June
7) 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut (1962)
A short story about a society that has mastered illness/death and now practices population control, to have a baby you must find someone to give up their place. I know this was just a short story but I felt they could have looked into a few more angles, felt a little lacking but intersting no the less.
6) The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1917)
Sort of a Crime/Mystery book, I'm a fan of Burroughs science-fiction works, but can't say that this book got me too excitied. It did certainly seem dated, I guess just never got into it too much.
Year-to-Date
May:
5) Fort Wayne is 7th on Hitler's List: Indiana Stories by Michael Martone (1990)
4) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kiplng (1894)
April:
None
March:
None
February:
3.) Daydreamers Reach - Steve Runyan (2011?)
January:
2.) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (1847)
1.) Blockade Runner – Jules Verne (1865)
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Lightning Bug
I was thinking yesterday as a few Lightning bugs hit and splattered on my windshield as I was driving to Erin's as the sun was sinking out of the horizon.... that it is kind of sad hitting lightning bugs. Other insects just annoy us as drivers, their goo sticking to the window making us spray wiper fluid to clean off their last remaining spots of existence... but lighting bugs leave you a little flicker of glowing green as their last signal before the vanish forever. In that last hint of glow they remind you of being a kid in summer, happy memories of times gone by make you pause to think just for a second as you continue hurriedly on to wherever your destination lies.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Family Treasures Apprisal Fair
So it's finally over, my first big event that was entirely under my direction... the Family Treasures Apprisal Show and Antique Fair. I'll start off with the bad first and say that we orginally had planned to have some antique dealers set up booths outside of the museum to sells their wears. I had priced the booths at what I thought was a very modest price of $25 dollars per booth. However after mailing over 50 flyers to antique stores in the area and didn't hear back from any of them. The few I did talk to said they weren't intersted in traveling to the area for one day, or weren't thrilled it the idea of having their stuff set up outside, and since we didn't want it to be a flea market type event we didn't end up with any booths other than our own little set up.
As for the good.... we had over 110 people attend the event! and had right around 70 people get items apprised! Since we only planned on having 58 items apprised (1 person every 15 minutes for each appriaser) this was a big success. Our donations were a little lower than I had orginally hoped but I am thrilled with how well the event went over all. I'll be the first one to admit that I had been fearing all week know one would show up, and now that its over I am glad. Overall though I'm happy with the way things turned out.
Here are a few pictures of the event, I'll post the advertisements I posted in local papers in a day or two.
Museum's sell table
First Apprisal of the Day
Newly Added:
Shelbyville Newspaper
Columbus Newspaper
Greensburg Newspaper
As for the good.... we had over 110 people attend the event! and had right around 70 people get items apprised! Since we only planned on having 58 items apprised (1 person every 15 minutes for each appriaser) this was a big success. Our donations were a little lower than I had orginally hoped but I am thrilled with how well the event went over all. I'll be the first one to admit that I had been fearing all week know one would show up, and now that its over I am glad. Overall though I'm happy with the way things turned out.
Here are a few pictures of the event, I'll post the advertisements I posted in local papers in a day or two.
Museum's sell table
First Apprisal of the Day
Newly Added:
Shelbyville Newspaper
Columbus Newspaper
Greensburg Newspaper
Friday, June 17, 2011
Rolling Along
So its been almost a week again since I posted, so I thought I should take some time to just jot some things down, It'll just be a quick couple topic update I guess.
Work has been semi-stressful leading up to next weekend. We are having an Antique Apprisal Fair at the museum and I guess this is my first big project. It has been a little tricky since I wasn't there to begin with and only got handed the reigns of this back in March. While I'll admit that there has been a few things I've maybe procrastinated too long on, this still would have been stressful either way. Right now I'm just hoping enough people sign up to come to the show. One thing that does suck is the fact that this week I've paid for some of our advertising for the show out of my bank account, it'll get reimbursed as we have a grant to help pay for the advertisements. It just not that fun for me, as someone who worries about being broke, having a big chunk of money sitting out there waiting a couple weeks to be payed back for, this month being a bad month for that as I have to pay for my car insurance here in 2 weeks.
