getting closer

i'm stressed... and i dont even have a good excuse to be stressed. life is being good and all. but yet i feel the loads hanging over my head.

by the end of this week i need to get all my information in for the Art Institute; which I have prety much all of it in except my unofficial transcript from here and my fafsa forms, which isnt too bad. but then i feel like school got busy all of the sudden, which it didnt. then jon and i are both looking for jobs and have not yet recieved one. we have been trying for over a month, which totally sucks, pray for us please!

today

i wish most of all to walk through spearfish canyon. my greatest hearts desire for the day...

the fresh air breezing past me, the colors vibrating through my eyes, smelling the fresh crisp fall air as it enters and exits my body. i smile and imagine myself there, captured in the moment, driving up the slope of beauty or walking on the gravel as it crunches beneath my feet, water sofly running to my left. it speaks to me, whispering pleasurable things in my ears. my soul smiles with glee. but it is only a desire...

you know you are in college when...

you are walking accross campus and see a professor running to his next class.

noventa y ocho

98 days and 20 hours until I am married!!

life is crazy busy. i had my first spanish test on friday which i totally screwed it and failed, that was not cool at all. after that i waited a few minutes for jon and while doing that i got my laundry together and then him and i headed for home. the trip is only 140 miles. for some reason i thought it was longer than that. but going at 75 miles per hour its about 1 hour and 40 minutes.

i met up with shelli for a little bit at roseville mall. that was bundles of fun. it made me so happy just to see her beautiful face! that night after driving back home in the crazy rain (which i have to say i dont remember it raining this much in september since we moved into our house when i was 9) jon and i got back to my house and watched a movie. mya had a huge fit and was brought down and we couldnt hear the movie. i guess she is sick so whatever. anyways, jon stayed in my room (that was funny, kinda weird to think of my fiance sleeping in the bed i grew up in, in my parents house and it being ok). i stayed on erins couch thing in her room. it wasnt too comfortable.

saturday jon, erin and i headed to st. paul and went to shelli's cross country meet. it was huge! fun though. I wish I could have kidnapped her and shown her around the cities, all the cool sights. but that is alright, i really enjoyed seeing her. i miss her already! funny thing happened, i told the newspaper that i was going to be at a xc meet in st. paul and said that it was big and if they needed any pics for the paper cause they had talked about needing pics. and guess what UWS was there. so i took some bad pics with jon's digital. after the meet we went and ordered the wedding invitations, so check, another thing is done off the list. wow.

jon and i got back to campus around 7. its so beautiful up here. today we checked out a church and the time we went was there old start time. the people were really friendly though so maybe it will be a good one. then him and i went around the city and hicked, took some pics. it was good. i got some pics up on the hill of lake superior and down on minnesota point. it was very beautiful. perfect weather...

the promethean

and im in... i just got done with a meeting for the school paper, the promethean. i am now a photographer and on the editorial staff. that is very exciting! meaning im starting up in my major finally. the people seem really nice and will be good people to work with. it should be a good time. my first day taking pictures is this friday for a volleyball game. and im off...

me and mya

starting new

so jon and i obviosly started UWS this fall. through the orientation i found this guy that i had seen at sonshine a few summers in a row. so we have been playing with zach and jamie the last few days. last night we played penuchle (sp. error). that was really fun. zach and i were on a team and wooped jon and jamie (j to the second power). this morning we went to church with a them and then went out to luch with a few of the kids our age from the church. we all agreed that we are not going back to that church. it is good that we already have good christian friends that are awesome to hang out with. i have to say that has to be a God thing.

other than that, im kinda having a hard time getting used to everything. i think that it will be a lot better after classes actually start. but until then i dont know what we will do, play more games with jamie and zach i suppose. at least that is the plan for today. alright, later...

UWS

so i moved into the dorms yesterday. interesting times. before i left this year i had my mom take some pics at the stop sign/"bus stop" like when i was little. it was cool, i have to now download the pics off of jons camera (moms ran out of batteries, suprise suprise) but after we got that done jon and i were on our way out. yesterday i built up my loft and now i just have a little bit of organizing to do with my stuff. the dorms dont compare at all to BH's but whatever, it will all be good after i get used to it. dude and one of the get to know you game things i was talking to this kid and i had a double take. he was a guy that i had seen a few years ago at sonshine, he had always been at the showmobile. but anyways, jon and i talked to him and his girlfriend at dinner last night, i hope we stay cool, they seem really awesome. it was a good start to the new year at a new school.

i have lots of stuff to share about this summer, i just havent taken the time to sit down and type it out yet. sorry.

pics from colorado

another menial day

work was not too interesting today, i kept busy - yes. but i was fileing stuff prety much the whole time. and after a while, that does get boring.

