Camp Stories

Well, I just got back from a weekend retreat with my church, and I had so much fun! I:

• Participated in a pillowfight! It was wild and crazy fun! It was on my list of things to do before I die, so I can cross it off now
• Rode in the back of a truck with many other people- it hurt SO much to brush my hair afterwards!
• Had a short dancing lesson, which reaffirmed what I already knew- I want to learn how to ballroom dance!
• Watched people jump off a bridge into a river- I can't swim, so didn't do it myself, but watching was so very much fun.
• Twirled around a broom in circles, and then promptly fell over when I tried to walk.
• Shrieked at a lot of wasps.
• Stayed up to the wee hours of the morning talking with a lot of really awesome girls.
• Played the telephone game at banquet.
• Got the giggles innumerable times.
• Freaked out a bunch of jr. high girls with a game we play every year.
• And almost accidentally slept in the boys dorm.

Oh, that last one got your interest?

Well, we didn't get there until after 1AM, by which time everyone was already in bed. So, we went to the cabin to see if there was any spots left where the older girls usually stay. We were very disappointed to see that there wasn't, so we left, and slept in the garage with the younger girls.

In the morning, at breakfast, I overhear one of the guys mention that THEY were in the cabin.

I promptly got a fit of the giggles, as did all of us girls who checked out the cabin.

Imagine this scenerio:

Say there was room in there for us. All those boys were OUT (fyi, the girls were up and talking for hours after that). We would have just crawled in, changed into pj's, shoved some people in sleeping bags over, crawled in between a few people, and gone to sleep. The next morning, we would have woken up, and realized that we were surrounded by boys... they would have realized that they were surrounded by girls... It would be painfully awkward for the next 10 minutes, while we grabbed our stuff and hopped out of there in our sleeping bags... Then we would have laughed about it for the rest of camp. It would have been a story told for generations... about how the boys and girls accidentally slept together.

Garlic Breath

I stayed healthy for a week while I was at camp. The moment I got home, I got another sore throat and cough (likely what Rebekah had while we were there), so for supper I have made myself hamburger cassarole with lots of onion and garlic in it. My breath is terrible, I am sure, but I can feel the tingle in my sinuses that tell me that it is working.

Camp was great- I tented with Jamie and Kelsey, plus went camping beforehand, so I slept on the ground for nine nights in a row. My bed last night was pure bliss.

Even though I was a little sore in the mornings, I highly recommend camping. Very few people use those showers, it is close and convienient, and you can stay up as late as you want, or go to bed early.

Home Again

Well, I am home again from Christmas and New Year's. It was really good, but I am enjoying being at home again.

This is just a quick note to let all of you who I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to that I am sorry. My ride home informed me at breakfast that I had 20 minutes to pack, and then we left super fast. So, I love you all, and I'll see you later!

The Meme Theme...

Things I Don't Like That I Probably Should:
Hot chocolate, tea, coffee, most seafood, most raw vegetables, any and all Lord of the Rings, Hanging out in large crowds, likely more


Things I like that I know I shouldn't:
That 70s Show, romance novels, Christian rock, spending hours on MSN, McChicken meals, likely more


P.S.- Has anyone from Saskatoon heard of the possibility of you all and Calgary coming to Edmonton for Halloween? Us Edmontonians are confused.

Sunburn...

Oooh.... my body is yelling at me. I went on a camping trip last night with work, and I got sunburned (We spent the day at the lake.) Hopefully it will fade to a nice tan for the weekend. In the meantime, it hurts.

I had fun at camp last week. We went late, because my dad had to change the axel on the car (a side effect from when I hit the ditch.) I also went shopping last week and got lots of stuff. I have to ban myself from spending anymore money for the rest of the summer.

Toodles, everybody.

May Long

Well, I am back from May Long weekend. It was lots of fun, and I miss it already.

On the way down, my sister and I were in different cars. It was a rather nerve racking trip, as on the double highway, both of these drivers (names omitted to protect the guilty) spent ~45 minutes driving at 180 km/h. I put up with that. Then, on the single highway, the driver my sister was with was doing really risky passes. So, I phoned him up and totally spazzed at him, and he shaped up.

One afternoon we had activities where we split into groups. I was in group 7 and we totally had the most team spirit. Our team cheer was "Give me a 1! One!".... and so on until 7. Our lost call was "coocoo!". We even had a team hanshake which was snazzy. 'Twas awesome.

On the way home we had problems with someone's (names ommitted to protect the innocent) car. It was shaking and clanging all the way. For a period of time, Every two or three minutes it would backfire, and in the car behind we could feel the vibrations of it and see FLAME shoot out the tailpipe. That's right. Flame out the tailpipe. We did manage to limp the car home, where it will be buried.

That's just the highlights, but more fun stuff happened, it's just that I won't explain it cuz most of my readership was either there or won't know who I am talking about.

I'm resurfacing....

Well, I am finally starting to resurface under the mounds of scholorship papers that were dragging me down. The 4-H ones are in their envenope, ready to be mailed as soon as I leave, the Rutherford one is sent off, and the rest I have a few weeks til they have to be gone. Free money is awesome!

I likely have another couple joblets (clients in my job) on the way. One as a reading tutor to a high school girl, and another 13 year old boy in Gibbons. I have to rearrange my schedule with the boy I tutor, as there is a conflict with someone else in there. Juggling, juggling....

May Long is right around the corner, and none of the Edmonton people have sent off their reservations yet. How can we be this stupid? I must make some calls about that....

I am wearing: my blue jeans with a whole in them (as soon as I buy a new pair of jeans, I'm making these into cutoffs), and a red t-shirt.

Back from Feast

So over Easter, I went to North Battleford for church camp. I was a little sleepy, but overall, not too bad.I had fun visiting with peoples and the services were really good, although I was sitting 3/4 back because Jamie, Kelsey, and I couldn't find a spot to fit us closer up.

So on the last night, a bunch of us (Ky, Lynn, Ian, Robby, Alex, and I) decided to go to Tim Horton's so we all squish in to Alex's car and go, hang out, have fun, exetera. So we are coming out to go back, and I go open Alex's unlocked car door, and say "Get in" cuz I was on the end. Then Alex gives me a funny look, and is, like, "that's not my car". So I look, and sure enough it isn't, so I scream, slam the door shut, and run over to his car.

Obviously, we all had a good laugh at myself. I am such a ditz.

So I've been back for a couple of days and am starting to get into the swing of things again.

In the last 2 days, the productive things I've done are: Go to work (twice)- once to Oddysium, and once to Redwater, finished an orange skirt (I love orange), and done various things online.

I am wearing: Jeans (not even a year old, and already wearing out, I wear them so much), and my sister's pink shirt (I needed a solid color for work today), and damp socks from playing in the snow.

I have also: Made my plan for next year if Grant MacEwan doesn't accept me. I will move to Saskatoon, go to the University of Saskatchewan, and take courses towards a social work degree, to lighten my course load later, and to do 2 things I've always wanted to do: Get on with my life next year (enough hanging around) and to live at Saskatoon at some point in my life.

Things I have yet to do: Clean my room for Friday- my 19th birthday (and party). That is for tomorrow, since I don't work until 5.