Colin’s Weblog

Well this weekend should be pretty awesome, heading up to Chicago for Amit’s B-day celebration.   He has a trolley rented for tomorrow night to drive us around the city while we enjoy some drinks and get the party started.  I got to do this one other time and it was an absolute blast to just roll around the city blasting some music while enjoying some cocktails.  It will be nice to get back up to Chicago as well, like to make one trip up there a summer to see everybody and get a bit of the city back in me.  Its tough to convince me to leave the lake during the summer as we only get so many weekends, but Chicago is one place I will leave the lake to go spend some time.  Hopefully we get some nice weather.

It’s been awesome having my own place now, I’m having so much fun decorating the place.  My mom and one of her friends came over earlier this week and helped me re-arrange a lot of stuff and its amazing how much of a difference it made.  The living room feels 3 times bigger with the current setup and doesn’t feel like I’m wasting any space.  They have also found some neat lake themed decorations that have added a lot of personality to the place, I’ve also picked out a few things myself that I really like.  I got a neat Lake Tippecanoe sign with some oars on the side for the porch walking out to the water, as well as a neat picture of a bike on a beach, I’m sure I could do a better job describing it but thats all I have for now.  I’ll try to get some pics up on here as soon as I feel like the place is pretty well set.  Just a few more things to do really, need to get a new chair for the living room, some drapes and blinds, a kitchen table and chairs, and maybe one or two other things here and there. 

I also am slowly starting to get back into wakeboarding which has been a blast so far!  Went out for the first time in probably 7 years last week and amazingly got up on the first try, though I was down not more than 3 seconds later, I was just happy to get up.  Yesterday though was a big improvement.  I got up each time and actually rode it for a little bit and was able to manuever around inside the wake.  I ended up wiping out each time I tried to get outside the wake but I’m getting closer, just a few more weeks and hopefully I will be trying some small jumps.

Well about time to go grab some lunch for the crew here at the office.  Picking up some Jon Wongs, should be money.