Christmas ramblings....

Copied from Cara's blog, thought it would be fun, and guess what? IT WAS!! Do it!!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Egg Nog, but only 'cuz it's the only appropriete time to drink it!
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Well, the elves wrap them, the fat man just sits them under the tree! ;-)
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? The Mother likes white, but colored is SO much better!
4. Do you hang mistletoe? No, but then i'm not doing the decorating so don't blame me!
5. When do you put your decorations up? LOL, this year we put up our tree BEFORE thanksgiving! But usually I want everything up ASAP, AFTER thanksgiving, so you can enjoy them for the longest time possible!
6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Mom's turnovers!
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Gonna have to go with cara, again, and say opening stockings on mom and dad's bed! Also, playing and drawing on and in the fake christmas tree box!
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don't think I EVER TRUELY believed he was real, but mostly just pretended he was for fun and tradition!
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Just the ones from my sisters.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Assorted ornaments and lights!
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? LOVE IT. SNOW IS MY FAVORITE!!
12. Can you ice skate? Ummmm, duh, of course i can, i live in minnesota afterall, it's one of the primary forms of transportation in the winter!! Along with snow-shoeing and cross-country skiing!
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Of all time: Xbox, from childhood: PLAYMOBILE!!
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? The birth of JESUS!! And everyone getting together for a good time!
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? MY fudge i make every year!
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Our Christmas Eve party!
17. What tops your tree? In recent years, a fancy star that I found while shopping with mom!
18. Which do you prefer: giving or receiving? I actually love giving a lot, but receiving is sweet too!
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Greensleeves
20. Candy Canes. Yuck or Yum? YUM, just don't stab your tongue!!

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RCTC

Well, I thought I'd add a new post since it has been a while... I've been BUSY, so give me a break. I started at RCTC one week ago, and so far i pretty much like it...A LOT. It gives you a feeling of independence, being in college. I actually don't really mind going to school anymore, like i did in high school. I really do believe it has everything to do with the class times. In high school, classes start at 7:40 in the MORNING. That is far to early to learn anything, at least for my brain. By having the classes later in the day (in my case, my earliest class is at 10:00 AM--on three days out of the week, and at 11:00 AM the remaining two days) I'm able to concentrate more, plus i know in the back of my mind i'll always be done with the school day by AT LEAST 2:50 (on only TWO days out of the week) the other days I'm out at:
Monday: done at 2:50 PM
Tuesday: done at 12:50 PM
Wednsday: done at 2:50 PM
Thursday: done at 12:50 PM
Friday: DONE AT 10:50 AM!!!!

It's amazing... and i love it. There are few people I know that go here and I've been able to talk to them occasionally in the halls, other than that i haven't had the time to really get to know anybody yet, and because of my introverted personality, it's been a struggle to try and break free of my "box." I'm planning on getting involved in the Christian Youth program, InterVarsity or something like that, hopefully I'll be able to get to know some people there.
Homework hasn't been TOO bad yet, but I'm anticipating a rise in the workload, but i think i'm ready. I hope...
As I type this, i'm sitting in a SH computer lab, and i have class in 15 minutes, so thats all the time i have for now, out.

pictures....

i can't figure out pictures.... can someone tell me how to put them on here... i could probably figure it out on my own but i'm just lazy...(DON'T FORGET TO READ THE BLOG BELOW!!) ;-)

I know that I'm not the best at updating, and most of the time it's because i feel my life is...boring. Nothing really exciting happens to me. Anyways, I'm here to kind of express myself today. I'm sick and tired of people saying how crappy it is to live in Rochester, Minnesota. IT'S NOT THAT BAD! Sure, i've been bored once in a while cuz there SEEMS to be a lack of fun things to do here, but people just don't look hard enough. The other night, my friends and i went downtown in the late evening, because we really had nothing to do. When we found nothing was open (go figure) i said, lets go up in a parking ramp. Just as a joke, but we did and we stopped at the top and just hung out there for a little while (so as not to get in trouble for loitering, we wern't sure if we were, but we wern't doing anything bad.) and we just looked out at the city and talked. It was a lot of fun. Then we turned on the car radio and danced around for a bit. So, in the end, when you hear someone say: "There's nothing to do in this town!" you can just shake your head and think: that just isn't a creative person... and go on your way, because, after all, anybody who reads this blog, was creative enough to find something to do! ok.

