Memorial Day weekend

i find long weekends are both good and bad. it's Great to realize on sunday that there's no work on monday. but on monday it's only that much harder when i realize that i have to go to work the next day. Cuz the weekend's long enough such that I'd forgotten all about work, so the realization is a very very unwelcome jolt back to reality. :( Ah well. Being back at work ain't ALL that bad. i guess. after all, i've got time to post this recap! =P haha

Friday i worked from home in the morning. Had lunch with Day to catch up (she's back for a month looking after her nephew. yay!) And then took off early to help set up for youth group Guys' Appreciation Night. I got there around 3pm and it ended up just being me and Phoebe for a while!! So I moved some stuff to get things ready and she pretty much finished cooking everything so there'd be less stress later. I didn't wanna start decorating cuz didn't know what the girls wanted to do. so i ended up putzing around a bit. but it still beat being at work! hee hee It was a busy and tiring night. And a little stressful as well (especially at the beginning when i left my script & schedule on the stairs and couldn't find it!!). But it turned out really well (at least i think it did). The girls did a GREAT job and after my part was over in the body worship & skit, i was pretty much able to relax & enjoy the rest of the night! whew! Check out the pics here & here.

Saturday i treated myself to a haircut at Umbrella salon with Jen (my sister's stylist for her wedding). They raised their prices!! But ah well. It was nice to pamper myself after all the busyness. :) And then afterwards I went to Joy's grad dinner and got drafted to sub for worship team the next day!!

so Sunday morning bright & early (but...um...10 mins late for practice. eek!) i got to church. The doors were all locked!! So i walked around the whole building trying the doors, but no luck. So i stood outside the window in the front and thankfully someone saw me and opened the door for me. :) hee hee It was so weird hearing my voice from the mike. And it didn't help that 1 of the songs had an echo part where just the women sang! so i could totally hear my own voice. But I stood as far away from the mike as possible :) ...and it wasn't till the last song when i started feeling more comfortable and able to ignore everyone else and just worship. it was really cool then! too bad it lasted all of 1 min. haha After that was youth group core meeting where phoebe & i had to lead cuz chris & george were both out of town. It was neat tho spending time alone with the leaders. It's so rare for me to talk to the guys especially. So it was cool. And then i went home to chill with the fam and have dinner.

Monday was X3 and Alex's bbq. X3 was ok...i wasn't really that impressed with the storyline or with any of the new mutants introduced. The bbq was fun..the first bbq of the summer for me (i missed the bbq part of steven's bday party)! i brought my frisbee, but unfortunately, there was not much space in the backyard to throw. so after watching 2 movies (wedding singer & pirates of the caribbean) and munching on a ton of good food (i spoiled my appetite on all the sweets & snacks but still stuffed myself with the SCRUMPTIOUS beer steak and some yummy chicken drumstick...mmmmMMMmmm), a few of us went outside to kick around a soccer ball (after a couple near misses playing in the house =P) and throw the frisbee for a bit. I was in flip flops and very very stupidly kicked the ball straight on. part of my toenail came off and started bleeding but i didn't realize till a while later when i looked down and saw the red. ew. and that was the end of that. :)

whew! it was actually a pretty busy & tiring weekend!! but lots of fun. and such beautiful weather! now i guess i should really get back to work. and the rest of reality... i'll have to upload pics from my camera and update this post with some bbq pics later.