The past few days

Ha, the blog has been neglected all week! Well, all last week was the same ol' school-seminary-family duties soft of a week. Mom left us on Friday. That's right, she just got on a plane and left. She'd had enough! No, okay, I'm sorry, jk. She went to Arizona for the weekend with Faidra for our cousin's wedding reception! Uncle Dion (Mr. Awesome-Rich-Board Game-Plane Engineer-Dude) was very happy to see his little sister again I am sure. I feel really lame for not knowing the name of cousin Tara's newlywed husband, I'll ask mom for it when she gets back. She should be home sometime today, I think. I remember going to Quinn's wedding reception (he's Tara's older brother by a few years). It was awesome! His wife Clare is just the essence of bubby-ness. Know what I mean? Just a real sweet, friendly, and pretty young lady. They are such a cute couple!

Well, last Saturday dad had come up with a new random job for us to do from Craigslist: Fell a tree and chop it up for $100. And so that was just what we did. It was fun, but dad got a bit scared being way up in that tree with a chainsaw chopping off huge limbs. We couldn't just chop down the tree from the trunk; we had to chop it piece by piece so that the tree wouldn't fall on somebody's house or on powerlines or a car or something terribly unfortunate such as that. We ALMOST broke a power line, but thankfully that one branch just bounced off instead of snapping it...

Ah, Sunday was another spiritually rejuvenating experience. Our ward choir always practices right before sacrament meeting; right when I'm helping prepare the sacrament. Well, today the choir was to perform twice, and so I decided to just come up and help out the (small) choir after passing the sacrament without practicing the parts at all. Fa, Truly and Carmen were in the choir today as well, but they dissappeared after the choir's performance. I wondered why, but I was informed by Sis. Wright that Fa was ill but wanted to help with the bells in the choir. They left early so as to avoid getting others sick. Oh! I got to "interview" two guys about their jobs that day. I talked to my Sunday school teacher Bro. Stewart about his job.  It was some kind of commercial work involving finance, if I remember correctly.

Bro. Stewart: "Huh, well, do you like math?"

Keenan: "I'm learning how to like math..."

The other guy I talked to was my ride home: Bro. Davis. I knew that he did some kind of construction work, but I learned specifically that he pours concrete to pay the bills. But what I DIDN'T know was that he is an inventor. He was explaining the use of this new tool that he designed for pulling stakes out of the ground. That was a lot of fun, and I also got to ask him about the complications involved about getting a product like that on the market. He said that manufacturing was easy, but the trickier part was to get a patient. It was very interesting stuff to me.

Tonight was a Stake standard's night, which was AWESOME. I wonder how these sort of things are for other Stakes, because these firesides of ours always tend to be off-the-wall. The Johnsons sung a song before their talk about the word of wisdom. The tune was dulcent and dainty, but when Sis. Johnson started to sing I really felt like slapping my head. She didn't seem to know the song very well anyways. I had never heard it before, and, if I remember correctly, it started out something like, "this is a little (voice breaks awkwardly) song, to help you go along..." It was very very corny. I could tell everyone else in that congregation was suffering even as I, until the song started to REALLY get goofy. The song actually was a joke, and it used very cheesy rhyming while singing about the word of wisdom. "Just drink coco... hot drinks make you feel so-so..." Oh my word, I can't even remember the song completely, but the youth were just bawling with laughter by the time it was over. And of course, as always, we all felt the spirit while learning too. Let's see, what rocks have I allowed myself to carry along in this life...

I got to talk to all of my buddies from the Stake that night! Well, most of them. Jared looks like he got a haircut, but he says that he didn't get one. I dunno, his curly hair looked pretty cool that day, I dunno. Maybe it was the color he was wearing. I talked to Austin (Savannah's older brother) to ask how Savannah was doing, and he said that the operation went well. She'll be able to be home in 5 days or so. Austin is awesome; just like his sister! It must be something that runs in the family. Cousin Anthony and I chatted about Thanksgiving weekend and our movie ideas. Anth is pretty excited to meet Ceana and her family this coming Sunday. He thought up a pretty good start for our movie too. I've been thinking up characters to put into the movie this week. AH, we've got a good weekend full of brainstorming and interdependent thinking coming up, on top of the vast amounts of food, family, friends, and fun. I just got to get through a few more days of solid work before the end of the tunnel is here...