Everyone always misses the first down cheer...but it's my favorite

So I didn't post last night...the first time since I started this thing. Joe posted so little this week because he was sick I figured I would pay homage to him and skip also...not really, my day just wasn't all that exciting. I did go to the junkyard and get a mirror for Kristi's car. I love junkyards, seriously, and the mirror was easy to fix, so that was good.

Today I worked alot of the day. I ran some wires for the extra cameras we are doing this weekend and taped everything down. I moved a few more things off the stage and helped out with a few other things. I also ate lunch with Zach and Josh, which is always a good time. We ate at Moe's, and then I took some Moe's back to Joe at church so he would have something to eat. Joe and I talked alot on IM today because his voice wasn't too strong. It was actually really weird because when I went to lunch we discussed what I would get him and said goodbye all over IM...sitting right next to each other...I felt really weird leaving without verbally saying anything.

I got home a little after 5. Lucy had been in her crate since 10, which is never good. We went on a walk and she was pretty hyper. We have this one street in our neighborhood which doesn't have any houses yet, so lately when we take walks I've been letting her off her leash on that street. She loves it, she runs back in forth in all the tall weeds and sniffs around. After she wanders for a bit we race down the road and back to the house. For some reason she has always just loved to run. If you start running she will usually just run beside you for as long as you want. Sometimes if she wants to run she will just start pulling on my jeans and growling until I oblige.

When we got back she was still very hyper, which was pretty annoying because she just barked at me for about 15 minutes non-stop. I tried my best stern voice telling her to stop, but she didn't really seem to care.

I went through the mail, and we got 2 letters from our HOA. This is really hard to explain, but the first was a letter stating they noticed we had changed our mailbox and it wasn't uniform with the rest on our street, which I thought was strange because not all the mailboxes are the same on our street. It also came with a structural improvement request that we were supposed to fill out (for a mailbox?).

The second letter was minutes from our HOA meeting (we didn't go). I read through it, and one part stated that they talked about how the new section of the neighborhood had different mailboxes, but that there was nothing they could do because the covenant doesn't state they have to be uniform. I didn't remember this from the covenant we got either, so I took it out and read through it...yup, definitely nothing about uniform mailboxes.

I mailed the structural improvement request form back with the required info and also with a note saying that our covenant doesn't require uniform mailboxes. I also put that not all the mailboxes on our street are uniform anyways.

I found it funny that there were several other covenant stipulations that actually exist that aren't being met. For instance, it says you can't have lawn ornaments, and it also says if you have a privacy fence it has to be a shadowbox style. Lots of people have lawn ornaments, and none of the privacy fences are shadowbox. All of this is interesting to me, and it made me wonder if someone actually mentioned our mailbox in the meeting.

I think I might like to get involved with our HOA. I could probably meet some neighbors that way, and also work for the betterment of our neighborhood. Sounds like a very adult thing to do. I think I will email the lady tomorrow to ask about it.

Tonight the Bashams are staying with us, which is fun. They are going to the Clemson game tomorrow, so we had dinner and then went downtown for a bit. They are sleeping here and then leaving early tomorrow morning. It's been good to catch up a little with them.

I am excited about tomorrow, there are some football games I am interested in watching, and I will probably work around the house some. I have been trying to write a new song, so I may try to finish it and post the words on here. It's been a while since I've written one, so be excited!