Molly’s birthday was on the 9th. I got her a round trip plane ticket to Nashville to visit our friend Emily. I also took her out to Red Lobster (we had a gift card) and got her the movie Stardust, since she kept getting it on Netflix and borrowing it from the library all the time.

Molly and I went to two baseball games. The first had a pretty spectacular fireworks show afterward. It was after this game that we got the idea of collecting Pepsi caps for their PepsiStuff points. We collected enough that night so I was able to get Led Zeppelin III and enter a couple contests. We did the same thing after the second game, but collected non-Pepsi caps as well, since some people at Molly’s work are collecting bottle caps in order to get a grant for someone’s chemotherapy.

Molly has been to seven Indians games this year and they won each of them. She’s definitely good luck.

I made dinner for our small group on Sunday. This consisted of 16 deli sandwiches, chips, Hawaiian Punch, and a cake. Ok, so I only really made the sandwiches and cake. But the sandwiches weren’t just ham and cheese. I used a variety of meats (honey ham, cooked turkey, pastrami, roasted chicken, and peppercorn turkey), cheese (pepper jack, sharp cheddar, swiss, and provolone), and bread (italian and multigrain). They also had lettuce, tomato, and Dijonnaise and/or light mayonnaise. I don’t think any two sandwiches were the same. There weren’t as many people at small group as I expected, so we had some leftovers for the next couple of days. That was ok, though; I really enjoyed eating them!

Last night, I taught my final Bible class of the summer session. It’s been an interesting experience, but I’m not so sure I want to do it again anytime soon.

Some deadlines at work have resulted in my colleagues and I being called to put in overtime for (potentially) the next six weeks. I wasn’t too happy to hear that when we were first told, but after talking with Molly, praying, and gaining some perspective, I calmed down. Four days into it and it hasn’t been too bad so far. To tell the whole of it, I think that we won’t have to do overtime for the full six weeks. Things seem to be progressing fairly rapidly.

This weekend, Molly and I are going to Pennsylvania to visit my family. I’m really looking forward to it.