another piece

I have NO homework due tomorrow??? What's this?? Really??? Projects, you might ask? Papers? Exams? Presentations due? Yes, I'm afraid: a-plenty. It IS nearing on the end of the semester after all... But not today (and perhaps most importantly, not tomorrow either!). Haha. Praise the Lord! :-)

Anyway, I'll go ahead and give you a quick run-down of my life over the last few days... On Saturday I went down with my sister to Fort Wayne, IN (about 2 1/2 hours south of GR) to see my aunt (my mom's sister and best friend) and some of our cousins. They all live in KY, but they were up in northern Indiana for a soccer tournament my cousins were in -- the two oldest are a year younger than Lynnette and I. So we went down early Saturday morning, hung out for the day, saw their games, and then headed back up to GR. We almost died on the way back because it was dark and we were just merging highways and I was trying to make sure I was on the right road and Lynnette was asleep, and so I didn't realize how close I was to the guy in front of me.. Suddenly he just swerved WAY off the road, and out of instinct I did the same thing, only to see that we had barely missed hitting a full sized deer carcass in the middle of our lane! It shook me up... There was a lot of traffic and it's a wonder no one was hurt... I thanked God the whole way back..

Then Sunday we went to church as usual with Bre and Cynthia, but after church we surprised Breana (well, kinda) and took her out for her half-birthday since she'll be gone for her real birthday next spring. We were going to take her out to this sweet orchard place that Cynthia knew about, but Cynthia called me on Sunday morning really upset because she found out they had closed for winter the DAY BEFORE! We had been planning this for over 2 weeks... ::sigh:: So we had to think fast and after church we just decided to go out for pizza at Pizza Hut since that's one of Bre's favorites. Turns out it was a good choice. ;-) She's the best.. :-)

Then yesterday was Monday and today is Tuesday. Ha. Nothing too incredibly special... Yesterday was kinda rotten for me just because of little things adding up and it carried through to this morning, putting me in a bad mood for most of the day, but I'm feeling fine tonight. I just got back from the hospital visiting a good friend of mine, Paul Davison. He goes with me and my roommate every Wednesday morning at 5am to our men's prayer meeting from church. He's a solid guy. Anyway, he broke his cheek bone in a game of IM football last week, and had surgery today and was in the hospital all day, so I went to see him. It was an adventure getting there -- what should have taken me 15 minutes to find took me 50 minutes -- partly because of a detour that got me turned around and partly because I don't know my RIGHT from my LEFT, apparently. ::sigh:: Ha. I found it eventually, though, and he was doing well. He could hardly talk because he was so drugged up, but he was cracking jokes the whole time.. I love that guy. :-)

Then the rest of this week is pretty low-key for me, except that all of my classes got canceled on Friday, so I'm planning to go see the women's soccer game in Detroit against Madonna. It could be their last this season... It should be fun to watch. I've never been to Detroit either, so I'm sure that'll be crazy..

Anyway, that's what I've been up to. It seems like a crazy topic came up in one of my classes the other day that I was like, "I'm going journal about that," but I can't seem to remember what it was... I need to start writing those things down.... If I do remember, even sometime this week, I'll be back! ;-) For tonight, I shall say good night -- now it's time for my nightly tradition (that started about 3 days ago, haha) of getting cozy in the corner of my small room with a cushion and a blanket and reading while sipping some Arizona sweet tea. ;-)

I'm praying for all of you Brendsels and you too, Paul Davison...

Mad love,
Aaron