Where have I been?

I know its been a little while, I have great intentions to try to get on here at least twice a week but that doesn't seem to be happening. So what has been happening in this month of June, that is almost gone..Well I would have to say I have been quiet busy. Thankfully Spring semester is over and I can enjoy summer, well and work the 21+ hours each week. I do have Wednesdays off though, not sure what I will be doing with myself.

I copied this list from one of my previous posts, do I dare try to complete it again...I think so
1. If you really knew me
2. Seeing GV thru someone's eyes for the first time
3. Math Curse
4. Admissions has my Back
5. Winding Down the year
6. Summer list to do!
7. If Heaven wasn't so far.....
7.1/3. Relay Recap
7.2/3. That's our bus! (can't do this one quite yet)
and I'll stop there for now, because you know 7 is my lucky number. lol


Some of these like #5 and #7 may never get done. Seems like its been too far for me to go back on those but I'm gonna try to complete the other ones. So tomorrow..or maybe Monday I start again. I promise. 


Until then listen to my new favorite song... Remembering to keep my head up as changes continue to come.

Doesn't get better than this....

So there is this group of people, that in some ways are more my family than others. I talk about them a lot, and they mean the world to me. It is a dynamic group that began causing problems together in the 1970s. And now causing more problems 40 years later. They have all grown up together and for me they make up my aunts and uncles. And while there are only 8 families total that endure the fun of camping and make up my extended aunts and uncles, they are really a bigger group. Siblings and parents of my aunts and uncles all know each other and that is weird for me to think about but then I remember that they all grew up on the same street, went to the same school, and all knew each other. So when someone asks how one of my dad's siblings are it seems weird but really they know them, not as well as my dad but they care. And now as the gang starts getting older, their parents are getting older I see this same group of friends that love to harass one another, somber. They all grew up with each others parents, and to see them all together supporting each other is a good thing.

We have our fun and wild days, but to know that they are always around makes days that are tough more doable. We have just over a month until our camping adventure beings at our HOME at Clear Lake State Park and I can't wait until I can be where this summer event pretty much began 30 some odd years ago just down the street. We've been gone from Clear Lake for 2 years, it will be awesome to go back to where it all began this July with the people that are my family.

So this is college......

Disclaimer: Don't try this at home unless you have a very understanding friend.

Just as luck would have it Becca left her bedroom door unlocked while at home for the summer. With a visit planned this week, and her lovely and bestest friends over for dinner with Danielle the week before we did some harmless but massive "damage", but really it was just outta love.

I couldn't wait for her to get her today to text me her surprised response, and man did we all get it

Soo I don't know if I'll have time to go to old navy considering I have to PUT MY ROOM BACK TOGETHER!!!! jk but nicely done. 

And it kept getting better every time she went upstairs she saw something she hadn't seen before, kind of like when you watch a movie you don't see everything the first time around. And even now I just got 2 calls about the shower and her letters that were switched, she's been here for 12 hours and is still finding things we have done. And she will be finding them for months to come. That's what good friends are for, to stay as reminders for the whole year. And have some fun when your away. 

Just check out the damage for yourself

 Our little friends...

 The mattress standing up on the box spring was our driving force 

 Hidden shoes, which made her begin to look for what else was done and could not be seen right away

 New way to display pictures

 Aprox. 10:45pm the right Becca arrived, during documenting time. If only she knew what else we had done.

 Her closet was always very color coordinated. And this was my first idea. She did not notice until I pointed it out tonight.

 All her baskets that are usually above her bed in her closet

 The line of binders in the bathroom

 that led all the way into the shower...

 which she did not see until she took a shower that night. 

 and the message left on the mirror...I wrote it out below.

 Using our math resources

 And our broken people, that Michelle did!

 BCE that would usually say BEC...we just put them in alphabetical order. Got a call about this one around 11:15pm

And the note that we left on the mirror, written out so we can save it forever.

Let's just say, no ones room is safe anymore.....

Journeys

Every person that walks in and out of my life have taken me on many different journeys. People that have left footprints on my heart and people who have come and gone with no prints left behind. Trinkets and memories, pictures and souvenirs all of these add to my journeys.

Everything in my room is a memory of the journeys I have taken with friends...but recently the reminders of Senior year, of trips last May, of pictures are ripping me to shreds. I have my friends that make the days bearable but the old friends have have walked in and out the old friends that mean the world but make me feel like I have been treated like shit make looking at my memories unbearable. And those items should make me feel good, remember the fun times, but everything I look at, everything that reminds me of the old friends make me sick.

And all because I was treated like shit in the wrong situation on a journey I should be enjoying