First thing I did today after getting ready for church was to check on the wedding pictures I took for Andra. They’d all finished uploading, so I e-mailed her then called and left her a voice message on the way to church.
The message today at Port City Community Church was a good one. It was a real gut check on motivations and desires. We talked to a few people afterwards, mainly Lorin Van Zandt (Kyle had to work at Port City Java this morning), a couple friends of hers and Elliot and Melissa. Afterwards we went to Salt Works over on Wrightsville Avenue for breakfast.
On the way out of the church parking lot something about Scott calling about meeting up for the iPhone. Right then the phone rang, saying “Private Number” in the called ID, so I figured it was Scott, as Scott’s phone does that and I wouldn’t think anybody else would be calling my number on a Sunday, much less before 10:00 in the morning. Turned out it wasn’t Scott, but fortunately it was a short call. I called Scott afterwards and he said he was waiting on the cable guy this morning and would give me a call after that, then we’d meet up at a Wireless-enabled McDonald’s in Warsaw. (Yes, that’s Warsaw, NC, not Warsaw, Poland.)
Amanda and I went home where I fixed a few minor things that needed to be changed on some of the pictures for Andra’s wedding that I’d already uploaded then I put them online and made a couple CDs to listen to for the trip to Warsaw, which is about an hour north of here.
Speaking of music, I haven’t been able to find my iPod since we were in Kentucky even though I remembered packing it into something. I finally admitted that to Amanda, because before we left Lexington she’d asked me if I was sure I’d packed it. I just said today that I’d give Baba, my grandma, a call to see if she had seen it lying around their house. Of course I figured I’d have to describe it to her, and I was thinking if it was there it would be downstairs and she doesn’t go into the basement anymore. Strangely enough, the day I admitted that to Amanda, I found the iPod in my laptop case.
The reason I was burning a couple CDs was that a while back, when I was going up to Jefferson, NC for Jamie Arnold’s bachelor party, I’d picked up my friend Joel Freeman in Raleigh and we were heading to Greensboro to stop the night there, meet up with some more friends and head on the rest of the way to Jefferson the next day. Joel was driving my car for a bit of the way and after we stopped at Four Seasons Mall to grab a bite to eat, he put my key in the lighter socket instead of the ignition by accident. That shorted out the lighter socket so I haven’t been able to use the thing I hook the iPod into the listen to it in my car. I think all I need to do is swap out a fuse- I just haven’t gotten around to it in the last year or however long it’s been.
Anyway, while I was working on the pictures, Amanda was working on that thing I keep mentioning that she’s been working on. Scott called a bit after noon and told me that the cable guy had never come. He said he had a couple errands to do, so to wait about ten minutes then head out. I got to the McDonald’s just a few minutes before Scott- just enough time to order a burger and a shake and eat the burger. When he got there he showed me a bunch of the features on his iPhone, but he was a bit mistrustful of how crowded the place was. It eventually thinned out a little bit (although the place stayed busy the entire time we were there) so Scott went back out to his car and got my Christmas present. It was even still in the plastic wrap.
We took a few minutes to set up my iPhone and left not too long after that. Amanda was the first person I called with it, but she wasn’t at home. When I did get up with her on her cell phone she told me she had gone out. She ended up getting me a couple graphic tees from Express for Men (I’m really a graphic tee whore). She said there was another one there that I’d have absolutely loved, that it would have been my favorite graphic tee ever, but it was $30, which, as I agreed, is too much to pay for a t-shirt.
While she was out she also picked up a new laptop bag for me. the one I have works fine, but she had thought it’d be nice to get me a new one for the new computer, so she picked on out for me. It’s more of a bag than a case and it’s got all kinds of extra pouches and such on it. It’s a greenish color (on the side of brown) and has a stylish little design on the flap. It’s a pretty cool laptop bag.
When I did finally get in touch with Amanda she said something about getting some pizza for dinner (as it’s that time that she likes to have a pizza). I used the Google Map function on the phone to find Krazy’s Pizza and hit the phone number on it and it automatically dialed the number right there on my phone. How cool is that?
I also called my cousin David Cherryholmes; Amanda’s uncle, Barry Frazelle and my aunt, Robbie Horner. I talked to Aunt Robbie for a while. Amanda called right as I was pulling off onto exit 420, which is very close to our home. She’d just gotten in.
I spent most of the evening getting used to the iPhone while Amanda worked on that project and watched some TV. I watched a bit of the show Fallen, about a guy who learns that he’s the offspring of a fallen angel and a human. I wasn’t paying too much attention to it though. Michael came by after a while to have some of yesterday’s leftovers and to do some laundry.
Zach Dotsey