Let's Celebrate, It's All Right!

So it's been forever since I did a blog post. Guess I'm just so bored I figured I wouldn't bore the rest of the world with my boring life. ha ha!

Anyway, life is pretty good. I can't complain, really. I mean the very gift of life makes it so that we shouldn't complain. God doesn't have to let us live, ya know? ;)

Work is going well, I'm technically holding two jobs, but if I see any work with the Seavey's it will be very little and probably not until the season gets incredibly busy, or, with my luck, when they run out of workers at the end of the season. Ha ha! Still, I am connected with Wildride in some way still and I'm fine with that.

Census work is pretty slow, at least on my end. Phone isn't ringing nearly as much as a month ago, but I feel that's a blessing. I'm surprised it isn't ringing MORE with complaints by conspiracy freaks intent on finding something wrong with the system and how it's really a part of the overall "Big Brother" movement (I hate that book with a passion lol).

Other than a few coworker drama issues I am enjoying it. Most folks get along rather well, which makes it fun. It's pretty relaxed which is also works well for me considering the only other full time job I've had has also been uber relaxed while maintaining professionalism (I don't count Sears as full time even though I was running an average of 45 hours a week, but getting paid as a parttime employee, but I won't start that rant up again.)

Other than that nothing much is going on. With this new job I'm able to get outta town every once in a while and I've been down to Kenai in the last month more times that I was all of last year! CRAZY!

Erin and I are already planning our trip for next year. I'm hoping that the work will be winding down at the Bureau by the last week and a half of August so that I can take the trip with Erin and then come back and start something new.

We're planning a road trip through Western Canada. So far the prelim planning is going well, and we're already getting excited for it. Then we'll have something like 5 months to save up for Haille's birthday bash at Disneyland. I think we're crazy, but we already knew that so it's all good. Besides the DL trip will be much shorter than the WDW trip ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND cheaper because it just will be ha ha!


Well, it's 8am and I'm up (stupid dog on the stupid work schedule), so I'm going to make myself somethig to eat and get ready to head over to the g'parents' for the day. Jeff is down b.s.ing my parents (heaven help him if he pulls any crap about or with my mom because dad's about ready to kill him. Which I think any judge would find it to be justifiable homicide) for the weekend so I can feel safe going over and hanging with my family. If Jeff disappeared on his Memorial day weekend trip I wouldn't really be upset about it. I know that's cruel but I seriously can't shake these feelings (or I guess the better way to say it is I don't want to.) God's working on me, but I'm fighting it (if you couldn't tell).

Anyway gonna have dinner over there and everything. Tried talking them into going OUT to eat, but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. So yeah. *sigh*

So I'm gonna go... yup.

Oh to live in a time with pretty dresses, eh?

Not if you're Georgina. I just finished watching The Duchess and it is just wonderful... the story is told brilliantly, the settings and costumes were just wow. And the acting was spot on especially by Fiennes and Knightly. Holy cow. Keira knocked it out of the ball park with this one and if she doesn't get recognized for it I'll be very dissapointed. I found this film far better than Atonement though the stories are very similar in some ways, and the ending doesn't harken Disney at all. lol.

I am seeing a pattern with Keira's films lol the ending just aren't all that happy to me. It all started with Pirates 3 and it's snowballing and getting worse. BLAH!

But all in all the film is masterful. I hope it doesn't get buried come Oscar time. It probably will, there's talk of other films already, but I think it deserves at the very least a mention... but I'm all for Keira winning best actress. She deserves it most definitely this time around.


*sigh* other than that, not much to talk about... I have FIVE DAYS till Disney, and I am mostly packed. The last things are essentials that can't be packed until the day of. Which, for me, means Saturday night... only 4 days away from that! *whew*!


Got the call from Janine a little bit ago. They got in way later than I expected. We're meeting up tomorrow so I can give her the lasagna. *sigh* I think I'll go from there over to my gparents... depending on when and where we meet. She said she'd give me a call in the morning once she figured out what she'd be doing.

Alright, I've got a load to go into the laundry, so I'm out.

Test this morning for the Census Bureau went well... now I just have to wait for a call for an interview, if they decide they want me. *sigh*

nothing like hurry up and wait. I was told to get there 15-20 minutes BEFORE the test so that I could fill out "a lot" of paperwork. apparently two and a half pages are a lot and they were all basically the same question. blah. Then I had to sit and wait while everyone came in right around 11. There was one woman who whined the entire way through the paperwork because she didn't understand any of it. And it wasn't like English was her second language, she just didn't understand any of it... how do you not get "Last name" ??? oy.

