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
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Saturday, August 26, 2006
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)
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)
Saturday, August 19, 2006
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!!!!
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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!
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!
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
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. :)
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. :)
Saturday, August 05, 2006
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..................
here is what happened in pictures..................
..............................................some staggered breathing..........................................then.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
"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.
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.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
WHAT!!???
certain things that have occured recently that have caused me to wonder and/or do a double take:
there was a pretty big storm last night, and when i got to work lacey and misty had worked really late until the bar closed and misty was really concerned about the weather and stayed up a lot later, cause she was freaking out (the roof of the playhouse blew right off). on the other hand aric and i had no clue that there even was a storm....? apparently im a heavy sleeper. i was told that once during the night our tv speakers turned on in the living room and it was a movie with all these gunshots and fighting.....i didn't even know about it until morning.
while touring winona college i saw a sign to promote joining a fraternity with the following quote: "TLK" " the chuck norris of fraternity's"...hmmmm
what do people with majors in communications do for a living? especially if they suck at communicating?
what "kind" of college does not have a football team?, but does have a third ranking paintball team.
where should i have my grad pictures taken?
ohh yes and this just in: lance bass is GAY! (thank you MTV news!).....what!?
there was a pretty big storm last night, and when i got to work lacey and misty had worked really late until the bar closed and misty was really concerned about the weather and stayed up a lot later, cause she was freaking out (the roof of the playhouse blew right off). on the other hand aric and i had no clue that there even was a storm....? apparently im a heavy sleeper. i was told that once during the night our tv speakers turned on in the living room and it was a movie with all these gunshots and fighting.....i didn't even know about it until morning.
while touring winona college i saw a sign to promote joining a fraternity with the following quote: "TLK" " the chuck norris of fraternity's"...hmmmm
what do people with majors in communications do for a living? especially if they suck at communicating?
what "kind" of college does not have a football team?, but does have a third ranking paintball team.
where should i have my grad pictures taken?
ohh yes and this just in: lance bass is GAY! (thank you MTV news!).....what!?
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Your Wastebasket Is Really Big!!
Dear Kate:
This is a hamper:
Function: A large basket, usually with a cover, that dirty laundry is put into, to transfer to a washer.
This is a wastebasket:
Function: A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish such as trash.
But, you know, i can see where these two objects, completely different in function and appearence could confuse you. HAHAHAHAHA!!!! That was hilarious kate. It still makes me laugh.
This is a hamper:
Function: A large basket, usually with a cover, that dirty laundry is put into, to transfer to a washer.
This is a wastebasket:
Function: A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish such as trash.
But, you know, i can see where these two objects, completely different in function and appearence could confuse you. HAHAHAHAHA!!!! That was hilarious kate. It still makes me laugh.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
TEXAS OR BUST!!!
Texas. Wow. What a trip. I will start by saying that this was by far the best trip i have ever been on, definetely the most fun, packed full of suprises, and it was what i needed.I didn't want to go to Texas. I was the oldest young adult that was going, only Traci Miller and Megan Augustinack were in the same grade as me, and about 85% of the people who were going where only freshmen. I didn't want to go with those people. And i had made up my mind that i hated them all. What i got, however, was a suprise. I love each and every one of them for who they are, where they came from, and i admire them for the people they are going to be. What else was extraordinary was that we all got along, and we all just partied hard core Christian style, and had a blast together.
I decided to go to Texas to look for God. I have become so angry and frustrated with God, that i can no longer find him, i no longer pray, and i don't want a relationship with God. I know, I know, i'm a bad person because i don't believe in him, blah blah blah blah. But, without god in my life, i feel as if my life is literally, incomplete. I'm missing a part of me that i want and i need, otherwise i'm going to be miserable. So, i went off on my Journey, and I went to Texas. I didn't see God when i was down there, and on the way home, i was dissappointed in my trip. I didn't find what i was looking for. But in order to find something, you need to remember where you lost it or how, or you need a map to find it. So, i didn't see God in Texas, because i wasn't looking properly. Or i don't know how to look. And when i figured this out, it was weird. My heart felt at peace. And now when i look back on my trip, I see him literally, every where. It is such an incredible feeling that i can't even explain it.
OK. You guys prolly didn't care to know that part. But it feels good. Back to the trip. We did a three day mission trip in Austin, where we scraped and painted houses. I learned a lot about myself and how i viewed the world compared to how these people viewed the world, and i feel ashamed of how i viewed the world before. And the owner of the house that we did, gave us a thank you card and she called us "her Minnesotan Angels" and it brought tears to my eyes, about how someone can feel so grateful for something that wasn't even that big of a deal for us. And it left me wishing that we could have done more for her. Finished her porch, fixed the steps and doors in the back, did some landscaping for her. Debrah deserved a mansion and she is such a good person that i feel honored to ever have met her and i believe that she has changed my life more than i changed hers, and that's truly a blessing for me.
