Sunday, December 31, 2006

Minnesoooooota!

Sooo. I am in MINNESOTA right now.

My friends' band, Amidst the Affliction, had a show booked for tonight- New Years Eve - in a town called Alexandria, MN. and... Kayla, Lindsey and myself decided we wanted to come along for the ride! Then the 7 of us decided to make it a little more of a weekend getaway! So we drove up yesterday, Saturday, and stayed in Minneapolis in a hotel. Today we drove further away to the lovely town of Alexandria and are staying at the place the boys play at, it's a nice place called Club 1. The guys played a great show. They're just amazing, with all their talent and passion for playing music. I just love being able to see them do it! Anyway, I cant wait to celebrate the New Year in couple hours... but unfortunately, i won't be able to ring in the new year like Kayla and Lindsey can. haha. it's actually a bit sad, but.. i won't go into the story. lets just say, in one week, i will be happier than ever! :-)

i'll write more lata. i want to go find the boys!

Sunday, December 17, 2006

End of something, beginning of another.

First semester of college: check!

I...
struggled
doubted
fell
hurt
cried
frowned
lost
stumbled
wandered
hated
questioned
dwindled
and...

overcame
strengthened
triumphed
smiled
opened up
laughed
won
sustained
answered
gained
listened
and grew.

sounds pretty good to me.
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my first night of Christmas Break kicked off Saturday night with an amazing worship experience and message on Immanuel ("God with us") at The Dwelling, with some wonderful, VERY missed friends... including two of my favorite people ever- Brandon Barker and Jennifer Van Der Molen. Can't get better than that! Next on the agenda was to head downtown... Mitch & Kayla picked me up, and we headed downtown to ice skate with the rest of the gang- Zach, Blake, Caely, Austin, Lindsey, and Bryan. Unfortunately... the ice skating place ran out of skate sizes larger than 5... hmmmm, not so good for us! Instead, we walked around downtown in the nice and chilly night air. Next stop- Java Joe's. Coffee. gooooooooood. A special little text message :-). Then more walking with the crew, back towards our cars. We ended up standing around the ice arena place and watching all the skaters for quite a while. We pretended to push some of them over as they skated by, and chuckled at some funny people who couldn't skate very well, or couples who looked really awkward. Then we drove back towards WDM and met Luke, Cole, and JR at the lovely Wal-Mart (a nice meeting place we've found). After walking around for a bit and buying some cookie dough to eat as we walked... we decided it was a good night to go deer mounting. Oh, what a funny time. It was a competition between two groups- two cars. My car: Cole, Austin, Luke, Blake, Chris and I. The other car: Zach, Bry, JR, Linds, and Cae. We met at Hy-vee about 45 minutes later... the total count for my car: 31. the total count for the other car: 6. HA! beat 'em! :-)

It was a nice of adventures and lots of laughter, that's for sure...

Aubs met up with us, and Cae and Linds left to make their curfews. So we all headed over to JR's domain and ended up taking a walk... for like a freaking hour!!!!!!!!! it was the longest walk of our lives... our legs started to hurt... we wanted to kill JR because he couldnt figure out how to get back to his house. oh, JR... but yes, eventually, we did arrive back at his house. Phew. Aubs and I left around 1:30 a.m., and the boys stayed to have a little sleepover at JR's. Cute.

Today was wonderful because I slept in very late. The only reason I actually got out of bed was because Samantha Carlson called and told me she was on her way over to my house! oh goodness! haha. So we talked a little with my momma as i slowly woke up, then the two of us headed to jordan creek mall for some lunch. we talked for a bit and caught up on some things, which i needed to do! i love Sam soo much, i missed talking with her about life. she's my sista. well, miss Sam had to get back to work, so we parted and I basically spent the rest of the day on the couch in our living room watching movie after movie after movie. What can I say? There were a TON of great movies playing on tv! Lord of the Rings 2... then Lord of the Rings 3... The Grinch... How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days!!! goodness gracious! good times. Tomorrow I have plans to actually be productive and contribute to society in some way. so that shall be good.

that's all i've got for now. Love. <3 :-)

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

mario party PARTY

so... I worked my butt off for a bajillion hours last night to finish my darn english project, that i turned in this morning. *whew*-- GLAD THAT'S DONE! :-)

it only seemed natural that today i just relaxed all afternoon and had some fun too. after lunch with zach, tyler, and a very grumpy JR, i got cozy on the futon and read Harry Potter 6 for a good 2 and a half hours. Yep, that's right, I read for FUN. and for 2 and a half hours! I cannot tell you how long it has been since I have done that... let me put it this way- TOO, too long. So that was wonderful!

wednesday nights are my favorite TV nights. i watch That 70s Show at 5, then Friends at 6 and 6:30, then AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL (it was the FINALE tonight... my favorite girl wonnnn) at 7, then One Tree Hill at 8! After my fantastic relaxation time and lots of snacking, Brian came over to play some Mario Kart. We ended up going down to the 3rd floor den and watched the "Win a Date With Aidan Auction" thingy... very amusing to say the least. After that, Aidan, Brian and I played some Mario Kart and like a solid hour of Mario Party (the original)! We basically played mini-games the entire time and had a blast. haha, we even got shushed by my CA and had to close the door to my room for being too loud and excited about playing all the mini-games! all i have to say is... I will forever be the "Shy Guy Says" QUEEN- no matter what Brian thinks. And Aidan is unbeatable in Skateboard Skamper. Oh, AND... Brian gets props for blowing his Bowser up faster than anyone pretty much every time. yep. nintendo 64 nerd allllll the way!!

very fun night! very fun night indeed :-)

now i am going to go to bed early and get some much-needed sleep. i love it when i get past Wednesday during my school week, because I only have one class on Thursday. soo it's smooth sailing til the weekend for me! oh and i have SALT to look forward to tomorrow! i'm soo excited because it's the Christmas Salt night, so we get to sing all the amazing Christmas tuneskies and worship our Savior allllll together at one service, at 8 oclock instead of either 7 or 9. yayyy.

well goodnight. Love to all <3