Fancy Family Dinner

Well....seeing as this is the last weekend everyone will be here...we decided to have a fancy family dinner. It consisted of our closest friends, and it was great! We had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, cornbread, rolls, chocolate cake and pumpkin pie! It was so wonderful! Here are some pictures from the night, as well as a picture from Friday's Santa's Little Village where Jess and I wore some hard core teacher outfits!
Here is the whole group! I love them!

The roomies! All dressed up!

Roomies Again! Love them tons!
Zack, he is the best brother ever!

Josh and I after dinner just hangin out with the group! We never get dressed up this nice!Jess and I! We took soooo many pictures, this is only one of the many!One of the funnies pictures of my life! Meg and I look great, then Pat in the background...oh gosh! Too funny! Whit came out for a bit!Pat, one of my bestest friends ever!Jess and I decided to be Pat for the night! We snuck in his room and put on his clothes! This was outfit #1...the classic Pat in the pink polo!Outfit #2...soccer jerseys. He loves us! Outfit #3...button up shirts and pants! It was fun being Pat...but I think we are going to stick to being us instead!Jess and I dressed like teachers for Santa's Little Village! So fun! We loved it!Jake made the blog!! Santa's Little Village again!

Well....these were from my great last weekend with everyone. I shall miss them all!

Blah

Okay, well I had one heck of a week last week. I was soooo very busy. A few things have happened, and we have some good and some bad.

First, the daycare I have worked at for 4 1/2 years is closing. The church is closing because they don't have the money, and so we have to close. We have 1 church left that we are hoping will take us in. So we'll see....but its not looking good.

Second, last week I had soo much homework. I was doing work like crazy, and it was NOT fun.

Third, I may have a new job that I know I'm going to LOVE....but I cannot discuss it further than that at this point...but soon I should be able to. I am extremely excited about it!

Fourth, I love my roomies. We went out to a friends house and decided that it needed to be a theme night. So...we made shirts, wore jeans, wore cowboy boots (with jeans tucked in so that everyone could see them), and chunky necklaces! It was a great fun! Here are some pics (unfortunately we didn't get a full body shot, so just trust me on the boots and that it was awesome!)

The front of the shirts....I had a pic of meg and jess, Jess had a pic of meg and I, and meg had a pic of Jess and I! They were goofy pics of course! Would you expect anything else from us?!

On the back we decided it was necessary to have a good pic of the 3 of us! So here we are showing it off!

Stacey was over, so we had her join for a picture! Not centered, but what can you expect when it's a self-taken photo?!Me and Meg with big smiles! Oh just being goofy...like we always are! :)Jess and I spending time with some buddies! Amos came to visit us again! We wish he was here and never moved back to Arizona! And Nick came out to hang! Yea!The three roomies! Oh I love these girls!

Turkey Turkey

My oh my its been over 24 hours and I think I am still stuffed! Okay, really I know I still am!
Wednesday I went home and helped clean. Then I took Gloria to help see my dad's class! I stayed the rest of the day with him! I also made a picture for him, and it's a little sad that I think some of the pictures his third graders have made him are better! :) oh well, it was a self-portrait and I was happy with it!
We had the family over yesterday and it was a good day. Lots of laughs, at my poor grandmother's expense. She likes it, or at least she is used to it! And she totally brings it on herself! But I ate a lot of great food! Then after some good conversations they left. And as soon as they left....I changed into some sweats and took a great nap! When I woke up, I layed down longer then next thing I knew it was time for the COLTS game!!!! And of course they WON!!!!!! WOOOHOOOO! :) So pumped for that!
Anyway, today has been full of me trying to force myself to do homework. it hasn't gone that well. And....I saw August Rush! Talk about a good movie! I would totally see it over and over again!!! yea! And now...I'm really going to do homework. Have a great break everyone!

grrr

Yet again, my colts lose. and I have to get crap phone calls and texts from all my friends. Who I must say...support teams who suck. (Bears and Bengals....neither of which are currently 500 teams) Yeah....so they can all shut their mouths at least until their teams are somewhat good. Thanks. And how bout the colts stop with these injuries. All our main guys are out...we can't do that anymore!

AWESOMENESS

Watch this, you will cry. I tried to add it directly into my blog...couldn't get it to work. So the link will had to do. Just watch it....promise it will one of the greatest things ever in your life!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTsVzOKqK-k

Yet again....

Oh and here we go again...the foot....re-broken. It's offical. Talked to the trainer about it. Good news....it's no worse than when I broke it the first time. So....I didn't do additional damage! Better news....no crutches or boot! Bad news...I have to take time off to let it heal. It was so nice to be able to run and work out again, and now I can't. But I dont have to see that horrible doctor again and I guess I just relax for once and let it get better. We'll see how long this lasts....

