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i'm back!
well not back in ontariaryairyo (thats our theme song out here now) but I'm back online. So yeah the trip out here was good fun. I did some driving in the states and here in MB. btw its 1 hour behind ontario. I'm loving classes so much, especially old testament. There's so many great people out here too but i dont know if any of them can be as great as my friends back home. :'( I miss you guys!!!!! Yeah so we've been nice and busy out here. Last night was Wheelies Night and we went roller skating. I fell 8 times (dont worry I took a picture of the bruise on my knee) but i did get the hang of it and some really nice guys helped me up a few times ;) Yeah so that was fun. Tonights the coffee house and the twins from texas are singing so I"m gonna have to go to that. Tomorrow I have 3 classes which is good fun. I learned how to make a slide show into a screen saver today so thats cool and if you have pics of our friends that you want to send to me I'll try to add them! Good luck to everyone at school/work/life.

The countdown is on
YEah, so I have 4 working days left at the GT boutique so I"m increadibly excited (i will never work retail again in my life) Yeah so thats good times. Unlike Tee, I've been packing away like crazy (you shoulda seen my closet, I should have started months ago) yeah, so sometimes its really sad cause i like our apartment and living with tee but times change and we gotta keep moving so yeah. Working with the Jr. highs this summers been interesting....last week i wrote my own lesson plan (which i demed to be a bad idea) and it was cool cause pastor rob, the kids church and my lesson were all on the same topic, it was seriously messed! but yeah, so i'm gonna head out, good time everyone!

So new stuff!
Cool, well, stuff heres pretty good. I have 5 weeks left at work and I am tres excited! I'm also the Jr. High leader at church now (Tim went to Zurich) So thats fun, its a full time job in its own right I"m finding, so I"m pretty busy, but i'm loving every minute of it! So thats cool. School starts soon ( i know its not so big for everyone else, but its a new thing for me and tee) so thats kinda cool. Plans are coming together nicely for moving out and such. I"ll be flying home for Christmas so thats kind of nice. (wooo hooo for West Jet) Recommended movie: 50 First Dates (very very sweet). Recommended CD: Something Beautiful by Great Big Sea. Anyway, Glad Tiddings!

So stuff!
S'up?

so much
So i'm having a crazy time of it emotionally right now! This weekend was the relay for life...it was great, so much laughter and fun and joy and excitement! (can anyone say scheming???) Hey Tee, hows the diarriah????? ;) j/k guys, no one has diarriah, that was a joke from the Relay....anyway, so that was fun, then came the total exhastion sat morning. and the disappointment sat night with game 6 (that shot was SOOOOOOOO in the net) Then sunday was excitement again, with Jen's bridal shower, and an engagement (YAYAYAYAY) then sunday night was the last under the son for me (which was sad enough on its own) and they did a goodbye thing for Tim and Kevin and I got all emotional...and tee's the emotional one, but i was the one who was so choked up trying not to bawl, that I couldnt speak. So yeah...then came the excitement and disappointment with game 7 last night. On the plus side, the Cup is coming to Stratford (probably while we're all away at college). I found it highly amusing that on the Tampa Bay team, only ONE player is American. The players are mostly Canadian, with a couple Russians, a Chech, and an Ukrainian! So yeah, thats where I am right now, the last Real Joe is coming up soon (the meetinging is today) so that'll be interesting too! OH and Henri broke his ankle so he's out of commision these days, but we'll get by!

Updating!
SO news! I went back to work today (wooo hooo) and it went pretty well. My arm only hurt a little bit, and everyone was like "I missed you! I"m so glad you're back" and such. BUt the interact machines/system changed and no one explained it to me and I didnt realize it until someone handed me a Visa, but the girl on the next till told me what to do and now its easy. The JR. High Retreat was this weekend. It was so great! The kids were awsome and the other leaders were great and the church that was hosting us was amazing! On the first day Tim was telling a few of us about a quote that he was trying to go by and that he challenged us with. "IF YOU'RE NOT SICK OF COMMUNICATING BY THE END, THEN YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT DOING IT ENOUGH" That was so good for me to hear, and let me tell you, I didnt want to say another word by the time I was done! It was so good. Tonight is the bank night for the Relay (team, where is your money????) Oh well, I'll take everything in before the event and it will all be good. So thats the next big thing to get through, and thats this weekend so its all good. Then it will be the LAST Real Joe for the season (and for me and tee's careers) so thats kinda daunting! Ah well. I must be off. Good luck and Good night!

