Another summer gone by.

Where to start.... I just finished my 7th year at camp. And it was fully amazing. Every year I have spent working there it has always brought me a step closer to what I want to do with my life. Which is now figured out! 

This fall semester will be my last one at Lake Superior college. In December I will be graduating with my associates of arts degree, and in January I will be starting UW-Superior for my double bachelors in art therapy and bachelors of fine arts ( emphasis ceramics ) . 

Life is seriously flying by. I don't know where the time goes. Having almost 2 weeks off between camp and school is amazing. Just down time to sleep, watch movies, hang with the family and, just do nothing :) oh also time to play with my new iPad mini that I bought today. Just a little treat for myself after year number 7 at camp :) 

But I should get back to my Harry potter marathon.  

P.S- here are a few photos from camp. 

2013 A Whole New Year.

I am currently watching 500 Days of Summer... I don't know why i have waited this long to watch it. I am so glad i bought it on a whim haha. so so good.

Since the new year, life has just been good (minus not having coffee some mornings haha).
Anyways, I am gearing up and applying to 4 year schools finally, gearing up for another summer at Buckskin. And helping 3 sets of friends with their weddings this year so far :)

I always have this yearning to travel, and it never happens. Which that needs to change! I do/did have this opportunity to go to Arizona this summer and have open studio for 8 weeks...but going back to camp just won. If it is ment to be I will have another chance in Arizona right?

Anyways, I now have this new life goal that I wish to achieve before the age of 28.... go to each coast and just experience places. I need small day adventures. I feel like i have lost my sense of just doing this spur of the moment. I need to get that back.
Or at least start again on it, in new angles.

Different thought now... here is a list of places that i really want to go...

-Seattle Washington

-Glacier National Park

-Bisbee Arizona

..... Alright this update is broken up. I started writing the above portion earlier today.... and now just finishing it around 10 pm. haha. What happened in between.... cleaning my room and kitchen happened.

I am so exhausted that I need to just sleep, but tomorrow is going to mom/daughter day!! lunch and shopping.. yeah it will be great. Okay i am out of things to write about...

Opps one final thought...

I am thinking of taking a break from the facebook world.... not sure when or for how long...but this up coming semester is gonna be CRAZY, plus working, 2 campus clubs... among other things too. phew. we shall see but i can sense it coming.

Goodnight world.

a penny for a thought?...

why not make me rich then eh? lately my life has been so chaotic and unbelievable.

First off, I can't believe this semester is almost over, how crazy is that!!

But I don't really wanna talk about school stuff. I honestly don't know what i really wanna talk about in this blog. I just know that I need to get a few things off of my mind and chest before I sleep...

It is currently 2:18am and I am wide awake with worry, thought, creative ideas, wonderment, amazement, curiosity, pretty much everything under the sun is running through my head. Maybe it is just cause of everything that has been happening this week... hmmm lets sum this up some how....

- Boy situations suck. I need to learn to just have patience and know the big man up stairs has everything under control and knows what i need and when.
- I need a change in something in my life.
- Being a college student is rewarding, but transferring to a new university is a stressful situation.
- I wish i could tell people what I really think of them and their life. Actually I probably could but lets be honest sometimes opinions are ment to be kept to yourself.
- I have been listening to more of my highschool bands again, like New Found Glory, Blink 182, Relient K, just to name a few... but NFG has been hitting something big in me lately this is the song that I have been listening to the most.. check it out!


Coming Home- New Found Glory

- Exercising  is awesome, I need to do more of it, just not at 2 in the morning, even though I am wide awake at that time lately and I need to be more consistant with it. I think i may be reverting to do this just cause I am just personally letting myself become to over whelmed ( no good, not at all).

- I need to start taking photos again, it makes me happy, seeing the world through a lens. hello midnight walks probably...

- Stress is starting to be number 1 in my life again... I am not liking it at all. I need to kick it and quick. It is not even school stress. Can't quite pin point it yet, but it is there.

