muziklprodigee @ 2008-06-18T12:24:00

2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

I don't think I've ever been to the grocery store and REMEMBERED EVERYTHING that I had to buy. I went last night and forgot the one thing that I went there to buy in the first place. It's amazing how that happens...even when I make a list.

Chicago was amazing!! See the pictures on my facebook! Best parts include the two-foot hot dog at Wrigley Field and the #3-ranked minigolf course in the country, but all of it was great!

This summer of no excuses thing has really turned into more of a social experiment than I thought it was going to be. It's amazing how I've actually been able to keep this up every day of the summer! I mean, there have been days when I haven't hung out with people, but only because I was either working for more than 6 hours that day, or I was at church (followed by work). So basically, I've either been busy, or I've been hanging out with friends!

Back to the experiment, though...it's amazing how after one and a half months of being incredibly socially productive, how events just sort of seem to plan themselves now. Like, before, I had to call everyone and really make a large effort to be noticed enough to plan something with a friend. But now that I've established myself as a person who not only wants to do something every day, but IS doing something every day? It's funny how people are automatically making me a part of their plans now for some things. I've actually been really surprised! Like, for example, this week, I've been busy every day. Monday, I was a part of making plans for the amazing coupon run with Alix, Erin, Mark, and Richard, but I wasn't an integral planning part of last Saturday's party, today's baseball game, tomorrow's production of My Fair Lady at Gammage, my dad's birthday party on Friday, or this upcoming party on Saturday. People called me! I think it's amazing what a little bit of ambitious social effort can produce. Let that be a lesson to all of you people who claim you're bored every day and wish there was something to do.

Except, I CAN tell you this...it's making me broke. Fast. In-N-Out has had to scale back everybody's hours because the business relies on ASU students who go home during the summers, so I'm only working 10 hours there per week on a good week. 15 would be great, but I don't know if they can even scale me up that much. The church job is great, but all of that money ends up being used to pay my rent and car bills. And INO is responsible for all the other stuff - cell phone, gas money, food, and fun. But with gas money costing me double what it did in September, and the price of food rising, and with all this fun I'm having, it's getting hard to reasonably manage my money. I knew that my savings was going to take a dip this summer - and for all of the fun I've had, it's been worth it - but I didn't know it would be this soon before I started to worry a little bit. Hopefully, money will come from the external places that it's supposed to come from (Wedding money from last November, commission money for string quartet, extra services at church), and I will be able to breathe a little bit before the semester starts again.

At least I'm making a ton of memories and taking my camera along to capture them! And now that I can finally upload pictures to facebook, I have a reason to take more pictures! So things are looking up, and hopefully, if all goes well, I'll have my MOST MEMORABLE SUMMER EVER!!

Oh, and we need to have another breakfast party. Let me know when everyone's available and we'll chow down.

Forever and Always,
-The Music Man