Squeeling Sausage

Friday was a crazy day. Found myself lost and everywhere at the same time. Got a new haircut which I'm happy about:) (Sorry Yo didn't get to tell you yet!) I'll have to get a picture for ya. I also lost my breath chasing lil Lucy around. Cheryl and I. I LOVE LUCY SO MUCH! Most freakin' adorable lil cutie in the world. Lucy's only 2 and she already knows how to flirt with them guys. Sheesh. She made friends with a young couple who were sitting next to us in Zellers lol.
My first youth night with CCC also. Cheryl joined me. Again! She's my partner in crime. We played Dodge Ball (I can't throw) and hockey (I scored 2!!!!) and had a "fire circle" in the middle of Glendale gym. Loved it! This Friday we're having a games night at DOT CHINNERS! Cool name huh? I like it. They got a pool table and everything. Maybe there'll be a dart board. Challenge the guys. I played them darts on Tuesday, I actually won! Woot woot, take that boys.
Bruce and Darlene were nice enough to stay in with us til we were done with our youth night!!! Then we rolled into Nemiah about midnight.
My weekend.. or lets say Saturday was spent in Nemiah. My late aunty Angelina's headstone memorial was held at the "OK Carrall" (when they told me where it was goin to be I was like "whaa?.. an outside event!?" but it's the OLD dance hall so...). I spent my morning cooking and chopping a whole lot of veggies. Have you heard a sausage squeel before? One's that I have cooked did. They really did squeel lol. Weird. Rita made fun of me for it.
Another thing, I got to skin a deer's leg! Cheryl was my witness.. or Sidekick more like it. Uncle Wade coached us through it.

Sunday, I stepped into the doors and saw the Radneys standing right in front of me @ church!!! A sweet surprise, saw Eddie 'n his friends at church too. This Sunday was Multi-cultural Lunch... lotsa food!! Lill and Lucy 'n the baby came, Lucy woo-ed everyone there as well.
Monday we had women's bible study- mary came! And Mojo did too! (We call MaryJane, Mojo. She's our grammy). It was an incredible night. I felt a lil unqualified leading a study about "serving God in marriage". lol yea it was interesting. I learnt a lot.
Tuesday, Halloween was spent at "uncle and aunty" Dan and Marilyns". We were goin to hand out candy and tracks. Tracks were forgotten though and kids went without it. Then we played some games, filled out tummys with caramel popcorn, chicken chilly and pooped myself out on scrapbooking. I only made one card lol!
Before this I was at Mary 'n Randy's. Checked out their new place! Cute lil house on big piece of land. Next time I go over I get the grand tour of their place, yeehaaww!!

K, 'nuff said!!! Me 'n my sidekick got to catch the transit home. We're expecting our mum 'n dad laters!

Cake, candles, presents... it's a PAR-TAY!!!

*Total blackness................................

quietness settles.........

rustling sounds in the distance........

a glowing light appears in the darkness...

it starts to get brighter...... and brighter...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RENEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RENEEEEEEEE!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!
WAHOOOO!

OCTOBER 25th... a very special day for a very special girl indeeeeeed!!!

This is a bit late, but I just wanted to let everyone KNOW about this amazing girl I'm living with! Renee is her name, and below is a picture of her in all her awesomeness 'n craziness!


Hahaha! THIS crazy beautiful lady turned "a ripe old age" of 20!... as my sis Jo would say. She's ONLY half way to 40! WELCOME TO THE 20TH CENTURY!!!... as our other roomie Angela would put it... nice Ang! Or was that YOU Renee??? Hehe.

Anyway, I would like to INTRODUCE you to Renee in ALL her glory 'n fame with some GREEEEAAAAATTTTTT pictures of her... they're quite hilarious, they're definately my favourite portraits of her, heheheh! :P

But FIRST off... here's an acronym I made of Renee's name:

RAMBUNCTIOUS
ENERGETIC
NEVER STOPS TALKING
ELAGENT WITH A HIPPIE TWIST 'N STYLE
EASY TO LAUGH WITH... OR ABOUT :p hehe!

KICK ASS AWESOME LIKE A POSSUM!
UNIQUE IN EVERY WAY
YOUTHFUL... centuries ago ;) hehe! JK!
VERY,WITHOUT A DOUBT, CRAZY 'N WEIRD!
EXPECTANT MOTHER (according to her dreams)... hmmm???
NEVER WITHOUT A GUY ;)
HOTTIE TAMOLIE BEAUTIFULNESS! (no wonder the guys are always flocking towards her! Sheesh Renee... give the rest of the other girls a chance! :P hehe)
OUTRAGEOUS SMILE :)
VERY ADVENTUROUS
EXTRA-ORDINARY!
NAMED THE “HUMAN HORMONE”, PIMPETTE (how’s business?), AND MANY OTHER CRAZY NICKNAMES!

