Snow.

I thought it was supposed to snow today, but I guess it's not going to. I'm looking at the Doppler widget on my computer right now and I'm see White and some Pink over Wisconsin but when I look outside, It's bright and sunny and relatively warm. I love Snow. I hope it snows. This last week was a great week. On Monday Tara and I went to financial peace. It's a 13 week class and we have about 10 weeks left. On Tuesday basically the entire day I just watched photoshop tutorials, I feel like I'm getting pretty proficient with that program. On wednesday I got into the office at around 8 and started to work on slides for the baby dedication on Sunday for Adult service. We had 12 babies dedicated so I had to make 12 slides. That's a lot of babies! Praise God. It's fun but it's also very time consuming. Jeff asked me if I could do them so he could do other work. One of the other reasons Jeff likes having me around, to do the work he doesn't want to do. haha, it's okay, I like it. Here are the slides I made.












Jeff was pretty pleased with them. Jeff is my Brother and he's also the creative arts person here at 2|42, I'm interning under him as well as others. They showed in Adult service on Sunday, it's pretty cool to see your art work on huge screen that everyone sees, it was a pretty good feeling. It was also different to see how the screens and the projectors change the way the image displays as well as how it changes the color. On Tuesday I did the epistle and and watched a lot of tutorials. Then after that I went to go teach Tori, Ricky and Hunter drums at the Gibsons. They're an awesome loving family. I always enjoy going over there. They've been such a blessing and so giving. I ate dinner there as well with them all, It was nice that Sean came home from work early and then I went to Cell group at Michelle's Apartment. After that Tara came over, since I live basically 2 blocks from Michelle's and we watched Charlie Wilson's War. After about 30 minutes of that, we turned it off because it was really boring. Basically the whole movie is talking. I don't think there was one 2 minute block of silence is that whole film. The next day I work a lot on the baby slides but I have to leave at around 3 because I had to teach in South Lyon at 4. After that I went out to Westland to her school to help her hang a white sheet for her projector. I'm so happy for her, she's got a really cool classroom. The white sheet definitely helps and I also gave her my speakers so all the students can hear the computer. After that we went back to Plymouth to hang out with Tara at her apartment. We ate dinner than started to watch The family stone. After about an hour of that, we turned it off because it was really weird and the acting sucked. So that's two for two. After that I just helped her with some of her school work and we made a power point for her class room about dia de los muertos or DAY OF THE DEAD!!!! It was pretty cool. I got to use a lot of what I've learned with Photoshop in the slides. She was happy. The next day I got into the office at 10am because I'm there until around 10pm and sat through an awesome staff meeting. We talked a lot more about marketing, which is Sue's job and she is tearing that stuff up. He's been doing an amazing Job. We talked about outreach ideas and lesson topics for the first month or so. It lasted until about 12 and then we all went to White Castle. If you haven't tried their breakfast, you are missing out. It's the best. They serve it all day. I got back and finished up the slides for Sunday and emailed them all to Jeff for approval. At 4 I taught Grant Minney Drums, that kid is really picking it up well. Then at 5 I taught Jordan Voigt drums for a little over an hour. This kid reminds me of me when I was in HS, he has such a work ethic and really fine tunes everything I teach him. I'm showing him some pretty complicated stuff and by the next week, it's perfect! He's got a gift. I love teaching him because I know he works at it and I love seeing fruit be grown. What? Does that make sense? I don't know. After that we all had Band Practice at lakewood. Lauren and Ben lead, Jason Bellanti on Drums and Adam Vance on Bass. It was cool. I played electric guitar and it's the first week I actually put some lead lines into it. It was definitely a next step in my guitar playing abilities, haha. The next day, I went into the office. It was just Brad and I for most of the day and then Kevin Davis showed up. He took the day to work from home. It was cool spending time with him.

For lunch we went to three amigos and then just hung out the rest of the day. I have to admit, I really didn't do much this day except make a slide for the game on Sunday. Here's the slide . . .

I also worked on the production computer and programmed the service and printed all of the cue sheets. I also found some videos for the service and made sure everything was in line with our Guest speaker this week. So I guess I did do a lot, but since it was the three of us, we just joked around most of the day, haha. I left that day around 3:30 to get to the Krause's at 4. The topic this week is Live to Love. So we asked Jay (one of the student artists) if he could do Crazy By Knarls Barkley. He was pumped about it so I went over to his house to work on it and he, his dad and I ended up making an audio loop for it, with drums and a little synth pad what have you. It was an awesome time. He knocked it out of the park on Sunday. So on Saturday, this was a crazy day. I got up around 10 and cleaned my room and got all of my clothes washed. I also cleaned the kitchen and prof's cage. Tara came over and was nice enough to start coking some food.

It was so good. After that we went to Brighton to go looking for some Halloween Costumes for the party we were about to go to. We had two events to go to, one of them was Darian (my wicked awesome super cool super manly man's man roomate) and Becky's Football Throw Down party where Michigan played Michigan State. Then after that we went to Jason Bellanti's Halloween Party. We got to Darian and Becky's party at Becky's house around 4ish. There were tons of people there and it was just really sweet. Lots of fun. There were two rooms, one for State fans and one for Michigan fans. The highlight was when at half time Darian, Justin and I jammed it out on Rock band 2, haha. We failed the first time and got booed of stage but the second time we freakin' rocked the house. Most of us were on expert too! A lot of people from 242 were there too, which is so cool. Michigan was beat by State in first time in 6 years or something like that at the Big House, which is pretty depressing. It was a great time and I was thankful I went. Tara, Justin and I left around 7:45 and then we head over to the Bellanti's. Tara and I were nurses and we both were dressed in scrubs, haha. They were a little too big for Tara but they fit on me. She looked pretty cute. On the way over there we stopped at a parking lot and that's were we all changed, it was COLD! The party was really sweet the house was totally decked out! A lot of people from 242 were there, mostly everyone was 242 was there. I really didn't know a lot of them too well, most of them were a couple of years older and had children and the such. But it was awesome. I'm glad they invited Tara and I. We left around 10:30 because I had to wake up at 5:30 the next day for church.
On Sunday I got to the school around 7am and started unloading my car. I carry so much stuff now. We had tons of help setting up, Praise God! We had a guest speaker, Jamison Davis who did a really amazing job, he's a really great easy going guy. His idea for the game was to see who could eat a whole chipotle burrito first. He ended up having a lot of students, more so than usual. It's been one of the best weeks in a long time.

So here I am, on my day off, blogging, haha. I'm watching Steven King's the stand in the background. pretty good film. I'm going to go do something productive. Until next time!