It's Official

My Christmas break has offically started. As of 10:50 this morning I am free to be without class obligations for 3 whole weeks. I am very very happy!

I will be spending my break up here at school babysitting for Dorothy once again this year. They are having a rough time, so I hope I can bring some Christmas cheer to the family.

I go home this weekend to have the Noll family Christmas. I am in charge of a fruit platter with dip!! i am looking forward to making it.

On Friday I am Krista's date for Brenda Brakes wedding. It's going to be good. I hear we get really tastey food!

I am still not sure what I want for Christmas. I think I will look online and get some ideas. The only thing I can think of it an air purifyer and maybe a couple movies or something. My mom is taking me shopping to get some nice clothes. It will be good to have some stuff I can wear in the winter... I need some nice sweaters so I stop wearing my sweatshirts. Jeans are on sale at Target so I might ask for a few pair!

Today I ate a ranch burger. MMMMMMM! I love ranch. I thought I hated it until about a year ago when I went to Outback Steakhouse and tried their ranch on cheesey fries. Now I am in love with it. Well, maybe not in love, but I like it a lot.

Ok, I am off to see what I want for Christmas!! bubberoo!!!

note to Sara: I am on a computer that for some reason doesn't give me the option to make my words pretty colors and bold them. You'll have to be creative and add emphasis as necessary!

The End of the Semester as we Know it!

Hello folks. It's the end of what has been a long and laborious semester. I am so exhausted.

I still have one more week to go, a week of finals. All of my tests are probably going to be very hard and I don't know how well I'll do on them. I am learning, which is good... Just not testing well.

Although it will be a week of stress it will also be a week of fun. I will be hanging out with my friends and stuff, which should prove to be good times.

Although fun it is going to be sad. Some of my friends are leaving. Laura is going back home to student teach, Ryan and Sara are going to Minnesota... It's going to be tough. Living with Laura has been great and we are buddies more than I could have imagined before. I have grown close to Ryan and especially Sara since I have been here. It's going to be weird to not see them around. I think I will cry a lot. Yeah, I am sure I will.

Tonight I am frustrated because I don't understand the material for my exam tomorrow. It's a sociology class. I can find the answers in the book, but I don't know what they mean necessarily. So I feel dumb and discouraged most of the time I have spent studying so far.

I am looking forward to sleeping. And then getting up in the morning and going to church and laughing at the kids do their cantata, and then going to a surprise shower for Megan. It's going to be a blast. Oh, then I get to watch Survivor too! It's the season finale, so you better tune in!! 8-11 pm tomorrow!!

I hope all those who I haven't talked to in a while are doing good. I miss my Goodrich peoples, and Joylynn, and Family too. Oh Bubby, how I miss you!!! I want to kiss your cheek!!

Ok, I am signing off for now!! See ya lata!!

Georgia

Georgia is a very pretty place... Well, Atlanta and the path from Atlanta to Gwinnet is all I saw, but it was still nice.

I went to Atlanta for a church conference called catalyst. It is a conference started by John C. Maxwell for the future leaders of the church. I got to hear a lot of inspirational speakers, and important people. I also got to walk around and visit a variety of different booths that had lots of free stuff and brochures. The price of food was outrageous, and I had a fun time with some traveling troubles, but overall the two days I was there rocked. I went to a Third Day concert where Toby Mac opened. I have not words to describe how cool it was. I felt so close to God there in that arena... Ah, it rocked!!

I just saw a guy I used to like (we kinda dated in that we hangout with purpose) who was using me as a rebound holding hands with another girl... it has only been three weeks since he told me he didn't want to pursue anything with me and that he still needed to get over his girl friend of four years that he had before me. hmmmm.... funny how "quickly" things like that can happen.

Anyway, that is not really important, it just happened a few seconds ago and instead of raging inside I decided to just let go by typing it to all of my readers.

I had a really laughable stressful time in the doughnut shop this last Saturday. I ended up ruining lots of doughnuts and we sold out, and I ended up working for like ten hours starting at 7:7:00 Am with one 30 minute break at around 3:30. I thought I was going to explode from working my brain so hard to try and think of a way to get everything done in the heat of the moments, but I made it out alive and all I can do now is chuckle at my misfortune! LOL!!

Woooooo! I am going to go hang out with my super cool friend Michelle and maybe Tricia too! They are the cutest little babes I ever did see. Ok, shout to ya'll LATA!!