Then she started getting all upset because they wouldn't take her American Express card as one of two forms of ID. "But it has my name on it!" *facepalm* HEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRREEEEEEE'S your sign.

Got the lasagna for the Seavey's done, and the dishes, and the vaccuuming... now I'm being lazy.

6 days till Disney. Is it sad I am now more excited to be in positive number temps than I am to be going to Disney?

I'm not going to go into a sappy what I'm thankful for post today. Maybe Wednesday or the actual Turkey Day... but I will say I am so happy for this week to be a short one!

I'm not getting to go to Kenai like I'd hoped, I think I'm okay with it. All three of us are going over to my g'parents house again this year. Hooray for crowded! blah. I think G'ma's looking at something like 15 people this year! yikes!

Nothing else is really going on. Had a weird dream about one of my classes last night... it was a good dream, but weird.

Gotta finish up a paper and harass Erin a bit on facebook. TTYL!

I've been doing my best to not get sick, but last night I was defeated. I don't have a full blown cold but I just feel incredibly run down. The three day migraine hasn't helped, either. It's managable today, though. Which is good, because I don't want to miss another one of Edgar's classes. haha!

We're currently watching Salvador in class, it is not a very good film, if you ask me. Personally if a film only uses the same three swear words and very little else, it's not worth watching. My paper on the film will probably not be very good. Then again neither was my paper on Outfoxed. And before you think I just defended FoxNews, I didn't. I can't stand the program either, but I hate that the people on the movie said that Fox is the only biased network out there. It's like the kettle calling the pot black. That the press tries to say they don't push one candidate or agenda over another is absurd. In a perfect world journalism would stay neutral but it NEVER HAS. Look at how the Revolution was started, or just about every war we learn about in school. It starts with some big wig deciding to take a side. Why else would celebrities keep pushing in the news about Darfur? Duh! The news influences people to think whatever way the news wants. We're just dumb enough to take them as truth.

That was the gist of my paper, I have a feeling I'm going to get a poor grade for the first time in his class because we don't agree on that. I have come to the conclusion that in order to get a good grade in journalism courses you have to blindly follow and agree with the prof or you won't get far. So it won't surprise me if Edgar is the same as just about every other prof I've had in that department. The only one I didn't have to worry about was Prof. Dillehey, but I haven't taken from him since that one class (I don't even know if he's still in the program!).


I also have no doubt the main topic of class will be Ted Stevens' concession yesterday allowing Begich to become our newly elected senator. Personally I am disappointed in my state's voters for two reasons. 1. we voted in Begich who is a moron (and I don't base that on his politics. the man is a moronic jerk who is only in it for the spotlight) and 2. we almost voted in a convicted felon. There was a perfectly acceptable third choice, IMO, and he was the one I voted for. Bob Bird would stand for Alaska and was not backed by a party or cause. Unlike Begich who allowed the very people he's promising Alaskans he will stand up against. Yeah. Right. Like they're going to pay for you to disagree with them. Fat chance of that.


Oh well. Six years from now we'll be sick of him (save for the church of Begich known as Anchorage) and we'll have someone replace him. Who it will be, who knows, but this is the first time in 40 years we've had two weak senators... Murkowski's just as big a joke IMHO and she's a "Republican". I quit! lol


I just called down to WDW this morning and paid off our balance. You may be thinking that we'd already did that, and we had, but with the new promotion they've got out (buy 4 nights at a resort and 4 days worth of park admission get 3 free) we were holding out hope for getting a Moderate resort - specifically the Coronado Springs. As you might have read in my last journal update. I am so very excited to be going there again. I told Erin she has to take a picture of me giving the resort a big hug. I've missed it. I could stay there every time and not feel like I was missing out on a thing!

Gaylord is home. Not sure why. Either he is checking up on me to see if I actually leave the house, or he keeps peeing his pants because he keeps having to come home to "change". I'm not sure that that is all about, but it annoys me.

It also annoys me that Judy borrowed a few of my CDs and I haven't gotten them back even though I've asked her about them. Then I get woken up at midnight last night because Gaylord is working on a stupid slide show or something and what's playing? Josh GROBAN... and it's MY CD. All you have to do is ASK, but it's really annoying that she leant MY cd to him without even asking me when she knows I've been looking for my CDs. I have use for those disks too! BLAH.


