I really have no idea why Blogger has been acting weird. It formatted my last post really weird. Hopefully I can figure out the problem soon.

Good-bye Summer

Well obviously since I am home from college I am finding less time to actually sit in front of Carter and type. Sad really, since it is a favored pass time for me. It isn't so much that I don't have time as much as I have filled up the time with other things--Such as television (another one of my favored pass times...one that I don't get to take advantage of quite as much when I am away at college). Also, my evenings have been full. I have been either watching movies with my dad, hanging out with friends, or playing basketball with Kristen...Where does the time go?

I know that some of you are curious as to how my job search is going. Well so far no luck. I had an interview with the County on Tuesday. The interview went really well I thought...I really would have liked to have the job because I feel it would have been perfect, but they did not choose me for the position. Oh well. I went into Employees Overload today. I am not sure why I had put this off for so long. I had just hoped that I wouldn't have go through a temp agency. Although I cannot explain my feelings towards this because they really make no sense at all.

It is really quite aggravating to not have a job and to count the days ticking away from my summer vacation. It really is almost over. You see, it's almost the 4th of July. Then a week after that is my birthday. Following that is Jonathan's b-day and the family vacation. After that comes the Terry Taylor Garages sales. Then Teresa starts school. Then a few short weeks later I leave once again for SPU....I almost wonder if I even have time for a job. lol.

It is a pathetic life I lead.....

Quite the process

So...I am slowly getting a cell phone. lol. It has been quite the deal to try to get onto Jonathan's plan. :) He has been quite generous in allowing me to be added to his plan so that it would be less expensive for me, but wow it has been a long process. I now have the phone, and it is actually working...but I still have a few kinks to work out. Like actually getting a Longview number. lol. Jonathan set it up for a Chehalis number because that was the closet one he could find or some such thing, but the people in Longview assure me that there are numbers available. So...I am supposed to dial this number and tell them I want a Longview number. Which doesn't sound too complicated but we shall see. Eventually this will all work out. However, I am trying not to complain too much, because after all I do have a cell phone now. :) Oh well.

How do I say everything that is on my mind?....Do I really want to say everything that is on my mind? (probably not)....Eh, screw it.

I saw a really good friend movie today: "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." It was a 'tear jerker' (not that I cried...but I could have if I had wanted to). It gets me thinking about my group of friends. I have amazing friends. Over this last year while I was away at college I thought "If we are gonna drift apart now is when it would happen." However, each time I came back things were just as I left them, I was able to keep in contact with them and with frequent visits home was able to feel like we weren't drifting. Shocker I know. I hope that the friends I have here stay with me forever. That's possible right? 10, 20, 30 years down the road I can be like "This is my good friend ______, we went to school together....." I like to think that will be the way it is.....

Tomorrow we all attend the wedding of a girl we went to school with. It is weird for people younger than me to be getting married. I have to keep telling myself I don't really want it yet. I don't want to be married yet. I don't....do I? I am this close to being ready...Next year I graduate from college. It would be nice to have a boy to go along with my degree come graduation day. But I keep having to tell myself it is all in God's hands. His timing....wait, wait. Sometimes it is so frustrating though...I really am beginning to think I watch too many movies, they are starting to leave me depressed once they are over. I want what I see. I want my happily ever after! ....ineeway...

Enough venting for now....

Well folks, it is 11:15 and the world around me is pretty much dead. Sad really. I know some of you are thinking "well you could go to bed." But really it is the principal of the matter. I have issues going to bed before midnight...especially since I have no reason to get up in the morning...yet. Although, I don't let myself sleep in too long, I do set an alarm. It is so annoying to have all this time and not have anything to do. Worse yet I feel guilty because I have all this free time. Every day that ticks by I wonder how I will be able to get a job. If I would have stayed in Seattle I would have had a job. I would have been miserable, but I would have had a job. Instead I am here where I have no job and as a result am stressed out. Really it is a lose, lose situation. Bah!....Double Bah!

Summer Vacation is Here!

