Such A Sweet Surrender
Every minute that goes by tonight is a minute closer to the end of my four-day weekend. Totally lame. It was a great weekend, however. I last updated the day before the Independence Day holiday, which was good. We didn't do much of anything. Tiffany's dad got into town before they left to get him to his new job. July 4 is also my mother-in-law's birthday, so to celebrate that, we went to Zio's. Afterwards we had some good family time at the house, mostly spent with me talking to David about this new job. In case you missed this a few weeks ago, he's driving for a company called Upstaging, and they basically haul tour equipment for musical artists (mostly). So I let him know about the things his company does that I'd like to see, because I'm an opportunist like that; we'll see how that goes. After that, Blake came over and hung out. We played some Rock Band for a while and he left. He just got back from a vacation in the Rockies climbing mountains and such. I saw one picture that he sent me on his cell phone and it was beautiful.
As I'm sitting here trying to think of what I did all weekend, I'm realizing it's a little bit of a blur. We didn't do too much of anything, I guess. Church was okay yesterday. I'm not a big fan of gloom-and-doom sermons, and that's kind of what was going on Sunday morning. Tiff brought up a good point that her old youth pastor brought a newspaper that talked about how "the end times are here" and all of that, and it was from like 1927. Point is, I do believe we may be living in the dying days here, but people have been thinking that for years and years and years. Heck, even the apostles thought that within a few years of Jesus' death. Anyways, the rest of the message was good. Introduced Alex to Ted's after church and he enjoyed it I think.
Our original plans for today were to go to White Water Bay, but sometime over the weekend Tiffany decided to go lay by the pool without wearing sunscreen for about an hour and a half, and she got sunburned pretty badly (go figure), so that plan was nixed. Instead though, we went and saw Wall E. This was absolutely incredible. I'm talking a perfect "10," or whatever maximum amount of stars your rating system will allow. Apparently when I initially told my brother this, he thought I was joking. Let me assure you: I am not joking in the slightest. This movie was a masterpiece, art in film, whatever else you want to call it. I loved it and can't wait to own it. If you haven't seen it, go see it immediately. I'm talking to you, Jenkins.
Randy got into Dallas today, I believe, safely, and I'm excited. It'll be nice to have him and Lindsey so close. I mean, Dallas isn't exactly close, but it's a heck of a lot closer than The HB (Huntington Beach, California, for those of you who are unaware). Tiff and I enjoy the occasional trip down to Dallas anyways so this will be good and just another reason to go down. Plus, Dallas is only like 2.5 hours away from Norman, and God knows Rando's a football fan. Just another person to join us (us being me and Blake, most likely, as Tiff has pretty much retired from going to OU games, at least early in the season). Speaking of football, I'm ready for football season to start up again. It's been too long without football.
Speaking of sports, did everyone get to see the amazing tennis match Sunday between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer? Hopefully you did. Tiffany and I got to see part of it, but unfortunately Cox seems to be having problems with the NBC HD feed, so when we got home from church and lunch, we got to see the third set, but not the fourth or fifth. By the time we realized this and went "Live," Rafa was holding the Cup. What I did see, though, was absolutely incredible and an amazing display of tennis that was at a level the likes of which I haven't seen in a very, very long time.
All the talk about Wimbledon (Oh yeah, Tiff and I had a little Wiimbledon tournament on Saturday, that was part of the day...) made us decide that we're going to start playing tennis. I played a little bit when I was going out with my last girlfriend who played in high school and college. I don't think Tiffany has ever played, but we're excited to get started. It makes us wish we had a tennis court at the apartments. But alas, we don't. That's okay though, we don't have too far to go and it's not too terribly expensive. The expensive part will be getting rackets and balls and such. I like tennis because, unlike golf, you can have fun while playing it without being good right away. Golf takes too much patience. Anyways, that's something we're looking forward to getting started here soon if the wallet allows.
Jenkins came over a few hours ago and brought Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. Not impressed in the slightest. Playing on Wii didn't help much, but the songs suck and the charts suck, of course. What do you know, here's a commercial for it. Man, Activision knows how to milk the cash cow. I've seen about eight GH: Aerosmith and GH: On Tour (DS) commercials during WWE Raw tonight. I'm really looking forward to Rock Band 2 though, as most of you already know. There's a leaked list, which is totally unconfirmed and just a rumor, but if it's true it will be absolutely awesome.
What will not be awesome is work tomorrow. I'm really not looking forward to it (that's a shock, right?) but it does indeed pay the bills. Having a day off with Tiff today was really nice. She's going to have Mondays off from now on and be working ten-hour days Tuesday-Friday. It'd be nice if I were able to do the same, but there's no way that would fly at work. Oh well.
I need to catch up on some Word. I haven't read my Bible the past couple of days because I'm a big heathen and everything. Other than not sticking to that, things on the God side of things are going well. I'm enjoying my fellowship with God, going to church Sundays and Wednesdays, and (when I do it) reading.
