New for me for June:
Week 1: I got my car detailed. Holy cats. Greatest. Idea. Ever. It's still cleaner than when I bought it. I rode home to Norfolk afterward though and had a wet butt. At least it wasn't from swamp ass, I guess. There was one summer when I was driving my first car without air conditioning. Swamp ass central. I also went out for wine and cheese with my dear friends Kim and Dana. I've never gone for wine and cheese before. I see what the hype is about. Tasty.
Week 2: I went to LA for residency. My girlfriends Dalia and Christin and I stayed together in a hotel close to campus. It was awesome--9 night sleep over. We had the best time. I forgot what it's like to just hang with your girls all the time and didn't realize how much girl time I was missing. Over the course of week two and three of June I did a 5k-a-day challenge where I ran at least a 5k every day that I was in Los Angeles. My mentor for the residency was John Corey Whaley. Read his book, Where Things Come Back. It's fabulous.

Week 3: At residency, I explored West Hollywood and downtown LA. West LA on a Sunday afternoon is like Omaha at 2am on a Saturday night. Bumping. My girlfriends and I also went to Malibu and had dinner at a restaurant over looking the ocean. As the tide came in waves would crash against the windows. We also slammed some major dessert. In like 3 minutes.

Week 4: I had the busiest week of work of my life. And my little brother turned 21. Scary--kid loses his keys, wallet and/or phone on a weekly basis. I'm not sure how he'll survive now that he can go out in public. My mom and I took him out to lunch in Lincoln, where he goes to school, to a restaurant I've never been to before, however, I seem to have forgotten the name so I guess it wasn't that exciting of a new thing. My exciting new thing was that when I got home from LA the College World Series was still going on in Omaha and the company that owns my gym has club seats to every game. If there are no clients who big wigs get to take to the games then someone draws names and we employees get to use the tickets. My friend Elisa's name was drawn so she, our friends Jenny and Kerry, and I got to go to the championship game of the College World Series. It was awesome. We also met Bo Pelini, Nebraska's head football coach, in the club suite. He did not smile when we asked for the photo, he did not smile during the photo and he did not smile when we walked away. Even when my friend Kerry said, "Ah, hold on my boob is in the way," when she was taking the picture. He did pat me on the back as I walked away. And another new thing for me: Sing "Chicken Fried" on the way to a baseball game and then eat fried chicken and waffles at the baseball game. Then sing "Chicken Fried" again on the way home. Good times. Good times.