Alright I need to at least a few hours of sleep before I go into the ceramics studio.

my opinion...

I just heard some girl on CNN LIVE say she would like to see Oprah run for president??  NO NO NO... yeah it would be cool if she would buy cars for everyone in america..but what the heck. people we need to fix what we have not do what looks like the coolest thing to the rest of the world.

One of the biggest issues with all of this is Welfare...

I know a few people who abuse the system... they would rather live in subsidized housing, work and drink booze and smoke pot... GET A LIFE... people that actually need the help need the housing and support not your freeloading ass!!!!!! I work with children where their families could use it... not some 20 something year old who just doesn't want to live with mom and dad anymore... or being 25 and proud you get 600 dollars a month free from the government, just cause you have a "disorder"....


NEWS FLASH..... basically everyone in America has a "disorder"... what makes you so special??? You would be willing to give up the freedom to be able to get a driver's license  or to have a normal substantial job? I sure wouldn't that is degrading yourself. If you really want sure... go for it. but I think less of people I know who are like that, it is sick in my opinion.

Yes I am one of those people who believes people who live in section 8 living, get food stamps, SSI, etc, they should go through more screening then just filling out paperwork.  Drug testing, interviews... among other things. I hate how people can so easily cheat the system and not care about the other suffering people out there. It makes me sick to know people who do this.

Don't get me wrong I also have friends who get benefits such as food stamps that they obviously use and are responsible about, they have jobs, and are upstanding citizens, and yes they do still need help to feed their family. I am fine with them and other people like that. They are using the system in the right way. But a college student who lives in section 8 housing, using food stamps, and/or getting SSI... THAT IS SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! people in our own country and worldwide could be benefiting from that money and housing so much more than you...

OBAMA PEOPLE... you want change??? WELL START WITH YOURSELF!!!
Same goes to Romney people, if people want change they gotta start it. If all you do is talk about it. It will not get anywhere.

This is the end of my rant.
It was a close call.... Republicans in 4 years!!!

Oh Life

It has been going at full force lately, school, family, friends, everything! I can tell I am almost to the brim of what i can handle in my glass. But I am doing it! Also it is just crazy how far i am. Hopefully my last year at LSC before transferring to do my social work degree. So that is exciting.

Also I am headed back out to Montana in march. I honestly don't think anyone knows how much I love that state. It has my heart by a few pull strings and every day they tug a little bit more. My new Montana goal is... to live out there for some time in my life before I die. It is a great great state that i just love.

Anyways I just wanted to write something in here cause I haven't blogged in a while. I have some other thoughts brewing my mind, but I am going to let them sit there and mature for a bit before i bring them out. But stay tuned please. More to come for real this time! lol.

Summer 2012

Wow my updating dwindled, that is what life as a camp counselor does. Hmm let's see what is new? Well today is a day off, so obviously i have time to update this. I have been meaning to do it every day off, or over the break we had but no such luck. Time flies by when you are having fun.

Camp is so different as a counselor, but so amazing, this summer has permanently set my mind to me going into social work. I am so glad i went to work this summer. Who knows maybe i will go back next summer we will see what happens these next 6-9ish months.

I will hopefully be done with LSC this fall and finally go to University of Wisconsin Superior. I am hoping for it.

Montana has still been on my mind the whole time, and how i just want to just go and live there. Who knows i am only 23 we will see what happens in life still.

Anyways sorry for this being such a short blog but next blog will include camp pictures :-D okay okay here is a sneak preview hehe...

my cabin co's(Tinsel and Milkshake) and i(Squeaks) -

Animorph and i on Olympic Day Session 1- 

me and some of my campers from session 1 - 

Suds & Kisses

haha. the title of this blog is the name of my new favorite scent spray from Aerie. It is just a TAD ridiculous how much i love that store haha. But anyways... lets see what is new...

