Breakdown

This is mostly for my own mental wellness...I'm breaking down our eventful next two weeks:

July 22 (Today!): Go to Arlington to see my parents and borrow some boogie boards and chairs for the beach!

July 23: Hang out with the fam, go to the Ranger game (story on that later).

July 24: Visit the in-laws

July 25-26: Get ahead on homework for when we go on vacation/class on Tuesday night

July 27-28: Last days of work at ETBU admissions/church Wednesday night/Class Thursday night

July 29: Finish homework before leaving for Houston/drive to The Woodlands

July 30: meeting with the personnel committee, lunch with church staff, meet and greet youth and parents and Q&A session, dinner

July 31: Lead Sunday School with worship and hanging out to get to know us, meet the congregation during the service, get put on the spot for questions, get voted in or out in the evening

August 1: Drive to Port Aransas!

August 2-4: Be a beach bum...hopefully get an interview soon after!

August 5: Hear this precious prune's heartbeat (it will be lime-sized by then!)

BUSY but EXCITING/RELAXING next few weeks!

Okay...so about the Ranger game story. I give campus tours at ETBU in this oh, so wonderful heat! I love ETBU, so I love giving tours. I had a family come in to tour with a girl, her friend, and her parents. When I walked in the room to meet them, I saw the dad wearing a rangers polo shirt. I was like awesome, a Rangers fan! I love to find things to chit chat about between buildings we go into. The Rangers are a good talking point. I proceeded to look down at his hand and lo and behold there was a world series ring on it! I couldn't help myself but blurt,"So, that's a world series ring!" He told us how he worked for the Rangers as the VP of Information Technology. That opened the door to talk about how I was from Arlington and how Tim and I love the Rangers and my family did, too (run-on sentence). So, we pile on the golfcart like sardines and have a lovely tour...like 2 hours...longest one I have done. It was two hours because they were LOVING it! They loved to stop and talk about EVERYTHING at ETBU and it was fun! I love tours where people ask questions and are excited! After the tour, the girl and her friend are super excited and they are wanting to come (the friend had to intention of coming to ETBU). So, as I am walking back to my office the dad pulls out a card and says, "Here's my card, if y'all ever come to Arlington, give me a call!" In which I reply, "We're actually going there this weekend!" He said, "Saturday at 7:05 okay?" I say, "Uh, yessir!" He replies, "Your tickets will be waiting at will call" and he writes our names down. AWESOME! So, it was already a great tour, but now we get to go to the game for FREE! I'm excited...yay for Admissions!

Beach countdown: 9 days