| | I feel honored. My best friend Seth drove all the way back to our home town just for my graduation party this weekend. I really didn't plan on him being there, I thought he would be working in Greenville still, but he actually came back when he found out I was going to have my party. I really don't know what else to say about it, because it makes me feel awesome to know that he would take time out of his life to do that. I came home from a baseball game tonight to find him hanging out with my family. I hung out with him last weekend because he came home for Father's Day, but I wasn't expecting this weekend too. I'm happy!
About the whole graduation party thing, if you've kept up with my blog you know I graduated from college in May. So why a graduation party in June? Schedules colliding mostly. May was bad for me because I was on the cruise to Alaska. My parents left for their aniversary cruise in early June, and with Father's day last weekend, my party was pushed to this Saturday. This is my official party. It will be at a friend's house (who has a pool), so that also pushed the party to a time when they could host it. I'm thankful they wanted to host it, because my house is pretty boring. My parents have bought all kinds of food over the last month or so in preparation. The last time I counted, we had 8 racks of ribs, 6 packs of chicken, 5 packs of steaks, 5 pork tenderloins, and 2 10lb Boston Butts. The meat is going to be massive, and the side dishes are almost as awesome sounding. Mac n' cheese, baked beans, corn, chips, and more. Dessert will be cake and ice cream, and probably some watermelon for later when the people get out of the pool and are chilling out. Hopefully we'll get up a good game of volleyball in the side yard too, those are always fun because we end up with a ton of people playing... like 10 on 10. I've got about 40 people on the guest list, it had to be invite only because I know so many people who have asked to come, my parents told me I had to put a limit on it. I limited it to families and friends who have supported me the most throughout my life and college career. I'm preparing myself to answer the one question that everyone seems to ask a graduate over and over: "So what are you doing now?" Honestly, I've answered that at least 300 times now in the last two months, so what's a few more times right? I just tell them I'm looking for a job, got some prospects, yada yada yada. I may throw in a couple of "Looking at getting my Masters" answers just for fun, because those always get the biggest reactions out of people... haha. So Saturday is going to be crazy, I'm hoping to squeeze a game of airsoft in before the party though. Pray that the weather stays nice too... no one likes a rainy pool party.
As a side note, tonight I watched a man take a baseball to the head and shake it off like it was nothing. I was watching my youth pastor's son play ball, when one of the boys hit a foul ball over the fence right where we were sitting. Rick, the youth pastor, had just set up his camping chair and was in the process of standing up when the ball collided with the top of his head. We all saw it coming but him. We all warned "heads up," like any good baseball fan knows to do when a foul is tipped into the crowd, but he was in his own world, not paying us attention. He was a little dazed, but he didn't want us to worry about him, he said he was fine. He took his hat off, and the ball had physically scraped a chunk of skin off his head. He put a bandage and ice on it, but he'll have a lump there for a while. Maybe I'm a horrible person, but my first reaction was laughter, then concern. I don't know why I chuckled when he got hit, maybe it was from watching too much America's Funniest Home Videos, maybe it was a nervous reaction. We were all stunned it hit him, but I seemed to be the only one who laughed a little, and I still laugh at the thought of seeing him get hit. It was mostly his reaction to being hit that made me laugh, he was more in disbelief that it hit him out of all people than anything else. Weird.
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