Day 5

Bored of my detailed summary of my day?
Me too.

Day 5
In short, I awoke, I went to class, I went to an awesome chapel service, I went and played ping-pong, then I ate lunch. I then went on to do some homework for the rest of the day, as I'm getting ready for a speech tomorrow... or today, now.
Then, I went to a Young Life event, in which I basically sat around and people had to try and find me and some other people scattered throughout a shopping center. Unfortunately, I couldn't come up with a Waldo costume in time, but oh well.
I came back, had D-group, played ping-pong and volleyball with peoples, and now I'm here speed-writing about my day.
Whew.


SINS;
I. I made a, "that's what she said," joke today.
II. I worried about what other people thought about me.
III. I only made time enough to call my mom to ask for some money, when I really do need to call her and talk to her because I love her. I think I'll call her on Wednesday, if I can.

Today was a really busy but good day for me.. I'm sure I sinned more, but those were the only ones I had.
Cheers.
/end

Day 4

You know, it's actually kind of hard to stay determined enough to actually keep blogging daily, day after day. At least, for me. This is probably going to be shorter than usual.

Sunday, January 24th
So, I woke up late and went to brunch at like 12:30 with Chelsea, Cari, CJ and all of them... Then I went and did homework for a while and watched part of a movie with Eric and ate some spaghetti leftover from lunch yesterday. After that, I watched some football with the guys in my hall... Go Saints!
Next, I went outside and hit the volleyball with CJ and Kristen before dinner, and Wailana and Nicole and Sipola and Rachel and Er walked by us throughout our 10 minutes or so of playing. Then we ate dinner (I didn't really, because I was still full from the leftover spaghetti).
Then I went to Subway again because the Caf really doesn't have very eat-able food, and on the weekends it's even worse than usual. After that, I went to a Young Life Leadership meeting because I wanted to find out more about it. And then I came back and that's about the entirety of my day in a super broken down summarized version because I'm tired.


SINS;
I. I was really mean today.
II. I lied today.
III. I was pretty self-centered today.

Day 3

Welcome to my retelling of Day 3. Today I discovered that I am REALLY insecure and I never realized to what extent until very recently.

Saturday, January 23rd
Today, I woke up, reset my alarm, and woke up again later. My grandma called me at about 11 and I told her I was hungry and lunch sounded good, and she told me she'd be there in an hour. Then Eric wanted to go get change at a laundromat, so we went and did that, got laundry detergent at Stater Bros, and he bought me coffee to compensate for the walk. Good man. About the time we got back, we met my grandma walking to my room, and so I handed Eric his bags and got in the car with grandma. We went to some really good Italian place... I don't remember the name. But yeah.
So when I got back, I saw CJ walking around and we decided to go shopping for cookie/brownie supplies. So we did and she went crazy and bought all kinds of stuff, I don't know. Cleaning supplies, snacks... I just wanted her to bake, not make a Costco-size trip. In any event, after that me and CJ split and I went and began writing an outline for the presentation speech thing I'm going to give on Tuesday... I think I'll do a comedy routine. But yeah, after that, I decided I wanted to play volleyball with me and somehow CJ found me again or texted me or something, and then she came and we hit my volleyball back and forth a bit. She could actually hit the ball, which made the activity fun.
Then, we met up with Chelsea and went to the cafeteria... The food was awful like usual, so I had a bowl of cereal then split and walked to Subway. I then consumed a foot-long meatball marinara sub and some baked BBQ chips. Next, I went to Eric's Opera performance, which was actually pretty entertaining most of the time. After about an hour and a half of that, it was over and I got a text from CJ (I know, she's a recurring character today, isn't she?) saying that brownies were made and ready. So I hightailed it to her room and sat there with her, Chelsea and Will. I think I ate like 5 brownies... Bad Drew.
Then Cari got there and we all sat around for a while feeling like fatties from brownie overdose. We soon became bored and decided to hit the volleyball outside and so we did. And at some point I was talking smack about Smith, the all-boy stud/meat-head dorm on campus (as opposed to my dorm, Trinity, which holds 2 guy floors and 3 girl floors). Then Cari says something to the effect of, "I'd take a Smith guy over a Trinity guy any day," and now I feel terrible and can't sleep. Insecure much? Yeah. But that's alright, that's what a blog's for; you write about yourself like there are people who read about you, and then you look back 3 years from now and remember who you used to be.


SINS;
I'm getting tired so I'm not gonna list details, I'll just be general.
I. I lied once or twice.
II. I was a total glutton.
III. I wasn't as supportive for my friend as I could have been.
IV. I let my pride get to me.
V. I decided not to pray or read the bible when I was depressed because I don't feel like God would help me.
VI. I went into a kind of lone-wolf mode when I've really got no reason to.
VII. I got mad at my friend for being honest.
VIII. I made perverted, "that's what she said," jokes.
IX. I'm jealous of guys who got the lucky genes.

Sometimes it's just not fun to be human.

/end

Day 2

Ever since I came to APU, I've been sleeping with my childhood blanket even though I bought a new comforter specifically for my dorm life here. This obviously being against my mother's wishes, I haven't told her yet (even thought she might know because I've told my dad).
Not long ago, I pulled my bedding out of the dryer. Lo and behold, my childhood blanket had multiple crispy burn marks and would now be quite painful to sleep in.
Thanks God, I got the hint. I'll sleep with my big boy comforter now.


