dipping my toe back into this blog

I haven't blogged in a few days and I kinda missed it. Not that blog-worthy things haven't happened. I just chose to not share. I guess I will share random bits to get caught up:

On Friday, I had lunch with my mom and my former youth minister (who was also my confirmation sponsor), Pat. My mom had run into her at our old church last week. My mom still works in the town I grew up in and goes to our old church when she works the weekends. So after my mom ran into Pat, they made plans to get together. The day before their arranged lunch, I said to my mom, "Why am I not going to this lunch?" I was off that day and haven't seen Pat in 6 years (and before that it was about 4 years since I saw her last). So I invited myself, knowing that neither of them would care. In fact, it shocked the crap out of Pat and she didn't know how to compose herself when she saw me. It was a strange situation. My relationship with the church is so different than it was back in high school. It was really nice to see her, but really awkward, because I am not that person anymore. I don't know what that means, but I know that is true.

On Saturday, my mom and I went to the 8th Annual Jack in the Box Celebrity Shootout. I think they choose to use the word celebrity very loosely. If you look at the list of "celebrities" that were scheduled to appear, you will get what I mean. Many of the decent people (and I say this with fear that I consider Omarion "decent") didn't even show. The randoms that did come were:
- Jordan Sparks: Recording Artist
- Donald Faison: Actor (“Scrubs”, “Clueless”, “Remember the Titans”)
- Brandon Routh: Actor (“Superman Returns”)
- Brian McKnight: Recording Artist/Actor
- Brody Jenner: Reality TV Star ("The Hills")
- Frankie Delgado: Reality TV Star ("The Hills")
- Kristen Cavallari: Reality TV Star ("The OC")
- Columbus Short: Actor ("Stomp the Yard”, “Save the Last Dance 2”, "This Christmas")
- Terry Crews: Actor (“Everybody hates Chris”)
- Keith Robinson: Actor ("Dreamgirls", “American Dreams”, "This Christmas")
- Brian White: Actor ("The Game Plan", "Stomp the Yard", "The Family Stone")
- Nick Swardson: Actor/Writer/Producer (“The Benchwarmers”, “Reno 911”)
- Tank: Recording Artist
- Morris Chestnut: Actor (“Ladder 49”, “Breakin’ All the Rules”)
see? Told you. Who are many of these people? Reality TV Star? Star? It was fun watching these fools try to play basketball. I really went, hoping to see many Suns players. The only ones that were there were Boris Diaw and Shawn Marion. That was cool to see them. I took many photos and tried to annotate many of them so I would remember who those randoms were. See them all here.

Our friends Mike & Connie got married in Vegas over the weekend! See a photo here. We are so happy for them!! They have been together for over 5 years and Mike said they only planned the wedding three days before. Fun. A Vegas wedding is totally their personalities. Any other type of wedding would have seemed strange and not about them. The sad part is that before the end of the year, they are moving to New Orleans. I think it really depends on when they can sell their house. It will be a total bummer not having them around.

I got the soundtrack to Spring Awakening and I am loving it! I so want to see this show. I hope to tours eventually!
This is a cool behind the scenes video:
This is also a cool medley from The Tony's.
(say yes to all things Duncan Sheik!!)

Ok, this was way more than dipping my toe in, but I am glad I shared all my random things!!!!!