Relearning the Alphabet

So today was my friend Emily's last day at the nursery (tear!). We had a good day but it was hard to say goodbye! The last couple of days have been filled with laughter(to find out more check out Emily's blog by clicking on the link that says Come Fly with Aerogirl)and today was no exception. As you can read in her blog, to pass the time we pick a theme and then use the letters of the alphabet to begin our thoughts. We have made up stories and have had some pretty interesting conversations. But today we decided that we would go through the alphabet and say what we were thankful for. This list included Amy(Emily's sister), our moms, friends, etc. Emily was the unlucky one who got stuck with the letter Q which just happens to be the hardest letter to use (you might think that X would be hard too but we allow each other to use EX for X-it's cheating, we know, but give us a break, what kind of letter is X). So after a long pause she says "Oh, yeah, God." Now earler in the day she had used the letter G in the place of Q and we had had a good laugh over it and I thought that she was just doing it to be funny, but no, she had no idea that she had made the mistake. That is until I started busting up and told her that we needed to go back to elemtery school because we both know that God starts with G and not Q. When she realized what she had said she started laughing too. It took us a good two minutes to calm back down and after a bit Emily says "OK, Quiet Time?" and I said, "Yeah, that works" and so the game went on. I would just love to get into the mind of the Hispanic woman who is working with us and see what she thought for us for those two minutes when we were laughing histerically-infact she probably thinks we are crazy because she was with us yesterday as well(refer to emily's blog). Any way I thought that I would share that funny story with all of you- may you all have a good laugh.
Em, I will miss you tomorrow and friday. Love you tons.

Bees, Baseball, and the 4th of July

So today happens to be the fourth of July, our glorious nation's birthday. A time of relaxation, family, hot dogs, hamburgers, and fireworks. A day on which we celebrate our freedom, independence, and liberty. We hang the flag on our porches and we play patriotic music as we strike up the BBQ. So as I woke up this morning to my parents yelling at our dog who got loose I realized with great joy that I did not have to go to work-an added benefit to freedom and liberty. I prepared myself for the day and sat down to a nice breakfest of fruit loops and a good baseball movie. I figure there is no better way to spend the 4th than to watch a movie about America's favorite pasttime. Much too soon the credits started rolling and I was off to my next task-cleaning Henry-my cute Ford. This was not an easy task-I had to overcome many obstacles including insane bees, out of control dogs, and neighbors. But an hour later he was shining like the top of the Chrysler building! Anyway I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th and I hope that we would all take time to be thankful for the freedoms that we have.

P.S. I'm pretty sure that on the 14th of July France celebrates some sort of independence day. And no, Geron, they don't wear necklaces with symbols of their revolution, I hope!

No more funny

So I was going to write ths really funny blog about my day at work today but as I am sitting here my mind has gone completely blank and it seems that all of the funny has left me. If I were to have written this blog a few hours ago you would all be cracking up-or at least Geron would be cracking up because she would get all the nersury jokes. But alas-there is no funny and all of the cute blogging worthy stories have left me-yep, their gone! So I think that I will say that all is well with me and life trudges on. God is good and in control which makes things a lot easier for me. All that to say that I really don't have anything to blog about so I hope you all have a great day.

Post Script: If anyone has any suggestions on how to complain without actually complaining you can tell me about them by commenting. This would be very helpful for me seeing as how I have told Geron that this summer I am really going to be working on not complaining but my back really hurts-so any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

The utter craziness that is my life

Where to start? On a rabbit trail of course... yesterday I was helping my mom with work and I was proof reading a couple of paragraphs to her on how to help people respond and interact during a certain activity. One of the suggestions was to summerize what you are feeling in one word. All this to say I think that the word I would use to describe how I am feeling in this activity called life would be...Imperceptible (adj.: not perceptible by a sense or by the mind)! This is so true because with all the things that have happened in my life the last couple of weeks there really isn't a conceivable way to describle how I feel with one word (or a million for that matter). So now you are all dying to hear about my life.. right?.. I knew it! Ok so lets start and the very beginning (a very good place to start-sorry another rabbit trail). My brother got married-beautiful wedding and I now have a sister! My first year of college ended and I passed!!!!! I moved back home and have now started working at the nursery-its my second summer there-yeah for summer jobs! And for rainy days and delicious 'sack' lunches made by my wonderul mother (there's another trail). On a more serious note my grandpa is dying of cancer and it is been very hard to see him decline-I am so thankful that he has a relationship with Christ and I am learning to lean on Christ through this situation. Oh, I could go on and on and on and on but pretty soon you would get board and start to scoll down to see if there are any pictures that you might have missed in my previous blogs so I will sign off. Love to all!!