yesterday on the contrary was a grand day. work went by fast and i wasnt fileing all day, i was writing a bunch of letters for randy. but last night was the best. i headed over to jons and he had a bonfire at his house on the beach. it was my first time having a bonfire on the beach (well besides the other day when he had another one) so i guess technically it was my second, but it was though my first time doing smores on the beach. haha. alright. chris and jottie came over and jake came down and hung out with us. steven was already there helping jon. after the fire had been finally started jake put a can of spray paint into the fire. i cant believe that kid is still alive. wow. anyways, the first one didnt do anything but the second made a huge band and burst of flames. it was really awesome. right when the bang happened jon's parents got home and heard it. they were a little weary about it. chris had been telling us the whole time about things that would happen because his uncle did that ever year on the 4th of July. It was totally cool though. the night was fun, ate some smores and then hung out at the fire until everyone left.

now i am ganna go, i have to finish reading the great gadspy. i have only like 10 pages left. i cant believe it is this late in the summer and i have only read one book. that is crazy, normally i have read a bunch by now. even last year i did and i had two jobs then too. oh well.

the latest moment captured

today was my last day at farmstead. it was kinda sad but yet crazy to think that i am done there. i will say that the evening went great and was a good ending to a worthwhile job. other than that not much is happenin. Jon and I are working on invitations and the cake. we start the marriage counciling this coming saturday and I get to volunteer at 3 degrees for the first time this friday!!! very exciting. other than that, I have started counting down the days until the move in day for fall semester of '06. crazy to think that i am a sophmore in college already. I am so excited and enthused; ready to get out of this house and out on my own again. 17 days until move in!! my roommate and I have emailed eachother a few times. not really gotten to know eachother too well, more-so business info being talked about.

here are some pics that i have taken lately. enjoy...

briskly leaving

summer vacation is briskly leaving us and hopefully the heat also. this last week has been beautiful weather wise, the week before that was horrid. it was up in the hundreds, without the humidity factored into that.

today was a great munday, to me it felt like sunday. it was my first day off in quite a while. except that i went back to work, farmstead, and volunteered for the first time in what seems like forever. i helped out with bingo on memory care 1 and then did aerobics of the mind which was very awesome. i enjoyed the aerobics soooo much. if i were here longer i would totally do it more often. with the AOTM you just tell weird stories found ask questions like what is something you would change about yourself, and then that gets all the people going. the ladies were so funny and sweet. they were telling stories about how they had traveled, laurane she said that she always wanted to be an artist, kathleen said she married her uncle (in law). that was an interesting story. another question was if you could change anything about your marriage, what would it be? a few of the ladies said it wouldnt have happened. i was suprised when a few of them said they had been divorced, in that generation it just suprised me. i could go on and on, there is so much that i would love to share but i need to get to bed. anyways, by volunteering today it reminded me on how much i like doing that. it gave me so much joy and i had a blast doing it. that is one thing i wish i had never stopped.

besides the volunteering i went out to jon's place today. we didnt really do much, hung around the house with his family, joke around with his brother while he made tacos. jake is a good cook, he has tallents in two totally different relms. i like jake though. other than that jon and his cousin steven are starting on all the landscaping so they had a bon fire, which was illegal (you couldnt jump over the flames unless you wanted to scold your crotch). it was good though; until the mosquitoes came out for the night. then they got the fire down and we headed in and watched another don knotts movie. we are having a movie marathon with don here some night. we have about 6 of his movies.

anyways, its off to bed. i have to get up tomorrow to work both jobs. fun fun. i only have two days left at farmstead which is kinda sad. like i said with one of the residents after the aerobics of the mind, you have to count your blessings. very true. later

lifes a joke

sorry, havent written for a while. i really had hoped that i would write more this summer. i know i did well until july came around the bend. i'm just going crazy now. the whole wedding and everything. i am very very excited to get married! i love my family and everything but i feel as if i am going to go insain. there is a lot to think about. at least some of the things are done; place, time, date, food, my dress, bridesmaids dresses, guys shoes/girls reception shoes (allstars!!) and so on. wowzers.

i feel like i have been working everyday all summer. which i prety much have, working everyday but friday at lake country homes, and then the weekends at farmstead. yet money is going in one side and out the other, dont really know where it is going. but anyways.

i am so excited to go back to school, one i get out of this crazy house, two i will have jon 5 minutes away instead of 60, third i am so excited to meet my roommate, fourth i miss school in general. i know the last is crazy to say but i do. yes, there is a lot to do at school, but i am ready to get going on my major. i'm so excited to finally be taking photography classes and stuff.... YES!!! So i go back to school for orientation on the 28th. i decided that i am going to go to the new kid orientation because its a good way to start getting to know people. also i think that if jon does it we shouldnt do the same activities so that we start fresh seperatly instead of starting out as one. i dont want to be one of those cupples stuck at the waist, where when you see one you know the other is coming shortly behind. we are kinda like that now but its summer, that doesnt count.

oh something cool, jon and i are going to do a Don Knotts movie marathon tomorrow after i am done working. it is ganna be great. other than that, yesterday i found the bridesmaid dresses and that is exciting. lots of other things have been going on but its time for me to go get ready for the day. later, hopefully i will write more often now that summer is quickly coming to an end.

a few new saying that i made up:
-fire is a reflection of heart's burning desires
-life only casts shadows into places you go without God
-love is a prectious gem formed in the depths of your heart