two full days left!

Friday. . . Saturday. . . Sunday! chaching, that's when we leave for China 3:05 on Sunday afternoon. Joe picks us up and we try to be to the airport by noon. this aught to be interesting. i still have to pack and get some other stuff ready. i had asked my teachers for the homework for the next few weeks but they didnt know what they were for sure going to do next week so i will probabaly get an incomplete in most of my classes for the quarter but i can get that all figured out when we get back. Sunday is the last day i will be in America with only one sister. crazy to think about. i am so used to being the middle child, the oldest of the two girls. this will take a little bit-o-time to get used to. it will be awesome. God is blessing my family with a beautiful little girl!
oh today my whole english class went to the mandrin buffet for lunch. it is our field trip for english because we read The Good Earth which is a book about China so Mrs. Fast brought us their. that was great. Mrs. Fast sat by Janelle, Steph, and me. She talked a lot about the Tary Sheilbout (wrong spelling) case. i guess the lady passed away this morning and that was huge in the quarts. i dont fully understand the whole thing myself.
I also volunteered today. i finally figured out where Buck got, "where did all the yellow go?" from. I guess it used to be on a commercial. funny. it was fun to play uno today. im kinda sick of the game honestly but i like being able to talk and have fun with the people there. i leaned today that Kathleen had 6 kids and a great husband and that she never had to work out of the home. she said that she really liked it and that she was very blessed. its cool to hear other peoples stories.
i was on my way home from farmstead and just waiting at the light to cross highway 65 when i remembered i was supposed to pick up my sister after softball around 4:30. oops. i crossed 65, got gas at work and then drove back to school to pick erin up. thankfully she had just got out of practice around 5. im losin it. oh well what can i do.

the Herman  

What babes! Molly and Jenny at the girls b-ball game in the Target Center 

my snow babe! what a cute puppy-dog 

up to the top 

oh jon, you silly! 

ragtime blues 

my cute sister ages ago 

after, the ol' sweet room 

before i cleaned my messy room 

hide and go seek

my friday. today was beautiful. including the weather. i woke up late to the phone ringing. no one was in the house which was a suprise cause i barely ever home alone these days. beccah was on the phone calling from california. she said it is very nice out there in temp and so on.
i went to holiday and picked up my check and ran into tony, the manager. i always feel so weird around him. first of all he is above me in rank but below me in height. (hahah) i went to forest lake to the bank and then went back to the once peaceful house that is now one with loud crazy people romping around. after that i went to work at farmstead. it was not bad at all tonight 7 people were down at the terrace. im learning their names better every day. im so happy about that. i talked to tim, the cook, about the passion. and then after i was done cleaning up the kitchen in the terrace i went back to the main kitchen and they were having a water fight with the hose over by where you clean the dishes. one of the girls told me to run. no i was dumb and didnt. somehow i got involved with this and got my back all wet so in the car i didnt lean up against the seat. anyways that was fun. it helped me get to know some of my roudy coworkers.
i called jared after work because we were supposed to get together but he wasnt going to be home for another hour so i went drove to st. francis and stopped at dougs work and said hi to him. he was quite suprised. then i drove all the way back down to northtown and went to a book store where they sell some records along with the books and i bought a some cool jazz. sweet!
i gave jared a call again and we decided to meet at andover theatres and see robots. well i got there and stood, and stood, and stood. i couldnt find him. i called his cell a few times and he didnt answer then i went in bought a ticket that hmm. . . "maybe he would be already in the movie and watching it wondering where i was." well he wasnt in watching it either. so i went back out stood for a few more minutes, went back in again and watched the rest of the movie. it wasnt that good. then as i was walking out of the theater i looked to my right and there was this guy standing at the doors at the end of the hallway. i swear i stood there staring for at least a minute while he stared back. i decided to go out the left door and check this out. well by the time i got to the front the guy had come around and was walking towards me. it was jared. horray!!
i guess he had gone to the elk river theater and was doing the same thing i was doing here. and then he figured that he had said here and so on and so forth the story goes. anyways we drove around a bit looking for a coffee shop or something but none of them were open it was like 10:30. so we ended up just chillin in the theaters parking lot. we talked about some cool stuff. kinda just caught up on eachother and stuff. whatever came our way. we drank some great jones soda and then it became 11:35 and i had to leave cause my mommy told me i had to be home by midnight and here i am right now typing to you this overview of my day.

