Well, it was one of those evenings, again, where I may have made some questionable decisions leading to my reason for staying up later than I should. So I sit in my bed, once again, waiting for my hair to dry. But it's alright; I had the urge to blog throughout the day, so this works out.
I never took a day off last week, so I decided to stack Monday and Tuesday of this week to formulate my own long weekend. It didn't work so well, though. My original plan was to go spend much of the day downtown shopping for wedding clothes and for a cajon.
What ended up happening was: meeting someone for brunch, going downtown, got disappointed, got lost, then came home. Yep.
Let me break it down for you.
I've been trying to get in touch with some churches and their youth groups to see if we could put some youth rally nights together in the Fall. So one of the pastors I've been in touch with said we could meet up today for a chat. I happily obliged. It was a great time of food and chatting, and I love being able to share with other pastors about what currently fires their engines. I think this has to be, easily, one of the best things about being a pastor. The ability to be able to sit down with people who are doing similar things as I am, but in a different setting, hearing the challenges and the accomplishments, to encourage and be encouraged, it is incredible. It really isn't that far off when I tell people that my job involves having coffee with other people.
Of course, this is the sunny side of the job. The rainy sides will be saved for another day to talk about.
After brunch, I made my way downtown feeling great and uplifted. I wanted to make my purchases today for my cousin's wedding. However, when I got to the store, what I wanted was either not there, or way too expensive. I stood around for 45 minutes debating what I should do from there. After the debate, I thought I'd might as well go to the H&M to see what they had, since it was just right above the Topman on the next level.
Here's where I made an oopsie: I'm not that familiar with Pacific Center, and the place is designed like a stinkin' maze. So I wandered around the vicinity of Topman for about 15 minutes, going up escalators, down escalators, through other stores to meet dead ends, outside in the streets to be disoriented, and could not make my way to the H&M which I knew physically where it was, but couldn't find the path to get me there.
When I finally found my way in (I'll save myself some embarrassment by keeping to myself the rest of the details of how I got in), I took a look around. But again, there wasn't what I was looking for, so I just decided to wait until tomorrow to go to another location. It will work out because I'm meeting someone in Richmond, so I'll just hop on over to Richmond Center to take a look at the Topman and H&M there.
Well, I finally made my way home after the short trip downtown without going to Tom Lee's to look for a cajon. I want to buy a cajon so we can use it at church. Teaching how to play that box is infinitely easier than teaching someone how to drum. The only real downfall for me as of right now is that, with the wedding clothes and the cajon, I'm probably spending money that I shouldn't be spending. I'm at a comfortable level with my finances, but the Asian inside of me has kicked into action with the saving money mentality. I mean, in all fairness, I need to save money, but I've never been shy to make purchases that were necessary. I've done a pretty good job at stopping my habit of impulse buys, so it's nice to know that when I need to buy something, I can afford it.
Anyways, I mentioned that today was a day off that didn't feel like one, and it was exactly that. I kept receiving messages and emails throughout the day, so I caved and just did some work. I didn't mind too much because I still felt I got my "rest" in by meeting with the pastor earlier in the day; and I also only told my senior pastor and secretary that I'm off today, meaning no one knew today was my day off as well.
So yeah, a bit of an eventful day for myself. I just came home and had a quiet evening by overcooking some salmon and watching the hockey game. I'll be preaching at the Vietnamese Alliance this coming Sunday, and it will be an interesting experience.
Life just gets busier and busier. There really isn't a point in any day where I don't have something to do. The only question is whether or not I'll do it. Whether it's this or that, life's a kickin', ladies and gentlemen.
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