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a lot has happened in the last few days… but there’s no phone line at my house right now!! as i write this, its 1:15 in the morning on saturday night (or rather, sunday morning) and i’m on my computer in my room. but anyway. let me back up…

thursday night (or friday morning, however you look at it)
it stormed. a lot. around 4 in the morning or so. i’d only been asleep for about 2 hours when it started storming, so needless to say i wasn’t a happy camper. i was awake for about half an hour or 45 minutes. every time i dozed off, there would be lots of thunder and i’d wake up. i finally fell asleep around 4:30 or 4:45, i’m not sure. but at 5:05, i was woken by this horrible, loud, high pitched noise. it was an even worse way to wake up than the storm, let me tell you. i went into the hallway, and was very soon joined by my mom and little brother, and my dad came up from downstairs (why he was up and dressed at 5 in the morning, we have no idea…). we determined the noise was coming from my dad’s room, and that it was the smoke alarm. that was its way of informing us that the battery was going bad. isn’t that nice? wow. it was horrible. so tim took it down and took the battery out of it and threw it on dad’s bed, and we all went back to bed.

friday
my alarm went off at 8:30, and i hit the snooze button until 8:42, definitely NOT wanting to get out of bed. but seeing how i was supposed to leave at 9, i forced myself to get out of bed and get ready to go. i left at 9, had an uneventful drive (except for a george sighting, those are always exciting!!!) (well i guess he’s always outside… but still… i still get excited every time!! lol) and got to jansons pretty much right at 10. he went to go pick up jake from school around 10:45, and i stayed there and slept. lol. i do that a lot, i’m a slacker. i don’t remember what all we did yesterday… lol. i know that we went to marc’s to get bacon and brown sugar. lol. oh there was a nice random tornado siren going off at one point, but we turned on the weather channel and there was no tornado, so we didn’t do anything about it. but man was it raining!! the ring was gonna be on HBO at 6. i wanted to watch it, and josh hadn’t seen it before, so we watched that. janson and jake went to pick up pizza for dinner around like 6:45, and while they were gone josh figured out almost the whole movie. the only part he didn’t figure out before it was explained in the movie was how to beat the tape, how not to die after watching it. i was like “what the crap??” lol. its not as scary the second time you watch it, but its still scary enough… lol. janson and i played the sims for awhile after that. i like playing the sims. lol. i’m a dork, yes i know it. then we watched love stinks. it was funny. i couldn’t stand the girl in it, but i think that was the point of the movie, lol. then we watched dogma, cuz i’ve wanted to see it for awhile, and just never have gotten around to it. it was pretty funny too. the only thing that i knew about it beforehand was that alanis morisette was God in it. but it was funny. then i was tired. but it was storming and i was creeped out from watching the ring, so i made janson stay in his room for a bit cuz i’m a nerd and i was scared to be in there by myself. lol. around 3:45 or so, janson went out to the couch and i fell asleep pretty much right away, thankfully, cuz i am such a nerd… lol.

