farewell farmstead

today i slept in, it felt so good and was well needed. it feels weird because i havent seen jon in two days. we have been hanging out prety much everyday for the last few weeks. I worked 4-7 today and turned in my farewell notice. I will be done working there on the 14th of August. I am excited to leave the place but also a bit saddened. Farmstead has impacted my life a lot. Not really the working there aspect but when I volunteered the people that I played games with and Lorainne, a lady i served at the terrace, were really cool. my letter said:
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July 22, 2006
Dear Cheryl,

I will not be able to work after August 14th, 2006. I am going out of town for a few days and then heading off to school the following week. I enjoyed working at Farmstead but it is time for me to move onto something new in life. Farmstead has taught me many different things and has given me countless humorous stories to share and laugh about. Through working and volunteering at farmstead my life has been bettered. Many of the residents have impacted my life and I will never forget them. Thank you for allowing me to work as a dietary aid; I have enjoyed serving you, my coworkers, and the residents. God bless.

Respectfully,
Carrie Anderson
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Yeah, kinda a sappy letter, but it is all true. Even though I did get ticked off at some people, and didnt like how things were going I would have to say all in all Farmstead has been a good experience in my life.

Tomorrow my dad and I are going on the Ride 4 Kids. This will be our 3rd or 4th year going. I hope Mrs. Fast will be there this year. She told me earlier in the year that she would be trying to come. After the ride, which is going to totally hurt my butt (sitting on the cycle that long, ouch), Dad and I are meeting up with my mom and we are heading over to club 3 degrees where we are meeting with Nance to talk about the wedding arrangements. I am very excited to be having our wedding there, it is going to be awesome. I hope that everything comes together right and that God just keeps everything in his hands allowing everything to go smoothly.

That reminds me, the other day I met up with Jon at Mall of America because he was near there dropping his sister off at the MSP airport. I had such a good time hanging out with him. We were just hanging out, which needs to be done. I feel like now every time we get together there is something about the wedding brought up and that make a strain on the relationship, we need to just hang out sometimes. Anyways, we walked around the mall, found some game shops. he bought a new folf disk and I played around with the mind games. Those things are way too addicting. I love it!! I'm pathetic. We also went on a few rides, like the ride that used to be called the "mistery mine ride" it was yogii and just wasnt that cool, then we went on the ferris wheel.

We headed back to our cars around 9 and hung out in the parking lot, we skateboarded a bit. I was wearing a skirt, I'm betting that must have been amusing. We also sat on the ledge post and looked out over the edge (we were on the top level) and we spit on this van bellow us. That is so bad but was so amusing. We tried to get it to land on the windshield. Funny. We had some good conversation in there too though. He said that one of the hardest things he has done emotionally has been to get engaged and he also said "it sounds selfish but I dont want you to die because it would hurt me." Yeah sounds kinda weird when I write it down but I totally understand how he feels. That is love there. He had to leave but I didnt want to, he said he didnt want to leave me alone there but I insisted that I would be alright. And I was. After he left I went back onto the ledge and thought through a lot of things. The weather was perfect a little breeze and the sound of cars humming past on the freeway. So badly at that time I wanted to drive away into the horizon and never turn around. I though about how God's majesty goes from horizon to horizon. It it is everywhere and God had so much power yet he is so gentle, allowing us humans to look at our surroundings and withold all his wonder and beauty. We are so blessed to serve the God that we do. Then I headed home and went to sleep. bad ending sorry.