And NOW… here are the SPECTACULAR self portraits of the one and only…

Awww... Renee and her little beaver friend! Poor little beaver got kidnapped from our front door... we were all very sad, but especially Renee. Some beaver knapper better watch out! Renee's out on the LOOK OUT... and IF he comes back he's gonna get a good licken by Renee!!! She's got security camera's up and EVERYTHING... the whole nine yards!!! Watch out beaver knapper... we'll get you! Argggg! Grrrrr... hehe!

Hahahahahahahahahah! I a b s o l u t e l y LOVE this picture, hhahahahha!!!!!!!!! It's hilarious! This is a "warped", heheh... picture of Renee... *ahem* but we all know that's how she actually looks *ahem* HAHAH, kidding Renee! I love you! And I'm really guessing your sister Nicole does too, hahah... because SHE'S the one who warped this picture of you, hahah... nice one Nicole! But this picture cracks me up EVERY time I look at it, hahah... it always makes my day! :D We love you Renee, we really do!!!

And YESSSS... my all time favourite!... T H E....
DUCKY FACE'D RENEE!!! *drum roll* hahah! This is such a CUTE picture of Renee!!! It definately reminds me of those small yellow bathtub duckies that kids play with when they're taking a bath! I love it!!! Hahahaha! *Sigh* It's sooooo awesome like a possum... JUST like Renee!!!

So there you go peep’s… Renee Kuyvenhoven! Well… NOT quite! We can’t forget the A M A Z I N G girls she lives with every day!!! Angela ‘n myself of course!!! :P hehe! The three of us have had some great times together! Although… I can’t believe what they did to me on our first trip to superstore :O!!! But that’s what makes Renee ‘n Angela so crazily amazing! They have definitely showed me how much more fun it is to be adventurous in life! Especially RENEE… her and her poss-E of scooter guys… they’ve got a gang going on, watch out! Stay off the road when Renee’s driving! Hehe, kidding… but yes, Ang ‘n I get a lot of excitement out of this lady ‘n her roaring “business” and everything that comes along in that pure ball of joy!


So helloooo this is US! Angela, Renee ‘n myself (Yo).


Renee adding a little bit more sillyness… as usual! hehe


And we CANNOT forget about the guys! Kale and Andrew with Renee…

Completing the the triangle of musketeerism or the three musketeers ‘n the three stooges!!!

Where would Kale ‘n Andrew BE without this amazing girl!?!? Hahah!

Where would ANG ‘n ME be without her!?!?

She’s definitely a big part of all of our lives… INDEED!!!

WE love you Renee!

All of us give a big SHOUT OUT to you, for it was your birthday ‘n what a very special day that was indeed!

You have truly been a spectacular room-mate ‘n I’m so glad to be living here with you! You have always brightened up my day in one way or another with your witty ways ‘n comments. Your “lack” of words, hahah, is outstanding! I love laughing with you ‘n Ang ‘n talking late into the night! I enjoy your adventurous spirit and zest for life! It’s going to be a great year with all three of us, getting to know one another better and making more fun, crazy memories together!

THANKS FOR BEING YOU… I couldn’t ask for anything more!

Love ya crazy lady!

XOXOXOXOXO

And one last time....

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY RENEE!!!!!!!!

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Hahahahaha... WOW!

I can't believe how much this quote speaks to me Jojo! That's TOTALLY the EXACT feeling I'm at right now... I honestly feel I have seriously come to the end of my rope, and God's telling me to tie a rope and hang on, to have patience and let HIM guide me through my life. WOW!

Hahahahah! That's unbelievable! :O

So today I was supposed to go to this job training in Chilliwack for this "sketchy" guy (as my room-mates 'n friends would say), but when I was driving there... something was just... not right. I drove as far as the No.3 exit and stopped on the side of the road... I had earlier been praying to God and was asking for confirmation on this job, and he whispered to me "no"... and everything in my heart told me no as well... so there I was on the side of the road, I only had 5 minutes to get to the training, and all the uncertainty in the world was racing through my head... "what should I do?... this job is totally far fetched from my career direction... are my friends right about this job? about the sketchy job, boss and everything?... not to mention the work I had to do in order to find out everything about this job, because the employers were too VAGUE on their job details and basically told me nothing about the job, said I was hired and to come in asap for training... hmmm? Something totally sketchy about that... not to mention the uncomfortableness of the MEN working there, and how awkward everything seemed there... my spirit was uneasy with everything... " So there I was this morning, on the side of the road, debating my brains out on whether or not it was worth it to drive all the way to Chilliwack and NOT like the job... so I didn't... I phoned the dude and told him it wasn't going to work out, and not surprisingly he was was just like "okay!" but was all cool about it... hmmmm? *Dials police number* hahah, kidding!