There's been talks internally about something major happening with this very blog. Stay tuned and I'll let you know if that goes anywhere. I like for people to read my blog and be entertained, at least, and I'd like for more people to read it. This might give more people that opportunity. But this is just in a very early discussion stage, so like I said: Stay tuned. Honestly, the more reaction I get to my blog posts the better it will be, so COMMENT!
Thanks for reading,
-Ryan J. Schwimmer
As I'm sitting here trying to think of what I did all weekend, I'm realizing it's a little bit of a blur. We didn't do too much of anything, I guess. Church was okay yesterday. I'm not a big fan of gloom-and-doom sermons, and that's kind of what was going on Sunday morning. Tiff brought up a good point that her old youth pastor brought a newspaper that talked about how "the end times are here" and all of that, and it was from like 1927. Point is, I do believe we may be living in the dying days here, but people have been thinking that for years and years and years. Heck, even the apostles thought that within a few years of Jesus' death. Anyways, the rest of the message was good. Introduced Alex to Ted's after church and he enjoyed it I think.
Our original plans for today were to go to White Water Bay, but sometime over the weekend Tiffany decided to go lay by the pool without wearing sunscreen for about an hour and a half, and she got sunburned pretty badly (go figure), so that plan was nixed. Instead though, we went and saw Wall E. This was absolutely incredible. I'm talking a perfect "10," or whatever maximum amount of stars your rating system will allow. Apparently when I initially told my brother this, he thought I was joking. Let me assure you: I am not joking in the slightest. This movie was a masterpiece, art in film, whatever else you want to call it. I loved it and can't wait to own it. If you haven't seen it, go see it immediately. I'm talking to you, Jenkins.
Randy got into Dallas today, I believe, safely, and I'm excited. It'll be nice to have him and Lindsey so close. I mean, Dallas isn't exactly close, but it's a heck of a lot closer than The HB (Huntington Beach, California, for those of you who are unaware). Tiff and I enjoy the occasional trip down to Dallas anyways so this will be good and just another reason to go down. Plus, Dallas is only like 2.5 hours away from Norman, and God knows Rando's a football fan. Just another person to join us (us being me and Blake, most likely, as Tiff has pretty much retired from going to OU games, at least early in the season). Speaking of football, I'm ready for football season to start up again. It's been too long without football.
Speaking of sports, did everyone get to see the amazing tennis match Sunday between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer? Hopefully you did. Tiffany and I got to see part of it, but unfortunately Cox seems to be having problems with the NBC HD feed, so when we got home from church and lunch, we got to see the third set, but not the fourth or fifth. By the time we realized this and went "Live," Rafa was holding the Cup. What I did see, though, was absolutely incredible and an amazing display of tennis that was at a level the likes of which I haven't seen in a very, very long time.
All the talk about Wimbledon (Oh yeah, Tiff and I had a little Wiimbledon tournament on Saturday, that was part of the day...) made us decide that we're going to start playing tennis. I played a little bit when I was going out with my last girlfriend who played in high school and college. I don't think Tiffany has ever played, but we're excited to get started. It makes us wish we had a tennis court at the apartments. But alas, we don't. That's okay though, we don't have too far to go and it's not too terribly expensive. The expensive part will be getting rackets and balls and such. I like tennis because, unlike golf, you can have fun while playing it without being good right away. Golf takes too much patience. Anyways, that's something we're looking forward to getting started here soon if the wallet allows.
Jenkins came over a few hours ago and brought Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. Not impressed in the slightest. Playing on Wii didn't help much, but the songs suck and the charts suck, of course. What do you know, here's a commercial for it. Man, Activision knows how to milk the cash cow. I've seen about eight GH: Aerosmith and GH: On Tour (DS) commercials during WWE Raw tonight. I'm really looking forward to Rock Band 2 though, as most of you already know. There's a leaked list, which is totally unconfirmed and just a rumor, but if it's true it will be absolutely awesome.
What will not be awesome is work tomorrow. I'm really not looking forward to it (that's a shock, right?) but it does indeed pay the bills. Having a day off with Tiff today was really nice. She's going to have Mondays off from now on and be working ten-hour days Tuesday-Friday. It'd be nice if I were able to do the same, but there's no way that would fly at work. Oh well.
I need to catch up on some Word. I haven't read my Bible the past couple of days because I'm a big heathen and everything. Other than not sticking to that, things on the God side of things are going well. I'm enjoying my fellowship with God, going to church Sundays and Wednesdays, and (when I do it) reading.
There's been talks internally about something major happening with this very blog. Stay tuned and I'll let you know if that goes anywhere. I like for people to read my blog and be entertained, at least, and I'd like for more people to read it. This might give more people that opportunity. But this is just in a very early discussion stage, so like I said: Stay tuned. Honestly, the more reaction I get to my blog posts the better it will be, so COMMENT!
Thanks for reading,
-Ryan J. Schwimmer
Glad to hear again God is working in your life. Keep reading that word. I say that in a hypocritical way since I still have yet to dive in.
WALL E was indeed good. I was half falling asleep when I saw it, but it was still really good other than it only had two lines. EVVEEEE, WALLE, EEVVVEE, WALLEEEEE.
Talk to you at work. PACE