Tenacious!

Well, this is finally Tim writing another one! Janae is out of town for the weekend so I decided I should write one just to take up some time and keep myself busy.

It's been a crazy weekend- I was at work when Janae and her mom left to go up to Boise, but then I got to go see Divine Comedy. James on the cast is a friend of ours from back in the day, so he got us fast passes. I went with Chris and Kareena (our landlords? we just call them the people upstairs haha) and we laughed a lot. This is the comedy troupe on campus that makes fun of everything from a week being enough time to tell if a certain person is "the one" to dissing UVU at every opportunity that comes up. It was pretty awesome. They had a parody of "Inception" called "Reception" where they had to plant in someone's head that she should marry a guy she doesn't know. It was pretty crazy, especially since I still haven't seen "Inception." So yeah, after the show we went home, Kareena made smoothies, and I had a guy's night with Binggou, our dog.

Saturday was awesome. I sent out a mass plea text friday night saying "Janae is out of town and I need company. Wanna get breakfast at Kneaders in the morning?" I was appealling to my band freinds, but some non-band friends responded as well, so we all met there and pigged out. It was fun. The Bandies left to go march in the BYU Homecoming parade, and I went to watch. I'm still having serious withdrawals from not being in the band this year. This is the first fall that I haven't done band since 2001 (excluding the mission of course, but seeing Taiwanese marching bands didn't make me miss band at all. Only the Power of the Wasatch is powerful enough to bring on that kind of feeling). Every time I see them in uniform I feel like I have something to do after being part of band leadership last year. Now to see them and not be needed and not being able to play music is hard. I guess we can call this a plea- if anyone has a baritone of Euphonium they want to donate to the "Tim needs his band geek music fix fund" please let me know. I will gladly take any other unwanted instruments off of your hands as well.

Anyway, it was fun seeing the band, no matter how much it hurt inside, but the cheerleaders and sports teams throwing candy and stickers at us made it that much better. Binggou wasn't quite as happy however when the volleyball team aimed candy at him.

The parade ended, and I went to get the tires rotated. I had time, so i woke up my little sister who was still in bed in California... oops. we talked for a while, then I called my parents and kind of vented to them my frustrations about not being in band this year after the homecoming parade. it wasn't really venting; i just thought they would appreciate the fact that I went :) after that I went home, mowed the lawn (and felt awesome doing it. why does doing yard work make you relax?), took a shower, and spent 12 hours at Bath and Body Works... that was intense. I prepped for our floorset, worked on the sales floor for a while, then I ran the floorset that lasted from 9pm to 1:45 am. I was proud of our team- I expected to be there a lot longer. We didn't finish EVERYTHING, but I'll go do the finishing touches on Monday morning.

As for Sunday, I still miss my wife. Let's see what other things I can do around the house today to try and make them a little happier after a long stint on the road :)