The Mini Carousel in My Head

I think only Robyn and Jenice know what the heck that means...but that's ok. :)

There's SOOOOOOOOOO SO much going on in my head these days. I'm doing this Thought Analysis for one of my classes (my favourite class ever) and it's BRUTAL. Every one of my thoughts has a belief behind it, which usually leads to another thought, and another belief, and so on and so forth. So I'm figuring out all my warped thinking patterns and my wrong beliefs....and I hate it so much. It's SO good to finally see why I think and act the way I do...but it's HARD to realize how incredibly sinful I am and what I'm capable of thinking and doing.

I also started my new job cleaning rooms at the Ramada Inn yesterday, and it was so fun. :) There's some strange people working there. No joke...there's a maintenance guy who talks about aliens, the front desk manager swears his face off, and then there's all these very...ecentric ladies that I work with. One's name is Marie, and she has the most beautiful smile, but she rarely shows it, and she hardly ever looks at people or talks. Retha is this crazy loud 60ish red-head who has a major problem with the uniforms we have to wear. Kali is 16 and smokes on every break. Yes....it's awesome. I had to clean the nastiest bathroom EVER though....on my first day no less. My mom thinks that our bathroom at home gets disgusting...but it is NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING compared to this bathroom. Bah....it makes me shudder. :) And there's alot of greasy 'Rig Pigs' staying at the hotel, and they're all very...friendly. Well, actually, only a few of them were there yesterday, and they weren't THAT bad...but very friendly. :) It's ok though, I was given strict instructions not to go into any rooms with guys in them by myself. It's a good rule.

A freshman girl asked me to disciple her a couple of weeks ago, and I think I'm actually going to do it. I really wanted to the whole time, but I was totally unsure. I feel really inadequate. But I talked to my Disciple Making prof, and he pretty much told me to go for it. He said I'd learn alot more in his class that way. I'm not totally sure if I can handle learning more than I am now...but whatever. I'm excited about it.

Anyhoo...I'm gonna go find out who's in my Care Group and eat supper and write a historical background paper and practice piano and read 3 chapters in my favourite textbook. YAY!!!

*The Rizz

"The Rizzo Revival....get onboard." - me & Hanni from my floor :)

Have I ever mentioned that I hate writing titles?

So....where do I start?

My dad surprised me HUGELY yesterday when he told me that I have a TICKET to The Phantom of the Opera!!!! Holy smokes, I am SO excited, and so surprised. He and my mom got it for me as an early b-day present. So I get to go with Amber and Kelsey and their parents and brother and Am's friend Amy and Kaleb. YAY! The first thing I asked my dad was, "What do I WEAR???" It's a big deal, ok? :) So Am said that she would call me regarding that. :) It'll be a long debate...should I wear the grad dress, or should I go more SEMI formal? Curly hair, or straight? Flats or....

Ok.

I'm totally overwhelmed with my life right now. Yes, it's awesome to be back at school and to be in the dorm, BUT I have so much on my plate, and there's so much more I want to do. I'm actually supposed to be writing a summary on the book of Romans right now, but I'm totally lost, so I decided to put it off til tomorrow or late tonight. I am DEFINITELY off to a good start, hey? But yeah, I have Camp Days stuff to work on, piano lessons, 5 classes, helping Karina with care groups, and someone asked me to be their discipler the other day. Which is SOOOO awesome, but I'm like, totally freaked out of my MIND! For one thing, I don't know if I have time. For another thing, I feel like, totally inadequate to do something like that. But, I really love the girl from what I've seen so far, and I reeeeeeeeally want to do it, so I'll just keep praying about it.

Anyhoo. Pray for me. I need a job. Badly. And I have an application pretty much filled out for one place, so it's kind of just a matter of actually getting the job now. So yeah. Just pray that it will work out and PAY GOOD so I can come back to school next semester. :)

Alright, I think I'm going to go attempt that paper again.

BAH!!!!!

*Caitlin

I Will Survive.

Wow. This weekend was camp....and ho man it was fun. I had a sweet bunch of girls...two of them I had in the summer, too. They were SO funny! They were like, "Caitlin, you're awesome. You're the best counselor ever, you're not even strict! You're like one of us." Mostly because I threw carrot peices out the window, told them "EXTREME TOP SECRETS", cried over a bruised banana, and stole candy. Yep...it was great.

But man was I happy to come back to the dorm. I had only been here for like, 5 days, and left for only 2 1/2, but I still missed it and was excited to be back in my room. Sanctuary! :) Coming back to school makes me think of the buttload of stuff I have to do starting tomorrow and going pretty much nonstop until Christmas Break....but that's OK! My roommate and I decided that we will make the classic song and SURVIVE.

Alright, this is short, but someone is on a gum-popping spree, and I'm a total and COMPLETE grouch right now, so I'm gonna go. Fast.

*Caitlin - "HOT!" <- for any camp girls reading this... :)

Oh summer days....they are done.

BOO!!! I love summer, and I totally didn't think about the fact that the beginning of school equals the end of summer. bah! Whatever. I'm at school now, and the weather today was pretty much like summer....it was a good day.

OK, so the whole "reunion"type thing that goes on the first day or two....wow. That was awesome. I saw Vanessa from my top floor window and didn't really know it was her and ran down the stairs to hug her. Then I went to say hi to Lindsay and Vanessa in Lindsay's room and THERE WAS KRISTINE! That was randomly like, really exciting. We went to Africa together, so it brough back alot of random memories to talk with her. We laughed our heads off over random events and awkward situations. :) THEN I saw SPENCER and I freaked out. No joke at all. I didn't really want to be scary in any way, so I was like, what do I do? And someone said, just be nonchalont (however you spell that) and I was like, "I so do NOT feel nonchalont at all right now. Forget it." I just ran over to him and gave him a huge hug...along with Vanessa and Kristine. So it was kind of awkward and embarassing but what the heck.

My room looks pickin awesome. (Yes, Kaleb, Am, and Kelsey...I just said PICKIN. "Pick" is a common phrase in the wonderful world of room 301.) :) Anyway....I also talked with my roommate until like, 1 last night, so that was really encouraging. I was a little worried about that. Robyn is also here and doing pretty dang good for her first scary PRBI days. :) She's on 2nd floor, actually Lindsay's roomie, so I'll be in there lots.

OK. I'm gonna go. Just thought I'd update this a little. There's WAAAAAY more I could write about, but my legs are aching and I need to sleep at some sort of decent time tonight. Dorky Farckle.......OUT!

*Caitlin

PS. AMBER!!!! I drew Ariel as a brunette today. I was inspired by your fine artistry on Sleeping Beauty. :) Ha. It looks awesome, you'll have to see it on my wall sometime. :) later...