Life has been busy but good, Erin's grandparents left for there summer of travels earlier this month so her place has become our main place to hang out since we have the whole place to ourselves and the fact that there isn't anyone at her house to take care of her dogs when she is gone. We have finally plowed through the first season of Prison Break, a show she has now officially got me hooked on, and have started the second season. We are also working our way through the Harry Potter series of movies so that I will be up to date when the final movie releases this summer, as I had never payed much attention to the books or movies. (I think I read 50 pages in the first book and had seen the first movie)
Erin has also been cooking me dinner when I go over there. She denies she is a good cook, but just this week she made a good casserole and some really good Hawaiian Meatballs. I'd never heard of Hawaiian Meatballs until I met her and her family, but I like them. Add in the fact that she makes good lasagna and she is a good cook in my eyes!
Overall though its just been really nice to get to spend so much time with her these last couple weeks, even if most of it has just been laying around, watching movies, playing cards and/or talking about plans for the future and all that jazz.
I do need to mention that one day when we were hanging out at my house, June 9th which was my Dad's birthday, we took a walk back to my Grandpa's woods because I know Erin likes the woods. It was funny walking through the really tall grass with Sparky and Pepper. Pepper snorting along because she was really happy and tired, it is a really funny sound she makes. The funny thing though was when we were coming up the back lane to my Grandpa's barn lot and the horse and mule were coming down. As soon as the dogs see the horse/mule they react in two totally different ways.... Pepper (who has had a run in with a horse last year) darts between me and Erin and sits down looking for protection.... Sparky turns and runs away as fast as he can.. it was hilarious! Once he stops we are able to get him to come back closer to us and I grab Rosie's (the mule) harness, because she is the mean one, and hold her so Erin, Pepper and Sparky can pass... however as the horse is moving past and I'm letting go of Rosie, Sparky once again bolts the other direction and the horses take chase. I thought they were going to smash him for sure so I had to run back and make sure he was safe. Luckily he made it to a pile of junk he could hide in before the horses trampled him, and I was able to chase the horses off to get him to safety. Poor little pup I'm sure he was terrified but it was really funny to see.
At home Dad has officially baled all of the hay fields first cuttings, which is good for him. I was kind of disappointed that I didn't get to help him as much as I thought I would as it seemed he was always baling and unloading on the days I had to be at work these last couple weeks. That meant I didn't make as much money as I'd hoped to, oh well it'll all work out.
Mom has started to clean the house now that she is home for the summer and they have locked the teachers out of the school all summer due to construction. Normally she runs into school at least twice a week and spends those days doing stuff there. It's good that she has turned her attention onto throwing stuff away, we aren't hoarders, but we do have a lot of clutter and junk that just needs to be pitched so the house looks nicer.
We also got some barn kittens, and maybe getting more from someone who works with Erin. I don't have any pictures of them to post right now.
Last weekend we hung out at Brock's and watched Alien and Aliens with Brock, Russel, Chantel, Joe, Bruce, Casey, Erin and myself. It was a good time even if Erin didn't like the sci-fi movies. Steve if you read this if Macy is at your place sometime we should have a movie night or something with Macy, Erin, you and me.
As a random add on about last weekend I was on the roof of the historical society, helping the insurance agent check our roof for hail damage from the big storm that hit a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately I didn't get to climb to the top of the roof as I had to hold the ladder for to move up to the next level of one section of the roof. But I do enjoy climbing up to taller places.
I guess the last thing on my mind is the fact that Erin's mom and step-dad are coming to visit her in just a little over two weeks now. I'm usually not nervous to meet peoples parents but I'll admit I am a little nervous to finally meet her Mom, who is the most important person in her life. As Erin has said we have totally different senses of humor so I hope I don't just come across as too weird. Oh well Erin says their is nothing to worry about but we will see in a couple weeks.
Really I don't have too much more news to post about right now that I haven't already talked but in previous blogs this month. I will say I'm working on finding a new blog series to do for next month as I do think its a good exercise to make myself write stuff more often even if they are random little comments.
