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champagne at work today care of taylor and kyle of ‘306 hip hop skate’?…not too shabby!
it’s been a busy break so far…lots of working and hanging out with friends…come january i will rest…i swear!
hope everyone’s christmas is going great and that you have been able to share it with people you love.
halvorson christmas 07 photos to come! (hint: it involves a certain grey cup 07 shirt!)
listen…is it wrong that i have been really thinking about starting a facebook? i mean i hate that facebook thing…but my roomate is going to NZ for a whole semester…and i am going to have to see those pictures…what does a girl do?
alright so the week is going alright so far…still haven’t written any finals…waiting for the one on fri and two on sat then home time! (yeh i only have 3…lucky girl!)
i still haven’t found out if i have a job over christmas yet…it’s bothering me.
k, so the weekend was good. started with a pick up in c-town, a drive to avenue skatepark in edm, (and of course the two options for beer being pil and lucky, and i being the lone saskatchewanite was last in line and got stuck with the lucky!), saw trev rokos (that’s what i’m talkin about!), watched means (in the park this time, not even in the lobby!) and it was brilliant, went out to BP’s with jonny p and 2/5 of on the sidewalk bleeding plus jen (love this woman), then crashed on the best sofa known to man, woke up, picked mr. cote up for some snowboard shopping (we had to do four hours of this before we could do my shopping…ahhhh), then finally MEC…woot woot (and now all the nalgenes are gone…it seemed weird), bought a black down jacket like this,
looked at climbing shoes, tossed the idea around, decided they had to wait, then ditched mike, grabbed grub in the mall and headed to BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH to meet up with andy and half of the mexico exchange students, loved my life for an entire 3 hours
(not even joking, the best show i have seen…with an unexpected yet very lovely and energetic appearance by kenny bridges of moneen!),
went to find jon workin it with the beer tub girl who insisted we come party with her and bedouin later that night (well i mean…do we have to ?…i mean, fine, i’ll guess we’ll go…YA RIGHT…for sure we’ll go: chelsea tells jon to calm done), so we go to caffrey’s to eat before the next bedouin show is done so this girl can tell us where to go, mmmm good 1/2 spinach salad, met up with random people, brought party over to jon’s, people are weird, boys are sick, norway is neat, turns out bear tub girl (mercedez…ha) has alot more to clean up…no luck…ah well, i would have just touched their bums and got kicked out anyways…people left, we got bored, went to walmart at 2:30am for 1hr and only come out with a thing of chips, watch documentary on aldo leopold
(3am tv is great!), bif returns, shares in the leopold lovin, wake up floating in mid air (chelsea’s brain: tricked you!) but soon realize i was being carried to the best sofa known to man and had a incredible sleep, woke up around 10, watched some mornin news with bif, then headed back home and didn’t study all weekend! it was an awesome weekend, mostly because of bedouin, but also because i got to shut my brain off, my whole brain and just dink around not worrying about school! but their concert was amazing…and so was means…and so was the guess who in every restaurant we went into…it was a great weekend for music!
anyways, i am looking forward to going home and seeing my family (including moses),
and to see amy, krys, son, jules, anne, to apply for yet another student loan (this one for my canoeing spring course for the month of may), finalizing plans with churches for when ACC comes to Camrose, putting together AAA fundraisers for the next semester, making much needed winter apparel for my dogsledding trip in feb, going camping (possibly involving snowshoes…hopefully we can rent them in regina… and my -29 bag of love),
a trip down to estevan for my aunties infamous turkey dressing (ha!), a company christmas party, seeing two new babies that are anxiously waiting my arrival, making spanish signs and labels to go up in my house next semester to prepare me for mexico in the fall, and probably a hundred other things that i can’t think of b/c it is way too late right now!
so three more days of this shizazz and i am home! i hope everyone is doing awesome on their tests…and if you don’t have tests, then i hope you are really loving your life right now…b/c i am really wanting your life right now!
so roughly around the middle of october i was feeling slightly low and decided to pop in the best movie in the universe…(of course…ALMOST FAMOUS).
i was incredibly shocked when it wasn’t in it’s regular place in my cd case. i began to freak out b/c i had no idea what happened to it or where it had gone (cuz it’s not a movie i lend out very often…slightly protective).
it wasn’t until i went home for the grey cup that my OWN FATHER mentioned how he had borrowed it when i was still living at home and forgot to give it back…MY OWN FATHER!!! however not is all bad b/c he is now a huge fan!
so anyways…i got over that eventually (still don’t have it back mind you…so guess what i am doing the night i get back to regina over christmas?!?).