Well my life is sorta boring right now. It is a nice change from the stress of the last weeks at college. I haven't really been up to much. I have visited family and hung out with my friends mostly. I am also currently working on updating my website. It is going pretty well, but there are so many levels to the website that it is sorta tedious. However, I am enjoying it. :) So, expect to go to my website one day and see it totally rearranged. :) It will be a little while yet though. Anyway, I don't have much else to say. Have a nice day! :)

Remember when I was at school and was saying how restful it would be to be home?....where did I get that idea anyway? My room is a disaster, my computer is barely up (and was stressful to put up), and I still don't have a job! Meh!
The End.

reflections on the school year

Well here I am at the end of the school year. Sitting at my computer, which is basically the only thing not packed up around me. How did I get here? It doesn't feel like it should be the end of the school year yet. It doesn't feel like I just checked in, but it definitely doesn't feel like it should be the end...

Over this school year I feel like I have grown a lot. At least I like to think I have. Getting out of my parents house and out of Longview was a big step. I will always consider Longview my home and will always keep the friends I have there because it would be hard to find a core group of friends as good as them. However, it has been good to branch out and see what I can find here at SPU. There are many people that I have become friends here that at the beginning of the year I would never have saw myself hanging out with. But as the year went on I found that I had a lot in common with them and that my original assumptions about them were incorrect. It is interesting living on a floor with 40ish other girls. It is easy to make assumptions of how it will be, but I think that every one of my assumptions was proven wrong. Go figure. But you know what they say about assuming....lol.

Although I have not yet found the man of my dreams yet, I continue to maintain hope. lol. I think that this year would not have been the best year to meet him anyway because I am not sure I was ready. Over the course of this year through the Bible Study on Relationships and the many school forums on Relationships I feel like I have learned a lot. In the back of my head I wonder if all of this has been preparing me for something soon to come, but I choose to leave it in God's hands. It is better there.

I have amazed with the things that I have been able to do this year. I never would have thought I would be able to pass some of the classes I took this quarter, like Chemistry and Spanish let alone ace them (I think I got an 'A' in Chem...I don't remember now and am too lazy to look it up). It gives me hope that I can continue to do well next year with the classes that will come up. I have done things I never could have seen myself doing.

I am looking forward to the upcoming year. There are only like 7-8 of us returning to 2nd Moyer next year, but it is a lot of people I hang out with, so that will be nice. I am looking forward to being on Hall Council and coming back early to help set things up and get trained. It should be really fun. :) It is really strange for me to think that I will be graduating next year. This doesn't seem right to me at all, especially since I don't know what I want to do with my life at all....

Anyway, it has been a good year. And now it is over and it is time for me to return to my beloved Longview. :) Next year will come all too fast....

What a weekend!

It has been a while since I have blogged. Lets see....

Friday:
Friday was the official last day of classes (although I had my Saturday class the next day...). After attending my 2 classes (even though I had a strong urge to skip them) I went to work. I ended up leaving early because there wasn't much for me to do, and Claudia had already left. Once I got back from work it was only a few short hours until 2nd Moyer's end of the year party. During these 2 hours I studied with Bonnie for my Spanish class final the next day. Thanks Bonnie! :) At 6:00 most of 2nd Moyer went down to the 1.5 lounge and celebrated the end of the year. There was pizza for dinner. :) We passed out our secret sister gifts, reminisced about the year...And then came the awards. This was a fun portion of the party. Everyone on the floor got an award that fit them. Can anyone guess what mine was? I got "Best TV Buddy" is anybody surprised? lol. I love it! Then at 8:30ish we headed over to Golden Gardens for a Bonfire. :) It was an extremely enjoyable day.

Saturday:
This was a day I was both looking forward to and dreading at the same time. My last Spanish class! However, I had to give an oral presentation (of my paper) and have an oral interview with the teacher. Ugh. However, I must say that I think I impressed the teacher. lol. I had several of my Spanish speaking friends proof read my paper so that when it came time to correcting them in class (so we could learn from our mistakes and then fix them) I had far less problems than some of the other class members. So once I fixed my mistakes the teacher was asking me to help others. Which I thought was funny since I didn't have a total grasp on it myself (however, some of the people in my class were a little...um...well..extremely Spanish challenged). So that went well. And my oral interview went well too! Having rehearsed it several times with different people, I felt pretty confident about it, but was still nervous. But it went well. Hurray for being done with Spanish!! What really cracks me up is that my teacher e-mailed me today an I definitely got an 'A' in the class...Pretty good since I expected to fail it at the beginning of the quarter. lol.