Then we went off to San Antonio for the ELCA National Youth Gathering. With 30,000 teenage lutheran youth running around, it was so cool to see everybody doing the same motions, praising the Lord, going crazy for the same reason. It was overwhelming. Hawk Nelson, The Katinas, Newsboys, Superchik, and Agape were my favorite bands that played and i did like a couple of songs that Peter Mayer and Friends did. Captive Free in Austin was good. Some of the speakers were good. I really liked the pastor who spoke the first night, and that super hilarious guy who was on comedy central the second night.
I have so many memories and so many things that happened on this trip, that i possibly can't share all of them in just this one blog and even if i could, who would really take the time to read all of it. I'll just say that it fulfilled something, some part of me that was missing, and i'm so happy that i went. I can't really explain what i mean. But the trip was a blast, except, i wish i could have spent a little more time with Kate. I didn't even get to talk to Kate that much, which bums me out. But, Kate, I hope that you had as much fun as i did.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
seek, achieve, retain
well i've returned from camp RYLA in good spirits, new friendships, and so many new memories. not to mention the pictures that i will have...you never know.
i truly felt privliged to go to camp, and get so wrapped up in something that was so much bigger than myself. i thought it would be best to sum up a recap of the week, and the most important of the memories. here goes:
Sunday: after the three hour car drive to crookston we finally arive in the gym as family d begins chanting "megan-megan-megan-megan", i just met my "mom and dad" for the next week, and Dayna (mom) leads me to my dorm. my roomate isn't there. we all meet for the first time in the auditorium and first impressions are made within the family. icebreakers, the seven habits of highly effective teens, four way test, handshakes, and around nine o'clock my roomate finally arrives! we head to the dorm and get the most sleep we recieve all week. ( oh yeah and at dinner we meet brad as he and michael demonstrate "snaps"-the canadian game of telepethy- it's amazing!)
Monday:we are woken up by the national guard and whistles! ewww.twenty minutes of boot camp training at 7:15 and we slump back to the dorms. we watched the video about the fish market in seattle and it actually made sense. then the random acts of kindness, to tug at the heart strings. we wore our rotary shirts and my sisters and i headed for the local hospital, with a dozen roses for the patients. it was great, and i gave this one to an old man heading to the parking lot and he took pictures with us. we also made a rose dance with the video camera in the elevator.
Tuesday' tubing day! woohoo! start the day with some relay's and heard the story of dick beardsly (famous runner) he got stuck in a tractor, hit by a truck running, had a car accident, fell off a cliff and had a tree stuck in his eye! he was a standing miracle, but he made his stories funny. finally tubing with my favorite family down the red river. something i have never done before! we shared stories the whole way.
Wednesday: start again at 7:15 with an african workout video, convincing me to search for a leopard/zebra full length leo. ropes challenges, where we had fun in the hypothetical situations of being trapped in a forcefield and having to get each other out. to getting each member through interesting horizontal string designs (evil spider web) where i was lifted through tiny holes no bigger than my TV by six other people. and of course follies probably my favorite part. each family A-O does a cheer, poster and a skit. our cheer was to the adams family song, a poster that included all our socks (symbolicly) and our favorite d-words. then the skit! it was great: micheal and lauren were a couple eating dinner when the waitress (jenessa) asked when the baby was due (not pregnant), then at kelcey and my table we gossipped until she brought a salad with TOMATOES! (allergic). then she goes to the guy's checking us out and grant "drops" his fork and slap's her but (not an actual slap rehersed!!!) jenessa's face was priceless, but she wasn't mad.