The Edge!

This weekend InterVarsity went on our annual retreat to the upper penninsula in Cedarville Michgan at a place called Cedar Campus.

It is a beautiful place to meet with God, learn, and have fun and bonding with friends. The air is crisp and fresh and the water is beautiful.

It wasn't a typically Cedar Campus weekend for me, but it was still great. I hung out with new people and made new friendships.

The first night Megan and I hosted a girlie night in our room. Tricia was staying with us too, and she let us use her bed for a station too. We called it Sister (Me) and Cookie's (Megan) Spa of Love! We set up stations all around the room for manicures, peticures, facials, and sensual MAssages. Most of the girls came and enjoyed the fun. Megan... I mean Cookie and I talked in our Russian accents (I think it's Russian anyway). We put our hair up and put on lots of makeup. It was very enjoyable! I got to scrub everyone's faces which brings you closer to a person for sure!

The second day was full of excitement. There was a fall off a one-story rock that involved a tree and a very swollen elbow, an engagement, a baptism, and Salvation for one of our group members! It was indeed an eventful day, full of action! There was a party in Heaven and I was priveldged to be part of the excitement here on earth when Chris decided to accept Christ. I will never forget that day.

It was good to be back at Cedar Campus once again for a weekend. The food was good, and so was the weather. The new people in InterVarsity are totally awesome and I love them already!

Oh, regarding my last post... I was having a hugely crappy day. I have been getting better ever since I posted, but life is still weird. I don't know what's going on, but my mind seems to be going in thrity directions at once.

Thank you for all of your prayers.

Post you soon!!

Take me away

I feel as if I a floating in a place I don't belong. I want to sleep all day long, crawl in a hole and only emerge when I have to. I feel so happy at times and into things here and then I feel so disconnected.

I feel sick. I can't eat without feeling sick. My head hurts. I just want someone to hold me.

I am thirsty for God's healing, but can't quite reach out to grab it. I am stuck.

Even now my eyes are drooping, and my head feels heavy though I just woke up two hours ago.

My life seems useless. My purpose is failing me. I don't know where to go or what to do. This is so weird.

I can't bring myself to study hard. Everytime I start I end up finding something else to do. It doesn't make sense. I like my classes.

I miss the baby and Sandy. My heart often longs to be with them. I miss seeing Megan... we are both in the same town yet so busy. The few times we have hung out have been recently and have been wonderful. I want more of those times.

I miss Joylynn.

I have to take a test in twenty minutes and I have no idea how I'll do on it. Good thing we get to drop our lowest grade.

So, this is why I haven't updated... didn't want a depressing scene.

For any of my lovely praying friends, if you could pray for my strength, motivation, self worth, and passion I would greatly apprieciate it. I am desperate for God's healing touch.

CMU HERE I COME!

Well, I am moving back to school on Wednesday. I am very excited, but also kind of sad. I will miss Subway and the girls there. I will miss Sandy, John, and the baby Maria. I have made good friends, and Maria and I have bonded sooo much this summer. It's been great.

I am looking forward to InterVarsity, and seeing my friends from school again though. And I think living with Laura and Danielle is going to be a blast! And I am so looking forward to having a regular schedule where I do the same thing every week, and there are always people around, and responsibilities to take care of. This summer has been super easy for me as far as that goes, so I am looking forward to the challenge of the school year.

I am taking some harder classes like Abnormal Psych, Social Problems, and some specific therapeutic rec. Classes, and also a pre-internship class. It should be a fun semester with lots of studying :( but also lots of game playing :D (in my rec. Classes!).

I will also miss my brother because he has been not around very much this summer either! And my Dad too. I can probably compile the amount of time I have seen him into about three days/72 hours tops. Wow, that is not very much. He was up north for most of the summer, and usually it worked out that the few days he was home I was not. I like my Dad, I wish I could have seen him more this summer.

That is the end of my pre-junior year story. I can almost smell the Mt. Pleasant air right now!

A trip to Canada

Tuesday and Wednesday I went to Sarnia Ontario. The purpose of my trip was to meet with two lovely ladies, Amy and Krista. While I was there I got to see the whole family including 2month old Emily (who since she was premie is now unofficially a newborn) She is very squishy and little still. She is nice. I also got to see the famous Becky Swab. I like that girl, she is cool.

