Wooden Shoes
by
Chantelle
- 4:03 PM
(Stunning cinematography and added vocals were done by roommate Heather. She's my favourite.)
Sunday News
by
Chantelle
- 8:21 PM
-Yesterday, my friend Ashley invited me to go on a trip with her to Fort Macleod for an antiques show. Obviously, I said yes! I love me some antiques! I came home with a lovely little necklace, and a surprise for the little sibs, and A RECORD PLAYER. Heck. Yes.
-Good ol' dad gave us quite the scare this morning... Apparently he woke up with a headache at the back of his head, weakness in his right side, and his face was kind of droopy, so Mum dropped the kids off at church and took him to the hospital. He's okay now, but holy man, what a way to spend Father's Day eh?
-I recently made a, uh... frivolous and totally unnecessary purchase that will help me accomplish one of the more random things on my Bucket List... Stay posted. (Bonus points to whomever can guess what it is!)
-There are two official days of summer school left this week, and two finals. I theoretically could be finished everything by Friday if I wanted to! WOO!
-Tonight I experimented again trying to use up all the groceries in my kitchen. Tonight's experiment? Peanut butter banana brownies. They're legit.
-Good ol' dad gave us quite the scare this morning... Apparently he woke up with a headache at the back of his head, weakness in his right side, and his face was kind of droopy, so Mum dropped the kids off at church and took him to the hospital. He's okay now, but holy man, what a way to spend Father's Day eh?
-I recently made a, uh... frivolous and totally unnecessary purchase that will help me accomplish one of the more random things on my Bucket List... Stay posted. (Bonus points to whomever can guess what it is!)
-There are two official days of summer school left this week, and two finals. I theoretically could be finished everything by Friday if I wanted to! WOO!
-Tonight I experimented again trying to use up all the groceries in my kitchen. Tonight's experiment? Peanut butter banana brownies. They're legit.
Life Plans
by
Chantelle
- 5:26 PM
It's gonna be a wordy one today folks. Love me through it, mmkay?
All this year, as well as last year, I've worried about career choices. It seemed everyone around me knew what they wanted to do, what they wanted to go to school for, 100%, black and white, no questions asked. I struggled with that. I had (and often still don't have) NO clue what I'd end up doing. My teachers and leaders have drilled into me from an early age that an education is essential, and I know that, but you know what? I think it's okay not to have everything planned out. This is what I want for my life:
All this year, as well as last year, I've worried about career choices. It seemed everyone around me knew what they wanted to do, what they wanted to go to school for, 100%, black and white, no questions asked. I struggled with that. I had (and often still don't have) NO clue what I'd end up doing. My teachers and leaders have drilled into me from an early age that an education is essential, and I know that, but you know what? I think it's okay not to have everything planned out. This is what I want for my life:
I want to live. Not exist.
I want to have fun. While yes, working hard is really important, I really do believe you can have fun with anything if you try.
I want to develop new talents and work on the ones I've been given.
I want to graduate from University, and find something I love to do, and do it.
I want to travel. I want to experience new things.
Eventually, I want to find someone that I want to be with forever. I want to be the one that takes his world apart, turns it upside down, and then puts it back together again, but better.
I want to marry that person in the Temple.
I want to have a family. I want to be a mom. I want to teach my kids to see wonder in the world. I want to show them that there are amazing things out there, despite the bad. I want to teach them to be good.
I want to love everyone around me. I want to help people. I want to share my experiences.
I want to be comfortable with who I am and who I'm supposed to be.
So no, I may not have my life "figured out" like everyone else, but I know the direction I want to be going. Life Plans don't have to just be for a career. I think this is good enough for me.
Summer 2011 Bucket List
by
Chantelle
- 11:27 PM
Also, I'm looking for people that would like to do some of these with me! (I'd love to watch a sunset sometime soon FYI.) Any takers?
Also also, a BIG Happy Birthday to my Daddy today! I missed calling/singing to him because he was at work, so he's gonna get the biggest, raddest Happy Birthday song of his LIFE when I get ahold of him.
Bucket List.
by
Chantelle
- 9:57 AM
I've always had big ideas with what I wanted to do with my life.
As you get older though, the world kind of squishes a lot of the fun out of life. Like when you're trying to get the last of the icing out of those annoying little plastic tubes. Yeah. It's like that. I used to have such big dreams and now I feel like sometimes those dreams you had growing up just don't feel like they'll ever happen. Well... they might. Someday... Growing up sucks.
I don't like feeling like I can't do something. So when I was twelve, I started a list. (My family has a big thing with lists.) On this list I wrote down all the things I wanted to do in my life. The list started out as a scrap of looseleaf. The next time I recopied it, it spanned two pieces of looseleaf. Then I lost my list. So I started over. Now my Bucket List is in a houndstooth printed notebook where the pages won't get ripped out. I add to it CONSTANTLY. Seriously. I like to put in things that are easily accomplishable as well as the big things. That way I don't get discouraged as easily. :) This past weekend I checked off learning how to tie a tie!
There's no better feeling than checking something off of that list. Legit.
Want to read my whole list? You can find either by clicking the link here or in my pages above.
Have a radtastic Tuesday!