Thursday' being on activities committtee i begin the scavenger hunt, then we do "BAFA FAFA"(a cultural expirement) something you must experience to understand. Lunch with crookston rotary, followed by the most boaring speech i have ever heard, then info about UMC where i definitly will not be attending. things ran so late we only had a few minutes to watch the video on etiquitte( and make fun of it) then had to rush to the dorms to get dressed and i didn't even bring shoes! (borrowed from lauren) it was time for fine dining. there were five courses, and we had fun the whole time regardless if they were trying to teach us. dinner even included a violin accompaniement playing yankee doodle dandy, which inspired jenessa to tell us hellen keller jokes. they were sooo bad but sooo funny. one of my favorites: how do you punish hellen keller? leave the plunger in the toilet..........or make her read a basketball. LOL! after dinner we took lots oof pictures and went to the camp talent show. including things from bananna eating, violins, piano's, trumpets, jokes, singing, 2 great humor speeches (the state champs), and "purple donuts" performed by chip ( the camp dance champ), which we think was originally dane cook! oh yes and the defining moment of camp RYLA: paul aka flex-0 comes out to do his routine and there's a hamster dance from google in the back (?) then he folds himself forward and someone has to help him up, she does and.........SMACK he falls straight back on the floor!!OMG! michael says to me " we so called it" it's okay bc he was fine but right after he fell they played a video of cats doing funny things like you see on AFV, and everyone's attention turns to the cats. that night we replayed the moment a million times: paul..... smack 1 2 3 "oh look! CATS! haha!
Friday: marshall olson speaks about loosing his son and concidence or god talking to him. another speech on anything is possible and then we worked on our final speeches. well actually lauren michael and i hung out in the guys dorms till dinner, but it was fun. after dinner there was more free time and then we finally gave our speeches and ended the night with the dance! for the most part it was pretty fun and the only time i will go to a dance with my new friends who i only knew a couple day's and actually don't attend BHS.
then it was the last day and we all promise to stay in touch, as i relflect on everything i learned.
i've never laughed so hard in my life and the people are amazing. i did meet some canadians and they are quite interesting, but we learned to love them and their ketchup chips and candy. there is so much to tell and so many pictures to send and develop. family "D" represent and Lead the way Rylarians!
Megan Kummet
i truly felt privliged to go to camp, and get so wrapped up in something that was so much bigger than myself. i thought it would be best to sum up a recap of the week, and the most important of the memories. here goes:
Sunday: after the three hour car drive to crookston we finally arive in the gym as family d begins chanting "megan-megan-megan-megan", i just met my "mom and dad" for the next week, and Dayna (mom) leads me to my dorm. my roomate isn't there. we all meet for the first time in the auditorium and first impressions are made within the family. icebreakers, the seven habits of highly effective teens, four way test, handshakes, and around nine o'clock my roomate finally arrives! we head to the dorm and get the most sleep we recieve all week. ( oh yeah and at dinner we meet brad as he and michael demonstrate "snaps"-the canadian game of telepethy- it's amazing!)
Monday:we are woken up by the national guard and whistles! ewww.twenty minutes of boot camp training at 7:15 and we slump back to the dorms. we watched the video about the fish market in seattle and it actually made sense. then the random acts of kindness, to tug at the heart strings. we wore our rotary shirts and my sisters and i headed for the local hospital, with a dozen roses for the patients. it was great, and i gave this one to an old man heading to the parking lot and he took pictures with us. we also made a rose dance with the video camera in the elevator.
Tuesday' tubing day! woohoo! start the day with some relay's and heard the story of dick beardsly (famous runner) he got stuck in a tractor, hit by a truck running, had a car accident, fell off a cliff and had a tree stuck in his eye! he was a standing miracle, but he made his stories funny. finally tubing with my favorite family down the red river. something i have never done before! we shared stories the whole way.
Wednesday: start again at 7:15 with an african workout video, convincing me to search for a leopard/zebra full length leo. ropes challenges, where we had fun in the hypothetical situations of being trapped in a forcefield and having to get each other out. to getting each member through interesting horizontal string designs (evil spider web) where i was lifted through tiny holes no bigger than my TV by six other people. and of course follies probably my favorite part. each family A-O does a cheer, poster and a skit. our cheer was to the adams family song, a poster that included all our socks (symbolicly) and our favorite d-words. then the skit! it was great: micheal and lauren were a couple eating dinner when the waitress (jenessa) asked when the baby was due (not pregnant), then at kelcey and my table we gossipped until she brought a salad with TOMATOES! (allergic). then she goes to the guy's checking us out and grant "drops" his fork and slap's her but (not an actual slap rehersed!!!) jenessa's face was priceless, but she wasn't mad.
