break and such

Thanksgiving Break!!! is so over. But it was really awesome! This week at school I crave for people not just to ask how my break was but what I did during the break. But no one ever did so I had to tell them to ask me.
So some friends came down from NJ and PA (hint hint) so my fellow graduate and I had our 5 month reunion. They joined my family on Thanksgiving and we had a good time. I forgot how crowded our Thanksgivings were. I also forgot how our family makes way too much food every time. We had 3 turkeys, and like 15 different kinds of pie. That night I went down to Apollo Beach and stayed there the rest of my break. The next day we went sailing! I had never even been on a sailboat before and then suddenly I was steering and sailing all by my little self. I almost capsized at the very beginning but balanced myself out and then bursted forth into the water. Four of us were out there shooting the breeze. Really there wasn't much of a breeze, but just enough to learn on and have a little fun.
The day after that I did just what this picture shows. I got into a wicked tight unbreathable wetsuit, put on my neon flippers and bonded with a calf just like this one. I was kinda intimatidated by the huge adult manatees so I chilled out with the baby. They love to be rubbed on their stomachs and in their armpits if you ever get the chance to swim with them. I was swimming with Jeff and Kathy towards the deep part where the spring is and suddenly a huge 6 foot tarpon emerged out of the deep with its mouth gaping open. My heart skipped a beat but I was surprised at how calm I was. Then we snorkled around in another spring, no manatees, but it was a beautiful spot. The water was warmish and very clear.
Anyways...back to school again. When I mentioned how I swam with the manatees some gave me a puzzled look. Oh yeah, their not from florida so some didn't know what they looked like and we had to google it. Today was my golf tournament. It was pretty anticlimatic having found out about it just today that it was going to be today. I was planning on practicing real games and everything but never got the chance. Me and my friend Jane were the only girls that showed up. They put me in a group of 3 and we had alot of fun. It took us 2 1/2 hours to get through the course. I got bit up so bad by stupid mosquitoes. It was a nice warm night, kinda muggy because it rained all day yesterday. Well I didn't do so hot, but its been like 4 years since I've played a game. So I feel like I'm being very vague right now and I'm too lazy and tired to get into detail. Peace out.

Happy Thanksgiving

Last Sunday in church we wrote out a list of things we were thankful for and shared them with one another. Let me see if I can recall my list...
First of all, I'm thankful to be home for thanksgiving! It's been 4 years since I've spent Thanksgiving with the family. Last 3 year's dinners were spent at NJ and RI. Then 4 years ago I was just remembering that I had to work that day. So yay for not having a job or being away! And I am very grateful to the families for inviting me to their Thanksgiving dinners, it was such a blessing to go to a home away from home.
I am also thankful for college. Tuesday, after the last class before break, I got all blothpicky heading home. I actually missed school! Or it might of been that usually this time of year I'm packing up and going somewhere exciting, and instead I get to drive 2 miles down the rode like I do everyday and that's it, this is the break. All the other students pack up and drive/fly away home. But that's ok..Oh yeah, school. School is going so well. I've had my points when I just wanted to run away and go to the nearest community college, but then I have other days where I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I'm just so blessed and forget it all the time. Like one evening some of us from school went downtown and had a picnic at a university, and I was walking around wishing that I could go to a big school like that. Then the students of that school started to emerge and when I listened to how they talk and act it reminded me to be thankful for the school God has lead me to, at least I don't have to ever put up with that kind of behavior. This semester I've only heard one cuss word, and the occasional immature remarks or singing during chapel. That's it! I would of done anything to be in that kind of environment during high school. In high school I had to deal with language every minute, skimpy clothes, fights breaking out in the cafeteria, crude behavior, bathrooms catching on fire because people tossing their lit up weed or cigarettes in the trashcan, etc..........Sorry for the tangent.
Now I'm out of time, but Praise the Lord for the thorns as well as the roses.

Giddy about Golf

Last night the school put on the play Harvey. Ahh, I just love it. I watched it for the first time at the old Tampa Theater last summer with my dad on father's day and it was so good. I was excited to hear that FC was going to perform it. So... I would say that it was the best $3 I've ever spent. The funny parts were when they replaced liquor terms, in the orginal movie, with cajun wings. The part where Jimmy Stewart lights up a cigerette is replace with eating orginal glazed donuts. Ahh..the joys of going to a christian school.
Oh and I haven't donated plasma yet. After searching 3 different places for the donation center, I didn't even have the right paper work so I couldn't do it that day. It was a failed mission.
This afternoon my parents and I were going to go out to eat at Carraba's and mom mentioned how she wished the place had butter for the bread instead of just the olive oil you dip it in. Well we went there and it wasn't going to open until 4, so we went to some other Italian restaurant. The food was really good and we had a wonderful time. It was the same idea about the bread. No butter, just oil. So lo and behold I glance up and mom is buttering her bread from a stick of butter she stored away in her purse (at least it was in a ziplock bag). So I thought that was pretty funny and threatened her of putting this in my blog. Well, it's not like she cares so it wasn't much of a threat. I'm sure she feels clever about the whole butter idea and wants the world to do the same. So there is a solution for you antidipping people. Pro-Spread!
In other news...In about 3 weeks there will be a golf tournament. We have had unsuccessful attempts at softball and football and now the golf season lays heavily apon us. Or more like heavily apon me. There can be only 4 on the team and guess what?? No one wants to sign up. Well, I've been looking forward to this all year so I was the first one on the list and I guess some other guy finally gave in and decided to do the martyr role and sign. Great! 2 people. Well pa-shaw on all those who are missing out on such a great opportunity. I already have started to practice my putting skills in golf class and am going to start playing some real games this week. Now I want to go to the store and get some lil golfing shoes and gloves and hire my own personal caddy and golf cart driver. hehehe. Ok, I'm becoming giddy. I bid you good night.

