This is the amount of time I've spent on BUBBS, Biola's intranet bulletin board system thingy. Most of it was during my two years of going to school there, but there was also many long nights at Central when I was bored out of my mind. Now I look back and wonder if it wasn't all just a giant waste of time. I wonder how different my life would be if this little thing had never entered my life. The sad truth is that it would be drastically different. I probably wouldn't even have met some of the people that are my friends now, including the ones who are providing a roof over my head. But in addition to much joy, our little virtual world created much pain, which is why I have pretty much forsaken it. I've actually been quite impressed with myself that I actually stuck to my guns since I've said I was going to cut back numerous times. Oh well. The road goes ever on I suppose. Now we have our blog world which seems at times to only be a larger scale, albeit uncensored, version of BUBBS.

Trampoline Tricks

Thanks to the guys at Sleepless Nights for this one. I just spent about 15 minutes nailing some flips and tricks.

Hope you all had a great Easter! It was great to have a three-day weekend, to get some rest, and to actually have some time to focus on the reason for all of our festivities.

Ric and his mom and brother went up north to visit family and see his father's grave, so I was on my own Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday, Erika and I went out to shop at the Irvine Spectrum, ate dinner at Roman Cucina (everyone should, and I recommend the Aglio Olio pasta), and went to the Sunset Lounge to watch people sing karaoke. It's been great spending time with her lately. I appreciate it more and more and dread her wedding day only because it will take her away to Portland. But I'm happy she's got a good guy.

Sunday I went to church in the morning. It was a pretty nice service. I've been having trouble focusing on the meaning of our worship lately because the music leader has a hard time coordinating our musicians into one coherent whole, but it was more than easy to get into focus this Sunday, regardless of the mishmash. The sermon was a good one, though hard to hear with lots of screaming children around. Robert did a great job connecting all of the dots in Bible history from Adam and Eve to Abraham to the temple to the the crucifixion. Paired with our Palm Sunday service, it's been a really great couple of weeks at church.

After church I went to my parents' house, helped cook up some green beans, and enjoyed my sister's cooking. My oldest sister and her youngest came to visit this weekend, so it was great to see them. My nephew grows so quickly! We had an Easter egg hunt for him, talked a lot, and all went our separate ways after all three of us sisters started getting sick of the rest of our family. Haha. Sorry, but true! I went home and spent the evening napping with Pip until Ric came home from his trip.

Jenny's cake this time around:

A good weekend, in all, seeing lots of loved ones, catching up with sleep, and really having a good time of reflection on Easter for the first time in a few years.

Yesterday I took a day to go to church, hang out with friends, work, and purge myself of the internets. It was a good day. I had a really good time at work. I've really made some good friends in my department. A few might even become my roommates sometime in the future as I get ready to venture out on my own once I start making some more money. Be thinking of me this week as they are doing interviews for lead positions. It could happen anytime this week, hopefully sooner than later. I've become a little phobic of interviews as of late considering my complete and utter failure to land a job in the past year or so. I'm hoping I can muster up some of my Brendo Mojo (patent pending) and wow my managers so they will give me this job, but I am nervous. Hope you all had a good Easter weekend!

A name, finally. His name is Pip.

You can either think of this as a reference to a young and frustrated boy in a Dickens novel, or you can think of it as a reference to a sissy British boy in South Park (which is probably just another reference to Dickens, considering how they once made an entire episode based on Great Expectations). Either way, I won't have the urge to name my future children Pip, which would have been really sad: Pip Price.

At any rate, he's a smart cat and getting smarter each day, and growing a lot too. At the speed and playfulness he was showing this morning, I'm wondering if I should have named him the Artful Dodger instead. :)