New technology please

So, totally jealous of my mother! She got one of the new laptops that is the wordpad ones that you can flip the screen down and write on it. I have only wanted that since I saw it. Why can't I have it? Oh...because I already have a laptop that works perfectly fine. Well listen mom, I'm over this laptop. It's about a year and a half old and I want an upgrade okay. So please, give me a new one.
I am still longing for the iPhone. Again, mom and dad wont' buy it. My plan still has a year and a half, and they dont want to spend the money on it. Well news to them, neither do I, but I want them to spend the money on it! Why? Because they are all going to have iPhones by December...I'll still have my giant green booger (aka the mint chocolate). Sure...dont get me wrong, I like my phone. how many other people have a giant booger they can call people on, not many. But, I would rather have the sweet iPhone that I can do anything with than a booger.
So...my wish list for christmas as of now consists of.....

~iPhone
~new laptop
~2008 Chevy Silverado 1500 Extended Cab 4WD (Black) take a look at it here... http://www.chevrolet.com/silverado/colors/

I shall continue that as time goes! :) Only a few small requests!

Ew Weekend

Well...the weekend didn't turn out as planned, actually it went basically the total opposite.
Friday we won, that was awesome! Saturday, we lost a game we should have won to a team that does not deserve to go to Nationals in two weeks. I believe I re-broke my foot, so I may end up back in the boot or on crutches....how bad is that going to suck? Today my Colts lost. And I am having problems with the way one of my professors is attempting to teach their class...it's not working and I'm just not a fan. UGH. Boooo to this weekend.

SUCCESS

It's offical....I am released to play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I practiced for the first time today, and it was GREAT! No pain what so ever!!! I'm loving this! Making my comeback on Friday at the game! Yessss!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Pics

I know, I know....3 posts in a matter of only a few hours! Yeah...we'll I'm avoiding homework okay!? Anyway, wanted to post some more pics! I guess I'm just missing facebook access these days!

An old one, okay last weekend, that I found!Isn't she beautiful?! On the way to IWU!My soccer/bus/warm-up/cook buddy! :)This is all she ever does anymore. Going to kick the GREs butt though because of it!Your FUTURE SOCCER MOMS OF AMERICA!!!!! Wearing our old/new coats to keep warm!!! The draw string around the waist is what makes the coat just simply amazing!At bowling for books for EIA.First time I've ever seen a pumpkin bowl!!!Bowling or Ice Skating?! You decide! :)

Texting

So, I absolutely love texting! It's probably one of the greatest things ever! If you dont' want to make a phone call, simply send a quick little text and the response comes in seconds! If you need to talk to someone during class, text! One of my greatest finds about the wonders of technology are sports scores! I am a HUGE COLTS fan!!!!! Like major! And for the most part I can see every game. However, there are days, like today, where I can't. So what do I do? Have Tony Dungy send me the scores! Okay, so really Tony doesn't just whip out his phone, but what if he did?! But I do get a text everytime either team scores and at the end of every quarter! How amazing is that?! I can be across the country in the mountains stranded waiting for rescue crews to get me, and as long as I have cell phone service, I know how my Colts are doing! Oh the wonders of modern technology!

Mediocre Technology Please

It's not often that people wish for technology to be simply mediocre...however, I am making that wish right now. My appointment for my foot is at 10:30 tomorrow morning! I find out if I am released for Regionals or not. They will take an x-ray and I hope it goes no further than that. I think I am healed, or at least healed enough to play. My wonderful friend Natalie is upset and thinks this is a bad idea, but I think it's a great idea! This isnt me trying to be a hero, or say my team NEEDS me. I think I can help my team, and I want my last games with my friends. I am ready for it! So, I am praying that this x-ray is a mediocre machine and shows that everything is perfectly fine! If so, I will be released to play.

There are a couple problems:
1-the x-rays are usually pretty good.
2-my doctor doesn't trust that I've followed his rules
3-last time I saw my doctor I basially told him he was an idiot and he sucked.
My solutions
1-pray that I am really healed, or that the x-ray says I am at least
2-Actually use my crutches and tell my doctor I've listened to him completely about everything
3-take him some chocolates and maybe take out some money to bribe him

My fate of my soccer career for this year lies in the hands of technology and a man who I think is a horrible doctor and has no idea what he's doing. And not to mention, he hates me....ah! Oh technology, please be mediocre tomorrow!

Shhhhh......!