Yes, I'm a selfish little brat, but I'm just asking for a little bit of respect. Though, I haven't been the best of buddies with either of them as of late. I'm getting really tired of Gaylord trying to be the "man of his domain" and telling Judy and I what to do. He hit the roof the other night when Judy snow blowed the drive way. He said he'd do it. Yeah, well, it'd been four days since it snowed and you still hadn't gotten off your fat duff so sit down and shut up. He started yelling at me that I should have done it before Judy did. Um. I was in class when she did it. And YOU kept saying that it was YOUR job. So I stayed out of it.

Apparently he doesn't get enough jollies or something or he'd shut up and leave me alone.

He also decided it was his duty to tell me I was spending my money unwisely and that I was an ungrateful person to use my parents money in the way I was. Meaning - I shouldn't go on this Disney trip (Judy wants to go on one with him and he isn't into the idea). I got REALLY snotty with him and told him that it was MY money and ONLY my money that I was using on this trip. I worked VERY hard this summer to get it (ok so not VERY) and I saved it FOR THIS PURPOSE. I also got permission from my PARENTS (even though I am 23 and therefore an adult that does not NEED it, I still ask for it) and JUDY (whom I still owe for the last trip). I paid off a vet bill, a dentist bill, and a couple of other things before I booked the trip. AND then there's the check that came in September from the State of Alaska that was over 2,000 big ones (plus 1200 energy check). That was MY money, not my parents. I'm not using money from school or anything. I said if anything Judy was the only one who had right to say I needed to give HER the money and not go on the trip.

Then he tried to be her proxy and suggest that's what I needed to do. Considering JUDY was the one who said I should do it if I could afford it at the beginning of the summer, I knew that was crap. And if she DOES truly feel that way she should come out and say it. She's looking forward to 12 days of just her and Gaylord in the house with the dogs. She hasn't been this excited to be rid of me in a while (which kinda hurts), so I somehow doubt she'd be happy if we canceled this trip and I gave her the money.


Then Gaylord plays the wounded dog card about how he doesn't know how to get me to like him and sends Judy to make things right. How about stay out of my buisness and stop trying to be all controlling? I'm a bull headed REITTER. We don't take other people's crap lying down. You are not the one that is 'over me'. I am not your daughter, nor am I your wife (EW). I don't need to be submissive to you. so stuff it.


Isn't it amazing that I can make such a long entry when I have nothing of interest to say. I should just stop talking. ha ha. so I will. Have a nice week everyone (since it's almost over!)

01. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.
Star Wars, Big Fish, The Producers, Pirates, Forrest Gump, Sleeping Beauty, and many others.

02. Name a movie that you’ve seen multiple times in the theater.
Big Fish, Pirates, Finding Nemo, Revenge of the Sith

03. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie.
Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Hugh Laurie. Keira Knightly, Ewan McGregor... ok I'll stop lol

04. Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie.
LINDSAY LOHAN, George Clooney (unless it's an Ocean's movie), Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Will Ferrel, Cate Blanchett, Shia LeBouf, Hayden Christensen... just to name a few

05. Name a movie that you can quote from.
Just about all of them! LOL Pirates, Star Wars, Nemo, The Producers

06. Name a movie musical that you know all the lyrics to all the songs.
The Producers.

07. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with.
The Producers, Meet Me In St. Louis, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

08. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see.
WALL-E (gonna watch it before bed tonight!)

09. Name a movie that you own.
According to my excell spreadsheet I have over two hundred films here in Anchorage, and I'm sure I have close to that at home in Kenai... first one to come to my head - Sleeping Beauty

10. Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops.
Dame Julie Andrews - singing/vaudville, Martin Short - comedian, Robin Williams - comedian

11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in?
Unfortunately that's not a cost effective medium up here.

12. Ever made out in a movie?
Um. That'd be NO.

13. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t gotten around to it.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (because my best friend tells me I have to see it, not because I want to.)

14. Ever walked out of a movie?
No, though I wanted to during Mean Girls and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.

15. Name a movie that made you cry in the theater.
Revenge of the Sith (yes, really), At World's End (the second time, the first time I was shocked and ticked off), Wall-E

16. Popcorn?
I'm not allowed - it makes me hyper. Nachos or Cinnibon!

17. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)?
Now that Gaylord's here, I don't get to go to the movies. Stupid fat man.

18. What’s the last movie you saw in the theater?
Wall-E

19. What’s your favorite/preferred genre of movie?
Action Adventure, Disney

20. What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?
It was a double feature of The Land Before Time and Oliver & Company.

21. What movie do you wish you had never seen?
Just about every movie I've watched for my movies class this semester, and every Lindsay Lohan movie I've ever been suckered into seeing.

22. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed?
I guess Elizabethtown since it's not your typical feel good movie... or Dan In Real Life.

23. What is the scariest movie you’ve seen?
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte

24. What is the funniest movie you’ve seen?
Father of the Bride (Remake) 1 & 2, Home Alone 2, The Producers (the Musical), Pirates, and THE THREE AMIGOS!



in other news - Erin and I were able to get the resort upgrade that we wanted for 8 nights of our trip! We're going to be staying at the Coronado Springs resort from Jan 11 through to the 19th, then we switch over to the Pop Century for the 19th through the 22nd. I stayed at the Coronado last summer with the family and I can't wait to go back, I'm so glad Erin picked it! hee hee! It has the biggest hot tub which I think was a big ticket item for her! ;)

I think I'm tryin to come down with a cold, I've been feeling really crappy as of late. I hope I'm wrong, I don't want to be sick for the holidays again.

Well, I'm going to start casting a line for jobs up here. I am thinking that the job market is more open up here than it is in Kenai, and I really don't want to pack up and move at the moment.

If this is what God wants He'll open the doors and make His will known. If not, Kenai here I come.


I also have a wedding to look forward to. Ellie and Jake got engaged about a month or so ago and they're getting married in April! I'm so excited for them. :) It'll be, no doubt, a lot of fun, and it'll mean I get to drive down to Kenai for a while this spring. So that will be good (that's if I'm not already down there). Either way I am not missing this for anything. Seriously if we were planning a trip to Disney I'd cancel to go to this. They're a special couple and I'd hate myself if I missed it. (I work with Jake in the summer, and got to know Ellie this year and I love 'em!)



Another thing that has brought my spirits up - Heather and Erin taking over my facebook quoting Friends episodes. Hysterical. It's amazing how God uses the littlest things to brighten my day. Right now I'm waiting for the second part of the One In London to come on TV, and it brings up great memories of every trip I've taken with Erin since graduating! We always use Joey's "LONDON, BABY!" and switch it to our destination. "Portland, Baby" "Disney, Baby" "California, Baby!" "Grass Valley, Baby!".... freaking awesome. I love it!

So far I've found six job listings that I am 1. qualified for 2. is not temporary 3. something I would actually enjoy. I haven't looked at Kenai, yet, but I will probably look tomorrow.

Speaking of Tomorrow. I have a lot to do. I have to rewrite my resume and cover letter, take a bunch of stuff out to the post office, and work on Erin's Christmas 'gift'.

So it's off to finish this Friends epi, and then off to bed, off to bed...

Gonna watch Atonement tomorrow, too.

First off thank you, Heather and Betsy (hee hee, your real name!), for your encouragement and prayers, not just today but always. I truly treasure our friendship (I treasure all of my friends - don't feel left out). I thank God for sisters in Christ like you.

This morning was difficult. I didn't do well this morning school wise much less mentally. I got in the truck, turned onto Muldoon on the way to the school and lost it. All I could think of what how I was letting everyone down if I didn't finish school. I'm the only grandchild my g'parents have (so far) that has even attempted college, and they have very high hopes for me. It's one of many pressures that has kept me going and at the same time it's driven me crazy because I don't want to let them down.

Then thinking of my parents and how I want to make them proud and how much money and energy they've spent on my school career and how I'm throwing it all away... blah! I just let Satan have his way with my thoughts for the morning and it will be relfected in my grades. If I ail this test in Anthro there's no way I can fix it to get a passing grade for the end of the semester. Thank God I have a week left before I can no longer withdraw.

Then this afternoon I helped Judy put the Halloween stuff away and get the fall/Thanksgiving stuff up. She's okay with me staying here if I want to and working to be able to afford my own place.

Dad called a couple hours ago and we chatted for an hour and a half. I cried a couple of times, it was just what I needed to hear. This morning as I was crying I started screaming out to God saying "I just need to hear someone tell me that it's OKAY" and not just the words, I needed to KNOW. And dad said that and more.

We did more laughing than serious talking. I just don't know. I told dad I'm so frustrated with God because it seems He doesn't want to tell me what I need to do, just what I don't need to do. Dad didn't have an answer, but he said that I needed to look at all the options that might be available. Dad also told me that I am not a loser or a failure, and that I'm his daughter and he doesn't care what I do so long as it's in God's plan. Which was incredibly comforting, but at the same time made me cry. To know dad is proud even when I feel like the lowest sort of person, it really helps.