thats rubish, poppycock

yeah sleeping in is good. i actually didnt sleep in as late as wished. my cell phone went off and woke me up. i rumiged around trying to find it but i couldnt get it out in time. i missed the mark. so i actualy got up before noon today.
erin and i went over to forest lake and i opened a savings account finally. i also cashed my check from last week. it was such a beautiful day out today that we drove around with the windows open and i got a car wash. the ice cream that got on the side of the car is still there. i should probably scrub it off sometime soon here. after we got the car wash we went to target to get some envelopes and other odd things.
i worked today at farmstead again. i like it so far. im still struggling with the peoples names. i decided also today that i worry way to much about what other people say about me or whatever. i just need to give that up. its hard though. yes i have a weekness, well many but im not going to admit them right now. just kiddin.
while i was helping cheryl in the kitchen dish up the food and the other people were serving this man came to the kitchen door and chuched a radish into the kitchen that was really funny. i guess the man didnt like his food. cheryl i dont liked it to much. but she was to busy worrying about running out of rice that i dont think she took to big of a note about it. anyways otherwise work went prety ok today. i got things done prety quick and am getting better at doing it right. alright i think im ganna go get some laundry done. later babes

teddy gram vs. hansolo 

breaking down

today was cool. i woke up at like 8:30 and got ready for church. i had to be there at 9:30 because i was on the worship team today. because i had to be there at that time it meant that i had to leave by 9:10. church starts at 10. then i had to work at 11 so i had to leave church right after the worship service. today was palm sunday.
i worked until 3 today. i was scheduled to work 11-7 and then they changed it to 11-2 but i ended up staying until 3 cause one of the girls was going to train me it but i got bored cause we didnt have much work to do in the kitchen so i just left. she can train me in another day. i think i did prety good for the first time at the terrace by myself and only having one day of training. after i was done with the checklist at the terrace i went back to the main kitchen and helped chop onions, yeah i started to cry it was so emotional and all ya know. i helped do a few other things and then like i said i left cause there was nothing better to do. i dont like feeling like im wasting my time, especially at work becuause i am getting payed for my time.
after that i was about to walk out to my car but then i remembered that i had told anne that i would stop by and talk to her some day. in room 207, she always reminds me every time she grabs my arm and talks to me. we sat together for i dont even know how long on her couch. she is a funny, funny, sweet lady. she always tells me how people are so glum here at farmstead and how you shouldnt look at life that way and how she could do the same because she lost her "hunny" a few months ago and they had "such great love." yeah i enjoy talking to some of the people there. she told me i should promise to take her to baker square some day. i guess they have sugar free apple pie, she cant eat sugar cause of allergies i do believe. so i dont like making promises but i told her i would try. she told me about her daughters and the good cookies she makes and so many other things. yes she did repeat herself a few times becuase i think she is in the early stages of dementia but i still enjoyed it.
after i got back out to my car i looked at my cell phone and i had a reminder that it is bobby's b-day today. i sent him a message saying, "happy birthday slick" he always calls me slick cause i used that word a lot when we hung out. so he then invited me to his b-day party. yeah mitch, drew, and a few girls from his church were there. it was kinda cool. not the coolest time ever but i still enjoyed it. we played frisbee in the park near his house with 3 frisbees. then we sat around and mitch told stories about odd times in his life. crazy kid.
then i went shoppin for some black pants for work and a pair of jeans. i found some cool ones got that off my list of things to do this week. then i just went home.
right as i got home tiffany from holiday called me and asked if i could go in and take her place for the last few hours of the shift. i thought i would be nice and i would like the money so i did. it was boring.
i talked to my friend jared for a while and i told him i cant go to prom with him cause i will be in china. that would have been cool if i could have though. we are going to see if we can get the group af st. franny friends together on friday just to chill. that would be awesome!
then i called jon cause i always enjoy talking to him. we talked for a few hours and it was good. we talked about some stuff that took thought and i think we learned more about eachother so that i always think is good. im like that he understands how i feel about mcccs. i dont like that he is going through the same thing but at least we are on the same level. i miss him.
anyways off to bed i go. later gator.