OH TODAY WAS THE LAST DAY OF CLASSES FOR THE SEMESTER!!!!!! I did it!!! just gotta take 4 finals next week. ahhhhh! but man i made it through year 3 under my belt :-D hopefully one more year at LSC then i can move on to my actual major of social work. haha.


Anyways, life has been pretty fantastic lately. school is great, friends are great, summer will be rockin. life is just fantastic yo!

My God daughter is getting so big!! I am bummed I won't be around for the summer to hang out with her but hey, I get all fall with that beautiful little girl oh and my best friend of corse bahah... Here she is....

       

Yes yes it does look like she does elf ears... she gets it from her mama apparently...  :) 

Onto another subject... hmm. Pretty sure i am still in love with this town. even though Montana has my heart too. however i am a born and raised minnesota girl. hehe. 

(left) Duluth Minnesota   (right) Bozeman Montana

can you guys now see why my heart is in two places at once? UFFDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

However I do plan to live part of my life in Montana before i die, so i am not too worried I know i will be back out there. 

Oh side story... I was waiting for my bus today, and this older man asked me for help with his cellphone. So i went along and helped him and we got to talking we are both from the cities area... he used to cut hair down the street from my house in roseville. ALSO his granddaughter goes to LSC anddddddd his son lives in Mound Minnesota were my cabin in... seriously such a small world. I am so happy to have encounters like that. It makes me cherish the smallest things in life even more. like a small conversation with a complete stranger his name was Johnny. So he automatically reminded me of my Grandpa Johnny also. :) it was probably the best part of my day...besides being done with classes ha.

What else is new??????? Ohhhhhh my friend Dan who i babysit for that i know from the LSC he gave me a free bead that he made in his glass studio it is pretty sweet i can't wait to use it!!!

yeah it is pretty rockin.

Oh also last saturday Aziza and i hung out and  we got to go to whole foods co-op and buy some groceries. man i haven't been there in forever so it was great to go and i got some yummy vegan marshmallows...they taste so much better than what they sound
like....

haha yup... they are delicious.

OHHHH i also have found a use for my old fishbowl that i was trying to get rid of before i had to move out of the dorms for the summer...... it is now my mini garden with marigolds planted. I seriously can't wait until they bloom. I am sadly dreading having to give it to my mom for the summer I am pretty sure she will kill them :( and they are only just sprouting....

I am actually surprised how fast they sprouted... i planted them well a week ago tomorrow.... and they look like this already!!! yay!!!!



Anyways enough of random little updates....well i think?? ha uffda.

I can't believe i am actually living up to my new years resolution still. but i am loving it... it is my new motto...well one of them at least....

Never regret anything i do.


It is pretty much true. I don't regret anything i have done so far this year... If i have... i came to terms with it in my own way.

here is a thought....
i have always understood friends come and go in your life... but lately it has just been more real to me..my friends who i had , like 2 years ago i hardly talk to anymore...and even just a year ago too. It just doesn't seen right in away. it is not like we had a falling out? i don't know. I know i shouldn't be worrying about it cause it happens...but it is just sudden. but if people wanna be in your life they will make ways. friendship is a 2 way street.

Anyways oh i have been growing tons of patience lately... in many areas of my life... i will not go into details.. haha. but it is true.

OH IT IS FINALLY MAY!!! only weeks until i am back at camp buckskin!!!!!!!!!! and as counselor!!! ahhh yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! i am sooo excited. a new role a new summer..new everything! ha. it will be amazing i can tell!

lately i have gotten hints from people that they are sick of me talking about camp, but hey honestly if they had something amazing in their life i wouldn't talk bad about it, i would be happy for them...and that is how buckskin is for me. it is one amazing place to be. i have grown up so much at that place. ahhhhh BUCKSKIN! YEAR 6!!!!! :-D

Can't wait to be back with some of the best people i know in the world!

Alright i think my life is pretty much up to date in the blog now.

Time to do something awesome.. haha.