Jeremy Herndon

A couple of my friends that I haven’t seen in a few months came over yesterday afternoon, bringing food and the DVD of the most recent “Hulk” movie.  We pigged out on pizza, sub sandwiches and soda and watched the flick while eating popcorn.  Not the healthiest meal, I know, but we don’t do that very often and we had a lot of fun joking around while we ate.

It was a rainy day, so none of us felt guilty about the leaves that needed to be raked, we just hunkered down inside and had ourselves a day off - a very well deserved day off at that!

Tonight a group of my friends got together to eat dinner at our local Applebee’s restaurant.  That’s one of our favorite places to eat, the food is always good and it is always reasonably priced.  The only thing that we don’t like about it is that it has a “smoking” section.  We always ask for a seat in the “non-smoking” section but we still smell the cigarette smoke, which is just plain and simple nauseating to smell.  Never mind the health consequences of smoking and second-hand smoke, it just plain and simply smells nasty!  We were surprised that last night they allowed smoking; there are times when I’ve gone there and it was all non-smoking.  Maybe that’s only on Sundays.  Next time we think we want to go there, I’m going to call them and ask them when they have smoke-free dining.

I have been so excited to be able to watch the Olympics from time to time.  I think it is incredible that Michael Phelps has managed to win so many gold medals!  Absolutely an amazing record-setting feat!  I can imagine he’s going to be set for life financially now with all of the endorsement offers he’ll be getting!  I wonder if Hollywood will produce a movie about his life and training and his Olympic performance!

I decided that I need a new video camera; my old one is worn out.  So it just so happens that a new flyer came in the mail from the local electronics store with several cameras featured on sale this week.  One deal I saw was that if you buy a new video camera, they throw in a new 8 pixel digital camera.  I thought it was probably too good to be true, but I decided to go check it out anyway.  I shopped around the store for a while, looking at the different models and prices.  Each time it brought me back to the same one where the video camera was a good camera, and they throw in the digital camera.  And it was the best deal of the day!  So I bought it and brought it home.  The video camera is easy to use - I tried it out immediately and it works great!  I assume the digital camera will work just as well too!

Last night Paula, my girlfriend, came and sat down beside me on the couch. I was watching my 46″ Samsung TV that I recently bought. I was watching CSI Miami. My girlfriend put her head on my shoulder and she said, “Boy has it been a long day and I’m tired. And I just don’t have anything to wear to work tomorrow.” I casually said “That’s too bad and got to thinking immediately “she doesn’t even like this show and here she is putting her head on my shoulder and I think she mentioned something about money - oh no, maybe it was about clothes. She needs money for clothes.”

Just as I was thinking that she asked me if she could borrow enough money to buy a couple of sets of clothes. Well, I don’t have a lot of money, and I’m thinking that the money I’m going to be giving her for clothes I could be putting in the bank for my new car. But I love so, so I gave her enough money to buy two new sets of clothes. She seems to appreciate everything I do for her, so I feel it was money well spent.