last week definitely had things going on that were nice and not so nice. my friend andy is actually moving. he told me on friday when we were at his house. i had suspected this a couple of months ago, and for it to be happening is quite odd. i don’t know that it has hit me yet. i was able to hang out with him a couple of nights this weekend and in honor of the impending hurricane, made hurricanes. they came out pretty good, much better than the time my friend ryan and i tried to make them with the powder mix. anyway, friday night andy and i grilled out, and i told him as we sat down to eat “this is what i’ll miss”. its been three years since i’ve moved home and andy’s become a real good friend in that time. groomsmen level even. i couldn’t help but think that the times andy and i have grilled out with just us or a group have been memorable. they’re all like one of those beer commercials, i forget the brand, where you’re sitting there saying “it doesn’t get any better than this.” i guess the silver lining on all of this is that he is going to houston, so i might stay there when we go see coldplay. i must say though, when he started off with “i have some news” on friday, i was hoping it was going to be “i bought a ring”. but i guess moving for the girl is a big statement too. hopefully before he moves, i’ll get him to help me install a florescent light in my garage. i’ve been meaning to do that.

this weekend i went to my friend thomas’ wedding. a couple of weeks ago, he had a party at his house with a few people from work and his soon to be cousin in law, who also happened to be a girl i graduated HS with who i had not seen since graduation, literally. combine this with the fact that the last time i went there he and the fiancee had already known the LGID (last girl i dated), i remember telling him “everytime i come over here thomas it just gets weirder and weirder.” :) so among other people i saw at the wedding including the two bosses from work, was the girl from hs as well as the usual suspects from work, i’ll call us the YA (young alliance). how much longer the YA will stay together is really tough to say. andy’s leaving, and i’m waiting to hear about that leadership program, but even if i get in it, i don’t know if i want to stay. however finding out how much the program grabbed attention for andy’s resume, i might hang around and see it through. i must admit i’m getting that ‘wheels spinning’ feeling and i’m kind of feeling left behind too (not with work really, just the people around me in the YA), so i think it’d be nice if something massive happened.

with all the hurricane stuff the past week, first the sleepless night tuesday with the tropical storm then the anxiousness of this weekend’s hurricane, i’m not sure how much more of this ‘being targeted by a wonder of nature’ i can take. at least i didn’t have to evacuate this time.

and i’ll close with saying i’m glad i found a bible study i really enjoy. i saw a guy in walmart the other night from the old bible study that i left and we didn’t talk 5 minutes. in those five minutes, he told me i should come check out the old bible study because of how its been revamped and ‘cool’. after he left i kind of went “that seems so fake”. it was like he was trying to sell me something instead of being a friend. i’m so glad i left that group.