Sunday, June 27, 2010

Or a rhinoceros.

I had typed out an insightful [egg-sa-stencil] post about Zenith last night. 
It was great - the week, not the post necessarily. 
I won't recap the whole thing. 
1) I don't remember what I wrote and 2) I have another story to tell now.
Maybe i'll do a Zenith & Cornerstone recap when Cornerstone is done at the end of the week. We will see.

Back to the new story!

I was almost done with my Zenith recap post when I remembered that I was going to a movie with Kailee, and I needed to leave within the next 3 minutes. 
I'm running late? Shocking.
We both ran pretty late, so we ended up going to a late showing of Knight and Day. I think it was almost 1:00am when we got out. Point being, I was really tired when we left the theater.

So when I saw Ben standing outside of the theater, I just assumed I was delirious [or that little Ben from Zenith was out on the town]. But it was really Ben! He drove like 18 hours to come surprise me. And then drove another 6 hours back to Texas earlier tonight.
Best boyfriend ever.

I'm blessed! I have a great boyfriend, great friends who help my great boyfriend surprise me, and a great mom who doesn't freak out when I show up with my great boyfriend and ask if he can crash on our couch at 1:30 in the morning.

That's really all i've got. Isn't it a great story though?
Now off to sleep before beginning another week of camp!
- Steph

Monday, June 14, 2010

I couldn't come up with a witty title. Next time, maybe.

Last week was very, very boring.

I cannot think of anything worth blogging about over the whole 7 days.

I'm having trouble even remembering what I did.
I looked at my calendar from last week and i'm still drawing a blank.
This week will be much more exciting.

Tomorrow is messy game day [but not quite as disgusting as last year - human chili dogs in 98* heat is not a pleasant smell] and I'm trying to come up with a creative way for the kids to throw oatmeal at one another other than "throw oatmeal at each other." I'll probably put up some pictures from that, because organized food fights are always good times.

Thursday we are going ice skating! I love ice skating, despite my natural inclination to ignore the laws of gravity.

After ice skating, Jeremy and I will be heading to Edmond! Yes, Zenith begins on Sunday. But this means we get to see our friends for a few days. I'm so excited! I get to see almost everyone i've been missing! I'll be free on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. Then the next Friday and Saturday night. THEN the next friday night! How exciting. [PS, Mom, I'm coming home for a bit. Sorry I'm so bad about calling ever. Hope you'll be  in town! Haha. I'll set aside a day to hang out with you if you are]I am really excited for Zenith/Cornerstone. It's a little exhausting, but totally worth it. I've never been to Cornerstone, but i've heard good things. Those two weeks will be interesting.

After my  camp marathon, I'm going to go to Sweetwater to visit Ben! I'm quite excited. That will be a great way to end those two weeks. Also, it will be the fourth of July. Double holiday! Yay!

Oh! I thought of a relevant story from last week. Aren't you happy?

I've been eyeing the most wonderful ModCloth Swimsuit for what feels like years. It is cute, appropriate for youth events, a great color [which does not look stupid on the pale model] and I love it. Downsides: it's expensive and out of stock anyway. And when I say out of stock, I mean i've been waiting for a back in stock email for ages. Unfortunate. However, after a little poking around at The Wal-Mart, I discovered this very swimsuit in black! Fantastic. After a little altering [which I did on my own! who knew I could do that?] I now have almost the perfect swimsuit! I still want the green one though. It was going to be my reward for getting a B in stats. My list of favorites on that website is forever long, though, so I bet I can find a replacement if I could stop being cheap [seriously doubt that will happen ever].

- Steph


Monday, June 7, 2010

(Ir)rational Fears.

Looks as if I made it through the weekend without a boredom post!
Don't worry too much though, you're getting one now.

I'm trying to remember what I DID in fact do this weekend, but i'm sort of drawing a blank completely on Friday [if that's any indication to you of how it went]. 

