Category: Activities

Activities occuring in the near future… or in the past is okay, too

Christmas Cantata

We’re having a Christmas Cantata this Sunday morning at Church.  We’ve been practicing for several weeks and have one more practice before we sing it publicly.
We sang one of the songs during yesterday’s service and it was well received.
If you’d like to come and don’t know how to get there, let me know, and I’ll forward the information to you.  I attend First Baptist Church of Stowell, TX, and the service begins at 11am.

Alaina’s Birthday Party

We’re hosting Alaina’s 6th birthday party here at our house today.  We’re surprisingly ahead of schedule, as far as cleaning and decorating are concerned.  As usual, my office is the last to go.
There should be a nice crowd to fill the house, and we’re really looking forward to it.
I spent some time this week updating my media center so that should make a nice contribution to the party, as well.  Not that we’ll use this part today, but I can now access YouTube from my television.

Christmas Parties

The time for Christmas parties has arrived once again.  My first official Christmas gathering will be tomorrow night.  There’s a Christmas show at church tomorrow night, where we’ll be having cookies and stuff afterwards.  The kids are doing it, so it’ll mainly be all about the cookies… but it’s still my first “Christmas” event for the year.
I will be attending a Christmas party on Thursday and Friday.  We’ll be having Christle’s dad’s extended Christmas gathering on Saturday, and then my Dad’s family gathering on Sunday.  They both have their awkward parts… I will not be sharing any related stories… but it should be nice to see everyone, anyway.
Then I have to go an entire week without Christmas events.  I’ll probably need a break anyway, though.  I will be just rested enough to get back into the swing of things the following Friday night through Monday night.

 Merry Christmas!

Christle doesn’t read this blog very often.  She doesn’t know that I have the day after Christmas off as a holiday this year.  If she finds out, that’s fine.  But the reason I haven’t told her, is because I don’t want to do anything that day but sit around and enjoy the day.  I’m afraid that if she finds out too early, that plans might change.  I don’t want that.  If things work the way I’d like, I’ll probably get up and leave at the same time I usually go to work, and go work out.  Then when I get done with a much needed workout, I’ll come home and say… “I thought I told you…”
Then I’ll show her this post, and we’ll have a nice laugh about it.

Getting Ready for Christmas

We set up the Christmas tree last night.  We had a good time doing it.  I kept feeling the urge to come in here and check my MySpace, but it wasn’t an option.  I didn’t even come in my office until we put the girls to bed.

It turned out nice.  Christle originally wanted a 7.5′ tree, but we realized after setting this one up that our ceiling is only 7.5′ high, so the angel wouldn’t have fit on top anyway.  It’s a good thing we decided on the 6.5′ tree.

One More Day

Well, yesterday’s party went well and lasted longer than we’d planned.  I didn’t have time to do any of my schoolwork, so I’ll have to really focus today on getting through all of it.  Today’s the last day to be able to turn in my work, so there can be no more time to procrastinate.
Lily acted the same way yesterday when Christle put her hands in the cake that Alaina did when she turned one.  She didn’t like it and didn’t want that stuff on her hands.
For the first time since we’ve moved in, our house looks like we haven’t just moved in.  There are no boxes out in walkways or even visible.  Christle did a great job with the house and with getting me to clean my office.

Tonight’s Game

…was a great game.  It was definitely worth the two dollars extra for admission that I usually pay to see a high school football game. 
Until tonight, I had only been to three of East Chambers County’s games.  The first was against the high school I graduated from, Hamshire-Fannett.  At the time, I thought it was a pretty bad game, mostly because I was cheering for H-F to win, and they lost in the last few minutes of the game.  The second was a great game because both ECC and Deweyville were undefeated (5-0) and ECC won 46-60 in a pretty competitive game.  The third was a blowout against a team that didn’t even make it into my memory because they didn’t even give ECC a fight until the last few minutes of the game – ECC won something like 7-48.
Tonight’s game against Hemphill was a tight one.  The score went like this:

ECC – Hemphill

0 – 6

0 – 8

6 – 8

8 – 8

8 – 14

8 – 15

14 – 15

16 – 15

16 – 21

16 – 23

-Halftime-

22 – 23

28 – 23

29 – 23

35 – 23

35 – 29

Hemphill had control of the ball for almost the entire last 3 minutes of the game and came considerably close to scoring on almost all occasions, but ECC defense, or just plain luck, kept them from scoring to tie it up or win.
I’m really glad I chose to go see the game instead of stay at home cleaning for the party tomorrow.  I’ll have to make sure everyone knows that she’s the one that did most (nearly all) of the preparation for the party tomorrow.

Lily’s Birthday Party

We’re preparing for Lily’s first birthday on Sunday. Her party is on Saturday, even though you could really call it our party, since Lily really doesn’t have any friend’s yet.
I think I’m going to pull out the pit and cook up some party sausage links. I know it’s not much, but I’m really not sure how many people will be coming.
Christle’s having her sister come over Friday night to help her get the decorations and last minute cleaning done. That will be a big help to me because I really wanted to go to the ECC high school’s first playoff game.
One good thing about this weekend is that the weather should be cool and sunny.

Daily Goal Tracking

I was doing my daily routine of browsing Digg, and came across this wonderfully simple tool.  Joe’s Goals helps keep track of how your days are going, based on how much positive and negative stuff happens throughout each day.  You can keep yourself in check by allowing friends to see your status. 

http://www.joesgoals.com/

The application is really easy to figure out.  You can see and interact with an example just by going to the main page.

Semester Two Has Begun

Ok… I realize it has been a while since my last post.  I guess I was tired after finishing the first semester.  My first week in my second semester has told me two things.

  1. This semester is going to be easier
  2. This semester is going to be much harder

I don’t have to do as much creative work this semester.  One of my classes is going to be much easier (for me) to breeze through.  The other class is getting into some funky stuff that is very complicated.
Accounting is easy (in my head).  Putting it on paper is an entirely different story.  The whole point of Accounting is putting it on paper.  It is a written account of finances.  You have to duplicate or triplicate credits and debits all over the page to double check yourself, and have proof for financial institutions to verify.  I hated having to write out how I solved a problem in math in school.  I HAVE to do it now, because that is the point of the entire class!!!
I have already fallen into a sense of boredom having to look at the same numbers more than once.  I just have to focus for 10 more weeks, and pray that I can stay awake through each lesson.  If you have any tips that can legally keep me awake, I’m all ears (or is it eyes in this case?)…