Dad said he's worried about me (my emails haven't been all that happy to them), and that he wants me to just take it a day at a time. I think mom and dad want me home. But like I said in here earlier, and told dad tonight, I don't know just yet if that's what God wants or what I would see as easiest (or if that's what I'm doing by staying here). I have a couple of months before I seriously need to decide, but it's something that I need to keep looking into.

*sigh* I'm drained again before I finished my thoughts. It's 10pm and I didn't sleep well last night (maybe six hours of sleep).


Night, all!

I spent yesterday afternoon and evening organizing my room. No more massive piles of papers everywhere. I looks nice.

I ripped my summer comforter a couple of nights ago and had to throw it out, so now I have my winter one, but I'm still too warm at night because Gaylord HAS to have it be flipping HOT in the house at all times. It's one of the many things he whines about. The dork lived in Minnesota and he thinks ALASKA is cold. Um, yeah, no!

He and Judy are going to some food thing today. I find it ironic that he is "encouraging" her to lose weight, but the man can't stand leftovers and he is always talking food (or eating it). Then when his blood sugar goes wonky we have to deal with him whining that he's sick. It's getting very hard for me not to bark out a "well then EAT RIGHT". He refuses to eat a diabetic diet saying he can watch his sugar. Um, yeah, you've come home EARLY from work EVERY DAY THIS WEEK because of way too high blood sugar. How the freaking heck does that say you can control it?

BLAH!

He also gets teed off if I have left overs and I "clog the fridge" with them. The man sits there and eats as much as possible so that they don't have left overs. Judy's had to tell him to stop lately because she's freaking out about the blood sugar thing. There's a reason we make enough for left overs - it's so we have stuff for lunch the next day.

Anyway back to cleaning my room. I was told by Gaylord this is the way I need to keep my room from here on out. I told him that we'll see. When I get stressed and have a lot to do, piles happen. I clean out twice a semester, normally. When Christmas hits and family's here then I will clean again so the 'rents have a place to crash while they're here (if they come, with dad working at Lowes now he may not get the time off *sad*). Considering the man's work station in the "office" room is a complete disaster I don't know where he gets off telling me what I'm going to do with mine.

I seriously don't know why his wife wants him back.

Anyway, today my bathroom is going into scrub down mode - as soon as they're gone for the day, I don't want either one of them hovering - the tub is in serious need of a good scrub, and I still haven't put my stuff away from my last trip to Kenai. Sad, I know.

I also have to cram for my second Anthropology "mid-term." which is going to happen on...... Monday. Blah!

Well, people are moving in the house, so I better get moving. Chat at all of you later.

Shae is untouchable! I'm sorry I said anything! LOL

My frustration is not so much on teh skaters as it is teh choreographers, I'm sorry that didn't seem evident, when it comes to these shows. There's really no variety and no spark. Yes, they're at the mercy of Disson's musical pics, but at least TRY. All group numbers seem to be posing.

I cannot afford to go to the shows like a lot of you can, and I'm glad to see that they aren't as craptastique as they appear on television, but I just feel the quality as a whole just isn't there. I'm all for cheesey (I like Too Hot To Skate, I mean come on!), but I can't just have cheese.

Shae is a lovely skater, I am impressed with what she does considering she's a freaking ice dancer. I just don't think she translates as well on TV - that's just me. I don't like most ladies skaters on TV alone... it just isn't the same.

I'm in a very ranty, jaded, annoyed, pissy place at the moment. I come here to vent. It's not that I don't like the skaters i'm talking about (I'm not a huge fan of Shae's but I do respect her work, and really wish Victor and she would do like Naomi and Peter and at least skate on rare occassions together...), I'm just not in a very happy place... I mean the only thing I have to look forward to for a while seems to be my trip with Erin... which is still two months and 8 days off, and then after 11 nights of that I'll be right back here. and so I'm just taking it out on everyone and everything...

so I'll make a mental note that Shae is off limits from here on out... ;)

in this post. I hope.

School went well today considering I am playing catch up in two classes. I'm not too worried, though. I think I'll be able to catch up without any problems. I really like the two profs that I met today both are understanding and have a very relaxed style that makes them easy to approach. Which is GREAT for someone like me.

