Christmas list

Is it really really nerdy if the only thing that comes to mind when I think of my christmas list is that I want a SNUGGY? I make fun of them and then I want one. Hmmm....that is rather hypocrytical of me. I don't know what this posts point is besides just saying I want a snuggy and I am fully aware that it is a little odd. Now that my confession is out.... I will go along my merry way. And know that snuggies may make you look like a priest, but are ever so practical and warm. There ya go,
Peace love and cows
B

CHRISTMAS SEASON HAS ARRIVED!

I am trying to think positively about the next 3 weeks of school. And there are a lot of postives once you start thinking them up. We are having a whole decorating party at my house on wednesday, so the old rickety house will look beautiful for the season. The party planning committee (Me and kales) is having a meeting tonight to discuss the details. I will put some pics up from the event. Actually I just lied, seeing as the power cord to my computer broke there may not be too many changes happening in the next few weeks. I got a cord from ebay, but it won't let me pay for it for some reason. Guess I will just have to win another one for 99 cents. I do like ebay all the sudden. I like how you can watch the time go down and then you have won!!! But then I found out my shipping and handling was ridiculously high due to the power cord being in Hong Kong. Whoops missed that minor detail. Mares told the news about thanksgiving and the weekend. Bittersweet is definitely how I would describe it as well. It is just weird to know she won't be here anymore. The service was honoring to who she was, but ultimately who she served and how she chose to let Christ shine through her. She was an amazing aunt and I will forever treasure the memories I have been blessed to have had with her. The Camp family is a tight knit bunch and like mares said it will be funny to bring someone into it. It is a crazy time. I have more thoughts, but I am hungry and the blood sugs are low. WHICH everyone knows means bethany is starting to shut down. Or as Kales and mo say....I am like a 5 year old child....I need enough sleep, enough food and need to get my energy out in order to function properly. And the sad part is....it's true. Anyways more things later alligators! :) Love you all.
Peace
B

Whoofta

What a weekend. I do not feel rested but i would not have missed Julie's funeral for the world. Well back to the old grind! But this time we just have 3 weeks then home! 2 weeks of regular school and 1 of finals. I love hearing all the Christmas music in all the stores and seeing the lights everywhere in town! mmmm best time of the year! Today Jodi took me to get chai and the funny thing was that there was no chai in my drink! It was just warm milk! Haha! I guess Christmas is affecting everyone! Even the baristas. It really feels like winter here! Just no snow! I cannot believe that Thanksgiving is over. Nuts. Thanksgiving was a good one this year! We went to Gma and Gpas and helped grandma make dinner. Tim and Mika came over with Elijah and Bee and I played with him non stop!!! :) But we both loved every minute of it! Then later on we went over to Darrel and Kathy's for some of Kathy's amaaaazing pies!!!! Bethany and I again played with the kids non stop! Everytime we would go to talk with everyone at the table the kids would come tug on us and ask us why we were not playing! I cannot wait to come home for Christmas! After being with everyone this weekend for the funeral I just wanted to come home! Our family is pretty lucky. Lots of Love and Laughter! The funeral went well. Bitter Sweet. Being with everyone was the best part and honoring Julie. Our family is so BIG and LOUD!!! All of the unmarried cousins were talking about how we need to make a rule book for spouses entering into the Camp family! The book would include: love to eat, talk, play games, SING! there were more too but all i know is that whoever I bring into the family will be prepared! :)

Sorry I have not posted lately.

I don't know why I haven't. I just haven't. SO here I am atleast writing something so you all know I am still here. I just finished my cooking paper that I really did not want to write, but I have learned a lot about the glorious avocado. I now know I simply like to eat them and wish to know no further information on them. I am chillin in the lib and they are putting up the tree, which smells absolutely christmas-er-ific. That was dumb...how about just amazing? Okay that works. I have just been trying to focus on school and keep my head above water lately. My room is a disaster and I feel unorganized all over the place. But I have one more paper to write before tomorrow and then I have no classes on Wed. Kinda nice. I need to write more soon, but I am headed to lunch with mares. peace.
B