We got to go under the Bluewater bridge and see some boats and a freighter go by. Plus we played a silly rock throwing game which we made up ourselves.

Our trip home was good and had a great stop at Wendy's.

When I got home I watched "As Good as it Gets" and ate strawberries.

Then I got online and chatted for while. Then my stupid computer kept kicking me off... As I was trying to get it working my phone rang. It was Justin.

Justin and I talked for a while. I sat outside on my front porch until I heard a pack of coyotes howling across the road. Scared for my life and very tired at 1:00am, I let him go and ran inside.

Then I did my quiet time and went to bed. I don't remember my dreams, but I am sure they were weird.

So now I am talking to you here.

And then I stopped.

A plethora of thoughts and activities

Since I have last written I bought a car, went to Canada, had a great time hanging out with God under the stars, went to a few Bible Studies, and Something Thursdays... hmmm... Worked at Subway a lot, yup, that's about it!

God is good, and I am grateful, AMEN!

My Life

I never realized how most of my life has been spent making my own entertainment usually at someone else's home. Well ok, I did realize it before, but I am realizing it agian. My life since my parents divorce has been like one big sleepover. I am barely home and rarely sleep there. I think this summer has been the first time in a long while where I have only stayed the night at someone elses house once a week. It's ok I guess, just different. I like never being home, makes life exciting. And seeing as my dad or brother are never home and we don't really have very many movies, and don't get any channels in on our TV, and now even our modem is broken so we have no internet at the house... well, all of those things make me want to get out and go somewhere and be with someone. I don't know why I am updating about this, just my random thought for today. In a nutshell, I like not being home. :)

PS. My aunt is visiting and keeps telling me how bored she is, and at first I thought, "how can she be bored?" then I realized "OH! It's because she has been here!" (meanwhlie everyone else is gone and doing things and she is home with the whole no TV, movie, or computer problem). See, I'm tellin ya, my house, it must be cursed bored or something. Although I will have you know, I did teach her how to play DDR, so perhaps that will provide some extra entertainment! lol ( keep in mind she is like 51) lol

The Wedding

Some of you already heard the story but here is an overview for those of you who didn't hear:

     The wedding started late and was full of off key music and even a piece with a missing melody line. The gazebo (where the ceremony took place, at my grandparents house) was graced by cheesy melodramatic looks from the bride. The cheese was also present in the fact that Dee had a big poofy dress and a veil over her face when she walked up to be given away. It was an ok time all around, just very long and unrealistic seeming. One could tell that my father had no hand in planning, not really his style.
     I felt ok during the ceremony, just tried to convince myself it was all reality.
I praise God that I was able to handled it as well as I did, without anger or animosity... That was totally God working in me, I know it wasn't me! The confusion of what was real was a refreshing feeling from the fear and concern I felt previous.
Thank you to all of you who prayed for me on Saturday and are continuing to pray for me as we transition into living together and sharing a blended family bond.

Trees

I found out something fun about trees today. If you are outside during a sunny but breezy day stare just past a tree or group of trees when the wind blows. Don't look directly at the tree but in it's general direction. When you do this it appears that the leaves are twinkling. It's like a little leaf dance. Very beautiful, fun, and relaxing. It made me smile today. I hope it does the same for you. If you try it and you think I am crazy then, well... I just might be! LOL!

My leg is asleep

Lately I have been able to stare at one spot in space and feel numb. This is not good. Last night I was walking home from the orchard and all I wanted to do was keep staring forward and walking, and it seemed like the only thing that made sense to do. I had to use the bathroom, and thought it would be childish to pee my pants, and perhaps a little insane, or else I would have kept walking right past my house. My ability to feel numb both scares and intruiges me. I'll have to think more on it and get back to you.

I hope all of you are having wonderous weeks! The sunshine today was great!

Armpits

Today when I came home from work I smelt something gross... It was me!! I thought to myself, "hm, did I really sweat that bad that even after using deodorant I still smell of my own body odor?". Upon investigating my pits I discovered that it was only my left one that smelled... How strange.
Perhaps I forgot to put any or enough on that armpit, or maybe it was that arm did extra work today. Either way I think that the word armpit sounds really funny now.

Today I babied for 5 and worked for seven... I am ready to sleep!!

