Archive for ◊ March, 2009 ◊

Author: schester
• Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
  • needs to eat dinner and get ready for bed! It’s back to the early schedule tomorrow… 3:45 comes really fast! #

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• Monday, March 30th, 2009
  • That 2 am delivery didn’t go as smoothly as expected. Had to wake up sister Prosser. Now I’m due for a delivery to my own bed! #
  • Final score for last week: temple 4. Cheesecake 3. Disneyland 2. Work 1. I doubt this week will be as good on paper. #

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• Sunday, March 29th, 2009
  • Is going to add up the hours I’ve spent in the temple this week and see how I compare to president smith. #
  • After 4 days in the temple I’m headed to the other happiest place on earth. It’s a blackout day, but you’re welcome to join me. #
  • Only crazy people go to disneyland on a Saturday during spring break. Good thing we already know I’m crazy. It’s a small world after all! #
  • Cheesecake Anaheim lied to me: Teal is working! Getting some cheesecake and then back to the happy place. #Disneyland #

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• Saturday, March 28th, 2009
  • Totally got up at 4. Going back to sleep at 4:19. I must at least rest my feet some this morning #
  • Long day at the temple # 4 is still going. Just left the temple and now at BJ’s for dinner. President Clegg has never heard of a pizookie. #

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• Friday, March 27th, 2009
  • I’m definitely sacrificing sleep for this offering in righteousness. I’m still looking forward to day number three though! #
  • Waiting for the carpool people. I should have slept another 15 minutes. #
  • Day number three. Starting now! #
  • Most certain that was the longest time I’ve ever spent in the San diego temple. Or any one for that matter! 6:30 am till 10:15 pm! #
  • Can’t believe I’m actually pondering getting up in 4 hours to do it all over again! I should probably sleep in and go in later. #

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• Thursday, March 26th, 2009
  • I wish when I said I was going to sleep in it meant I would be getting more than 3 hours of sleep. Heck, even a full 3 hours would be great! #
  • Getting ready for another day in the San diego temple for our offering in righteousness. Here’s to hoping I can stay awake. #
  • Had a great time at the temple even without much sleep. I think my wife being there helped. Doing it all again tomorrow. Good night! #

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• Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

I really need to get to sleep… I’m looking at less than five hours before I need to get up, but that’s about double what I got last night!

Things I’ve learned recently:

1. You can’t just go to Disneyland and ride one ride. We left an hour after closing (11) last night, so I didn’t get home till 1 this morning and was up at 4 for the temple!

2. Apparently Cynthia and I look like we’re married. It happened again today. I think I counted three separate times I was questioned in some way. Once by an officiator who when he asked if we were married and we told him no, he then asked if we had a date set yet! Then there were two if not three members of the stake that asked me about her. No wonder no one dates anyone! It’s not the “kids” that are thinking about marriage, it’s everyone else!

3. Five sessions is a lot to go through in one day with less than three hours of sleep.

4. I love turning my phone off and spending an entire day without a cell phone strapped to my side.

5. Sleep is good. I’m going there now!

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• Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
  • Wondering if coming to disneyland after being up for the temple at 3:45 this morning was the brightest idea I’ve ever had. #

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• Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
  • Actually going to FHE dinner at the cleggs tonight. I guess I can be bribed with Tri tip. #
  • President Clegg misled me again. No Tri tip tonight! I’m going to try and get some sleep before this long week in the temple. #

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• Monday, March 23rd, 2009
  • I love the new request a song feature with iPhone remote and iTunes DJ! We had some fun with it tonight. More iPhones the better. #
  • debating if I should go to @inthedoghouse for dinner or just grab something here before walking to branch prayer at the lee’s. #
  • It’s on the chilly side out here. I should have bundled up a bit more for the walk to prayer. #
  • Wicked is coming to San diego in august. Tickets go on sale April 19. #
  • is about to turn into a pumpkin and best get to bed asap. At least I don’t have to worry about my carriage for the ride home… #

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• Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

I have so much to write about, but I have been so busy I haven’t had the time. I really don’t have the time tonight, but I feel that I need to touch on a few things or just outline them so that I can write about them later.

I went to Rascal Flatts last weekend. It ended up being more of a last minute thing where I just bought a bunch of tickets and hoped for the best. We had a good time – and it took some coaxing, but I got Sibonet to come. I think she had a blast. Everyone else had a good time as well. There was a total of 14 of us, so I hope they all did, but I wasn’t with them most of the time. I got seats for Sibonet and I a bit closer to the front than the lawn seats I bought for everyone else.

The LA Temple was wonderful. I loved doing an endowment there and hope we can go back more frequently. I couldn’t get over how big the ordinance rooms where. I think we figured they could seat about 450. How great would it be to see them all filled someday! I think I need to take that goal to President Smith and see what he could do with that.

We’ve been pushing hard for attendance at the offering in righteousness this week. It sounds like we’re going to have a great turnout. We have just over 80% now for the first time of endowed members with current temple recommends in the stake. Only about 50% of the current recommend holders in the branch are attending, but most other wards at running above 80% committed.