Work has been semi-stressful leading up to next weekend. We are having an Antique Apprisal Fair at the museum and I guess this is my first big project. It has been a little tricky since I wasn't there to begin with and only got handed the reigns of this back in March. While I'll admit that there has been a few things I've maybe procrastinated too long on, this still would have been stressful either way. Right now I'm just hoping enough people sign up to come to the show. One thing that does suck is the fact that this week I've paid for some of our advertising for the show out of my bank account, it'll get reimbursed as we have a grant to help pay for the advertisements. It just not that fun for me, as someone who worries about being broke, having a big chunk of money sitting out there waiting a couple weeks to be payed back for, this month being a bad month for that as I have to pay for my car insurance here in 2 weeks.
Life has been busy but good, Erin's grandparents left for there summer of travels earlier this month so her place has become our main place to hang out since we have the whole place to ourselves and the fact that there isn't anyone at her house to take care of her dogs when she is gone. We have finally plowed through the first season of Prison Break, a show she has now officially got me hooked on, and have started the second season. We are also working our way through the Harry Potter series of movies so that I will be up to date when the final movie releases this summer, as I had never payed much attention to the books or movies. (I think I read 50 pages in the first book and had seen the first movie)
Erin has also been cooking me dinner when I go over there. She denies she is a good cook, but just this week she made a good casserole and some really good Hawaiian Meatballs. I'd never heard of Hawaiian Meatballs until I met her and her family, but I like them. Add in the fact that she makes good lasagna and she is a good cook in my eyes!
Overall though its just been really nice to get to spend so much time with her these last couple weeks, even if most of it has just been laying around, watching movies, playing cards and/or talking about plans for the future and all that jazz.
I do need to mention that one day when we were hanging out at my house, June 9th which was my Dad's birthday, we took a walk back to my Grandpa's woods because I know Erin likes the woods. It was funny walking through the really tall grass with Sparky and Pepper. Pepper snorting along because she was really happy and tired, it is a really funny sound she makes. The funny thing though was when we were coming up the back lane to my Grandpa's barn lot and the horse and mule were coming down. As soon as the dogs see the horse/mule they react in two totally different ways.... Pepper (who has had a run in with a horse last year) darts between me and Erin and sits down looking for protection.... Sparky turns and runs away as fast as he can.. it was hilarious! Once he stops we are able to get him to come back closer to us and I grab Rosie's (the mule) harness, because she is the mean one, and hold her so Erin, Pepper and Sparky can pass... however as the horse is moving past and I'm letting go of Rosie, Sparky once again bolts the other direction and the horses take chase. I thought they were going to smash him for sure so I had to run back and make sure he was safe. Luckily he made it to a pile of junk he could hide in before the horses trampled him, and I was able to chase the horses off to get him to safety. Poor little pup I'm sure he was terrified but it was really funny to see.
At home Dad has officially baled all of the hay fields first cuttings, which is good for him. I was kind of disappointed that I didn't get to help him as much as I thought I would as it seemed he was always baling and unloading on the days I had to be at work these last couple weeks. That meant I didn't make as much money as I'd hoped to, oh well it'll all work out.
Mom has started to clean the house now that she is home for the summer and they have locked the teachers out of the school all summer due to construction. Normally she runs into school at least twice a week and spends those days doing stuff there. It's good that she has turned her attention onto throwing stuff away, we aren't hoarders, but we do have a lot of clutter and junk that just needs to be pitched so the house looks nicer.
We also got some barn kittens, and maybe getting more from someone who works with Erin. I don't have any pictures of them to post right now.
Last weekend we hung out at Brock's and watched Alien and Aliens with Brock, Russel, Chantel, Joe, Bruce, Casey, Erin and myself. It was a good time even if Erin didn't like the sci-fi movies. Steve if you read this if Macy is at your place sometime we should have a movie night or something with Macy, Erin, you and me.
