I’m still feeling pretty sick, thankfully not stomach sick… just head sick. I’ve been kind of out of it the past 2 days… I’m praying this gets knocked out soon! I’ve been downing tea and water like crazy… I don’t like being sick in the middle of summer… it never seems right.

So I woke up at 5 this morning with a TERRIBLE sore throat. This is after going to bed at what 12:30am? We had a movie night at the church for our youth last night… so it was a late one. Anyway, I woke up with a terrible sore throat and I just couldn’t fall back to sleep with that kind of pain. So I got up and grabbed some medicine (at that moment I wasn’t aware of what time it was). Anyway I grabbed the nighttime tylenol thinking this will put me back to sleep. So I took it. Thats when I realized it was 5am. And I also realized oh no, this is going to knock me out for a good bit of the morning! I apparently garbeled something to Karl when he left at 8:30am and I pulled myself out of bed at 9:30am feeling runover by a truck. I put down a good 4 cups of Oolong tea and some toast. I’m feeling better at the moment… flushing the system out. So I don’t know if this is a cold or allergies or whatever… but I’m praying for it to be over before Sunday!

My apologies that I haven’t written in a bit. Honestly I don’t know what to really write about.

This week I’m preparing for our trip to Orlando (9 days with 19 teenagers in Florida). I’m really looking forward to it, but I also know that long trips tend to take their toll on me. I can get cranky. So I’m praying for non-crankiness for 9 days! I’m not really sure what to expect on this trip which makes me excited yet nervous at the same time. I am looking forward to seeing these kids grow, even myself growing and really growing together as a group. Mexico was amazing for our youth last summer, so I’m sure this will be just as great.

Please keep us in your prayers!

So I just checked weather.com to see if and when I’ll get a thunderstorm today… and I’ll admit I’m quite jealous of my Williamsport friends cause it looks like they are getting rocked right now by a storm! It was a dark red over the whole city! I’m hoping for my own thunderstorm soon…

Ok it’s HOT outside… the only reason I venture out is to take Rufus out to relieve herself. I’d rather take the heat then clean up a mess inside! It’s a lazy Monday, so far we’ve had some pancakes for breakfast and I’ve worked on the latest AYF calendar card, which I really enjoy cause I get to play around with organizing everything on it. I use backgrounds that have already been designed… that’s not really my cup o’ tea but then I put the calendar and events over top and have to move it all around. I just love to organize. Don’t know why, but I do. Not sure what we’ll do the rest of the day. We’ve been walking downtown a lot lately, but we also tend to spend money down there (49 cent ice cream cones from McDonalds are hard to pass by). I’ll wait til later in the day to walk Rufus around the park just because its so humid and gross out right now. Hopefully it’ll cool off come evening.
Saw two movies this weekend: Breach & Man of the Year. Both had Laura Linney in them, kind of funny. I enjoyed them both, though Man of the Year was not what I expected. Both were good rents!
The summer is soon reaching the time in which we’ll be insanely busy. I’m looking forward to having more to do (especially with having only a few piano students left for the summer). Next week brings VBS at the church followed by 9 days in Orlando, FL for LIFE (youth conference) with 19 of our students! Fun stuff!

Sometimes I just have to get out of the house. The whole one vehicle between Karl and I sometimes limits my going out through out the week days… today though I’ve ventured into the muggy heat that’s enveloped State College before 4:30pm. Now granted I don’t usually stay inside all day even when I don’t have the car. Rufus and I take a walk almost every day and with my new pedometer I’ve been able to track how far we walk. Granted Ru’s little legs and ADD don’t get us going too quickly on our walks we do keep a pretty good pace. We’ll also walk to the mailbox if I need to drop anything off or I’ll walk by myself to Giant for groceries. I miss living so close to Penn State’s campus… even though I don’t need the campus it was easier to get downtown and just out in general. The good thing about not living as close to downtown though is the money… I’d be somewhere every morning or afternoon… and I’d be tempted to buy… food… drinks… anything. So I guess we’re saving some mony by not being in walking distance to downtown? Eh… i ramble. Anyway, I ventured out today and it’s quite nice. Now I’m just waiting for a thunderstorm to hit and maybe some Ocean’s 13 action tonight and my day will be quite good!