Monday Monday

So Bethany hasn't written on here in awhile! But I am going to write again even though I have been the last 3 entries! I have an Econ test today and have 2 big papers due. My brain really is not here. I have no idea how I will do on any of the things I turn in. Just praying that God can help me out a little. I cannot focus. I am pretty down, but trying to look at positives. Julie is with Jesus for goodness sakes! She is smiling and laughing and feeling good! Why am I so selfish to wish she was still here?
Today we meet with our coach for track. I still do not know if I am going to run. I am thinking I will but it kinda depends on my grades.
So I was pretty upset and down yesterday and the hot water in our dorm shut off. So Jodi and I went to her boyfriend Mike's house and showered there. I was getting out of the shower and I think God knew that I need to lighten up so i step out and slide across the floor for about 5 feet! I grab onto the curtain and make all these weird noises as I am trying to balance myself! Jodi was in the bathroom too and saw it all happen and we just died laughing!!!
Tonight is bball! WootWoot! can't wait! I wish we were coming home for Thanksgiving :( but Christmas will come quick! Peace.

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What a week.

Goodness I cannot believe that it is already Sunday. This week has been... well interesting. Lots of just draining stuff! School was pretty good this week. I didn't have any tests or anything which was nice! My presentation went really really well! The class loved it! They liked how I just randomly asked a question... then chucked candy at the person that got the question right! They laughed! Even if I don't get an A on it, I am just happy that everyone in the class was at least entertained! O my gosh I forgot to tell you about the chickens!!! Bethany, Kaley, and I all have cut up chickens! Yes. We learned in class! It was pretty graphic but we all accomplished it with flying colors! When we first got the chicken in front of us we had to look inside to see if there were any organs left over inside. So all the girls are digging their hands in the middle of their chickens looking for yucky organs. I could not handle the thought of sticking my hand in there and pulling mushy stuff out! So i just grabbed my chicken by the legs and shook it upside down! The liver finally came out! I was so proud that I out smarted the system! Everyone else touched the livers, but Mary Strutz did not! Moral of the story=always shake your chickens. I', listening to country again. boop boop de doop. It was so much fun to skype with you, mom and abbie! I loved it! We won our game on Wednesday too! Bee didn't play with us because she had to go to one of her friends concerts. Today, kaley, bee, and i went to a church that was in sherwood. I really liked it! The talk was on Grace. Bethany and I bought new running shoes yesterday! much needed! Then we went to the mall where we ran into Bruce and Laurie (Kaley's parents)! They are so much fun! Then Bethany and I went into the GAP and we were not even 2 seconds in there when this really cute lady came up to me and asked if I had ever modeled. She said she works for a modeling agency and wanted me to call her on Monday to set up a 20 minute interview to see if i would be interested in making some extra money to pay for school! She said that their models have worked with lots of companys like Nike and Nordstroms. She must have been freaked out because I just stood there deer in the headlights look! Bethany had to kind of talk for me! Thank goodness she was there! I just couldn't believe that a modeling agent was talking to me! The website is modemodelsportland.com if you guys want to see what it is. I could make up to 150$ and hour which would be awesome! I am going to call the lady tomorrow and just see what is up. I am praying this through and wondering why God put this in my life right now. He has a plan! who knows if this will take me somewhere or if it was just a pick me up from him. Bee and I were pretty down shopping yesterday. Thinking of our aunt julie. Lots of prayers are heading her way. A lot of my friends are praying which helps me feel support and helps me look on the bright side. I am so happy you get to go out there mama! I am just praying that God can lift all of our family's heavy hearts. Tonight Bethany's house is having a hot dog hoe down... So that will be funny! I went to the guys basketball game in Monmouth last night. We lost : ( but it was still fun to go with my friend Steph! Last night I attempted to play video games again... but bethany was there too so we stunk together! Then they made us battle each other which i won :) but the hardest part was that we were not good at navigating our little guys so we could never find each other to shoot each other! But when we did we would just freak out and start shooting everything around us BUT the other person! We are running outside today!!!!!!! woooo! in new shoes. o it is a glorious day. We haven't ran outside for about 2 weeks! So it should feel nice! This is a long blog so I will stop writing!!!!!! LOVE YOU!