something new

hello, today was my visit to Black Hills State University. It was awesome. I obviously didnt go to school today or yesterday. Yesterday my dad and I left on our way to Spearfish, SD at about 10 in the morning. I drove the whole way there. we took 169-60-I90 and that took us there. it was fun. dad and i had bonding time. oh the most interesting thing that happened yesterday was that i got my first speeding ticket. i was going 85 in a 75mph zone. it was actually kinda funny cause dad was recording for erin and i was paying attention to him and all the sudden, the cop came after me. i just thought it was kinda funny cause my dad was sitting there right next to me and i was on the way to visit a college.
we got to spearfish around 7 and then stopped at the hotel then drove around town. found the church i was looking at on the internet and just checked it all out.
today dad and i woke up at 8 and got ready. we got to the college at 9:20 or so. we had the info in a conference room and talked to teachers got more info. they answered some questions of ours and took a look at our majors in smaller groups. after that a girl named erin, our guide, showed us around the campus. that was fun. the more i see it the more i like it. it is so beautiful there with the mountains surrounding the town. i love that. i have always wanted to live in the black hills. so cool, i cant wait. after the tour we had lunch and then went back for some more lecture. some students came in and answered some questions like the teachers had. they told us about it from the students point of view. that was cool. looks good to me.
dad and i left for home right after it was all done so that i could be home tomarrow cause i have to work. i wish we hadnt had to leave. he drove the whole way home and i fell asleep for a few hours. i read a lot too on the way home until it got too dark to read. i so wish i could go back. i didnt want to come home.

dates

hip hip horray, hip hip horray!!!! we got the dates of when we are going to china!!!
Leave MPLS on 4/3
Arrive Beijing on 4/4
Arrive Changsha on 4/7
Get Mya on afternoon 4/7 or morning 4/8
Visa appt. in Guangzhou on 4/14
Home 4/16
today was my first day of actually working my new job at farmstead. this kid that showed me the ropes, his name is chad i think, he asked me if i had ever smoked or done drugs and drank. i said no cause i havent and he thought that was really weird. he also thinks im a rich kid cause i go to a private school which is totally ludicrous. then i used a big word cause i think that is cool and he thought that i was crazy. he thought i was some rich very smart kid. not true. haha i got a kick out of that.
i guess he is a sk8er and so on. all in all it wasnt a bad night at work. it was really nice to get off at 7.
then i went and cashed my checks that i have been putting off for at least 3 weeks. then off to nights school for the first time in forever. i asked dan (the teacher) how many hours i have gotten done and it is about 32. i believe that a full credit is 70 so i just need 35 cause i only need a half credit. so i should only have to do a few more packets to get that half credit done for sure. sweet. life is simmering down now!

where does everybody go?

today was cool. i fell asleep during english after mrs. soberg gave us all cookies that she had made. she was our sub cause mrs. fast was out with the sophomores at the diary of anne frank. then i had jazz band and i fell asleep in there too cause we had a free hour today because of all the solos. grant took his trumpet mouth piece and blowed in my ear. he attempted to say my name in it and so on. before that he had stole my glasses and went to the bathroom, came back and said he looked good in them. whatever. funny kid. the rest of the day wasnt bad at all. i redid the yearbook bulliten board. now it looks like a checker board. its cool. i dont know what im ganna write on it.
today at work this kid that hung out with me in my science class came in and we talked for a few minutes. i said to him, "hey were we in the same science class a few years ago." and he said, "i thought you looked familier, are you the one who drew the picture of a tree with a clock?" i cant believe he remembered that. i still have that drawing. i remember that he more so hung out with me. i felt bad for him and hung out with him and had him join our group and conversations. he was a cool kid but not one that everyone liked which is sad. oh well. there is my story for the day. intriguing.

another job

trina brought her new dog to school today. she had it sitting on the table for a while during bible. it peed on mr. mulvuhills floor and her jacket. that was funny. yeah an experience to never forget i suppose. she has changed a lot throughout the years. i like who she has become though. trina is cool
today i got trained in a bit at farmstead. i did some reading on the computer Deb showed me the terrace kitchen that i am going to be working in for the next few weeks. she said it is the easier one to work in. i just pray that God gives me peace so and an open mind so that i can remember everything that i need to do and do it right the first time. i think this is going to be a cool job. just a bit diff than working at holiday. i will be working a lot. hopefully not too much that i become consumed with working. my goal in life is to never become as busy as dena is. i hope i can keep that. i dont want life to consume me i want to consume life. if that made any sence.
oh my gosh we still havent gotten the dates for going to china. i cant wait any longer. it is starting to just get plane anoying. lets just get the dates and go. mya mya mya just come home already!

