woo hoo
my entire family just left for the weekend. they're going to michigan w/ the meyers- my brother's girlfriend's family. sounds like fun, but i'm going to the bahamas in like 12 hours, so i'm at home. kinda surprised that mom let me stay at home like this. i could tell she was starting to get kinda worried about it all last night. when i woke up this morning, her and my little brothers were standing around my bed to say bie and give hugs and kisses. she bought me a bunch of stuff for the trip yesterday too, which was kinda cool. i've never been away from home for this long *two weeks* and i'm leaving the country. and the day i leave, everyone in my family leaves too. i'm not sposed to do anything tonight so i can get ready for the trip and everything. a bunch of people at work heard about it though, and they're all like, whatever there's a girl who's parents are gone.... party at angela's. sorry, but no way. sheesh that would be so bad. i'd hafta clean the house too, lol. well that's it for now i guess i'll go do something else. it feels so weird i don't know why. it's like i'm living on my own

sunburn
i am really red. i don't think i've ever gotten sunburned this bad in my life. and i don't think i've ever peeled before either. it's so wierd. i hope it stops soon. it's annoying and hurts- not peeling, being burned. it's pretty much all from detassling, which has been fun. today's crew was awful, but i got a kerkhoff shirt! i am officially a detassler leader- that's what the shirt says. i think i'm the only girl right now too. i work with a bunch of guys i've known forever. a lot of em were wrestling maniacs and stuff, and there's a guy that's a genius, and a dj, and ricketts. ricketts is so funny. he sings to us in the fields all the time and yells at all the kids, but they laugh b.c everybody knows he's not being serious. i'll hafta write more about him later. but for being 5'5 and weighing 250 lbs, he's an awesome detassler

church
i went on a saturday night one time a few months ago and sat by the harmlesses. there was only like 45 people there (very small for our church). this one big guy in the back stood up and sang so loud that you could barely hear anybody else. it was great. and last night at church we had a 'family night' kinda thing. some people went in front of the church to ask forgiveness of stuff- one guy had gone to a different church or something and came back. but i guess it was like a bad church or something that was against the bible. i never really thought about it, but i guess i just thought that after people leave the church, that's it; there's pretty much nothing you can do. but God was pretty amazing by giving that guy a second chance. He does that for me all the time and i don't even see it. why would He keep doing things for people when they don't even acknowledge Him for it? i don't get it, but i'm glad He does it anyway!

http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/static/modelsMain_MZ3_2004.html
hey go look at it! it's my new dream car! the four door i one. it will not have power windows. not a lot of extras either b.c it's pretty cool w/o them. if it was rear wheel drive it'd be more fun, but o well. who knows what color- maybe black? not bright red or yellow. and everybody has a silver car.... even though they are very cool