So, it's secret time! Not really, but good news, and we'll just see how it's handled. So the girls won tonight! We are playing IWU on Saturday! Not only that, we are guaranteed to go to regionals no matter how we do in the game. Of course I want us to win though! So...I made the decision that I'm ready to play again. Yes, my doctor wants me to have three more weeks off, but I think that is totally not needed. SOOOO.....I went and ran tonight to test out the foot. I ran 1/2 mile and it didn't hurt one bit! Woohoo!! How excited am I?! I can't even express it! So, I've sent an e-mail to give coach a heads up, and let him cool down if necessary before I go in and talk to him tomorrow. I'm hoping for good things, and hopefully we can get me into the doctor and get me released to play in Regionals a week from this coming Saturday! So...I'll keep you posted on the meeting with coach that I will have tomorrow. I'll be crossing my fingers that he isn't totally and completely pissed!

Avoiding homework....

Well...since I have a paper to write and a lesson to create I've decided to take a break from all of that junk! I wanted to post some pictures of some of the good stuff in my life! This is all recent, so it's new fun stuff!!!!

#1: DISNEY PRINCESS CHOCOLATE BARS!!!!!! Jess and I bought these for ourselves with Coach's money on Friday, and ate them at the game on Saturday! They were very good quality chocolate, not to mention they were huge and only $1!

#2: THE ROOMIES!!! We finally went out somewhere all three of us on Saturday night! (it had been a while since that happened) It was a great time, and we had the usual roomie picture taken! They are just so wonderful!

#3 MY SOCCER BOYS! This is one of my very greatest friends Pat! Granted, I only got a picture with him this night, but I love all my soccer boys greatly! They are all also very wonderful for my life!

#4: FLOWERS! These were given to me by a certain someone on Sunday! I LOVE flowers, especially roses! And I love to hang them when they are close to death so that they dry and look very pretty still!

Well, this was my happy weekend! Not to mention I got to go home Sunday and spend time with the family! And then it carried over to Monday when my COLTS WON!!!!!!!!!!

And now it's time to get back to homework! Busy day tomorrow, and we have a soccer game! 2nd round of tournament at Spring Arbor!

Something to think about....

The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines.

Hmm.....What do you think about that?

Update

Life update...woohoo!
We won first round of the tournament this weekend! 3-2 (yikes) over Huntington, but we won! Game Wednesday at Spring Arbor! I've quit using my crutches! I've decided that 1 month on them was enough and no part of me wants to use them one more month, so until I am yelled at by coach, I will not be using them!! I said I am going to be my own doctor, so here I am, releasing myself from the pain and annoyance of crutches! um...thats all that is new! Pretty boring life these days! Oh well, I'm over it! :)

Grrrr...

So, I am frustrated with a lot of things. So...I thought I'd just list them all out....
1-School! Driving me CRAZY! I have the most outrageous amount of work that pertains to nothing important most of the time.
2-again...still not being able to play soccer
3-technology! Yeah, thats right, one of the things I love on most days, I hate these days! My computer has been going crazy. It probably needs to be taken in, but you know what, I have no time to do that. So it's just going to continue to go crazy. And on top of my computer in itself being weird, our internet at our house is sooo slow these days. its killing me!
4-not having any free time to enjoy time to myself to do absolutely nothing
5-having to write about technology....just another thing to add to my list of things to do. I just feel like it's enough that we are using technology we wouldn't in most cases, and people are exploring it and using things like the pictures and different text colors and everything fun like that. Thats not me trying to teach, just expressing myself
6-my phone and the fact that I can't seem to hold it and it drops down the stairs on a daily basis! oops! :)
7-life! I'm tired of mine, does anyone want to trade for a little while?!

Oh...these things just drive me crazy! oh well...can't change them!

Goodbye BFFs

We have only a few games left this season, and its getting rather sentimental. I have been sad because I never got the "last game" with them. I mean yeah, I had my last game, but why would I think that it would be the first game of our conference season, when I still have 10+ games to go. I wouldn't, and I didn't. We have our last official regular season conference game tomorrow, and I am not ready for it. I don't want this to all be over. I don't want my friends to leave. They will be moving away after this year, and I don't want it. I want another season with them, I want a last game. But I can't have it, so I will just say goodbye to my best friends forever. Anyway, the picture is from senior day on Saturday. These are some of the greatest people I have ever come into contact with! I love them!

Camp!

