| Long time, no see, eh? |
[21 Nov 2010|09:47pm] |
Casey did a list of 25 random things about her, and I feel like I wanna do it....so here goes nothing....
1) I am going through Disney withdrawal, I haven't been in 17 months and I wanna go soooo bad! I miss going at Christmas, FAV TIME EVER
2) I don't wanna grow up....this means I have to get a real job and start paying for my own stuff....which is terrible, and scary....
3) I am a girl who likes sports....I will scream to the point of making myself sick watching Jags games, and will be a Braves fan till I die I bet.....and liking those teams means that I will hate for-almost-ever the Phillies, Titans, Mets, Yankees, Texans, PATRIOTS, Chargers, yet will support the Steelers and Colts usually when they are playing agains anybody besides the Jags :)
4) I am a Christian, but you wouldn't know it sometimes....which makes me sad. Jesus gives me freedom, yet I let myself become a slave to all sorts of things in my life, money, success, what other people think of me, etc...... Colossians 3:17 is something that has been haunting me recently, "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." Being thankful for whatever I have been given and the place that I have been put in, and doing whatever I do with excellence, pointing towards Jesus in that.....when Josh Hamilton made his ALCS MVP speech, it really made me realize how I wasn't pointing towards God in all that I do in my life.....I'm still working on it...
5) I like shoes, jackets, and purses and have way too many of all 3.....
6) I would call 2 places my home, my house in Fernandina Beach, and Salerno, Italy....
7) On that note, I haven't been to Salerno since approx July 12th (?) 2007, and I miss it TERRIBLY....I'm planning to go back for my 30th birthday if I don't get back before then, which coincides with the 2012 Summer Olympics in London!! I would love to go to that too...
8) I LOVE the Olympics!!! So obsessed :) I have been to 2, Atlanta 96, and Torino 06....I have to plan on more! I met a ton of athletes in Torino, including Picabo Street and Jonny Moseley :) Plus, I got a Tonight Show Olympics pin from Tom Green :) yay!
9) I usually root for the underdogs in games I don't really care about, or possibly even against the people that I am watching with
10) I don't like sleeves, aka long sleeves, I start sweating really fast....that's why I like jackets :)
11) I change the names of athletes that I like watching...Peyton Manning= Pay-TONE....Eli Manning=Elly...Tim Tebow=Timmy.....I'm sure I have others, I just can't think of them....
12) I have problems understanding how people can disagree with me, because I have certain experiences and such that have shaped the way I think, and I always make the best assumption or thought for me, and it doesn't make any sense to think otherwise....yeah....
13)I LOVE the Disney Channel and cheesy movies, aka ABC Family movies, definitely around Christmas time
14) I have been to Disneyland Paris, but never Disneyland in California
15) I have never been west of Colorado in the US
16) My first trip to Mexico was this February....all expenses paid trip to an all inclusive resort....with my fellow Heartlight staff, and it was AWESOME....especially since I was with a group of fun people :)
17) That trip to Mexico was the first time I had seen the Pacific ocean!
18) I have been to 8 foreign countries....wish it was more....
19) My trip to Munich with Morgana, Katrin, Adam, and Natan was MAGICAL.....I don't know if that was a fact, but that last one got me thinkin....hahaha
20) I am diabetic, type 1....I hate needles and love candy :)
21) My fav movies are Remember the Titans and Dave
22) I think Pixar is awesome (Zachary Levi aka Chuck, as well as a lot of other people do too) and Dreamworks is lame....and Shrek is nowhere as cool as people think he is...
23) I love my iphone which I got last Christmas! The only other times in my life I have had texting was in Italy, and in America, since getting cell phone in 2000, I have had 3 other phones (with an understudy between that last one cuz I flooded it before I got my iphone)
24) I have started watching the Nanny every night on Nick@Nite and TVLand and it is awesome
25) I just had surgery on Monday...and I still am sore...which is expected, but I am bored cuz I can't do anything....
yay! I finished!
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| maaaaannn.... |
[02 Dec 2008|11:56pm] |
I know I haven't posted on here for a while, but I figured it appropriate....
I love love LOVE Jason Mraz......he is my mostly companion of music (shout out to nanny and Eloise of the awesome Eloise books hahahahahahah)
I saw him tonight for the first time since loving him and it was AMAZING......