P.S. To all who would understand I think that I have competed with Dr. Aldrich with my rabbit trails!

The newest blogger

Rachel is now offically a blogger!!! Check out what she has to say by moving your mouse over the link on the right side of the screen that says Views from Afar! She even talks about me!!When taveling across the world this summer her blog will keep us updated on how the Lord is working and all the wonderful experiences that she is having. Go with God Rachel, He is going to use you in mighty ways.

P.S. Big shout out to Geron and Emily to being finished with your first year of college. Love you both so much!!! (Em, I know you have one thing left but you're basically done so it counts-I'll be praying for you.)

Positions Everyone

So...um...want to see an amazing movie? I have just the one for you...Take the Lead. Best movie this year so far and I think it has made my top five of all time list. The stories were great-you will laugh and you will cry- and the dancing(oh the dancing...it speaks for itself). The acting was good to -it is not everyday when a movie is full of relatively unknown actors that can actually act without looking like they are trying to act. A fun movie to watch but be careful when you come out of the theartre your feet might be moving more then you thought they could...mine were!!!

Maxwell

Comfortable, secure, unchanging, likable, fun and dependable. All these words discribe one car...Maxwell. Rachel's white Toyota Camry. Many enjoyable trips and unforgettable moments have been spent in Maxwell. Movies, Hillsboro, batteries, red merecedes...need I say more!!!! A faithful friend and part of the fam. Maxwell has to be the best car ever made!!!!
P.S. A big shout out to my friends in Colorado. Love you all. Have a wonderful time.

Great News!

Well, three days till spring break and I cannot wait. Life is good but this break will be so nice. Guess what!!!! We are now allowed to watch movies in out dorm rooms!!! So Rachel, Ruth-Anne and I said a sad fairwell to the backseat of Maxwell, Rachel's car, and are now enjoying the comfort of a bed to sit on while we watch such movies as: Pirates of the Carribean, Armeggdon, and Out of Africa. Sad to say that other then those movies there has been no time to watch more. I guess that this is good because we are at college to study. I just thought I would share that joyous news with all of you. Blessings on all of you as you finish out the week.

"We could be heros..."

"...forever and ever" Thats right-Moulin Rouge was the movie of choice last night and I must say that I rather enjoyed it. It was very unsusal but has some very redeeming factors as well. In fact the music (the songs, as the case may be, were the redeeming factors) was so amazing that I spend the rest of the night signing them out at the tops of my lungs. The Roxanne Tango was the song that was sung while using Erin's exercise ball and the Elephant Melody was the song that I sung while cleaning the bathroom floor because of an overflowed toilet. Lets just say the entire west side of the dorm knows how bad Sarah can sing!

alarm clocks and paper cuts

So this morning at 7:26-41 minutes after I am supposed to wake up- my roomate hits my hand and tells me that it is seven thirty! I basically jumped out of bed, ran to the shower, ran back, changed, and ran to breakfest in 15 minutes so I could eat before my 8:00 class. So that was my almost disasterous morning. Then I have been giving myself random paper cuts for the last two days now and I am really getting tired of it. It think I am up to five or six. Anyway, a word of advice, if you erase something and are trying to wipe off the erase left overs make sure to give yourself plenty of room between your finger and the edge of the paper!!!! Have a great day!

