Do this, do that

I have decided to start doing things I have always wanted to do. I am learning lots of new things. In the past year I feel like I have become brainless and started settling into ways in which I am not happy. Thankfully, my personality is not letting that mindset take over. So in the last month, I have learned how to change my oil, drive a stick shift (decently), bake banana bread, and load and fire a pistol. Today, a great friend of mine who I happened to run into a few weeks ago at the perfect time of my life, took me to shoot a gun. I haven't done that in so long, and I never knew what I was doing when I did. Today he taught me how to load the ammo and actually aim at something. I felt awesome. I know something new, even though I won't really need that skill.

 
You can't see it very well, but I hit it right in the middle! So awesome. Apparently I like to hit in the throat and groin, so don't mess with me.

Ben and I go a little ways back, a few years. We dated for a little bit but because of my fear of commitment I ran the heck away. Thankfully, we have been able to reconnect without any hard feelings that I know of. It was the perfect time too. I was at Panera getting soup for Zach because he was sick, and in came Ben and his dad. I couldn't wait to give him a hug. I had been missing my friends so terribly that seeing him just overjoyed me. I swear God plays my life like a game of chess. He's orchestrating every move by bringing in the people I need most at the perfect time. It's such a beautiful thing.

So anyway, I shot a gun today and it was awesome.