So my tuesdays and thursdays now look like this:
11:30a - 12:45p = Western Civ.
2:30p - 3:45 = American Sign Language 101
4:00p - 5:15 = Movies and the 1st Amendment - which is a very misleading title. Here I was thinking we'd learn about movies getting away with stuff like Michael Moore's film, but no such luck. But we do get to watch a movie (or rather part of one) each class! w00t! Cary Grant's even got one on the list *boogies*

I only have make up work in my film class... and it's *so hard* I have to watch a movie and write a paper on it. Wow. How will I EVER survive? hee hee. And, apparently, my prof grew up with the Seavey clan in Seward. Go figure. It's a small world after all. *will refrain from a political rant*

My sign language class went well too. I wasn't as lost as I feared. I knew a lot of the signs already (alphabet, counting to ten, and a few vocab words) the hard part is later in the semester when we have to go out and actually use what we've learned to communicate. FREAK-Y!

So I'm going to go now and play Diner Dash now. lol. I've lost my train of thought. Oh well.

Kenai Police Department has a new chief of Police! w00t!

In other news, I have just under two weeks left of work and just a little under a week until school. *sigh* It's gettin close.

What's really cool is this year we have made it onto YOUTUBE! Which is cool ha ha!

Okay, I'm gonna go and get Chinese food now...

...I can hardly believe we're at the closing of Summer. Three weeks left until work is over, two till school starts, and what do I have to show for it? An uneven sunburn, and a lot of good work memories.

It still feels like I was anticipating when work would start. Waiting for that first phone call where Jake or Dallas would be all in a panic because they needed me RIGHT NOW (which I did get in May lol gotta love Jake and Dallas waiting until the last minute!). I was anticipating the frustration of working with them, and anticipating hanging out with the crew.

I could lie and say it was an easy summer, but with all of the rain and the added stresses of things going badly, I can't. There were times when I wanted to throttle one person or the other, and then there were times I just wanted to curl up and hide from the world, but all in all I've loved my second year at Wildride.

I'm not sure what the future holds as far as working, I know I am still going to get my business license and start working as a photog in earnest. I really feel like that is my calling and it works well with my school schedule. I'm taking a full load for the first time in a long time at college, and I have a good feeling on how I will do. I've got the pressure to do well, which I know will kill me later in the semester, but I feel ready. Of course, we'll see if I still feel like that when school starts and I see what is going to be required of me, right?

Talking with Becky and David the last few weeks, I've pretty much decided that if I return to work for the Seavey's next year, it will be part time. It's time I become the pinch hitter for the show. It's not that I don't love the job, I do, it's just that I want the freedom to travel down to see the family once in a while, or just have a day to myself. I haven't been to Seward in over two years, I haven't really had a chance to go fishing (I refuse to do it by myself down at ship creek), and I am always worried that I'll get called into work. So everyone else gets to enjoy my state, but I'm stuck in Anchorage.

I also want to concentrate on photography, and I can't do that if I am working 5+ days a week. I had a couple of photo shoots this summer right after working all day and I just wasn't at my best. My brain shuts down after 8+ hours outside. LOL.

My tune could change around March or April when we see if I even have a job in photography. I might have to dive in for a full time Wildride position. I hate to think about what they will do next year, though, considering Becky and David are both planning to not return full time (if at all) and who knows if Hannah will be back. I don't want to abandon them fully, I really want to see them to continue to succeed. So I might blackmail myself into working. Who knows.

I do know that this month will probably either make or break my love for the job. No breaks from the guys is going to be tough lol. Dallas has been pretty good about giving me breaks in the schedule, but I do need the hours and funds that they bring, but at the same time... whew! At least I've kept my humor for the most part. I love that I get to work and laugh every day.

Like Thursday, during the four pm show a thunder and hail shower happened right in the middle of the show. I jumped into my sound booth and closed the door trying to protect myself (the hail was decent size) and then the wind picked up and blew it in through the window of the booth! I couldn't win! Watching Jen and Dallas and Jake drown out there in the arena was great too. I mean one minute it's bright sun and the next it's dark, rainy and hailing! Jake even made a comment like "Is it raining out? I can't tell" which cracked the audience and the cast up. It was GREAT!

So I don't know. I just thank God that I was blessed with this job last year when I had such a crappy experience with Sears. Yes, Wildride has its moments and I sometimes wish we were more organized, but at the end of the day I much prefer the honesty and the friendship that I get there to the backstabbing and the lying of a corporate group. It feels like home... like family... and I can't begin to describe how much I appreciate it.

So that's basically life. Erin and I have 156 days until we're down in Florida, which I cannot wait for. We have all of it booked, and paid for (well, I will as soon as October rolls around), and all of the sit down meals are reserved. So now it's just waiting for it to happen. And it's killing me!

Erin is counting down to the double digit countdown. Yes, we are sad. We know, and we don't care.