Thursday' being on activities committtee i begin the scavenger hunt, then we do "BAFA FAFA"(a cultural expirement) something you must experience to understand. Lunch with crookston rotary, followed by the most boaring speech i have ever heard, then info about UMC where i definitly will not be attending. things ran so late we only had a few minutes to watch the video on etiquitte( and make fun of it) then had to rush to the dorms to get dressed and i didn't even bring shoes! (borrowed from lauren) it was time for fine dining. there were five courses, and we had fun the whole time regardless if they were trying to teach us. dinner even included a violin accompaniement playing yankee doodle dandy, which inspired jenessa to tell us hellen keller jokes. they were sooo bad but sooo funny. one of my favorites: how do you punish hellen keller? leave the plunger in the toilet..........or make her read a basketball. LOL! after dinner we took lots oof pictures and went to the camp talent show. including things from bananna eating, violins, piano's, trumpets, jokes, singing, 2 great humor speeches (the state champs), and "purple donuts" performed by chip ( the camp dance champ), which we think was originally dane cook! oh yes and the defining moment of camp RYLA: paul aka flex-0 comes out to do his routine and there's a hamster dance from google in the back (?) then he folds himself forward and someone has to help him up, she does and.........SMACK he falls straight back on the floor!!OMG! michael says to me " we so called it" it's okay bc he was fine but right after he fell they played a video of cats doing funny things like you see on AFV, and everyone's attention turns to the cats. that night we replayed the moment a million times: paul..... smack 1 2 3 "oh look! CATS! haha!
Friday: marshall olson speaks about loosing his son and concidence or god talking to him. another speech on anything is possible and then we worked on our final speeches. well actually lauren michael and i hung out in the guys dorms till dinner, but it was fun. after dinner there was more free time and then we finally gave our speeches and ended the night with the dance! for the most part it was pretty fun and the only time i will go to a dance with my new friends who i only knew a couple day's and actually don't attend BHS.
then it was the last day and we all promise to stay in touch, as i relflect on everything i learned.
i've never laughed so hard in my life and the people are amazing. i did meet some canadians and they are quite interesting, but we learned to love them and their ketchup chips and candy. there is so much to tell and so many pictures to send and develop. family "D" represent and Lead the way Rylarians!
Megan Kummet
Saturday, July 15, 2006
CPR time!!!
i still can't believe that i left for a week and the blog has completly died!!! it's pathetic! oh well...the week was awesome and i will revive the blog later with posts about camp.
in the last two days i slept about a total of ten hours, but with less time sleeping there was more memories being made. lol!
thanks for keepin the dream alive!
Kummet
in the last two days i slept about a total of ten hours, but with less time sleeping there was more memories being made. lol!
thanks for keepin the dream alive!
Kummet
Saturday, July 08, 2006
letters from a future "rylarian"
well the fourth was a great day off and i worked the last four days straight with two doubles, but it makes up for the entire week i will miss. tomorrow i am off to crookston at the university of minnesota campus from saturday to saturday (then i work again sun-tues...ewww). amanda adair, katherine wheeler, shaylea jay and i will be attending RYLA (rotary youth leadership award) camp. i really have no idea what to expect. i only know the seven days were based on the book "seven habits of highly effective teens". i also know that we are staying in the campus dorms. i hope that my few church retreats have prepared me well for the akward moments to come, and maybe i'll learn a few things. if nothing else it's really my only week of vacation, and i might even meet some canadians! ahha
like i said i don't really know much about this, but i'll have something to post when i get back for sure. in the meantime i hope the blog can survive! and try to stop people from asking where i am,..........(everyone's like "kummet lets hang out next week!") although i feel bad for joe because he and i are on bathroom duty at the ox (1st-14th) and i won't bee back until after. :(
don't do anything i wouldn't do! and "BE PROACTIVE!" (habit one)
in case your curious http://www.campryla.org/index.html
Kummet
like i said i don't really know much about this, but i'll have something to post when i get back for sure. in the meantime i hope the blog can survive! and try to stop people from asking where i am,..........(everyone's like "kummet lets hang out next week!") although i feel bad for joe because he and i are on bathroom duty at the ox (1st-14th) and i won't bee back until after. :(
don't do anything i wouldn't do! and "BE PROACTIVE!" (habit one)
in case your curious http://www.campryla.org/index.html
Kummet
Monday, July 03, 2006
when tourism attacks!!!
well i guess it's safe to say that summer is in full swing people. the tourists are here and i suggest that you take notice of where the car ahead of you was purchased, because let's face it they don't know where they're going. but don't get me wrong i love them, i guess you could say they are what makes brainerd go 'round.
today i worked at the chocolate ox. WHOA! WHAT? and they're still coming were some popular phrases. i have never seen so much ice cream go so fast in my entire life. the numbers might scare you. the ice cream takes up roughly 8 feet of space with a width of 1 and 1/2 feet, and the two moveable registers. somehow we managed to keep up to seven people moving around in this area getting and paying for ice cream. a little bit of cramped quarters, but the tips made up for it. i started at 10 and had a break at 4 ish then left like a half hour later. this is actually parade day in nisswa so they close the store at 7 anyway then reopen after. total for tips: $12.56. not bad for 6 hours of work! keep up the hospitality people!