CARS

Does anyone have any advice to give me on what kind of car I should get if I have to buy a new one? I could go for a new to me used to someone else car, or a pretty brand new one, if I can afford payments and insurance. I am leaning towards GM as I will get a discount from Dee when she marry's my dad. I want something practical, affordable, reliable, economical, and cute(ish) (but ugly is ok too). Post a comment if you have any recommendations! Thanks guys!

Today I took a nap, ah.... it was nice! And now I am going to work, Sandwich City HERE I COME!!! AND I'M BRINGING THE BEAST!!! a.k.a. my brother's jeep. :)

I got my room rarranged and threw away a bunch of crap! That was fun. perhaps I'll post a pic of it soon.

Later Taters

Oh Geez

Hello friends.

Today I got in a car accident. I am OK though. And so are the other drivers. I have bad bruises on my arms and knee and a sore thumb. Luckily the other drivers walked away without bruises or a scratch. And luckily my glasses didn't break. I am thinking about going to the doctor just to make sure there isn't any hidden ouchies. This happened about 1.5 hours ago so I am still in shock slightly. The pain is starting to appear, but not too bad, mostly just in my thumb.
The Story:
I was driving in the rain, a girl in front of me was stopping (her brake lights were not very bright) So, by the time I saw her lights and went to stop I had to press pretty hard, which caused me to hydroplane. And then I couldn't turn my wheel to avoid hitting her ( I was planning on going for the ditch), then CRASH BAM BOOM I rammed her. My airbags deployed, and I ran out to make sure she was ok. All in all it has been a crazy day. This is going to cost me a lot of money, and so the good and happy feeling I had about my finances has diminished. Good thing God provides!!
I am going to go and take it easy for a while, maybe pop a few motrin. I hope all of you had an accident free day!

Wowee

This past weekend I danced and went wedding dress shopping, and hung out with Megan, and ate Amy and Nathan's food and played with their dog.

I made a decision I have not been wanting to make, but thinking about for months. It will be an interesting journey. I also have been thinking about moving out of my dad's place and in with my grandparents for next summer. I hope they say yes. I like them.

Tonight we had a tea party at Bible Study. It was a blast. We all had really bad etiquette, but tried to figure out what would be the right thing to do. We consulted Mike J. our resident etiquette specialist for advice. We talked about intriguing topics, most of which I had now way to get a word in edgewise on because my friends like to talk.

Saw Joylynn today which was really nice. We are hanging out on Wednesday!! She is making me lunch and we are going to hang around her town for a while. I am excited.

Tomorrow I work, which I am also thrilled about. I like Subway (eat fresh!). Making sandwiches, ringing people up, and doing dishes among other little tasks such as stocking, baking and chopping veggies is just what I needed for the summer... Low stress, little thinking except for what I am doing at the moment, and free semi-healthy food. WOOT WOOT for Subway!!

See yas later!

Anonymous

I think I know who Anonymous is, so watch out you! I am coming to you if this whole llama thing doesn't work out.

WHAT?!?! 12:30!!!!

WHOA!!!

I like a fool, slept for 12 hours!!! I went to bed at a reasonable hour so that I could put away clothes and junk like that. Now it's 1:40 and I have eaten, but I have yet to do anything of any real importance besides get the mail and look through it, and put some more laundry in the washer...

Wow, I just realized that no one probably wants to know about this... hm... oh well. Just thought I'd let you all know that I am a sleeping wombat, and without a clue why. Just four weeks ago I couldn't sleep more than 8 hours every night. I need Mt. Pleasant!

See you womabt-lovers later!

Happy Valentine's Day

Ok, I know it's not technically valentine's day... But let us just pretend ok? OK!

So, I got some laundry done but I got the opposite of unpacking done. I packed!! I packed up all of my stuffed animals from my top bunk, and Barbies and other toys from my old room so I can 1. Grow up and move on to womanhood (stuffed animal wise). And 2. Make room for Joe (Dee's son) in my old room (That's where the Barbies come in). It felt to put that stuff away to keep it safe for when I have kids and it felt good to move on in a sense. I really like all of my stuff animals... But I think it's time. To be honest I still have some on my top bunk, but they are my collectables (which happen to be monkeys), so I figured it was ok. Mind you I have around 30+ monkey stuffed animals, but only 8 or so are collectible ones. So, yeah... That's my story.

