I can see clearly now, the blur is gone...

The third was a very nice day overall. Church was typical. Then after church, Ross's sister went into labor so I had to pick up Ross and Jake to take them to his aunt's party... not that I minded or anything. I didn't want to show up alone anyway. The day contained much swimming, games, relaxing, and tanning. The boat ride was very nice. I hadn't been on a real boat in a long time... years. Of course, everyone and their mother was on the lake. And the random alligator thing from Peter Pan when we were in the water needs mentioning.

Later in the evening, Ross and I went to Ben's bonfire. Some people were there and Ben so kindly taught me how to hit a golf ball. We stayed for about an hour and then we had to head back to his aunt's for the fireworks. We returned just in time and after a little "snitching" (which will not be elaborated on), we settled down on his aunt's perfectly manicured lawn to watch the fireworks.

The fireworks were very nice, but what I loved the most was sitting there being able to see awesome fireworks all along the shoreline of lovely Saginaw Bay/Lake Huron. We could see Bay City's faintly, Au Gres' very well, some neurosurgeon's down the street pretty well, and many other random ones. These were all the "real" fireworks, not those wimpy things you can buy in gas stations (in this state or others).

The fourth was ok. I don't know... it just wasn't fun. But whatever, no big deal. Tawas' fireworks were nice but quite too short and the company there wasn't the best either. Plus, it rained.

Columbus is coming up and suddenly I'm not looking forward to it. It's going to be weird, I can feel it. I don't know if I will be able to reconcile my certain issues with certain things in the group before we go. The issues are too sensative to go into at the moment. I could put it bluntly like I usually do, but I don't think I should. I'm alienated enough as it is. I don't know... something just doesn't feel right.

Today was nice because I went shopping, but even better than shopping was going to the eye doctor. I got a new contact prescription and everything is much clearer, and I like this optometrist better than my old one.

I can see clearly now, the blur is gone;

I can see all obstacles in my way;

Gone are the old contacts that had me blind;

It’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day.