This is a very special edition of Lost in Greenville! In February 2008, I packed my belongings and migrated down to South Carolina. Can you believe it's been 2 years already? Erin and I have truly enjoyed our time in the Upstate and I thought it would be appropriate to mark the occasion with a long overdue blog update. The last time I talked to you, we had just gotten home from our visit in Illinois. A lot has happened since then!
The folks at ALLIANCE revealed the new corps logo, which kinda reminds me of a sail boat. It's still cool, though! I have been super busy with the corps since our open house. We've had several more rehearsals and I've met a lot of new people. We can now play the entire show and I have to tell you: it's awesome! I've also taken on some recruiting responsibilities. In just a few months, we'll be on the field, competing for the first time and I can't wait!
Erin and I went to another organ concert at Furman. It rocked, of course. There's something about that organ that rumbles my chest and fills my heart and it leaves me wanting more.
The Hartness organ is the focal point of the sanctuary. They didn't even bother hiding it.
At work, I decided to shift my desk around so that my back wasn't facing the entrance. One co-worker had creepily snuck up on me and warned me about that, so I moved everything for safety sake.
Oh, and I finally upgraded my old desk phone. Welcome to 2005, Josh!
I won a contest at work and ended up with a shiny new iPod Nano! It's a truly remarkable little device, but I don't think I have room for it in my Apple world...so if anyone is interested, let me know!
We've been seeing some nasty weather lately. Not enough to keep me home from work. Dang. Lots of ice and snow, though! On this Sunday morning, I spent a half an hour de-icing my car (some places had over an inch!) just so that I could crack open my door and get her warmed up. Let's just say that I was late. My choir director cut me some slack, though.
On one particular Friday night, we had a pretty good snow storm. Of course, everyone's freaking out. Not me, I went to the gym. Weenies.
We got a beautiful 4 or 5 inches. It melted the next day, but it was pretty to look at!
Speaking of beautiful, my car turned over 91,000 miles last week. I caught a special moment when I hit 88,888. That number only comes once, you know! Next will be 888,888 miles! After another season driving to ALLIANCE rehearsals.
My car is so special. When I consider that after nearly 7 years, I still stare at it as I walk away, that tells me that I am meant to keep it! I'm sure y'all have had cars like that, where you can't picture yourself in something different.
When we were at Erin's Dad's house, we had some nice pictures taken of the family. Here's the most recent picture of me and my wife.
When Jimmy Johns closed up in downtown Greenville, I was crushed. A part of me died that day. I learned recently that a new location was opening up near the mall, I had to go see for myself! It's not opening for another month or so, but it's definitely a JJ's! AND it's even closer to my house than before, so WIN-freakin-WIN.
We got some sweet shirts for CQ's competition (which is next Friday, by the way!). After this picture was taken, we got our logo put on the front and our name stitched on the back.
For Christmas, I got another Lego set, but I hadn't yet put it together.
Thanks to hours of Olympics coverage, I spent several nights watching skating, sledding, and skiing while putting together my truck! With my old age, it took me a little longer, but I enjoyed it!
Has anyone seet the original GOOGLE search postcard? I guess my grandparents had to fill this out and mail it in to get their answers. Boy, we have it so easy now.
After ALLIANCE camp one day, I made my friends go to Jimmy Johns in Norcross. It was their first time, but I created several new JJ fans!
As part of our fundraising, we got to go work in a comic book warehouse.
Basically, we were organizing thousands of comic books onto bookshelves for processing. The work combines some of my favorite things: books and sorting!
As a fan of chicken wings, I was excited to try a new place. There is a wing chain call Taco Mac (which isn't what you think it would be).
The inside is what would happen if Applebees and Buffalo Wild Wings made a baby.
Chips and queso dip and Phillip's thumb.
Here are the wings. The verdict? I was very disappointed. With a sauce named "Death", you would think it would be hot! I tried their hottest sauces, but I didn't even break a sweat! I guess I'll have to wait until BWW opens in Greenville to get my hot wings fix. Of course, I still have to try Quaker Steak & Lube...
Well, that's all I have for now! Our weather is finally clearing up; today reached 60 degrees and I got a lot accomplished outside. In 6 days, my quarter will be taking stage in Greenville for out first competition. Look us up on Facebook, "Carolina Quadraphonic" for updates. Plus, ALLIANCE has another camp the next weekend. Easter is coming up, soon, also. Man, things are going to be crazy! I'll do my best to keep everyone up to date. Have a great month of March! Savor every moment, because it will be gone before you know it.