Tomorrow I am working at Subway again. It should be a good day. I figure I should try to not sleep in so I can get something done!! I work at 3:00 so that gives me a pretty good chunk of time to keep on keepin on with m packing and bedroom rearranging.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Now it's time for... da da da da, My brother's cuter than a pumpkin!
conversation I had with Josh:
Liz: So, I got a tip from a middle aged Mexican man the other day...
Josh: Oh, what was the tip?
Liz: *confused look* what??
Josh: Well, what did he tell you?
Liz: *Laughs* No, he gave me a dollar!!
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Well, I suppose I am signing off for now.

PS. Don't you love it when guys stop talking to you all of a sudden when they find out you are saving yourself... Your whole self and not just the intercourse part? Yah that makes me feel really great. Good thing God will still talk to me!!!! hee hee

The Big Blue Cow

Friends I have a problem.

You see, I have this big blue cow sitting in my living room. She insists that she is Babe, the big blue Ox, but I am quite certain she is a cow. How do you tell a cow who thinks she's an ox that it's not true? And this babe imposter... She keeps doing things that make me want to ask her to leave my living room.
Like yesterday, I have told this, this uh...We'll call her "the cow". Anyway, I have told the cow to not put her dirty dishes on my couch, but she keeps doing it! AND the other day I caught her putting her utter right on my clean laundry!!! When I confronted her about it, she simply stated that that's what Oxes like her do, and I should appreciate her species. Well, I'll tell you what, I like oxes a whole bunch, but the blueish heifer needs to realize that there are more people in the world than her species! Oh and get this, right after the utter incident, I saw her hitting on my dream boy. What man would want to date a cow who claims to be BABE!?! Good thing my dream man isn't Paul Bunion, he might have fell for it.
So friends I need some help. How do you deal with a Blue Cow, who is big who keeps calling herself an ox and expects me just to live with her dirty utters on my clean clothes???

And with that I am off do do my laundry again for the seventh time this hour to try and keep it clean. Maybe I'll hide it so the cow formerly known as ox won't be able to find it! I'll be as pink as a biscuit if I go down without my garden ho!!

Btw, everything is good with me. I have work tonight at 5 until 9. Oh subway, how I adore thee. I will probably spend my day doing laundry like I said earlier and perhaps unpacking like I said I would a few days ago. My room is a mess. I am thinking of rearranging it, but I am not quite sure. hmmm... things that make you go hmmm...

Summer Update

So, here's my life in a nutshell for those of you who haven't talked to me in a while:

I am done with my second year of school and have one more year of academics and another year of internship before I complete my degree in Therapeutic Recreation. It was a good and busy year, and I am looking forward to next year being my last year of classes! yay!

This Summer I decided to hang around home so I could do two major things.
1. Help take care of Sandy's baby (Maria Brooke, 10 weeks old!)
2. Take a summer class at Mott
So in that I am working part time at Subway and spending most of the rest of my life with the baby. I think I have slept at home two or three nights since I came home from school two weeks ago. I love subway a lot. I am meeting new people who are different from me. I really like making sandwiches, and often times I get to do dishes, which I really enjoy. I am looking forward to the rest of the summer!

In other News:
Some of you might know that my Dad is finally marrying Dee. Whether this is a good thing or not, I don't know. I am letting God decide. I don't really know how exactly I feel about it other than I am not sure if I think it's the greatest idea. But I get to buy a dress for the wedding so I have had fun shopping for one already. :)
Also, my brother got himself into some more trouble. He beat up some kid named Jeremy from Grand Blanc with a baseball bat. ew, I know. So anyway, he was charged with Felonious Assault and plead guilty. He had his pre-trial yesterday and apparently there is some sort of deal for first time offenders of this type. He has to go to Anger management classes, and probably serve the community. He is going to be monitored for one year and if in that time he doesn't get in trouble they will take the charges off of his record! So, that's really cool. And I think my brother feels really grateful that this opportunity is being offered to him. So, yeah... that's the situation with my brother.

Today I have work at three until seven. Then I am coming home and sitting around. Maybe I'll start unpacking... haven't done that yet.

My Bubby, Josh 

Kick the Can

Today is Friday.

This is exciting already. I have never had a web log before and I was inspired by my lovely friend Sara. Woot.

I have boogers. Stay Tuned for more.