Well after spending all evening on a new template, I think I am finally ready to unveil it! Not that I disliked the old template, but I was just in the mood for something different. :-) I also changed the title because I was getting tired of “twentysixcats”.Woodpeckers! I find a certain kindship with woodpeckers, since we both have red hair and answer to some form of the word “peck”. My grandfather once built a doorknocker that was a woodpecker….
So I decided Thursday night that I didn’t want to be by myself for the weekend. I thought, “Why don’t I go to Orlando for the weekend?” I knew that it would be my only chance this summer to do that, since it’s a bit far of a drive (8 hrs) to make in a normal weekend unless there was a special event. It’s a strange concept to me to be close enough to actually go home for the weekend!…
Bah, my throat is sore, and that makes it more difficult to talk to people. I’m not feeling the best right now; I think I will go to bed early. My apartment is a wreck. I wish I had motivation to clean it up. I’m not sure why I’m writing; I really have nothing to say. Oh well. I helped with two websites yesterday; that was fun… I have a lot of ideas for how to make the website better;…
“You need a Paul. Oh wait, you already have a Paul.” This is what Isaac said to me during graduation and it made my day. For those who weren’t there, one of the speakers was referring to relationships in our lives: the Pauls (our mentors), the Timothys (our mentees), and the Barnabases (our encouragers). He told us to turn to the person next to us and tell them that they need a Paul, and a Timothy, and a Barnabas. I…
There were many things that were awesome about this past weekend, which I will write about later. But for now I will cover what happened that seemed to overshadow my graduation day. It starts on Friday night, the day before graduation. I realized after I had been dropped off at Taylor for the evening that I left my cap and gown in my parent’s car, and they were on their way to Indy. I called them and they were about…