HOWEVER…the same thing happened last night…except with the Exorcism of Emily Rose.
I convinced a few fellow chaplains to come over and watch it last night (b/c it’s another top favorite of mine)…only to realize it wasn’t in it’s regular place in my cd case…WHAT THE FRICK?!?!?!
this one i am really confused about…and i am pretty sure my dad hasn’t wanted to watch it…so if anyone has my copy can you please let me know?!?!
we were so pumped to watch it…we even had a happy dance party to get us in a good mood before watching such a scary movie.
well i haven’t updated about my rad weekend yet…it’s on it’s way…when i feel like procrastinating even more!
and i have a problem.
i can’t study.
instead i have solo dance parties in my room.
today…i want to be free from:
- my internal weigh scale
- my critical eye
- my new sense of sensitivity
- my incredible fear of letting go
- my intense urgency to let go
- my need for approval
- my materialistic needs
- myself
today…i am waiting for (to go with the advent season):
- some mental/emotional sleep
- the comforts of my family
- time…
- making peace with imperfection
- a little change
- a little acceptance
- the long anticipated dogsled trip
- something
today…i love:
- the solitude of the snow
- the lyrics of certain dixie chicks songs
- emails from old friends
- lame commercials
- good talks with Bonnie in her coffee shop
- rev. allen’s excitment
- the new candle in my room
- God’s unbelievable grace
it is 9:30 in the am on sunday…i feel like i have a really bad hangover, or have been hit by a truck…i keep looking at my clock thinking i am seeing 11:30…had to check all the clocks in the house to ease my mind. just really tired apparently. yesterday was world aids day and we as Augustana Against AIDS put on a big World AIDS Day Awareness Marathon at the high school in town. We have been working on this for a loooong time and have been going through h*ll the past couple weeks trying to figure things out on the high school end (i won’t go into the nasty details). it was from 10 am to 10 pm. the night before we went to the scungy bar in town where battle of the bands was to promote our Awareness Marathon with big signs, loud conversations and condoms. (last year condoms were a weird thing for me…but now that i have been here at Augustana for year and a half, i am all about handing them out!). before we went to the bar we spent hours in the kitchen making cookies, finding videos, etc. the night before that we put home-made recycled picket sings all around the campus with AIDS stats on them, sayings, questions, etc, plus spray painted all over the snow on campus, 330 AIDS ribbons to be exact to represent the 330 of us that woud be infected if the schools population was Swaziland. i will try to post pictures later…but i am assuming the pictures are already up on our Augustana Against AIDS facebook page (shudder). i am really pround of everyone in AAA because this has been a big deal. we all wanted to do something different and new for World AIDS day, something that has never been done in camrose. the turn out sadly wasn’t what we expected but we were thankful for how it went down. we had two live bands come at the end of the night to bring in more people, so that was great! the first high school band, 7 drinks to many, were such great guys. they had all…i mean ALL the equipment and it was all really nice. they set it up at like 11am and kept it up all day, and let the other band use it. our silent auction worked out really well and we made quite a bit on t-shirts which we will make more on wednesday when we sell them at school.
overall i am happy how it turned out, a little disappointed that more people didn’t come, but we still will have articles and pictures in the newspapers so people will be able so what we did. for the record, my vice Lyndsay is amazing! for now, i am going to try to pry myself off my bed, go make coffee, and posters for t-shirt selling on wednesday. i sense a post of deep thought coming soon…but who knows?!
p.s. bedouin is in less than a week…i am so glad i have that to look forward too!
