The Japs are coming! July 25, 2008

Today has been such a great day!

I didn’t go to work due to being on meds that don’t allow me to operate any large mechanical objects I was pretty bummed. Usually, I don’t mind not going to work very much, but it was the last day of camp and I didn’t get to say goodbye to my kids. I felt really bad, and I’m going to miss some of them sooooo much. As stressful as working at a camp with like 140 kids can be, there is nothing better than walking in after having a bad morning and having 20 kids run up to you trying to be the first to get a hug. It melts my heart every single time. Despite being sad about my kids, I was grateful to have a day to unwind and relax and get some stuff done.

I spent the morning (or what was left of it after sleeping in) hanging out with Katie painting picture frames and picking pictures to hang up around the house. It will be cool to have pictures of us and all of our darling friends up! It will really make it feel like our place. Especially since the nautical theme wasn’t exactly optional, lol. So look forward to seeing all of your faces on our walls

After doing that I baked my first cake in our amazing kitchen!! Being in a kitchen like that makes me want to go to culinary school. Maybe I will. I’m so random that it’s not completely unlikely! Anyways…I have made it like three months without chocolate cake, which is pretty dang impressive if I do say so myself! Yesterday I bought the stuff to make one It is not a pretty cake by any means, but I bet it will taste pretty good. I did write KCKC on it just for kicks…

Speaking of KCKC, we had the most fun ever yesterday! Me, Karen, and Christy found a big roll of bubble wrap and I totally decided that it would be the best thing ever to lay it all over the family room floor and jump on it like crazy. So of course we did. But then Christy took it even further! She thought it would be fun to go lay it all over Katie’s room since she wasn’t home (as part of the ongoing prank war). So we covered her floor in it, covered her bed, hung it all over the place in her closet…omg, it was awesome!!! Ahh…

I spent some quiet time with God today, which I haven’t done in a while for one lame excuse or another. I’m reading Hosea right now, which is pretty intense. God really spoke to me about some things I’ve been questioning. I feel like I’ve been doing really good obeying what I feel like He’s asking me to do, even though it’s hard some days. Especially when other people question my decisions. I’m doing what I’m doing because it’s what I feel like God has been asking me to do, and I feel like He finally clued me in to the reasons behind what He’s been asking of me. I’m not going to lie, it was pretty cool. I’m really excited about what I think He has for me.

I’m excited about this weekend! I haven’t seen anyone this week because I’ve been hiding out. As much as I still do not want to be seen, I have powerhouse on Sunday, which I am already memorizing my script for (usually I don’t do that until Saturday at like midnight). I miss all of my friends!!…and Nathan (cause I know you’re reading this lol). So needless to say, I’m excited to see everyone and I’m excited about the last week of Hey Jude!

On a completely random note…our washing machine is ridiculous!!! It sounds like our house is being invaded by a fleet of Japanese fighter planes that are about to bomb us (don’t know why I picked the Japs, I guess I’m still bitter about Pearl Harbor? lol. I’m so dumb.) But seriously, I thought we were being attacked…it scared the crap out of me!!!!!!

I can’t wait till Katie comes home. We are going to choreograph the cheesiest dance in existence!

Peace out…I’m going to eat some cake

Roof hopping is like…the bomb July 21, 2008

So I skipped class today…that’s how over college I am. I pretty much pulled an all nighter to get the assignments done by this morning. I ended up turning them in five minutes before they were due . I need to not procrastinate so much!!! I drive myself crazy. Oh well.

So there is one bummer about living in this big beautiful house…all of my lovely roommates work way too much!! So I’m home alone a lot. I think I might move random things around and see how long it takes everyone to notice. I want to do some yard work, but the lawn guys finally came, so I don’t want to trim hedges while they’re out there mowing. Creepy. I could go roller blading I suppose, I do need some exercise.

I figured out that if I pop the screen out of my bedroom window I can sit on the roof. Don’t ask me why I find that awesome, I’ve just always wanted to be able to climb out my window and sit on the roof. It’s too hot during the day of course…I would burn my butt on the shingles Thats a funny thought. Maybe I’ll go out tonight and see if I can see any stars or something cliche like that. I bet I could jump from rooftop to rooftop since all the houses are so close together! That would be pretty cool. These are the things I think about when I’m left alone with myself…weird, huh?