today i worked at the chocolate ox. WHOA! WHAT? and they're still coming were some popular phrases. i have never seen so much ice cream go so fast in my entire life. the numbers might scare you. the ice cream takes up roughly 8 feet of space with a width of 1 and 1/2 feet, and the two moveable registers. somehow we managed to keep up to seven people moving around in this area getting and paying for ice cream. a little bit of cramped quarters, but the tips made up for it. i started at 10 and had a break at 4 ish then left like a half hour later. this is actually parade day in nisswa so they close the store at 7 anyway then reopen after. total for tips: $12.56. not bad for 6 hours of work! keep up the hospitality people!
Friday, June 30, 2006
TRI....athalon.......NO TRI-COLLEGE!!!
time to share the trip memories, mostly good ones i must say. the family had two day's off (wed. and thurs.) so early wed. morning we made our way down to moorhead, a road we hadn't traveled in quite a while.
our first stop was concordia college home of the c
obblers!
(that is one mean lookin cob of corn!) we toured the campus with amber (a senior), talked with trisha an admissions coulselor and had a free lunch outside.
Next we headed to the university only a few minutes away. MSUM
the home of the dragons. once again we met with someone in admissions and took the campus tour. after the long day we decided to head to the hotel. (holiday inn of course) the hotel was pretty sweet. i used the buisness center to check my myspace and the blog and to print directions. they also had free lemonade. this was FAR better than the last time we stayed in a holiday inn on our way to mexico (long story).
after getting tired of talking about the colleges we ventured our way to a resturant called "doolittles"
which was recommended to us by trisha from concordia. it was awesome! when we were sat she used a touch screen computer to seat us and who would have know that our waiter, dennis, was from north dakota! our next stop! so my parents bothered him with questions about tuition and "party schools", but he humored them. other than the service the food was great and on our way out my mom and i used the bathroom where we actually walked by the kitchen and the roticery chickens which were acutally turning over a wood fireplace in a turner the size of a large window! Next we headed to the mall, but i didn't do that much damage. (only a few things)
the next day we started off for NDSU, but stopped at arby's for BREAKFAST! i know what your thinking, but they actually do serve breakfast in other places. sadly we were the only ones there for the entire time we ate and ordered, but the food really wasn't that bad. then back on the
road we made it to NDSU. they started us out on the tour like always, and the campus was much more spread out (12,000 ppl during school), but afterwards they had us meet with an admissions person and even someone in the psychology department, who showed us some really interesting rooms where the professors actually did their studies, or research, and explained some of them to us.
then as our last stop we were off to UND. we arrived almost an hour early to the tour (1:00), but holly our tour guide was ready to get moving (!?) the dorm accomodations were much nicer there, but the campus was still very spread out. many people would have to take the UND bus to get to class on the other side of campus from their residence halls. she ended the tour in the food court, (we hadn't had lunch) but we were in a hurry to find out how to get back to MN. so we got lost on the way back to the car, then hit the road. we stopped at a gas station and hadn't eaten lunch so the attendant recommended a place down the street called red peppers. sure enough red peppers was hidden ina residential area, but had somewhat of a line at 3:00. they had mexican burgers, tortillas, burritos, tacos, tostadas, and grinders. the resturant was no bigger than my kitchen, but the food was good and also cheap. we were still in east grand forks (ND!) at 3:00 and after road construction finally made it home at about 6:35. just in time to leave for band practice (3 clarinets!!!)
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in other news at band prac i recieved a practice book that is almost 300 pages long!! what fun for me! also if anyone seriously wants any fudge let me know! my parents barely even like chocolate and i have like a third of a pound of chocolate rasberry to eat. (also penut butter and chocolate walnut!)
our first stop was concordia college home of the c
obblers!(that is one mean lookin cob of corn!) we toured the campus with amber (a senior), talked with trisha an admissions coulselor and had a free lunch outside.