As a random add on about last weekend I was on the roof of the historical society, helping the insurance agent check our roof for hail damage from the big storm that hit a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately I didn't get to climb to the top of the roof as I had to hold the ladder for to move up to the next level of one section of the roof. But I do enjoy climbing up to taller places.
I guess the last thing on my mind is the fact that Erin's mom and step-dad are coming to visit her in just a little over two weeks now. I'm usually not nervous to meet peoples parents but I'll admit I am a little nervous to finally meet her Mom, who is the most important person in her life. As Erin has said we have totally different senses of humor so I hope I don't just come across as too weird. Oh well Erin says their is nothing to worry about but we will see in a couple weeks.
Really I don't have too much more news to post about right now that I haven't already talked but in previous blogs this month. I will say I'm working on finding a new blog series to do for next month as I do think its a good exercise to make myself write stuff more often even if they are random little comments.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Turning 26
So it's been well over a week since my Birthday, and I figured it was about time I get around to posting something about it.
Overall as I've said before Birthday's are not that big of a deal in our family, so as usual it wasn't super eventful. However, it was nice and I enjoyed it, other than the reminder I'm getting old.
In the morning I had to go into work for a few hours and then I went to the gym afterwards. Erin came over in the afternoon to see me and we celebrated my Birthday with my Mom and Casey as Dad was working late in the fields to make up for the wet spring.
Mom fixed Meatloaf for dinner which I had requested, it was really good as well as making me a Red Velvet cake. She even got Happy Birthday Candles.
Erin got me a Wind-Up Hippo Bank which is awesome
and.....
a LASER DISC PLAYER!
Which if you follow my blog, you know completes one of my goals in life of owning one of these neat but obsolete pieces of technology. Laser Disc
Casey got me one of my favorite movies, Muppet Treasure Island on DVD as well.
Overall it was a really good Birthday, like I said the only problem is that I'm getting older and am reminded by it everytime I punch my weight/age into the treadmill or elliptical machine at the gym blah. Sometimes it seems like my life hasn't progressed much these last few years since getting out of college. Oh well.
Overall as I've said before Birthday's are not that big of a deal in our family, so as usual it wasn't super eventful. However, it was nice and I enjoyed it, other than the reminder I'm getting old.
In the morning I had to go into work for a few hours and then I went to the gym afterwards. Erin came over in the afternoon to see me and we celebrated my Birthday with my Mom and Casey as Dad was working late in the fields to make up for the wet spring.
Mom fixed Meatloaf for dinner which I had requested, it was really good as well as making me a Red Velvet cake. She even got Happy Birthday Candles.
Erin got me a Wind-Up Hippo Bank which is awesome
and.....
a LASER DISC PLAYER!
Which if you follow my blog, you know completes one of my goals in life of owning one of these neat but obsolete pieces of technology. Laser Disc
Casey got me one of my favorite movies, Muppet Treasure Island on DVD as well.
Overall it was a really good Birthday, like I said the only problem is that I'm getting older and am reminded by it everytime I punch my weight/age into the treadmill or elliptical machine at the gym blah. Sometimes it seems like my life hasn't progressed much these last few years since getting out of college. Oh well.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
gym progress
Just wanted to brag I hit a new best mile time at the gym yesterday afternoon
ran a 6:31 mile, easily my best timed mile! Though it was on a treadmill which makes things much easier as it keeps the pace for you and helps force you to keep going. It just seems so much easier to give up when the ground under you isn't constantly moving. Earlier this year I had written that I wanted a 7 minute mile by June so I have offically completed that. I guess my next goal should be to hit a 6 minute mile by September, so thats the new plan.
Gym wise hitting the weights is still what I really need to be working on, not to be super buff or anything but I'd really like to be do a few pull-ups. I used to be able to do 10+ chin-ups when I lost all the weight back in 2008 but never could do a pull up.
