this just in.......!

i just bought the dane cook CD! im talking like 25 tracks plus a bonus and a DVD with like three or four appearances on it. my life is complete. that is all. (at least for me)

"the buffalo is the largest of the ass mammals"

i started off my MEA with a visit to concordia (in moorhead). i met with my roomate whittney who lived in park region, and impressed my mom with her dorm. we talked a little about school and such and she too had actually considered a major in psychology, but ended up choosing art. she showed me her psych textbook and hinted that the professor (dr. olson) was "good looking" or in her words "hot". this would later be confirmed. that night we actually went to a jazz band concert and i heard some familiar songs like night train, benny goodman, and saint thomas. they were really good and had a lot of improv (?) solos which were realy cool, especially this one drum solo that was like ten minutes long. he was amazing! then we went back to the dorm and the roomates worked on their papers and i relaxed a while. that night was pretty interesting when some friends came by. the title was a quote from on of sarah's textbooks (she studies in equine science), and whitney's roomate form little falls just kept making fun of it. we shared funny stories and talked about the guys they knew and as things got more interesting they mentioned "oh megan will have some stories to tell when she gets home" this is true.

the next day i had breakfast, and my mom met with me as josh led us on a tour especially to all the dorms. josh (a senior) by the way was also pretty good looking, just in case you wanted to know. i went to a freshman english class and then to a psychology one and after met the famously new dr olson, he was nice.
NDSU the next day-after i was highly discouraged. we got lost just trying to leave it sucked and it was cold! at least after three hours of walking we evened it out with three of driving. then AO and i went to b-dubs and even though our waitress didn't show up the food was great! after dinner there i met my family with aunt, uncle, and cousin at blask bear. haley really wanted me to go swimming with her at the suites so being the great cousin i am i did and came home exhausted.

after that day my mom and i did some shopping and errands the next morning and then i soon had to go to work. after my oh so long two hour shift i met AO and badge at the movie store and we decided on my house for the movie. at my house though it was tori, AO and i. we enjoyed the movie sweet 16 which should not be rated PG and had come jones soda.

yesterday i worked for a whoping three hours and then amanda and i made the journey to little falls- "the city of lights". to erin's house. there we watched erin and megHan cook for a few hours and had a lot of good laughs. then we had a very fancy dinner in the dining room and set off to visit moliters haunted acres. we began with a hay ride where people would jump out of little hiding spots and onto the hay ride pacing back and forth staring us down. ther were even TWO guys with chainsaws! they weren't real but they would saw at the benches and you could feel the vibration of the chain. they even had a scene that portrayed the ring! then after the hayride we went into the mine shafte and then like 5 other houses and by the end our arms were sore and our throats! we went back to erins with jsut enough time to watch tristen and isolde a heartbreaking tale that as friends we were able to make fun of constantly.

wow i love MEA! hope everyone else had a great time too!

wacky wednesday!

so to clarify some things. you may or most likley did not see me running through the halls today. (probably cause i was soo fast!) i did this for a reason seeing as while running it was impossible to be late for anything. i came to school well equipped with tennis shoes and some red bull to keep me going. i was supposed to do something that breaks an unspoken rule (norm), and see what people whould say to me good or bad. in all honesty it was actually kind of fun! weaving through people was at times dificult, but i covered a lot of distance in short times.

other than my own actions i observed some other non-sociology project related "norm violations". my sixth hour is sociology, the room that generally overlooks the exit to the senior lot. i often use the window to watch people play football or wave at us while carlson is talking. today was unilke any others. first of all i was severly distracted by the huge snow storm! not kidding it was swirling around in tornado-like circles. then i guess i should have seen what was coming next. the sixth hour senior guys muscled up enough courage to be stupid together! and without their knowing my entertainment. they all took off their shirts while the snowstorm was at full capacity, and ran around the senior lot. why you ask, because it was wacky wednesday! boy i can't wait to see what's in store for friday the thirteenth!