So everyone out there, if your wondering what the job was... I found ALL this out AFTER I got hired because I had to phone in and ask direct questions to get my answers... sheesh! The advertisement was very vague on the job details and it didn't even state where the job was, which I found out was in Chilliwack! But they were very sneeky in making the advertisement make the job sound appealing... "wow! Our business is growing so fast, blah blah blah blah!" I'm such a sucker... I fell for it, stupid me. NOT again mister! Anyway, they're basically a Startech company, selling an indoor air quality product which replaces vacuums... my position was Set-up and Display 'n talk to people? And to be an assistant to this employer dude... no thanks man, you're a little sketchy! Anyhoo, the job supposedly pays $16-25/hr, but it all depends on the 72 appointments and other stuff... I seriously don't think they pay you that much money, but who knows. And the job is a 7 day job... weekdays from 1pm-9pm and weekends from 11am-7pm... and they don't have benefits, you need your own vehicle (I'm not sure if they even pay for your gas to drive from appt. to appt... and whether or not the job is only in Chilliwack or throughout the lower mainland or what)... so all in all, I advise anyone and everyone NOT to fall for this kind of job, but that's just my opinion. It's a sketchy job atmosphere, they're very vague on their details, and my internal warning signs are popping up everywhere! So yeah...

ANYMOO, after phoning the guy telling him I wasn't interested... I drove across the bridge on the No.3 road and kept driving until I came to this park... it was really small but secluded... so I just parked, shut off my jeep and sat there... I looked across to the river and all but hopelessness flooded through my mind... I came to a point... "the end of the rope" so to speak... and felt like... I just felt hopeless, tired, discouraged, but yet content and peaceful... I knew I made the right decision, but I just wanted to cry... And I knew God was telling me to be patient and to let him provide the job for me, and right then I was just at the point where I was like "OKAY GOD! I get it! I'm sorry for not obeying you... please help me. I want to be obedient so I'm going to wait and trust that you will work everything out or that you already have plans set out for me..." and you know what? I still felt content and peaceful about it all... but I honestly think that a part of me was still fearful for some reason... so I sat there and started thinking and praying... afterwards, I just ended up calling my mentor Kris and told her all about it... hahahah, she sounded surprised to hear my voice because it was 10am, and she knew I was going to be at training... so it was kind of funny, but I just needed to talk to someone and ask for confirmation on my decision... she basically told me that it was my choice, but she did warn me and gave me her opinion on it... then she told me that her husband Dan was totally against the whole thing... and he's a business man, he knows! So after hearing that, I was happy about my decision and knew that it was the right thing to do.

So yeah, I came home and hahahah, my room-mates were wondering why I was back so quickly... I told them the whole deal and they were kind of confused, because I know they both said to just go and check it out, but my heart was telling me otherwise... which is ironic, because when I FIRST told them about the job, they both were totally against it and told me it was too sketchy and that I shouldn't go, so talk about confusing! Ahhgh! But I told them about my experience and talk with God, and then they both understood... hmmmm?

But right now I'm kind of discouraged because I phoned the Horse Farm that was advertised in the newspaper, and they didn't have their job position available anymore! :( *cry* haha, kidding... I was REALLY interested in that job too! I should've phoned them earlier! O'well... what can ya do! They have my name anyway, just in case another position opens, so that's cool. But I honestly would've LOVED that job... feeding horses, turning them out, cleaning stalls, working tractors and doing all that ranch kind of stuff... something I would LOVE to do, because funny enough, that kind of work brings me joy. It's HARD work, but from working on the ranch this summer, I can handle it! Soooo... hopefully another opportunity like that pops up! *crossing my fingers!* hahaha!

So that's that.

Hey Jojo Riley! Doesn't this quote fit me... "The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground". hahaha, kind of parallels my nickname from this summer... "stands with a fist", hahahahahahah! I stand my ground, that's for sure... chef Dave made that clear... only the "greatest oak" part makes me sound Oooooollllldddddd, hehe. I'm not old! And don't tease me about OLD men Jo! Pfft! :P Hahahah! And "once a little nut"... HAHAHAHAHAHA... I can be nutty sometimes, hahaha! Okay! sheesh! Enough analyzing! Maybe relating to this quote wasn't such a good idea, hahah! *ahem* But it sure made me laugh! :D

Well anymoo, all I have to do right now is "tie a knot and hang on!" Because honestly, that's ALL I can do right now. Obedience is key in a relationship with God, and he sure made that clear today, and so here I am, being obedient to His will for my life, and letting HIM lead me in His footsteps... I can't do it on my own, it doesn't lead anywhere, and if it does, it's not where God want's me to be. So here I am. God is here. I'm waiting. I'm trying to be patient. And I'm feeling content and peaceful with everything.......

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Anyone got a magazine?........

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Waiting.

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Key word: Obedience.

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hehe.


How about some COW pictures!?? Let's looky!



Hahahaha! Eat more Chicken!... sorry cows... "BEEF! It's what's for dinner!" :O

My steps in line with His.

