My number in most of the sports that I played was 15 (or as close to that as I could get). Why 15 you ask. Because that is the number my oldest sister chose to use one time. I wanted to be like my sisters so much that I picked up on these things. I saw that she was 15, so when I got into Jr. High, I chose the number 15 for myself as well.
Bucket List - While I don't really like to run, I would like to run a 5K someday just to say that I've done it.
Having a summer birthday made it hard for me to have regular birthday parties. I really only had one on my 14th birthday. Looking back though, I realize the birthdays I spent camping and at the 4-H fair were pretty amazing ways to spend a birthday. Some of my favorites were camping in the Snowy Range and having a set of grandparents camping along with us, or the time I watched "Singing in the Rain" outside of the Hard Rock in St. Louis, and I'll never forget the birthday spent in Sweden with a visit from my sister.
Bucket List - To go camping in the mountains with friends.
My first airplane ride was when I was a freshman in high school. I was going to be flying on trips during the summers every year of my high school career for either Swedish Dancers or church trips, so to see if I like flying my sister and I flew from Wichita to Denver to meet up with my parents and oldest sister. Luckily I loved flying then and I still love it today.
Bucket List - To visit all 50 states. Have you gotten the idea that I love to travel yet? Blame it on my parents. ;)
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Unfinished 17, Sweet 16
As you can tell by my year long break, I'm great at starting projects but horrible about finishing them. Not shocking, but still something about me. :) I am bound and determined to actually finish this project. So I will combine some days and will leave out the pictures. Boring I know, but at least I'll finish.
Bucket list - To complete the several sewing, knitting, cross stitching, etc. projects that I have started.
Sweet 16 - I love being a part of theater. My sisters got me hooked so blame it on them. That is one of the reasons I moved back to Lindsborg. To be involved in Broadway RFD. And involved I've been. From behind the scenes to onstage to on the board. And it's been great.
Bucket list - It would be a dream if I were to get a lead or a large supporting role in a summer musical. I'd have to take some lessons though before that could happen with all the talent in this area. :)
Bucket list - To complete the several sewing, knitting, cross stitching, etc. projects that I have started.
Sweet 16 - I love being a part of theater. My sisters got me hooked so blame it on them. That is one of the reasons I moved back to Lindsborg. To be involved in Broadway RFD. And involved I've been. From behind the scenes to onstage to on the board. And it's been great.
Bucket list - It would be a dream if I were to get a lead or a large supporting role in a summer musical. I'd have to take some lessons though before that could happen with all the talent in this area. :)
Dirt Road 18
Growing up in the country had many perks to it. One of the perks for me was that I had endless 'scratch paper' in our dirt driveway to draw on.
My absolute favorite things to draw were floor plans of houses. I would draw the different rooms including doors and windows. I would even draw some of the different furniture pieces and fixtures such as sinks. I would build huge mansions and tiny bungalows.
I would often spend so much time drawing these homes that I would run out of time or daylight to play in them. I often had and still have very vivid dreams about different houses and layouts for them. Designing houses is the main reason that I play the Sims.
I recently found out that my father had once thought that I would be an architect. I sure fooled him. But at least I'm teaching my nephews the values of drawing in the dirt.
Bucket List - Have my dream house built.
My absolute favorite things to draw were floor plans of houses. I would draw the different rooms including doors and windows. I would even draw some of the different furniture pieces and fixtures such as sinks. I would build huge mansions and tiny bungalows.
I would often spend so much time drawing these homes that I would run out of time or daylight to play in them. I often had and still have very vivid dreams about different houses and layouts for them. Designing houses is the main reason that I play the Sims.
I recently found out that my father had once thought that I would be an architect. I sure fooled him. But at least I'm teaching my nephews the values of drawing in the dirt.
Bucket List - Have my dream house built.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Perspective
I know it's been a while and even worse I never finished the set of blogs that I last was doing. I do want to finish those and my reasoning for dropping them of will sort of be answered in the blogs to come, but for now I have a more serious blog to share with you. I'm going to jump around a little in this blog, but if you stick with me it should all make sense by the end.
Five years ago I was living in a suburb of St. Louis and was working at a high school (Jennings) that was boarder line inner city. It was a very different world than I had grown up in. I had been there for a year and a half. And in that year and a half I had thought many times about checking out the Vineyard Church closest to my house, but always made up an excuse not to do so. At one point I had printed off the directions to the church and left it on my printer for probably close to a year. Then I threw it away (only to dig it out of the trash and finally go on Palm Sunday 5 years ago).