Ballin!

Woot! I got to play basketball last night and let me tell you... I MISSED IT SOOOO MUCH! Bethany basically tore it up on the court! Our team did pretty well which was encouraging! We won! My shot was off but bethany and Grace pulled us through! I got kicked in the same spot on my shin like 20 times! You forget how physical b-ball is. But I think that is part of the reason I like it! Grace and I shot around forever after the game just talking which was fun. She played in high school too.Can't wait to play again tomorrow... my calves are still sore sore sore. I feel like I am using them for the first time ever in the history of Mary! I am constantly leaning forward to try to stretch them out when I am walking but I probably look ridiculous. O well! I am really bored right now. And my phone is not working right. It doesn't get messages and I can't send them. And when I do send them the person I sent the message to doesn't get it for like a bazillion hours later. It stinks! So this is my outlet for talking right now! Since I cannot call/text anyone! Eggnog smaggity pogsnog I love eggnog! just a little rhyme for ya :) I bought some yesterday! YUUUUUM. I thought of you mama! I loved your comment Abbie how me drinking eggnog is like I am mom! Cuz it is totally true! But eggnog is de-lish... no matter what the haters say. I love it.This weekend is the first one in a long time where I don't have games to work! yipeeeee! So I think I will go to Urban Services Friday night. Which I cannot wait for! Urban Services is a group of students that go to down town Portland and serve the homeless a meal. You get to meet the people and just talk to them and show them Jesus. This week has been so good for me and my quiet times. It is funny when you make the time to focus on God you feel so refreshed. Bee and I are biking together in about an hour. Hopefully my hip feels good! We decided we aren't going to run until we have good shoes...well I better finish my homework! LOVE YOU!

SUUUUUNDAY!

Well the weekend is basically over... sad days. You work so hard to get to the weekend and then POW it flies by and you are left thinking ..."what in the world! How is it monday and why am i waking up to an alarm clock!" So i played Halo for the first time ever last night... it was interesting! I was pretty good at killing people but for some reason i could not walk straight!!! i kept getting stuck in the corners! All of the guys made me have the head set too! so i had to be the trash talker!!! needless to say i was aweful at it! i decided that when you do not grow up on video games you are horrible at them. and if you are not a boy too. that means you also are naturally bad at them! i think the guys just wanted me to play so they could laugh at me for getting stuck in corners and falling off stuff. but it was a blast anyway! Today bee and i played 2 on 2 with a couple of my friends. We dominated! not really but we won! i forgot how much you have to use your jumping muscles!!!!! o my goodness my calves are already super sore! we start our games tomorrow night so that will be fun! a whole hour of sprinting! yikes. i have a presentation due this week in British Literature. I am pulling a dad and making it really fun compared to other people's presentations. I am giving out candy!!! woot woot! hopefully no one is allergic to peanuts cuz that is the kind of candy i have! well i can't believe it's a new week tomorrow... holy bananas. peace.

I don't even know. Welcome to my life....