Friday, January 22nd
So I woke up to my alarm this morning, and remember how I freaked out about being late yesterday? Yeah, so I looked at my clock at 8:48am, and I thought, "oh good, it's just Eric's alarm, and it's almost an hour early. More time to sleep!" To my horror, my roommate rolled over and said, "could you turn your alarm off? And didn't you have a class this morning?" That's right, it was Friday. And on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, I have ONE class. And it's at 8:20.
Apparently I had slept through my alarm going off every 10 minutes for the last two rings. That's what I get for staying up 'til 2am trying to hook a piano keyboard to my laptop. Of course, I was kind of in that, "I just want to go back to sleep," stage, and since I was already 25 or so minutes late to a short class, I turned off my alarm and went back to sleep. So, around 11, my grandmother called me and we plan to have lunch tomorrow and a trip home next weekend, then I find out that my friend CJ sent me a text and wants to get lunch.
So, I complained a good amount to CJ about how she'll be done eating by the time I get there (it's only happened a few times, but I was tired). Anyways, I went, looked at all the terrible cafeteria food, and grabbed some cereal instead. After breakfast (CJ was actually done eating already like I thought she would be, ha. But she did stay with me and the friends we were eating with instead of leaving), I went to the coffee shop and did a little homework and made a couple new friends, bought them hot chocolate, and did a little more homework.
Next, I went to my room and started my laundry. My room was a HUUUUUUGE mess, and I decided it was remodeling time. So I went to CJ's room and stole a bunk bed attachment from her, came back to my room, set it up, finished my laundry, cleaned my entire room... I then started my bedding in the washing machine, and you pretty much know what happened next.


SINS;
I. I didn't believe in my friend.
II. I lied about feeling good today.
III. I blamed 7 Perfection for my bad day.
IV. I lied about how many dining dollars I spent last semester.
V. I broke APU code or whatever by bunking my bed without paying for it.
VI. I lied about going to Man Worship tonight. I was too sad to go due to my dead blanket.

That's about all I can remember.

/end

Day 1

So firstly, as you should know already, my name is Drew. I already wrote the introduction to the idea of, "7 Perfection," so I think I'll just dive into today's news.

Thursday, January 21

Today... Was rainy. Not the kind of rain where you're like, "hey, this is nice." It was more like the, "was God kidding about never flooding the Earth again," kind of day.

At 8-something this morning my roomate's alarm clock rang (he always sets it an hour to 30 minutes ahead of time and just presses the 'snooze' button every 8 or so minutes). Thinking it was my own, I woke up and after a little growling at the alarm, noticed only the last two characters of the clock, which I believe read, ":13," which is the time I had set my alarm to. I sort of freaked out when I realized it wasn't even my alarm ringing until I realized the very important, "8," part. My alarm was set for 9:13. In short, I went back to sleep and relived a similar revelation a couple more times every 8 or so minutes, until about 9:12.

I woke up, threw on a shirt, used the bathroom, woke my roomate up (we have the same morning class on Tuesdays and Thursdays), and we walked to the trolley stop. There, we got on the fourth of five trolleys all in line with each other (our trolley system is stupid... Don't even ask). A fairly pretty girl came and sat next to me before the trolley lifted off at light-speed (approximately 6 mph).

My first class, weight lifting, whizzed by due to the lack of a teacher. Myself, Winnie (Winston; a friend of mine in my Discipleship group), Eric (my roommate) and others worked out together, but without an instructor to govern some evil workout regime, it was fun and didn't last long.

I attempted to eat a burger in Heritage court once the lifting was over, while keeping the company of my roommate and some other friends. Next was health class, in which we had an interesting discussion on what we think about universal health care. Closely followed by this was a journey to the east campus for my English class. I got there early, but the professor ended up not showing. What was it, "teach yourself," day? I must admit that I was ecstatic, and immediately made my way to the Den for another hamburger. Yum.

I went to my friend CJ's room next, and we walked to the 99c store to get her some hangers. Needless to say, she got more than just hangers. We returned to her room, and I showed her how to do laundry. She called her friends and they came and we remodeled her room for a while until I had to go. I wonder if they finished it.

Anyways, next, with one of CJ's friends... Carmen, I think... I traveled to West campus for my last class of the day, and I sat through a long lesson on different people from the year 4 BCE to about the year 124 CE. It was interesting, sure, but it was very long.

After, I came back to East, dropped my backpack in my room, and went to eat two burgers. Yum.

Now, I'm back at my dorm, writing this blog... And yeah, that was pretty much my day!

SINS;

I. I bragged about how much I can eat and still be super skinny today.

II. I thought angry thoughts at some guys acting like kids in the dorm earlier today who were screaming and playing a football game.

III. I laughed when my friends made a joke I shouldn't approve of.

IV. I thought curses at my computer for not moving fast enough.

That's all I wrote down, and I can't remember any others. Cheers!

/end

Day 0... .5

Day 0.

Basically, even though I don't really believe in zeros, I had to find some way to signal an introduction to the challenge.

...

Alright, let's just make it 'Day 0.5'.

This blog's goal is to help get me (and maybe others) through what I'm calling, "7 Perfection." In essence, the idea is that I will try to live for seven days as a perfect person.

Is this do-able? No. That's what this blog is for. The rules are fairly basic; tomorrow, January 21st is my day 1. From that day forth, I will blog at least once every day recapping what happened during the day, for at least 7 days.

Here's the catch: no one is perfect. Therefore, throughout the day I will carry a journal or piece of paper with me, and I will write down EVERY SIN I COMMIT that day (day = 24 hours, people. Night-life is included). Then when I blog about that day, I will include ALL of those sins in my recap, thus "atoning" for them... At least, for this blog's purposes.

Basically, the rules are this simple: Be completely honest, for once.

Others are welcomed and encouraged to join me. I guarantee your life will change if you complete my challenge.

/end