To do this summer

• Get my license -- finally -- so I can actually consider myself a legitimate citizen of society.
• Learn to play the euphonium.
• Work.
• Hang with the cousins. This will include swing dance lessons and air guitaring at the McLoughlin Blvd. Burgerville as well as a fashion photoshoot.
  
• Possibly make it down to Central Point?
• Secure an apartment for next school year.
• Have another SEXtet get together before Claire and Ian get too far into their married life...
• Turn 20. That one should be easy, provided I don't die sometime in the next couple of weeks.
• Start planning for 21.
  
• Buy books for next school year.
• Write article for a friend's online magazine.
• Something epic. I'm not sure what. But it needs to happen.
• Love the puppies :)
• Go to the drive-in at least once.
• Oaks Park (also with cousins)
• to be continued...I know there's more, but I'm really tired.
  

It's been a while...

so I guess it's update time!

• I'm home for the summer. I just finished my second year at the University of Oregon and am (hopefully) halfway through my college career. I am also done with the SOJC premajor requirements and will be a full major beginning fall term.
• I managed to borrow a euphonium from the School of Music so I can learn how to play it before fall. So far it's going better than I would have expected, but Separate Ways still sounds like someone with an upset stomach.
• It's really cold in here...
• I miss a ton of people in Eugene.
• I also missed a ton of people here in Newberg while I was in Eugene.
• I made dinner tonight. It actually turned out quite well. It's amazing what working appliances and counter space can do for cooking skills.
• Baby Bear makes cute music when he dances on my keyboard. It scares him though. Which is even cuter.
• I can't wait until football season...pickup games, being in Eugene again, marching band, the antics of the Insane-O's...hopefully not having to bail any of them out of jail...
• I want to collect more Oregon stuff. Not as much as Cameron has...that's probably overdoing it a bit...but definitely more.
• I have too many collections.
• I should work on my photography.
• I really need to learn to drive. Seriously. This is pathetic.
• Bear reminds me of Woodstock the bird from the Charlie Brown cartoons when he whines.
• It felt like it was late when it was 8 p.m. Now it's almost 10:20 and feels early.