I've lost a few of the pounds I put on this spring after switching jobs (amazing how having a lunch break can cause you to eat more, lol) so decent progress all around to report I guess.
ran a 6:31 mile, easily my best timed mile! Though it was on a treadmill which makes things much easier as it keeps the pace for you and helps force you to keep going. It just seems so much easier to give up when the ground under you isn't constantly moving. Earlier this year I had written that I wanted a 7 minute mile by June so I have offically completed that. I guess my next goal should be to hit a 6 minute mile by September, so thats the new plan.
Gym wise hitting the weights is still what I really need to be working on, not to be super buff or anything but I'd really like to be do a few pull-ups. I used to be able to do 10+ chin-ups when I lost all the weight back in 2008 but never could do a pull up.
I've lost a few of the pounds I put on this spring after switching jobs (amazing how having a lunch break can cause you to eat more, lol) so decent progress all around to report I guess.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Tigers! Oh My!
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!.... well no lions, and only two bears....
Yesterday Erin took me on an adventure to see a 4 day old baby Tiger named Grayson. One of Erin's friends Josie is what I guess you'd call the "cat girl" at a local petting zoo... Stapps Ranch and is now taking care of their newest addition a baby tiger named Grayson.
Erin and I met up at Wolf Theatres where we planned to see a movie later and then headed out to Stapps with a gift from taco bell in hand (for Josie, not the tiger). We ,met Josie at the gift shop and headed to her room (she lives in one of the buildings on the ranch during the summer, where she now cares for the tiger all day/night) and got to see and pet the little guy who still has a few days before he even opens his eyes. Josie explained that they take the kittens from the mothers a couple hours after birth because the mothers rarely raise their young in captivity and that on the few occasions they do, the bond between them is hard/dangerous to break later on.
Josie Bottle feeding
More Bottle feeding
The Tiger and I
Another picture of Grayson and I
Erin and the Tiger
Erin and Grayson
They have the tiger, Grayson, on loan for 20 weeks from a zoo in Oklahoma, after which they will send him back. They do however have three other tigers of their own and have been breeding two of them.
Josie and a more mature Tiger she helped raise
The zoo/farm also has a wide variety of other animals; including lemurs, bears, donkey, goats, fallow deer... etc. Since we were just stopping in for the tiger/josie and not paying for a tour and what not we didn't stop and look at much. Erin did take more photos I just grabbed a few to use for this blog.
Random picture of a camel
After visiting the tiger we went to see the movie Bridesmaids and it was funny as advertised by her mom and worth checking out. I'd say the comparisons to a female wedding crashers/hangover comedy were decent though it was certainly its own movie and didn't try to rip things off.
From the movie we headed across the street to Buffalo Wings and Rings where we shared an order of Buffalo Chicken Nachos for dinner. Then we hit the McDonalds truckstop for ice cream before heading back to my house to wrap up the night.
Overall it was a great day/night.
P.S.
I hope I'm not the only person who thinks of this...
Everytime I hear Josie's name. Erin didn't get the reference, so maybe I have just watched too many cartoons.
Yesterday Erin took me on an adventure to see a 4 day old baby Tiger named Grayson. One of Erin's friends Josie is what I guess you'd call the "cat girl" at a local petting zoo... Stapps Ranch and is now taking care of their newest addition a baby tiger named Grayson.
Erin and I met up at Wolf Theatres where we planned to see a movie later and then headed out to Stapps with a gift from taco bell in hand (for Josie, not the tiger). We ,met Josie at the gift shop and headed to her room (she lives in one of the buildings on the ranch during the summer, where she now cares for the tiger all day/night) and got to see and pet the little guy who still has a few days before he even opens his eyes. Josie explained that they take the kittens from the mothers a couple hours after birth because the mothers rarely raise their young in captivity and that on the few occasions they do, the bond between them is hard/dangerous to break later on.
Josie Bottle feeding
More Bottle feeding
The Tiger and I
Another picture of Grayson and I
Erin and the Tiger
Erin and Grayson
They have the tiger, Grayson, on loan for 20 weeks from a zoo in Oklahoma, after which they will send him back. They do however have three other tigers of their own and have been breeding two of them.
