drive-in :)

Quote of the night: My grandmother:  Mormons go to the drive in?

Well, rght now asitting in the back o Billy's open top, open sides, open everything, eally, Jeep. which was nice when it was hot outside.  now it is cld. write more later.

Baby Steps

I think the greatest lesson that I will learn this summer is that I will continue to be blessed in ways that I will not understand.  Maybe I will turn someone's day around.  Maybe I will find love that is willing to give me a reason to trust.  Maybe I will just find a way to be content with who I am.  But the only way to get out of what has consumed me is to take baby steps.  And that means finding a way to be patient.

Yeah, this daily thing really isn't working.

Yesterday I had a mock interview and it went REALLY WELL!   This doesn't seem like a huge deal to a lot of people, but the entire idea of a person sitting down and asking me questions just terrifies me!  Afterwards, I got to hang out with Stefan for a while, and it was really nice to finally see somebody from school.

Yesterday I also applied for the Duke Energy Tax Internship.  Send up some prayers and keep your fingers crossed!  It took me a long time to get past the fact that I really miss camp and finally get excited about this opportunity.  It isn't the fact that I am not going BACK to camp so much as it really just means that I won't be able to volunteer as often as I would like... if I get to volunteer at all.  It is just a really big mountain to climb.

Stefan and I also figured out that I have spent the last year trying to find the song "Still Alive" from the game "Portals".  For some reason I thought that it was from Red vs. Blue, but I think I was really just associating it with XBox.

I have also gone on a sheet music frenzy because Logan will be coming in a few weeks.  He really enjoys to hear me play, and I haven't actually practiced in so long - it has been really nice.  I really love sight-reading music, and hopefully I will have the chance to do some memorizing while I practice!

I haven't been working out as much the last few days because I am pretty sore, but I am really close to buying the zumba game for the PS3 Move so that I can work out while I am at home.  I am planning to do p90x later, but we'll see how that goes!  People back home actually eat when it is time to eat.. which means that I spend a lot of time full and not really in the mood to do anything intense!  Not good!

Dude!  Mama made some FUNFETTI COOKIES yesterday!  I had no idea that those things even existed!  They are SO PRETTY!

Anyways, I should go ahead and shower because I have to go help Mama out at school later today and I look a little bit gross.

Day 8

Today was my Mama's Birthday!  Happy Birthday MAMA!!!

I also took my little sister to World Hope Worship Center in exchange for her to go to St. John's Lutheran next Sunday.  While it wasn't my thing, it is definitely hers, and also preaches a decent message.  So I told her that I would continue to take her as long as she goes to a Lutheran church every other Sunday.  looks like we struck a deal.

Nannie & I also had to move everything in the carport in order to protect our cars from storms.  3 oyster tables, with stands, 2 oyster cookers, with stands and all their parts.  Then we also moved a bunch of random Fish Fry equipment, lots of planting and garden supplies, and other random farm equipment.  It was craziness!  And then by the time we finished, the storm had passed.  It took all of 20 minutes.  But, we're pretty hardcore =)

I also prepared a few, ok, 2, interview questions, and looked at some of the tips.  I also looked at some of the Tuscaloosa damage.  It's still terrible.  Keep praying for those people.

Weather.com is one of the scariest sites around these days.

Day 7

Today I learned how to make homemade pimento cheese.  The recipe?
- a whole lotta cheese
- 1/4 a jar of Duke's Mayo
- 1 jar of canned pimentos

Nannie and I also bought a top to the birdbath because we are tired of it looking ghetto.

The family and I went to a play at the children's theater.  Turns out one of the stars was a camper from my area during music week.  I spent the entire play trying to figure out -how- I knew hew, and knew that Mama's best friends kid was not the answer.   She was pretty phenomenal.  She played Lucy in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.  One of Mama's students played Edmund - he was pretty awesome too.  Truly a talented bunch.

Since I missed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday..
I don't really remember much from Wednesday, but we did have family over for dinner.  I finally got so bored that I went to walk around Wal Mart for a while.  That helped out a lot.

Thursday, I dropped Jake Poppy off in Rockwell before going to the Y to workout.  Working out lasted all of 45 minutes, because I've put it off for so long.  Then I went to the dentist (and now understand why everybody hates it.  Why must the lady hack away at my already clean teeth?  I should not leave in pain.) and found out from the eye doctor that my eyes are actually worse then they were.  Wow.

Friday, I was reunited with some of my favorite people in the world and I'm super excited to get to spend lots of time with EMILY HORTON this summer!  Woooooot!

Day 3:

Well, since I obviously forgot to blog yesterday, I'm just going to tell you what I did.

J.Michael, Chris and I went to Mamaw Jeans for a delicious dinner of Salmon patties, rice and butter peas.  And of course mini-strawberry shortcake's for dessert.

I spent most of the afternoon cleaning the kitchen for Jake Poppy, and then baking not one, but TWO GIANT blueberry cobblers.  Which the family gobbled up for Dinner =)

And then I laid in my room for a while, just kinda vegging out.  It was kinda nice.

Day 2

2pm : Apparently I left candy in one of my drawers.  I'm pretty sure that it has been there for a while, but creatures finally found it.  Something also found a sweater in one of my drawers.  This will definitely involve a lot of laundry and cleaning.  Good thing I have a lot of time.

8:30 pm : Baked peanut butter brownies, ate dinner, and edited a picture.  Thinking about the amount of adjusting that this summer will take.  Trying to explain to my little sister the meaning of having a job that isn't super flexible.  We'll see how this works out for her.

Today, I used Picnik for the first time.  I have a feeling that this is going to be addicting.

This is "Wisp" on the way to eat dinner for Will's 21st birthday.  I wasn't aware that the girls were included in "Wisp" until the other morning... and I'm still not sure about that.  But for lack of a better name... there we are.

Day 1:

So, this summer is about me doing all the things that I've put off for the last 3 years.  I am in no way insinuating that the last 3 summers have not been completely worth it, but hey, they were a little bit busy.  Yep, that's sarcasm.

So this is where I talk about my life, my adventures, and my learnings.  I haven't quite decided how this summers happenings will be discussed, be it in the form of high/low/uhohs or maybe just something that I am thankful for, but I want to write something every day.


So today, day one... I'm thankful for the past two semesters.  They changed me and blessed me in ways that I don't think I have realized yet.  I just know that things happened that could have left me broken and bitter, but I am not.  And I owe a great deal of that to the incredible people that were with me the entire time.  I cannot thank you enough.

And I'm thankful that I had something that I found to be worth fighting for.  It was nice to have that kind of passion in my life again.