channing

Officially today around 6am I’ve lived to see 1/4 of a century pass by. Off the top of my head I think about the Apple IIe that I used to work on in grammar school and the Mac IIsi (our first computer) and see where we are now. I think about our apartment on Avers or the trips to Canada when we went house boating … Our many years camping and fishing, the summers at Lake Geneva, moving from Sheffield to Park Ridge to our place near Peterson. The many trips I’ve taken, and the many years of college I’ve been in The 25 years of God’s grace on my life! So much has happened in the past years that I’m thankful for. I just want to say thanks to my family and friends for the 25 wonderful years, and hopefully many more to come! Nicole is coming down to take me out to lunch today…yay! Then family dinner tonight.
I know it’s been a long time since I’ve channed. I’ve posted some new pictures … another wedding that Nicole and I had the pleasure of attending. Let me tell you about this wedding. It was at Holy Name Cathedral, down town Chicago. What a beautiful place, my grandma would have loved the pipe organ. We headed over to the Museum of Contemporary Art for the reception, where we were greeted with 3 gentlemen: 1 holding a tray of mango martinis, 1 with apple martinis and the third with red wine. We chilled outside for an hour or so eating hordurves (king crab cake, manderine chicken salad, cheeze and tomatoe skewer, sushi, potatoe cake with salmon on top), drinking martinis (open martini bar) and listening to live music. The place settings outside were elegant, I couldn’t wait to see what was inside. So we walk in, and our tables … wow, centerpieces were huge, very elegant. The food was catered by Wolfgang’s catering company, there was a sweet table, the butter was good too! The cake was square, but looked nice … it was tiramisu cake. They had a live band that played everything from the 60’s up ’til today. I was dying when they busted out some Outkast. Nicole and I left around 11:30, but we could have stayed until the end if I didn’t have to wake up early. Thanks for the invite Mike and Cierine, we had a blast!!
My father had his picnic last Saturday too, kind of like a customer and employee appreciation gathering. Always a blast seeing old friends of my father and hanging out with them. So many people donate stuff, from food to beer, he has a raffle every year too and a lot of people brought stuff for that.
I’ll update more later, for now have a great day!

~Dru

I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE WEDDINGS! This coming weekend is yet another wedding Nicole and I were invited to. Ceremony will be at Holy Name Cathedral and we’re going to the Museum of Contemporary Art, wow. On top of all of this open bar and seperate martini bar, live band and clubbing into the morning (which I will not partake in, due to the leading of worship the next morning). This wedding probably costs more then I could imagine. In total Nicole and I have been to 3 weddings before this year (Eric and Michelle, Calvin and Yvette, Andy and Lauren) we have been to 2 this year (Eric and Fiona, Michael and Lauren), and there are 2 more (Mike and Cierine tomorrow, Jason and Sandi October). Wow, 7 weddings so far with Nicole. There are 5 more that I know of next year, 2 in LA (I think), 2 in Phoenix and 1 in St. Thomas. Now just thinking about all these weddings makes me want to get married, not just for the obvious reason … SO I CAN COMMIT TO SOMEONE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE! Ok, who’s mind was in the gutter?!? Getting married seems to be the thing to do these days. The mean age out of the weddings that I’m going to is 25/26, so is my time coming (I can hear the beat to, “Another one Bites the Dust” playing) Out of my close guy friends I think more then half are married. I’ve been looking at rings, Just looking! My gosh are they pricey, but you can’t put a price on love, right hun? Awww, yes I am romantic. All I can say now is someday my time will come, when some lady will become the luckiest woman on Earth … ok, you can stop laughing now, cuz I was kidding. For real, some day will come when I’ll be the luckiest guy!

Ok, on to other stuff. I put up a few more camping pictures that I finally got from Tanya, the link is in my previous entry. Hrm…what else, summer semester is kicking my butt. It’s not that class is hard, the midterms were ridiculously hard (just a side note), but other then that just sitting in class for 7 hours twice a week and the Saturday class, aish. But, I know I need to get though, lets just hope I can get a B or better!
League resumes this week, we were off last week for a retreat. I’m excited, this is like one of the highlights of my week. I bought a green head band so I’ll be getting an extra 2″ on my vertical. Big Show is on a 2 game winning streak, pray that we can keep with up! I think all of Quicho-chan will be there, so they might dominate again. We have a good rhythm going for us, 3 - 5 … let’s make it .500 for Big Show.
That’s all for now…ta ta!

~Dru

Well it’s Tuesday … a “blah” day for me. I am off of work on Monday and Wednesday because of school, not quite sure where I’d rather be though, work or school. Ahh well another 4 semesters left of this and I’ll be finished…I hope. Then I’ll get a 6 figure job and retire at 40, and then I’ll wake up :/
Ok, so camping was awesome! Could not ask for better weather. It rained a few times, but only for what seemed like a moment. Had a good time hanging out with the family and friends, as usual. I posted some pictures with hopefully more to come @ Camping ‘05.
What have I done this past week…Thinking about Chi-KO a lot, just how God is providing leaders every week it seems and though we’re still short, I’m confident that we’ll get our numbers. I’m not sure about this speaking bit either…we have to find a speaker…must pray harder!! Still not sure on a strong theme, I have ideas, but nothing solid yet. We’re 7 weeks away … are you ready?
For those of you following the CCPMBL Big Show is on a 2 game winning streak, defeating Japinoy and Quicho-chan (you’ll need to highlight to see team name). So we’re now 3-5. It’s not over ’til the I sing, dang it! The league is taking this week off for the retreat and will resume play on the 17th.
Went to my sister’s graduation party over the weekend. Cheese Cake Factory for lunch, then over to her parents place for dessert and a little wine. Props to her parents who covered the bill! It was a good time chilling with people that I haven’t seen in forever. Oh, if do you to Cheese Cake Factory, you MUST try the Eggplant Sandwich! Hopefully I can chill more with them this week, before she heads back to Denver.
Of course Chicago weather is nuts, so I put in my A/C unit this weekend also. One thing I can’t stand is heat, but on top of heat there’s humidity … uugghhhh! Come back fall and winter.
Ok, I’m talkin too much. Back to work I go…for now

~Dru