Hello Xanga world,

I am not going to start off with a cliche saying like "it has been awhile" or "I forgot my xanga existed" but I will say I use this xanga to read people's sites rather than writing in my own.  I may start writing more because my life has gotten more and more interesting over the past two months and it is always nice to keep a little momento about interesting parts in one's life.  So here goes:

I have been dating this wonderful new young lady for the last two months now.  She and I met on Facebook ironically, but you would never know by how we interact and how much we have in common and how quickly we were able to establish a common bond that you see when people in drum corp's meet etc.  Some people say that meeting this way is kinda strange and weird, but I don't think it is.  Facebook is not a dating website, and I definately did not go in with the intentions of meeting someone.  It just worked out that way and instead of shying away from it, I will embrace it.  We wouldn't have met any other way.  

I spent this past weekend up at her aunt's cabin.  I got to meet the brother for the first time, and actually interacted with her father and mom for more than 5 minutes.  I only met her parents once before and it was not for very long.  Her family is amazingly nice.  The dad asked a million questions of course but he genuinely was interested in what I had to say and the conversation was easy, kinda like talking to one of your friends.  Golfed with her brother, mom, dad, and aunt on Saturday morning and it was a lot of fun.  The GF says that I was brave to go with her family when she was not with, but I didn't think it was that big of a deal.  Otherwise we spent a lot of the time playing games, going out to eat, hanging out, etc.  Very good weekend.  Has anyone played Dutch Blitz? 

In other news I am preparing to take some insurance classes starting in September.  The classes should help further my career in insuance and climb that elusive corporate ladder.  Hope to be done with the first program by the beginning of summer next year.  Then there is another sequence of classes that I want to take that will take probobly 2 years if I do all the classes in succession without stopping.  That is the plan right now, knowing me that always changes...hopefully I can stay the course.

The Fighting Carp's fall season is off to a great start.  We are 2-0 and playing well.  It is always good to play well, more fun, but more importantly it is good to see all of the people on the team on a regular basis.  

Hope everyone is having a great summer so far.  Stay dry.

I need a workout friend...anyone? 

Salsa Dancing=Difficult

Another episode of salsa dancing last night.  Had a good time, but I have no idea what I am doing.  I mostly sat on the sidelines having a beer, but I did get out there.  The girl I am dating is a really good salsa dancer, so I kind of have an incentive to learn.  I just need to get out of the drum corp rigidity and loosen up a litte and I think I will have it...

Salsa dancing until 3am=sleepy day. 

UPDATE!

I just wanted to let you know that I will not be able to update this thing because I don't have computer access at home. 

I had to move away from Nate's place, which is a bummer, but something I personally had to do for my future. 

I have been hanging out with a certain someone for the last two weeks.  Kinda came out of nowhere like most relationships do, but hopefully we can continue to hang out and see where it goes. 

Other than that, the year of Brent has been a success so far.  I've been looking into taking classes to further my career in Insurance.  Hopefully by the fall I will be starting self study classes.  Also I still have an itch to look into Optometry school.  I have some decisions to make here shortly about what I really want to do with my career.  What I am doing now is stable, pays the bills, and not very difficult.  However it is not very self fullfilling, or rewarding.  Definately would need a change sometime in the near future.

Hope everybody had a nice 4th. 

This is a short update because I am at work and kinda writing when nobody is watching. 

What is your favorite movie?

I have a lot, but one of them is The Jerk with Steve Martin.  Good part of the movie:

Navin (Steve Martin)and Marie(the cosmotologist) are in bed, Marie is asleep

Navin: I know we've only known
each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like
nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and
the second day seemed like five days and the third day seemed
like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days and
the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just
like a day and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in
then evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like
two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over
into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at
the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like
a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a
half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow
if you want to see it.

If you havn't seen The Jerk, I recommend it.

1)I had one of the best evenings I have had in a long time!

2)Salsa dancing is not as easy as it looks!

3)Thanks to Mike A.  I owe you some drinks. 

Thats all.