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So Derek gave the sermon in Genesis today. I must say he knows how to talk. It would be nice to see him give more sermons. I defiantly enjoy his more than some of the other peoples. The topic today was how crazy/insane/sane/normal the idea of Jesus is. I’m not sure if he ever got to a solid point, but I did get stuff out of the message. Including a possible new slogan for WLC Youth. WLC Youth - “Get Crazy” and base it on the verses from Mark. Eh, just an idea.

Last night would have been considered crazy in my books a month ago. Honestly, I have a very hard time being comfortable around people when doing anything for an extended period of time. Especially people I don’t really know. So if you would have told me a month and half ago that I would be playing Scrabble and eating dinner with Amber’s family last night and feel like I fit right in, I’d say, “You’re crazy.” That is, however, what happened. We ended up eating special Radabaugh spaghetti. Man that was good. Who’d of thought that something like hamburger and other various meats can make spaghetti taste oh so good. As for Scrabble, I fell victim to Amber’s dad. They were all good games, except the last, where words just decided to all end up in weird bunches. They were all fun though. Amber also scanned a lot of photos so hopefully, I will add some to my site and you’ll also be able to find more on hers.
For those of you *there aren’t any besides me* that are interested in my Ultima Online garden, it’s going well. I have 4 healthy plants growing at a steady rate towards being great plants.
As for this afternoon, I have a bunch of things I want to get done before I leave for Nebraska on Tuesday. Some require going into MSA, some just require me getting motivated. Who knows. Blah. I remember last 4th of July… Eh, maybe I’ll reminisce later. But just to think, tomorrow, it will be the official 1-year anniversary of this version of JJ’s Domain. It’s amazing how things have changed in the last year. I started this site complaining about a girl I couldn’t have, and it has transitioned to being madly in love with a girl that I got to know over the last year. Crazy how that works, isn’t it?
Eh, 500+ posts for the last year, with 600+ posts in the site. Crazy. But I’m out to see where today takes me.

Well, I’ve been awake longer than this post implies. I woke up sometime around 11:11 this morning and stumbled out of bed, thinking “Man, I just went to bed 7 hours ago.” I seem to be doing fine though, pretty well. I wanna get back to coding the SMRC some more. I also wanna order the new computer. Eh, not today.

ERG, I’m a little worried I may have screwed up Freshmen orientation somehow. I hate this. Why can’t things be simple.
It sounds like I might be going to Nebraska from the 1st to 4th with my sister. It would be good to see my Grandpa again and help out. My parents wont come down till the 3rd, so that could be weird.

I really don’t want to post anymore right now.. so goodbye post.

Why the heck am I up past 4 AM not feeling tired? I’ll tell you why. First, my wonderful and amazing Amber gave me a great night of dinner, bowling, and a movie. She also gave me a smile over the phone when she slowly but surely started drifting off. After that I hopped online to do some coding for the SMRC. Sim and Nikki both happened to be here, both good ways to make sure I didn’t code. So I chatted with Sim about our new future computers. I chatted with Nikki about life. Both chats were great, Nikki’s seem to be one I haven’t had for awhile. It was good to make jokes and laugh at two as to how stupid I was. Fun times. I then started coding…
There’s a mistake. Start at 2 and see where you finish. Well, 2 hours later, we found the light. I finished the midi section of The SMRC. This should make the image section as well as all the other multimedia sections, a breeze. Then, I think I will do walkthroughs for Chris. Maybe all this tomorrow. Well, time for me to figure out how to try to sleep.

So far today, I’ve been doing pretty well. Let’s sum up what I’ve got done. I completed all but like 8 thank you letters. The 8 I didn’t do were because I wasn’t really sure who the people were, nor what I should put in a thank you letter to them. They shouldn’t take to long. Hopefully I can get the checks to the bank tomorrow morning.