Other thing I'm looking forward to is the PFD in October. Palin got her wish and we're getting the $1200 energy check, as well as a nice bit of cash from the oil revenue (2000 something!), so it's gonna be a good fall. I hope.

Oh, and is it sad that I've already started Christmas shopping? I have my grandparents' gift already bought and put away. I had to! The place that I got it from closes Sept 1! hee hee.

Alrighty, this thing is getting long, and I have to start getting ready for work (I go in at 11:30 to be at work by Noon). So I hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

I just started National Treasure about a half an hour ago... there's no way I'm going to finish the movie before I poop out and go to bed.

This weekend was fantastic, I spent quality time with my dog. We went to the Pugnic on Saturday and afterwards I parked the truck in my aunt's work's parking garage and we walked around downtown Anchorage. Ran into a couple of coworkers (they advertise for the show with puppies lol) and then headed to the Saturday market, saw more coworkers and just enjoyed the time being away from the house. It was relaxing even with it being crowded (something I normally freak out with.)

We came home from that and Yuka zonked out for the rest of the day while I worked on Sunday School material and chatted online. The story for today's lesson was the one where Joseph Interprets Pharoh's dream (7 skinny cows eat up the 7 fat ones) and so the craft was a simple cow craft that I had to come up with on my own because the online cow crafts were not very good.

Anyway the craft was a hit, and I was very happy with how the class went today. Yay. Next month I'll have at least one Sunday when I am teaching by myself, and I'm confident that my girls can handle it!

One of my favorite scenes is playing on the movie, guess I should go back to watching it before going to bed. Yay!

Anyway got five days of shows, 10 shows total because as of today Wildride is doing two shows daily! I am SO VERY HAPPY because I cannot stand being bored until 4pm.

I just wish they'd let me get in an 8 hour day.

Alright. Hope everyone else had a great weekend!

...he always hits me square between the eyes.

This whole "Live Like You Were Dying" series at church has been kicking my butt. Talk about making one re-evaluate their walk with God and making one feel convicted! It's like Preacher KNOWS... He's like Santa Claus or something.

Actually, not really. It's God speaking through Preacher, and in a Mighty way. I am so thankful I have a pastor who is willing and ready to smack his congregation upside the head time and again with the Word of God. He's not seeker friendly, he's about building a strong and healthy foundation in Christ for all of his sheep.

But yeah... ( wow )

In other, non religious related news, I just raked part of the back yard, I smell really bad now because the back yard smells horrible! lol. I worked on the church website this morning, gotta make a lot of changes in the next two weeks, but it will be worth it in the long run. Pastor Davis is so different from Pastor Dean when it comes to this website, so the website will be getting a face lift soon.

I also got 'commissioned' to be one of two photographers (Pastor Davis wil be the other one) to shoot the new Church directory. We'll be doing that in the late fall (September/October) I may have him bump it up as work ends september 1 (for the life of me I couldn't remember how far into Sept. we were planned to go lol) and I'm worried I'll be working full time in Kenai during weekends when I need to be writing and studying. We'll see.

I somehow rubbed a blood blister on the palm of my right hand, typing hurts!

I think that's pretty much all that is going on with me. I gotta hit the shower and get ready for a wedding rehearsal dinner. For a wedding for family, that didn't even think to ask me to shoot the wedding. But then they called yesterday and asked if I could shoot the rehearsal and getting ready. I said no. If they'd asked earlier in the year I would have, but I don't have the card/disk space at the moment, and I'm not going to stress about it. I have already committed this time for the website and just some ME time when I'm not travelling to Kenai (will be there for mom's bday next weekend). *sigh*

The days are going by way too fast, btw. Anyway gonna jump in the shower in about 15 minutes and I still have email to go through so I'm gonna quit rambling here! Hope everyone's early summer is going well...

Ignorant rude people annoy me.

There's a thread currently going on at a disney travel message board that I go on about celebrities that you want to see at WDW. Not there doing a media event, but just being their 'normal selves' and wouldn't it be cool if they were there when you were there. What would you say to them.

There's this one woman who is bound and determined to hunt out the stars and she said she'd have no problem going up and talking to them and asking for their autograph. Especially if it were Johnny Depp because he is fab.

Well, I agree. Johnny is amazing, but if he's there he's with his kids or he's doing a media event. If he's with his kids let the man alone. I said as much on the thread and she replied with the quote in my subject line. Um, yes he is a celebrity but he is one of those that has comeout and said that when he is with his family he'd much prefer to be left alone to be a family unit. I think that we owe him that much. Yes, he's a celeb. Yes, the no privacy thing has become the norm. NO that does not me that it is right.