Lately it's been meandering, going this way and that way, and sometimes I feel like I can't even help where my steps take to!
Me 'n Yo are walking that same path, trying to remain in God's will, she's on the other side of the mountain and I'm here... feeling the same as Yo does.
Think I feel... drugged by the idols in the world. I've become numb to... Lord's presence and His voice leading in my life. (lol if the recent doesn't make sense to you, I'll re-phrase it... in regards to "being drugged by idols and numb to Lord's guiding in my life"... things in this world been taking priority in my life, I've let temptations sweep me down it's rivers and I have not let my Lord be the center of my heart, not let Him be my focus in prayer and my everyday activities. Sorry if I speak in riddles.) At the same time I feel I am in His hands and He knows that when I feel like there's NO ENERGY to press into Him, He will pour His Spirit of strength in me.
He assures me of that anyway. Especially lately.

My Sustainer.
That's who He tells me that He is to me.

This sounds so familiar to me, "Perseverance is not a long race, it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, in The Spiritual Life". Tracey just encouraged me of this today, but in her own words. Hattie was reading to her about how we always long for a break from trials/problems/tough times, but they're never really over because when you get out of one, there's always another that comes up!

But

we are always made stronger by each trouble we go through. God's not concerned about our comfort but only our character.

In my frustrations I been asking God to remind me of who He's been to me and how I can keep ploughing on. Since I first said YES to Jesus, even before, He's reminded me that He's sustained me, He's built up in me a hope that gives birth to an abundent life. And He's blessed me so much, more than I know. Guys... I couldn't have had the great life that I have if it weren't for my trusting in Jesus. His Holy Spirit that has been poured into me has counselled me through it all. Even when I didn't want to listen to Him. He cares when I don't care.

I dance with you Yo, I want to give my praises of thankfulness to.

I'm beat down a lot. But the Spirit in me keeps pulling me up, this Spirit tells me I live for more than just myself, that I'm a part of the great plan the Lord is designing for all of our lives, that He is still the One who pulls me up and brings my feet to dance and my lips to sing.

So I keep my step in line with His. With Jesus. Because my focus sets my reality. My steps I take a day at a time.

I'm here in Williams Lake and I know God is writing an amazing story. He's made history, He's written every moment of it, and He writes each moment now and in the future.

In this story, He tells me through many things, take hope. Don't give up. Lord's faithfulness shall lift us up as on eagle's wings.

He reminds me through His Word, the Bible,

reminds me through people, they don't even have to say anything to me,

reminds me through all nature, they sing louder than any words can, they been designed and created by the One who never fails to bring them from one season to the next,

reminds me through His Spirit alive in me, for greater is He who is in me than He who is in the world,

everyday in whatever way God desires to show His love, He shows it.

... my words ran off with me, ha. Yesterday I had an interview at Boston Pizza for a server/hostess/food bringer-outer, I think it went well, I hope Lance (the Manager) thought it went well as well! The assistant manager goes to me church, I just found out! so maybe I got a chance. My cover letter is still in progress of being written for the fisheries job. I pray that job is still available. I just talked to Jr so sounds like it is;)

Here's some quotes. On perseverance. Yep I'll finish with this. There always fun to think about.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.

~Author Unknown

Perseverance is the hard work you do

after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

~Newt Gingrich

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

~J.G. Holland

Aight, chooow for now!
~Jo Binx

LOL, wow Yo, you're on the roll! I gotta ketchup with ya. I haven't really had any words put in for awhile! Even on my own blog.

Love ya!

"Chicken Caesar!"... penguin dance!

This is what I felt like yesterday and somewhat today, ahhhgh! Which is ironic, because I shouldn't be feeling like that... I should be jumping for joy or something! But... that's not really the case.

To sum it all up briefly, I went out last week handing out resumes for some jobs... well... Reitmans (clothing store), Startech (this indoor air quality place in Chilliwack), Starbucks 'n a travel agency (Charlesons company) ALL called me back for interviews! Which should be great right?! But they were ALL on one day, which was yesterday... bahh! So yesterday I was running from one place to the next like a chicken with my head cut off! So by time I was at Accountability group at Jan's house, I was sooo wiped out!

And the thing was, was that neither of the jobs appeal to me... more so the travel agency than the rest, but I'm just not excited to get either one, which is bad I know... but I think what it all comes down to, is that I'm just frustrated with settling for less in my life, and I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT! Especially with all these jobs, which are all great, it's just that they're not really jobs that will bring me any closer to my career, besides the travel agency job (transition job)... so right now I'm a little flustered and don't know what to do... they all basically called me back and told me I have the jobs... which is funny, because I walked out of ALL of those interviews feeling like "why would they choose me, I'm such a failure" and really feeling like I didn't do well... but then when I got the jobs or got asked to come in for a second interview... I'm just not as excited as I should be, and I'm frustrated because of it! All I want right now is a job, hopefully something in my career direction, which is TOURISM-Travel and/or Ranching business... so I'm in quite a pickle right now! I don't know whether or not to just suck it up and get a good paying job (NOT in my career) or to be patient and WAIT for another opportunity for a job in my career... and right now I'm really desperate, but then I don't want to be, because I want to be where God want's me in the job world... and I don't want money or finances to be the only goal in getting a job, especially a good paying job... but in all respects, that's what all jobs are. BUT all I want is a job in my career that I can really enjoy going to and a job that will give me more experience in the Tourism-travel/ ranching business areas... AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I'm going crazy! :(

So all in all, I'm honestly thinking of just being patient and waiting for a job opportunity in my career area, and PRAYING TO GOD that it will all work out and that He will provide for me!!! Because right now I'm just at the point where I just want a job, get by on paying bills and just suck it up... *sigh*

God? Please help me and direct me.

