I'm back, kinda :)

There will be no pictures in this post but it is sort my start to having some kind of journal since I have more free time now and I'd rather get in the habit of doing this instead of gaming or whatever other waste of time I can think of.  I don't play WoW anywhere which come as a surprise to some but it is a gigantic waste of time that pays off (in the cyber world) very little.  I'm taking up a game that costs no money whatsoever that I can play on my own time and for short bursts.  It's called League of Legends.  Now you might think "Oh great just another thing for him to waste time on" which would be entirely correct if I actually played a fair amount.

These past couple months I've been getting out almost every night with some friends from the Salem area (our ward if that helps put you at ease lol) to get me off my post and out of the house.  Right now we have stake basketball which is fun but we suck bad.  It is a good thing Gerrett is heading out on his mission in March instead of like February because we would be getting crushed even worse right now.  We have this mentally handicapped members who like to play which is fine but it destroys all hope of winning so you just have to sigh a little and take the losses with a grain of salt.

The other thing going on right now is city league volleyball on Thursday nights with some friends from the family wards.  We played our two opening games this past Thursday and won handily.  I got in some nice spikes that even surprised one of our members since she hadn't seen me play in a while (yeah, I got better, you can stop thinking "hah, yeah right" cause it's true I swear!).  I also got to see some of the better teams that were in our league that were ranked higher starting out and I'm pretty sure we can take them if we have our normal lineup with Gerrett taking Nate's place since he opted out (grr).

At church I'm the 1st counselor in the Elder's quorum presidency and basically take care of all that deals with the sacrament.  In addition I am the one that goes to all the activities so I know the members in our ward better than the ones that are actually from here...imagine that.  I gave a talk 2 weeks ago, I am giving the elder's quorum lesson tomorrow, and I am in charge of the ward's basketball games (making people aware of them and to actually show up since we only had 4 this past Wednesday, ugg).  So while I'm doing my Masters degree at Western (two days a week this term Woo!) what is really keeping me busy is all the ward stuff plus trying to get out of the house as much as possible (my gas money is getting wrecked!).  I figure in the end it's for the best and as long as I only spend money and time in this way I can only come out on top right? :)

Oh, I almost forgot.  I've got this nifty folder for all the music I carry around with me now and I can play practically every piece inside of it.  Now it isn't perfect but it is a whole heck of a lot better than in the past and when I practice after/before activities at the church I get a lot of head turns and questions ("dude, I didn't know you could play", bwahaha that's what they think) so I must not suck that bad lol.

Other then that I just read whatever book Kari shoves in my hands and I finish it within a week or two because of the way my classes are setup on Tuesday/Thursday.  Btw, I've read books now that I probably wouldn't have picked out myself but they have been rather good nonetheless.  Like one is called "What my girlfriend doesn't know" which is displayed in the book like a poem but reads like a normal book but is dang funny at parts but I never would have picked it up otherwise.  I almost didn't read it before/after classes because it just looked like a girly book and didn't want to have people catch me reading it but it was just so funny at times.

Anyways my mind is spent and I feel like I just wrote a short paper for a class that isn't giving me credit for it so I'm going to check out now :).