I fear that I may have messed up my entire life.
I don't think I should be an El. Ed major.
Nor do I think I should be a CFS major.
I should have gone to culinary school and been a chef/baker or something like that.
Here is my reasoning:
I like to cook. I like to eat. I cook when i'm stressed. I cook when i'm not stressed. I enjoy cooking for other people. In fact, I love it. I have cooked all my life (basically).
Dang it!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
It's fall
Well hello there...
It's fall time. Or as my cute little brother says "it's autumn Mindy, not fall!" He must have just learned that in school and now insists that autumn is the correct terminology.
It's been a long time since i've updated. The gist of what has happened is that camp of course has ended. The day after it ended I moved back to St. Cloud for school. I moved into my apartment, which is completely awesome by the way, and classes have started. I'm on week 5...well actually since it's technically friday, i'm ending week 5. Crazy! It doesn't feel like it has been that long, but I guess it has. I also got a job! I work at Aria Communications. I basically am a telemarketer but it's a little more different that what you'd expect. Basically, I call on behalf of different non-profit organizations and schools and make telephone calls for them asking for support for whatever they stand for. I just got trained into UMAA, which is the University of Minnesota Alumni Association. I get to call alumni and ask them to support the U. And if they do they can get a cool tshirt and a card which allows them to get discounts to a million different places like target and sears and barnes and nobles and basically anywhere you want to go. 0_0. I guess it's kinda cool. But yes, that is basically what I do. I had orientation both monday and wednesday and today (friday) is my final day of orientation and a test. I have to call 3 different supervisors and pretend they are alumni and try to get them to give support. Hopefully I pass it.
Anyway, having a job is making my schedule a little bit crazy right now. I will be working Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and every other weekend. But tuesday and wednesday I have Bible Study and thursdays I have CRU. So I literally have no open days anymore, except for the 2 weekends a month that I don't work. Hopefully this doesn't present any challenges for my homework...
Homework sucks by the way. I have really lame classes this semester. My HURL and Philosophy class drives me insane. They are so dumb and requires an intense amount of reading crap that I already basically know. Which doesn't make me feel very bad when and if I don't read it...
Well, I just wanted to give a quick update on my life. It's almost 1 am and I have class at 10. And I'm watching the food network (a new favorite tv show...) and I should really just sleep. :P
It's fall time. Or as my cute little brother says "it's autumn Mindy, not fall!" He must have just learned that in school and now insists that autumn is the correct terminology.
It's been a long time since i've updated. The gist of what has happened is that camp of course has ended. The day after it ended I moved back to St. Cloud for school. I moved into my apartment, which is completely awesome by the way, and classes have started. I'm on week 5...well actually since it's technically friday, i'm ending week 5. Crazy! It doesn't feel like it has been that long, but I guess it has. I also got a job! I work at Aria Communications. I basically am a telemarketer but it's a little more different that what you'd expect. Basically, I call on behalf of different non-profit organizations and schools and make telephone calls for them asking for support for whatever they stand for. I just got trained into UMAA, which is the University of Minnesota Alumni Association. I get to call alumni and ask them to support the U. And if they do they can get a cool tshirt and a card which allows them to get discounts to a million different places like target and sears and barnes and nobles and basically anywhere you want to go. 0_0. I guess it's kinda cool. But yes, that is basically what I do. I had orientation both monday and wednesday and today (friday) is my final day of orientation and a test. I have to call 3 different supervisors and pretend they are alumni and try to get them to give support. Hopefully I pass it.
Anyway, having a job is making my schedule a little bit crazy right now. I will be working Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and every other weekend. But tuesday and wednesday I have Bible Study and thursdays I have CRU. So I literally have no open days anymore, except for the 2 weekends a month that I don't work. Hopefully this doesn't present any challenges for my homework...
Homework sucks by the way. I have really lame classes this semester. My HURL and Philosophy class drives me insane. They are so dumb and requires an intense amount of reading crap that I already basically know. Which doesn't make me feel very bad when and if I don't read it...
Well, I just wanted to give a quick update on my life. It's almost 1 am and I have class at 10. And I'm watching the food network (a new favorite tv show...) and I should really just sleep. :P
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Update!
Hello!
Last week at camp I counseled 10 6-8th grade girls. You can read about it on my other blog, onamissionwithgod@blogspot.com.