So I love everything about camp, and everytime I am there I am reminded of why and I hate leaving. This weekend I was on staff, and my main job was arts and crafts! If you know anything about me, you know this made my life! I also spent time doing dishes, cleaning, and helping out with whatever else needed done. But mainly....arts and crafts! We made some sweet jack-o-lanterns, light up pumpkin pins, wreaths of thanks, bandanas, carved pumpkins, picture frames, and my personal favorites....wire rings! I loved everyone who was there on staff working with me! I got to spend time with the people I usually only get to see one week a year...so I got an extra weekend in and there will be more times to come! It was a little chilly, but warmed up when we needed it to! It was absolutely beautiful at night! The stars were so bright and amazing! I didn't star gaze like usual due to the freezing cold weather, so I didn't get a chance to see a bunch of shooting stars. But I did have time to look at the stars a lot! I also spent some time riding around in a golf cart with my friend Kara late at night. Yeah, no lights on it, and campers were on the trails....that makes for a great adventure! The very greatest news of the weekend....I get to be a director one week this summer! July 6-11 I am going to direct a camp, and not be just a conselor, instead I will be in charge! :) How exciting is that going to be?! VERY! So....to that....if anyone wants to volunteer for that week, we need counselors!!! It'll be a blast! You will be with 3 other counselors per cabin group! It's an amazing time (as you know because I go on and on about how amazing it is....) and God does amazing things while we are there! So think about it, let me know! :)

Oh...and outside of camp, came back for senior day of my bestest friends here...I will miss them! They won 2-0 which is good! But it was sad...I dont want them to leave me.

NEW WEBSITE!

Zack, my brother, and I have created a new blog/webpage! It is basically going to be the coolest thing ever. It was his idea, and he proposed it to me, I said, of course that seems amazing! It is going to be a site to post blogs and ideas about snacks and different recipes! It's our own little cooking site! We are going to get it all set up and going, and then I will post the site on here so that you can all look at it. We will then hopefully get it set up so that other people can post on it as well and add their own thoughts and recipes to it! It will be pretty amazing! I love to cook, so I will love sharing my ideas and creations! It should be up and going in the next week or so, and then I will let you know so you can check it all out!

For now the website I will leave you with is my brothers, Zackary Linson v2.0 He loves to post, and I wish I could do as well as he does! Check it out, some will make you laugh, some is serious, and some is just plain out there! Its just wonderful! :)

Happy weekend everyone!

Technology Free

So I am extremely excited for this weekend! I get to go up to Camp Lakewood...the camp that I volunteer at every summer! This weekend is Fall Fest, which is a mini-camp that goes Friday-Sunday! There are many reasons I am excited! First, I get to be at camp! I love camp, and I love being there, so I am excited that I get the chance to be there! Second, it is going to be beautiful there! The leaves should all be changing color, we should have good weather!! Third, there are a million fun activities in store for us! Fourth, I get to be TECHNOLOGY FREE for the weekend! (well sorta!) My phone rarely works when I am at camp because it doesn't get service. So I won't have to deal with that. I won't have my computer or anything to mess with. Last (and most important...)it's a chance to bring more kids to know God and to develop a relationship with Him and love Him like I do!!!! It's just going to be a GREAT weekend at camp!
Downsides to camp this weekend though...I don't get to be a counselor, BUT I get to stay with the staff and just do whatever I want really. I do have to drive back for our soccer game Saturday. It's Senior Day and I need to be there for my buddies! And I am still in the boot and on cruthches. (However...the crutches may not be used while I am there...! Shhhh...don't tell coach!)
All in all, no matter what, I get to be at camp and I am super pumped about it!!! woohoo!!!!!!

Recent update

Well, it has been a while since I have updated my life on this, in fact I don't think I did it once last week! Oops! So here it goes....

Had a doctors appointment last Thursday. Oh what an experience! First I get there at 10:50 and they had put the wrong date in, and wanted me to come back a week later. I refused and said the doctor was going to see me that day. The lady talked to his nurse and she said "Oh it's too soon to see her" and again, I demanded that I was going to see the doctor that day because he screwed up and he needed to check it out again. So I am in the waiting room. People are getting called back, talking with the doctor, and then leaving. Sweet. FINALLY at 12:15, I guess they felt I had waited long enough and they let EVERYONE else go ahead of me, so I got called back. I asked for an x-ray, the nurse tried to tell me that they didn't have the others. I told her I didn't care, and I was going to get an x-ray. She continues to fight, and I continued to look at her and say I am getting an x-ray today, I need one and it will happen. So...she gives up, it happens. Then after that I wait another 30-35 minutes in the room for the doctor. He comes in, the bone is broken, you can see it in the x-ray. In talking I find out that he NEVER looked at my bone scan. Instead he had the guy who took the scan (Who's job is to take them, he's not certified to read them) look at the scan. The guy wanted to let me go and say it wasn't broken. My doctor convinced him on a hunch that my foot was broken, to tell me it was. Sweet. So when he finally saw the scan (a week later) that is when the panic happened. I still hate this doctor, and think he should never be able to work again.