Sunday:
After sleeping in for a little while I got up and proceeded to get ready for the day. This was the day we (next year's hall council) planned to have the Moyer end of the year BBQ. :) Emily (the secretary), Stephanie (the treasurer), myself (the publicist), and Bonnie (whom I dragged along so I would have a full car) went 3 hours early in order to secure a spot at the park. This was actually sorta fun. Nothing like 2 hours of The Name Game (where you think of someone famous and then the other person has to think of someone famous based on your famous persons last name) over walkie-talkies. lol. Bonnie and Stephanie were stationed at one covered area while Emily and I were stationed at another. The BBQ started at 5:00 and I think it was a big success. Matt (who came at like 4:00 because of work) said that more people came last year, but it seemed like a big enough group to me this year. It is a really nice park actually. There is a water-beach area, some really fun playground equipment, 2 covered areas, BBQ grills, and a nice grassy field area for play. After the bbq there was only a couple of hours before the Moyer awards ceremony and slide show. During these hours I did...well nothing. At 10:00 I went down to the 1.5 lounge and watched people get awards. I personally didn't get any, however that is really a good think since the awards were things like: Person who always locked themselves out of their room, and person most likely to be caught "studying" in the prayer chapel, or the person with the messiest room, etc. It was really fun and the slide show had some great pictures from throughout the year. I went to bed early last night because I was tired. I think the bbq wore me out. It was fun though.

Today I am attempting to pack, study, and work. Those are really the only 3 things I should be doing today. We will see how long this lasts though....Especially since I am already avoiding studying by blogging. lol. Tomorrow is my first/last final of finals week. (My Spanish final wasn't during finals week and we did so much other stuff that day that it didn't really feel like a final). It is my Christian Theology final. I am not too worried about it, but I do need to study (which I have done some of already)....So...I think I will go to lunch soon, then go to work after that....Then come back and study/pack. We shall see. Oh! And the my last Bible Study with Megan etc. is tonight. I am looking forward to that.

Anyway, I have bored you all with the details of my life enough for now. Hope you are all doing well. I am coming home on Wednesday, so I guess I will see you all sometime the later part of this week....most likely.

Mi Familia

Mi familia tiene cinco personas. Soy de Longview, Washington. Los nombres de mis padres son Chris y Jan. Tener tres hijos. Tengo un hermano y una hermana.

Mi padres, Chris y Jan, han estado casados veinticinco anos. Mi padre trabaja a la casa y mi madre trabaja en a doctor oficina. Les gusta ir a las ventas de garajes. Aman su familia mucho.

Mi mayor hermano tiene veintitrés anos. Su nombre es Jonathan. Él se casó en agosto del año pasado. Él es contable en Seattle. Su esposa se llama Tonia. Tonia tiene veintitrés anos también. Viven en Renton, Washington. Les gusta mucho Bailar. Su mascota es un gazapo. El nombre de so gazapo es Holly.

Mi menor hermana es Teresa. Ella tiene dieciséis. Vive a la casa en Longview con mis padres. Su esperanza es ser dueña de un carro pronto. Le gusta mirar videos con amigos. Teresa una bien artista. Ella no trabaja, quiere un trabajo para el verano.

Soy el mediano en mi familia. Tengo diecinueve anos. Soy Estudiante a la Universidad en Seattle, Washington. Graduaré de la Universidad en el próximo ano. Durante el Verano vivo en mi casa en Longview con mis padres. Me gusta mirar videos con mis amigas.

La familia mascota es Wilson. Wilson es un perro. Le gusta a comer y jugar. Le gusta mucho dormir. Todo el mundo ama a Wilson. Wilson es perro bueno normalmente pero a veces él es travieso.

Mi familia es muy importante a mí. Amo mi familia mucho. Mi familia me hago lo que soy hoy.

Can I go home yet?

In some ways I can hardly believe that it is Wednesday already, but in other ways this week isn't passing quickly enough. There is just so many last minute things to get done that I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. I am looking forward to this time next week when I will be home!! This is a list of the things that I still need to get done:

-Pura Vida Paper for marketing
-Power Point for Pura Vida presentation
-Take Math Lab Final
-Homework for Spanish
-Study for Final in Spanish
-Study for Final in UFND
-Do last Daily Quiz for UFND
-Pack up!

It is hard to envision a time when I will have nothing to do. However, the summer break is almost here during which time I will have more time and less stress. At least that is the goal anyway. :)

See you all soon.