5.5 years ago Kristin took me and Maureen to see him at HoB in Orlando (which a surprisingly large amount of people were in attendance-it was mostly full, where John Mayer a year previous had only filled about half of the venue) and we had never really followed him or knew the songs.......and then he was awesome.......so 5.5 years later, he is STILL awesome
:)
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| wooo hoooo |
[25 Aug 2008|05:57pm] |
ok, I am so weird to make THIS my return to LJ....
but Lacey Schwimmer and Lance Bass are dancing together on DTWS!!!!!! I am so amused :)
And Cody Lindley (Jake Ryan, my fav Miley love interest, on Hannah Montana) is dancing with Julianne Hough....and that is so cute :) haha
*signing off*
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| I feel like posting..... |
[08 May 2008|06:55pm] |
How's that for weird?? When was the last time I didn't just c/p from my blogspot?? haha
So, I might ramble.....
My life is so lopsided/not normal.....today is my friday, I have worked for 10 days in a row.....maybe that's why I'm tired....
For the fact that I have a life when everybody else is working, I am going to see Made of Honor tomorrow afternoon most likely by myself....it'll be fun.....another good thing about not having a normal life is you get to save money :) I get paid sometime next week and I don't think I will have any time to spend it before my next paycheck comes in at the end of the month! YAY!....or not....
Ben Barnes (Prince Caspian) is HOT...
I will be seeing that in a week and a half.....I have my movies planned out, and if anybody wants to come with me, I'll be ok with it ;)
Ok, so....yesterday, I said hi to Hank Aaron before I realized it was him....it was funny....and then last weekend, I was on the club level and John Smoltz was walking around......so random....
I got a Publix sub tonight cuz I just got home from work....I didn't feel like cooking before the Office comes on tonight.....and then IMMEDIATELY after that, I am heading to bed.....I always wanna call it the "offive" HAHAHH
I realized this week that I don't have a plethora of summer business clothes.....I need to work on that.....so I am off to Target and Ann Taylor Loft tomorrow.....
there is one spot in the back of my throat that is like a virus village (I know its gross) but it hurts to swallow and I can't fix it.....
George Eads is hot......and Gary Dourdan is a doof for having drugs.....
and I love the new Facebook chat....it takes facebook stalking to another level....
that is all...
*signing off*
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| I mean.....what if I die? |
[20 Feb 2008|12:09am] |
So, as many of you know, our dear friend and an awesome gal who loved Jesus died this past weekend........Marissa Ahamad
She was an amazing woman of God, and even though I could count the occasions that we saw each other on my fingers and toes, she was such a huge part of my life (as all staff in Italy during the time I was there) that I feel a loss.....even if we hadn't seen each other in over a year.
Now I don't mean to make this a recap of how amazing she is, because for one thing, I'm not good with words, and another thing, I can think of at lot more people better fit to do that than I.....but I do want to share my thoughts and feelings from the time I found out she was sick till today.
In the big scheme of my spiritual life, there was nothing better than Italy for me and God. The crazy situations, the intense emotions, and the times of realizing our depravity that STINT takes people through is an experience like no other.......and anybody who goes through it knows that only the people in that club will ever fully understand what went on while you were gone.
I have never been in such a large group of people who I felt so close to by barely even trying. We all loved God, we all wanted to share that love for God with others, and we knew how important it was to support each other while we tried to change the world. You get 40 people together like that and see how dear to each other you become. Even if I never see any of them again, all of the people who shared Italy with me in my 2 years are SUCH a big part of my life, they don't even know......
On that note, there's a big emptiness in the Marissa space of my Italy puzzle......
When I found out on Sunday night, I tried to not let it get to me, after all, I wasn't her teammate for 2 years, I wasn't in her family, I wasn't even one of her friends from back home.....did I have a right to? I knew other people were way more affected by her absence than I was, but the Marissa space of my Italy puzzle was now missing daggummit!
But then I started to think.....since she was a part of my "Sharing God with others" life, I have never been so sure of where she was going than anybody else I have known to die.....then I started smiling. I got even more conflicted, with the sadness of her being here, in the KNOWN, and the joy of her being in my UNKNOWN.......where she is no longer in pain, and she is the perfect being that God made her to be.
That got me SO EXCITED. Like she's the first piece of my Italy puzzle in the eternal glory that is HEAVEN. She is WITH God, our CREATOR, the one who cares for EVERY hair on our HEADS, who went through the torment of being CRUCIFIED.....I could go on for a while.....but I wont ;)
She put a face on being with God.....She put a face on following him through trials here on earth to get to eternity........She put a face on knowing that the hereafter is a million times better than what I can ever imagine at this moment........She put a face on looking past earthly dreams to grasp God's dream for us........