This weekend was alright. We had team bonding Friday night at one of the girls houses! It was a good time!! We lost Saturday, and its getting harder to continue to watch and not be able to play. I'm dealing with it as much as I can though...basically just because I have to. But here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure from the team bonding night....!

The roomie picture! We try to get one every time we go out!

My lovely keeper!!!!

This is what happens when you make funny faces and don't tell me its a goofy picture! :)

I wish! How much fun is that?!

My wonderful friend Laura!!

So we decided it would make a great picture to stuff our mouths with marshmellows! I was laughing too hard to look for this picture. 2 reasons for that...1-just before this picture my roomie Meg says, "Kel your face looks so fat" and I knew it did and it was great. 2-Jess has a HUGE string of drool coming out of her mouth. I could see it out of the corner of my eye! But I couldn't tell her because my mought was full of marshmellow! It was captured (not to it's greatest length unfortunately) in this photo even!

All in all...life is alright! Stressful...I'm totally over school! Oh well! :)

Teachers for life!

So we had to write a response about if we thought technology would take over the role of teachers some day. I don't see this happening. Can technology give a child a band-aid if they scrape their knee? Can technology give a child a hug who just had to flush their fish down the toilet in the morning before they got on the bus? Can technology take students outside to catch snowflakes on paper to see what they look like during the first snow of the winter? No it can't do anything. So how in the world can they say it could take over a teacher's job? Would students really sit and watch a teacher teach on a screen? I know I wouldn't even now in college. I would hate every second of that. Technology is cool, but it can't replace a human!

I want

The one new product that I want is the iPhone! More than anything, that is the one thing that I want! Why do I want this so bad? Beacuse it is AWESOME! It's a computer, GPS, Phone, iPod all in one! I would need absolutely nothing else! My brother just got his last week, and I must admit, I am completely 100% jealous of him! I cannot get one, because of two reasons. 1-I don't have the money. 2-I am stuck into my Verizon phone plan for another year and a half. I want out of it so bad though! Technology amazes me, and I want the latest and greatest all of the time! And the iPhone is just that....the latest and the greatest!

Oh childhood....

So as I read about the software and games that are beneficial for children, I wish I could go back to my childhood! I loved playing Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego! Before that I definately was an Arthur fan and loved to use those games to practice my reading! Then I think about now and how much I'm tired of homework, school, and the stresses of life, and wish that I could be the care-free child I was about 15 years ago!

Stupid doctors....

Well, the frustrations of the day began about 2:15 when I was called into the training room by our trainer, Michael, for something "very important." So I hobble on in there with my lovely boot, and he tells me my doctor called. For future cases...if a doctor calls a week later after you've hurt yourself, it's probably bad news, and you should run away (or hobble) as quick as you can! Michael tells me that the doctor got the official results of my bone scan. At this I think, what?! He saw my bone scan LAST THURSDAY when he told me I had a stress fracture in my foot. So apparently that was a lie and he put me in a boot for "safety" I'm guessing. So he continues on that they looked at it and my foot is not a stress fracture, but a full break all the way through. Yeah...how can you confuse those? I'm pretty sure they aren't very similar. So lets look at the technology aspect of this all....I had the bone scan, which is pretty sweet technology in itself. The shot me up with some stuff and it attracts to broken bones, and then when they scan, the VERY dark parts are where bones are broken. So I watched the scan as it was taken place and slowly my feet showed more clearly on the screen, and there were a few VERY dark spots. So they finish the scan, use some internet technology, and send it to my doctor who was in surgery at the time to look at. He reviews it, and gives me the wrong diagnosis. Sweet, thanks doc. So now I am still in the boot and I am offically back on crutches 24/7, no pressure on it what so ever. Why is this you ask...oh because of the fact that its a full break and its possible that I could step wrong and my bones could move and then I'd have to have surgery and my soccer career would FOREVER be over...aka my life would be over. So my conclusion on this....doctors are idiots and I don't think they can be trusted.

The frustration continues when I go to my doctors appt with a guy who is supposed to help my foot and speed up this healing process for me. I go, he pokes it a little bit. Asks what happened, and I tell him. Oh...and I tell him about the other day when I was stepping on it (w/o the boot) and it made the biggest POP and throbbed for 24 hours straight. And I told him my trainer said don't worry about it, and he looks at me and goes "If something pops and throbbs, that's never a good thing, and you should worry about it." I say thanks, thats what I thought. So some doctor is somewhat normal right. WRONG! I was there 20 minutes total. Enough time for him to poke my foot and hurt me, then tell me he wants me to ice my foot 3 times a day for 15 minutes, and that he wants me to get some calcium pills from him. Okay, I think yeah thats good...no its not because he wants me to pay $104 for a 1 month supply. WHAT?! are you kidding me?! On top of that, the 20 minute visit cost me $48. Rip off! My conclusion here is that all doctors are out to take your money.