Yesterday I spent the day in St. Cloud going job hunting. Basically I walked around the mall and got applications to stores I wouldn't mind working at and shopped a little...
I went to church this morning and at the last minute was asked to sing on praise team. It was pretty exciting. And now...i'm mentally preparing myself to counsel yet again. This time for senior high week. Hopefully I make it through. :)
Last week at camp I counseled 10 6-8th grade girls. You can read about it on my other blog, onamissionwithgod@blogspot.com.
Yesterday I spent the day in St. Cloud going job hunting. Basically I walked around the mall and got applications to stores I wouldn't mind working at and shopped a little...
I went to church this morning and at the last minute was asked to sing on praise team. It was pretty exciting. And now...i'm mentally preparing myself to counsel yet again. This time for senior high week. Hopefully I make it through. :)
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
New Blog
I now have a blog dedicated to camp. If you wish to read it/follow here's the address: onamissionwithgod@blogspot.com
Monday, July 5, 2010
At Camp!
It's been super hard to update my blog while at camp! So my apologies!
Up until this week, I've only had one break a day and it was at 9 pm and a little bit pointless, as there's nothing to do at 9pm, except shower and sleep. Oh, and make rice in my rice cooker for days where all I consumed were cheese sandwiches. Good times, good times.
This week however, breaks for program staff have been incorporated. I get an hour break from 9-10 ( I get to skip morning chapel!) and from 3-4 pm (missing part of camper free time.) So that's good and exciting. I feel lots better today than I have been feeling. It's hard to go from 7am to 9pm. I slept during my first break today and did laundry, sit around, did dishes and got a slushie for my last break. It's currently 4:36 and i'm not on break but the computer I was working on quit working and no one is in the office and it looks like it's going to storm outside so i'm taking advantage of this blogging opportunity!
This week at camp we have 7-9th graders. They are crazy. Last year this was my week from Hell. Actually, I had a cabin from hell. And unfortunately for whoever their counselor now, they are all back and 4 out of the 5 hellish campers are in the same cabin. But they are being surprisingly nice to me...now. Last year a girl in the cabin next to ours took my campers shoes and threw them in the woods and also put a herd of goats in my cabin...that girl, is in the cabin with my campers from last year. Oh man. I can't even imagine the drama going on in that cabin right now.
Anyway, people are coming to the office. Maybe during tomorrows break i'll set up a new blog specifically for camp and blog about non-camp related things in this one so it doesn't become too camp-crazy! But for now, adios!
P.S. News Alert. Funnel clouds possibly in Hinckley? Dear God no. I do not wish to file into a bathroom and put two mattresses over my head, I really do not want to. :(
Up until this week, I've only had one break a day and it was at 9 pm and a little bit pointless, as there's nothing to do at 9pm, except shower and sleep. Oh, and make rice in my rice cooker for days where all I consumed were cheese sandwiches. Good times, good times.
This week however, breaks for program staff have been incorporated. I get an hour break from 9-10 ( I get to skip morning chapel!) and from 3-4 pm (missing part of camper free time.) So that's good and exciting. I feel lots better today than I have been feeling. It's hard to go from 7am to 9pm. I slept during my first break today and did laundry, sit around, did dishes and got a slushie for my last break. It's currently 4:36 and i'm not on break but the computer I was working on quit working and no one is in the office and it looks like it's going to storm outside so i'm taking advantage of this blogging opportunity!
This week at camp we have 7-9th graders. They are crazy. Last year this was my week from Hell. Actually, I had a cabin from hell. And unfortunately for whoever their counselor now, they are all back and 4 out of the 5 hellish campers are in the same cabin. But they are being surprisingly nice to me...now. Last year a girl in the cabin next to ours took my campers shoes and threw them in the woods and also put a herd of goats in my cabin...that girl, is in the cabin with my campers from last year. Oh man. I can't even imagine the drama going on in that cabin right now.
Anyway, people are coming to the office. Maybe during tomorrows break i'll set up a new blog specifically for camp and blog about non-camp related things in this one so it doesn't become too camp-crazy! But for now, adios!
P.S. News Alert. Funnel clouds possibly in Hinckley? Dear God no. I do not wish to file into a bathroom and put two mattresses over my head, I really do not want to. :(
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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
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
Saturday, June 5, 2010
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!
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!
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