My cat is better than your cat

this is true, i may even go as far to say that my cat is better than your dog and certainly your fish, rabbit, hamdter, tutrle, ect. My cat can fetch! like no other i will have you know! last night i found Mittens ever elusive "purple ball", yep that would be the one she plays fetch with. once she see's me pick up the ball she makes her questioning meow. translation: are you really gonna throw that or are you just messin with me? then i throw it and she answers: oh yes! you did god bless you! well something like that. seconds later she brings it up the stairs and makes the bragging meow. she can't resist it, and has even been known to jump through the railing below just to land on top of it. she may not be friendly to strangers, but she can fetch.

to add to my new bragging right of "my cat can fetch" i have my newest jelous item. ta da da dA! the SIDEKICK! the little one! OMG! not mine (the jealous part) my dads! eww. i love it though. so far i've added myself as a contact, taken funny pics (the screen is HUGE), played solitare, made a word document, called myself, and i can really see a good future for the two of us. we'll get along well as long as i can find that pointer pen thingy. it's beautiful technology, more beautiful than a big screen, maybe not a theatre, but a hell of a lot better than getting hit in the head with a brick. i guess you could say that im pretty optomistic.

three toilets, two toilets, ONE toilet

so friday i HAD to be at the football game, at least we won. when i got home my mom told me she bought me a little dresser for college.....? i think that ther're finally letting this CLC idea go.

on saturday almost all day felt like sunday for some reason. in the morning my mom and i met valerie and her three kids at kiwanis park to finish my outdoor pics. overall it was an enjoyable experience, with three kids under the age of twelve assisting me in taking my pictures there was never a dull moment. if i had a "fake" smile cameron would come over and "do his thing" aka belch really loudly! i think the first time it scared the crap out of my mom, she toatally didn't see it coming. then julia would help me with my hair and thought of a pose for me to do on the bridge too. i think the kids actually had a good time just being at the park. then we took a few and my house and called it a day, for pic's that is. awile later we headed to the lovely city of elmdale, don't worry you probably have never heard of it. my moms side is from royalton so elmdale is close (they have a community center we've used before). it was my aunt and uncles 25th anniv, and they were well equipped with cozies/huggies/holders for our beverages that had the following printed on them: to have and to hold and to keep your beer cold dennis and janice 25th anniversary. then as we left with our souvineers they guarenteed us that we could take them to any party we wanted, and claim it was just yesterday.

today i was supposed to babysit at saint francis, but only stayed to help out at sunday school for awhile, cause no one stayed later. so we left earlier and heather and i just talked by our cars for awhile about how we both had grad pics the day before. then i had to work at 12:30 with this girl who has worked there for like 2 months and i had never worked with. bad part of work: i got chlorine on my favorite shirt cause this comet bottel was broken and leaked in the carrier, so i cleaned it up and my shirt has pink marks. good part: i had an open check on my screen and we couldn't get rid of it so jess rang up an ice cream then voided it. she forgot to tell the cooks so they made me ice cream..."well you might as well eat it" yessss! after work my other aunt and uncle came over to pick up a toilet. yes a toilet. you would know if you've been to my house. we used to have three toilets in our garage (one for each of us-it was from one of the houses my dad worked on), but one was put in the groomers shed, and the other was for my aunt and uncle. now we are down to one. so much for that idea of planting flowers in them and putting them at the end of the driveway. it's just silly with only one!

speaking of....

so you (you know who you are) raised a good point. with the majority of our bloggers (yeah like the three of you) i really don't know what you all plan to do with your lives. as an attempt at blog bonding share with the blog what your want to be, study, do and/or experience. (PG please) the blogosphere is that place, i promise we will accept you!

so that familiar question of where do i see myslef in 5 years, the one from dawsons creek: well, alive, healthy, happy, with good and meaningful relationships with old and new friends and most importantly the family. by then i should be about done with college and back out in the real world doing something i love. something that i can look forward to and find my own way to help others, to make a difference in someones life, and if im really sucessful more than a few. who knows exactly where this future lies, but i wont want to miss a minute of it.

and now it's your turn.

those two towers standing tall

so saint scholastica went pretty well to say the least. im not quite sure that it's what i want, but i really have nothing to compare it to, so... the person i roomed with was named kim. easy... think again, kim's roomate was named kim. well less memorization i say to myself. then after settling in another girl comes and we all decide to go for a walk/hike. her name is megan. once again easy. then we go to find rose, finally someone with a different name, but unfourtunatly rose was not to be found so who should join us bet her roomate: KIM!

