I Wonder Who Reads This Anymore?

This Summer is dedicated to reading. Why? Because I'd like to improve my writing skills. And now you ask, but you are reading, how will this help writing? I don't know it just works, okay? I've decided to improve my writing skills because I was checking out different things on the internet the other day and realized, oh gosh, you can make a whole load of money when you win writing contests. So I entered one the other day as a first step to making millions. Hopefully. It was a writing contest held in Penticton in memory of this guy who used to write...before he died. Who knows, maybe he's writing in his grave. Anyway. You could either enter a short story, or 5 poems. Since all my stories were longer than the word count limit I decided to enter 5 poems. Now I must wait until September 30th to find out the results. I'm honestly not expecting to win or anything, I could be up against people with like 50 years writing experience, or decendants of C.S. Lewis! WHOA! I just think it's good to practice, and the more I enter these things, the more I will get a feel for what these contest judges are looking for. There's numerous contests I could enter where the gran prize is stuff like 1,000 dollars and publication, but I figure I should start small. So with this contest, whoever wins, will recieve 100 dollars and a one time publication on their website (www.penwriters.com). Don't worry, for entering contests I do check out their credibility as well, so I'm not totally scammed. Anyways I just decided if I could make a little extra money for something that I love to do, why not? Brilliant. One day I'll have to face the real world and get a job though...which is looking like this fall...sometime.
Incase you are now wondering which books I'm reading this summer, I shall list them for you!








I think it's a pretty good line up. Who knows if I'll finish them all before summer ends, but it's something to do, yes? Cool. I have already read these two books:



They were definately good reads. The first one was just hilarious but also educational on the different ideas people have of how the world will end, words associated with end times in the Apocolyptionary, and numerous prophecies made throughout history. The second one is a MUST READ. It has completely changed the way I look at people, it's not a huge book, but it leaves you with a huge thought. READ IT. I did.