a dream or reality

wow, i had to get up this morning and be at work by 6 which always sucks. work wasnt too bad though. it felt like it would never end though. i wanted to go and not be there of all places.
after work i headed out to jon's house. we drove around again looking for cool things to do. we stopped at a park but it was too cold to really stay there too long. or at least i thought so. we went here and there. we stopped at segue cafe and played on the computer and then played pac man and a race game while sitting on a really comfy couch where i could have fallen asleep. then we stopped over in brooklyn center at the rio grande (a water park hotel thing). that is where my dads work party get together thing was held. my dad had told me that he would like it if i stopped in. jon, erin, beccah, and i played ping pong there. i totally suck. well i don think i actually suck but i do when im not trying to play seriously. it makes it just as fun if you cant play.
i talked with my parents and whoever they were talking to for a few minutes then was reintroduced to cheryl who is my dads boss' wife. she had given me an elephant stuffed animal before my surgery. the elephant went into the surgery with me and was at my side the rest of the way. he even got a name tag. anyways that was off the subject. yep
so jon and i left and then drove around a bit more. we ended up going to this park in brookly park by my old house that we had gone to about 4 years ago. we had played in the park that time but it was too cold this time. again we sat in the car and hung out. the windows fogged up and it was kinda funny when other people drove up next to us. they would turn around and drive off. i had a really good time hanging with him. it was his last day before he had to go back to college. i wish we could be closer. i guess life is just that way. we held hands all the way back to his house. when we got there i didnt want to say goodbye. i hate saying goodbye.
on the way home i could have fallen asleep i was so tired. i had been up since 5:30 that morning and it was like 12:30 when i got home and said goodnight to my dad. then i hit the sack.
its interesting how some things turn out totally diff. than you thought they would. sometimes they turn out so much better than you ever imagined!

play the game

only a half day of school! horray! today we got kicked out of school at 11:00 because our girls basket ball got to state. we played against the team with the girl that has is the lead scorer in MN for both boys and girls. i think they werent a cool team. the reffs were on their side and they just wasting time at the end of the game. it was cool we had to go because of pep band like always. erin and i drove seperate and stopped and ate. we cause up with the crew at the target center and snuck in some food for molly in my sax case and then my purse. lol. that was interesting. yeah then after the game erin and i went back into the parking ramp and she took out the clarinet and started playing a few songs. she played a song from lord of the rings. that sounded awesome. how it vibrated through the whole parking lot.
after we got home i cleaned a bit and jon came over. we watched monty python and the holy grail. half way through i got yelled at by my dad (which barely ever happens). i had allowed erin to take the car down the drive way to get the mail and on her way back in the garage she hit the car on the side wall. making a dent in the car and skrewing up the garage door. she didnt tell me this though. whatever, so her and i are paying for damage. i took the credit. it was my fault. im the older sister.
after all that happened jon and i drove around stopped and said hi to my brother at work. its cool that they finally met. im glad about that. then him and i went and had hot coco/tea whatever and then attempted to play mancolla. then we again drove around and eventually stopped at my school and sat in the parking lot and talked for a while. that was cool.

still waiting

we still didnt get the dates for us to go to china to pick up mya. we should just get them. im sick of waiting.
Jon met me at school today and i showed him around the small maze we call meadow creek. then he went to farmstead and volunteered with me. we got a rootbeer float for some reason today, i dont like them so jon ate mine too. yeah we played uno like always. i hope he liked it. i always do like playing with them. i was thinking about it and do i act totally diff. in diff. places. like was do i act the same at school as i do farmstead or work? well i dont know i dont think i do too much. i think some places im a little more reserved or have more manners. whatever. after we played uno we went back to the school where his car was and sat there for a bit talking. that was cool.

oh napolean

today was cool. some of the pressure is going down. i dont have much homework this week which is good but i really need to get my night class homework done soon here so that i can graduate on time.
today at school we had a pep-fest 8th hour. it was fine. better then the normal one which are boring becuase its people telling us about all the games and what not. well today we had one because our girls basket ball has won at least, i think it is, 25 game streak. so i believe they are going into tounament tonight. the funniest thing about the was a kid named Aundrey Blaine, a 10th grader, did the napolean dynamite dance infront of the whole school. yeah he even walked and talked like him too. that was a riot. everyone was laughing there tush off. there was my interesting day. :) peace out!

