Monday, January 12, 2009

Mineral Water

What sort of minerals actually make water taste better? Actamite? Atheneite? Diamond? Jerrygibbsite? I think that I'd like my water fortified with diamond. Maybe it would taste more expensive.

Well, I'm back at school after a fun break at home with the family, both nuclear and atomic, and have already had my first quiz, first chapel, first virus, first chapter themes assigned, first fever, and first papers that I'm supposed to write. It hasn't been too bad, all things considered. Dad was going to be at home alone on Friday evening so I went home to hang out with him. Then on Saturday I had a 101.5 degree fever and laid around all day. Good times.
School isn't going too bad I guess. I'm taking tennis this semester. It's been good (aside from the fact that I stink) except that I had to go buy some of those dumb tennis pants. I thought about buying some bright orange ones and letting them double for church slacks, but then I settled on the navy blue ones.
Right now Modeste is taking a nap which strikes me as somewhat odd. I guess the brilliant logic of sleeping in the day so you have more time to do stuff at night that categorizes almost everyone here is beyond my simple understanding. It seems to me that he could have waited a few hours and then gone to bed for real and not had to worry about napping, but what do I know.
I've decided to put some Christmas holiday pictures that may not have made it up on anyone else's blog but needed to be shown. There are a few that I really would have liked to put on here, but for the sake of those in said photographs, I refrained. I hope that you enjoy these ones.







Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy New Year!

I still don't have Christmas pictures on my lappy yet, so you can go see Brenda's blog for images of the festivities.
We did have a great time hanging out with everyone. The Christmas Eve services were nice. The second much nicer than the first since there were only a quarter as many people. The family went to the first service, but there was no room for them in the inn. There was a nice stable though. Maybe not. However, we did have so many people that we put chairs on the stage so that there would be extra places to sit. Good stuff.
Last night, the Wilsons and the Suttons came over to play games and help us usher in the new year. We played Wildfire (an entertaining domino game that they had recently discovered) and Minnesota Farkle (which is actually not a drinking game, contrary to previous supposition.) It was fun hanging out and freaking out the dog with poppers.
It's still nice to be off of school. I've had a good time visiting, playing video games, reading (I've read roughly three books so far), and not having to worry about homeworky stuff.
For your viewing pleasure, here's a picture of a past old year.