I'm in great need of a job and I don't feel comfortable

with taking these job opportunities before me...

it just doesn't feel right. But I don't know what to do.

I feel as if it's hopeless to find a job in my career area

and it's really frustrating to me.

Please help me! I'm lost and I need your guidance.

Please let it all work out for the better.

Help me not to be tempted by the world into thinking

that all I want a job for is money, which isn't true,

but my flesh is telling me otherwise.

My heart is sad and beaten down...

please lift my spirits Lord, help me to have confidence,

to have strength and courage,

and help me to stand up for myself...

I feel so weak right now and I know I've been beaten down,

but help me to stand strong and

high with you as my foundation.

Lord, be rid of the temptations in my heart

and give me a peaceful mind, heart, and soul.

me to have faith and trust in you,

knowing that you are preparing the right job for me right now.

Thank you Lord, for you are my provider

and you hold me up when I stumble.

Thank you for protecting me with

giving me such protective friends

and room-mates, and especially my family.

Thank you for being here with me,

especially when I feel alone and abandoned.

May you continue to restore my faith in you

and help me to walk in your will for my life,

may I not be led astray by anyone or anything,

but help my eyes to be focused on only you

and what YOU have for my life, not ME.

Thank you Lord. Be with my family today...

my parents and brothers in Nemiah

and my sister and brother in Williams Lake.

I miss them all so much!

Protect them always and guide their footsteps

to be in line with yours.

May you continue to unite us as a family of God,

help us to be strong and faithful to one another,

but especially towards you Lord.

Thank you for providing for my family

and thank you for everyone who is praying for us.

I can't thank you enough Lord!

Bless us all indeed today

and throughout the rest of our lives.

Bless all our friends and their families,

protect them and be with them always.

Protect our G.R.I.T.S youth at Grace church.

Be with them as they are in school,

as they live in their homes,

and wherever they are,

may you always have your angels,

an army of angels, by their sides.

May they never feel alone, trusting and knowing

that you are always with them no matter what.

Hold and comfort them when they are in pain,

and praise with them when they are happy

and joyful.

May your spirit guide them and keep them.

May you never leave them in the dark,

but may you always shine your light upon them

to show them the way home.

And may they always feel your LOVE upon them

wherever they are in their walk with you,

because Lord,

You love each and every one of them.

Thank you Lord.

Amen!

*sigh* Thank you God for everything! I love how prayer just makes everything so much better!

"When in doubt, moo before the cow does!"- Yo.A.Wm

Feeling like a cow today.

Hahaha... so yeah, today was my cow day, hehe! I didn't do a whole lot... slept in until almost 10am... slept for 12 hours last night!!! Wow, I was SO incredibly tired last night, hahaha... some guy friends were over (Kale 'n Andrew) and we were all just hanging out... us girls were taking care of Kale because he hurt himself in soccer, so now he's walking on crutches :S And his ankle is pretty bruised... so because he was koop'd in his house all day, we brought him over to our apt, hehe. We were going to go on an adventure last night, but Angela took some T3's and was a total gonner by time supper rolled around, and then all of a sudden I got bonked with fatiguenessness... I felt like jelly pudding, drag'd my ass off the couch and helped Ang cook some weird fried rice supper... it had :S tofu :S in it, but it actually tasted alright... surprisingly! And I thought that that was the reason I was such a zombie 'n feeling lathargic, because I didn't have food in my bellayyyyyyyy... BUTT... I felt even MORE so tired... I was basically sid the sloth onthe couch... slowly but surely falling fast asleep... I felt bad for the guys because I was just so quite and boring, hahahhaha... but i couldn't help myself... I was so STINKING TIRED!!! I could barely keep my eyes open and it was only 8:30-9pm... then I slowly inched my way to the room, snail style... and hahahahha... wow, embarassing!... When I got in the washroom and did my deed, I noticed my zipper was down!!! :O And I know Kale saw me because when I got off the couch he looked and me and quickly looked away, and I didn't even notice... then in the washroom I was like :O!!! But I was so incredibly tired I didn't care then,... but now, hahahahaha... I feel quite embarrassed... I was flying pretty LOW there! :S Hehe. But yeah, I woke up this morning and cleaned up our kitchen... we forgot to clean last night after dinner, and our stove was covered with random rice lying around, hahhha... it was quite funny actually! It looked like a bunch of chinaman raided our kitchen... chinese love rice, so there ya go! I just giggled to myself and continued cleaning... then Renee 'n Ashley (her friend from CBC) came back from somewhere and helped me clean up... and then Renee made some coffee (which ironically I wasn't craving so much this morning, neither yesterday morning... but I think that THAT is why I was so tired yesterday... I didn't have coffee that morning and I was a zombie by 8pm, heheh!) But yeah, Renee invited the guys (Rhett 'n Derek) from downstairs... they go to CBC as well... for some coffee and then we all watched Seinfeld (what a funny guy!!! I've never seen his comedy shows before, he's pretty good that guy!) and then yeah, pretty much the whole day today I did absolutely and annoyingly!!!.... NOTHING. I was so bored! I made random phone calls to people, hehe. And sat at the kitchen table. Had some scotch mints. cleaned s'more. had lunch (leftovers from last night, hehe). clean'd s'more. took a shower. made more random phone calls... hopefully those people won't think I'm stalking them? :S hehe. and yeah, basically did nothing ALL STINKING DAY! More of Renee's guy friends came over today... guys from QUEST... Luke, Justin, Craig, and yeah. And then I lugged my stuff from the jeep into the apt... my photo boxes and such... they were still in there since I came back from Abby... a week ago or so, hahah! I'm lazy, I know... hehe. But that involved some unneccassary language on my part... things kept TICKING ME OFF! teehee. But then I cooled down, took a shower, and persisted to do NOTHING. Yep... I accomplished A LOT today, hahahha! Oh, BUT I did do laundry... that's an accoomplishment... I had no more clean clothes! What the flip! hehe.

