Oh no, no more time!!

Alas, I have run out of time to talk about other stuff, including orientation, which I promised Debbie I would do. Sorry. I'll try later.

I got tagged again...

Well, Meghan tagged me back, so here it goes:

Things you enjoy, even when no one around you wants to go out and play. What lowers your stress/blood pressure/anxiety level? Make a list, post it to your journal... and then tag 5 friends and ask them to post it to theirs.

1. Reading- Ah, the joy of abandoning my stresses and leaving them for someone else's. Plus, there is no need to think. I just let the story take me.

2. Ranting- It's awesome to tell my problems to someone who doesn't really care too much about them, so then it bothers niether one of us.

3. Driving- I really don't know what it is about it. Maybe it's about having control.

4. Doing paperwork- It gets me thinking about other things and I feel like I'm doing something useful.

5. Cuddling- With a pet, with a kid, with a person, with a stuffed animal- it's all good.

6. Sleep- It's true that everything looks better in the morning.

And now I tag... Maryanne, Ky, Lyn, Debbie, and... and... whoever else reads this blog.

Book Tag

I have been tagged to write about books, then, I get to pass it on.

Last Book I Bought: Authentic Beauty, be Leslie Ludy. I recommend it to any girl out there. It is currently out on loan to Amanda, because it is such an awesome book that it is impossible to NOT share it.

Last Book I Read: Oohh.... What was the title?? I forget. It was an awesome book anyway, and you should all read it, except I can't remember what it is to tell you. I read through them too fast, that I have no idea as to the title.
Oops, that was the 2nd last book I read. The last one was Stardust of Yesterday, a ditzy romance that I read in an hour and a half about this chick who falls for a 700 yr old ghost, then she breaks the curse, and he is a man again.
The last nonfiction book I read was Dr Phil's Family First, for studying purposes. (I'm trying to get into the habit of studying again.)(Who am I trying to kid. It's not again).

Book I Am Currently Reading: The Dark Moon Rises, by Denise Williamson. It is set in the pre Civil War South (1830s) and is very blunt about slavery. I've yet to finish it, so I can't tell how good it is.

Next Book I Plan To Read: I actually have three waiting for me at home. When Stars Begin To Fall (sequel to the one I'm reading), The Five Love Languages, and The Purpose Driven Life.

Five Books That Mean A Lot To Me: (Oh, this is hard.)
1. The Bible. To try to describe it would ruin it, so I'll leave it at that.
2. Authentic Beauty by Leslie Ludy. This book really changed how I view purity and relationships. I really recommend it to any woman out there.
3. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. (Yes, I know I am cheating.) Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, Fiery Cross..... These are awesome books, impossible to fit into only one catigory, lots of odd little historical facts mixed in, very real characters, and they continue the story pas the happily ever after. Plus, they totally have re-readability value.
4. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss. An odd choice I know, but it is an old favorite of mine, despite of, or more likely, because of, how impossible it is.
5. The O'Malley Series by Dee Henderson. It's interesting how devoted these characters are to their own created family, and how they all become saved and fall in love. Plus, they all have exciting careers, and each one has an well written mystery. All round good books.

And now I get to tag people! I tag Meghan and Debbie. Have fun! (That took 30 min)

Ooh-la-la...

Don't you all just LOVE getting haircuts? I mean, not only is it a serious change, but my hair is actually styled for once! It is so awesome for the self-confidance!!! Isn't there a song that goes "I feel good!", or something like that? Anyway, I feel good!

I'll leave everyone to their grumpiness, because overly happy people are annoying. Next time I blog, I'll be on a more even tempo.

It's Official

I have just come to fully appreciate that I am a true blue procrastinator.

"How did this come about?" you ask. Good question.

You see, I have only 2 things to do for a scholarship application due at the end of June, or is it July? Anyway, all I have to do is visit the county office and type up a letter. I REALLY don't want to do it yet. After all, I have a while yet, and I sent all my other ones off close to the deadline. And yet I could get it done early.

I realized all this after typing out the addresses of my letter.

I am also procrastinating on my paperwork- it got water damaged.

One thing I did not procrastinate on, though, (though I never worked on it- it sort of fell into my lap) was finding an apartment. I have a cheap apartment 4 blocks from college. Yay.

Update: I finished typing my letter, so I suppose I am not so bad after all.

I am such a copycat....