Quotes, Banquet, and a random ?

More mom quotes...

"Lets see if I can clear some of my clutter." Mom and me were sitting in the drive-thru for the bank and as we wait she decides to clean her purse out. She says this as she pulls out 6 medical gloves that she always brings home from work.

"I just need a loaf of bread with a stereo."

"Can you smell my feet and tell me if they smell like gas?" This was too funny how it sounded. Well earlier that day she somehow spilt gas on her feet when she was filling up the car.

Dad finds a pinecone in the yard and attempts to throw it in the trash but mom came to its rescue, "Don't throw it away, the grandkids can play with it." Anyone up for a painful game of catch? Well she was actually thinking that the kids can create little christmas trees with them, so if they start saving up pinecones now they'll have enough to make crafts in 10 years...again...the whole grandkid thing??

Ok, enough of that. So I was scared to post this picture of me and only me but I finally decided to do it (I'll just make it really small). So here I am at the Fall Banquet. It was on Friday night at a beautiful hotel and I had a lovely time. Everyone got all prettied up and sat at a table with 12 other people. Some of the teachers spoke, we sang hymns, watched a slide show and listened to live music as we ate. Then of course took alot pictures. I following my friend around as she hopped from one person to the next because I think she thought I was her personal photographer for the evening.

Has anyone ever donated plasma? Well I'm doing it tomorrow for some gas money. I'll let you know how it goes.

The End.

Hurray!

Victory! I feel happy and relieved at this moment. Scary assignments are finally behind me. First of all, I survived the girls dorm just fine last Friday. We did nothing to do with Star Wars. It was a fun night spent with friends, and after curfew more and more girls came into the room I was staying in. I think there were up to 7 of them in the room and the youngins kept me up until 2am.
This has been an interesting week. The annual Fall Banquet is tomorrow, so the whole week is themed around it. Monday was twin day, Tues was "Girl be nice to Guy day," meaning the girls have to do something nice for whoever they are going to the banquet with. It was funny to watch all the girls swarm around the mail room with their chocolates and little notes with ribbons tied around them. Then there is hillbilly day. Then today is "Guy be nice to Girl day." Such excitement in the air. I wish you could hear the sarcastic way I just said that in my head. So lets talk about the important stuff...our last football game was on Tuesday and GUESS WHAT!!! yeah, we lost. So the football season is now over and next is what I've really been waiting for...GOLF! That starts in a few weeks.
Today I gave my last and final speech! It's been a burden on me for a month now. It was fun though. I started with my opening sentence, then my teacher is like, "Hold on, don't start yet" oops. Then I started over again and the projection died and I lost my powerpoint. So I had to start yet again! The class and I got a laugh after I said, "I read in the St. Petersburg Times..." for the 3rd time. When everyone is done with their speeches the class will pick 4 finalists and then we split into groups and do a group presentation. So we'll see....
And the last cool thing that happened was me and a kid were talking and I was telling him how I kept the sabbath and a few other things that our church do. Now he wants to have a bible study about the sabbath (he thinks it would be a good practice, think of that!) and did Jesus really keep it. He says that Jesus never did, and if he did then it was only until he died on the cross and then no one had to keep it anymore. This is what the whole school believes. So if you have any suggestions on what I can say or look up in scripture just let me know. I have ideas of course, but maybe you can point something out that I haven't noticed before. Sometime soon I'm also suppose to talk/have a bible study with some of the girls about courtship. What fun.

Just a thought...by Mrs.Krunk

One of my patients recently told me her brother died. I wasn’t sure if this was true or not, but I told her I was sorry and asked her questions about him, was he younger, older, etc? Any other siblings living? But the most amazing part to me was when she said, "I guess that $500.00 is gone in the grave with him." I didn’t really know what to say about that, so I just agreed with her. But then, she said, "I loaned him that money in 1947 and he never gave it back." Wow!! That blew me away. I told her I thought she should forgive him and let him rest in peace since it’s almost 60 years. I don’t know what she thought, but I thought, Lord help me to be a forgiving person and to not hold a grudge against someone ever. Well, my lesson for the week, month, or year.

Unknown World

Tonight, I will attempt to sleep in unknown territory. The girl's dorm that is. It will be my first time staying there and I'm scared of what I might encounter. They have already talked of playing risk...Star Wars version. Noooooooooooo! And then watching Star Wars III. Double Nooooooooooo! So now I prepare myself, body and soul, at home before the long journey before me. I'll let you know how it goes...if I'm still alive to tell it.

Destined to be Old...Always

Well here I am. No, not as Mama from Mama's House, but as Little Red Ridinghood's grandmother for Halloween.

Football was fun once again. I got to be the quarterback for one play because no one else can catch a football. We did alot of double passes and once a triple pass, all being passed off to me I might add. I finally ripped a flag off of a girl today, I always tend to miss. Oh, and did I mention that we lost?