My room-mates are gone right now... Angela is in Calgary for soccer... and Renee is at work until 1am... she works at Afterthoughts, the best cheesecake place in town! Hehe. Hehe. Hehe. Hahahah, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Boredom settling innnnn! I'm seriously going CRAZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! *eyes pop out* whoops! Get back in!!! *eyes dangle... na na na na na naaaaaa, you can't catch us!* Ahhhhhhh! *Runs around apt running into walls, trips over couches 'n shoes, slams face into sliding door, stubs my toe "Eayaayaayaaayaaaaa oooooooo eerrrrrrr grrrrrr!!!", stumbles over feet, trips on carpet, get's carpet burn on face... peels face off the ground, hunched back, walks awkwardly around 'n finally calms down.................................. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Okay, so I'm REALLY bored, hehe! Anyway, I was feeling a little sad earlier on so I went and checked out Jojo's blog, read the ones from awhile back, LAUGHED lots... heheh, Jo's blog always cheers me up... hahaha, especially the ones where she falls over! HahHAHAHAHH!!! Wooooooooooo!!! FUnny!!! But it also made me sad because it shows me how much I miss my Jojo... I miss our talks, our laughter, making fun of her, hehee... clinging onto her like a leech (my way of showing LOVE, hehe!), ..... I miss you Jo. :( I really miss you!!! I wish you could be here with me :D But hopefully SOON enough! Until then my awesome lovely sis, I miss you, love you and thinking of you......... falling over, ahahahah!!! Kidding :P Love ya Jojo Riley!

Happy 21st BIRTHDAY to ME (Yo)!!!

So heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy theeeerrrre...

Just showing ya'll some pics of my birthday shindig in Vancouver 'n Abby!

SEPTEMBER 25th!!!

A very special day indeed!!!

So here ya go... ENJOY!!!

These are the lovely ladies that joined me on an awesome sunny

Saturday trip to Vancouver just a few days before my birthday.

(from right to left) Alissa, Jen, me, Sarah 'n Kory!

Alissa 'n me (college buddies!)

Kory 'n Sarah
(highschool buddies back in the day!)

Alissa 'n Jen

Haha... I have no clue who this crazy lady is! :P

Jenny 'n me (bestfriends forever!)

*And now the next handful of pictures are taken on the day of my birthday... my room-mates

Angela 'n Renee along with two friends took me to Afterthoughts... we had lots of fun!*

Andrew, Kale, Renee, Me 'n Angela!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you

Happy birthday dear Yo 'n Kale

Happy birthday to you!!!

Happy 21st Birthday to US... Me 'n Kale (although Kale's

birthday was earlier in the year, we both decided to

celebrate it together because he didn't

quite get a b-day party!)

Me 'n my awesome like possum's roomies!

ANGELA, RENEE, 'N MOI

Here we are again... I know, I know... you

just can't get enough of us beautifuls! ;) hehe :P

Hahaha... more pics of my WACKO room-mates

I live with these girls!

SAAAAVVVEEEE MEEEEE... hehe! :D Kidding.

:O Ahhhhhhh! hehe

I love these girls to death... they are so adventurous,

funny, amazing, silly, weird 'n cool!

The three stooges!

Kale, Renee 'n Andrew

Being silly... as usual! :P

Dear Kale,

Happy 21st Birthday!

From Renee

Yeahhhhhh... so this is a glimpse of what happened during my birthday! It was a very memorable one that's for sure and very special... THANK YOU to all those involved! Or not... thank you anyways... it was the best birthday anyone could ask for!

"When in doubt, moo before the cow does!"