My total conclusion....as good as technology is these days, because they got the scan back right away, if you can't read it then technology does you no good. So...I've decided that as of this injury, its the LAST one I will go to the doctor for. FORGET DOCTORS!!!!....I'll just take care of myself! I'm officially done throwing my money away to people who have NO idea what they are talking about, and who don't care about anything but money. From now on, I will be self-diagnosing myself with any injuries or illnesses!!! I think I can do just as well, if not better!!

(This totally can fit into technology, which I somewhat touched on it, that if you can't use it correctly, and don't know how to work it, then it does you no good. It will not benefit you, or anyone else.)

Update!

Here is the update on my situation:
1- NO MORE CRUTCHES!!!! Woohoo!!! Celebration time! Really though, I hated them and now (as long as I can walk with the boot without pain) I don't have to use them!

2- I can work out!!! I am now allowed to get on the elliptical and ride the bike! So these 5 days I've taken off...thats it! No more! I'm going to get back in shape so that when I come back (in 4 weeks for tournament) I can play and be of help to my team!!!!

3- Doctors are idiots! I seem to come to that conclusion over and over again, and today it hit me again. My doctor doesn't want to do knee surgery now, why I can't do anything. He thinks another surgery could be bad for me. Well...my knee hurting now and playing with it torn can't be good can it? Pretty sure that can hurt me in the long run. He doesn't want to do another surgery...but he wants to give me meds to "get me through the season" if I come back. Hm..getting me through the season would imply that he wants to do surgery afterwards...but no. And I'm pretty sure I know my knee better than him. Why can't he cut the bad stuff out and let me go on my merry little way? Oh well....I'm pretty sure I've seen it enough times that I could cut my knee open and do it myself....maybe I'll just do that!

So...those are my 3 news topics of the day! Thanks for reading! :)

Technology Freak

Well...I'm required now to post about technology, so I guess I will. Need my points right?! Well...I LOVE technology! Any new gadget, I always want it, and usually I end up getting it. It can be from a new computer, or new camera, to a hand held, or ipod. Whatever it is, I always love it! My family is very much into technology, and this comes from my dad. He loves new gadgets to. My brother and I have had hand held computers since at least my freshman year of high school. Then when my parents get upgrades, we get their old ones (that usually end up only being a year old, if that). Like I've posted in the discussion board before, my dad has a hand held Zire for each student in his class. This has worked out amazing for him, and I hope that I can do that when I get my own classroom. Being the technology freak I am, I will use it in my classroom every chance I get!

Confirmed....

Well, my foot is broken. I hate it so much. So...I'm in a boot PLUS I have to use crutches still for 6 weeks, yes....SIX weeks. I plan on making it 4 and being back by then, because that will be the start of the conference tournament. We will see though. I have high hopes, and when I set my mind to something, it will happen! (For example my roomie Jess explained it as "If Kelli Linson wants to find Nemo, then she will!!) So hopefully I will be back by then. Until then, I'll be crutching around with the heavy boot, hating that I cant play and I have to watch instead.

Life over....

So soccer is my life right? Yeah...it is. Well, I apparently hurt my foot in our game last Friday against Saint Xavier. I let it go, thought maybe it was just a bruise. So I practiced monday, and even played about 60 minutes in the game yesterday (in which we killed Marion 4-1!!!!). Coach would not allow me to play anymore than that. Well...the foot has died as of last night. So today I go see Dr. D at FWO and he says oh I think you broke it. WHOA...talk about my world crashing down. We have the biggest game Friday against our rivals IWU. I have been pumped for this game for weeks now! Now I may not even be able to play. Not only does he give me that news he also says, use crutches until I tell you otherwise...and I HATE crutches with a passion and don't do well with using them. So I have a bone scan tomorrow to find out for sure, and we will have to see from there. I still have hopes of playing on Friday, that maybe it's just hurt but not broken and it will be fixed by Friday. Coach did tell me today when i left his office "Prepare yourself for the worst". To this I wanted to kick something and say some inappropriate words. I did not, but I definately wanted to. So now I wait, and I pray that this isn't broken and it gets better by Friday so that I can play. We shall see....

