Gumby

So Gumby.... or Adam.... whichever you perfer, apparentally likes me....

Ok so Sumo (Brittany) was talking to him yesterday and without even mentioning me he started to spill the beans. He likes me (thinks I'm cute and could be a potential girlfriend) but, he has been on again off again with a girl back home and apparentally he was talking about all of the red flags that there are with the relationship back home..... He is seriously an amazing guy and I really do like him!


I didn't come to work here at Frontier Ranch in hopes of finding a boyfriend... actually I gave my liking of boys over to God. You see I figure that by me giving God the power of something I really don't need in my life then he will bless me with the right one and there are so many GOOD things about Adam.

For starters he is a christian ( a frim believer at that), he is all that I can imagine as far as the personality goes, he goes to APU which HELPS a lot.... and there's just so much that I can't describe....




P.S. I'll try to post a picture of him sometime soon

Camp Name

So here at Frontier Ranch all camp staff have nick names and for those who are new staff get names by the end of the week....

Last night was the naming ceremony, I waited anxiously as all the other staff gave ideas for nick names by yelling and screaming trying to get their idea noticed by me.... here were they're suggestions

• Chipper
• Spontaneous
• Ginseng
• Gouda (but pronounce the "g")
• Sweet Pea
• Freckles

So which do you think became my nick name I bet you'll never guess it......

Sweet Pea

So here is how I got the name. A few of the other girl counselors and I were talking about going to the bathroom. One of them was saying how she had been peeing pretty much every hour, I laughed and said "If you think that's bad I peed for almost 2 whole minutes!" Everyone responded with that's a "sweet pee". The name stuck and was brought up during the naming ceremony.... but "pee" is not appropriate so it is spelled "pea".

Onomatopoeia, Button, Sumo, Sweet Pea

Going to square dance dressed as bandits

Update!

So it's been 4 days at Frontier Ranch and it has been so far so good. Learning everything to do and all the rules has been a lot to take in but it's all worth it. So many CUTE boys (I'm blushing if you couldn't tell). I am an official "belay"er... for the rock wall. :) Yesterday we had a free night so all of the girls went out for ice cream at Marie Anne's.... it was really, really amazing! After ice cream we started to get ready for our sleep out on the stage and watch a movie as well. The boys bless their hearts, walked on to the stage singing to all of us girls they were dressed in their best attire... and THEN they said that to make everything more special for our girls night they served us barbie and my little pony fruit snacks and popcorn and juice... it was really cute.... when they were leaving the stage they sang goodnight sweetheart...



Then this morning came and it changed everything that was appreciated! 6 in the morning WE woke up to the battle music from pirates of the carribean and water balloons were thrown to wake us up.... not happy campers now are we....



to be continued

I'm not ready yet

I leave in 2 and a half days and there is no way that I'm ready...
I caught the PROCRASTINATION bug.... I caught it badly :o(

I just don't feel like I've packed enough... or I don't have everything I need... ugh.... I hate packing!
2 day trip not a problem, 1 week sure why not, but almost 3 months what do you pack your whole wardrobe?



I gotta go and pack wish me luck....

What she doesn't know

My sister Courtney doesn't realize how much I'm going to miss her. Even though I complain about her acting more like a mom than a sister, I am going to miss her a lot overr the summer and when I go off to college. I've been ignoring the fact that I will miss her, but it hit me hard today on how much I appreciate the time I spend with her, and that I really will miss her! I like hanging out with her and running errands with her and being her little tag along sister but this summer is going to change all of that because there won't be any hanging out, running errands, or tagging along.... :o(


This is to you Courtney.... I'm gonna miss you, more than you can imagine!

Choices

I got this story as an e-mail and thought it to be an inspiration. I think when I get the moving e-mail's I'm going to post them, and share them with you!

Choices

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a natural motivator.

If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, "I don't get it!

You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"

He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be in a bad mood.

I choose to be in a good mood."

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.

"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations You choose how people affect your mood.

You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."

I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.

I saw him about six months after the accident.

When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins...Wanna see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

He continued, "..the paramedics were great.

They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man' I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'."

Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."

He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.



Attitude, after all, is everything.



Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34.



After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Interesting week...

This last week was my last week working as the Children/ Youth Intern at Hilmar Covenant Church. Friday was my last day... I had mixed feelings, I was comfortable with my job and the people I worked with , but I've been ready to move on with my life and grow up or should I say ween myself from my mom (it's like I'm still attached to the umbilical cord.... ewwwwww...) ANYWAYS... So on Wednesday I had a doctor's appointment for a mole on my back and arm and stomach and face and neck.... (I don't use sunscreen as much as I should to put it lightly), I was scared that I had cancer.... LOL in other terms I freaked out and thought the worst possible thing good thing it was a false alarm! My appointment was 30 min. north from where I live so my mom and I made the most of our trip up. We went shopping! I got a one piece (I haven't worn a one piece since the third grade....) and I exchanged some shorts that I got awhile ago they didn't fit like they did when I tried them on... once we got home I immediately started to get ready for the Josh Turner / Carrie Underwood Concert!!! Let me tell you it was an AMAZING concert!!! After the concert we went to The Cheesecake Factory and of course we had cheesecake it was so yummy!
My sister Courtney bought the whole entire collection of Sex in the City so for the past week we have been trying to catch-up (we're seeing the movie on Tuesday with a lot of other girls).
On Friday I had to go and straighten somethings out at Merced Community College all dealing with my transcripts being sent to Azusa Pacific University... 2 hours later I hope they did what I had asked them to do... it was so frustrating!!! After I dealt with stupid-heads in Merced, I had to go to work for my last day working there...


Needless to say it hit me today that I will be leaving for the summer (11 weeks) in one week... I'm so scared and sad and excited and anxious all at the same time that it makes me all the more sad to be leaving my mom and dad all summer not even being able to talk to my mom everyday if I'm lucky once a week... OH GOD BE WITH ME!