WHO says that? LOL! Only Yo.. Good one Yo. Man, that made my day. LoL.. gee whiz.
Funny story Yo. Made the weekend sound exciting. And it was:) I love Nemiah.
Hey, I'm goin to share a picture Iona sent us of the NEW Lifeteamers... come onnnn.. fit! It's not letting me upload it. Dern.
Anymoo, last Thursday 'n Friday was my "2 day job"! It was an Archeological-something rafting trip:) Thursday was nothing exciting, just me learning how to look for special flakes.
FRIDAY, was the exciting day. We didn't have to drive too far this time. We went on a heck-long "driveway" to these folk's place and crossed the river with these inflatable kayaks. That was fun, I LOVE kayaking. We hiked about 2 km, but had to backtrack cuz we passed a site we were supposed to screen, then we continued on to our next site... where we had to cross a river on BARE FEET! to get to the site. Then to get back, we had to cross the same river. We had an adventurous day:) Oh, hey, take a look at my "ancient findings":) A card.

Sweet huh?
It popped up in the pile of dirt that I had to screen. Rob planted it. Jokester.
New Kids on the Block ARE ancient.
My abs still hurt. And my butt. Why does my butt hurt? Well we had to step over a lot of fallen trees and work some hills. Guess that's it. Today I thought I would continue the exercise... so I walked down here to the library lol.. :S
We did a bit of extreme driving. It was extreme cause our driver is NOT experienced at all with driving down STEEP backroads. Renee and I prayed very hard. I was at the brink of saying "LEMME DRIVE!!!"
But we're alive:D I'm here, I'm typing, and breathing. My heart rate is back to normal.
Josh 'n Rob... punks. Kicked me 'n Renee out of their truck. That's okay. There was better music in Vera's truck anyway.

I wish I had pictures for you to make this more interesting. But I don't. Sorry.
Isn't this gross?
Aight, CHOOOW!
~Jo Binx

COWazy turkey eekend!

Happy TURKEY to you weirdo's out there, hehe... kidding!

So yeah, as you all know... I went back up north last weekend for thanksgiving and spending time with my herd! Cattle herd, hahahha! *ahem* I mean, ma-ma-moo family! hehe!

First of all, I ended up going on this bus ride to Williams Lake where by the end of it I felt like ripping my hair out and beating the shit out of that wacko dude sitting beside me on the bus! Grrrrrr! Haha, yeaaahhhh riggghttt... ME, beating some dude out who happens to be a drug dealer and has no pure values whatsoever... :O whatever! I sure felt like it tho... the cow in me sure wanted to COW-FU his ass!!! Butt with my bloodshot eyes from his cancer smoking stick and my feeling of uncleanliness... I had to learn to LOVE tha guy... sheesh God, what the flip! haha, kidding! God sure taught me a lot about this experience... I have no stinking clue WHAT, but He did! :P Noooo... God just showed me how much we need to love our neighbors no matter what they are doing, and to pray for them nonetheless... and just how corrupt the world is, and even when we feel like we're the only Christian in a big group like that, we need to stay strong and continue to be a lighthouse amoungst the stormy world... we may... I may have been the only Jesus that dude may have met... although I didn't SAY anything to him, but I'm sure he knew cuz he kept looking at me... it was weird! What a weirdo! Haha, kidding! But I know God was watching over me and HE planned for me to experience that horrible bus ride on the greyhound ALL the way to Willie's puddle. Thank you God. :)

Anymoo, my weekend was pretty crazy! I spent a lot of time with my family which I loved so ever much!!! On Saturday (Oct.7th) I ended up going to the other end of the valley with my dad and bro Trev to go split cows... man was it messy! Blood everywhere! hehe, kidding! We had to bring in the cows and split them up because we were going to sell some of them and keep the rest. So we did some steer riding, some gymkana, some cow wrestling... had to feed and water those weird and annoying animals... :D... haha, but it was a lot of fun! Not to mention I almost got trampled by those beasts! Some close calls... sure got my heart going, hahaha! Who knew cow splitting would be so fun and dangerous! I swear one cow kept his eye on me the whole time, he kept looking at me funny... weirdo. He was the one that kept mooing the whole time, hehe. :P

And then we had a great family thanksgiving dinner on Sunday with our bestfriends Hattie's family (Tanis')! I seriously ate so much I must've looked, or at least I felt as pregnant as my dad's two big belly'd cows... : Is that good??? hehe. I think sssssNOT!

And yeah, we were supposed to brand 4 cows... suckers!... on Monday, BUT that didn't work out because a few of our herd had a little bit too much to drink the night before... poor cows! Hahah! *ahem* I mean uncles! Yeah, that's it. So we just ended up spending the day at the bandoffice with the Solomon family, who had recently lost one of their elders (Henry Solomon... he will be missed by many :(... ). They had a community thanksgiving dinner that evening, which was nice because most of the valley showed up. And then later that evening they had some gambling going on at David Setah's house... so we went for fun, haha! Fun, riiigghhtt... that's the word! : It was actually quite b-o-r-i-n-g! haha! I mean I had a "BLAST"! I could eat my brains out! Sheesh :P

The next day was late Henry's funeral on Tuesday, which was the day I was supposed to head back to Abby, but I'm glad I stayed to support the Solomon family in their time of need. It was actually a very gorgeous day, beautiful weather, and tons of people showed up for his funeral... even people from up Fort.St.John... wow! He was VERY well known that's for sure! And it was an outside funeral service... first one I've been to, it was nice. And then later that evening after the whole funeral service and what not, Jo and I drove back to Williams Lake and I ended up crashing at her place for the night... *counted jumping cows in my dreams* :P hehe.

