Wyldlife and other exciting events

So... I have 4 girls signed up for spring weekend for next weekend!! I can not believe it got here so quickly!! I am quite nervous about it, especially because I barely know most of the girls! I have just gotten names of the key girls down, and think/pray/hope that next weekend will really build those relationships up. I do have Wyldlife this Monday and have to talk this week, and I was going to talk about pressure to conform, but really think that I should do something that will really lead up to Wyldlife weekend camp. Regardless, it will be fun to be at Rockbridge next weekend!
So aside from planning my talk and Wyldlife club this weekend, I have a chockabuck full weekend!! Tomorrow I might go see one of my favorite Summer Staff friends, JACKIE!!!! and I might even bring the pup up with me! Saturday I think I am gonna go shopping (window of course...) with Sarah and maybe out for a bit in the evening, and I think Sunday I am meeting up with Lita about our housing situation and later emily for coffee! I am very excited about this weekend. HOWEVER the most exciting part will be this Monday night. Maris is coming to visit for a day or two! I am very excited about this, and will make sure I spend as much time as possible with her on Monday and Tuesday. I am even going to have her co-lead wyldlife with me on Monday (aka... watch!) I really hope some guys sign up for Wyldlife, because even though everyone will be there for work crew weekend, I would really love to have Nick there as another leader, for some support. I have been told you don't get the chance to sleep even a little bit on Wyldlife weekend, and that makes me nervous...

Anyway, in two weeks, there is quite a big weekend planned. Friday is the YL Banquet, but this is also the same weekend that I have been promising to my Scranton friends and my sister since last fall!! I really don't want to bail on them, I love them all so much and miss them so much these days, but YL is a commitment I made, and one I made happily. I do really want to go to the banquet, and know I should, but also I don't know that I can bail on my friends like that. So I will be praying over it for the next week, and I will have to talk to Stefan and Kristina about it tomorrow at leadership.

Aside from that (and my near death experience this week!) Things are going fairly well, I can not complain a bit. I am planning either a roadtrip to North Carolina in the next month or so, or to Cincinnati. I actually have no desire to go to Cinci, but miss my summer staff friends there a lot, so it might be in the cards. So that is my life at this current point in time. Pretty exciting things happening all around, I am just praying for health after Wyldlife weekend, because if I come back from another WL/YL event seriously sick, my boss will probably hate me... lol.
Peaceeeeee

It's raining glass... Hallelujah

So last night at work, I asked for something very simple. To replace my broken light bulbs in the ceiling of my office.
So I walk into my office this morning delighted to see them working on the lights! I walk around my desk and that is when it happens...

KABLAM!!!






There was a shower of glass in my office. The new lightbulbs fell from my ceiling and narrowly missed me by about a foot!! Not only did they fall from the ceiling, but my ENTIRE office is now decorated with shards of glass... Thankfully, because had that hit my head I would have had a nice trip to the emergency room, courtesy of Lockheed Martin. Well this is just a quick story about my interesting morning!!


And all I can think about is the episode of the office where Stanley has a heart attack, and Michael Scott says "No one should go into work thinking, that is where I might die today..." Ah...

Red Carpet Awards

I just love hangin out with best friends and enjoying life. You know eating funetti cake and making fun of celebrities for wearing ridiculous dresses, you knowwwwww. And once that starts to get a little bit dull, we take silly embarassing pictures and put them into online programs. Hence my two new favorite pictures.

Sometimes I think I am meant for the sunshiney warm weather, and other times I am afraid that I get carried away with it and forget all my responsibilities.

Do you ever find yourself in a car on a beautiful day, sunroof open, windows down, and just wanting to drive forever? Honestly I think it is safe to say that one day this summer I will blow off work and take a personal day, and just drive by myself with my camera. Just drive and drive and drive and soak up all the excitement and adventure I can.

Break me out tonight
I wanna see the sun rising anywhere but here
Come with me
Oh, this could be
The only chance we get
We gotta take it
We don't do it now we'll never make it
Lose this crowd
Oh break me out
-The Rescues

I also am becoming more and more aware that this need for constant adventure may keep me from ever finding my roots and settling down in one location, with one guy, with one job, and one life. At least I can enjoy life now as it comes, whether adventure or homey...

Great things!

Sometimes I really miss Jay. I still have the letters he would write to me while he was away in Pennsylvania, and he was just such an encouragement to me in my life, and was a large reason I am the way I am today. It is so hard to see someone who gave you so much going through so many tough, hard struggles in life.
I have been bugging Tim to update me on Jay for a while. I finally got one today, and now I am just smiling from ear to ear! Jay is getting surgery on his ankles, so his physical therapists can help him start to stand again! The insurance is helping to provide him the equipment he needs to start walking again, and so that is just so awesomely great! Also, even though he still can't talk, they are getting him a machine to communicate his words! Apparently that specific piece of equipment is very expensive and the insurance won't pay for it, so that puts even more financial stress on his family. However, the progress that he is making is very real, although not fast. I do hope to visit him again, and be able to talk to him again! That day will just be so great!
Such a blessing and a reminder about how great life is!

So what did I do today?

Just drove to work... on a beautiful day...

Through the beautiful Georgetown, along the C&O canal...

across the bridge by the Washington Memorial....

Alongside of Arlington Cementary...

Oh PS... I love DC!