1/2 Brithday

Wednesday, January 25 just happened to be my 18 1/2 birthday and I was determined to have a good day. Nothing was going to get me down-not even the rain! To my delight and surprise the girls had hung happy birthday signs out side my door-what a great way to start the day. Because of the signs most people who walked by took it upon themselves to wish me a happy birthday! After classes and work it was time to finish up my big paper on Jonah and wishing that I could go to Taco Bell instead of the cafeteria for dinner. Soon Rachel comes in a suggests that very thing and I eagerly took her up on it-telling her to go invite Ruth-Anne as I got ready. Soon she was back saying that she couldn't find her and we were on our way. As we pulled in, parked and got out of the car I saw a jeep(looking very much like Erins)and thought how fun it would be to have her there-like a little party. Not two seconds later I walked though the door and was shockingly surpised to see 8 girls jump up from behind a counter and wish me a happy half birthday-no wonder Rachel couldn't find Ruth-Anne! After a great dinner with much laughter we got back into the car and I was hit with another surprise-The evening wasn't over yet. They took me to Red Robin for dessert! (At the Red Robin that we went to they tie the balloons around your neck when they sing to you-talk about embarrasing)but I did get a bowl of vanella ice cream(no chacolate!!!!). Basically it was one of the best nights that I have ahd in a very long time-just thought that I would share it with all of you!

Movie Tips

Anyone up for a good movie? Last Holiday is just what you are looking for! A cute movie about the way we live life and what one woman did when she found out she didn't have to much time left. A fun, light-hearted film that was an enjoyment and a good way to spend a dreary afternoon. Previews were good two. Here are some that I am going to have a hard time waiting for: Take the Lead, Lady in the Water, Stick it, and Something New. I encourage all of you to go look them up on IMDB and see for yourselves.

Interpretive Dance

Nothing lifts the spirits like watching a friend create a very impromto interpretive dance. It all started when Rachel brought back her keyboard and her roommate Erin and I got a hold of it. It is a really cool keyboard that plays songs and then shows you how to play them. After examination we found the song "Let it be" by the Beattles and have been playing it non stop since then. After two days of "whisper words of wisdom" running through my head I gave into the fact that it is never going to go away and that I might as well have as much fun with it as I could. So I hooked Ashley's speakers up to my computer, turned the volume up as far as it would go, and blasted my now favorite Beattles song thoughout the dorm. And sure enough Erin rose to the occation and did a wonderful number including jumping off walls and turning circles on the floor-it was basically the best interpretive dance I have ever seen. Just thought you all should know about it!

Home for Christmas

Well, I have been home for two whole days and I am really enjoying the fact that I don't have to go back to school for a long while. I love the Christmas season mostly because I get to be with family and this year we have added a gigantic dog to ours-that has so far attacked me three times-I am sure he will continue to do so the entire time that I am home. Meanwhile, I am relishing in the fact that I have no deadlines to meet or windows to wash because I know that these times won't come to often. I hope that everyone has a wonderful and blessed Chirstmas season as we remember the true reason why we celebrate-Jesus!

The 10th Day of November

Everybody can agree that birthday balloons are some of the funnest toys that have ever been created. Hitting them back and forth between you and a friend is a great way to relieve stress and boredom. It was the latter that Rachel and I were trying to conquer when we found a green balloon left over from her party and started hitting it. not two minutes later a small push from me and the balloon was headed straight for the fire detector. *Crash* The fire detector was on my lap. Rachel and I started laughing histerically but them realized we could be in some pretty serious trouble if it went off so we started yelling around for an RA and we were soon comforted when Lauire, the our neighbor dorm section RA, thought it was rather funny too and promised that she would have campus services come and fix it. That was just the beginning of the completely random day that I had. (Well actually it started earlier in the moning, see I was trying to send something in the mail and I was expecting to pay around three bucks for it but no---$5.05---CRAZY!!!!!!!!At that point I was starting to wonder about the day. On a side note the locks to the main doors of the dorms were just changed-who knows why-I think the administration likes to frustrate us. So when Rachel forgot her ID at breakfast and she had to use "the phone" to have her roomate come let her in(I call it "the phone" because it is to call security if you get locked out after curfew-it has that cool circular dialer). This is all because our RA, Becca Sue, has failed to give us a copy of the new key-Becca Sue, I might add, basically ran out of gas yesterday and had to park outside a strip club until someone came and picked her up*Scary*. Thankfully most of the people that go to those types of places don't come out till night!
AND THE DAY ISN'T EVEN OVER YET!!!
Next thing that happened is that Jessi who lives in room 22 was having really bad pressure in her ear and when I took her to Nurse Ellen she sent her to the emergency clinic down the road-turns out she has a very bad ear infection and the doctor gave her vicaden to help with the pain-she was pretty excited about that!!! Then came registation and all of the stress and running around and computer jamming that goes with it-along with the enterance of the previewer that happens to be staying in Ashley and my room for the night-talk about stressful! Oh well, the completely random and stressful day has past and I have made it out alive. I guess it is those types of days that make life interesting. Oh, and a complete determination to find an online radio station that plays continual Christmas music-any suggestions?!!!!

