Cup o' Feelings

One of the challenges of no internet at home...rare blogs.

This weekend, I embarked on a journey to Camp Four Echoes to be head chef for a small event hosted in the new, heated lodge! It was fun, no stress, can't complain. It made me miss camp something fierce. Like I've said before, I love camp. So I've been trying to work things out so I can come out this summer and be head chef all summer long. I don't quite know how this will work out, but I'm going to try and make it work. Cross your fingers everyone!

On another note, it was my grandma's 89th birthday yesterday. For a woman who swore she wasn't going to live past 80, and then 85...She's still got so much spunk in her! I recently found out that she was born with a still heart, and she had one of the first medical injections (I could be wrong about this) on the west coast to start her heart again. Her grandchildren have determined this to be the source of the spunk. Happy birthday Grandma, I love you :)

I'm also trying to get going in school, and things aren't looking up...I don't really see the point in going to school for one semester, having the summer off...and then going back to school. I think I'm going to check into what my options are for going to Eastern in the fall. My family might not be very thrilled that I just took a year off of school, but here I am to say that it's none of their goddamned business. I'm the baby of the family, and everyone else has since graduated from college, but not me. I'm not even going.
All I want to do is cry when I think about this... I want to cry because of the judgement, the pressure...everything.
"You're so bright, I hate to see you waste that"
Family, I love you, but I will go to school when I'm good and ready.

With or without teeth?

Long story short, I love my friends. This took me so long to make on the etch-a-sketch, it's not even funny. Anyway, my weekend was epic enough to make -insert preferred epic thing here- jealous. It started with my reunion with Molly. She's seriously my sister I don't know how the world went about without us knowing each other before now. I gave her the birthday present I made her, which had been named the best freaking present ever.

Then, we went to the Chiefs game. That was pretty awesome. There were some decent fights, and we won 5-2. The best part is, I could be myself around my friends. Camp people are the people that you can do whatever with--and they don't care! I appreciate the confidence it gives me, because they love me for who I am and the rest they can make fun of ;) 

How did I go from hockey to sappy camp love? MOVING ON! 

--Oh wait, no. I need to talk about camp people more. We stayed up until 4 a.m. talking and laughing at Persephone's house. Worst idea looking back at it today, but it was worth it :) After that, Sunny and I got home and talked until 6:32 a.m. So now I'm here, in Starbucks-I've already sucked down coffee #1, and I'm about to invest in coffee #2. This should be an interesting day. But it was worth it to have the fun yesterday. By the way, if you're reading this out of boredom, check this out. Hyperbole and a Half

The scent of memories.

Yesterday, I was thinking all day of things to write about. I thought about writing about my job, and how I taught one of my kiddos to play Jenga--he's actually really good!
All things deemed writable, yet uninteresting. So, here goes nothing!

There are certain things that make me think of different times in my life. The most prominent ones are certain scents from Bath and Body Works. If I wore that spray all of winter, I'll put it on again and think of that specific winter. Sometimes I'll smell something really odd, and it reminds me of the cafeteria in which I spent most of my elementary and middle school life. When I smell tuna, I think of the Spokane County Juvenile Detention center (when I was little, I went on a tour during summer camp and they were having tuna that day). I walked into a florist shop the other day, and I immediately thought of all my summers as a camper and a kitchen aid at Camp Four Echoes. I couldn't figure out why a florist shop reminded me of Camp Four Echoes. Then it dawned on me that the florist shop smelled like the old lodge! Yesterday I got in my car and I was carrying a Papa Murphy's pizza, and something wafted towards me...suddenly, I was in my sophomore year of high school again. It was the strangest thing.

Does anyone else have this problem? I mean, it's not really a problem...but you know what I mean?

I suppose that's it for today.
Thanks for reading.

Resolutions...

First off, I never make resolutions for the new year. However, I did this year because I needed an excuse to start writing a blog.
I need to also say that I've been putting it off because I am such a huge stickler for proper writing and grammar, that I get really self conscious having other people read what I write. I'm just putting it out there---don't judge me.
So purpose #1 of this blog is to admit to everyone reading, that I am always on the internet on my phone. I don't know if you've ever heard of pinterest.com or 9gag.com...? But they've basically sucked up my soul. Because of my addiction to the aforementioned websites, I commit to taking the time to show you some of my favorite things.
Purpose #2 of this blog is to vent about the things I find in everyday life that give me cause to laugh and/or yell. Such as people with Harley Davidson stickers on their Astro Vans. *Sigh.
Purpose #3 is to share the cool things I discover about anything. Such as finding out a strong hair-do for the 2-year-old I watch. More on that later.
The last and final purpose of this blog is to let you into a little window of my life. I know that some people who will read this don't get to see me all the time...and it might be fun for them to see what I'm up to. Maybe my Grandma will read this. Who knows? ---I added this purpose because I am 100% against telling people every detail of my life on Facebook. So I'll do it on here ;) Just kidding--but really, there are things that I do that are really fun and I want to tell people about, just not on Facebook.

OKAY. So that was sufficiently long. Welcome to my blog everyone :)