But Wednesday wasn't as killer as I thought... I mean it was but Thursday was THE DAY of all days! I'll get to that later... so yeah, Wednesday I rode a cow back to abby... I seriously have to be the best steer rider in all the world! :P haha! My cow bucked my uncle nelson off at the ferry terminal and then persisted on back towards Abby... I ended up getting to youth late that night... they were all so very surprised with my awesome cow of a ride! It was pretty sweet! hahahahahah! With my chaps and everything, hahahahha! *ahem* So I was extremely exhausted that night, but the youth nevertheless continued to kick me around the gym and cheated their way into winning... I'm still pretty bitter about that! :P hahah, the Enns boys mainly! Bunch of bums! THEN I finally arrived back to the apartment where my roommates Renee and Angela had previously sent out the search party! haha, they were sure worried about me... not to mention my cell phone had shut off... not telling why! hehe... so they couldn't get a hold of me... but they were glad I got back SAFE and sound with my cow parked outside! hehe.

THURSDAY... what a lovely day! hahahah... WOW! This day was special... I'm sure everyone thought I was on drugs or something... well to start, I must've left my brain back up north, or it bounced out or something, hahah... because NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING made sense that day! My words and thought patterns and actions were sooooo messed up! I was basically recovering from the past weekend because my ENTIRE being was WONKY! Hahahahha... I felt like a zombie all day and hahahahah... it was just a W-E-I-R-D day!!! Ahhhhhh! It's soo hard to explain... you just had to be in my brain and in my presence to understand what I was going through... hahaha, I don't think I've experienced anything like it, it was cowazy!!! hahahahha.... ahhhhhh... yeah, hahahha... I don't know what to say! Haha! I just felt like a cow all day... stunned yet annoying to not understanding myself to speaking squirrel to taking my brain out and squishing it on the ground to laughing at myself because what I was going through was unexplainable! What a day! Woooooo! :P

And so today... well today I ended up going to Vern's mom Margarett's funeral after mom's time out at Grace church... but FIRST having a "kick in the face" coffee (as Ang 'n Renee would say, hahaha! Funny!) that I made... WOW, it sure did kick me in the face!!! I was zapped awake and seriously, the effects aren't so zappy happy, hahah... I've been twitching all day, hahahha! And my eyes keep going cross eyed, HAHAHAHAHHA! That's some SERIOUS coffee! HAHAHAHAH! Wooooooooooooooo... yeah! My brain is on overload right now! hehe. Not to mention I snorted coffee out of my nose after Renee made a joke about my coffee, HAHAH! Whoa, it's still coming out of my nose, hah! *wipes nose on arm* hehe. :D So anyone, if you want to be kicked in the face, just let me know and I'll make you some of my kick ass coffee! ;) hahaha! But anyway... back to the point! Today was Vern's moms funeral... she passed away at 80 years... so they gathered at the church at 1pm... and I sat in the back pue's WIDE-cross eye'd (coffee effects) with Celeste, Barbara, Shailey, Dave 'n Melissa... and Craig 'n Jonathon sat not too far away... but what was cool was that the people who spoke about Margarett Brown spoke about what a great impact she left on their lives, while making jokes about what she did making everyone in the congregation laugh... it was very encouraging. When I die, whenever that is, but not without a fight... COWFU you! Waaaa! Had-saa!... *ahem* when I pass away I want people to remember me with a smile and no tears, but only tears of joy because I will have gone to a better place, and no place gets any better than HEAVEN, chillaxing with God and annoying him to death with my plain old weird self, hahahha! Mwahahah! Hopefully he won't throw me out of heaven, hahah! Anyway, back to the point... it was not so much a sad funeral, but a happy one remembering the great memories Margarett left behind and the footprints she left in her loved one's lives.

So yeah, THAT above has been my COWazy week... I seriously need to relaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...

Oh and by the way, my cell is up and running again... so you can now finally reach me! My voicemail will prove it, hehe!

Moo ya all laters!

"When in doubt, moo before the cow does!" -myself- cool eh?! Thought it up myself! *I think my brain is still wonky from the coffee this morning?? * hehe!

Gone like the cross-eye'd cow, Yo!

Our Firstest Blog Entry #1

Hey! Yoyo 'n I thought it would be a good idea to start a blog together- now we can have somethin' together. We're goin to try to post our pictures on here, whatever we're up to 'n the lil tidbits of wisdom we're learning in our walk with God.
'N cows?
Why cows?
It's jus' an inside joke between me 'n Yoyo lol.