Breaking Traditions. Oh yes.

I camped out with Keith, Jon and Josh the night before last. Oh yes, camped out. 15-20 degrees, a few inches of snow on the ground, low wind, "cute" little fire, breaking the yogurt tradition. Also, we had Pizza 'a' Ramen, very filling and good! [ground beef, ramen noodles, pepperoni, pizza sauce, mushrooms] Plus cookie s'mores! And then there's the fire: we burnt a few things of the plastic and rubber origin, much fun! We had called Nate to let him know that we were camping out and for once we had not brought yogurt which he thought was very wrong. He missed us, sitting there in his apartment, not getting to go camping, so the first words out of his mouth when he called back were, "I hate you." It was very funny. We also called Denver to ask him for his "professional opinion" on whether or not putting a shotgun shell into the fire was safe or not. And for all of those who are laughing or scoffing or have their mouths open still from when I said I camped out: I'll have you know...I kept very warm!

So in the morning yesterday, Alana called Sam to go do something and Sam mentioned that he was camping out. Her mom said "You're weird" in the background, and Sam retorted, "What? You're just now figuring this out?" So Sam spent the afternoon with her, they went down to the coffee shop in downtown Massillon.

Okay, enough with the third person. My friends and I decided to get together last night for some food and coffee. Dined at OliveGarden, and hit up B&N afterwards for books and Starbucks coffee. We discussed a few things, and laughed a lot. I enjoyed it. The thing that amused me most was when they said, "And then there's Sam."

We discussed a few things, one I remember was Sunday's lesson on the graven image/idol. I must insert a point in here which Tom totally did not bring out. Our whole American culture! i.e., American idol. Love disguised as sex, drugs coated with the label fun, and then the money god! Normie summed it all up saying, "When you make a graven image, or have an idol, you're basically cheatin' on God" Fact: did you know Catholicism rearranges the 10 commandments? Eliminating the 2nd and expanding the 10th.

And who's to forget Dani's mention of the young Russian writer writing his girl, or the professor playing chess and his prodigy who unbeknownst to the world this is the bald white haired professor's last chess game. The professor will soon die and unless his prodigy realizes the way the pieces are being moved on the board, he will lose the key to his life, which the professor is trying to tell his prodigy that he will soon take his place. Dani mentioned that we write him out the game piece code and hand it to him, but I said that he thinks nothing of it, stuffs it in his coat pocket, to which later his girlfriend finds and asks him about, he says, "Oh nothing." and she said then doesn't find the key to his life, until years later when he runs into her!

Caroling tonight, better dress warm.

Run-on sentences, yes, I know.