Help my little sister and her friends get to church camp! Here is the site to help out as little or as much as you can! Any money will go towards lowering the cost of church camp for my sister and her friends. I am directing the camp this year - Miranda (my middle sister) is going to be a counselor - and hopefully with the help of friends...Aubrey (our youngest sister) and her friends from Friona, Texas can go to camp!
I am sitting in the airport with nothing better to do than blog to nothingness that is known as my friends list on xanga (no one posts on here anymore...damn myspace and facebook taking over everyone's lives).
I have decided that I pretty much have the coolest guy who hangs out with me...ever. My boyfriend and I decided not to exchange gifts this year and I was okay with that. We said that we would save the money to take a trip after my busy season ends...no idea where this alleged "trip" will be, but hopefully it happens - since both of us are tightening down on our expenditures for the new year...I still want to take one. Maybe Cali so I can see the ocean? Anyway - on with the story...he picked me up at my apartment at 5pm and drove me to the airport so I would not have to pay the outrageous $10/day fee to park in the garage for the time I will be home. He unpacks my suit case at the check in area and hands me a small present - very cutely wrapped in a "man-like" manner (it was wrapped well...but still in a man-like manner). I didn't know what he would have gotten me, but I managed to hold myself back from ripping open said package until through security. It was not one...but TWO Julia Nunes cd's :) Makes me very happy. In case you don't know who Julia Nunes is yet....she is some really cool girl I found on youtube. Check her out by clicking....HERE. Or you could watch here on my page....(as I have decided to embed her cute little video...one of them)
Anyway, I believe that is all. I am sitting here....DELAYED....but ok since my boyfriend is great and got me Julia Nunes cds that I can listen to :)
You are reading a post from the 2009 Camp Ziyoca Jr. High and Sr. High Camp Director.
I am scared...
Yesterday morning on my drive in to work - which was longer than the usual 2.4 miles because I crashed at my boyfriend's house after playing Rock Band 2 extra late - I was thinking about the upcoming "work year" which starts over May 1. I have a limited amount of vacation time and decided that maybe I would skip out on taking 5 of my days to go to church camp and maybe only take a few and go for the first weekend or something. At about 8:30am I get the email from our Regional director saying he has talked it over with his counselors and they wanted to extend the invitation to me to be the director at camp this year.
I have always known that I will do it eventually - just thought I'd have more time to really know myself before taking it over. I thought about it though - and there is no better time than right now. Does this mean that I'm now officially grown up? I mean - really even last year as a counselor I don't know if what I told my campers and how I was...was right. I mean - I try to be the best I can and see all sides of the story...I just feel that Rory always knew where he stood on issues...and I'm so much more indecisive. At least Bruce and John said they would help me out.
Well, I have to go to lunch now - but that's that. I officially accepted the position. We'll see how it shapes up.
I have long forgot how well xanga was to me in what seems to be my past life - but in reality I suppose is my present life long removed.
Life has done a complete 360 on me and I don't feel like the same person I once was and I don't believe I will ever be that person. In a way that is good - in a way...why would you WANT to go back to who you once were...you now have life experiences that you didn't back then which have shaped you into who you are now. You can never technically go back. You can still change in the future though. I hope to change - in fact, I believe it to be inevitable but I am now choosing now to fight against the change.
"You can remain in your present idea about yourself, or you can choose again. I like the idea of choosing again. Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow."
In this past year I have been blessed. I look back now (as it is the end of the year and now is the time for re-evaluating life eh?) and I see everything I went through this past year in a different life. I'm just going to start listing "life events" now...see where it leads.
1. Worked my butt off - enough hours in January to make up 2 months worth of 40 hour work weeks. I hated life...missed the boy I had started to talk to (Nov. 16, 2007 to be exact) and was unsure of my future with KPMG at this point. 2. My Gramps went into the hospital and had to have triple bipass surgery on SuperBowl Sunday. I was still working long hours but luckily the hospital allowed me in ICU to see him when I got off work and made it over there at 8pm (even though visiting hours were only until 6pm) 3. I got really incredibly sick - advanced case of strep throat...same week as my birthday and Valentine's day. Missed a lot of work - Sherwey came over and cooked me homemade chicken noodle soup. He also sent me amazing StarGazer lillies to work which I absolutely loved. 4. March comes along and KPMG laid me off - well correction...I was asked to resign effective April 15 but did not need to go back into work for the rest of that time. 5. April 7 - started work at Henry & Horne - my new "home" as far as work goes. H&H has been really good to me. 6. Started playing sand volleyball with a great bunch of people and made many new friends. Also joined an indoor volleyball league and started playing on a softball league. Haven't stopped playing yet! 7. Sherwey and I took a trip to Vegas (my first time in Vegas) for Susan's 40th birthday. I had a blast and can't wait to go back! 8. I stepped back into history with a trip to Iowa for Cassie's wedding. I partied with Charlie and the boys...realized that maybe I had changed more than I thought I had in just over a year. 9. I decided to embark on a journey - I participated in the Breast Cancer 3 Day where I had to raise $2,200 for the cause and in November we walked 60 miles in 3 days (that is 20 miles a day!). It was one of those "lifetime experiences" people talk about. It shaped me into a better person. 10. I went on a trip to see the Balloon Festival in Albuquerque (finally!). It was great - Sherwey and I spent the day at the festivities and I was in awe the whole time! 11. Sherwey and I along with David and Joel went down to Rocky Point, Mexico for a weekend volleyball tournament! It was my first time in Mexico and also my first time playing sand volleyball on an actual beach! Be expecting more of that from me in the future! 12. Sherwey and I went for a camping trip up North for "Ales on Rails" - an Octoberfest party on a train that takes you through the Verde Canyon. 13. November 16 rolled around - one year for Sherwey and I. What a crazy thought...I think we could last another. 14. I got my first "live-on-my-own" apartment in December. I am now a proud renter of a 2 bedroom/2 bathroom with a garage and washer and dryer in apartment. It's very cool to come home to no roommates.
That's all for now. There are tons of things I missed but these were most of the "majors". I am happy and active and not depressed all the time. I have doubts about things in my life - like...maybe audit isn't my place in the world...but for the most part I love what I do and I have a really great life free from most of the problems I see others carrying around me.
I welcome another year. I welcome changes that will be apparent inside of me this time next year. I get excited in a giddy way when I think of the possibilities for the future!
