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It's the time of the night when I should be sleeping, or at least thinking about being tired...and yet...here I sit, typing away. Actually, all three of us are still awake. That is a VERY rare occasion.
Kala and Chelsey are packing up as they move their stuff to their house on Monday/Tuesday. Then they are there for a few days before they both leave for New Brunswick (on separate trips). So I have the apartment to myself!! PAR-TAY :)
BUT, them packing has REALLY gotten me into the packing mood!! Like tonight I started sorting some things to take home to my parents' to leave there, threw some stuff out, took a few decorations down...etc. But I refuse to take my pictures down until a few days before. That would just make me too sad! So yeah, I feel like school is tomorrow!! Like I am going to wake up and it will be training week...that isn't good, because now I will be excited and then sad for 22 more days. BUT, it is only 22 MORE DAYS :) That is very exciting.
In other news, I bought the stupid wrong top-up card for my cell phone. I was really tired and coming home from work but I figured I would pick it up before going home. And then I bought the 25 (plus tax), non-refundable card and it was the wrong stupid one!! I couldn't believe it. What an idiot I am. BUT, and thank You God!! My Grandma uses that kind!! Seriously, not many use top-up cards, so to find someone needing a Bell top-up card, what a miracle! I was so happy!!
Kala and I went to Walmart tonight. Walked on over. It was so beautiful out! Got a fitted bedsheet because mine was crap. And pens and the funnest and greatest binder ever for STUCA. But it is only a 1-incher. Oh well, it is the greatest, so I will make it work! Shades of pink, brown, green and white in stripes on the outside and polka dots on the inside...It's a Hot Chocolate brand binder :)
Yesterday was a WONDERFUL day :) I thought I wouldn't really be doing anything...I went to work, and was on my way home at 1:30 when Pepperdine and Michelle Mack picked me up! Mack was in town for the day, so the three of us hung out. Hit up the mall for a bit, then we went to Chuck E. Cheese to play games and get our pictures down on the sketch thing! It was my very FIRST time there! What a deprived childhood I had ha ha. But yeah, it was hilarious.
Then, when I came home, Shelby had emailed asking if I wanted to have supper with her and the girls (Brad and the boys are at camp this week). I figured it was too late as I got home at like 5:40...but...(thank You God!!) the girls had had late naps and had gotten up around 5:00, so they hadn't eaten either!! So, Shelby, Delaney, Addison and Carmen picked me up and we went to Pizza Hut. I love those girls!! Some of my very favourite people in the whole entire world :) It was like a belated birthday dinner because things got Hectic with the end of Forward/East Coast trip around my birthday. And I got my gift - a nice book and a nice journal :) yay. So yeah, loved it. The kids are cute and well, Shelby is my life partner so...ha ha. But seriously, I always think that some people assume we are actually 'together' when we are out...ha ha funny story about a dimly lit booth at Fifty's Diner one time ha ha. So yeah, we had dinner and then went to Zehrs. Yay for time with the Somers Girls :)
Next week I have all early morning shifts, which is actually okay...then I have my whole day left. The only problem is that it messes up my system - because I never go to bed early, but I have to get up early. It isn't good. And it messes up my eating kind of - I eat breakfast before work...like a muffin or a banana or something. And then an apple (or banana) and a Diet Coke on break. And then I get home and it is usually about 1:30 or 2:00...so I'm not really hungry for lunch...so I kick around for a bit and then eat an early supper and have like applesauce later for an after supper snack...but anyways...nothing of huge concern.
It has been SOOOO nice to have my relatives here from BC. We really only see them maybe every 1.5 years, and we probably see my uncle less than that...and they are so great! My uncle Darrin (mother's other brother) is SO hilarious, and my aunt is fun too, plus Emma is just the sweetest thing!! ha ha the other day I was swimming beside her (she is getting really good...and just 4) and she was trying to get to her mom, but her mom was on a raft and the jets were pushing my aunt Karyn away. Emma, trying to get to her, shouted out (not panicky, just jovial like), "aren't you going to save your child?!" HA HA oh man, she is so cute. And then her and my uncle were playing Little Mermaid and he would lift her up and she would stretch out her arms and legs and tilt her head back and hum the Ariel song (it was like a Titanic pose) ha ha. And then she made us all join the story. Curt was Scuttle, I was King Titan, mom was Sebastian, Grandma was Flounder, and Emma would tell everyone what they were supposed to be doing, it was funny. So yeah, I have actually been able to swim with them...like 5 separate afternoons? So that has been great (and that is without taken days off of work...God just arranged my schedule so I would have times to be able to be at Grandma's when they were there!! God is So great!!). My uncle left Tuesday morning and the girls leave next Tuesday. Emma phoned me today telling me she made me a bracelet. It was SO cute :) She wanted to tell me and tell me she loved me in case she didn't see me again!! So sweet!
I was the "guest speaker" at youth group on Wednesday. We play sports or go swimming every Wednesday in the summer and then a leader gives their testimony with a challenge sort of thing. I think it went well...who knows really :) In giving my testimony, I basically just summed up the first 19.5 years with- I was born in Cambridge and have lived here ever since, I have attended Forward since I was 14 days old and I accepted Christ at age 4...that about sums up that. ha ha And then just talked about these past few months and how it has been a crazy bit of surprises. I told them about the raccoon story with the dumpster and how that symbolized my whole summer because it sure has been a summer of suprises! - with the whole living situation and then my job and then did the Esther 4:14 wrap up and talked about how my roommates and I have been looking at Esther this summer and discovering a story of God's redemptive plan using ordinary, screwed up people (well, that part was worded different ha ha) and then the whole using whatever circumstance you are in for God wrap-up for a clean ten minutes (I think). So yeah, there you go. I didn't have any notes, I was pretty proud of myself for that :) I like doing stuff like that...but at the same time, I almost feel like I don't know whwy I am because there is someone else that could easily say it better than I could...but I do like it or whatever. And it is good because I know a lot of the kids and have built relationships with many of them, so I do want to be able to talk to them about this stuff. It was fun.
I think I finally hit my tired stride. And of course, I am the last one up, even though I work at 10:00 tomorrow, the earliest of the 3 of us! Oh man, maybe I should try and CATCH UP on my sleep before school!! That sounds like a good idea...
Oh, and I really just want to know my roommates...right now!!