today
got up around 11:30 or so. janson’s bed makes my back hurt. lol. his mattress is too hard. i love my foam mattress. :) we basically did nothing all day long. it was nice. i like doing nothing. we were gonna go to wal-mart so i could buy some blank cds, but then i balanced my checkbook and found out that i have about $50 in my account, so i decided to stop spending money for awhile… lol. janson worked on getting the water out of his basement while i talked to travis, and then janson and i just hung out. i was supposed to work at 4, but i decided that i didn’t feel like it. so i stayed in canton longer with my boy. :)i know, i know, not the smartest idea… but whoever said i was smart? so i left there around 5:30. there was a lot of water. i noticed it on the side of the road in some places and stuff, but didn’t pay too much attention to it. i was proud of myself, cuz i was making really good time. i decided to take butcher road home instead of rt 14 in salem, since it’s a fun back road to speed on. oh man, i was driving on it, and my windows were down, and suddenly, i just smelled summer. i don’t know why. i just did. i was like “wow. i smell camp.” so i turned off my cd player. i don’t really know why i did, i just did. then i just started talking to God. about this summer, about the girls that i’m gonna be counseling, praying for them, about me being unsure about this summer, praying for help in answering questions and having patience with campers and fellow staff, i prayed for this summer’s staff, for myself and the way that i sometimes act around people when i’m at camp… at this point in my conversation with God, i noticed a nice road block in front of me… the one lane bridge on butcher road was definitely under a LOT of water. wow. i mean a LOT of water. so i turned around. i was no longer making good time, cuz that added like 15 minutes onto my drive, having to turn around, go back to egypt road, and then taking rt 14 home after all. normally i would have been distracted and turned my cd player back on. but i didn’t. i just kept talking. i prayed about some other stuff that’s on my mind right now, cuz there’s some stuff that i really just need God to take care of, cuz there is no way that i can do it myself. i’ve tried and failed so many times lately, and i just can’t do it anymore. i can’t do it on my own. so i ended up just talking to God for like 20 or 25 minutes on my way home from canton today. it was really awesome. and i’m so much more excited for camp now…. oh my goodness!!! :) :) :)
so i get home and find out that we have no phone line, hadn’t for almost 24 hours at that point, and most of downtown had been flooded this morning. wow. so i ate some dinner, changed, and headed to work. i got there at 7 only to find out that julie (the MANAGER julie, mind you) hadn’t done anything when i told her on TUESDAY that i was probly gonna be late today. and since we don’t have a phone line at my house, everyone was frantic cuz they thought i wasn’t coming in, and they couldn’t get ahold of me. julie told me when i asked her about it that she wasn’t sure if it would be ok or not, but she’d check today’s schedule for me and let me know. which she didn’t know. melissa had no idea that i was gonna come in, she thought i just wasn’t showing up. so it was a great night, really. they were behind (if i had known that they were already short people, i would have been home in time to work at 4), and yeah… we didn’t get done until 12:15, and hour and 15 minutes after the store closed. to add to that, the drain in the floor in the back of the grill is horribly backed up, and yeah… its not a pretty sight. we cleaned it up as much as we could, but water just kept coming out, and we got tired of mopping it up. brittany adair let me use her cell phone, and i took a quick on the clock break while i was doing dishes to call janson to tell him that i don’t have a phone. i really wanted to talk to him, since i might not get to for a few days, but i had to get back to work. stupid work… lol. so anyway. i might get written up for being late today. oh well. i don’t care. melissa’s not mad, she knows that its julie’s fault. julie’ll be mad, cuz melissa left a kinda snotty note about it in the managers book (saying something like ‘i want to give a warm thank you to whoever tracey told that she would be late today’ or something… i don’t know. AKA tracey will be yelled at muchly by julie…) but i don’t really care. they’re not gonna fire me, so it doesn’t matter. i got home around 12:30 and took a shower. now i’m here at my computer… its almost 2 am now. i think i should probly get to bed, cuz i’m freaking tired from not getting enough sleep/doing so much stuff at work tonight. so i’m off to bed… i really hope we have a phone tomorrow, although we probly won’t till monday…

sunday at 3 pm
just got home from lunch at east of chicago pizza with pastor jan, shelly, duran, and pastor morgan and kay. that was fun. there wasn’t enough room for all of us at one table, so tim, duran, and i sat in a booth by ourselves and were the kids table. :) while the adults discussed serious adult things, the three of us talked about comics, monty python, and tim and i talked about camp. lol. i have about an hour and 45 minutes till i have to leave for work. i don’t want to go to work, i’m probly gonna get yelled at cuz of the note that melissa left. oh well. its only a 5-10 shift, so it shouldn’t be that bad… i really wish we had a phone. i miss the internet… lol. at least we have electricity, i would be a very unhappy camper without electricity! ok i’m gonna change outta my skirt and find something fun to do until work…

2 am
joyce horst came over and dropped off the third and fourth books in the redemption series soon after i went downstairs, so i read before work. work was ok. mcdonalds solution to the flooding, however, is to line the floor with cardboard boxes. at 10 o clock this morning that might have been a good idea, sure. but at 6 pm when they’ve been walked on all day and are completely soaked and disgusting, and my manager kelli and i are the ones cleaning it up cuz the guys complained too much, its not such a good idea… corey and i had fun tonight… haha. he was hawkering in the trash can while i was doing dishes cuz i hate that, so i sprayed him with water. and then he sprayed me with cooking oil. and so on and so forth. lol. i really get along with these guys (brian, corey, ray). i admit that i was prejudice and when i heard they were hired there, i was like “oh this is gonna suck, they’re all potheads and drunks” which is true, basically. but anyway. lol. they’re fun guys. i got home at like 10:15. showered. finished off the third book a bit ago (so basically, i read a 350 page book in about, oh… 4 hours or so… lol). now i’m going to bed, cuz i have to be up and dressed tomorrow. i’m picking up mom from work and we’re going to russ sinsley’s funeral. oh and we haven’t had a phone line for over 48 hours now. good thing that we haven’t needed an ambulance or anything… lol.

