4-0, that's right!

So, I know you've all been wondering, and
yes, the Cracker Jack Kids did win last night making them 4-0.
After a rough start in the first two innings The Kids were able to pull it together and make magic happen.
They had a 14-7 win and are getting excited for next week's game that will be played under the lights!

A place of change

I know of a place where you can enter, but you may never leave.

It is not a place where threat tactics and force keep you from leaving, actually, it's quite the opposite. This place is one of the most energetic, fun-loving places I have ever run across! Humor saturates the air, work is piled on the floor, the company is great, and if you're lucky you may even have the chance to eat from a chilled plate and fork (paper that is).

This place, actually this office, has probably had the most influence on my college life thus far. I have yet to find better people and more satisfactory work than I have in this office. The experiences, the opportunities, and the confidence I have gained from this office have made such a huge difference in my life I don't even have words to describe. I have truly grown and become a different person than I would have been because of this office and it's people. I owe all of my successes in college to this office.

I know I don't thank them enough. I'm not very good at verbally expressing my gratitude, that's why I like to send cards. So, this is kind of a "thank you for everything and all you do" to the SOAR office.

I really appreciate it.

Cracker Jack Kids look forward to great season

The Cracker Jack Kids are on a 3-0 winning streak and hope to make it 4-0 tonight!
The Kids have had an excellent season so far and have great potential to become one of the leagues' best teams. Players absent because of sickness and probation have not stopped the team from kicking everyone's trash. They look forward to improving upon last week's glorious double play in their game tonight.
The CrackerJack Kids will be hosting the Al's Sporting Goods team in Smithfield at 7 p.m. All are invited.

It just keeps going, and going, and going. . .

What's the special occasion today, you might ask.
There really isn't one, it's just been a freakin' long day and I fell like I should blog - but about what I'm not quite sure.
I am going to Pirates III tonight, or more like 1 in the a.m. tomorrow. That'll help this l. . . . o. . . . n . . . g . . . .d. . . .a. . . .y pass by quick, don't ya think?!
But I am excited to go - expecially because they people I'm going with have a love, just like me, for dressing up to go to movies!
That's right, we'll all be decked-out in the best pirate costumes we can come up with.
Oh! I got a new job yesterday and started today - that's news for you!
I am now a temporary bindery worker for PDP (Publication Design & Production) for the university. Today I got to hole punch and bind Source books for the new students. It's really quite interesting - all the machines and little gadgets they have in there. The biggest collating machine I've ever seen - probably the only one, but ya know.
Anyway, that is all for now.

Birthday shout-out. . .

I know, as well as all of you know, that I don't blog very often, so when I do it must be for a special occasion - and today it is!

Today is my dear cousin, Deidra's, birthday!

Deidra and I have been very good friends, for a very long time - so long that we knew we could get mad at each other and not talk to one another and still be ok.

I've shared some of my favorite memories with Deid:

-fishing with grandpa

-family reunions

-playing barbies and princesses at my house - and yes, making crowns out of the willow branches!

-sleeping, and practically living, in a tent in her backyard for days, maybe even sometimes weeks

-hoeing beets

-welding in uncle warren's shop - and tumbling

-going to state with uncle troy, playing trivial pursuit the whole way up, and throwing my socks out of his sun roof on the freeway

-volleyball state, drinking outrageous amounts of free choco. milk, laughing because tash's uncle is the funny kid that uncle troy went to school with who ate ham out of his pocket, coach strain dancing michael jackson in the aisles of the bus, etc.

-volleyball in general-locker room moments, seely going bright red and slamming his clipboard, sheri crying, walker yelling at us because we have "no heart," apple trees and their sisters, tiger-grizz camp, etc., etc., etc.

-my first year at school: stealing linda's tv out of her room only to watch the olympics on an 11" screen, cooking grilled pizza on deid's grill that we started by lighting newspaper on fire from the stove-all while my roommate linda is convinced we're going to burn down the apartment, going to bed around 10:30 every night-because that's just what we do, knocking on the wall to make sure deid's awake to go to the sports academy where there are numerous people that we've made-up stories about(snaggle girl being one of them), going to hockey games and seeing how many people we can cram into amber's car, staci winning a tv at b-i-n-g-o night during wow week and deid and whit riding in amber's trunk, our stats class with kimberleigh hadfield-where i studied my butt off and deid read the newspaper and i still got a lower grade, and who could forget working with jka, smelling like manure and feeds-being turned green because of the feeds and deid drawing a beautiful card that depicted jan very well for boss's day, etc.

After this we didn't have as many crazy adventures because she left for D.C. where she met her husband, Chris. This was probably the best thing for me at that time in my life - I finally learned how to do things on my own, to make my own friends and I learned how you don't realize what you have until it's gone. I missed Deid and was happy to have her come home, and I even liked the guy she was marrying-which was a plus for me.

I really enjoyed my past 21 years with my cousin and I hope today is a great day for her!

Love you, Deid!

i may be a scrapper with a dead sister --

Monday I had the day off so I could work on projects and study.
Very little studying was done, but I got all of my projects finished -- not without making a trip to Michael's where I discovered the Martha Stewart section that Deid has been talking about. Wow -- I tell you what, I may become a scrapbooker after all!
I found some small scrapbooks that are square and I thought maybe that's how I could scrapbook, it wouldn't take as long to make a smaller page as it would a big one.
Anyway, that's about it for that.

Yesterday my sister died!
It's kind of sad to think about, so I'm not going to, but Burley High did this program showing high school students that the statistic is that one person dies every fifteen minutes in high school because of drunk driving and what not(i think that's what the stat is). Katelin was a victim in a car accident where three people died and two were in critical condition and taken by helicopter to a hospital. They had a court hearing and everything, and those that "died" yesterday had to stay at the school last night. I think it sounds like a good program, but man, thinking about my sister dying-I don't even like that at all. I'm sure it was really realistic to a lot of people at Burley High yesterday. I hope everyone realizes how sudden death can be and that it can happen to anyone.
I hope my family knows I love them!