Josie and a more mature Tiger she helped raise
The zoo/farm also has a wide variety of other animals; including lemurs, bears, donkey, goats, fallow deer... etc. Since we were just stopping in for the tiger/josie and not paying for a tour and what not we didn't stop and look at much. Erin did take more photos I just grabbed a few to use for this blog.
Random picture of a camel
After visiting the tiger we went to see the movie Bridesmaids and it was funny as advertised by her mom and worth checking out. I'd say the comparisons to a female wedding crashers/hangover comedy were decent though it was certainly its own movie and didn't try to rip things off.
From the movie we headed across the street to Buffalo Wings and Rings where we shared an order of Buffalo Chicken Nachos for dinner. Then we hit the McDonalds truckstop for ice cream before heading back to my house to wrap up the night.
Overall it was a great day/night.
P.S.
I hope I'm not the only person who thinks of this...
Everytime I hear Josie's name. Erin didn't get the reference, so maybe I have just watched too many cartoons.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Hay Baling
This weekend I was helping Dad bale hay like I usually do in the summer and snapped a few photos. Sorry the photos aren't good I just shot them with my camera quickly while I was on the tractor hauling wagons after we were done.
This is Mom driving the Baler and Dad stacking a wagon, I had to work and had just gotten to the field when they were finishing up. (May 31st 2011)
Driving in a wagon from the field after finishing up for the night, we had filled the 5 wagons that we had (525 bales that night, June 3rd 2011)
Three different photos of the field as we head in, we unloaded the wagons from the night before in the morning and finished up the field with two more wagons in the afternoon. June 4th 2011
This is Mom driving the Baler and Dad stacking a wagon, I had to work and had just gotten to the field when they were finishing up. (May 31st 2011)
Driving in a wagon from the field after finishing up for the night, we had filled the 5 wagons that we had (525 bales that night, June 3rd 2011)
Three different photos of the field as we head in, we unloaded the wagons from the night before in the morning and finished up the field with two more wagons in the afternoon. June 4th 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
May happenings
So May blog wise pretty much got filled up by the May Music blog series I was doing, so I wanted to just do a quick recap of some of the major events that happened. During the month...
Jude's Birthday -
The first of the three birthday get togethers I went to this month was for Erin's dog Jude who celebrated her 3rd birthday. I brought a gift of some dog treats and went to celebrate with Erin, her grandparents, and their other dogs. (several pictures previously posted in a blog on the subject)
Casey's Birthday -
Casey turned 23 on May 6th, we went out to eat at the Nascar grill at the Indiana Live Casino for her birthday. Erin went with us and got to see some horse races for the first time. I got Casey a 24 pack of coke and a 12 pack of vinalla coke for her birthday.
Megan Schwering's Birthday -
Megan had a Birthday party at Joe and Chantel's house on Saturday the 7th. It was going to be a big production with 2 bands and everything but at the last minute got toned down and I was kind of glad that happened really. Bruce, Megan S., Joe, Chantel, Brock, Megan B., Arron, Cassie, Erin and myself all attended. It was an intersting night and was nice to get together with people.
Thor -
Went to see the movie Thor with Bruce, Megan and Erin one night. Bruce and Erin really liked it while Megan and myself weren't as impressed. (note I didn't think it was a bad movie, just wasn't as good as I was hoping) after that we went out to eat at Buffal Wild Wings. It was a fun night.
Counting Steps -
My Aunt Pam's school was having a step/walking challenge and she asked Casey and I to carry a pedometer in place of a couple of the teachers at school, and that we would get the prize if our team reached the goal. We were on teams of 5 and had to get 1,000,000 steps per team to earn a 25 dollar check. I ended up scoring over 400,000 steps for my team and will be getting a prize check. Though Erin does think it's silly that I wear the thing. I'm going to keep wearing it the summer because if I walk 500 miles as an individual I will get another $25 dollars.
D&D -
Got in a game of D&D, saddly only one thus far, with Brock, Erin, Bruce, and Joe. It was my first time running a game as a DM and I think it went fairly smooth. It was nice getting a game in since it has been since last September that we played. I enjoy D&D its just so hard to get everyone together for a session it seems. Anyway it was nice to get some ideas and creativity flowing.
