i think more or less the way i put stuff in for this summer will be a week's recount per 2-3 weekly blogs.

anyways,

wed:
checked out the saratoga library, like i said. funny thing is, after talking to laura online at the library, i got her excited about checking it out. so she tells me she's gonna log off. i end up seeing her in the library about 15 min later :D there's also some funny incident about me reminding her what my home phone # is, but i don't wanna give away my phone number publicly online. ask if you're interested about that conversation though. also, i remember venting my frustrations about how i couldn't song-record properly to her and she was like "no, it's alright" but i said "NO, IT'S NOT!" so she came back with "fine, it's no good" :D
prayer meeting: i think it was long overdue; sam explained why he was who he was, and we in turn shared what we thought of it; it's not the end, but it's a good start to mending a friendship.

thurs:
i take laura to guitar center, heh heh, fun fun. let her listen to my sanctus real CD on the way there. uh, geez, the weather was a bit hot, but in my humble opinion, there's something refreshing about driving down a long stretch with warm wind blowing past you... laura didn't seem to like it though. uh, she didn't find the guitar she wanted there, but it's all good. haha... then we went downstairs to the electric guitar section, and i think laura now doesn't think electric guitars are THAT hard to pick up on now... i remember her saying it felt kinda light. best part going there? when i finally found the 18+ boss effects pedals all wired up in series, and no one's using them :D plugging in and just fooling around was like paradise there :D to be honest i'm more interested in effects pedals than electric guitars now, cause i'm not gonna be buying any new electric guitars anytime soon, and it's not like i have a good enough ear to tell the difference so far. but yea... i should go back sometime soon... i keep forgetting how fun it is just fooling around in guitar center... there's like a million things you can fool around with inside there... i know laura's not done guitar shopping, so i'll have an excuse to go back again...
mahjong when we get back... man, i forgot all my chinese numbers :D basically, i wasn't playing mahjong, it was lydia, heh. but i'm getting it more now. i have played in the past, but it was a vague idea of how to play. and eat some pies, heh heh. then swimming at jon's house. which was kinda neat. eat, and come back. but we didn't cs like we planned(grrr... tim, should've brought your cpu!). instead, i played 1 round of mahjong, while laura played w/my spider solitaire on my cpu(i kept trying to convince her to play w/my puzzle fighter, but she says she sucks at cpu games), but lydia decides to try to play, so that was kinda cool, playing puzzle fighter against lydia for a bit.

friday:
nothing much, really. i just remember working a LOT on my version of "in the secret" for most of the day, mainly cause all the takes that i did were screwed up, like in one area or another. (basically, the guys were supposed to call me so i could go w/the others to bureans to help lydia choose a new bible, but they didn't, so i just let that go and worked on my mp3 all day) and it didn't help that the upstairs area was very hot, so i felt sweaty, even w/o a shirt. it's almost done though, so that's the good part. i still wish the editing were a bit better though; it's hard to explain; basically, i can't get CD quality editing down; it still sounds a bit like it's live, except dumbed down. not at bassy as i would like. and my vocals still don't sound too well. drums COULD use some more work, if i wanted to make the volumes slightly more variated and realistic. none of you guys would be able to tell though. only me, and God. it annoys me though in that sense, cause worship is about YOU+your sacrifice, or your attitude+your gift. think cain and abel; your attitude is only 1/2 the picture. your gift obviously doesn't matter, but your gift CAN be a good indicator of your attitude. that's why. to have me get frustrated with my work and then go "aw screw it" IMO wouldn't please God. then again, there's only so much you can do. but for me, sometimes, i feel like if i just put a BIT more effort in, it would be better; motivating myself to go that extra step though, is hard.
youth group:
all i gotta say is i saw clement and sam BOTH lead worship... BOTH on acoustic guitars... nice job guys... for a first time you guys did great(not like both of them know my sn or anything)... next time i'll bring my guitar and try to help them out.
back @home late @night:
what the heck is jimmie fallon doing hosting late show w/david letterman? weird eh? aw well, well it was nice. one of the guests was the blonde villian for T3, which was nice.

finally:
i'm thinking maybe of at least TRYING to look for a job. i at first wasn't going to this summer, but then, i'm not doing anything anyways. and everyone else has stuff to do during the summer, so i'll be alone soon. at the worst, i won't get a job and will be able to have all the free time in the world. so y'kno... cause i might even gain some job experience if i find the right job. i'll have to think about it soon though.