How It Goes

Reuniting with old friends.

Not having to sit through some training courses this year, and working outside, enjoying the sun instead.

I feel like watching me read a book or watch a movie the first couple times would be really entertaining. I was thinking about this as I re-read a book for the first time in ages, because I tend to get really involved with the main character and the storyline. Very, very, very involved. When they do something stupid, I get angry with the book, I get overly happy when the characters do what I tell them to (aka the book's storyline coincidentally follows what I really want to have happen), and then there are the times that I cry like a baby when a character dies, and it is not one bit pretty. The thing is, this all happens multiple times within a book/movie, and if it's a Disney or Pixar film with singing in it? Forget it- I'll be singing along very wholeheartedly the whole time. Basically, I think my reactions make quite the experience.

So, I just wrote a post about how rad camp is, but I have some special memories that I don't want to forget about.  When I was an LC we did a devotion* amongst the twenty of us about what our biggest obstacle is that we've overcome. Luckily, I didn't have to go first, because it's hard to come up with something like that off the top of your head. What I eventually came to though was my dad's death, which is still pretty painful to talk about, especially at that point. You see, this was an emotional devotion, one that had quite a few of us in tears, including myself. Obstacles are tough after all. But the reason that it's so special is because even though a ton of us were crying, we were all supporting one another. Both of the girls sitting beside me helped me through it by holding me and a ton of people were doing the same, and it was just one of those great experiences when you know that everyone around you totally supports you and that you return that support...

Okay, so it's 4:18 AM and I'm writing this post because, like always, stupid me decided to pull an all-nighter the night before I do something big. I think I've practically made it a tradition at this point, because I swear I've done this before every big event and long car ride (where I have to drive). I make the stupid decision to stay up late instead of getting the proper amount of sleep like a normal person would.  But I digress.  So, tomorrow (or, actually, today really), I'm going to camp!!!! My friends that are around me a lot know how big of a deal this is to me, because I talk about camp a lot.  You see, this will be my sixth summer at camp, and third time begin there for the whole summer. It's kind of a big deal. I used to go there as a camper, and for the past two and a half years (including this one) I've been working as a camp counselor there. It's one of my favorite places ever and holds so many good memories (hence the reason I talk a...

Admiring a garden that you've just planted and thinking it looks AH-mazing.

ri·dic·u·lous     [ ri- dik -y uh -l uh s ]     Show IPA adjective 1. causing   or   worthy   of   ridicule   or   derision;   absurd;   preposterous;   laughable:   a   ridiculous   plan. 2. Slang.   absurdly   or   unbelievably   good,   bad,   crazy,   etc.:   The   concert   was   ridiculous,   their   best   performance ever! I am a ridiculous person. I drink ridiculous amounts of coffee, sing (quid badly) a ridiculous amount (because it's SO MUCH FUN), say ridiculous things, and come up with ridiculously bad parodies of popular songs. (But it's super fun to be like that sometimes, so if you're ridiculous too-embrace it!) Well, one popular song, Let It Go, that iconic song from Frozen. This post is stemming from the fact that I was coming up with a parody of that song tonight, I think about my hot cocoa, when I...