14 more hours.

In 14 more hours I am leaving Pine City for Camp! It will be the day that i've waited for, for a long time! The lovely day where summer officially begins for me. The day where the stress of home and school leave me momentarily. So...since tomorrow has to be so awesome, why am I kind of dreading it?

Don't get me wrong, i'm still excited to go to camp. It's going to be an awesome summer. God's going to do some amazing things. I'm going to grow more spiritually and learn a lot of things. But, I just feel as though i've got so much to do still before camp begins. I have school stuff to deal with and I have just stuff I want to do. But. It'll be okay.

This past weekend and yesterday were pretty amazing. I spent the weekend going to Grad parties and hanging out with some friends. Yesterday I went to St. Cloud to deal with some school crap and then hang out with Betsy and Nick who came along with me. We ate at Mongo's, browsed a few stores, hung out on campus for a bit and drove back to Betsy's home where we swam in her pool, played Wii and made and ate hobo dinners on the campfire and s'mores. It was awesome. We started talking about ghosts and seeing figures on sides of the road and stuff like that, and that's where I became creeped out and left shortly after that. But it was a good day! Here are some pictures from it:



Look at those gigantic utensils!

We found them at this cool decoration store next to Mongo's...which I forgot the name of it. But Nick coulnd't believe I have never been to one before. They sell imported decorations and dishes and furniture and stuff. It was pretty neat. I'll have to remember that for when I go apartment decoration shopping!








Hobo dinners!

I might not be able to blog much while at camp. I would like to make a blog specifically about camp stuff so that if people don't want to hear all the Jesus-y things I have to say they don't have to. I'll hopefully be able to update this one once in a while. :P

Pre-Camp

Today I spent the majority of my time at Camp. Although i'll be going there officially in 4 days for the summer, I couldn't resist an opportunity to visit. Alicia and I went up to work on the computers there. I mostly worked on the camp website, with the help of Alicia of course. It was fun but also frustrating because folders and files were everywhere and there were still stuff on the website from 1998 and stuff. So I weeded out what I think is all the old stuff. The camp uses frontpage to manage the website. It is very disorganized. Stuff is everywhere. I'm not sure what everything is. There's random files that are named weird things. It's just crazy. It'd be so much better if the camp started a new website and everything was fresh.

Besides working on the computer, we got to hang out with Jack and Becky. It is always fun. We had dinner, reminisced about old times, talked about the upcoming summer and all the improvements the camp is making. One thing that really saddens me is that the board decided to get rid of the little red bridges we have, separating the girls from the boys side and a way to cross over the lovely moat we have at camp. I guess they will put some sort of other bridge in, but it won't be the same! Alicia and I were sad. So we had a photo shoot with the bridge. This is us looking sad. Because we were.



We also had a lovely time down by the beach at sunset and playing the bongo's in the chapel and sitting/spinning on the gigantic tire swing. It was a lovely day. :) I so cannot wait for camp!

Random Musings

It's 1:13 am and my mind is an ocean of thoughts right now. It has ranged from school to room color themes, decorations, imagining what my kitchen should look like next year and the like. I'm so bloody excited to live in my apartment next year. I feel like it's a big mistake though, it's a horrifically expensive place to live. But I get my own bathroom. I'm 100% sure my bathroom will be teal and brown. I'm not sure what i'm doing to my room yet, although i've already picked out some artwork i'd like to adorn my walls with. So i'd like to match that. The common colors in them all is blue/teal/pink. So teal and brown could very well be my bedroom scheme too. I just want my place to look awesome.

I have been doing a lot of thinking about next year too. What i'm going to do differently and how i'm going to change. I'm a planner. I like to plan everything, I like to stick to my plans. It bothers me immensely when people change their plans on me. Like, you have no idea how much it upsets me. I wish it wasn't like this though, I would like to be rather spontaneous. I enjoy doing some spontaneous things, but only to a certain degree. Anyway, looking at the Marry Me Young blog I came across this picture:



I was coming up with all the different combination's, which I mean, isn't much. At first I was like...well duh grades and social life. But then, I won't get much sleep. I like sleep. Hmm...Grades and sleep. Then I won't really have a social life, dammit, either way, I just can't win! I can't have them all! That sucks! Regardless of what I do, good grades have to be my number one priority next year. Even if that means not hanging out at Calvary on thursday nights past midnight or even GOING to calvary. Or other such things.

Another thing I was thinking about was camp. There's only 5 days left before I go. Again looking at Marry Me Young's blog I came across this photo:



Oh how beautiful. I want a drawer full of old letters and photographs and cool things like that. I'm going to become writer of letters this summer. It's going to be awesome. I suck at writing letters to people, but gol-darn it, i'm gunna fix that! Well. I need to get some sleep. That's about all the random musings from me for tonight.