so yeah i went on a hike with megan, kim, kim, kim and me (megan). what a group! i really can easily admit that i did not have the right shoes for hiking, or that i remember the last time i went hiking for that matter. we found the trail and it was pretty nice. once we had to climb up this really steep hill like 75 feet up and we were leaning just in order to keep going up, and not faceplant. after making it up we had to stop for a couple minutes just to rest (uphill climbing in the forest is pretty strenuious). as we continue on the trail we eventually end up walking on paths right in people's back yards! we're like "hey isn't that someones house?" well we were just following the path. then we come to a really cool lookout point and attempt our way back to where we started and we realize that this has gone on way longer than planned, and we head straingt to dinner were i finally see some familiar people:holly and brenden. it was really good that they were glad to see me, and dinner wasn't too bad either.

that night we did what any college student would do on a sunday night, apparently, we watched desperate housewives. sunday night i also had a home made caramel apple from megan (not the same one from the hike) and it was delicious. oh yes and kim also showed me her facebook, even though i prefer myspace (and i think she was jealous), but she had very interesting pics of the night before at this place called "beaners" i like that name.

the next day i woke up around seven and we had breakfast and headed over to tower. my first class was in the science building which was pretty new and i was in an 8:00 class called Human Biology and Heridity. oddly enough i somewhat knew someone in this class, he just looked familiar. turns out he was like my cousins best friend. it was interesting that no one even said anything when i was just sitting in on the class JUST sitting, not taking notes or getting a test back, but that was cool. then i went over to tower for the rest of the day (sciences aren't my thing) i went to behavior management, and actually had a clue as to what was going on. then i ran into danielle marot, who recognized me from BHS, and who was also in my next class: first year comp. that was interesting. they were actually learning about grammer and i had to do this worksheet about where to use the comma, colon and or start a new sentence. groundbreaking really...the next class was my challenge: intermediate spanish. it was acutally taught by a guy! most of the people didn't speak that fluently and we did this worksheet on accents, and then did a dialogue in front of the class about a situation in the doctors office. then i had my last class: mythology....ewwwww i almost fell asleep like three times. glad that was finally over.

overall i think it was more important to see the college experience in general to give me a little insight. who knows at this point though, all i know is i should really start making some money to help, because i know it scares the hell out of my parents thinking about what it's going to cost. it was a good experience, but it will be one of very many this year, and i know this for sure. i really prefer to live in the here and now, and when you compare things in the past to know you probably wouldn't believe how things have changed, although some things don't and that's okay with me too. carpe diem my friends, don't mess around you only have this one oppertunity.

and the search contunies...

well it's been a while since i made a post and i thought to fill in the blog readers as to what t'm doing this weekend. well toninght i will be doing homework frantically until i have to go to work at 5. then on sunday my parents and i will leave for duluth more specifically Saint Scholastica http://www.css.edu/ just in case you were curious. There's an open house thing on sunday and then an oppertunity to spend the night and attend some classes on monday also. Thus far i visited the campus in july and met with an admissions person, so this august i applied (hey! i had an application waiver), and i have been accepted including a "benidictine scholarship" which is 11,500 each year as long as i'm full time and keep a 3.5 gpa (i think that's it?). it's a pretty nice scholarship seeing as i dodn't sepratly apply for it, but it can make a pretty good dent in the higher tuition price. so i've pretty much got all my bases covered, and this visit is a good predictor to give me a better idea as to wether i could see myself there or not. well wish me luck and i will probably post when i get back.

"Catalina y yo rompemos los corazones."

I voted tonight and yes i got one of those "I voted" stickers. sweet! nuff said.
mulatto out!

is that your elbow????

ahh yes the day that has awaited me since the eve of my birthday. the chance to use my gift certificate at the fine line. Today i got a one hour massage...it was AMAZING!! the bed i was laying on was like a heated water bed and everything was so relaxing. she started with my back and then my legs and feet for like a half hour then i flipped over and she massaged my scalp, ears and even my face. then she did my hands and shoulders and i was so relaxed as she finished. It was great and i highly reccomend it.
then i moved on to my "spa" (this is very different from the salon) pedicure. soaking them seemed routine, but then she added in the maple walnut scrub or something. squishy between the toes after that she had like this seaweed moisturizing stuff which she mentioned was "all natural aveno products" after putting it on she wrapped my feet in these hot towels. later she put on my polish and i recieved some free shoes!! haha they are disposable flip flops!? little green pieces of foam like 2cm thick and i had to walk down the stairs and out on the road with the little toe dividers and foam flip flops on my feet. they are really cute and all, but pretty slippery and harder to drive in.

