i loved my thanksgiving break, here's the recap:

wed:
came back and bought the ac adapter for my flanger pedal... heh heh... the guys at guitar center dunno how to work the register. what was nice was the correct adapter cost me $5 less. money saved. then headed to target to purchase a yu gi oh(haha) action figure for jerm's bday. it was basically between that and fake mickeydee's french fries. headed home to call up wes and laura for worship prac.
but the main fun part was going to church, meeting up w/wes and going shopping for jerm's gift. and what did we settle on? heh heh... a huge stuffed snow monster. with a little tuft of hair. i thought the expression of the monster even looked like jeremy when he's scared. btw, we passed an upside down 45 mph sign while going to target.
too much fun practicing worship, with flanger and dis/od pedals. turns out laura came and left while we were shopping, so we had to call her back. 1st time we actually WANTED laura to be late. wes was there playing bass, so was jen, trying to offer up requests that none of us listened to ;) lazy jen, get off your ass and finish your UC aps! jerm arrived late. laura did decide to use phil's acoustic guitar to play, but she was too amp-shy to want to play turned up, and she was also pretty tired, so she ended up being piled on with beanbags in a corner. i think me and wes were the ones who were having the most fun.

thurs:
turkey bowl... there were a couple of incidences, like karen ramming into jeff, andrea stripping bob, jeff's running, eric's tumbling ;) sam going long. then we started off with the smallest team ever. ended up trading michael for george. and everyone else was taking forever to plan plays, while we just huddled and decided on doing the exact same play. also, we're lazy, so we decided on zone defense. i do remember getting a LOT of catches though, cause our primary options almost never worked ;) i still wish i jumped for my 2nd to last play... i just streaked forward, and drew clement and tim towards me... i think all the other guys stopped to watch me, and if i had jumped, i prob would have had a really good chance of making a catch. argh!
jerm's bday party. haha... may god bless you... ?!? good korean BBQ though. mandy's in an Xmas mood... oh yeah, she came home on mon... and when her parents asked if she had class, she just shrugged ;) lydia played innocent which looked kinda funny. also, laura and lydia showed up with... kashi(reason being they were too tired to shop for him on wed, and prob weren't bright enough to realize that all the stores close on thurs, which is why they prob only got stuff from a supermarket)? why do you give that to a guy for his bday present? haha... but it was all good. kiwi crapped... had some stains... on his ass and the cement. it was cool watching jerm open all the gifts. and his reactions with them.
thanksgiving dinner w/mom... it was good, not like the previous years, cause mom was too tired to want to cook an entire turkey, but roasted turkey drumsticks w/ carrots, soup and pumpkin pie was enough.

fri:
woke up too late, which blew the entire purpose of that free day. lesse, then was too unwilling to do math hw. spent most of this day prepping for worship, and ended up getting to church 30 min later than planned. then i couldn't find out how to turn on the sound system for lets say, a good 20 min. of course, laura was unwilling to turn UP the guitar volume or sing into the mike loudly until we started for real. i ended up bringing my laptop cause jerm doesn't have one. it was kinda all a big rush for prep... we ended up cutting the song list short to 12 songs, then requests afterward. practice took a bit to get into. no riffs that i could play cause we couldn't play together... bob, makes me wanna play with the coppercoins team again. but it was fun and pure enthusiasm for god. and no ONE really showed up til 8:00, cept for justin, who showed up precisely at 7:00(god bless that young man) and i wasn't spotless either... i screwed up a couple of times. heh heh... mike did the osama bin hidin, which was funny. but b4 we started, we went back to pray(just like we've been always doing... except laura's new to this... she expressed it too; gotta lot to learn, laurster) in the end though, i have to admit it was extremely fun for me. we all had our screw ups, but it was FUN playing the fast, upbeat songs(jesus you alone, not be shaken, arise, all those were my faves). then we played pressing on, and man, did i screw up :). i need more practice. otherwise it was fun. even mike got into it... throwing his sticks across the room when we finished. i think i did a mike shinoda when i told everyone "i wanna hear you guys shout when we say shout." but it did get everybody into it, and was fun seeing that happen. would be nicer if we keep up this tradition, it was FUN. we need to get more people enthusiastic about this. and for us, the guys who play the instruments, we need to learn how not to taper off near the end of a long chain of upbeat songs. hahah... then jerm started typing weird song lyrics to a song. justin also helped out george with the sound stuff... which was nice to watch. there's a lotta memories all compressed into those 5 hours we spent there.
then we headed to farley, ate some potluck leftovers, and played catch phrase. some memorable incidences involving that.
louis: *tick**tick**tick**tick**tick**tick**buzz*

louis: uh i think the correct answer is *buzz*

mike: ok this is something you put on your arm-
jerm: -vaseline!
mike: -that you use to hit someone with

mike: something you sit on opposite another person and go up and down
jerm: *breaks out laughing*

sat:
my bday, which i wasted until mike invited me to his house. then we went out with some of the guys to bowl. heh heh... i beat jerm. jon showed off his new car. then we went to tony roma's
ok, so we saw like 3 black guys there. 1st time mike spilled his water, norm leaped outta his seat and the 3 black guys cracked up. 2nd time... one of them turned around and said "dang, you do that again? i'm sitting over here!"
then when the waitress called our attention "may i have your attention please... we have a birthday... everyone sing happy birthday to diane!" heh heh... then the black guys hecka cracked jokes it was funny. when they did that with me though, the black guys were saying stuff like "happy birthday dick" and "drinks on dick!" heh heh. then when we left, we heard them saying "you guys need to get dick a girl... he looks like he needs to get laid!" hhahahahahha they could be football players... too bad we never found out.
at tim's house, we watched some he-man(the stretchy neck guy cracks me up)... then laura shows up with nothing for me, but gives me a hug. oh yeah, got some pretty good stuff. thanks again for everyone who wished me a good bday and gave me stuff. norm... wake up... it's the slideshow :) so did phil, which was awesome... you're the best, bro.

sun:
joe and paul showed up. so did laura and lydia. so we all kinda met for sunday worship, then left our own separate ways right afterward. i think me and jerm lingered around the longest. and basically we headed our own separate ways after that... and here i am. i'm gonna go get something to eat nearby...

I LOVE WORSHIP