Cement Girl

This time a year ago Joel, Rinda and I sat on top of our motorhome watching fireworks at Cornerstone.

This time a year ago I felt like i was on the verge of something new.


My family went to the rodeo today!! It was so much fun.. I gotta go to more of those. Seriously- this is one of the best Fourth of Julys i've had in a long time.

nothing else, really to say. I starting writing a song in my head on the way home from the rodeo. It was awesome. I forgot all but the first two lines.

I've been bored today. Yesterday I worked all day (was woken up by the sound of the agency calling me), went out to dinner with family (which took all night) and hung out at April's for an hour and a half.

So April came over last night and spent the night. We got up and went to Tower today. I bought the new Carolines cd for Joel and Rinda, because I know they probably haven't heard about it, or bought it yet, and then I bought a Mates of State cd that I don't have. My first real Mates of State cd! It's beautiful. and fun. And it has lyrics! that made my day.

So i came back here, April left to go babysit her cousins, and I sat and watched our new cable stations. I watched two hours of Surprise by Design. The guy on there is pretty cute, though he's probably gay.

All day the people building the condos were leveling the ground on the side of our house, enough to build a new condo building and ... it woke me up... and continued all day. vibrating the whole house. It was loud annoying. I was even putting away cups out of the dishwasher, and as I opened up the cupboard an sundae dish fell off the top shelf and landed on (and broke) on of my mom's dishes. blah. Stupid vibrating things.

So I was bored this afternoon and went shopping. That's a good cure for boredness. I went to Michael's craft store and bought:

-a 6x8 floating frame, for the picture below. I wanted a floating frame because one of the last days we were there the boys from that age group and I were walking out at the same time, and we were goofing around, and Carlos and another boy were picking flowers off the little bushes and giving them to me. I'd think they were done and then they'd rush up and give me another one. They were so cute... so i pressed them in one of my library books and now they're dried out, and i put them in with the picture.

-a 8x10 floating frame. I was going to get a collage-type frame but decided on this. It's going to be for pictures of Hannah and family.

-A photo box. I need to organize my photos and negatives really badly.

So that was my day. Oh so exciting. People are watching bands play right now at Cornerstone.

Steph? Do you read this? Loooook who i got to seeeeeee.

New Carolines cd. Check it out.

www.thecarolines.com

in other news: why is it only now, that I'm 20, that junior and senior high boys actually treat me like a normal person? hm?

60 hours of driving.. all you need is a discman, 12 batteries and a cd wallet of cds. And a book. So this was my rotation for the last 9 days:

Denison Marrs- World Reknown for Romance
The Party People- My, My ep
Ester Drang- Infinite Keys
Chris Staples
Cool Hand Luke- I Fought Against Myself...
Pep Squad- No Doy
Ginny Owens- Something More
Brandtson- Death and Taxes
Brandtson- Fallen Star Collection
Twothirtyeight- Matter Has a Breaking Point
All Together Separate- Unusual
Twothirtyeight- You Should Be Living
Switchfoot- The Beautiful Letdown
Switchfoot- Learning to Breathe
Aaron Sprinkle- Moontraveler
Red Animal War- Black Phantom Crusades
Copeland- Beneath the Medicine Tree
My Hotel Year- The Composition of Ending and Phrasing
Denison Marrs- Then is the New Now
Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of...
Pedro the Lion- It's Hard to Find a Friend
Trueb- So Close to Me
Cool Hand Luke- Wake Up, O Sleeper

It was a really great trip. For those of you who don't know... it was basically the youth group from my church going. I wanted to go because I couldn't go in March (Hannah was born), and I hadn't been to Mexico in a year, so I wanted to go pretty badly. I said "sure" to being a leader on the trip, but I told my mom yesterday on the phone that I hadn't really thought about what that meant.

I got assigned 3 kids and had to make sure they were where they were supposed to be when they were supposed to be there (most importantly- back into their vehicles after pit stops).

We stayed at a migrant camp daycare in Vicente (that was an orphanage last time I was there) and went a mile south of town to build a house. We did random jobs around the daycare, visited some migrant camps (passed out food). Visited the rehab center (an awesome, awesome place) a few times and went to a chapel service there and our youth pastor preached. We also went to the big orphanage across town to Sunday night service, and then a very small, small church (about 15 people) in the same tiny community where we built a lady a house. Very cool experiences, and I'm so glad the kids in my youth group got to see them. It was all kinda old news to me (i'd seen it all before), but I got to see it sort of for the first time again, because of all the kids' reactions to things.

Ester Drang's "Infinite Keys" kept me company in the van last night at 11pm. It's somehow fitting (and almost.. ironic or something) to listen to it while there's an overriding sound of 16-year-olds giggling, shrieking and blabbing in the background. It took me back to last July and that great performance at Cornerstone that got me hooked on them (and Goldenwest).

Ever have one of those moments where you just feel infinite or complete or something? When I'm sitting in a van, with music I love playing over great headphones, watching the Northern Californian mountains pass by... it's almost too much. I feel like I could take on the world and do everything I ever wanted to.

We got to the church a little after five am this morning. Now i'm sitting here at home, on the computer because I don't want to go to sleep, and I don't think I could if I tried. Gonna go to service at church.

I'm off to read everybody's blogs since I've been away for a while.