I’m getting scared. I’m not going to explain why, but I just needed to get that out. Gotta love blogging!

That’s the end of my randomness for today. Maybe one day soon I’ll start writing about interesting things again. It’s a new week so you never know!!

Ahoy Maties! :) July 17, 2008

Today is KCKC’s 2nd full day in our beautiful new house!!! You’ll have to excuse my title, but living in a sailor themed house does funky things to your brain. My room is almost set up…I just need a bed and decorations from IKEA!! My mom is coming up on Saturday to bring the bed and dressers. I’m excited! Today I talked to my brother and I felt really home sick. So it’s really awesome that I’ll get to see someone in my family.

When I wrote my last blog I was pretty sad, but I think that the situation I was referring to isn’t going to be as horrible as I thought it would be. I’ve been much happier since then. I’ve been able to spend a lot of time with a really awesome guy this week. He’s pretty much captured my fancy. I’ve smiled more in the last few weeks than I have in a long, long time and I have him to thank for that.

I guess I should get back to school work. This midterm sucks, but the sooner I get back to it, the sooner I’ll be done!

For once, I’m glad it’s Monday! July 14, 2008

I am such a blog slacker.  I always think, “Hey, I should post a blog today”, and then never do.  Oh well, I’m writing one now and that’s all that counts.  It has been a bittersweet day, one in which so much happened that it’s started to blur together now.  I’m not a big fan of change, and today was packed full of changes; some good, some bad.  I learned a lot about myself and my friends today, which was pretty cool.  I realized I am a lot stronger than I give myself credit for sometimes.  I made a commitment to myself six months ago and  I stuck to my guns.  I think that only good things have come from that, and I am glad that I listened to God for once.

This week is going to be completely overwhelming.  I have three huge assignments due and we are moving on Tuesday.  I have slowly been working on packing, but I still have a lot to do!  I have so much stuff!  I blame my Father for passing along the infamous Schmidt packrat gene.  Hopefully everything will go smoothly on Tuesday…from the moving truck to the cable being installed.  And I am attempting to make a key lime pie.  You should pray for the people who will be eating it, they may need your prayers

I thought I felt like blogging, but now that I’ve typed a little, I think I really just feel like going to bed!  It’s been an 18 hour day…and I’m wiped out!

Happy 4th of July!!!!!!! July 4, 2008

I am really excited today, because today is one of my favorite holidays…4th of July! I love everything about this day. The BBQ-ing, the get togethers with friends and family, the fireworks! Most of all I love that it’s a day when Americans can put aside their differences and hatred towards others and politicians, and celebrate what our country was founded as. One nation under God. Whether or not people want to believe that anymore, that’s how our founding fathers wanted it to be, so that is what I’m celebrating!

Enough cheesiness for one blog …I am off to make a cake for the party tonight. I had my first cake decorating class last night, and the instructor said to practice as much as we can. So why not celebrate an awesome holiday with an awesome cake!!

I hope everyone has an amazing 4th of July!!!!

Good news, bad news, and cotton candy. July 1, 2008

Good news first:

• We (me, Karen, Katie, & Christy) got the house we wanted!!! We move in July 15th, and yes we will need help! So anyone who is particularly fond of moving heavy objects, feel free to come hang out and help It was really hard waiting for so long and having so many houses fall through, but God knew what he was doing, because we ended up with something better than I could have hoped for!
• I am off of work all week! So I’m pretending that it is my summer vacation (although I still have class tomorrow)
• Karen’s benefit dinner last night was a success!! She made more money than she was required to raise, so she will be able to give Cari an awesome Christmas. Thanks to everyone who came and helped out!
• I’m booked for three different photo shoots, which is so weird because I hadn’t really been looking, and all of the sudden a bunch of photographers started contacting me, which is pretty sweet. None of them are paid, but who would pass up great pictures? Not I.
• I have been given a new nickname, which I think rocks.
• Free Shane and Shane concert in Avalon on Sunday!!! Woo Hoo!
• So You Think You Can Dance is awesome!

Not so good news:

• Nobody seems to be hiring right now (especially not publix, which I had my heart set on). I’m trusting God that something amazing will open up at just the right time.
• My dad is not being very nice about certain things and is talking to my mom about them instead of coming to me. For the record, adults are not always so mature.
• It’s hot. And rainy. Two things I don’t care for.

