We had Becca and Ute over for dinner tonight which was a lot of fun. We've never got to spend much time with them as two couples so that was cool. Plus as it turns out Becca and I found a common connection, we both broke up with the people that we didn't want to break up with and then ended up marrying (engaging) in the end. Becca broke up with Ute even though she never wanted to a year or so ago, and I broke up with wifey my Jr. year at covenant even though I didn't want to. We both agreed though we didn't regret it, because we both saw the time apart as God's will and as a time to do some last minute growing up before committing. Plus we both came to our senses and got back to the good thing God had put in our lives.
Breaking up with my then friend/girl friend Mrs. Holtonian was a hard thing to do. At no time did I enjoy it or thought it was a great idea, it was just one of those things that I felt I had to do. And in the end the time was used to do a lot of reflecting and growing up, which is always good.
Its kind of funny but now that i work with Ute I think I've gotten to know him better. While at covenant we ran at different speeds, me the laid back video game geek and him the super involved soccer guy. But hanging out with him at work and after work has been a lot of fun and cool just getting to know him and becca outside of the covenant environment. After covenant, friendships and life in general, is much more intentional. At school you're friends with those around you through no major effort on your own part, especially at covenant where you're placed on a hall and pretty much become friends with whomever is on your hall.
Once college is over you go to a job where you make some friends, but never to the same level as college and high school it seems. And for some the fun times you have post college are not like that of high school or college, they're more subdued and in my opinion more meaningful. A lot of my fun times are spent having people over, or going to other's houses and merely sitting and talking. Thats what I find fun, making jokes, learning about differen't people's lives, and just sort of getting to your friends on a more personal level. I don't mind going out for a beer, but I want to go out and have a conversation over a beer.
I guess I've always been a little bit of a square in that sense. I'd rather hang out at a coffee shop than a bar any day. And I'd rather talk to a person in a quite room than go play pool at Big River.
Any who... weekend plans... not much. Going to Bintz's shower on saturday which should be cool... i guess... for a shower. Then some house work as i've let that go the past few weeks. I need to take some more pictures too. I've psuedo convinced the wife if i take some good digital pictures i can't get them developed and frame them and put them around the house. Since we can't seem to agree on art work to put around the house we figure pictures might work better. We'll see. I already got Pete's Ireland picture blown up but since it wasn't a 5 mega pixel camera it didn't blow up well. It still looks ok, but not great. Any who, off to bed.