"Deer is dumb."

Yesterday was such an amazing day I feel the need to blog about it.

I woke up at 7 am, after sleeping for 3 hours to help clean the house. (This was not the exciting part.) My grandparents came at 10 am and brought with them my car! Oh beautiful car! I have missed you!

I got a lecture though, about how my car was dirty and smelled like camp when they got it. Because well...they got it shortly after camp, so yes, smelled like camp...and because I drove people in wet swimsuits up to their cabins because walking up a hill in the middle of the night in a forest is a very scary thing to do. And also, there was a lot of sand in my car because of that. And some people spilled pop in my back seat.

So I cleaned it up. My trunk smells like lake. Which is sick. So I still need to work on that, but the rest of my car just smells like chemicals. So at least it's not like lake, and the plus side is, I might get high while driving. Who knows.

My grandparents stayed for a long time. We hung out, my grandpa helped fix some things around our house and yard and my grandma took me to get some stuff. We grilled stuff for dinner, which wasn't really all that exciting because i'm a vegetarian but oh well. And we celebrated my brother James and Josh's birthdays.

Anyway, fast forward to like 8:30. I met with Brittany, i'm so so excited she lives in Pine City. We talked about her Stint project with Campus Crusades and what she'll be doing in East Asia for a year. And we talked about life. And we ate ice cream. It was glorious. Afterwards, it was like 10, so I went to Alicia's house and we hung out and drove around Pine trying to find something to do. Wound up driving to Cambridge just go to to Perkins. It was around midnight at this time and very dark outside. I was going really slow because it's scary and there might be animals. Well, there were animals. Lots of them. I was on highway 70 when a pair of floaty eyes drifted across the road in front of me. Freaked the hell out of me. It didn't register that it was an animal until I asked Alicia about it a few minutes later. (I think the chemicals I used for cleaning my car were starting to sink in.) A little while later, I was driving just past Braham when a deer was on the side of the road. I gasped. Slammed on my breaks. Even though it was on the SIDE of the road, like...it had already crossed. But who knows man, it could have changed its mind and bounded across the road again to the other side. After my gasp, I exclaimed "THAT'S A FRICKIN' DEER! DEER IS DUMB" in that exact wordage. Alicia and I laughed about my grammatical error in that statement. Pretty much all the way to Cambridge.

Perkins was lovely. My bacon was crispy. Life was good. We got the bill and then I realized I had left both of my cards at home. I emptied my purse and scoured through it feeling like an idiot. I had like $6 on me. It covered most of my meal. I owe Alicia some money...

Driving back home was an experience. I was starting to get tired because I only had like 3 hours of sleep. I drove really slow again. Saw like two more deer in which, i stopped again and honked at them. Because they were in the middle of the road, stupid, dumb deer. *sigh* It was pretty adventurous. I got home at 3 am and crashed. It was great!

Randomlicious

It's almost 4 a.m and i'm starting to make a daily habit of staying up WAY too late each night. Today I told myself I was going to change this, but yet i'm still awake.

Betsy introduced me to this wonderful tool called google reader. And apparently I set one up a long time ago, but I must have forgotten about it. Well, never again google reader, never again. I love you. It handles all the blogs I read and follow and even some of those I don't read but look cool and will one day read. Anyway, the past few days i've been catching up on blogs. One of my favorites being: http://playpretend.tumblr.com/

Today was a fun day. I put insurance back on my car, because I'M GETTING IT TODAY! *Insert screams of joy here* I hung out with Betsy and ate some delicious chinese food while working on Nick Basta's graduation present which we actually presented to him today. Betsy and I made him a Ramen cookbook. Very collegiate, no? We called it Ramenlicious. After the website "ramenlicious.com" which was the host for all the recipes we copied into his hand-made cookbook. It features some delicious recipes like "ULTRA CHEESE RAMEN" (it literally consists of cheese whiz, shredded cheese and cheese sauce) and "RAMEN PUDDING." (Consisting of cooked ramen blended with milk and topped with chocolate chips. Mmm...) When I said delicious I really meant disgusting. But Nick is going to make them all anyway. Betsy and I took some pictures. Hung out outside. Showed me her pool, in which I put one leg in at a time. The water only comes up to my thigh. Waited forever for Nick to get off work. Gave him his present. Laughed about all the silly things we remember about our friendship and I went home early. 'Twas a good day.

In other news, i'm getting really bored of my music. I've been listening to Glee music for almost 2 hours now. I think i've gone through each and every song ever since episode 1. I need to stop this. I need to go to bed. I need to get up at 7 am. I need to get into the habit of waking up early for camp. I leave in 7 days!!