I was in a very rough spiritual area of my life back then. So why am I telling you this? Well tonight I had these irrational feelings of uneasiness and anger though it wasn't directed at anything in particular. Five years ago these emotions would have eaten me up alive. I would have gotten depressed or taken my anger out on my pillow by hitting it or throwing it across the room. I probably would have cried uncontrollably as well.
Tonight however, I was able to step back from these emotions and lift them up to God. The only one who could make any sense of them. So I put on my 'Light' radio station and gave into God's truth. THE TRUTH! While I don't have a whole picture of what those emotions were about, I got a brief glimpse of what some of my time in St. Louis was about.
This past weekend I was in a dinner theater put on by our local theater group (Broadway R.F.D) and a newly opened restaurant (The Swedish Crown). On one of the nights there was a large group of teenagers. While it wasn't the most normal group I expected to see there, I wasn't surprised by it either. Come to find out this group of teenagers was brought by their sponsor to help them experience some new things that most of them had never experienced before. Some of them had never been to a restaurant that had pre-made salads. Some had never had the types of roasted vegetables that were served and I'm sure that some if not most had never been to an interactive dinner theater before.
It didn't really hit me what all this might mean to them, or even me until tonight. I had worked in a school where I am positive that the majority of the students had never been to a formal dinner theater, and quite a few had probably never been to a formal dinner where the salad was preset and the vegetables were roasted. And while I never had the chance to introduce my students those experiences, I was able to offer other experiences. Even if it was through them laughing at what a country bumpkin I am.
So tonight I got a glimpse of perspective. I can help offer new experiences here as well as I did in St. Louis. In St. Louis it was bringing touch of the county, Kansas life to them. Here in small town Kansas, it is to bring a touch of the city. And because of my time at Vineyard Community Church, I am able to do what is necessary to achieve this perspective. It's hard to have perspective is you don't look down Memory Lane from time to time.
*I thank those at Jennings High School who stuck with this country girl.
*Thanks to Broadway R.F.D. and The Swedish Crown for letting me be part of something that might have made more of a difference than we will ever know.
*And especially thank you to those of you at the Vineyard for helping me to come back to God's walking path when I had strayed so far off course.
Five years ago I was living in a suburb of St. Louis and was working at a high school (Jennings) that was boarder line inner city. It was a very different world than I had grown up in. I had been there for a year and a half. And in that year and a half I had thought many times about checking out the Vineyard Church closest to my house, but always made up an excuse not to do so. At one point I had printed off the directions to the church and left it on my printer for probably close to a year. Then I threw it away (only to dig it out of the trash and finally go on Palm Sunday 5 years ago).
I was in a very rough spiritual area of my life back then. So why am I telling you this? Well tonight I had these irrational feelings of uneasiness and anger though it wasn't directed at anything in particular. Five years ago these emotions would have eaten me up alive. I would have gotten depressed or taken my anger out on my pillow by hitting it or throwing it across the room. I probably would have cried uncontrollably as well.
Tonight however, I was able to step back from these emotions and lift them up to God. The only one who could make any sense of them. So I put on my 'Light' radio station and gave into God's truth. THE TRUTH! While I don't have a whole picture of what those emotions were about, I got a brief glimpse of what some of my time in St. Louis was about.
This past weekend I was in a dinner theater put on by our local theater group (Broadway R.F.D) and a newly opened restaurant (The Swedish Crown). On one of the nights there was a large group of teenagers. While it wasn't the most normal group I expected to see there, I wasn't surprised by it either. Come to find out this group of teenagers was brought by their sponsor to help them experience some new things that most of them had never experienced before. Some of them had never been to a restaurant that had pre-made salads. Some had never had the types of roasted vegetables that were served and I'm sure that some if not most had never been to an interactive dinner theater before.
It didn't really hit me what all this might mean to them, or even me until tonight. I had worked in a school where I am positive that the majority of the students had never been to a formal dinner theater, and quite a few had probably never been to a formal dinner where the salad was preset and the vegetables were roasted. And while I never had the chance to introduce my students those experiences, I was able to offer other experiences. Even if it was through them laughing at what a country bumpkin I am.
So tonight I got a glimpse of perspective. I can help offer new experiences here as well as I did in St. Louis. In St. Louis it was bringing touch of the county, Kansas life to them. Here in small town Kansas, it is to bring a touch of the city. And because of my time at Vineyard Community Church, I am able to do what is necessary to achieve this perspective. It's hard to have perspective is you don't look down Memory Lane from time to time.
*I thank those at Jennings High School who stuck with this country girl.
*Thanks to Broadway R.F.D. and The Swedish Crown for letting me be part of something that might have made more of a difference than we will ever know.
*And especially thank you to those of you at the Vineyard for helping me to come back to God's walking path when I had strayed so far off course.
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