mommy...its over!!!
Friends. Its over. So terribly sad, we'll all miss one of the greatest shows ever on tv. On sunday we finish Survivor. Its almost summer, which means reruns, but thats ok cause our cable is out yet again!!! what are we paying for anyway!?!?! Yeah so i'm slow at typing today b/c I'm only using one hand. (I got repetitive strain injury at work) so i'm off work indefinately (call me i'm always home) so i'm crazy. but yeah. I applied for on-campus jobs today so hopefully i'll get one! anyway thats about all thats new. ttyl

Overwhelmed
Hey, so this is yet another of those really depressing entries where I update you on the deaths and keep it brief cause i dont wanna think about it....so here goes...not that any of you are gonna care or think its a big deal, but its a very big deal to me...my bird Andy died...if you didnt meet her, you should have, she was a cutie. anyway, i found her in her cage last night and freaked out and tee had to deal with her cause I was hyperventalating and couldnt go near her, or see cause my eyes were watery...now normally the death of a pet wouldnt be a huge deal, but she was MY first pet that was truly mine and i trained her and got really attached...and thats still not a huge deal, but ontop of this, I've found out some less than great information recently that also isnt an enormous deal, but its hard enough on its own, so with both happening on the same day I"m a little overwhelmed and feeling a distinct sense of loss. So theres my rant, sorry I cant be more specific. Love ya'll

the cousin
Hey all!! whats up with everyone not having gstbks anymore???? I go to leave you a message and you dont have one! grrr...anyway, hi Kristen! I've heard lots about you but I dont think we've met! Hey Crystal, give me a call whenever, and Betty my msn isnt working right now but next time I'm on I'll add you! hows your knee anyway? So I have some great huge news!!!! My cousin and his girlfriend (well, his girlfriend) had their baby yesterday (March 30th) at 10:00pm, a baby girl named Trinity Irene and she weighed about 6lbs. So YAYAYAYAYA I'm so excited! I have another cousin! so we get to met her at Easter! yay. So yeah, thats about all thats new, I'll let tee talk about Copper later if she chooses. Anyway, I"m off! Can't wait to see you all after exams! Love ya

Florida
Hey guys! I just got back from a week in FLORIDA!!!! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it was awsome! I went with youth for christ and i got to go as a student (that was weird) but yeah, it was so much fun! I met so many great people! and I go to swim with SHARKS!!! yes thats right, i was swimming with sharks and I went to Daytona beach and Disney's water park (where the sharks were) and shopping and it was so great! and I'd tell you all the stories but there are too many so I'll tell them to you if you ask or next time I see you! love!

Sunny SIde Up
Hello folks! well isnt this a pleasant place to visit lately??? Oh well. Its snowing again, i'm rather tired of walking everywhere in the snow....oh well tomorrow I leave for Florida!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (HOOOOO){ya tee} anyway, on tuesday I was at Central for campus life with Suzi and she was like 'hey shel wanna go to FL?" and I was like 'yeah but I cant, work will never let me have it off, but I"ll ask" so I called Pauline (my boss) and she was like "yeah sure, have fun!" so suddenly I"m going to Florida tomorrow!!! I'm sooooooooooo excited about it. It was sad when I went to change my money to american, I handed the lady a huge wad of bills and she hands me back this tiny little handful and it sucked, but thats ok. So yeah I"m going to head off now and hang out with the family before i go (specially since msn is no longer working..sorry jo, it kicked me off and wont let me back on) but yeah so I"ll tell ya about it when I come back! LOVE

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I've always wanted to be there, I've always wanted to help you. You wouldn't let me when I wanted to. So I gave up, figuring that I cant help if you dont want me to. Then suddenly you come to me for help. Suddenly I am the only one you can rely on. I didn't know what to do, except to keep loving you. It made life hard, it seems so cruel that when I can you wont, when I cant you will. I'm afraid to want to help you because you might decide you dont need it anymore, and then where am I? Back to square one, thats where. When you didn't need me I was a rock, when you did I was but a pebble. Last time you needed me I was on quicksand, this time I'm on a rock, this time I am a rock and this time I can help. This time I will.