I managed to clean the basement as well. Vaccuumed, picked up, etc. Amy seems to refuse to do her part, in exchange I have to cover her broke @$$. Eh. She’s a good girl. I love her. I should dust, but it will be fine for now.
I did two loads of laundry, with the third one going in in about 3 minutes. In in, I like that word combo. It always makes me think I made a mistake. Either way, that’s good. I also remade my bed, seeing as the first load of laundry was my bed sheets.
I picked up my room ever so slightly. Not as much as I hoped. Same with my car. I didn’t really clean it, or pick it up, I just removed like 10 things then I had to move onto something else.
I played a little Ultima and ended up finding a house where the owner didn’t properly store his potions so I have unlimited Greater Heal, Cure, Poison, and Strength. Well.. not unlimited, but ones that will last for some time. I wonder if they know they are giving away free expensive potions? Well, good for me, bad for them. I hope to check up on my plants either later tonight or right before I get Amber.
For those of you curious about movie night, here is the official message from JR Corps. There will be NO movie night tonight. This means you probably don’t want to come here. You shouldn’t watch a movie here tonight. And, above all else, it means I won’t be here. So for those of you who can work around those *IE: Just about anyone my parents know* you can try to bend the rules and throw your own movie night here.. Just know, that it won’t be ANY of my doing and you have to get permission from my Mommy first.
As for what I am doing: I’m not telling. I won’t have my cell until later. It’s basically a Justin and Amber night *ahh cute right?* We haven’t really had a date date yet, other than the ball. They’ve all had people with, not that people are bad :-).
I kind of want to post here in response to the post that very few of you can read on Nikki’s site. However, I don’t feel I can do it justice with the amount of time I have left. But to answer your question in a few words or less: A Best friend is someone who knows who you are, protects who you are from those wishing to harm you, supports you when your down, and refuses to let you get away from anything *wether it be, themselves, trouble, or anything else someone might dream of running from*. They are the ones capable of bringing the best out of you. More on this topic later.
Let’s close today with a picture of what I am known to sit countless hours at when I have nothing better to do *or sometimes even when I have something better to do*.

So I know I had this weird dream last night. I woke up in the middle of it, and tried to fall back asleep into it. I even repeated everything in my head that had happened up until then, but I don’t think it stuck with me. I wanna say that Amber and I were trying to get through some door, but before that we had needed a log or something like that. Someone helped us, but I don’t remember who. Erg. I wanted to remember the dream just because it was funny when said outloud. Let’s see…

I might upload some Prom pictures here before I go off clean my room/car/self. So much to do today. Let’s see, thinking it through, but not in order…

See Amber - Gotta see the sweety, the question is, do we date tonight, or do a group movie night?

Finish Thank Yous - Got a good run on them last night, let’s finish them today.

Clean My Car - I want to get all the trash paper out, put the important stuff away, find a check I’m missing, as well as try to take the middle thingy out and replace it with my sub and some cub holders. Don’t know if I can manage that.

Clean My Room - I made a mess taking out all the computer stuff yesterday, not counting the mess from before.

Do Some Laundry - I’m not wearing an outfit right now, it would be nice to have one ot wear.

Work On SMRC - I came so far the other night with the system, why can’t I just get it done so I can update it?

Work on John’s Site - He want’s some stuff by July 1st, meaning, I’m running out of time.

Work on a site that I don’t even need to work on - Amber gave me this idea and with a slight push from Dave B. I might just do it.

Work at MSA - Stuff here as well, erg. Someone remind me I have to be there at 9am monday morning.

Mow the lawn, but probably not today.

I don’t know how to manage my time very well anymore. Stuff that doesn’t NEED to get done takes a back seat to the stuff I want to do. Eh, I don’t know. Let’s move forward though and see what I can get done. Later post.

So this post is going to be a little weird because it’s purpose is a little undefined.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
H.D. Thoreau
A good piece of advice from a pretty famous author. It’s good to have confidence in what your doing. It’s good to give others confidence. It’s amazing what you can achieve in those hours.
Just be safe
some of the best advice I got today, but not from Thoreau.
I’m going to close with a picture that shows more than any other how I feel. Oh, BTW, started uploading Ball pictures :-).