Well, these last few days have just been utterly awesome. What can I say? I’m just blessed…
Ok, I guess I’ll start by just talking about today and then going backwards. Actually I was pretty exhausted this morning because I only got about four/five hours of sleep last night(finishing up my facilities report – LAST school thing this semester!!). So we went to church and I had a little trouble staying fully alert all the time, but it was a great service. We got to sing some sweet Christmas songs and hear a little more Genesis(chapter 47 – almost done!) Afterwards, talked for a while to various people…I have to say, I stay so much later at church now than I used to, it’s just ridiculous. Today it was partly because it was my last time at Creekside for the year! So I won’t see most of these people until next semester…so many goodbyes were said. We planned to go out to lunch at a Chinese buffet, but me and Rob sort of didn’t leave right away and were outside in the parking lot talking to Deanna, Shari, Amy, Jessica, etc…so yeah, we got held up. Eventually we made it over the restaurant and had fun times there with people…and afterwards me and Rob had some quality parking lot time AGAIN talking with Mary and Rebekah for quite a while…good times, good times.
So finally me and Rob came back to our place where I called my house and talked to the fam for a while…and then I was so tired I fell asleep for about a half hour. Then me and Rob went out on Flavet for some sweet football with Chris, Javier, etc(tackle again, so I’m sore again…my knee’s quite out-of-whack right now). That was awesome, just because football is always awesome. Me and Rob made a pizza when we got back and just chilled talking for a few hours…I gotta say, it’s great having a friend like him. We’re trying to decide where we want to live next year…we sort of want to move off campus, but we also really like the convenience of being on campus…we’re definitely undecided as of yet. We were also talking about our pasts and just what we’ve been going through these past few years…made me really nostalgic(and want to write/read in this!) One quote I shall share from him(and the context will not be provided!)…”We said this semester we’re going down…next semester, we’re REALLY going down!” We shall see..
Wow, and if I wrote that much just for today…this entry may prove to be rather long.
Ok, now for yesterday…you may think that on a Saturday(with no exams in front of me) I’d sleep in. That’d be natural and normal, right? Well of course, that’s not what I did. Cindy was in a Brain Bowl competition here at the Union, so me and Rob got up around 8 to watch her and her team compete. That was pretty fun and I got to feel sort of smart occasionally when I knew an answer. Me and Rob decided we were going to make up a school and enter the next competition and dominate on those high-schoolers… Feel free to apply within to be on th dream team of Jackson County Prep.
After we left that and went to the store, me and Rob went over to Deanna, Amy and Shari’s for an awesome movie afternoon watching – what better – Braveheart. Most of the girls there hadn’t seen it, so we had fun introducing them to brutal medieval violence. I always forget how bad it is until I see it again! Still, never bad watching people’s faces smashed in or seeing beast Scots decapitate the English. “…playing outlawed tunes on outlawed pipes…” It was just an awesome time hanging out with fun people…wish I could do things like that all the time.
After that epic adventure, me and Rob had to scoot on over to Dream and Laura’s party(which we were late to, oops..). I brought my expertly crafted salad(which seemed to be received pretty well!) and we got to enjoy all the other awesome food there. But the food was the least of it…we got to hang with other awesome people! I say, I have too many good friends. We watched the Heismann Trophy presentation, which, of course, Timmy Tebow won. It was so great to see that, because he deserved it so much more than any of the other finalists. It was funny though…he was so nervous, he talked super-fast in his speech. But he gave glory to God first and foremost, and that was good to hear. After that, we all had fun singing and dancing…probably everyone outside the apartment thought we were drunk. Hey, we were drunk on life! My favorite part was when we sang Christmas carols together though…so amazing singing praise to God with friends. Me and Rob finally had to leave that to try to get sleep(which unfortunately I didn’t because I had that facilities report).
Now we move to Friday…hmm, maybe I’ll eventually finish this entry! I finally got to sleep in a little bit(well, maybe a lot – 11am!) after all my exams/presentations. After that, I hung out with Dream and Laura for a while, walking with them on their errands around campus, then relaxing at the pond behind the Union and taking crazy pictures. Eventually, I made it back to Keys and got ready for the first event of the night, Deanna and Jessica’s grad party! They’re graduating this next Saturday(craziness! I can’t believe some of my friends are already graduating…at least Deanna will stay at UF for another year for grad work). It was a sweet time at the party there, again seeing multitudes of friends and just enjoying being with people and having good fellowship. Rob and I had to leave that eventually to hit our next party of the night, Katie and Lindsey’s party! Great times playing the Wii(which I’m terrible at! Except Wii baseball – which I got a home run…amazing!), Apples to Apples, eating so much sugar and again, just enjoying being around friends. We stayed there until about two or three o’clock, at which time we decided we should probably leave. Yes we were the last ones to leave…
Ok, so I don’t make this an entry TOO epic, I’ll try to speed through the next few days…Thursday I worked all morning for the IPPD presentations at the Union and that night me and Rob and Galan got to hang out with the Lebos! Great time seeing them, since I feel we haven’t been able to be with them as much this semester…so sad! Wednesday night was the last Creekside study and was totally awesome, and Tuesday night was RUF worship night and my first ever time playing ultimate frisbee! It’s pretty sweet, I must admit. It was freezing cold and since I’m out of shape, I was tired after 30 minutes, but I enjoyed it so much…running all over the field, trying to make a play…great game.
Ok, I’ve gone through all the past five days or so…I should probably stop now. But if you’ve actually read all that, you’re either 1)crazy, 2)bored, or 3)way too interested in my life. I just had to write down all the awesome times I’ve had…parties with friends, dinners with friends, talks with friends…can’t go wrong. Side-note, I saw the RUF ladies(Deanna, Shari, Amy, Jessica) five out of the past six days(only missed Thursday)…I just thought that was random and awesome.
And now I really will end this…I want to write some of my recent thoughts on love in another entry…but I may fall asleep before that. So sorry if this ends being an empty promise!
I’ll be in Tampa by Thursday…happy…and sad at the same time! Can’t wait, yet will miss so many people here.
For real, farewell. If you read all this, you must comment so I can give you a cookie for being a masochist…goodnight!
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