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 Amazing. For the past week, I've been in a state of enthrallment. Is that even a word? Hmm...the dictionary tells me that it is though it sounds made-up. Well, it's useful and special and serves my purposes. =) Kevin bugged the hell out of me to update before he left, so I thought I'd wait until after. It seems like it has been forever since the last entry, though it's only been a little more than a week. I guess it's just been filled with so much stuff. Time to recount it... Niceville Last Thursday evening, I drove down to Niceville (near Destin) to visit my friend Jeremy. I'd originally met Jeremy through Marit about four years ago. This was the first time we'd actually met in person. Didn't have too much trouble finding the place. Arrived to find Jeremy and some friends sitting around at his house playing video games. I immediately knew they were my type of guys. Jeremy has a house right on the water and quite decked out with stuff. Oh, and he's a great guy too. ;) After a bit of Rayman 2, we went and grabbed some great seafood. We mostly sat around and chilled after that, but it was cool. Oh, Sandy called me too. It was the second time I'd talked to her on the phone, I think. Felt bad for cutting out from the guys for a couple minutes, but it was worth it...even if most of the time her friends were grabbing the phone and grilling me. Well, eventually another friend of their's showed up and we went to the air force base to play tennis. It stands out in my recent memory as being one of the few times where everyone's been pretty athletic and I still beat them in something. I hadn't played tennis in a couple years, but I guess I did have the advantage of having had lessons when I was younger. For some reason, my serve happened to be on...always used to have trouble with that when I was little. It was pretty late by the time we finished, so we headed back to Jeremy's place. Nothing too eventful happened after that, and I went to sleep on the couch. Late morning, I woke up, grabbed a donut, thanked Jeremy, and headed out to Mobile. Mobile Kevin wasn't off work yet when I arrived, nor were his parents home. So, I played Dr. Mario with his little sister until he got there. Once he made it home we debated what we were going to do. We ended up going to an Italian place. They had excellent calamari, but the pizza wasn't quite what I expected. After that, we went to meet Sarah at the Mexican restaurant where she works. She found us some good seats and was quite busy most of the evening, but found some time to sit down and talk. It was karaoke night so we decided to get up and sing "What's My Age Again" by Blink 182 in the style of those two SNL guys (acting out the lyrics). Unfortunately, we took a while planning and by the time we got around to signing up, the list was quite long. I guess we'll just have to save our routine for another time. After that, we caught a late showing of "Mr. Deeds". Good movie. Not Sandler's funniest, but quite good. Afterwards, we headed back to Kevin's, talked about some funny stuff, and played a bit more Dr. Mario. Kevin's rusty. Think I probably won about 90% of the games. ;) The next day, we (or should I say 'I') woke up late. I can't help it that the waterbed was comfortable. Kevin and I went and met Devin for lunch. It was the first time I'd seen him in a few months. He informed me that he'd be going back to Auburn in the spring and wondered if I'd still want him to live with me. That's really cool because I've gone from losing a friend, to gaining him back, to losing him again, to gaining him back. So, I'm looking forward to him coming back to Auburn next year. What was I supposed to do with a guest bedroom anyway? Kevin had to go to work, so I mainly just hung out with Devin. We didn't do too much...just watched some tv and talked. Oh, and I talked to Sandy on the phone again. =) He eventually had to go to dinner with his girlfriend, so I got dropped off at Kevin's and played video games with his sister again. After a while, she got tired of it, and I read a bit of my book until Devin came back by and picked me up. As I was hopping in the car, I called Sandy again. Then, his girlfriend called someone too. I think Devin felt a little left out. He kept holding up his cell phone and telling us, "Look! I'm cool too!" while having imaginary conversations. It was pretty amusing. His girlfriend was pretty cool once we got off our phones. Devin and her are pretty physical...as in playfully hitting each other. She had a bruise on her chin from it. I kept asking if she "fell down some stairs" and both of them kept getting flustered. hehe. We went and hung out with several of their friends. For a little while, it looked like everyone was paired up. Kept wishing that Sandy was there with me. After a while, everyone migrated to an ice cream shop. I was somewhat anti-social reorganizing my cell phone book (I just discovered that it was possible to use lower case letters). Every now and then, I piped in with some