Crazy Busy

I literally have had hardly a spare moment in the past few days. It has been from one place to the next almost without fail since Saturday.

Saturday morning we dragged, cut, loaded, hauled, and stacked 2 loads of wood for our summer campfires. Before we could even unload we were off to Salt Lake to pick up some things for our linger longer we were doing on Sunday. Once home, we ran to a few stores to get supplies for our campfire, then I stopped in quick at Home Depot to look into the cowboy grill, then we went and had a campfire. Oh, and we opted to not get the grill. We love it and would love to have it, but Jeff at work is building a fire pit and said we could have his old metal one. So, we're getting that and if that works out well, we won't need to buy one. That means we can instead get some decent chairs for the back porch. Hopefully, by week's end we will have our back patio all decked out and we'll have an inaugural steak grilling and fire.

Sunday was church and linger longer. Later that night we were slated to watch Work and the Glory 3 (we've been doing Sunday night church movies), but ended up not watching it and I just watched Just for Laughs gags instead. Hilarious!

Monday, I worked 6-6, got home, changed and headed to FHE, where we played Ultimate Frisbee. Afterwards we went to Sonic for drinks with a group, then brought 'em all over and watched Secondhand Lions. Love that show...

Today (Tuesday), I worked 10-6, then changed at home and headed to play soccer at 6:30. On the way home Myles called and said some work friends wanted to do a campfire, so we swung by home, changed, grabbed s'more stuff, grabbed a bite to eat and headed up the canyon.

Tomorrow, I will work 9-7, change at work and head straight to Stake Sport's night, which is every Wednesday. We will play volleyball and softball. After that I'm going with some friends to see the Avengers again.

Thursday, I work 7:30-6, after which I will go play soccer at 6:30 and our weekly game of scatter ball at 9.

Friday, I work 7-6, then I'm playing Ultimate Frisbee and hopefully that night we will have our patio inaugural event, which will prolly be eating steak, having a fire, then watching a movie.

Saturday, I'll be out in the fields throwing hay bales onto a truck at 7 am. At 11 am, we are playing a game of Ultimate Frisbee with work friends. Then, I will probably pass out for a few hours before we head up the road to Preston, Idaho for a Father's Day weekend demolition derby that night.

On top of all this, we have an FHE dinner to plan for Monday. We are doing foil dinners and s'mores at the bishop's cabin. We will also play volleyball there again.

As you can see, my plan to make this summer jam packed with fun is in full effect. If every week is even half as packed as this one, which looks to be the case with weekly soccer, scatter ball, and volleyball/softball games planned for the rest of summer, it will be one heck of an awesome summer, and I'll prolly be in the best shape of my life.

More important than all of that though, my lil' sister Annie is now Sister Meier serving in the Washington DC South mission for the next 3 months. If all goes well with her health, she will be re-assigned after that time for a full-time mission elsewhere.



Pig and Sports

Tonight we had a big work party. It was a pig roast. This morning we seasoned up a whole 150 lb. pig and it was buried in the ground. Then, tonight, at about 6, people from all over dining services gathered at a park in the township of Hyde Park to eat it. Sadly, the pig was not done cooking in time, so they had to butcher it into steaks and grill them...it was still good though.

More fun than the pig, however, was the stuff we did. With the exception of a couple people, my interaction with people at work is pretty much "Jon, how many chafers do we need?" or "Hey, where is the fruit tray for my party?" and the most frequent: "Is our hot food ready yet?" For the most part, people at work think weird things about me. Lots of people think I'm always angry, some think I hate people, pretty much everyone thinks something that is contrary to who I am. At work, I'm in work mode. Tonight it was really fun to play Ultimate Frisbee and volleyball with a lot of my co-workers. I had a blast and I hope they all did too. Some of them want to set up games during the week throughout summer now, which would be awesome. Mostly, I just want people to realize I am not a mean person and dispel some rumors that go around about me.

The rest of this week holds more adventures. We were invited on a moon-lit night hike tomorrow (Tuesday), then Thursday is scatterball, we have to plan a Linger Longer for Sunday, I have to finalize new car insurance, and who knows what else we'll add on as the week continues.

Well...that's about it. The playlist.com widget has been discontinued, so I gotta find a new way to do Song of the Day. I like that feature.


Feel the Burn

Intense game of scatter ball Thursday night. I won several rounds, ran a lot, jumped a lot, fell a lot, and had a lot of fun.

Got home at 11 from scatter ball. In bed around 11:15. Fell asleep maybe at 1:15.

Woke up at 5:30. In at work at 6 am. Scheduled until 7 pm, but we managed to get done sooner. I was out around 5:30ish. I hurt all over throughout the day: my feet, my head, my eyes, my arms, my back, my soul...ok, not my soul...but you get the picture.

After work I helped unload a horse trailer of logs/wood. Then I weeded Corey's garden. In exchange for helping keep the garden nice, I get food from the garden. Lettuce, tomatoes, spaghetti squash, corn, pumpkins, cucumber, carrots...good stuff.

Right now, I'm feeling the burn. I love it, but technically it is pain. And exhaustion.

Playlist.com says I can't play songs back on my blog anymore. If that is the case, I will be very upset. I'll look into it later, I have to collapse/pass out into a good Friday night sleep...

For now, hum the song "I'm a Little Tea Pot" to yourself and call it the song of the day.

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