monday at 11:40 pm
today i got up at 10:15, got dressed, and was at the bank by 10:55 to pick up mom for the funeral. it was a nice funeral, but it really surprised me how few people were there. it also made me think… the older generation from that church is all passing away, and it makes me sad. i don’t go there anymore, but i did from second grade until spring of my senior year. and it wasn’t the church family that drove me away from that church, it was the pastor and a few other people. it really makes me sad. russ’s funeral wasn’t as hard as lorraine’s, because i hadn’t even seen russ for a year or so. but it was still sad. the saddest part to me, i think, was watching tess. she seemed so calm about the whole thing, i’m not even sure she knew exactly what was going on. i don’t ever want to get like that. alzheimer’s has to be about the worst thing ever. something that struck me, though, was the fact that they’d been married since 1938. wow. that’s 64 years. wow. to me, that’s incredible. i can only pray that if/when i get married, that’ll happen… leah was at the service helping lead the music, so we talked for a few minutes afterwards and made plans to hang out this week. she has wednesday and thursday off from work, so we’re gonna hang out during the day both of those days (meaning that i have tomorrow and friday to get laundry done, packed, get whatever i need bought, and generally get ready for this summer… should be a good time, lol). joyce told me that jenny is in lancaster until sometime wednesday, so just leah and i are gonna hang on that day, and then on thursday we’re gonna do something with jenny. i love those two. i love that no matter how much time passes, we can still hang out and do stuff and just pick up wherever we left off. jenny and i did a horrible job of keeping in touch this last semester (we emailed each other once and talked online once, and that was it), but i still consider her one of the closest friends that i have and ever will have. leah and i started talking a lot this last semester, and it was great. she was the first real best friend i ever had, and nothing will ever change that. anyway, that was a random tangent. lol. after the funeral, i read. for hours and hours and hours. i have about 45 or 50 pages left in the 4th book in the redemption series. yes i am a loser, i know. but they’re really good, and i have nothing else to do with my time! i watched 2 more stargate episodes while i finished my puzzle (i’d like to finish the whole 2nd season before i leave, but i don’t know how realistic that is). dad came home from work soon after 5, called the phone company again on his cell phone, and HOPEFULLY they’ll get it all fixed tomorrow. hopefully… he told me i could use his phone to call janson, but i told him i’d rather wait till i got home from work since long distance is free after 9 and such. he told me that was ok, so i called janson to tell him that. we talked for a few minutes, and i told him i’d call him after work. then i made dinner (yes… i cooked… shocker know… but it was just some pasta, nothing big lol). then dad came in and told me i wasn’t allowed to use his phone after work after all, since it’s a company phone. whatever. its free, its not like i’d be hurting anything. but whatever. i didn’t feel like arguing with him, there was no point. mom came home from work just as i was finishing dinner, so i talked to her for a bit. then i got ready for and left for work. i stopped and got gas, since i had like none in my car. i think i drove to columbiana on fumes, praying that my car would make it… lol. it did. i worked 7-close. it was an ok time. nothing great, but is mcdonalds ever great? we were relatively slow all night. shannon and julie (NOT the manager julie, the julie who loves yellowcard) were working up front, and corey and i were in the back, so it was a fun crew. shannon let me use her cell phone to call janson and tell him that my dad is stupid. it was kinda funny, i wasn’t on break or anything. actually i was the only person working in the grill cuz corey was taking a smoke break. so i made one order while i was on the phone, lol. but mandy walked past me like 3 times while i was talking and didn’t say anything, so i’m good to go.. lol. we only talked for like 5 or 6 minutes, cuz then a bigger order came that i needed to use both hands for. but it was really good to talk to him. i really can’t wait till this phone thing is sorted out… so now its 10 till 12, and i need a shower cuz work makes me stinky. one more random tangent, and then i’ll go take one… these past few days have helped me realize something. while its been crummy to not be able to talk to janson at all, and i hate it, at the same time, it hasn’t been completely unbearable. i think its God’s way of helping me know that this summer is gonna be ok. i mean yeah, its gonna suck to not talk to janson for a week at a time, but i’m gonna live. ok God, i learned the lesson. now can i have a phone line so i can talk to my boy? ;)

1:40 am
finished the fourth book, watched and episode and a half of stargate, started another puzzle while doing so, and now i’m going to bed. i’m tired. and i’m bored, i want the internet!!! i REALLY hope the phone line gets fixed tomorrow! its been 3 days!!!

tuesday at 3:40 pm
and day number 4 without a phone… can i just say how ridiculous this is getting? cuz it really is. ok now i have to get dressed for and get to work. i hate working 4-close, it drags on forever….