the last sweet scoop

today was my last day at the chocolate ox! just a few phrases that i will NEVER have to say again: sugar cone vanilla cone or a dish....single scoop size or kids size...the napkins are right by your shoulder....2.50...out of twenty...we actually only take cash or check...the closest bathroom is at the chamber of commerce just down the street.....yes a single is two scoops......WOW!

i feel better already. but as i ended this summer job i began new things. out with the old and in with the new. the new: i had a (free) tuxedo "frappe" i didn't even drink coffie like beverages at the beginning of summer. i had a sugar free red bull, and i finally went tanning at the carribean tanning salon. (this one most exciting) the beds were a little confusing but they were huge!!! and one had a matress, but they had this one, of only two in MN, that was soo wierd. it was a huge yellow thing that like circled around you as you laid in it and moved, i have a suspicion that it was created by aliens..... so wierd.

turns out bobbie was working (she knew my dad, and me) and we also had to push our index fingers onto this keypad for authorization so no one could steal our points hehe. sh says index finger and my mom takes her middle finger, she says no like your pointer, my mom takes her fourth finger, NO INDEX we had to demonstrate this one. ohh god. "oh i'm sorry i keep embarrassing you megan!" (mom) hmmmmm. we plan to return regardless.

CALLING ALL STUDENTS WITH ATHLETIC ABILITY!!!

i went to the first football game of the year last night. i actually ATTENDED the game like a regular student (something i haven't done since sophomore year), what a game it was.....

i'm not quite sure why but even our players looked so much smaller than tecs players. the game was a pretty brutal defeat (7-28) and sitting in the senoir section we (meaning senoir guys-the ones who stand the whole game-why i have no clue) attempt to cheer on the team incomplete pass after incomplete pass, sometimes to the other team. now understand that i am no sports writer, i sometimes even call it a goal instead of a touchdown, but i know a brutal defeat when i see one. one warrior member mad a rude puch at the ground in the end zone after missing the pass as the warrior side yelled "awwwwwww!"

this is a cry for help if you have and athletic bone in your body give it a shot and tryout for brainerd. it's a wonderful town and we are very accepting people, especially if you good at athletics :) you may not have a locker or a place to park your car, but if you are good enough you may be eldigble for a faculty parking spot, just keep your hopes up.

in other news we have NO MORE CHEERLEADERS in case you weren't aware they are CUT!! ouch....maybe that's why we didn't win last night. just a thought.
keeping you posted on the less important things in life, this has been megan kummet, save the drama for the sophmores BHS, and have a good night.

the day that the 17 year olds look forward to...

i recently (as everyone anticipated) made the trip up to visit the grand casino in mille lacs (sp?).

it's not what i expected, although i expected nothing really....i somewhat wished it was like how i saw them in the movies you know with oceans 11, people getting dressed up to roll big and spin the wheel. i didn't even see anyone win "chips". to the contrary most of the people who were there were pretty old and were wearing the clothes they bought at wallmart a few years back when they still weren't in style, i would also say that about 80% of the people there smoked. and yet what caught my eye were the bright colored machines with catchy names and promises of HUGE jackpots.

i thought i would try the first game, a bowling one, little did i know it had almost nothing to do with bowling i just kept hitting buttons, and apparently my parents were more confused than i was. i moved on to another fishing game after a while and noticed it was similar, aka i still didn't get it. then i moved over just a few seats to a game that was at least more interesting to look at. some kind of trailer park theme i made about two or three bets then i must have gone into a bonus round or something, and it began playing for me as i moved to the third and fourth party's, the machine was so loud that i couldn't hear what the lady a few chairs over was saying to me, so i just nodded at her, as the machine continued to congratulate me. by the end of the thing i had won $61.73 and that was the take home prize of the night. after that we just put some dollars in other ones, and i realized you had to look hard to find any machine different from the last. yet the wierdest part of all was that not a single person ever asked for my id, everyone makes such a big deal about it, but it was like going on the honors system. go figure

el mas viejo y el mas joven.....?

well it's four day's until my 18th b-day and im questioning wether i feel any different.

i feel older in this situation: at poncho's im able to start waitress training which is done when your the age of 18 so that you can serve alcohol. this makes me finally feel older. and as wierd as it seems the other night i was just eating my dinner when someone from the bar came in and had a plate full of cake: there was a bachelorette party in the bar: the cake was no ordinary cake, because we often get cake left over from party's or weddings ect. this cake was a little more original....it was shaped like a penis. there's no other way to say it. naturally like adults we were very mature about the whole sitiation, had a good laugh (and lots of inuendo's and jokes), but by my guess if i were 16 i wouldn't be so cool about it. the cake was actually one of the bast we've had!