Um Hey Guys? So That Was Better Than Weird

Alright so apologies to those who still read my blog for taking a few days to update you about camp week. I'm just going to talk about random happenings throughout the week rather than going through each day, we all know that gets far too boring.
So Sunday night two of the little girls in my cabin (I had 8 year olds) wouldn't stop talking until like 2 in the morning. I was buzzed on caffiene though so it wasn't a huge problem. Unfortunately the next day I was sooo gone.
I think it was on Tuesday where I was so stinking tired. I was sitting at this picnic table with my four girls hanging around talking and I had my head in my hands and in seconds I was asleep. Then suddenly somebody's going "hey guys, maybe you should let your counsellor sleep." and then a couple minutes later "oo muffin haha". So I woke up then basically and saw Jordan standing there. Which was slightly creepy, but fine haha.
The way the week worked was like this: Morning chapel, lunch, activity one, canteen, activity two, dinner, night chapel, mug up. The people running the chapels was this group from Ladner, and they were definately amazing. I was a senior counsellor and had 2 assitant counsellors, Chantel who was from PG I think, and Amanda who was from Ladner. My girls were awesome lil babes, and it sucked to leave them cause you know when something sucks so bad for somebody and you can't do anything about it? It was kind of like that.
Wednesday night Jordan was preaching on enemy attacks, and it was really good. After chapel was over the kids were at mug up and a bunch of us counsellors had stayed behind to pray and stuff. Not long after chapel though, some amazing things were happening when an incredibly intense storm started. Lightning was everywhere and the cmap director came into the chapel saying we all had to get out cause the roof was A-frame with metal on the top. Great. So I went running through puddles and got soaked sprinting back to my cabin. My jeans took TWO days to dry out after that. Once I got into the cabin I think every little girl in sight was bawling and freaking out and screaming and needing to go pee. And nobody was allowed out of their cabins. A good toilet double? A garbage can. The fire alarms were also going off in the bathrooms and we couldn't figure out how to shut them off. Amanda was on for camp cop that night (when you walk around camp after everybody's in bed making sure nobody's sneaking around) but she was so sick me and Tamara decided to take her spot. So later that night around like 11 there was me and maybe 10 people from the Ladner team sitting in the dining hall. All of a sudden my hand started hurting really bad so I pulled it out to look at it, and it was like THREE time it's normal size!! CRAZY! So I called over nurse Mike and none of us could figure out why I was exploding. So weird.
Thursday night was definately the best night of them all. Amanda, Vanessa and I got pretty tight. Vanessa was our one non-white person in the entire camp haha! She's one awesome asian I tell you. Her and I rap the little teapot song. You should see us, it's amazing. Amanda was my hugging friend, one great cuddler I tell you. These are counsellors from the Ladner team by the way. After the chapel that night I left at like 10:30 and walked around with Amanda till almost midnight. We ran into Mike who I got a dried Mango from (I foudn this funny because I couldn't remember bumping into him the next day for quite a while).
Friday my hand was for the most part back to normalcy. Around 3 that afternoon though something pretty much exploded behind my eye. I hoped it would go away but by dinner It turned into full body sickness. Like fever, nautious, head ache, walking but feeling like you have no legs. So I had half a bun for dinner and chilled in the chapel for half an hour with my blankie hoping I would feel normal. By the time evening chapel came around I was still sick and had one great fever, I was so zoned hahaha. Oh, good times. After chapel I was at the point where I felt normal feeling sick because I thought I was just overtired. I think I was definateky over tired though because at the counsellor after party thing, I basically laughed at everything. At one point I turned to Jordan and siad "I want that sign" refering to this folding card on a table. He tought I was talking about a different sign and I was like "No, no, no" then I burst out laughing and couldn't speak for like 5 minutes. I also laughed every time I tripped or threw something. Sweet.
Saturday morning I woke up, and my voice had run away, In other words I had lost my voice and it was nowhere to find. That day we drove home though, and my voice found it's way home at random times during the day. It wasn't too bad, riding home in the church van with...9 little boys.
All in all though it was a seriously amazing time which I guess you wouldn't get from this post. But a lot of stuff changed for me and I'm so happy I went on my own. If I had gone with a friend I don't think I would've been as open or easy. Frickin sweet, yo.
Oh I almost forgot to tell you, apprently I'm married. Nathaniel and I were married March 23rd 2000 in the jungle of LA. Our first kiss was May 18th 1998 and we went out for dinner to Wendy's and then to a movie. Yeah.

Um, Hey Guys? We're Kind of Weird...

Well so far Summer has been fairly awesome. Sleeping, eating, shopping, and watching movies. It's great. Not anything super special has gone down. Yesterday we got all the stuff for the Bridesmaids outfits! The skirts look gorgeous on all of us, and the jewellery is fabulous. Plus, I think I will wear the shoes a thousand times over.
Quite the funny thing occured the other day though. Steve and I were at the beach on Monday afternoon (Heather had dicthed us for a NAP). We were sort of bored, so I started balancing my water bottle in my mouth with just the help of my mouth. It was pretty funny since I'd start laughing then take it out and get water all over the place. Then Steve and I were each doing this with our water bottles, and we were doing so well this time. No laughing or spillage. Then, some creeper behind us is like "Um Hey guys, that's kind of weird." So of course I burst out laughing, choking on water spitting it out onto the beach, and Steve turns around to see this man sitting on the bench just staring at us. Neither of us had a clue as to who this guy was, so it was kind of scary. Mainly creepy and funny though. At that point I decided to put clothes on and wait for my Mom to come pick us up haha.
On Saturday I leave for Quesnel to be a camp counsellor there, so I'm kind of looking forward to it. They've made me a senior counsellor, so I'm sort of afraid of all this power I now hold. What do I do with it all!?
So this wasn't very interesting, but I am SURE I will have some good stories when I get back from camp. For now though, I shall leave you with the advice to WEAR SUNSCREEN. My back has now peeled and is 2 different colors. I have UV rays. Actually no, I love them, just not when they make me look like I have two different race's skin on my back.