A Clean Car and My First LRAD ™

Saturday brought with it another 4+ hours of hanging out at Gillis, but this time I spent it working on my Greek homework. Ah.. yeah right. I was working on my website, cleaning up the integration between WordPress and Gallery. It looks good, but its nice to have it just right. In the evening Beth came over since Steve took off for the weekend, and we had a gluten-free dinner of terryaki chicken, steamed broccoli and cheesy potatoes. Cheesy potatoes also have an unpronounceable French name, so they shall forthwith be called Cheesy Potatoes.
Sunday was good great. Julie cashed in her quarterly Get Out of Church Free card, so I missed her but it was a great message on being globally minded, and that the gospel is truly the good news for all nations. I am usually one to listen to a message and then forget by the time I am done with lunch, but the last couple weeks have been particularly good, and I’m glad to be a part of Southwood.
In the afternoon Julie and I washed our cars!! It was actually a lot of fun to powerwash our vehicles at the local car wash, with all 67 different stages of chemical treatment that is involved in such a project. Part of my joy may be because this is my first car and thus my first car wash, but it was a great day for it. Sunny with a little breeze.
In the evening we went to evening service where Megan preached. It was a small service but a ton of fun to sing some of the old-school hymns. We just yelled out which ones we wanted to sing, and the one I tossed out was such a hit we sang it three times. I can’t remember what it was now but I am sure someone will remind me. This was all followed with small group meeting and ice cream, and I took some pics so I will need to post those… tomorrow. Highlights included bringing back the table game and yelling “bing!” every time a unique word was spoken. We talked about how cool it would be if you had a word count and a unique word count report to review at the end of each day. It could be a challenge, too. “Today I only used 18 unique words. I need to do better tomorrow.”
Today was our monthly IS extravaganza, and we went to Boston Market. It was good to get out of the office for an hour, and much fun was had by all. It’s good to be a part of a company where the whole department can go out for lunch and have a great time together.