Date: 2006-03-03
From: Montreat College

To: Montreat College
Miles today: 0.0

I was able to sleep a bit better tonight but man this couch was made for a midget, and I'm six foot three inches. It's like just too small to stretch out but also a bit too long for me to comfortably put my legs up on the arm. What I would pay to have a nice 0.0 mile day's worth of quality sleep. Keri came and woke me up - again - whining about her chemistry test she had just bombed. She opened the door, dove on top of me, burried her face into "her spot" which resides on an area between my shoulder and my chin, and in a pouty voice said, "I bombed my chemistry test." I could have said, "You also helped me fail sleeping", but I thought that might be a little too saracastic for the moment. So we ate some lunch and then I began my quest to track down my last packages that somehow got lost between Helen GA and Franklin NC...which is like an hour car ride apart. So I called the Franklin post office - no packages. Then I called Helen - nothing. What the heck. If anyone would have something like this happen to them it would be me. So I thought that maybe my "R" in Riccardi looks like a "P" so I called Franklin again and low and behold the lady said my packages showed up between the five minutes of me calling her the two times. Well, I'm glad they have them but man they need to get their heads out of their butts. It took two weeks for my packages to go one hour by car. I literally walked two times faster than what it took my packages to get there. So Keri and I piled into the Jeep and took off from Franklin. Along the way we listened to a cd about roles in marriage. No...we aren't thinking about marriage in any sense but rather thought it was a good idea to listen to something about relationships. So I had never heard of the guy that was speaking but he sounded like a big, burley, black guy that knew his stuff. After we listened to it we talked a bit about our own relationship - which was good and is something we probably should have been doing since the beginning, but I never would bring it up because I didn't want to tarnish the "good thing" we had going. I always felt that if there was something a couple needed to talk about then the discussion would alwasys lead to an argument which would then lead to the girl in tears, something knocked over and broken, and the house would probably catch fire and burn to the ground. Keri is a bit different - she's what I like to call "mature". She doesn't go nuts like that but actually enjoys the conversation, good or bad, because she knows it is improving the relationship. Crazy concept right? I'm a lucky guy. We decided to have conversations like this hopefully once a month. We are calling the days R.I.D., or relationship improvement days. So we got the packages then went back to Montreat and then headed out with Matt and Jamie for dinner. I really like hanging out with Matt and wish I could have done more of it while I was in school. Matt and Jamie are great friends and Keri and I love hanging out with them.Biblical Definition of Love - "An act of the will, accompanied by emotion, that leads to action on behalf of its object." ~Boddie Baucham---left over pizza---Barley's - pizza