I’m so glad there is much more good news than bad news, that’s always encouraging. I have a cold again, which I could put in the not so good news section, but I don’t want that list to get any bigger. So I’ll pretend I don’t have a cold. Outside of the stress of waiting to hear about the house, the last few weeks have been a lot of fun. I can’t really pinpoint why, except that I love my friends. When I leave somewhere and my abs (or lack of) are sore from laughing…I know I probably had way more fun than is legal in most states. I have been busy though too with work and school. My new class is a lot of work. We were required to read the entire textbook in ONE week and write a one page reaction paper on each chapter. So I am really glad that is done with!!!!! I am proud that I actually read an entire textbook for a class though. I promised myself I would start exercising this week again since I’ve put on a few pounds from eating out so much, so maybe when my cold goes away I will start. Does thinking about exercising count? They say it’s the thought that counts. Hmm.

I have nothing left upstairs to write about. It’s the illness. Makes me more retarded than I usually am, which is saying something. Maybe I’ll go write lyrics for KCKC’s first single, or maybe I’ll just go sleep. OR…maybe I’ll finish eating this container of cotton candy and then think about working out. Who knows.

Sleep, where art thou? June 12, 2008

So it’s 6:30am on Thursday. You may ask why I am awake at such an early hour considering my class isn’t until noon. That would be because I layed in bed from 12:30 to 6:00, tossing and turning. After five and a half hours of this I realized sleep was not going to come, so I got up and have been checking out various websites. I probably won’t end up going to class now, because eventually exhaustion will set in and I will sleep. Hopefully sooner than later. This lovely upper respiratory infection (aka…a dumb cold) seems to be getting worse not better. I was ok at community groups until we were leaving, and then all of the sudden I got this horrible pain in my ears (Karen can vouch for me, I was whining for a good hour) . I’m still waiting for it to go away.

I did manage to have some fun last night despite feeling like crap and my ears being “stuffed up” and not being able to hear anyone talking at a normal level. Good thing Karen talks loud She had to tell me what people were saying half the night, lol. I’m not sure exactly why, but all of our get togethers lately have turned into ridiculous dance parties (which I have yet to take part in due to said cold)! Oh, and I can’t forget karaoke! Good times

We had some really great discussion (even though I didn’t get my reading done, shame on me) about John 6-10. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read John before, but it’s coming alive to me now, and I’m seeing how it applies to my life. It’s pretty much incredible. I love going to community groups and hearing how certain verses affected people and how they view them. It makes want to keep reading! I would write more about this, but I don’t think I can do what I am thinking any justice due to no sleep.

On another note, I did get watch So You Think You Can Dance last night. It was the first night of actual routines, and there were several really impressive dances. I of course loved the new Mia Michaels contemporary, she always choreographs the most beautiful dances. But my favorite dance of the night was choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon and danced by Joshua and Katee. It was to No Air by Jordin Sparks, and the story behind it was a girl finding out her man is leaving for the military. Even though it was hip hop, it was ridiculously heart wrenching! Of course I have to post the video for you to watch

If you haven’t watched the show, I would strongly recommend it (if I haven’t already in my blogs)!!! It’s on Fox, Wednesdays 8-10. Be cool and watch it! Ha ha!

The sun is starting to rise now, hopefully I can fall asleep soon. I hope you all had a lovely sleep…

What day is it?!? June 4, 2008

Oh lordy. It’s been a very long time since I’ve blogged. This is mostly because I have been going going going nonstop lately, and partly because I’ve been dealing with some stuff and knew if I blogged I would spill it all, which I don’t care to do.

I guess all of the craziness of my life finally hit me today. I spent the evening at home with nothing to do, which was refreshing! Not to say that I don’t love hanging out with friends and such, but I needed a night to chill. Apparently at some point in the afternoon I fell asleep, because I woke up around 8:30 completely disoriented. I freaked out for several minutes because I thought that I had slept through the night and it was Wednesday morning and that I was going to be late for class. After about ten minutes of spazzing out and trying to get all of my stuff for class, I realized that it was in fact still Tuesday evening. I had only slept for like four hours. Once I realized how ridiculous I must have looked jumping out of bed and running around my room like a crazy person, I started cracking up (to myself, because no one else was home, which probably also looked crazy).