What a day. what a crazy day. I played 2 on 2 for the first time in a long time!!!! And let's just say it is def not cross country kind of in shape. i was dying out there, all the fast movement and sprinting. But I actually feel like I am way better than I was in high school after not playing for 6 years. i guess that is what happens when you are about 20 pounds stronger than high school. I even busted out some post moves. Dad would be proud. anyways....where to begin. I am not sure. So there has been this boy that we call "huggy boy" who gave me a hug one day after he saw me crying to mom on the phone outside the library. he saw me later and gave me a hug. Okay fine. great. that was super nice. And he was cute. so we say hi and stuff. He is super socially aware and everything so that is not a problem. He came into the gym today when i was working and I was sitting there with kales talking and we both said hi. and then I turned my back to keep talking to kales. after he left kaley reprimanded me because I am generally very cold to boys. I just am. whoops so sue me. If they want to talk to me then get my attention. Bad attitude strutz. I know. So I told her I would redeem myself and be friendly. And she left a wee bit later and when he came back in I struck up a convo. And here is another problem with being a nice girl....once I am in a convo, if they can hold a convo I will not shut it off. Does that make sense? I am just really quirky. my bad. This is all so weird. Soooooooooo anyways, we are talking and there were some major red flags that left me in shock.
Here are the facts:
a. I am pretty sure he still does not remember my name (bloop red flag)
b. He admitted that he smokes (bloop another red flag) (and disgusting)
c. He did not go to college because he knew he would party too much (say it with me....bloop another red flag)
d. He indeed did party too much (yep....red flag)
e. Got lots of DUI's
f. This is making me laugh as I write it....my life is pure comedy
g. He does not even want to stay in college at 24.....in fact has no real ambition.
h. He tried to pull the Bible study card.
i. Seriously this was probably a 10-15 minute conversation.
j. BLOOP......red flags!!! On e. g. h. and i.
k. My oh my, but I don't know where the heck all of this info came from. I never ask overly deep questions to people I have maybe talked to 2 times and said hi to once. They just came out of nowhere. Obviously he knows me super well. I am always impressed by smoking, lazy, partiying men......yep he pegged me.
l. Then later when I was down playing two on two he poked his head in to tell me that he left me his number to go to bible study on friday.
m. Not going. No way jose.
n. but I will still be nice
o. Why does this always seem to happen to me?
p. I just thought that story was hilarious. Just because it was me. but everyone....you would be proud. Welst he was oversharing....I was still attentive and nice. I wanted so badly to say....pause....do you realize what you are saying right now? do you want to restart.
q. I feel really bad for making fun. I just find humor in things. I can't help it.
r. I am trying to get to the end of the alphabet.
s. Church was AMAZING today.
okay I am done with the lettering, but church was just what i needed to hear today. I will talk more about it later when i am not:
*Hypogycemic (I really need to eat something!)
* Sarcastic
And when I have:
*My journal
* Everything sorted out in this head of mine
* More time than right now.

All in all I just needed everyone to know that story. But I did try. Kales was proud about that. I was not a cold hearted person. okay peace.
B

Rain Rain Go Away! We Have Soccer Games To Play!

So today was an interesting day so far! The stats crew were supposed to work 2 soccer games and two basketball games... well that is if the weather would have corroperated! The girls game got played through the first half then the heavens opened and all of God's rain poured down I sware!!! The poor girls were sliding around and looked like they were running in slow motion! The men's game got moved to Pacific tonight so I do not get to work that one either. But I do work the alumni girls game which i am uber excited to do!!!! I LOVE BASKETBALL!!!!!!! bethany and i are on a 3 on 3 team which will be awesome! I think we are naming our team "the coo boos." Grace (another girl on the team) and i came up with it when we were just messing around one night just being weird. I am just listening to country music and blogging... the perfect saturday! This week was a super weird week. We are supposed to take time off of running which is really hard! your whole body goes kinda bazurk when you stop! So bethany and i went on a long walk a couple days ago and just talked about life! I love my sister! and i miss my other sister : (. I have decided that coffee is not a good thing for me! every time i drink it i get really fidgety and feel like a really exciting thing is going to happen!!! I got this really cool keyboard cover off of ebay! It is keeping my keys clean and free of dust! and it is really quiet when you type on it... it definitely came from Hong Kong so i was kinda sketch on the whole thing when it came in a super small package so I thought maybe i ordered a keyboard pad for my phone on accident of something but turns out it was the right thing. I cannot wait to come home and bake and cook again! i need to cook! i guess my pumpkin that i carved got stolen last night!!!! o nooooooo!!!! poor little fella. he is most likely smashed... pumpkin soup. I sware we are re-living noah's flood right now! so much rain. O and by the way everyone my phone is losing reception all the time!!! so if i do not answer then you know why! it is being a crazy little guy. i don't know why! so sorry mom!!!! i really needed to talk to you too! poo. okay looks like i am working both bball games tonight. more mulah i guess! love you!

