Summary of the past two weeks

Where to begin.....it's been HOLY CRAP just over two weeks since I last posted, well, with my own fingers at least. Man, so much has happened that was blog-worthy, and it's upsetting how much I know I have forgotten because I have yet to get the internet back in my house.

Events I do remember:

1) One night I'm at work doing dishes and I have to take the trash out. So after about ten minutes or so taking trash out I come back to finish some dishes and I caught my friend leaving me a present. It was so great, I laughed SOOO hard. She had some whipcream and decided to decorate the sinks. It was like a giant cake with beautiful icing designs.....only without the cake....and with a couple sinks full of water.....she even drew a smiley face in the dishwater. When she saw me she had one of those "Oh crap he caught me!!" looks. Then we laughed for a while and I scooped up some whip cream and it was the really thick kind that holds together....in the shape of a snowball. Happiness bubbles up inside me and I look at her and say "DUDE!!! You HAVE to let me throw this at you fastpitch style!!" I had to talk her into it, she had an apron on so I used that as an excuse. She said the only reason she agreed to it was because of how happy I looked when the idea popped into my head. So I got into position.....checked to make sure nobody was going to steal a base....wound up.....and BOOYAH!!!! It sailed through the air and completely exploded when it hit her. If only snowballs had the same effect. I mean yeah, essentially they do....but when you get hit by a snowball that's packed a bit too hard it may sting a little.....and snowballs don't have the explosive effect whipcreamballs do.

2) The most uncomfortable swing lesson ever!!! Musicallity, YUCK. Okay, there's this guy who goes swing dancing, I'll call him Rico Suave out of respect for his privacy. Anyway Rico Suave has some awesome moves when it comes to dancing. So when the instructors describe musicallity the week before the lesson I thought it would be pretty cool, learning how to improvise footwork or change it slightly to add your own kind of style to your dancing. I'm thinking they'll teach some stuff that will be kind of subtle and keep from feeling like you are boring the heck out of your dance partner. The first person I thought of when they described musicallity was Rico Suave. I always admired how he just throws out stuff like "BLAMO" and keeps on going like it never happened. He just doesn't care and I wish I had that ability to just let loose. I feel bad when I talk about him to Tamara and Andi because it sometimes feels like I'm making fun of him, and even though some of his moves are completely funny, or the reactions/facial expressions he gets from his partners just really makes me laugh I really do wish I could just do things first and think about them (or not) later when it comes to dancing. During the musicallity lesson the instructors said "Everybody has a dumb half, either the left or the right. Whichever it is, that side just doesn't want to do things right sometimes...." Well, I soon found out my dumb half is my bottom half, from the waist down. No big deal, I mean I can do some "Repulse Monkey" Tai Chi action no problem, I can also throw out a few variations of a "Kotogash", I can handle foot placement and weight shifting, but seriously injuring your dance partner is frowned upon at this place.....for some reason. Unfortunatly my dancing seems more mechanical than it does graceful, or at least to me it does, and it still cracks me up that some of the turns in swing dancing makes me feel like I'm supposed to throw my dance partner right on her back. Anyway, back to the point......musicallity, yes......So here we are in the lesson and for some reason the instructors decided to put EVERYBODY ON THE SPOT. So people like me who are extremely self concious of being on the spot and doing stuff like dancing of all things.....yeah it was rough. Completely embarassing. We sat on the floor and drumbed our own beat to the songs they played, fun......for about two seconds. Then I just felt dumb and started slapping the floor like I was really into the whole idea. Well that lasted for about ten minutes. Not too bad though honestly. What really got to me was when we had to make up our own dance steps.....my lack of knowledge in dance steps prevented me from really improvising and luckily the instructors realized just about everybody was really self concious of stuff so they had us all turn our backs to eachother and make up our own dance steps like we made up our own beats to the songs they played.....so I ended up marching in place. march march march....pause....march march march....are we done yet?....march march march. Then they got the wonderful idea of walking around while we did our own dance step things we created while our backs were turned......So here we are, a big group of people dancing around eachother....picture, if you can, a bunch of people at a dance club kind of mingling like they are grooving to the music and going around looking at eachother like they are desperately trying to hook-up. Yeah, slightly uncomfortable. So here I am marching around the perimiter of the group of people weaving through eachother gettin thier groove on. I avoided all eye contact and only looked at people to avoid bumping into them and getting thier attention. Except for Andi and Tamara. When I made eye contact with them I know my discomfort was apparent. Finally the lesson was finished and I felt like less of a man than when I started. The whole experience made me admire Rico Suave's dancing a whole lot more, he still cracks me up too.

3) The best thing the past two weeks had to offer.....Doc's Baptism to further his relationship with Christ. That freaking ROCKED MY SOCKS!! "Doc" was in my group on the Wild at Heart retreat a while ago. He wrote Doc on his nametag because his first name is pretty common. So anyway, he's a really cool guy. It was awesome to get to know him. So here I am at chruch (Apex) and I'm sitting next to Tamara in a daze because I'm kind of sleepy and Tamara's friend just got there and so Tamara turns to talk to her and I decided to stare off into space...........so here I am staring and I notice the screens turn on and I see Doc's face for a split second, I instantly come out of my comma and slap Tamara on the leg "OM MY GOSH!!" Tamara whips her head left and right trying to find the circus clowns who apparently started doing backflips down the aisles juggling midgets.....or whatever other amazing thing that should have so obviously attracted her attention in the first place. Just then the screen goes black again and she's sitting there with a look on her face that screams "WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST MISS??!!??" ....Anyway, in the few times I've been to Apex I've noticed anybody who pops up on the screen is going to be baptized (even though that's not supposed to happen until just before the baptism). I was pumped, I instantly started searching for him through the crowd that was filling the church. I was hoping Scott would get there before they all started service because he was in my Wild at Heart group too, but I saw Doc sitting down and so as they started singing I ran over and sat with him to say hello. It was so awesome to see him, and even more so that he was going to be baptised. I love how Apex baptisms are in the first place, I get this feeling of pure excitement and it's all I can do to keep from exploding. My eyes are filling with tears, even now I still get excited for him. It was extremely motivational to say the absolute very least. HOORAY FOR AWESOME PEOPLE!!! HOORAY FOR AWESOME GOD!!!!