So, last night I slept for about 2 hours. Summer term in school has practically killed me over the last month and a half. Managing between school (mainly just my History 202 class), filming, finding time for my two church callings, work, Graduate school applications and the GMAT, and being a dad and a husband full-time has just completely exhausted me. For the first time in my college career I found it crazy that in just 7 weeks, I read 733 pages of World History, but doesn't count the crazy amounts of research I had to do for projects as well. Completely insane!
So, I stay up all night trying to cram for this History Final. It's comprehensive which sucks. I don't understand that method and why you get slammed for material twice. Oh well. We have a paragraph identification where we have to basically answer who, what, when, where, and why- why is this item so significant to history-why is it remembered. Pretty crazy. We had about 100 terms or so, and he only chose 17 and we were to pick 10. Then, there was the comprehensive essay for the past 500 years. I'm stressing out all night and even just minutes before my exam thinking its going to be a hard question. I BARELY studied for any of this Final Exam before cramming. I seriously thought for sure I was going to fail. You know what the question was? "What events in history over the last 500 years has helped shape who you are?" Wwwwhhheew. I ended up doing much better than what I thought I would on the exam, and I felt like as I left the classroom, that I blew the final out of the water!
What a great feeling it was to end the Summer Term on the day of my birthday. I felt like this term this was such a HUGE weight off my shoulders. I told Nancy a few weeks ago, "Man, its hard being an A student." Nancy: "why?" Me: "Because you seriously have to study ALL THE TIME" Nancy: "Yep" Me: "It's so much easier just being a C student, you don't ever have study. You can just take the exams and still do good." It's been such a challenge, but I'm so glad it's over. Now I can finally rest....for about a day.
After I finished my Final I got prepared for a long weekend. I stayed in Honolulu with Nancy and the kids and she had something planned today that I had no idea about. She told me all the stuff I needed to pack and to not make it into town past 5 pm. My original thought was...hmmmm, a dinner cruise. Wrong. It was dinner, just not on the ocean. Before I left I felt like it was something really nice and I was bumming it wearing my Adidas sweats and just a tight T-Shirt. I kept asking her "Is this ok to wear what I have on?" She kept telling me yes. Being under dressed doesn't sit well with me. I don't like to feel like the oddball. I like to be comfortable in a room with others. So I ride "The Bus" into town, take myself a good book (for once it isn't a textbook), and I crank the IPOD, and enjoy the nice 1 1/2 hour ride into Honolulu. I get there quite early to Nancy's work, about 2 hours before our dinner appointment.
Nancy ended up taking me to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse on Restaurant Row. I had never eaten here, but man was it nice! Incredible! This place had over 300 different bottles of wine. We both ordered the Prime Time Special. I get a fat juicy Ribeye, a caesar salad, and some sauteed mushrooms. Nancy gets a Sirloin Filet, a caesar salad as well, and some creamed spinach. We both finished it off with Strawberry Sorbet. Also, I had the most AUTHENTIC fruit punch I've ever tasted too. It was out of this world! So delicious. The steaks were made in 1500 degree ovens and delivered sizzling HOT on 500 degree plates. The steaks tasted like butter they were so good. So tender, so flavorfull. Everything here was magnificent. Being a Chef myself I had never even really eaten creamed spinach before but it was incredible. There was so much flavor to it. The only thing that wasn't nice about this night, was the price tag for our meal. But, tonight was quite special and one that Nancy and I have needed for a long time. What an awesome birthday it was for me today.
At the end of our meal Nancy mentions that it's still not over. Tomorrow she planned for us to go on a "sunrise hike." I asked "whereto?" and she said, "I don't know, I haven't figured it out yet." I roll my eyes, give a nice convincing smile and say "great....."
The minute Nancy and I pull in to her parent's house, Brandon is RUNNING FULL SPEED AHEAD at me, laughing his brains out and smiling from ear to ear. I grab a few more items from the car while Brandon sits in the driver seat and pretends to drive and I hear Brandon say "grwass" I had no idea what he was saying at first and then I realized the green sunglasses in his hand, and he wanted me to put them on for him. He's such the coolest boy. He is my friend, he is my hero, he is one of 3 reasons of what I live for and why I try so hard. What more could a man ask for?...I'm simply elated.
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