Some more fans....this is a big week

There is good news today. I am going to have more readers here pretty soon. Kaley has a blog and alex wanted my blog. So another 2 people are going to read it. I think that is an increase of about 50%. I am a happy camper. So maybe this will make me do more creative things on my blog....or maybe not. Why change? I like my blog the way it is. Hmmm....this week has been uneventful with not much homework and no cross. It is always wonderful to be off of cross the first few days and then I go kind of stir crazy. I posted some Christmas songs!!! I figured it was time, even if it is only early november....I had to just give in to the premature christmas spirit and channel it into some medium! Which turns out is my christmas playlist of amazingness. wooo hoo. Soon my ornaments will be here with the tryans. AND my knitting stuff. It is indeed the most wonderful time of the year. Only our house is I think below freezing. and it may be falling a part. Pretty sure any day now it is just going to collapse to the ground and I am sure the neighborhood would be happy it happened. We think our neighbors hate us. I don't know why they would. Okay I don't know where I was going with that. The Africa tea night crew helped make signs for Mo because yesterday was her last night of clinicals. And we blew up a bunch of balloons and put faces on them and stuff. Africa tea night is the best night of the week. (that was for you alex) If I don't mention my readers...they may never come back! :( I will have the pictures posted once I figure out why my computer won't download them from my camera. ugh. dumb. My brain feels sizzled from homework and staring at a compy in the overly quiet library for too many hours. So alas, this is the end of my boring post. I need to go on a long adventure so you all can read about it. Ideal plan for this weekend: Go on an adventure
Actual plan for the weekend: do homework and roll volleyballs
That just made me want to quite school and take a road trip. No worries that won't happen. Or will it....guess everyone has to keep reading to find out! :)
peace
B

CRASH!!!

Welcome to today. I call it crash day. What else I am going to break is a mystery, but so far I have broken my mugs handle and dropped a whole bunch of plates. I shall start from the beginning of this story. I was at lunch today when the first incident happened to me. Kaley and Chris were walking up to the table and I was real excited to see them and went to wave and say hi. Even though they were literally 2 feet from the table. So the why I waved will forever remain a mystery, but I do it every time people walk up. And this was a really big wave. What the heck was I doing. I digress, so anyways I do this huge overexaggerated wave type thing and end up knocking over my favorite glass (that is until my one kaley gave me comes this week) and the handle just popped right off. A clean break...so I suppose I can fix it. Okay keep with me now. This story does have a point. Or maybe not, but you have already read this far and now you are curious so you will keep reading! :) At the end of lunch in the bruins den, which is not the cafeteria for those of you who did not know. I have to take my plates back into the bon and we do not have trays anymore, so I was going in and sort of balancing my plates on top of my broken cup (b/c tea is a must) and as I went to grab my card the whole thing started to wobble. I kept overcorrecting myself. And I am not positive, but I think God hit the slow motion button on that moment for his own entertainment. Because wow it seeemed to last forever and I know what was coming, but you hate to admit it to yourself in those 5-10 seconds of cliff hanging horror. Oh man I wish you could have seen the ladies face when it happened. You would think she would have some crazy helpful concerned expression since I could potentially be spilling a plate with looked super miffed. I'm sorry the bon doesn't have plates anymore. They really should just for people like me who can't quite figure out what balance it apparently. Okay wow. So I turned my body to the side so my bobbling plates could come crashing to the ground where no one was. I act like I planned it, when in reality I was lucky. No one was in the hallway leading out, but they toppled to the ground with a loud crash. super loud crash. Like kaley said she could here it clean across into the bruins den and everyone looked over to see where the noise came from. But they couldn't see me. Only the people in the bon. Who all looked over and then this kid ninja, who is kind of this crazy kid everyone knows all over campus...he stands up and is like...woooo....and starts to slow clap. I got the slow clap today. and some other people cheered. And I pumped my arms in the air in victory. Because it is hilarious. i live for these moments. And then I picked up all the pieces with people walking in and saying... Ohhhhhhh.....yep I know people I spilled my plates everywhere you can laugh. I am laughing. And that is the whole story, so what else can I break? Who knows. But glass things and fragiel things should watch out! Alright clumsy me is going to a xc meeting where coach is going to probably tell us what he did wrong and then I am going to get all sad. And I will tell you about it. :( okay peace.
B

GOING BLOG WILD!!!