Next we headed to the university only a few minutes away. MSUM
the home of the dragons. once again we met with someone in admissions and took the campus tour. after the long day we decided to head to the hotel. (holiday inn of course) the hotel was pretty sweet. i used the buisness center to check my myspace and the blog and to print directions. they also had free lemonade. this was FAR better than the last time we stayed in a holiday inn on our way to mexico (long story).after getting tired of talking about the colleges we ventured our way to a resturant called "doolittles"
which was recommended to us by trisha from concordia. it was awesome! when we were sat she used a touch screen computer to seat us and who would have know that our waiter, dennis, was from north dakota! our next stop! so my parents bothered him with questions about tuition and "party schools", but he humored them. other than the service the food was great and on our way out my mom and i used the bathroom where we actually walked by the kitchen and the roticery chickens which were acutally turning over a wood fireplace in a turner the size of a large window! Next we headed to the mall, but i didn't do that much damage. (only a few things)the next day we started off for NDSU, but stopped at arby's for BREAKFAST! i know what your thinking, but they actually do serve breakfast in other places. sadly we were the only ones there for the entire time we ate and ordered, but the food really wasn't that bad. then back on the
road we made it to NDSU. they started us out on the tour like always, and the campus was much more spread out (12,000 ppl during school), but afterwards they had us meet with an admissions person and even someone in the psychology department, who showed us some really interesting rooms where the professors actually did their studies, or research, and explained some of them to us.then as our last stop we were off to UND. we arrived almost an hour early to the tour (1:00), but holly our tour guide was ready to get moving (!?) the dorm accomodations were much nicer there, but the campus was still very spread out. many people would have to take the UND bus to get to class on the other side of campus from their residence halls. she ended the tour in the food court, (we hadn't had lunch) but we were in a hurry to find out how to get back to MN. so we got lost on the way back to the car, then hit the road. we stopped at a gas station and hadn't eaten lunch so the attendant recommended a place down the street called red peppers. sure enough red peppers was hidden ina residential area, but had somewhat of a line at 3:00. they had mexican burgers, tortillas, burritos, tacos, tostadas, and grinders. the resturant was no bigger than my kitchen, but the food was good and also cheap. we were still in east grand forks (ND!) at 3:00 and after road construction finally made it home at about 6:35. just in time to leave for band practice (3 clarinets!!!)
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in other news at band prac i recieved a practice book that is almost 300 pages long!! what fun for me! also if anyone seriously wants any fudge let me know! my parents barely even like chocolate and i have like a third of a pound of chocolate rasberry to eat. (also penut butter and chocolate walnut!)
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
why you ask...?
Why you ask is my job(s) better?
well today i worked at the chocolate ox and upon arriving while wearing my free cute t-shirt i found a cute little bag with my name on it. "fudge scraps to: megan YUM! YUM!". sweeeet! the benifits compare to no other job. ex: before i was even hired ( i didn't apply) when i first met lorise (owner) i came home with over 30 pieces of taffy and a handful of smoothie jelly bellies. my first day the store wasn't open but paige and i filled candy jars and could take home a bag of whatever we liked, after learning what Rob called ice cream 101. i also love the benifit of getting to have a free scoop of any kind of ice cream after work. what could be better. i'm talking 30 + flavors!
so for the last two days i spent 15 hours scooping ice cream (!). but i feel i have gotten stronger, unfourtunatly i am only referring to my right hand. we also have a ton of fudge and do not sell the "butt" of the fudge which is mostly what i recieved. i have chocolate rasberry, chololate walnut and penut butter if your interested, probably over a pound all together.
funny story about the fudge: erin lothert ( a floor manager) worked fathers day and it was so busy that lorise dropped a lot of fudge on the floor. erin was soo happy as she boxed up the fudge for her last minute fathers day gift for her dad, who probably thought she purchased it. floor fudge....there is no ten second rule at the chocolate ox!
well today i worked at the chocolate ox and upon arriving while wearing my free cute t-shirt i found a cute little bag with my name on it. "fudge scraps to: megan YUM! YUM!". sweeeet! the benifits compare to no other job. ex: before i was even hired ( i didn't apply) when i first met lorise (owner) i came home with over 30 pieces of taffy and a handful of smoothie jelly bellies. my first day the store wasn't open but paige and i filled candy jars and could take home a bag of whatever we liked, after learning what Rob called ice cream 101. i also love the benifit of getting to have a free scoop of any kind of ice cream after work. what could be better. i'm talking 30 + flavors!
so for the last two days i spent 15 hours scooping ice cream (!). but i feel i have gotten stronger, unfourtunatly i am only referring to my right hand. we also have a ton of fudge and do not sell the "butt" of the fudge which is mostly what i recieved. i have chocolate rasberry, chololate walnut and penut butter if your interested, probably over a pound all together.
funny story about the fudge: erin lothert ( a floor manager) worked fathers day and it was so busy that lorise dropped a lot of fudge on the floor. erin was soo happy as she boxed up the fudge for her last minute fathers day gift for her dad, who probably thought she purchased it. floor fudge....there is no ten second rule at the chocolate ox!
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Sometimes Information Is Helpful, Sometimes it's Not Helpful, And then a whole different category, TOO MUCH INFO!!!!