Celebrities are people, even Paris Hilton. While she feeds off the attention there are some actors like Johnny Depp who shy away from that. Give them space. Know when to bug someone. Seriously, let him be Daddy Depp at WDW people!

UGHHHHHHHHHHHH

I so need a break from everything I'm about ready to eat people again.

Yes I'm still majorly p.oed that a certain annoying person has considered I am a nonfan of my favorite sport. That it's just 'something to talk about' for me. BLAH.

Well, maybe he has a point. I am not going to Worlds. I made that decision at US Nationals this year, I'm also not attending US nationals in January. Not a big shocker because we all know where I will be basically that same time frame.

I will be at Walt Disney World with my best friend. Why? Because we rarely see each other because she's down in Montana and I'm in Alaska. It's not a crime to have more than one obsession and Disney just happens to be one of mine. I know I don't need to explain myself, I'm entitled to like what I do and go where I want.

Anyway I got an email from the 'representative for my area' for the 2009 World Championships and I emailed them back saying I would not be going to worlds and that I would appreciate it if they would take me OFF of the mailing list. When I can go for a longer period of time to an over priced theme park and stay ON PROPERTY for less than what I would spend for the NOSE BLEEDS at worlds then I'm going to the over priced theme park.

I got a very curt response from the representative. I have the same feeling about Nationals - it's just not cost effective or me to go. As much as I love spending time with the gang, and hob knobbing with skaters and watching nail biting competition, I cannot justify the cost when we're treated like crap as spectators by the USFSA. In my own little way I am just going to protest. It won't matter much in the long run (and I'm helping a person on the Disney Passporter Boards figure out what she wants to see at nationals - got her hooked last year lol!) but I just can't personally do it.

So yes, I hereby declare myself a nonfan. I am a non fan of the ISU and USFSA's stupid and crappy treatment of me the fan. I will not stuff their pockets so that they can further stick it to me later. IF that makes me unworthy of posting on a certain message board then so be it. ;)

I just started a journal for Erin and my trip to WDW - which isn't going to happen until January 09.

How sad am I? LOL

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/wdwbaby/

So I'm sitting and chatting with my parents while we're watching ABC's Worlds Coverage (the only channel my parents have that I also have for skating, well other than NBC) and Dad is screaming at the television that Carolina Kostner was held up (he hasn't been watching a lot of competitive skating, so he doesn't get how deductions and goe's work so I had to try and explain it over yahoo! IM lol)

Anyway we get to Mao Asada and half way through the phone rings. I don't recognize the number, but I answered it anyway, and there was a guy's voice on the other end of the phone. It was familiar but I couldn't but a name with the voice, and it turns out it was Jake from work. Mind you, I don't start until the end of May, and I haven't talked to him since the beginning of September... but he was trying to find someone who could pick up some parts for him and drop them off at the hotel that Danny Seavey would be staying at later.

Apparently Dallas and Jake took a snow machine trip from Willow to Nome (?) and according to Jake Dallas wrecked one of the machines and they had to do major repairs lol but they needed a few more parts. They were in Nome, Danny wasn't in anchorage yet, and the store wouldn't be open by the time Danny got into town...

So I went and got the stuff, dropped it off at the hotel, and got completely lost getting home.


So yeah, very little studying going on today. *sigh*

I haven't been able to get on for a few hours, apparently Insane Journal went through an upgrade and I didn't get the memo!

Anyway I have a new layout, come see tonichelle it's just in time for Easter. I still need to change my default icon to match. Though Melissa and Denis are just so pretty...


I made dinner tonight, and it wasn't out of a box! :) Made mom's pepper and with it! and it actually turned out really well!

here's the recipe (I think I owe you this, Binky!)

Ingredients
2 cans of cream of celery or broccoli or mushroom soup (I personally like the broccoli one best for this)
1 pint of Sour Cream
1.5 chicken breasts or 4 chicken thighs
3/4 cup parmesian cheese
Garlic pepper or powder to taste

1 16 ounce package of spiral pasta noodles

Directions
In a 10" skillet mix soup with sour cream and cheese, cut chicken breasts into bite size portions and sprinkle with garlic powder. Place on top of sour cream mixture (in case of thighs, if they are small just place them whole). Cover with lid and simmer on medium to low heat for 30-45 minutes

Boil noodles in water according to package instructios.

Serve noodles smothered in chicken mixture.