Tonight was 7|22 at Buckhead......I hadn't talked about this with anybody who didn't know her, ya know, because of that club thing.......I had tried to keep it all in most of the time, but I just think it all piled up and fell on me tonight. Jeannie Stevens talked about waiting on God and how we hold on so tightly to things that God wants us to loosen our grip on so he can do amazing things. And how that matched up to my mind partially was if I was Marissa......what would I had wanted to do with my life....cling to things I wanted, or let God have everything and let him bring me his joy and love......who WOULDN'T want the 2nd option? I feel strange for letting one of my friend's deaths be an inspiration for me, but make something REAL to me, and it rocks my world......
Then they played this song (which will forever remind me of KEB)
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart and my soul
Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out
Lord let justice and praise
Become my embrace
To love you from the inside out
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart
is to bring you praise
From the inside out
Lord my soul cries out
So I let this dig deeper into me some more and what I think I hold onto the most is what plans I have NEXT.....after this job, or this project......I want to make sure I will be ok after this stage is over. My job at the Braves has JUST started, and what, I'm already thinking of what I can do to make sure I have SOMETHING after that? No, God knows.......he will take me where he wants me to go.........even if I don't have a clue,
"Delight in the Lord, and he will give you your hearts desires" Psalm 37:4
and my motto of first year;
"Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act" Psalm 37:7
I would rather spend the rest of my life seeking God and his heart rather than worrying about my next step, preparing for MY plans......because....
I mean.....what if I die?
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| Well, everybody is doing a year in review post...... |
[31 Dec 2007|09:47pm] |
but I didn't even update this much this year......
but I can try? (I am pulling info from 2 blogs haha)
Here's a quick rundown...
January:
got back to Italy
went to Mid-year: Dublin airport sleeping, awesome Nerja time, awesome London time, Mary Poppins (and Gavin Creel!) and back home
February:
My ipod broke
I probably had a fit getting ready for vision trip
March:
Vision trip came, 60+ American students in Salerno for part of a week that we had to organize their 2 groups overlapping and all
April:
Went to Munchen/Munich and it was magical, clean, and so much fun! Mike's Bike Tours, Neuschwanstein castle, and Dachau along with just the greatness of Munich was just amazing!
May:
Went to the Fattoria and the Terme, read books and relaxed for 3 days......awweessome
I missed the Giro d' Italia for the fattoria trip
Summer Project came! YAY!
Oh, and my birthday.....I really don't like making big deals.....
oh! We started watching So You Think You Can Dance!
June:
Finally went to Pompeii and Capri after 2 years
Summer Project left
Started wrapping up everything in Italy
July:
Went to Liverpool YAY!
Had 39+ hours of evil travel including 3 tearful breakdowns and an overnight stay at the Hyatt Dulles
August:
Got my wallet stolen.....can I hit them in the face?
September:
Slove's Wedding!
October:
Disney!
Oh, and I found out I am diabetic with an accompanying visit to the hospital
and i got a job.....
November:
Thanksgiving? Yep....
December:
Got a job with the Atlanta Braves! I start Jan 7th....
so yeah....that's all I got...I am so interesting.....
*signing off*
Thanksgiving?
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| YAY! I have a job! |
[28 Sep 2007|06:27pm] |
Finally, after sitting on my butt for a month, and then playing phone tag with people I was looking to be hired by, I am starting my orientation on Monday! I'm just a rental attendant for bikes, segways, and golf carts as well as working at the beach club at the Plantation at the south end of the island.......so yeah
and in a week and a half, I'M GOING TO DISNEY FOR 5 DAYS!
*signing off*
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| In honor of Becca Knight.... |
[05 Sep 2007|12:49am] |
She has this list of things she wants to do in her life...and I felt the need to do one too!
Places I want to go and things I want to do: these are all I can think of at the moment, hopefully I can add onto it in the future....
Go to Disneyland in California
Visit Stratford upon Avon
Go to Israel
Live outside of Florida
Work in the NFL
Go to the summer Olympic games, preferably to see Gymnastics and Swimming
Go see Letterman and Conan
Go to Scotland
Learn more Spanish
Go to Australia, dive the Great Barrier Reef
Randomly run into a celebrity
See somebody I know in a far off place
Go skiing in the Rockies (and snowboarding)
Go to Vegas with lottery winnings to be able to see all the awesome shows and do awesome things.