OK. Wow. I work at Minnesota Hockey Camp. What an experience already and i've only been working for two and a half weeks. I am now an expert on ice cream cones, how to make four pizzas, mozzerella stix, an order of mini corn dogs, two orders of cheese curds, and three orders of chicken fingers, all under ten minutes, while answering the telephone, helping kids check out the latest christian hockey equipment, minnesota hockey camp apparel, controlling the TV, and debating the latest NHL draft, and whether or not that it was rigged where Carl Sneep was drafted in the second round second pick (32 overall), and Chris Peluso who is also from Brainerd and drafted in a much later round and somewhere in the two hundreds overall. I say Carl is way better along with everybody else in the world, but Conrad Kragness who's better friends with Chris, says Chris is. Apparently i'm right along with everybody else, including the NHL teams, their scouts, coaches, and general managers.
I have also learned who's a better rapper, how much kids can lose gambling in a week of hockey camp, how to run the fryer, the ice cream machine, the slushie machine, the hot dog machine, the nacho machine, how to change fountain soda, the nacho cheese, and the soft serve ice cream. I now can make a mean sprite float, along with root beer floats, coke floats, cherry coke floats, dr. pepper floats, and grape floats.
I have also been dissapointed when i learned exactly how much my pay check really is, especially working as much as i do, and when you take out social security, which i do not get back when i file taxes, is a measly $115, and when i do the math, i make $2.40 per hour. Fricken A. If i would have known that i get paid this much, i'm not so sure i would have taken the job, even though i do use a lot of ice time and i love working up there.
And now the TMI. I have also learned what goes on in the camp, when you have high school girls and high school guys going to camp at the same time. And if the people who are our bosses find out what happened in a specific cabin at three in the morning when the counselor was sleeping, my very good friend would lose her job. I have also learned how fast these certain activities can circulate the camp. For example, Lauren and Vitta did some things together at three in the morning Friday, and by eight thirty in the morning on Saturday, everybody knew. And as teenage and early twenties counselors and staff, we have had long discussions about this, especially the extremely horny guy counselors. I have also learned that Chris, from Boston, has betted against Kendall from St. Cloud, that whichever one gets COW (counselor of the week), the other person has to wear a skirt and work out in it the whole day.
That's all i got for you. This is my life until August 18, where i leave for three weeks and return to Brainerd the day before school starts. But I hope to see you all soon. Keep it REAL!!!
I have also learned who's a better rapper, how much kids can lose gambling in a week of hockey camp, how to run the fryer, the ice cream machine, the slushie machine, the hot dog machine, the nacho machine, how to change fountain soda, the nacho cheese, and the soft serve ice cream. I now can make a mean sprite float, along with root beer floats, coke floats, cherry coke floats, dr. pepper floats, and grape floats.
I have also been dissapointed when i learned exactly how much my pay check really is, especially working as much as i do, and when you take out social security, which i do not get back when i file taxes, is a measly $115, and when i do the math, i make $2.40 per hour. Fricken A. If i would have known that i get paid this much, i'm not so sure i would have taken the job, even though i do use a lot of ice time and i love working up there.
And now the TMI. I have also learned what goes on in the camp, when you have high school girls and high school guys going to camp at the same time. And if the people who are our bosses find out what happened in a specific cabin at three in the morning when the counselor was sleeping, my very good friend would lose her job. I have also learned how fast these certain activities can circulate the camp. For example, Lauren and Vitta did some things together at three in the morning Friday, and by eight thirty in the morning on Saturday, everybody knew. And as teenage and early twenties counselors and staff, we have had long discussions about this, especially the extremely horny guy counselors. I have also learned that Chris, from Boston, has betted against Kendall from St. Cloud, that whichever one gets COW (counselor of the week), the other person has to wear a skirt and work out in it the whole day.
That's all i got for you. This is my life until August 18, where i leave for three weeks and return to Brainerd the day before school starts. But I hope to see you all soon. Keep it REAL!!!