Saturday was pretty full; I helped my boss and his family move more things [which, come to think is also what I did on Friday I think...?] and then I babysat his two daughters during a wedding.

Despite my well publicized and, I believe, completely valid fear of the entire process of having children, I really do like kids. And i'm not as awkward around them as you probably think I am. I just get nervous when I feel like people around me are judging my future parenting skills [or when I feel like the childs parent is worried i'm going to mess up their baby]. 

Maybe I should just call this post ridiculous fears. You'll know before I do.

Anyway, we played Cinderella first. The older sister chose to be the princess, and she informed her younger sister she would be one of the "mices," but of COURSE she could be a girl. What a nice sister. Then again, I used to play pet shop and make Brittany be my dog, but I wanted a boy dog sooo... Spot Partridge, the boy dog she was [Our pretend last name was always Partridge. Or Crabtree]. Cinderella went to McDonalds and ordered 100 happy meals, and then we pretend watched Alvin and the Chipmunks Easter Movie [They wanted to watch The Chipmunks Squeakquel but they don't have that movie - I think the pretend concept isn't fully grasped yet] while the fairy godmother cleaned up toys.

When I finished cleaning up, I sat down to "watch the movie." Then, my favorite thing happened. The little sister, who I think is probably almost 2 [that could be WAY off] walked over and sat in my lap and started trying to talk to me. She can only really say a few words, but it made me so happy. She likes me! She came and talked to me and nobody told her to. I love it when little kids seem to like me haha. Especially when they are at the age where they don't know it's socially unacceptable to show their dislike for people.

Well, I should probably do some more work now. I'll be honest though, I worked really hard for the first 2 hours that I was here and finished at least 80% of my work for the whole week. So maybe i'll just go to lunch instead.

I'll leave you with this awesome find from Wal-Mart, which I would probably be buying if I didn't like crust...


- Steph

Thursday, June 3, 2010

George Washington giving a turkey to the indians?

Well, it seems like now is a good time to update my readers (YES I can say readers as in plural, not just one reader twice, thank you very much) on my life as of late.

On Memorial Day, Ben came to visit from Sweetwater. It was a fun day - eating, a movie, arcade games, me getting us lost once every few minutes, a homeless man telling me I looked fifteen (right after asking me if I had any kids...?) , the strangest/greatest version of an Incubus song ever, and more of me getting us way lost. Then at the end of the day, Ben had to go back to Sweetwater. That part was sad. But the rest was great. Next it will be my turn to drive out to West Texas, so that should be interesting. I have a feeling I will be taking pictures during that adventure, so be on the lookout during July (Wow that's far away!) .

As it turns out, I only worked 1 1/2 days this week. Monday was free thanks to Memorial Day, and about halfway through Wednesday I got sick and had to go home. Which is super lame, I ended up sleeping for the rest of Wednesday and most of today. Tomorrow I should be good to go, though. I hope I am, at least.

My one workday, Tuesday, was a success! We cleaned out that wretched closet, which was actually not so horrible. I spent the majority of the time organizing all of the supplies and labeling the boxes (with Sharpies no less), which was rather enjoyable. And all of the occurred to the musical stylings of one Mr. Michael Jackson on the sound system. Not too shabby.

The first of our weekly SPLAT's (Summer Party Lasting All Tuesday... way better than PT Squared) happened this Tuesday as well. Six kids showed up, which isn't the best, but it could have been much worse. The six attendants seemed to be having fun. We played Rock Band and telephone pictionary - which has been one of my favorite games for about a year, and I just now learned the name.

Speaking of names... Stephanie is a hard name to say spell. Apparently.

I've never seen it end with a D before. 
I think Bill hadn't either, so he pulled a 5th grade spelling test and made it a T/D combo.
I give him credit for that one.

I have no idea what i'm going to be doing this weekend, so there might be a long, out of boredom post coming your way (I do what I can to keep your dreams alive). 

Good luck braving the face of the sun heat, everyone!

- Steph