State of the Steve
Hello, LJ. Long time no post.
I kept intending to write big blog entries about my wedding, my honeymoon at Disney World, and assorted events of the last 3+ months, but I didn't make time to do it. Partly, it was because I wanted a few select pictures, but I was too lazy to put the effort into doing it. Maybe I'll get to it later.
How are we doing? I'm really happy. We're learning to adjust to each other's sleep schedules. She's used to staying up and sleeping in later than I do on work nights, but we make it a point to eat breakfast together most mornings (she'll often go back to bed afterward), and we're working on going to bed at close to my ideal bedtime.
We're slowly getting out from under our combined stuff. My once-full computer room is relatively empty. Some of my stuff went to storage, as did a lot of hers. We still need to go through it and get rid of more stuff.
We're considering finding another house, so we can buy *our* house, instead of just living in *my* house.
Work is good. I'm still doing well, and getting new tasks that keep me working.
Jennifer and I recently finished watching all of the 90's X-Men cartoon that's out on DVD, then we watched the complete Justice League and Justice League Unlimited DVDs. I'd forgotten what a good show Justice League was, and Jennifer also really loved it.
Friday night, we went to Jennifer's parents' house, along with Amy and Brent. Food was awesome if mostly store-bought. I ate half of a fried chicken (store-bought) and some of Jennifer's mother's awesome cookie-shaped fudge things. After dinner, we watched the "Truth Project" DVD Mark (Jennifer's dad) invited us over to watch. I got the gist of it, but my attention kept drifting because the guy giving the lecture spoooooke toooooo slooooooowly. If he'd spoken at a faster speed, my mind wouldn't have drifted off as much. I wanted him to cut to the chase. It was like he had a case of tortoise nervosa or something. (I'm a little proud I managed to slip a "Night Court" reference in there.)
Anyway, it was an interesting subject, about how God and Jesus represented the truth and Satan and the world represented lies. He showed how many times "truth" was used in the Old and New Testaments.
I've been busy with other stuff, so I haven't made it to HAAS lately like I'd like to. I would have liked to get to the HAAS bowling thing. It looked fun. I hope to see those folks again one of these days.
Saturday morning, I made pancakes for breakfast. I like to do that most Saturdays now. It helps to have someone to cook for. We got a good bit done during the day. I dusted and vacuumed the master bedroom, and we changed out the bedclothes, to minimize Jennifer's asthma. Jennifer trimmed a bunch of ugly little branches off the last remaining tree in my backyard. We sorted through and tossed a little bit of the stuff in the garage.
This morning was church, which is held at the YMCA. Jennifer worked really hard this morning, both playing violin and guitar with the worship band in the adult service, and planning and helping with music for the kids' worship service. One or more of her teenage music students will play in the kids' service, and she brings her large and small djembe drums and Boomwhackers for the younger kids to play.
After church let out, I helped her take that stuff to my car, then dashed home to slice the Italian bread we were supposed to bring to small group -- basically, a church thing where we go to lunch at a nearby person's house, and have a Bible lesson. I was just about done when Jennifer got home, and realized she'd lost her cell phone. We did a quick search of her stuff, to see if it got misplaced there, then rushed over to small group to drop off the bread, before going back to the Y to see if it had been turned in at the lost and found. No joy. She searched the room where the youth service was held, and I searched the gym where the adult service was held, but we didn't turn up anything. We went home to search her car again. While that was happening, my phone buzzed. Someone from church had seen her phone, picked it up, and used it to call me to let me know they'd found it. We drove over to Ryan's (the buffet place, not the house of somebody named Ryan, despite my confusion) to meet them, and the phone was safely returned. Whew!
We made it back to small group in time to get a good lunch. They feed us well there.
The rest of the day consisted of relaxing until time for Jennifer to go to her Celtic band practice. After she left, I managed to rearrange the fiction hardcover/trade paperback books in my library. We've been moving furniture around since Jennifer moved in, so even though the books on each bookshelf were sorted correctly, the bookshelves were out of order. Tonight, I got all my fiction books in alphabetical order, so now my books are in alphabetical order clockwise around my computer room.
I then grabbed dinner, and watched the latest couple of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood episodes uploaded to Hulu. I'm really liking this version of the series. Unlike certain other people, I also really liked the original series that didn't follow the manga, but I think this version is probably better. After that, I started typing this post.