8 Games

Wow...today is GAME DAY and its the first day of conference games. This is extremely exciting, but freaking me out at the same time! We have 8 regular season games left. That's it. Then it's tournament time and it's one loss and we are done. I am not ready for this season to be over, I've enjoyed it too much! Yeah sure, we've had our ups and downs, but doesn't every team? I don't want to stop playing, soccer is my life and to take long breaks, it just doesn't excite me. It also doesn't excite me that my best friends are all seniors. So not only are they done with the team after this is all over, they are more than likely moving away from me after this year as well. Lots of downsides. But for now, I will look up and we will kick Marion's butt into the ground today! We will show them that they should have never come to play us, and that we are here to win!
5:00 on the grass field this afternoon!!! Be there...paint your chests, make shirts, signs, and scream your heads off! :) We love the fans and appreciate you being there, we just wish there were more of you! GO LADY COUGS!

If Only....

Right now, it's been a really long week. I've been very busy with school, soccer, and life in general. I've had a lot on my mind these days, and every night I've only had about 5 hours of sleep, if that. What kind of a life is this you ask....it's the life of a college student and athlete. And to be honest, I'm over it. Let me get to the real world. However, I can't go to the real world, and right now there is only one place I want to be. Is it my bed? No...as tired as I am, it is not. Is it on vacation? No...as much as I need one, it is not. Is it on a beach? Well maybe, but plans never seem to work out in my favor for that one, and my friend always stands me up!! But really, the one place I want to be is at Camp Lakewood. The people there are wonderful for my life, and it's just an awesome week completely devoted to God and helping children grades 3-6 begin, or continue on their walk with Christ. I miss the counselors so much, and the staff too. And my campers are wonderful! That is my one week that everything just goes away. I have nothing to focus on but the kids and God. So right now if I could be anywhere...I'd choose to be there....the following will explain why....

Reason 1: CAMPERS! This is Tamarack Cabin August 2007! I'm always in Tamarack...just special like that, but the kids are by far the best part of camp!

Reason 2: The other counselors! This is Liz my best buddy at camp! The counselors help make camp worth-while. I just wish I could see them all more than 1 week a year!

Reasons 3 & 4: The Staff, and THE BLOB!!!!!!!! Staff is wonderful and I love them! They are great people and they do great things! THE BLOB is the most fun activity to do at camp!!!!!

Reason 5: Swim Time! The kids love to pick on me, splash me, tackle me into the water, and basically see who can hurt me the quickest!

Reason 6: Face painting and other fun activities where campers get out of control! And of course they get to go crazy on the counselors too!

Reasons 7 & 8: 7-Campers stealing your camera and taking pictures randomly of anything and everything, and getting to look back and laugh at the pictures you never knew they took. 8-Most important, and definately the best.....God! He is there with us all week, and you can feel it the whole time! Then teaching the campers about Him and how awesome He truely is....there is nothing that even comes close to how wonderful that is!!!!

So all in all...I wish I could be at Camp Lakewood! But for now...until the first week of August next year....I'll just stick to living my life as it is!!!!

whats to come....

Well...these next few days seem to be good ones for me...I am pretty excited for them to be honest! Friday....we leave at 10:00am for a game in Chicago against the #5 ranked team...who is totally over-rated. We'll see. I think we can show well against them, and I am extremely excited and hope that we run them into the ground and pull off a big win. We are not expected to win, they probably even think we won't be very good...but we'll show them! I can't wait! Saturday there is a reserve game so I will be there to support those girls! Then I will go shopping, and I love to shop so it'll be fun! Then, I am sure that there will be some definate quality DDR time in there as well! Which I of course LOVE! Sunday is my church day, there is a boys soccer game, and I plan to hang out with some friends in the evening! A nice little weekend I have planned, jam packed with great things that I am excited for! First things first though....we win the game tomorrow!!!!!!

The Internet

Oh the internet....I don't even know where to begin! So I'll just say, as much as I love it, it creeps me out! If someone wants to stalk me, its not going to be that hard. They can find out I play soccer at Saint Francis, find out where exactly that is, and find out my number and our game schedule. So, there could be some creepy 80 year old man that wants to know about me, well all he has to do is Google my name, and he could be at our game tomorrow! That to me is not cool! All bad, creepy things aside, the internet is a wonderful tool and I'd spend a lot more time frustrated with people if I didn't have it. So as bad as it is, I like it and I don't ever want it to go away!

Speaking of not wanting things to go away, I have a new game that I LOVE and I will play it everyday for the rest of my life (okay probably not...but it'd be cool if I really did!). I got Dance Dance Revolution (also known as DDR) yesterday! And I love it! It's totally wonderful for my life and my roomies and I have enjoyed it so far! I am sure that we'll have a DDR party for at least my soccer team soon because everyone thinks they can beat me....I assure you, that will not happen!!

