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Turns out the first round of the CBRunway contest was non-elimination, so I'm in it for another week. This time we have to redesign the Vision's costume.

Finished a couple of small lettering gigs over the past day and a half and managed to pick up another paying one, which I needed. Still not taking the non-paying ones, but this paid one I couldn't pass up. The kicker is I haven't received any of the pages yet and the deadline is in 6 days!

I ate some nasty hashbrowns this morning. Soggy and greasy. I threw half of them out, and now my poor stomach is paying the price for the other half.

I heard from some of my former Sunday School students over the past couple of days. I haven't spoken to them in nearly a year, so it was really good to hear from them. I hope they keep in touch. You stay at a small church for 20 years and everyone's more or less like family. These are all my little brothers and sisters.

Got to checking out my uncle's website last night. He's my dad's twin brother, and he's a Baptist minister now. If you had known him in years past that would seem highly unlikely. But it is so. I also found out recently that his daughter, my cousin, has autism. I don't speak much with my dad's side of the family, so I had no idea. The girl is in her late teens and I never knew. And the sad thing is my uncle lived in the same state as me for many, many years and I only saw him when my dad came into town, which was very, very rare.

If I get any comics this week it'll probably only be 52 #10 and G.I. Joe #13. I'm low on cash, and just not much interests me this week. I definitely won't get them today, but maybe later in the week, I don't know.

My brother went to the mall yesterday to spend his birthday money. He bought a $25 belt with skulls on it, a pair of nice jeans, and three shirts, which I think all represented some skate company.

Mom's at therapy again. They told her she would definitely have to have knee replacement surgery down the line, but she'd have to wait either four or six years, which I can't remember. She wasn't thrilled with the news. She still has trouble bending and walking up and down stairs. She has been put on a restriction to only do sit-down work, but that's not really possible at her workplace, so we don't know what's going to happen at this point.

I've been thinking a lot about God lately and trying to put some things back into perspective in my life. To tell you why would be a long, drawn out story that I don't have the energy to go into, and I wouldn't want to bore you. Suffice it to say that I was really unhappy, got forced into a situation by circumstances I half believe God caused and got happier, but still not happy. Then things got worse and I got angry, sad and unhappy. Now I'm coming to terms with things and trying to get to a place of mild content until circumstances can change and I can finally be happy. :)

Confused yet? I am too if it's any consolation. And you know the odd thing? I'm actually in a good mood right now. lol.

Nothing on TV tonight for me. I hardly watch it anymore anyway, just wrestling mostly. This fall there will be several shows I'll watch, but that's still a ways off.

Don't know if I mentioned it or not, but my Pastor's daughter, Carissa, did get married last month, though I never got an invitation, so I missed it.

And if you're wondering how that makes sense, I've hinted to it for a while, but basically I haven't been going to church for a while. I haven't stopped or "backslidden", it's just one of those circumstances and situations I mentioned above and alluded to in my last post. And it's the source of a post I made a while back about something really hurting me that caused me to go offline for several days. Like I said, long story.

I am really, really tired. I haven't been getting much sleep lately. What else is new, right? I've still got a bit of that cold too, and I still haven't been able to get rid of the headaches.

I wish I had something cool or interesting to talk about, but I just don't. I apologize for the rambling. I just had to take a break from all the stuff I have to do and felt like talking. Since I'm alone at the moment, you are the ones I'm conversing with. Lucky you.

B-Out