See Brian Regan live
Have friends again like I did in college
Go to Scotland
Be ok with who I am
Go to a Red Sox game
Go to the Super Bowl and/or World Series
Not be scared to grow up, but still be true to who I am
Ride a jetski
Go sailing in open water
Take as many vacations with a bunch of my friends all together, like the Keys or Boston a couple years ago
Teach somebody something
Not be afraid to say what I am thinking or feeling when necessary
See the Royal Ballet, NYC Ballet, ABC, or any other large ballet company
A la TLC: Decorate my own house and be able to dress to make Stacey and Clinton proud
See the Tour de France
Understand who I am in Christ
Dance at Disney
Fly First Class (for longer than an hour flight like I did before)
Go on a Disney Cruise
Go on as many youth trips as possible
Visit the Disney parks in Hong Kong and Japan
Rise to a challenge that I didn't know I could
Ride a bike race on one of my awesome Trek bikes (that I will be buying in the future)
Go to Prague and Budapest
Be a tour guide and/or travel agent
that's all I got! I will think of more later.....
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| So You Think You Can Dance :) |
[22 Jul 2007|09:10pm] |
So, I just caught up with the past 2 weeks.....I just love Lacey and Kameron :) too bad they are splitting up my 2 fav couples next week, Neil and Lauren and Lacey and Kameron....
but....big news....Jason Samuels.....the tap guy from the last results show?? I took his class in New York at Broadway Dance Center!! It was a class with 7 other AWESOME tap dancers and I was only there because my friend wanted me to go....I made a COMPLETE fool out of myself.....but I can say I took his class! YAY! haha
*signing off*
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| YAY! |
[08 Jul 2007|04:35pm] |
The Tour de France just started....
me=excited
but.....the problem is that I am closer, but its harder to watch over here! booooo
but YAY Robbie McEwen!
*signing off*
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| Me.... |
[13 Jun 2007|12:42pm] |
One of my blog friends introduced me to this fun way of getting to dig deeper into who each of us are. It is called an interview meme. She asked me five questions to get me started, so enjoy.
1. You have lived in Italy for two years now. What do you love the most about the Italian culture?
I think after 2 years of living in Italy, I have seen more than just the tourist side, I have seen the heart of Italy. As SKetrow says, the Italian slogan is "Italy, exporting culture for thousands of years" or something like that. I really enjoy their passion....period. I mean if you ask me more, I would probably say their passion for relationships. They are the most important thing to them. I mean, we all complain about how people are late, nothing is ever open when we want it to be, or how somebody can't come to see us because they are at home with their family, but we all understand how Italians would rather be late than to leave a conversation early and miss out on the other person's life, they take their time to eat their lunch in the middle of the day with their family or friends, and they cherish the time they have together as a family (usually weekends) and wouldn't trade it for the world.........and we all secretly adore that, whether we would admit it or not.
2. What is your funniest blooper moment in the Italian culture?
Ok, this is lame, but all my bloopers come from boring language mistakes, like asking a lady if "ya'll" have some napkins or whatever.....I will think long and hard about it and get back to you........
3. Here is a fun question that someone asked me, what is something that you really miss in America (not friends or family)? Well, at first I couldn't think of anything......maybe that means I would make a good ICS person! hahahahah But fer real, I have 3 things.......
food (the variety that America has)
pop culture (turning on CMT or a radio to listen to whatever's new)
and MOVIES......or maybe just the ease of a trip to the movies and understanding them, blah blah blah.....you get it....I am a movie fiend! haha
4. What is something that the Lord has taught you this past year while living in Italy? Strange enough, it has probably been about his plan and its sovereignty. Like I was put on this team for a reason, not sure what that is yet, but I am waiting it out. Also, even though I am scared about my future, its more like me searching out God's already plan for me instead of having my whole life hinge on a plan I come up with.....I know its strange.....
5. A phrase I like a lot lately is "the beauty of the Lord." What does that mean to you?
Well, hmm.....me, not being a deep person such as you, I shall attempt this with gusto.
I just think the beauty of the Lord shines through in his perfection. He is perfect, somebody we can lean on that will never let us down, awe-inspiringly powerful, wisest that ever has been, our shelter, and the representative of everlasting, unfailing, unconditional love......
so how's that for an answer? :) haha
Would you like me to interview you? Here are the rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me” and also leave me your e-mail address if I don’t already have it. (I’ll be sure to delete it from my comments, so that it won’t sit out in the ethersphere endlessly.)