I’ve been out and staying up way too late the last week especially. With either people here or trips to the temple or Disneyland, it’s just been crazy. I had Megan and Ashley over last Monday and we were up way too late playing and talking. It was about 11:30 when i got to sleep I think and then I was up at 3:45 for the temple the next morning. Josh and I went down and did our thing and then came back up with the intent of accomplishing things and getting in a nap. Well, I accomplished a few things, but definitely not the nap. We went back down for baptisms and had a great time. There were a lot of people that showed up to join us for our session which worked out well as we only had about 14 people, but they made it get to the 24 we were supposed to have!

I officially met this sister that i’ve seen in the temple many times before. I couldn’t figure out if I knew her from somewhere before or if she was just so familiar to me from there. She said she comes often so that’s probably why I recognized her. Her name is Wendy and she’s from Carlsbad. It actually seems like I’ve been meeting a few new people lately. Through the various trips and activities I’ve been introduced to some other new people. Megan J is a friend of the Prosser’s they’ve been bringing for a few weeks, but we never really got to talking until she came over last night with Kenny to watch Twilight. She seems like a great girl and I regret not getting to know her earlier – as I’m sure I do with most people.

Batch and I had decided to go to Disneyland on Thursday night since it was his only night off. We got Kenny and Ashley to go with us and we had a blast. As we were getting out of the car Batch told me that it wasn’t going to get cold enough to need a sweatshirt so i left mine in the car. Well as we were walking around California Adventure I started to get a bit cold. While we were eating dinner I decided I was freezing, so I had to go get a sweatshirt. i figured I’d buy a new one instead of going back to the car – you can never have enough sweatshirts. Well, i found this one that I kind of liked, but then I realized that it was a bit girly. I kept looking at other ones, but didn’t find any that really jumped out to me. There was one other one that I showed to the group, but Ashley pointed out it looked a lot like one I already had. They said the other one was way too girly for me and that I shouldn’t get it. Well, at that point, I decided I was going for it and went and tried it on. Apparently the sizes are a bit different for the girls than they are for the guys as the XXL is a little tight on me. Getting it off is a bit interesting. Well, as I was checking out I guess Kenny got a little crazy. As I finished checkout out, he was standing there with a sweatshirt and said something to the effect of “oh no, you’re not going to one up me.” He proceeded to buy one with tinkerbell on it that is clearly a girls sweatshirt with a low cut V in the front and Disneyland on the rear! We had a blast walking around and Ashley was just cracking up!

We went back the next night as Jordyn wanted to go, but couldn’t go Thursday. She went to use up the second day of Maegan’s pass that she wasn’t going to be able to use. Jordyn took the opportunity to upgrade it to a season pass, so we’ll be going back more often. Well, Kenny and I brought the sweatshirts again and had a blast. Jordyn brought a pink backpack so of course Kenny had to put that on along with her glasses. We got some great pictures. Jordyn was also able to talk Sibonet into coming which was great! I’m so glad she was able to come. My feet were so tired after the first night that the second night was a bit rough and we gave up about 11:30.

Tonight I was up late talking online. It seems like there is always some reason that I can’t get to bed on-time, not that I wouldn’t do it again. It’s all been great fun!

I know I’m missing lots of things that I should be writing about, but I really need to get to sleep before I turn into a pumpkin in a few minutes here.

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• Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
  • Feet are so tired. We had another great night at disneyland. Now I’m ready to sleep in and take it easy tonight. #
  • So much for that relaxing Saturday. Off to work… #
  • Costco was crazy today. Now can I go back to my relaxing day at home? #
  • iTunes replaced party shuffle with DJ. iPhone guests can now request songs and vote for tracks! This is awesome! :) #

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• Saturday, March 21st, 2009
  • Really wanted to sleep a bit more this morning, but must go to work. I understand we are going back to disneyland tonight. #
  • Driving all over town this morning it seems. Going back to Disneyland at 3. You should join us. #

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• Friday, March 20th, 2009
  • Hasn’t figured out if he is going to Disneyland tonight yet. I may have a ticket that is going to expire this weekend for someone to use. #
  • Leaving for Disneyland at 4. Come and join. #
  • Disneyland is empty! We parked on the second floor of the garage and it was the first time they’d parked here. #
  • Lied to by @crbatchelor. He said it wasn’t going to get cold. I had to buy a girly sweatshirt. :) #
  • Our picture on splash mountain was washed. Might have been because I got airborne and they didn’t want the liability. Headed home now. #
  • Forget world peace. Visualize using your turn signals. #

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• Thursday, March 19th, 2009
  • I should apologize in advance for being late to work in the morning. 3:45 am to 1 am is a long day! #
  • Could really go for working from home this morning. #
  • I’ve called it quits at work and am headed home. #
  • Learned why car wash places charge more for large suv’s. They’re a pain to wash! No more mud on the tires. :( #
  • It’s way too hot for march. Headed to bed with the goal of getting a good nights sleep. Possibly going to Disneyland tomorrow eve. You in? #

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