I kept intending to write big blog entries about my wedding, my honeymoon at Disney World, and assorted events of the last 3+ months, but I didn't make time to do it. Partly, it was because I wanted a few select pictures, but I was too lazy to put the effort into doing it. Maybe I'll get to it later.
How are we doing? I'm really happy. We're learning to adjust to each other's sleep schedules. She's used to staying up and sleeping in later than I do on work nights, but we make it a point to eat breakfast together most mornings (she'll often go back to bed afterward), and we're working on going to bed at close to my ideal bedtime.
We're slowly getting out from under our combined stuff. My once-full computer room is relatively empty. Some of my stuff went to storage, as did a lot of hers. We still need to go through it and get rid of more stuff.
We're considering finding another house, so we can buy *our* house, instead of just living in *my* house.
Work is good. I'm still doing well, and getting new tasks that keep me working.
Jennifer and I recently finished watching all of the 90's X-Men cartoon that's out on DVD, then we watched the complete Justice League and Justice League Unlimited DVDs. I'd forgotten what a good show Justice League was, and Jennifer also really loved it.
Friday night, we went to Jennifer's parents' house, along with Amy and Brent. Food was awesome if mostly store-bought. I ate half of a fried chicken (store-bought) and some of Jennifer's mother's awesome cookie-shaped fudge things. After dinner, we watched the "Truth Project" DVD Mark (Jennifer's dad) invited us over to watch. I got the gist of it, but my attention kept drifting because the guy giving the lecture spoooooke toooooo slooooooowly. If he'd spoken at a faster speed, my mind wouldn't have drifted off as much. I wanted him to cut to the chase. It was like he had a case of tortoise nervosa or something. (I'm a little proud I managed to slip a "Night Court" reference in there.)
Anyway, it was an interesting subject, about how God and Jesus represented the truth and Satan and the world represented lies. He showed how many times "truth" was used in the Old and New Testaments.
I've been busy with other stuff, so I haven't made it to HAAS lately like I'd like to. I would have liked to get to the HAAS bowling thing. It looked fun. I hope to see those folks again one of these days.
Saturday morning, I made pancakes for breakfast. I like to do that most Saturdays now. It helps to have someone to cook for. We got a good bit done during the day. I dusted and vacuumed the master bedroom, and we changed out the bedclothes, to minimize Jennifer's asthma. Jennifer trimmed a bunch of ugly little branches off the last remaining tree in my backyard. We sorted through and tossed a little bit of the stuff in the garage.
This morning was church, which is held at the YMCA. Jennifer worked really hard this morning, both playing violin and guitar with the worship band in the adult service, and planning and helping with music for the kids' worship service. One or more of her teenage music students will play in the kids' service, and she brings her large and small djembe drums and Boomwhackers for the younger kids to play.
After church let out, I helped her take that stuff to my car, then dashed home to slice the Italian bread we were supposed to bring to small group -- basically, a church thing where we go to lunch at a nearby person's house, and have a Bible lesson. I was just about done when Jennifer got home, and realized she'd lost her cell phone. We did a quick search of her stuff, to see if it got misplaced there, then rushed over to small group to drop off the bread, before going back to the Y to see if it had been turned in at the lost and found. No joy. She searched the room where the youth service was held, and I searched the gym where the adult service was held, but we didn't turn up anything. We went home to search her car again. While that was happening, my phone buzzed. Someone from church had seen her phone, picked it up, and used it to call me to let me know they'd found it. We drove over to Ryan's (the buffet place, not the house of somebody named Ryan, despite my confusion) to meet them, and the phone was safely returned. Whew!
We made it back to small group in time to get a good lunch. They feed us well there.
The rest of the day consisted of relaxing until time for Jennifer to go to her Celtic band practice. After she left, I managed to rearrange the fiction hardcover/trade paperback books in my library. We've been moving furniture around since Jennifer moved in, so even though the books on each bookshelf were sorted correctly, the bookshelves were out of order. Tonight, I got all my fiction books in alphabetical order, so now my books are in alphabetical order clockwise around my computer room.
I then grabbed dinner, and watched the latest couple of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood episodes uploaded to Hulu. I'm really liking this version of the series. Unlike certain other people, I also really liked the original series that didn't follow the manga, but I think this version is probably better. After that, I started typing this post.