thought-provoking addition to the conversation. I kept deluding myself into thinking I was being mysterious and cool...while really, I was just being stupid. After ice cream, we went back to some house and were sitting around talking. One of the guys found "Fantasia" sitting near the tv. We started talking about Disney movies. He said his favorite was "Sword In The Stone" as is mine. Devin agreed also. Perhaps it's the "guy" Disney movie? Then, he mentioned something about the girl squirrel being cute, and we agreed too. So, we found a copy and forced everyone to watch that scene. Yeah, we're freaks. I mean, it's not like we have any sort of attachment...she speaks Squirrel, not English. Have you heard her little girl-squirrel chitter? And whimper? It was so sad. And, it never really got resolved. We decided that Merlin should've turned her into a girl at the end of the movie. Soon after, we had to leave. I went back to Kevin's and found Kevin talking to D on the phone. So, I called Sandy again. Detecting a pattern of happiness? ;) More Dr. Mario, more sleep, then church. Kevin attends a church that used to be Episcopalian, but changed to Anglican and relocated to the Mobile convention center after it disagreed with the original body about allowing homosexual clergy. It was an interesting service. A bit more ceremony than I was used to. Also got a chance to meet Anna and Hailey, who Kevin had introduced online several months ago. They both seemed quite nice though I didn't really talk to Hailey at great length. Auburn The drive back to Auburn was a bit hurried. It flew by while talking to Sandy, but dragged on otherwise. My brother and Dixon (my cousin) decided to go see "Minority Report", so I was trying to get back to see it with them. I had already seen it with Rick and John the previous week, and it was quite good. Brought up some interesting ethical questions. I disagreed with the end a bit though. Unconditionally pardoned? C'mon. And, they should've kept the very last line that was rumored to have been in there. I walked in about half an hour late, but it wasn't a problem since I'd already seen it. Early the next morning, we headed over to Montgomery for some DDR. The absence of lines was nice. Later that evening, I was on my way back to Nooga. Again, trip dragged on except for when talking to Sandy. hehe. Nooga On Tuesday, Sarah, my mom, and I bought gobs of fireworks. After that, I did quite a bit of sitting around until the 4th. We've been having a decent party for the past several years, so we planned another one. My siblings and I were a bit frustrated that it seemed to be another Waters' family reunion. The Waters are friends of my mom's. They saw it fit to invite their extended family...and their extended family...without really asking. Now, we don't mind a couple of extra people coming, but they made up a majority of the guests. We're not fond of having a whole bunch of people we don't know. I didn't really socialize outside much. Mostly hung out with my siblings and their friends. Eventually, it began to get dark and I went out to set up the fireworks. I usually direct a pretty good show. This year's was decent. Everything pretty much went off without a hitch. No close calls like last year. We did have some fun experimenting with several things though. We tied about 20 long-fused "mortars" (which you're supposed to shoot out of a tube and let explode in the air) together and stuffed them in a small cardboard box. Quite a sight. We also made the requisite firework fire from the leftover trash. They're always fun because you're not sure if the duds will finally go off. Jamie found some gasoline, poured it over the pile of scrap and weeds, and shot a roman candle into it to begin the whole thing. Reminded me of the lighting of the Olympic torch. hehe. Since then, I've mostly been doing more lazing about. DavidW and DavidA came up earlier this evening. Hadn't talked to them in a while, so it was nice. Taryn and Becca also came up later and paired off with the guys again. hehe. It was okay though, because Evan came by also. His Becca is out of town, so the two of us sat around and talked with an occasional interjection from the couples. No big plans for the next week as of yet. The real highlights of my days have been talking to Sandy (as if you couldn't already tell). She's wonderful and...well, I'd run out of pleasant adjectives describing her. We've been talking every chance we get. I know many of you are incredulous and advising me to be cautious. Keep in mind, her friends are telling her the same thing. If she weren't so perfect, I would say pursuing anything wouldn't be worth it, but she is. I can't stop thinking about her. I can't stop smiling. I can't wait until August when I'll go out to see her. There's so much I want to tell her...so much I want to share. I keep spending my days wishing she was here to spend them with me. Well, this has rambled on plenty long, so I've learned my lesson to update more frequently. =) | |||||||
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