on the other hand: when i came home from work today (about 3:50pm) i noticed a little car driving around the circle on the other side. i got out of the car and went to get my mom and show her the little car coming around the circle, and now noticed it was playing a high pitched tune.......OMG! it was the littlest blue bunny ice cream truck and it was heading toward me!! i got way more excited than i probably should have, but they didn't even have this when i was little. it was amazing, everything i had imagined and more. the car was no longer than 5 feet and the man inside of it could have been a football player. the ice cream was great and just what i needed, even though it made me feel a more like a little kid. worst part though was that im pretty sure my mom took a picture of me getting my ice cream. sometimes she doesn't know when to quit. oh well. keep your eyes open as well as your ears for this amazing ice cream mobile, cause im pretty sure it made my day! the car is most similar to this one but smaller and says blue bunny on the side. (and a large man with a yellow shirt inside)

The Windy City I've Fallen in Love With

Chicago....i can't really find a word to describe it. It is beautiful, sophisticated, and suprisingly clean. I absolutely love this city. Chicago is known as the city of architecture, and here there are tons and tons of really cool buildings and i had a chance to see most of the top ten buildings in chicago (i saw 9, missing the John Hancock Center which was a little farther north). The Sears tower was right outside of Union Station, where i was dropped off at by the train. That is really big to look at when you are across the street from it. Its huge. I then walked down most of the streets of Chicago taking pictures of the buildings and wierd, old, cultural things like old theaters and operas. In the middle of the divided streets, there is a margin, and instead of just having a cement margain like we have in B*Town, they have these marble planters with lucious plants and flowers. And walking down all of these streets, there wasn't one peice of trash. It was insane. Also, their sidewalks are really wide across. I think that they are like 30-40 feet wide so tons of people can fit down the sidewalk. I then went to the worlds largest bean. Yeah, a bean. And it cost something like a little over $4 million to polish. It was ridiculous. I couldn't believe that so many people flocked to this ridiculous place to see the worlds largest bean. It wasn't even that exciting. Ok, going on the inside of the curve was pretty cool, i'll admit it, and people watching was hilarious. You had a lot of rednecks coming into the city to see the worlds largest bean. I watched some crackpot guy actually lay down at the bottom and just lay there for over 45 minutes. It was wierd, and the polish actually works because you can see your reflection in the bean when you walk up to it, and it was designed to show the Chicago skyline, as you can see in this picture. The bean was in what's called Millenium park, where they have a lot of really neat things, but im only going to tell you about one other thing. They had this place with two brick rectangles that were like 40 feet from eachother. The bricks turned into faces of people that moved. Like, the faces actually blinked and their mouths moved. It was so cool!!! And in between the rectangles, there was water and little things that shot water up. And the brick rectangles would have water leak out of them when they weren't the faces of people. At one point, the rectangles where people, and they moved their mouths into a circular shape and....spit out water. It was awesome. I was completely unprepared for this kind of techonology in the middle of a city park. Then, i went to the Chicago Field Museum, which is huge and i didn't get to go through all of the exhibits, but i did get to see King Tut and his mummified body, walk through and learn about all of the african tribes and their ways of life. I also got to learn about how they mummified people and thought that that was way interesting. We walked through a dinosaur exhibit, but by far, the gem and mineral rooms were my favorite. I saw a 5,980 karot diamond, which let me tell you, it was extremely gorgeous. I wanted to steal it. I also saw a really really cool Mesolite mineral, which i could have stared at for hours. Then, i looked at the clock and almost missed the train. It was bad. I did a five mile sprint across the city of chicago and felt cheated since i didn't get to site see the way back, since i took a different route to get to the field museum. I experience the dryest throat i have ever had in my entire life on the two hour train ride back to Geneva (suburb of Chicago). I think i would have boughten a bottle of water for $200 on the black market i was so thirsty. I would have given my left leg and sold my soul to Lucifer i was seriously that thirsty. But, i got back to Geneva and experience two firsts in my life. I experience my first Jamba Juice, which was good, and then i experience my first Carnie Posada Cuisine, which was very good. It's like this spicy steak in a torilla shell, with cheese, sour cream, guacamole, some wierd salt, bean, corn, pepper, onion, celery mixture. It was very good. I also had a very very enormous Chicago hot dog. Which filled me up, so i could only fit one Carnie Posada in my stomach. I wish i would have skipped the hot dog and had another Carnie Posada. You guys have to try one. MMMMMM. Delicous. Ok. Tomorrow i leave for Pennslyvania, really really early in the morning. I think we are driving like 600 some miles, but i have full faith in MONA to show us the way and lead the blind (us). So, keep it REAL all, and be safe. And please, try not to party to hard without me.