Thursday, June 22, 2006
the last slide
today was my dad's "last day" of work at the holiday inn express. he began working there a little over a year ago and left for many reasons. today was interesting bc they threw him a little pizza party in the break room and got a cake with bob the builder on it ( his name is bob) previously worked for NOR-SON for 21 years! that's a long time and he left on good terms but is not sure that he's going back. he can also go to work with an old friend who used to work at nor-son (steve northway), but he hasn't even decided yet! he's going to finish working on the basement for the dentist that took out my wisdom teeth last week and then go from there i guess.
anyway tonight was a fun night. this was our last oppertunity to get into the waterpark for free or discounted prices, (kate i called: you were working...sad) and some other employee friends were coming too. it was a little sad that i had worked there for three months last summer and reconized two people that came back (other than the obvious), nonetheless they accomplished what they needed when they flipped him over in the tube. plus it's alway's priceless when you can hear my mom coming down the slide and it surprises her every time.
anyway tonight was a fun night. this was our last oppertunity to get into the waterpark for free or discounted prices, (kate i called: you were working...sad) and some other employee friends were coming too. it was a little sad that i had worked there for three months last summer and reconized two people that came back (other than the obvious), nonetheless they accomplished what they needed when they flipped him over in the tube. plus it's alway's priceless when you can hear my mom coming down the slide and it surprises her every time.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
the evil plan.....(whoa long post!?)
well it's been almost a week since i last posted. nothing too exciting since then...um i got my wisdom teeth out wed. and worked fri., sat, sun at ponchos and then mon and tues at the ox, which was good cause i made some extra cash in tips (about nine dollars) over the two shifts, and free ice cream come in handy when it's one of the few things you can eat! oh yeah and band prac. on sunday...i was the only clarinet..sad i know.
why i formulated the evil plan: as you know i had every intention of getting aqn ipod and i wanted to get one before i had my wisdom teeth out so, last minute i went to best buy with leeann on tuesday and came out swearing. i have an iriver that i got for my birthday like ten months ago and have exchange it like three or four times (for other irivers) first time (january-ish) i turned it on and everything was written in chinese and froze the screen (ummm okay..?) they gave me another one with a deffective usb cord so i couldn't get any music on it, they gave me another one, after a week it wouldn't turn on, this time we asked if it didn't work with this one if i could get store credit for another one she talked to the manager and said yes.
getting shotdown= andgry megan: first the fat lady told me i needed the geek squad to look at it to prove that it was DEFFECTIVE. whatever, every time it sits for two days charging i have to reset it with my earring! so we shop around the store until we're bored (10 min.) then much later when the geek squad member comes back he " found nothing wrong with it and upgraded it from a version 1.5 to a version 2.5"????????? what the hell? " do i look like i know what that means?" after while walking out to the parking lot i considered using my key to scratch obscenities with my car key into the geek squad car, but i wasn't sure that he actually drove it and i had to get to ponchos for my last meal. anyway i get home after going to a basketball game and taking leeann home i turn on my iriver and all my music is gone!!!! i have nothing! version 2.7 my ass! i have nothing to listen to buddy and what the hell is version 2.7? i would check the website but there are no irivers! why? b/c they suck and even in the store they sell the opened ones aka MY USED irivers! SOOO the plan is to let it charge for a week and hope it doesn't turn on thus proving it to be deffective and of course bring my parents ("they will take advantage of me again") but if we try again and are shot down i might have to hire someone to steal the geek squad car and run over my iriver in the parking lot . hahaha
why i formulated the evil plan: as you know i had every intention of getting aqn ipod and i wanted to get one before i had my wisdom teeth out so, last minute i went to best buy with leeann on tuesday and came out swearing. i have an iriver that i got for my birthday like ten months ago and have exchange it like three or four times (for other irivers) first time (january-ish) i turned it on and everything was written in chinese and froze the screen (ummm okay..?) they gave me another one with a deffective usb cord so i couldn't get any music on it, they gave me another one, after a week it wouldn't turn on, this time we asked if it didn't work with this one if i could get store credit for another one she talked to the manager and said yes.
getting shotdown= andgry megan: first the fat lady told me i needed the geek squad to look at it to prove that it was DEFFECTIVE. whatever, every time it sits for two days charging i have to reset it with my earring! so we shop around the store until we're bored (10 min.) then much later when the geek squad member comes back he " found nothing wrong with it and upgraded it from a version 1.5 to a version 2.5"????????? what the hell? " do i look like i know what that means?" after while walking out to the parking lot i considered using my key to scratch obscenities with my car key into the geek squad car, but i wasn't sure that he actually drove it and i had to get to ponchos for my last meal. anyway i get home after going to a basketball game and taking leeann home i turn on my iriver and all my music is gone!!!! i have nothing! version 2.7 my ass! i have nothing to listen to buddy and what the hell is version 2.7? i would check the website but there are no irivers! why? b/c they suck and even in the store they sell the opened ones aka MY USED irivers! SOOO the plan is to let it charge for a week and hope it doesn't turn on thus proving it to be deffective and of course bring my parents ("they will take advantage of me again") but if we try again and are shot down i might have to hire someone to steal the geek squad car and run over my iriver in the parking lot . hahaha
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