Sunday, Fun-day

yeah, today was quite busy. i could say im worn out. first of all, last night i stayed up talking to Jon. that is always cool to do. then i got up for church went to church, started a conversation about salvation in sunday school (it was cool), then went and picked up Jon, drove to minneapolas to the bus station to pick up jason. when jon and i arived in the cities we had about an hour left until jason's bus arived so jon and i had a grand time of walking around.
when the bus arived i met jason finally. we had only talked on the phone. it was kinda crazy to meet him for the first time. im glad jon was there with me. anyways after that we walked around the three of us. got kicked out of a book store. i took a few pictures, then we drove to riverdale by my school. ate food then they chased me outside grabbed me and put snow on my neck. dirty snow for sure. then we dropped jason off at anna's house. she was really suprised when he showed up at her door.
by this i was starting to melow out and get a bit tired. even though the two of us didnt talk much on the way home i was like that we were together. it was cool. when we reached his home we went in and told his parents that we are dating. yeah i was a bit nervous. its cool though, we have been good friends for around four years. and he is my best friend. i do feel bad though about not keeping my word to myself that im not going to date until i graduate. so now all i have to do is tell my parents. after that i drove home. when i got home i talked to my parents for a bit and then hit the sack.

too early

oh my goodness. that was way too early to get up this morning. i had to be at school at 8:15 and remember it is a saturday. we went to a jazz workshop thing at the University of Minnesota. we didnt take a bus becuase there is only like 18 of us in the jazz band. so we took 5 cars. 2 had to leave early including me. well anyways rudzidis obviously doesnt know the campus too well cause we were late to the audotorium to warm up. we only had enough time to put our instraments together and scramble onto stage. we didnt play horrid but it still wasnt the best. then after that we went into a room and were "worked on" or taught some diff. things by two band teacher pps. that was kinda weird. i was still half asleep. my dad had come down to my room at 7:30 and asked me if i was getting up. i had set my alarm clock and checked it twice last night to see if it was on but i guess i must have shut it off this morning in my sleep. i havent been getting much sleep lately.
ok anyways back to the concert. once we were walking out of the room my friends Doug and Eva yelled my name and that totally made my day. they are from st. francis where i used to go and i totally miss all of them. i have been thinking about calling them and getting together but being me i havent. my heart started to beat faster cause i was so excited (no joke). i hugged both of them and then we talked a bit and i had to go put the tenor sax away. i wish i could have stayed and talked to them more. caught up with them. doug did take my cell phone number though.
on the way home micah and grant rode with me cause they both had to go to work too. i didnt get lost, i made it straight to 35w all knowing where i was. that was good. grant applauded me there. then we went out to eat. they made fun of me and really girls in general that we eat very self conciously. which is true. and grand was making fun off me too saying that i could never stay mad at anyone or really physically hurt a person. i think i could depending on.
after i dropped off grand and micah at school i was sitting at the stop light outside of school and grant was behind me. yeah we turned when the light turned green and we raced. yeah i lost. the mazda doesnt speed up too quick. the best part about then was that off of Hanson on that corner was a kid that looked like Napoleon Dynamite. that was so funny. then i messaged grant to ask if he had seen the kid. he did. that was a great laugh. but i still say the best thing so far today is that i got to see some of my good friends from st. francis.
alright i get the privilage of going to work at two today! horray! anyways i hope it goes well. enjoy!

jobs

oh wow, i got the job at farmstead. that will be cool. i think for now since they dont know the hours i will be having each week that i am ganna keep the job at holiday and work there one day a week. on like saturday or sunday. i feel bad for ditching rochelle and jeremy. i know that jeremy can handle it and so can she but we are buds. we make work fun for eachother. oh my gosh rochelle told me yesterday that she told this kid josiah that used to work with us that i like him. why she did that i have no clue. then she was telling me how her and jeremy were talkin about me and i guess he still likes me but he agrees with me that we wouldnt work as a couple. if that is so, i just dont know. whatever. life is crazy.
oh and i got lots of my yearbook stuff done. the roll of film that was missing rhonda finally told me where it was instead of just not listening to me. whatever. i got my captions put in. now i just have a little bit left. horray!
i think after this week passes some of the stress that i am under will be gone. that will be nice. my dad and i are going to work on fafsa for the college stuff tonight instead of going to church. i feel bad about that but i need to get it done. im going, im going. later friend.