well, i didn't think i was gonna plan a canoe trip this year, but i'm gonna try now and i'm excited. a little nervous. i usually take 3 months or more to plan the trip, and i have three weeks. i hope someone has some canoes for us to rent! and i really hope chad can go. he's been really tied up and REALLY stressed at work lately. he and i both still have like 15 days of vacation to take before the end of the year, so we have time, he just might not have time, ya know?
anyway, back to planning...we've gone to the upper current river in missouri for the past 4 or 5 years. started out with a little group - 6 or 7 people. the biggest group we had was about 26! whew. this year we are going small again. and with some people who we dont know quite as well as in years past. not a problem for me. i like getting to know new people. chad is just shy sometimes. and this year, i think we are gonna do a different trip. still same general area. just a new part of the current, and maybe a little jacks fork. i'll keep ya posted.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
back again
crazy isnt it? though i dont kwow how much i have to say.
just got back from a wonderful weekend on a cabin on a lake. chad and i hung out with his family in wisconsin. beautiful weather (not that 90=100 degree crap from last week).
my big news - i've accepted an assistant volleyball coaching position at a high school here in peoria. why? i dont have a clue!!! i'm scared to death and it's gonna take up SOOOO much time. and i'm scared. gotta take tests and everything. positives - it's only like 3 months and it pays. sooo, i guess we'll see how that goes.
back to work. busy monday.
just got back from a wonderful weekend on a cabin on a lake. chad and i hung out with his family in wisconsin. beautiful weather (not that 90=100 degree crap from last week).
my big news - i've accepted an assistant volleyball coaching position at a high school here in peoria. why? i dont have a clue!!! i'm scared to death and it's gonna take up SOOOO much time. and i'm scared. gotta take tests and everything. positives - it's only like 3 months and it pays. sooo, i guess we'll see how that goes.
back to work. busy monday.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
for blogs sake
hmmm....i'm apparently not any good at this blogging stuff. over 6 months between blogs? yikes. but i do have excuses..no kids to report on, no wedding plans to discusss, no big life changes. yep, life is faily uneventful at the moment. no canoe trip plans, no job changes...what IS there in my life? :) chad's behaving quite well these days! mom took a much needed trip to utah to visit family. started sand volleyball about a month ago. not winning so much with my 4s team but they are OOOOH so much fun! in fact, we lost all four this week, but that might have been the funnest night yet.
ooh, i scupted a sand butt a couple weeks ago. darn should have taken a picture!
yep. that's my exciting life.
ooh, i scupted a sand butt a couple weeks ago. darn should have taken a picture!
yep. that's my exciting life.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
This Momentous Day
((from Dean Koontz "From the Corner of His Eye"))
Not one day in anyone's life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down's-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example.
Each smallest act of kindness - even in just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile - reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.
Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will.
All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined - those dead, those living, those generations yet to come - that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.
Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength - to the very survival - of the human tapestry.
Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in THIS MOMENTOUS DAY.
Not one day in anyone's life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down's-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example.
Each smallest act of kindness - even in just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile - reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.
Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will.
All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined - those dead, those living, those generations yet to come - that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.
Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength - to the very survival - of the human tapestry.
Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in THIS MOMENTOUS DAY.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Current River 2008
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well we made it. back safe and sound...well mostly. a few of us picked up a bump or bruise or two but nothing requiring medical attention, thank goodness. and ALL of us had a blast! The group friday was smallest - 8 of us canoeing, but it was a pretty fun day. poor brandy and kit dumped 9 times!!! sorin and i managed 3 though i think kit caused one on purpose. all in good fun.
Friday we canoed from akers to pulltite. saturday 22 of us did 10 miles from pulltite to round spring. and the 14 of us that canoe sunday had a very relaxing day canoeing from cedar grove to akers. i am not sure which was my favorite.
we took SOOO many pictures, and i would love to post them but i jsut dont think there is enough space here. LOL i managed about 200 pictures on just my camera. and i am waiting on pictures from 4 other people.
Above is me and my coworker, Brandy. and to the left is my boyfriend, Chad! isnt he cute!!!That is ALL! :) at least for now. just know that the trip was a blast!
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
down memory lane....
Here are the rules:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. You might be surprised about what random things people remember about you. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you! (Provided I haven't already done so...)Now, get to joggin' down memory lane!
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. You might be surprised about what random things people remember about you. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you! (Provided I haven't already done so...)Now, get to joggin' down memory lane!
in anticipation
i'm counting the days...almost counting the hours!! my friends and i are heading to MO this weekend for our annual canoe trip and i just cant wait!!! it's almost always fun (there was this one year.....). this year it's gonna be a blast cuz i said so! we will leave midday thursday and canoe friday, saturday and sunday for a little over 30 miles total on the upper Current River. i just picked up a little food to take with me. and i'm gonna make hungarian goulash in my dutch oven one night, and sweet dutch apple pie another night. and dave is bringing his corn boiler so we will have sweet corn on the cob (i'll have to cut mine off due to the braces in my mouth).
did i tell you i really cant wait?
i've probably spent too much money on a weekend camping/canoeing trip. but who knows if i'll get another vacation this year. chad is gonna be busy and broke with his new house this fall. but it's all good, cuz this trip is gonna be FUN.
did i tell you i really cant wait?
i've probably spent too much money on a weekend camping/canoeing trip. but who knows if i'll get another vacation this year. chad is gonna be busy and broke with his new house this fall. but it's all good, cuz this trip is gonna be FUN.
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