well it has been a while since i wrote so i figured i would update you as to the latest happenings in my life. let see where to begin … 2 weekends ago i went home for memorial weekend. it was really a lot of fun. i hung out with mike, lori, ellis, and christina most of the weekend. on sunday my brother and christina threw a barbecue/birthday party for lori. i think it really surprised her and was a lot of fun. i don’t think our whole family has gotten together like that in years. between family and friends there were around 20 or so people there. i got a bit tipsey and since i was the bar tender i took a few people down with me … hehehhe … but the great thing was that i didn’t have a hang over the next morning. i never do and i love it. i ended up driving home the next day though christina wanted me to stay. i really had to go to work the next day so i am sure all was understood.


last week went by pretty fast actually which was good. while i was home i made plans with kris and michelle to come to chicago. they arrived last friday … it was pretty cool since it was their first time in chicago. we had to do all of the tourist stuff … we went shopping for about 5 hours on the miracle mile and then i took them to the sears tower for a view of chicago from above. it was a perfectly clear day so you could see forever … that was cool. after that we went home, relaxed, and tried getting into a local club near my house. we ended up going to a different one that allowed underage people, michelle is only 20. after we danced the night away we went back to my place and watched “end of days”, then we just crashed back in our appropriate beds. the next day was pretty much a veg fest … now that we have the basics out of the way we need to do some other cool stuff next time they come. i want to get a bunch of people to come next time so we can do second city, blue man group, and barhopping all together … i am going to try and plan something for august, maybe around my birthday if everyone is game.


so that was basically my last few weekends minus the boring stuff of course … so what else. let’s see … amy and i are doing ok. last weekend she came over and met kris and michelle and we taught her how to play yuker … that was pretty cool. after that she stayed the night for the first time. since then we have not talked much, though we did last night. i have been really busy and have not had a lot of time. we had a little talk last night about a few things. i still am not quite sure this is going the way i want it to. things are just way to hard to early on in the relationship. she is still sick all the time, not very outgoing, and is never quite up to doing to much. we shall see though, i am going to see her this weekend … i hope things improve. from my perspective all she has to do to improve is go see a dr, have herself checked out, and once everything is taken care of there hopefully she will return to her “original self” that she has told me about. maybe i will see that person some day …


my workouts are going well. i did a change up on my upper body works last week, i want to do that to my lower body next week. it felt great. it felt like i was reaching a plateau with my old exercises so now i plan on changing them all up every 2 weeks. that is easy to do with the upper body but seriously it is not that easy with lower body. i am having trouble find exercises that i can do to work the muscles differently so they don’t get to used to any one movement. i am going to have to do some more research on new ones. i am going to break down and buy a scale finally … i am so tired of trying to find a place to weight myself that i am just going to give up, fork out the few hundred dollars and get a really nice one.


i made an executive this week, i am buying a condo. i know that i want to get a sports car early next year, but i also know that if i do then the likelyhood of me getting a condo soon after that is pretty low. so i want to get the condo out of the way this year and a new car out of the way next year. i also know that i am getting tired of paying rent. so this coming weekend i am going to start looking at places. i am also going to be attending some free home buying seminars soon. one from my bank and another from the local remax in schaumburg. i think i am going to try and stay in schaumburg or a suburb near there. i like living in the burbs and it makes the most sense to me from a travel and comfort perspective. plus there is the fact that i can get something really nice, with 3 bedrooms and a lot of square feet for a really good price where as downtown i would have to suffer with a one bedroom or something close to that. anyhow, i know it is not going to last me forever, more like 5 years so when the time comes to move back to michigan to open my gym i should be in better shape having some equity in my condo and all.


well i think i covered all of the bases … till next time.