So after that fiasco I started working on a playlist for Mom’s wedding reception. I have like 68 songs already and a list of about 50 more I want to download, and she hasn’t even sent me her list yet. I want it to be awesome, and I want people to DANCE! I hate receptions where the music is horribly lame and no one is on the dance floor. Mom’s wedding is outside, so they had to rent a dance floor, so people will dance ha ha! I’m getting excited! Yes, I still have like a zillion things to do. I have to finish the music, order the flowers, make the bouquets and arrangements, write a speech, figure out how I’m going to do my hair now that I cut it all off , and stop feeling lame for not having a date for my own Mother’s wedding. I have a week! I can’t even make the flower arrangements until I get to Jacksonville next Friday (the wedding is Saturday! Talk about last minute!) so I can’t worry about that yet, and I’ll have to get over the date thing seeing as I can’t change that (although I was proposed to last night, but it was only hypothetical) I’ll just make my brother dance with me, cause that’s not lame at all, lol. Oh well.

We are still on the hunt for a house. I’m thinking we should just wait a week or two to start looking since everyone wants tenants to move in now. Barry and Kayleigh helped us look on Sunday, which was super helpful, especially since the rest of us are so burnt out. Thanks guys! I did get a call back from one lady that sounds promising.

There’s a bunch of things I could write about, but my mind is so hazy right now that it wouldn’t make a bit of sense anyway. I think I’ll just go to bed. This time when I wake it up it will really be Wednesday morning (I still can’t believe myself) Goodnight bloggers

How Great is our God May 23, 2008

I don’t even know where to begin. In the past few months my life has really turned around, for what I believe to be the better. I am not the same person I was six months ago, or even three months ago for that matter. I gave my heart back to God, fully and completely, and for the first time in my life I am truly praying and seeking him about things instead of relying on my own answers. This is hard for me, I’ll admit. I like being in control of what’s happening in my life, the unknown terrifies me. It seems that right now there are a lot of unknowns in my life, and you better believe it is driving me CRAZY!!! They are all worries about the future, because I am a very future minded person. I like to think out what’s going to happen, how it could happen when thinking about my future. But it’s not for me to decide! God already has my life mapped out perfectly, and just wants to me to be patient and trust him. Why is such a simple thing like that so hard?

I have already experienced that God’s timing is immaculate. Seriously, it’s almost creepy. This seems kind of lame to admit, but what the heck…Before the start of the new year I asked God that I would make a new friend that I could be close to. Since moving to Orlando, I was afraid to move out of my bubble and meet people, and I only knew three or four people here. Instead of giving me one friend, He blessed me with everyone at C3. Amazing. Another crazy God timing thing happened last night. Katie already blogged about it, so go read it there! God has been answering my prayers and providing for me left and right. Not always in the way I was expecting or the timing I hoped for, but He ends up doing it way better than I could have planned for. I am simply blown away by how amazing He is!

There is still one big prayer, the one I pray about over and over and over. It’s probably the most difficult one for me to trust Him on. I blogged about it a while ago. I know what I want to happen in this specific situation, but I am waiting for Him to clue me in if what I want lines up with what He wants.

I started writing out my prayers this week for two reasons. One…it helps me stay focused on talking to God. I get sidetracked so easily when I pray quietly, so writing as I’m thinking helps me tremendously! Two…it gives me something to look back on. When God answers a prayer or does something crazy amazing, I can open up my journal and be like, ‘Hey, I asked Him to help me with that last week!’

Anyways, I’m meeting Monica for lunch in 30 minutes and I’m still in my PJ’s! Time to go get presentable Me and Katie are going on a new house search, this time for a 4 bedroom place, I can’t wait!

Also, congrats to Kayleigh who will be a highschool graduate by tonight!!!!!!!!!!!

I am a nerd. May 22, 2008

In a flurry of scientific excitement, I just had to blog about my science class!! I LOVE IT! It’s actually a class about how to teach science to elementary students, but I am learning scientific concepts that I never learned when I was in school. We do the coolest experiments and activities! Like last week…we got to design parachutes and then drop them from a 2nd story balcony and time how long it took them to descend. Then we had like 20 minutes to redesign or modify them to make them descend at a slower rate! It was soooo much fun! I could go on and on about the cool things we do in this class, but I’m sure no one really cares about the characteristics of peanut, lol! I am so psyched to go teach a kid about suction or something

I love science. I am a nerd. I proudly own up to to it.

The end.