Ab's for Andy

Here is the new excersise program that is picking up steam here at school and will soon be an all out trend. It's called Ab's for Andy because well... my brothers name is Andy and were doing it for him(well I am at least, the other girls are doing it for other reasons). Why am I doing it for my brother you might ask, well I'll tell you. You see he and his girlfriend Anna are getting married in May and to be in shape for the wedding I realized that drastic measures needed to be taken. So now we meet every night in my room(24) and we work on our ab's, legs and arms-swiching between arms/legs and ab's so that we give our muscles a chance to rebuild themselves. This wonderful program that doesn't take but 15 minutes of your time has really started to become a popular thing to do. In fact what started with just Rachel and I has now turned into 8 girls trying to smush themselves into my tiny room that barely holds two and accomplish musclehood! It just goes to show that if you have the motivation and determination to start something, anything is possible!

Officially Converted

I have officially converted Rachel. Never again will she think me crazy for randomly bursting out "I'm the king of New York" for she, too, is now a Newsies fan. One viewing was all it took and now shes hooked. And thats not all, she completely agrees with me that Davie is the best one of the lot (although she likes him for his neck, curly hair and broad sholders and I like him because, well...um... he is just Davie-need I say more). Now we get funny looks together but soon we will have our roomates converted(although that might be a tough one), then our floor, then the dorm, then school, then the WORLD! (ok so maybe not the world but wouldn't it be such a great place if that were to happen?). That is basically all I have to say.

POST SCRIPT: when you comment ask me about the excerise plan Rachel and I made up and maybe I will blog about it-its awesome.

Mom, Heaven, and sleep

Loving, compassionate, caring, unselfish, huggable, warm, sweet, incredable, amazing, one of a kind. These words discribe one woman:my mom!!!! She is the best mother anyone could ever ask for(Plus she was begging me to write so I thought I would give her a little praise)! I love you Mom!!!!!!

School is going well and things are getting easier by the day(although work is getting boring, but thats to be expected)! Mom snd Dad were here for the weekend and we went and saw Just Like Heaven and, just as Geron said, it was very good. A movie that all will enjoy-although some guys might think they are to good to see it, if you are a true man you will enjoy it too.

Well, sleep is an odd thing. I am getting enough of it although more would be heavenly, its just the dreams that come with it are kinda wierding me out. I really can't remember them in detail but I do know that they happen at East Linn and that in its self is a little different. O Well, at least I am sleeping right?

Life

So now that school has gotten into a rountine my life has slowed down considerably-not! I am still extremely busy but my life is a little more organized! I am still looking for a good ministry and a good chruch-I think I might have found one so I am going to go check it out on sunday! The whole laundry thing is getting easier-now if olny the homework was too!

The Laundry Ordeal

So yesterday was my first attempt at doing my own laundry here at school and it was quite an experience! My mom told me that it would be best if I washed my clothes in cold water because I wasn't going to seperate the colors(I didn't have enough for two loads)the only problem is that on our machines the temperature is not posted so I had no idea which button to push, so after about 20 minutes I finally figured it out and the laundry was in. Then I went to my first gym class and as soon as I came back to my room and cryed to my mom I decided to drop the class-no more muscles for me! Then after realizing I had to be at work in ten minutes I went and moved my clothes from the washer to the dryer-running back to my room because I forgot the fabric softener sheets-and then making it to work with only a minute to spare! After work, dinner and a very trying shopping trip(long story for another time), my day settled down and I was able to fold my clothes and get my life organized. Yeah for personal planners!!!!!!!