Since I must needs give credit where credit is due, I stole this idea from the "Life of Turner" blog. The origanal will doubtless be much more entertaining than the copycat. So here is the life of Jen by Numbers:

10 000- in dollars, the amount of money I need for school and living expences next year.
1500- in dollars, the amount of money I actually currently possess. (How does that work?)
4- The number of real (by real I mean more than a two day favor) jobs I've had in my lifetime.
2- The number of the aforementioned jobs that have been in libraries.
2- The number of th aforementioned jobs that have been with kids.
2- The number of times I've been on TV
4- The number of phone numbers I have possessed (including cells).
3- The number of places I've lived (One was acctually an in-between-houses place)
80- My grade 12 average. (I believe).
8- The number of kids I currently work with.
6- The number of kids I will be working with this summer.
66- The lowest mark received in high school (once).
88- The highest mark received in high school (twice).
3- The number of times I've been to Victoria.
4- The number of times I've been to the USA.
1- The number of places I've been to in the USA.
0- Times I've been further east than Saskatchewan.
12- CDs I own.
1- CD I've given away.
19- The number of years I have resided on the planet Earth.
4- Weddings I've been to in my life.
Tons- Funerals I've been to in my life.
1- Concerts I've been to. (For interest's sake, it was Starfield.)(I enjoyed it.)
10- in dollars, the amount of money I made to go to the concert. (I drove.)
15- in months. How much older I am than my sister.
27- Items in my wallet.
1- Number of times I've stayed overnight in the hospital. (When I was born.)
4- Number of times I've gone to the emergancy room.
2- Number of crooked limbs on my body. (For interest's sake, arm and finger.)
5- Number of scars on my hands.
5- Number of glasses I have worn.
6- The grade I was in when I first received glasses.
2- High school graduations attended.
1- Grad dress sewn for others.
0- Grad dresses sewn for myself.
10- Number of cold toes I currently possess.
4- Numbers of the above I know will change by September.
9- Numbers of the above I hope will change by September.

I have no idea what I'll write about...

...so here it goes.

I just got the mail, and Grant MacEwan sent me the date of the social work orientation- June 23, so I'll have to miss work, but that's better than if it were a week later, when I'd have to miss camp.

Today I am working with some new clients, two boys about 8-10 years old, from 3 til 10. I'll be doing the same tomorrow. Then I'll begin working with them in July again. My summer schedule is starting to come together. I will be working with 6 kids, all of them boys. There will be 4 year old twins, a 5 year old, these two boys I'll be working with tonight, and the 9 year old I've been working with all along. I won't be working with the 16 or 17 year olds any more.

I am wearing: jeans and my old pathfinders shirt

I am annoyed because: I arrived at the library too late to get a good computer, now I am stuck on the sucky one, and the jr high boys next to me are yacking about junk, girls, and more junk. This is a library!!

My plans changed yesterday because: instead of going to Edmonton, I had to work.

Oops I did it again!

This post could also be entitled "That Road Is Cursed!"

For the second time in my life I have hit the ditch, and it was on the same road that I did it on the first time.

Just so those people who know local geography can picture this better, I did it right by Lyons' and Todd Smith's places.

Some of you may have heard me mention how terrible the gravel roads in our area are. So here I am, putsing along (OK, I confess. In no way was I putsing. A more appropriate adjective might be zooming along.), and I hit this HUGE crater in the middle of the road. My wheels must have twisted a bit while floundering in the bottom of this crater, for when I shot out of the crater, my car was completely out of control. I remember swinging one way, then the other, and I knew I was going in. I did hit the brakes cuz I was afraid I might kill myself at the speed I was going. I do remember praying a really fast one word prayer, then I was headed for a ditch with trees, swung the other way, and landed in the other ditch with mud and water. The car slammed to a stop, and the driver's side tires went *squelch* into the mud up to its axels.

All of that happened in about 3 or 4 seconds.

So I pocketed the keys, got out the passenger side door, and yelled at my car. (I know, that's really benificial.) I started out for the Smith's when the neighbors from by the crater came out of their yard. (They'd heard the squeal of brakes and me yelling at the car.) We spent several minutes gazing at it all (that section was oiled, so you could see rubber from all 4 of my tires) and I found out that a couple days earlier someone else had done the exact same thing as me, except they stayed on the road for another 100 meters. We all decided I was lucky I hadn't rolled it, and then they helped me contact Lyons's to pull me out.

The lesson? Prayer works. God was protecting me. And my lead foot had got to go.