I have officially gotten kaley started on blogging. We may get a little carried away with trying to start different blogs for stuff. We were thinking about starting one for a group of us. Well, actually it is just Liz, mo, kales and I. Who were talking last night and decided we are going to do fruit of the spirits every month. Because last night we all had stories about patience and about how we are all being tried right now in that area. So i do not know what we are going to do with it. But maybe we could do a bible study and stuff. that is how I found that quote website. I was looking for patience quotes. Anyways. so kales and i were talking and think we could start a blog for us four or something...I am not sure if you can even do that. I need to ask abbie. And then we will all be authors and hopefully we can go online throughout the day and post things that are happening or verses or whatever. I could see me and kaley being really into it though. So we would just have to get the other girls stoked too. it could be a really cool tool if we used it. Liz was just talking the other day about how our house is not super community feeling yet, but I think we just all had to get used to living together and I think we will have an amazing comunity feeling once we do little things like this. I hope so anyways. Everything is going great in the house and I feel blessed to have fun people to live with!!! Anyways. Just thought I would tell you that. Don't know why. I just get on here and write whatever lately. Love you all! peace
B

I liked this one. I found it on that sight I found last night!

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Maryanne Williamson

quotes

I found this tonight when I was looking up quotes. And they had a blog part, which I was stoked about because I have been looking for things to put on my blog!!! So I will put somemore on there. It was getting kind of late, so I figured I should go to bed. but here are some! :) nighty night.

BEDAZZLED BABEROCKERS

So my pictures may be confusing people....they were from Halloween and I will explain in this post. Ya know yesterday was an odd sort of day. Starting out with an awful race followed by one of the funnest nights I have had in a long time. So on Friday night kaley and I decided that it would be fun to go to our friend from africa, chris nicholsons, band's concert. It was at the hawthorne theater and we thought it would be a different way to spend halloween then just in newberg. mo and I we going to dress up like skittles, but then changes in plans meant that we were lucky enought to have kaley for the night too!!! I don't know how we do it, but we all end up having our "plans" work out perfectly. But maybe that is because our plans are moldable, last minute and we don't have any set way we think things will go. Which is just the way I like it. Oh yeah and mo decided she was not going to skip halloween for a clinical she could do the next week. So I told kales that I wanted to be a rock star because I just got my hair cut and I wanted to make it all crazy since it was so short. and thus began the emergence of something great. The "Bedazzled BabeRockers" The name may not seem like much, but it took us forever to come up with. So then kaley found a site where we could find our "rocker names" So here they are:
Kaley: Bella Volt (On Guitar)
Molly: Hillary Jett (On Keyboard)
Me: Nina Fox (On Drums)
So there you have it. The rock band. Basically being a rock star is easy.
Step 1: Get all the random stuff you possibly can
Step 2: It must be brightly colored and rediculous
Step 3: Put a bunch of sequins on things
Step 4: Come up with a rockin band name
Step 5: Make your hair crazy
Step 6: Get undersized instruments from the dollar store
Step 7: Put all of this together
Step 8: Make up rocker names
Step 9: YOu are a LEGIT BAND!!!! ROCK ON!!!!!
Step 10: You can't be a rock band alone. I forgot to say you have to have friends with the same dream and aspirations of being a rock band and hopefully making it big time.
That was my tutorial on how to step by step make a rock band. hope it helps. As you can see we were first timers, but I think we pulled it off fairly well. :)
The concert was great. We had some doubts once we were in downtown portland and saw all the people around, but we made it there alright and nothing happened! We got all lost, but that usually happens, so no biggy. Our friends Alex and Jack and another guy alex knows from billings ended up coming to the concert too. So we ended up going to get coffee afterwards. Overall a superb halloween night. We saw a ton of crazy people all over portland though. Kaley and I were talking about how sad it is that so many people think they have to do certain things to be "cool". It was just really sad to watch girls walk by in barely any clothes and when we were driving we saw a man being tackled by police because he was boligerantly drunk. I mean with just our normal selves and our friends. I just wish other people could do the same. :( Anyways that was a sad part of the night. But I was glad we went to the concert. And decided to be a ROCK BAND!!! Anyways I better clean up the gym. And yes I did cut my hair. And I posted those pics so you could see it mom! :) Love you all.
peace
B