Work on Saturday went slow, like most holiday weekends, and was a welcome break from the summer time rush. Jenny and I had dinner with Jenny’s mom, then we went out until about 1am touring Wichita on my scooter. It was a cool evening, by far the lowest temperature since June. Sunday started with me sleeping in until 10:30am, which I’m sure is an all-time record for my morning-loving self. Jenny and I then met with Cary and Aubrey at Saigon for lunch before heading to Botanica.

Afterwards we headed to my soon-to-be former apartment to get Kim’s scooter and drop it off at her apartment. She’s going to leave it outside of her apartment, which I don’t think is very safe, but thankfully she feels like she can take over insurance, tags, and other costs of having the bike. Already in the late afternoon, Jenny and I went back to her house to move an old sofa, recliner, and end table to her mom’s house to make room for my furniture. We then packed furniture from my apartment into my car and Jenny’s truck with the help of Cary and Aubrey. At around 11:00pm we quit and Jenny, Aubrey and I headed to meet some friends at Club Glacier to watch a drag queen show.

I slept in again on Monday since it was a holiday from work. Around 1:30pm Jenny, Cary and I went back to my apartment to finish cleaning it out. Cary left to take his son, Travis, home for a nap later in the afternoon. Jenny and I finished around 9pm. I’m now officially moved out!

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Jenny and I went to Final Friday last night with her sister Brenda and Brenda’s husband Jake. In downtown Wichita, several art galleries and studios open their doors alongside other shops, restaurants, and bars on the last Friday of every month. We hit several places such as the Fiber Studio, Dock 410, and Shift Space. I was impressed by all the people we ran into that Jenny knew, deepening my belief that Jenny will know someone no matter where in Wichita we go. We ended the evening at Old Chicago for dinner. We didn’t leave until about 11:15pm, spending part of dinner playing “3 Items” (a game I learned from Adam and Kassie) in which each person tries to hypothetically shop for 3 items from Wal-Mart that would scare the hell out of the cashier. For example, ammunition, a ski mask, and a machete - all available at most Wal-Marts - would probably freak out a cashier. Some other items mentioned in groups of three included a cucumber, condoms, KY Jelly, duct tape, tie straps, whip cream, girls underwear, pacifiers, red lipstick, Nair, Season 3 of Full House, etc… You get the idea. The discussion alone is enough to freak out, for example, your typical unassuming Old Chicago waitress.

Along with Final Friday, everything else is going really well. I recently bought Batthfield II after being insisted upon by a few friends from work. I installed it yesterday but have yet to play it. But the talk of an online first person shooter with driveable tanks, planes, and helicopters easily persuaded me. Also, last Sunday Jenny and I met several of my friends from work at the lake for a BBQ. Since Sunday follows a typically late Saturday night (in this case, at a nearby bar with some friends), we didn’t last very long at the lake. I also have been helping Jenny on her house recently, trying to paint and make a lot of small improvements throughout the house. Our goal is to have this completed by the 23rd - we’re having a BBQ with a lot of friends and family for my 27th birthday.

In addition to this, I paid the termination fee for my apartment’s lease and will be moving in with Jenny this weekend! I’m very excited and feel very confident about the decision. Now I’m trying to move out of my apartment as early as possible - there’s a waiting list of 10 people looking for a 1 bedroom loft at my downtown apartment, and the sooner someone moves in to my old place the more I’ll get back from my lease termination fee.

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I haven’t posted all summer long. Sorry for the delay - and I do have a goal of improving - but I hope this will be a brief post to get me caught up. Work = busy. School = insane. Summer = amazing. July was hectic for work, school, and my personal life, and it has carried over to August. I was dating my ex-girlfriend from high school, Vanessa, for a while during the earlier part of the year. Things weren’t going well, and soon afterwards I started dating Jenny. Jenny has been an amazing girlfriend and I feel very happy that she’s in my life. We’ve done too many things to count since being together, including going to the lake twice, going to KC for 3 days, learned how to throw a ceramic pot in her classroom, had a nice BBQ with friends, watched a few sun rises and many sun sets, had very nice professional-quality photos taken of us, and met with each others’ friends at an immeasurable number of bars and restaurants.

I’m now running around hectically trying to get caught up with school and work while content that my relationship with Jenny is growing. I’m taking Organizational Leadership & Ethics at school, which puts me at about a year away from graduating with my Masters of Science in Leadership. Work has been going well, but busy. I manage a group of about 15 people, along with seven other supervisors. Of our seven teams, my team was ranked first at the 6-month benchmark. I also received an award after my entire team was able to exceed quality expectations - the first such award given within my company’s Wichita base of operations. Anyway, that is a very terrible way of summarizing my summer, but I now seek sleep. Bye for now.

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It was almost like a high school reunion at the Shamrock last night.

I was also asked to pose nude for a WSU art class on Saturday. I think I’m going to do it.

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Kim and I have separated. It’s probably the first thing we’ve agreed on in a long time.

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