+ 0 - 2 | § ¶Brother's birthday
Monday evening, I went over to Bloomington-Normal for my brother Dan's 25th birthday party. Mom and Dad were both there, as were several of Dan's friends. We had pizza (what would a Henderson family gathering be without pizza?) and birthday cake.Three of Dan's friends, Nate, Alan, and Jake, played a game of Cranium with Dan and me. Nate and Alan were on one team, Dan and I were on another team, and Jake was on both teams, by switching each card. (He sat out on cards that were direct competition between the two teams, but played all of them which were challenges for one team only.) Our team got to an early lead, getting about two thirds of the way around the board while the other team was only about a quarter of the way around. But then we got stuck at the three-quarters mark, and the other team got some pretty good die rolls and a few two-turns-in-a-row things, racing around us to win the game.
It was pretty late when we finished, but I got home around midnight (IIRC) and went to bed, saving Prison Break and 24 for later in the week.
davidh
+ 2 - 1 | § ¶What's been happening recently...
Let's see... since the first of the year, the following things have happened:One of my aunts (Bev, my dad's half-sister), one of my cats (Ronnie, the youngest of the family), and one of my uncles (Willis, my dad's half-brother) died, all within the first three weeks of the year. January pretty much sucked.
Josh moved back to town. He is currently residing here, though we are not "together". Interestingly, we have been much better friends now that we are not involved romantically.
I went to see 300 with several members of Psi Phi. At Steak 'n Shake afterwards, we unanimously agreed that it was awesome. (And since Will was there, that's saying a lot. Will abstains from or opposes nearly every vote in the club.)
I was very fearful of losing my job, due to the side-effects of depression. As a compromise, I went from full-time to part-time, which lost me the benefit of my employer paying my health insurance premiums, so now I have to pay a couple hundred dollars extra per month to keep that. Fortunately, things seem to have settled down for the most part, after a change of medication, so I hope to go back to full-time soon.
The bathroom is significantly closer to completion. Joe, Dad, and I worked on putting up drywall and installing the new window, so now we don't have exposed 2x4s everywhere. We also got a new toilet put in. There's still no sink (we're going to wait until after we get the floor tiled), but it's coming along.
I finally saw Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and I nearly laughed my lungs out. I had purchased the movie at Wal*Mart, and it came with a free "Glorious Kazakhstan" T-shirt. I wore that to work one day last week, but nobody seemed to notice.
I've been to the Jukebox comedy club three or four times. Joe has a routine that he gives on open mic night (Thursdays), and he's getting pretty good at it. After the amateurs perform, they have the headliner from that Friday's show perform. One that I really enjoyed was Dan St. Paul.
Hmm... seems like there was more, but I suppose that's enough for now. I hope to blog on a more regular basis in the future.
davidh
+ 3 - 0 | § ¶I am not dead.
In case anybody was wondering.I hope to have a slightly more detailed update soon.
davidh