Anyway, I love the internet, but I'm totally over creepy stalker people! Even if they aren't stalking me, which I am sure they arent and I am thankful for that, we all know they are out there stalking someone. And to that person they stalk, I feel extremely sorry for them!

My b-day present

This is my brother, and I want to showcase his talents for a second. So he's one of the most incredible people to me. He's one of my best friends and I love him dearly. Okay, all the sappy sister stuff aside...he's just a really cool guy. Anyone who has met him will agree to that. He's super talented, an amazing soccer player, easy to get along with, fun, out going, very intelligent, loves reading, and has a very deep side to him if you actually sit down and have a real conversation with him. Anyway, he made me one of the coolest birthday presents this year for my 21st birthday. So as I said, he's talented, so he painted me a picture!!! It's amazingly well done and it sits in the window by my computer. I have yet to buy a frame, but he has requested me to get a large gold frame to put it in...I refuse! He has this idea to paint one picture a week, well it's been over a month and I don't think another one has been completed yet, possibly not even started. But it's a good idea, and when he decides he wants to do it, he will and it will be as awesome as mine is I am sure. Anyway....here is a picture of it, it doesn't do it justice, but I wanted to show his talent off to everyone!!!

The week ahead....

Well....as exciting as my last post was and how pumped I was for it being the weekend, today is monday and I'm totally over this week already! I have an unbelievable amount of homework to do in the next 2 days! I also have 2 games this week (Wednesday and Friday), which just adds to the list of things to do. As upset as I am for this week, looking back on the weekend makes me smile......
We had a game Saturday and we tied 2-2 in double overtime! Crazy right!? Yeah it is, seeing that we came back from being down 2-0. Coach has a new line up he's going to try this week, so we'll see how that goes. I'm kind of excited about it, and I hope that it fixes the minor problems we've been having. Sunday was a GREAT day! I went to church and saw my friends Natalie and Tyler! Then I came back and took a nap! Naps are my favorite thing ever! After that I went and supported the men's soccer team to a 2-2 tied that also went into double overtime. How strange! Then I came back, took care of Gloria because she needed a few things bought, and avoided homework more by doing some extra shopping. After that, the roomies and I decided to cook a huge dinner together, and this was our first ever family meal! Then we chatted and I finally got to do some homework about 10:30.

The more I blog, the more I realize it's benefits. Its like a replacement facebook! I've gotten used to having facebook since coach took it away from us, but I must admit there are days when I do miss it. So this is my new one! Anyway, I am going to get on my hours upon hours of homework now! Woohoo! not really though!! I hope that everyone has a great and wonderful week!

Happy Friday

I love fridays! They are so relaxing! We had practice today to get us ready for our game tomorrow! An easy practice, but it was a pretty good one! I feel like we were all out of it though, so hopefully we got it out of our systems today so we will be fine for tomorrow! Slightly nervous for the game, but I always get that way. I once had a coach tell me "The day that you don't get nervous before a game, I would question if you still love the game or not." For me, thats been true. Every game I've ever played (which is wayyyy too many to count) I've always been nervous for. I remember him telling me that every game day, and I always know that I'm meant to be out there because I love the game, and it's a huge part of my life!

Anyway, did my postings and everything. I hope that I got it all done. My first few assignments were not done on time because I didn't read my e-mail. Oops! But hey, I think I'm good to go for this week! So that is always good! I'll get this online stuff down soon enough I'm sure! Hope everyone has a GREAT weekend, be safe! Support your athletic teams, Football and women's soccer Saturday, and mens soccer sunday!

Here are a few more pictures for your viewing pleasure! It's friday and that makes me happy so here are some other things that make me happy.....

This is from Camp Lakewood. It's a church camp I volunteer at 1 week a summer. Its by far my favorite week of the entire year, and something I look forward to that is at the end of every summer! This was taken middle of the week at breakfast by one of my campers who stole my camera and I was loving the coffee because I was very tired and it was much needed this day!

This is my baby chinchilla, Gloria. I got her on my 21st birthday this summer! She is beautiful and wonderful as well! Not only do I love her so much, she will be a great classroom pet for me!

This last pictures is of two of my very good friends. This was a day we actually had off of soccer. The three of us decided to have a date night. So...we got dressed up in sweats, did side braids, and wore thick head bands. We then drove out North to eat at Penn Station off of Dupont Road, then suprised Jess with a visit to Leo-Cedarville Park (where this photo was taken), and then drove out to the Scoop to eat some ice cream! It turned out to be a great date!