Amen for MONA!!!

Ok. Howdy all. I'm in beautiful Chicago at this very minute staying at some really good friends' house. It is really pretty here and i love the big fancy houses and the expensive cars that everybody drives. They also have really weird town set ups. Like they have this really really old falling down piece of shit barn, right in the middle of this outlet first class mall, expensive nisswa little shop type things, and big buildings surr0unding it. I thought that that was really weird. I will have to say though, that we rented a car to drive to the east coast and back, and with this car, it has come equipped with a GPS system, aka "Mona." Mona is a god sent gift for my family on this road trip. Most of our fights happen because nobody can "read" a map good enough for my father. So, you plug in the address you start at, and the address your trying to get to, and it calculates the quickest route there. It even tells you where to turn, what direction, how far you're going to travel on that road, your next turn, when to get on and off the interstate, and it like talks to you and reminds you things and gives you places to eat and do activities when you approach a town. SO, AMEN FOR MONA!!! I saw jennifer anniston and vince vaughns new establishment and let me tell you, it is in the suburb of Chicago, in a town called Wayne that has a population of 1900. It is gorgeous, and has a white picket fence, a fountain in the front, some statue of lions by the fountain, a circular drive way, horses, and a barn. It is a huge. Oh, and one more thing. I totally saw Mrs. Medin the art teacher, going into Menards ( i believe that was the right store) on our residential tour that went through five parking lots. It was so weird. My sister was looking out the window, and she's like OMG, look kayla, and i look and BOOM! Mrs. Medin. I travel 9 hours out of B*Town, and i still can't get away. It was insane. Ok. That's the update on my trip. I'm taking the one hour train ride into downtown Chicago tomorrow and i'm going to see King Tut, at the museum, and a bunch of other chicago lifestyle type things. So, i'll talk to you guys later! Keep it REAL!!!!

The Lewis And Clark Expedition

Dear Friends~
I restart and finish my summer "world tour" starting thursday night at 4 am. I have already been to MN and TX and everything in between. And tomorrow i will go through MN, WI, and Illinois, where i will stop first in Chicago at our dear good friends the Kerns. And then from there we will go through every state that is from Kentucky and Virginia on up. Every state on up. We are going to spend 2 days in Boston, i wish that we were staying more days there, and 5 days in NY. We are going to go see the broadway play Wicked in NY. I really don't know what else we are doin anywhere else. I haven't been home to really hear the plan. I'm going to go to the New England Six Flags, which will be tight. I hope that i get to go to a real museum with authentic art from people like Da Vinci, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent Van Gogh. There's a place in NY that i would love to see, and i think that it's called Shakespeare's Garden and inside this place are real flowers and plants that Shakespeare had in his plays, sonnets, and poems. No other flower or plant is there, and i think that that would be really neat. We are going to do all the tourist stuff too. Like we are going to Ground Zero, empire state building, and the statue of liberty. F.A.O Schwartz is a must of course, and i almost wish that i had rented Big and watched the part where he plays the piano a few hundred times just so i could do a duet with my mom in the store for everybody's sick pleasure. That would have been sweet. There is also this really cool ship that is in NY that i would love to tour and a really neat aeronautic museum that has like an IMAX theater that is exactly identicle to the stars, planets, and galaxies that you can see when you look up at the sky at night. We are also going to Washington D.C., which i hope that i get a good look at our amazing president and i chance to speak with him and really let him hear a piece of my mind. That would be perfect. We are driving there, as a family, in a car, with five people, in a car, that's my family, for 20 days. We are going to kill eachother i think. But, who knows, maybe this is exactly what we need. I'm going to have fun either way. Even if it is listening to my 5 star music selection on my ipod or listening to Dane Cook (by the way kate, i got sick of waiting for you to burn me the retaliation cd, so i just went out and bought it). So, i will see you all when i return on my trip, which my arrival date back into town is September 4, i believe. So, you guys, try to keep the blog arrive, that sucks that we couldn't fit it into our busy schedules to hang out before i left, try not to party too hard with out me (i'll be jealous), text me so i can keep my sanity and talk to people outside my family, and if i love it out there too much to where i just stay out there, i love you guys. It's been REAL. Just kidding. I'm sure i will be comin home. Hey maybe next year, us four can take a trip together somewhere. That would probably be a better time. Ok, i really have to start packing since i haven't done that yet. So peace out! Hope to see you guys soon!