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
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| I'm so excited!!! |
[29 Apr 2007|01:49pm] |
Jacksonville Selects Mike Walker In Third Round Of NFL Draft
Walker is highest Knight taken in the draft since 2002
April 29, 2007
Orlando, Fla. (www.ucfathletics.com) - Former UCF wide receiver Mike Walker turned around to a living room full of nearly 50 family and friends, raised his fist to the air and with a big smile on his face uttered two simple words `It's Jacksonville.' After nearly 10 hours of waiting, Walker received the phone call he has worked for his entire life shortly after 10 p.m. as he learned the news that he would be the Jacksonville Jaguars' third-round pick at No. 79 in the NFL Draft on Saturday.
"This is a dream come true," Walker said following his selection. "This has been a crazy day, but it's been well worth it. As you can see I have a great family, probably the greatest in the world and to be able to share this with them is an awesome feeling. I'm speechless."
Walker became the 21st Knight to be selected in the NFL Draft and his third-round selection is the highest for a Knight since Travis Fisher went to the St. Louis Rams with the 32nd pick of the second round in 2002 (64th overall).
After setting the UCF single-season record for receptions in 2006 with 90 catches, Walker's stock had steadily-risen since the conclusion of the season. A 4.35 40-yard dash time at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis in February also helped erase any doubts of the lingering effects of an ACL injury that cost him the final two games of the 2005 campaign.
The Jaguars were one of several NFL teams represented at the UCF Pro Day on March 8th at the Nicholson Fieldhouse where Walker showed off his receiving skills, but the record-setting receiver was a little surprised Jacksonville would be his professional destination.
"I had a really good Pro Day," Walker stated. "I know (Jacksonville's) receiving coach (Todd Monken) was there and I felt like I impressed a lot of people, but I had not spoken to anyone from there since then.
"I was with a couple of my former teammates the other day and they told me if I was still left when Jacksonville was picking in the third round they were going to get me and that's what happened. It's crazy that I had not heard that yet and someone else had, but they got me and I'm very happy."
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| Thoughts on VT...by a guy named Ryan |
[21 Apr 2007|05:37am] |
No doubt everyone has seen and heard about the tragedy that occurred at Virginia Tech earlier this week, at the hands of a student named Cho Seung Hui. Many, I'm sure, including myself, have sat and wondered about the state Cho must have been in to go through with so devious a scheme. How evil a thing that was carried out at Virginia Tech!
My next line of thought immediately, without any loss of time, hastens to judge Cho Seung Hui for his evil, twisted heart and condemn him. "Surely this is one of the most evil people in the world," I say to myself. A friend of mine said to me just two days ago, "If there is a heaven and a hell, that guy's definitely going to hell." Would you agree? Maybe it's not important whether you would agree or not but WHY you would agree.
( There's two reasons why any of us would agree...... )
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| Back from Munchen! |
[11 Apr 2007|12:05pm] |
check out my blog coming soon to kathscof.blogger.com
But I do have a thought....
I had an instance this week when I felt like a jerk....
it was based on my thought that compromise is so much better than sacrifice.....
what are your thoughts?
*signing off*
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| Attention ALL.... |
[12 Mar 2007|06:17pm] |
Brian Regan.....
June 23rd Orlando Florida
June 24th Jacksonville Florida
you have to go....
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[16 Feb 2007|02:49am] |
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One Tree Hill season 4 is now on itunes......I am happy :)
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| Yes I know its 4:40 am.... |
[01 Feb 2007|10:40pm] |
but we just got off ichat with the UCF Crusade meeting a little bit ago....
but my point...
I am so freaking spoiled...
My ipod just broke (aka is corrupted with no restoration by my hands possible) and I am crying in the middle of the night.....
*signing off*
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| So tired am I.... |
[19 Jan 2007|06:08am] |
almost too tired to post on here....
I know for sure it will be short.
I got into Italy last week with my visa (yay!)
Have been dead tired since.....not fun.....and tonight is the only bed we will have, if only for 3 or so hours, until Sunday night. Our train leaves for Rome at 3:25 tomorrow morning, taking a flight at 9 or so to Dublin, then spending the day in Dublin and night in the airport, then a flight to Malaga, Spain...to take a bus to Nerja, Spain for our Mid-Year with like half the STINT world! YAY! It was only 2 regions last year, but 3 this year....not sure how that will be different.....but after that week, we are flying to London for 3 nights/4 days....yay! Then back here......
that is all....we are having a 24 party today.....watching on Justin's projector, the 4 starting episodes....YAY!
that is all....really....
*signing off*
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