Fun Times and Stress...

Yes, I'm VERY sorry for all you people who seem to LOVE hearing about me. But I haven't posted in a while because of the fact that I have been INCREDIBLY busy. Last weekend, I went up to northern Wisconson to stay with my best friend, Dan's grandparents for a time of guns, fireworks, and bonfires. It was awesome. We never did get to shoot anything, but the fireworks were very cool. We also ate every night at this neat local restaraunt called the Covered Wagon. VERY good food. We came home on Tuesday, July 4th to watch the fireworks in Rochester. I went down to Silver Lake with the same people and some of their friends (we sat near the power plant so we were no where near the big fight (though it sounded exciting). Then I went and got "fitted" for my braces which I am having put on either tomorrow or the next day, I can't remember which. Ugh... braces... for a whole YEAR! Well it should be quite the experience. I am having the braces put on to prepare for my jaw surgery which hopefully will take place by next July (May or June if we're lucky!). I could really use some prayers for a safe surgery and that nothing goes wrong. I am excited but VERY nervous about it, I'm FINALLY going to be able to eat a bologna sandwich and GET the bologna!! That'll be a new experience. The day after that, which would put us at July 6th, I went to the midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Which was fantastic! Although I think I liked the first one a little better. But it was amazing all the same. The next day, Friday, I went BACK up to Duluth (the grandparent's house in Wisconson was only about a half hour outside of Duluth), to stay with Dan's "aunt." I say "aunt" because she's actually Dan's late mother's best friend since 3rd grade. This aunt, and her husband, are basically the equivalent to the Chafoleous family in Rochester, to give you an idea of their fortune. They own basically half of Duluth. They were super friendly and their house was absolutley amazing. While there, we went on a harbor cruise, on the Vista Cruise Line (owned by this aunt and her husband) It was super fun. We also went shopping around town, including stopping at a head shop by the name of "Electric Fetus" (I got a t-shirt!). We also went to the Aquarium. It was a REALLY nice aquarium, probably one of the best museum-like places I've ever been. AND I touched a sting-ray! =) It was pretty nice weather while we were there. And I had an awesome time overall. We got back yesterday in the early evening. Now that gets us up to today. I started at my English class at RCTC, yuck. It has got to be the most boring and dragged out thing I've ever experienced! It's all stuff I learned back in 3rd grade! Plus it goes from 1:00 to 3:55 so it's a very long class. After class I went out to the parking lot to go home, and I realized my car was dead, I left the headlights on FOR THE FIRST TIME! So that's a pretty good record, THREE years of driving and I have never left the headlights on ONCE. So then mom came to the rescue and jumped the car. Then, to ease my stress of the day, I went to Hollywood Video and rented the game "Fight Night: Round 3" and beat a lot of people up. It was fun. Then, I got bored and came to write up this SUPER AWESOME entry. So read it, chew on it, it's delicious.

Out.

Well i guess since everyone is getting one, i, the usual conformist got one... since no one seems to care when i post a blog on myspace and since myspace has been deemed "dangerous" i got scared and disoriented. So i fled to the safety of blooger errr... blogger.com. and it seems like a cool atmosphere... can you do that? say that a website has an atmosphere. That's right i'm deep. go ahead. take it home, chew it, it's good. So that's it. oh. i did just get back from THE MOST amazing week of my life. My missions trip to D.C. was SOOOO AWESOME!! Denny, Todd, Luke, Matt, Danae, Emily, Stephanie, Nikki, Jessica, Greta, Brent, Kelli, Lauri, and Doug, thank you for all the awesome memories. i'll never forget it!