CLARIFICATION!

Adian kummet is NOT my brother.......debbie kummet is NOT my mother. i think that takes care of most of it.
today at poncho's ashley sliver had a bet with erica hensel that i was (although NOT) adians little sister. she lost of course. we also called valeries photography the other day...megan kummet..."oh is this debbies daughter!" no. in all truth we are pretty distantly related. 3rd cousins really. he is my dad's cousins son! his grandpa and my grandpa were brothers. im not quite sure how they think we're related, maybe it's based on hair color... it sure isn't skills...


if you have ever seen my attempt a sport, i would not have my picture on google like this. even though from time to time i do make similar facial expressions don't try to prove me wrong we are NOT closley related. and tell your friends. :)

when frogs attack..........!!!!!

last night something horrible happened. we were at AO's house, and though we didn't watch saw what happened that night was way scarier. while we were chopping wood for the bonfire we all noticed ash's huge fear of frogs (we had to get all the logs, bc there could be frogs on them). we made fun of her then talked about other things. later (10:45 ish) we had a need for coldstone ice cream and headed over about ten minutes before closing. all went well, until we got in the car.......tori was in the front (her buick) and so was ash, and i was in the back.
here is what happened in pictures..................

ashley calm sitting in the car eating her ice cream, when we notice bridge, robbie and taylor outside the car laughing, we stare at each other as to what's so funny then we see it (right in front of her on the windshield) and so does ash

..............................................some staggered breathing..........................................then.................the rest of us were laughing, but ash continued to scream until someone flicked off the frog from the outside of the car. talk about a close call. just an innocent trip for ice cream and we end up causing ash severe psychological trauma. protet yourselves people the frogs are out there!!

"what's new?"

ahhh yes one of my favorite phrases! well, what IS new....?
wednesday was turtle race day...........what to say. nisswa, the chocolate ox , it was all a blur. i opened at 10 and joe, paige, and savanna, came at 11, but they had to work until close. apparently i'm better at ice cream so i end up working with joe. about 200 kids participate in turtle races plus two parents two grandparents and a couple siblings, all decide..."HEY I WANT ICE CREAM" within the same hour. it was the four of us all day, bc no one else could work (even though bo and blair came in and felt sorry for us). there was also this one couple that spent $5 on ice cream and left me a $5 tip! (i think he thought it was a one) so over all $11 extra isn't bad. then my parents and i went out to eat at kelly's, and after we visited the "spec" house that my dad was working on. took a little tour, and realized this was like MTV cribs. ohh you know nice lake front and vaulted cielings, that would only cost us like 1.3 mill......yeah chunk change (did i mention i made $11!!!). maybe when i become famous for doing nothing 50 years after i die my grandchildren can buy that house... but in the meantime.

today i began with the elks booth, things were a little different than we remember them, but actually better and more familiar. we were makin the $$$, by 1pm we had over $90 in tips! laleen is like the funniest mom i know (jared's mom "he play's percussion!"), just one of those people that you could put in a closet and she would find someone to talk to. oddly enough after the fair amanda j and i both worked at poncho's hostessing NOT waitressing. to add to spending the previous four hours together we ran into many previous band members at poncho's. first brittany stegora who previously checked out the fair (and was not impressed), but could relate to us, then of all band people the folkeringas arrive, we noticed the trend, and as they leave karla and amy esperson arrive! what?! i'll ask amanda tom. who came after them, but if it's paul himself maybe there's some secret conspiracy to check up on us.

well i guess i'll do the same thing all over again tom. maybe throw in a bonfire just to change things up a bit, and don't worry NOT commenting is the latest rage i hear (jk). NO ONE is too "busy" to chek the blog (unless your out of state). there's only so much summer left, don't forget to enjoy it and stay away from the back to school section of the department stores ( it could damage you health it's so overwhelming), although you are allowed to purchase duck tape.