I'm back from my holiday adventure back east. It was a great couple of weeks but, as always, not nearly long enough.
The fun started with flying out to MD. The airports were pretty packed (luckily, I got through O'Hare before all the delays started getting too bad. The lady taking the boarding passes here in Minneapolis almost shut me down before I got on the plane and tried to tell me that I would have to put my guitar (only in a gig bag BTW) in the luggage hold. Thus, I promptly explained to her that I was the Band Leader and Musical Director for the National Lutheran Youth Worhip Band and that I had a performance for 3500 seminary students in Baltimore at 10pm that night. I ended up late for my connecting flight to Baltimore by 5 minutes and had to wait 4 hours for the next flight out. No big deal as it allowed me to relax and eat a hamburger...oddly enough I ran into someone there that I went to high school with during my Freshman year back when I lived in Delaware. After talking about college, it turns out that he currently goes to school and is good friends with my best friend from way back in elementary school when I lived in CA. Small world...
Then I spent a few days at my grandparents' house leading up to Christmas. It was great just being back with family and relaxing. Christmas was good, scored some cool loot but most importantly it was the first real Christmas with all of my family there in a couple years. After christmas, I drove up to Delaware for a couple days and saw some really good friends that I hadn't seen in almost 3 years. I came back to MD for a few more days after that leading up to new year's, which I also spent with family, and then spent the past week just being lazy as fuck, watching a bunch of movies, practicing, sleeping and eating healthily, etc.....it was awesome. I think the coolest part of going back was seeing my two little cousins who are 2 and 4...last time I saw them was almost 3 years ago and neither of them were walking/talking, and now they both are and they're a blast to be around.
Now, alas I am back in the hell-hole known as St. Paul MN and classes start back up on Thursday. I hate being here, but it'll be nice for school to start up again. I think I'm going to end up transferring after this year so that will be the "big thing" this year I think.
Most importantly, I got the Megaman x compilation for PS2 and I've yet to play it....time to rectify that. Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!
The fun started with flying out to MD. The airports were pretty packed (luckily, I got through O'Hare before all the delays started getting too bad. The lady taking the boarding passes here in Minneapolis almost shut me down before I got on the plane and tried to tell me that I would have to put my guitar (only in a gig bag BTW) in the luggage hold. Thus, I promptly explained to her that I was the Band Leader and Musical Director for the National Lutheran Youth Worhip Band and that I had a performance for 3500 seminary students in Baltimore at 10pm that night. I ended up late for my connecting flight to Baltimore by 5 minutes and had to wait 4 hours for the next flight out. No big deal as it allowed me to relax and eat a hamburger...oddly enough I ran into someone there that I went to high school with during my Freshman year back when I lived in Delaware. After talking about college, it turns out that he currently goes to school and is good friends with my best friend from way back in elementary school when I lived in CA. Small world...
Then I spent a few days at my grandparents' house leading up to Christmas. It was great just being back with family and relaxing. Christmas was good, scored some cool loot but most importantly it was the first real Christmas with all of my family there in a couple years. After christmas, I drove up to Delaware for a couple days and saw some really good friends that I hadn't seen in almost 3 years. I came back to MD for a few more days after that leading up to new year's, which I also spent with family, and then spent the past week just being lazy as fuck, watching a bunch of movies, practicing, sleeping and eating healthily, etc.....it was awesome. I think the coolest part of going back was seeing my two little cousins who are 2 and 4...last time I saw them was almost 3 years ago and neither of them were walking/talking, and now they both are and they're a blast to be around.
Now, alas I am back in the hell-hole known as St. Paul MN and classes start back up on Thursday. I hate being here, but it'll be nice for school to start up again. I think I'm going to end up transferring after this year so that will be the "big thing" this year I think.
Most importantly, I got the Megaman x compilation for PS2 and I've yet to play it....time to rectify that. Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!
