just happened to be lucky enough to get it. Can you believe it? Oh well. The doctor told me to take off two days of work. I'm not going to argue, but I have to get some work done. So, I did some work from home.

It's not too bad once you get some meds in you. That pseudoephedrine (spelling?) stuff works wonders for your mood and symptoms. But, because of kids screwing with the meds, you now have to show your ID and can only get certain doses.

My dog was cute today though. He wanted to sleep on me all day. There are a couple great pictures that Kate got tonight.

Other than that, and getting ready for youth Sunday, there's not much else going on. So, I will leave you with this short one today and let you get back to you lives, and the people in it. God bless and until tomorrow....

A Case of the Mondays....

Time is starting to wind on down. 18 days until I swear in, and 21 days until I leave. Time is moving fast, yet, slow when I think about it. Each day creeps by, yet, all of the sudden it's Friday. How does that work? I'm kind of excited because I just realized that Kate and I have many gift certificates to use before I leave. That means I don't have to cook!!

I find it hard to concentrate at work, as I said before. However, it's even worse on days like today. I had a great weekend, lots of sleep last night, but I just couldn't get my lazy butt out of bed today. It's rainy, my throat hurts, and I have no motivation to get up! That will all change in a few weeks.

I do have a couple of things to make sure I get done though. I have to train people in St. Louis on how to do my job, in a nutshell. That should be interesting considering I get about 3-4 hours to do so. I also have to finish up one project which has been dragging on since forever. This is difficult, because I rely on others to get their part done as well. That hasn't been happening.

So, during the day, I find myself watching the construction process of a hotel next door. It's where guitars and cadiallacs used to be. It's a very interesting process if I may say so myself.

I hope to sell my car this week. That would be a huge thing if I could. I'm kind of upset at the guy who said he would buy it then didn't. But, that's the way things work I guess.

Now, to put an end to all the random madness!

Little Rascals

Did you know that people in the Rascal Flatts fan club are called little Rascals? I thought that was interesting. It kept reminding me of the movie whenever I heard it.

We went to the Rascal Flatts concert last night, which is why I thought of that. They were absolutely amazing. Taylor Swift was their opener, and she was pretty good as well. I bought Kate the tickets for her birthday, and they were amazing seats. It was probably the best concert I've ever been to, and that's saying something because Garth Brooks' was amazing.

Kate's birthday is today. We've been celebrating most of the weekend. It's interesting because you have to do things multiple times when you get married. We celebrated her birthday once with my family, once with me, and once with her family.

It was a whirlwind of a weekend, so I'm not sure what else to write really. All else is the same. I've been trying to get use to running every day, which is hard on the shins since I never have done it before. I'm trying to get them use to running so I don't have to run with shin splints all through training.

Other than that, everything is starting to come together at church, and one by one, all tasks are getting completed. Hopefully, it will get even better as the time draws near. I'm still looking for someone to buy the car since the other guy fell through. Let me know if anyone is interested! It needs to be gone by the end of October.

Well, until tomorrow.....