Cemetary -
Went to put flowers on the graves of some ancestors for Memorial day with Dad, Pam, and Grandma down in Brookville and Harrison. Its nice to look back at the family history every once in awhile and this is a nice family tradition of sorts.
Storm -
As I dedicated a blog to in May we had a major storm hit Decatur County, at home we didn't have any real damage other than being without power for 60 hours. At the museum where I work we lost 8 windows to the hail. I'll refrain from saying much else since I have already covered it in a full blog.
Predator -
Brock moved into an apartment next door to his Mom's house and on memorial day weekend had what I guess you could call a house warming party of sorts. Brock, Bruce, Joe, Erin, Casey, Bruce, Chantel, and I all got together to watch Predator and Predator two on Blu-Ray.
Well i doubt anyone was that intersted in what I did last month, but if you were there is a quick run down of my life! Since I'm not doing a full blog series this month maybe I'll keep up posting the events that are happening/have happened in my life.
Jude's Birthday -
The first of the three birthday get togethers I went to this month was for Erin's dog Jude who celebrated her 3rd birthday. I brought a gift of some dog treats and went to celebrate with Erin, her grandparents, and their other dogs. (several pictures previously posted in a blog on the subject)
Casey's Birthday -
Casey turned 23 on May 6th, we went out to eat at the Nascar grill at the Indiana Live Casino for her birthday. Erin went with us and got to see some horse races for the first time. I got Casey a 24 pack of coke and a 12 pack of vinalla coke for her birthday.
Megan Schwering's Birthday -
Megan had a Birthday party at Joe and Chantel's house on Saturday the 7th. It was going to be a big production with 2 bands and everything but at the last minute got toned down and I was kind of glad that happened really. Bruce, Megan S., Joe, Chantel, Brock, Megan B., Arron, Cassie, Erin and myself all attended. It was an intersting night and was nice to get together with people.
Thor -
Went to see the movie Thor with Bruce, Megan and Erin one night. Bruce and Erin really liked it while Megan and myself weren't as impressed. (note I didn't think it was a bad movie, just wasn't as good as I was hoping) after that we went out to eat at Buffal Wild Wings. It was a fun night.
Counting Steps -
My Aunt Pam's school was having a step/walking challenge and she asked Casey and I to carry a pedometer in place of a couple of the teachers at school, and that we would get the prize if our team reached the goal. We were on teams of 5 and had to get 1,000,000 steps per team to earn a 25 dollar check. I ended up scoring over 400,000 steps for my team and will be getting a prize check. Though Erin does think it's silly that I wear the thing. I'm going to keep wearing it the summer because if I walk 500 miles as an individual I will get another $25 dollars.
D&D -
Got in a game of D&D, saddly only one thus far, with Brock, Erin, Bruce, and Joe. It was my first time running a game as a DM and I think it went fairly smooth. It was nice getting a game in since it has been since last September that we played. I enjoy D&D its just so hard to get everyone together for a session it seems. Anyway it was nice to get some ideas and creativity flowing.
Cemetary -
Went to put flowers on the graves of some ancestors for Memorial day with Dad, Pam, and Grandma down in Brookville and Harrison. Its nice to look back at the family history every once in awhile and this is a nice family tradition of sorts.
Storm -
As I dedicated a blog to in May we had a major storm hit Decatur County, at home we didn't have any real damage other than being without power for 60 hours. At the museum where I work we lost 8 windows to the hail. I'll refrain from saying much else since I have already covered it in a full blog.
Predator -
Brock moved into an apartment next door to his Mom's house and on memorial day weekend had what I guess you could call a house warming party of sorts. Brock, Bruce, Joe, Erin, Casey, Bruce, Chantel, and I all got together to watch Predator and Predator two on Blu-Ray.
Well i doubt anyone was that intersted in what I did last month, but if you were there is a quick run down of my life! Since I'm not doing a full blog series this month maybe I'll keep up posting the events that are happening/have happened in my life.
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