Summer!

Summer has been officially here for a few days now, and I am pretty stoked! I definitely still miss the days where this time of year meant finishing off school, and then we'd have 2 months of no homework, no piano lessons -- just chill all day, everyday. Those were fantastic times.

But! We're now in 2012, and it's been a very long time since those days. I'm still excited in different ways and for different things. Like this coming weekend! Not only is it the Canada Day weekend, but it is also summer camp! I'm always excited for summer camp, even if it is mainly because of the unlimited free drinks. Try topping that, McDonalds. And it also usually means no sleep, tons of bonding and fellowship time that we normally don't get to spend with friends. This year though, I know that I'm going to be sleeping at my regular sleep schedule rather than being cool and staying up late.

Anyway, I am so stoked that the Oilers drafted Yakupov. I had resigned myself to the high possibility that we were going to be welcoming Ryan Murray. I have absolutely no problem with Murray, but at the spot we were picking, Yakupov was the best player.

Yay! Summer! Well, this post didn't really have anything of value in it; but that's okay, not everything needs to be like that. Haha.

Runnin'

Looking at the weather forecast for this weekend, there won't be soccer. Again! So bummed. I need to attempt to get into shape, and this amount of strange weathering is not allowing me to even try! On top of that, I've agreed to coach for AIA in the middle of August for a week down at SEAC. So, I absolutely have no excuse to be playing poorly, or having a bad touch, by that time. If only the weather would stabilize a bit and stay sunny for a few consecutive days, that would be nice.

Any who, I've been surprisingly busy - with not having any real time to do anything. Looking at the next couple weeks, on top of working 5 days a week, I have to prepare 3 straight weeks of worship sets (including a weekend of summer camp fun!), and a Sunday school lesson for this coming Sunday too. I got so lucky the last time I taught Sunday school because I didn't actually prepare. I just kind of threw it together when I was in bed the night before. So, I need to make up for that; but it has been difficult because I haven't actually had the time to sit down - with work and all that fun stuff - to come up with a lesson or prepare worship the way I used to.

So, I'm so stoked that I get to lead worship for a few times here in the next couple weeks. I haven't lead worship since March of 2011, and then another 4 or 5 month gap prior to that. Since leaving for Bible college, I think that there was never a month where I lead more than once. With that being said, I'll probably be rusty because I don't even know what I need to do in preparation for the Sunday! Haha. So weak.

On the topic of church things, I am getting more and more excited for summer camp. It's been a couple years since probably the best summer camp in NEAC's history, so it's going to be tough to follow up on that. But, I am expecting some pretty awesome things and for this camp to be great as well.

Dear weather, please stop being so moody. Thanks!

Enjoying Things

I made a pretty neat discovery recently. This time, I have to thank the times where I may not have felt so fly. It's pretty cool, and I think it could allow me to enhance the way I live even more.

I found that throughout a span of time where things happen that don't impress me much, I am expecting, whether intentional or not, that the next thing to happen would be the same - being not happy. And if, for whatever reason, that it is actually a good event, I kind of get surprised by it and I don't really know how to respond. Most of the time, I find that I'll just kind of be glad that it's not another negative thing rather than actually enjoying or celebrating the positive vibes that I would normally want to emit.

So it's kind of like "well at least it isn't making me upset or angry" rather than actually allowing myself to indulge in the happiness that I'd be in if I wasn't in such a depressing mood.

I also realize that if I do let myself bask in all of the event's glory, I might seem even dorkier than normal. But I think I'm okay with that. So, the next time I'm in a crappy mood and something good happens, I'm going to do my best to let myself be happy. Quite honestly, when people are down, they look for more reasons to be down.. I don't really get why that is, but it's just the way we are.

Onto other news, I managed to use today to record some of my music again! Pretty stoked that this is what I get to do when I decide to be productive for a day. I got to mix in some cajon-age with my normally simple guitar and vocals tracks. I have way too much fun recording myself. I think that if I was a better singer, I'd record way too much because I don't have to do a song over and over.

But of course, today is my last day off for a couple weeks (minus Sundays). I looked at my schedule and it's going to be insane over the next couple weeks. I probably need to change my availability a little bit so I'm only mainly working on weekdays. My friend said it best when I talked with him a bit today. I can't allow my summer to be revolving around and dictated by this job. There are far more important things that I should be spending energy on. He was so right, and that has been exactly how I've felt since starting at Legends; it's felt like I can't do anything until I see if I have to work on that particular day.

Hopefully I have the guts to actually change my availability and actually lay down my grounds. I always feel like I'm way too nice in that I won't say no if it's still within reason. So that's how I ended up working the occasional Sunday and Saturdays. So maybe if I'm working on the days that I'm at least okay with working, I'll be better off; and that will also let me actually go back to do some serving in church rather than just talk about it. Haha.

Happy June!

You Know What It Is

While I am totally high off of some stellar rap music right now, let me point out that I only blogged once in the month of May. I am sorry to those that follow me and my blog; because, instead of getting long and boring posts, you got next to no posts at all. ;) I must also note that this blog will be of the "hyper brand" because I am WAY too energized at 11:30pm.

But alas, here I am: a few days into June and nothing much has changed. I am still working, still truckin' along trying to earn up some of the deficit in the monetary kind. I have to say again that I hate working for the sake of money. It's really hard for me to find purpose or motivation to go to work. We already know what I think about gaining experience by working, so I'm not going to go down that road again.

Anyway, I am so glad that I've been able to play some soccer again. Last week, I hurt my shin because my touch is still rough and I hit the ball a little hard after the initial control, forcing me to chase it. I knew that the guy coming at me was going to hit me, but I went for it anyway. So I'm not sure which part of his leg hit my shin, but it didn't feel good. It took me about a minute to be able to stand up, only to have the ball smack the same spot moments later. I'm good now, so that doesn't really matter. Haha.

Also on the "stoked" list are things like summer camp, soccer camp, shopping, and Olympics. I should probably be excited for Vancouver too but that's pretty close to the time of going back to school, so I don't know how I feel about it.

Umm, yeah, that's about all I got. Haha! Sorry for such a lame post. I'm still really hyper and nothing good ever comes out of that.