Hello all! Nope, I'm not dead. Yet....

As I sat at the table this morning munching on a SUPER healthy (ha!) breaky of naan and apple juice, decided it was probs about time I blogged again. So here is what has been happening lately:

-It is the middle of July, and I have yet to start my summer respite job. It's very frustrating, particularly because 1) My working time is quickly fading, 2) I had to miss my friends' wedding because my job was theoretically scheduled to start that week, and then it didn't, and 3) I am incredibly bored with nothing to do out here! So. I'm kinda praying hardcore.

-My beloved Mac had to be sent away. *pause for distraught sobbing*. There was a problem with a cord or something and it wouldn't charge... Anyways, that means that blogging is extremely difficult as PCs are NOT the same as Macs (I sense a new blog post topic?), and we don't exactly have the Donovan Bailey of internet connections out here in the country. Le sigh.

-Naan is delicious. Forever and ever AMEN.

-Last Friday, the entire fam jam headed out to our cabin four hours north for the weekend. This will be discussed further once I have the capacity to upload pictures again.

-I took Logan to go rent a movie for him and his friend yesterday, and I got a few for myself, including "Bride and Prejudice". Um, hello? How did I NOT know about this movie before?! It's Pride and Prejudice and Bollywood! Those are two of my favourite things. Awesome.

-The weather in Saskatchewan is cray-cray. Some places had hail, some had tornado warnings, some had wicked winds.... And we got HEAT. Let me spell it out for you:

My mother hired me to do some work at her office in town. My job for the day? Clean and disinfect ALL the toys. Despite working on it all morning, I still haven't finished. Momma Froc has a LOT of toys.

Also, the kids she works with get to play with way cooler toys than we had when we were growing up. Just saying.

Dear small portion of people who actually bother to see this,

To be honest, I'm not doing so well. At all. If it's not too selfish of me to ask, please keep me in your prayers. Or think happy thoughts for me. Anything. Thanks.

 Inside your own head is a scary place to be sometimes. There are times when I feel so discouraged, so down on myself, and so totally despairing that my world feels completely dark. Despite these powerful feelings though, I know that they won't last forever. I hope for better.

"You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process."

Umm, please love this with me.

Oh, hey guys. I'm BACK!

We got back to Melfort late Sunday night, and they've kept me busy here ever since. Yesterday morning, I went with my parents and helped mow the church grounds in town. For such an itty bitty little church, the grounds are kind of disproportionately sized. So it took ALL morning. And Momma Froc was kind enough to let me use the mower that's hard to push. Bless her heart. Haha. Then after lunch, I went back into town with Mum to get groceries and renew my driver's license. (I'm legal again suckas!)

In the evening, Shelby popped over and kidnapped me. No big deal. We went to look for a movie in hopes of having a girl's night, and then on the way to her house we stopped by the playground because we saw a few of our friends there. You remember the game Grounders? One person is it, and while they're on the ground they can have their eyes open, but the minute they get on the equipment their eyes must be shut. So basically, it's like tag. And you can't really touch the ground.

I'm taking a break from packing. Packing was invented by the devil. That's pretty much a fact. Anyways...


While I'm really excited to go back and see everyone, I'm also a little sad. There were MANY times when I wondered what the heck I was doing nine hours away from home in a strange city. There were MANY times throughout the year that I wanted to pack up, call it quits, and go back home to snuggle with Mommy. I never thought I would ever like Lethbridge, and it's definitely not my most favourite city, but it's become my second home.

Here are some of the things I would have missed out on if I hadn't come to Lethbridge:
-Conquering public transit on my own
-Women's Chorus
-Exploring downtown
-Happy notes and mix CDs
-Discovering the antique shop
-Institute Choir
-"Christmas Morning" at the university in front of the big tree
-Secretly mocking Steve during class... and Ian...
-Starbucks
-Truth or Dare until all hours of the night
-Wednesday Adventures
-huge New Years parties where we didn't know 3/4 of the people... and it was at our house...
-learning to do flowers for weddings
-Finding secret staircases at school
-Folding cranes with Yokino
-all-nighters
-Getting white socks!
-learning the Hoedown Throwdown
-ordering my first Ikea catalogue
-witnessing miracles
-dressing up all fancy and attending a cabaret with my friends
-Photoshoots
-Seuss-a-palooza
-learning to make friendship bracelets
-Valentines' Day cards and parties
-Educating my favourite Lethbians about Anti-Valentines
-Learning the official term for a resident of Letbridge is "Lethbian"
-Cooking experiments
-studying with balloons
-Big Bang Theory marathons
-solos
-Attending multiple plays, concerts, and ballets
-Being in multiple concerts
-Being educated about magical slurpees with ice cream in them
-Building a fort out of newspaper in the theatre lobby
-Knocking lots of things off of the Bucket List
-volunteering
-Walking across the city
-puddle jumping
-mocking theatre kids
-Expanding my musical tastes
-Blanket forts
-Getting REALLY good at taking stairs. (The university is in a coulee... It happens.)
-Getting REALLY good at Minesweeper.
-Carving jack-o-lanterns out of vegetables because of a pumpkin shortage
-having a joint surprise party
-TLF Thursdays
-Building a snowman army in the front yard
-Care packages from home
-Bridal showers and weddings
-fangirling over Glee ALL the time
-Getting to know my cousins better
-Culture nights
-U of L Bingo
-Discovering Magic One Dollar Bread
-Making a dress completely out of garbage bags
-trying sushi
-celebrating Beleaster!
-The creation of ABSIT
-Making peanut butter cups... and ratatouille...
-April Fool's Day Waffles
-getting to hear an Apostle speak!
-Balloon launch
-really scary auditions
-growing up a little
-meeting some of the most incredible people in the world :)