This is Why Im Hot

It happened AGAIN! Friday I went to work (the only day I worked last week) and it rained... All Day! My rain gear saved my life... yes this time I put on my rain pants too in anticipation to be wet. I never imagine, however, that I would get really muddy too. I feel bad for my work clothes. Today I will be heading out to find some better fitting rain gear considering that the stuff I am wearing now is way too big and difficult to manage cuz its always falling down and bunching up everywhere! (You can prob imagine).

The weekend consisted of a really long Youth Wokers Conferece that I took for 1 credit! I, once again, went in there with a hard heart and a sleepy self and well, fell asleep during the evening talk. I did not stay long afterwards, even though it was prety sweet to see my old youth leaders and what not! I slept in Saturday morning and showed up in time to catch the end of worship for the morning session. [Way to go Kara!]. I didnt fall asleep this time tho.. in fact, I stayed awake for every session that day! I really didnt enjoy a lot of what the speakers were preaching about, but despite all of that, God spoke to me. It was pretty much unrelated to the speaker's topic, but I just got this flashback to when I first accepted Christ into my life. I remembered what I had said to God, and everyone else - that I wanted to be a pastor!

It was really easy to brush off that later in my life because I did not think I was a good enough speaker to be a pastor, nor did I feel that Bible school was worth going to for that long! But the more I thought about that time in my life, the more I realized how shifted I had become in my thinking about my "purpose" in life. I was taking the easy way out wtih my "administrative skills" (though they are an asset) and all that jazz. I cant be taking the easy way out my whole life!

It reminds me of Moses.. when God told him he was going to be this great leader and speak to people and Moses disagreed with God and said he couldnt do it! Its a good thing God is so gracious cuz I would have booted Moses in the but if he said that to me! In the same way, God is being gracious to me in letting me do what I want to do. Yet God is just sitting there waiting for me to realize that a good pastor does not become a good pastor by being good at it... but by God's works through that pastor is what makes them good! You ever wonder why God chooses the most unlikely people to fulfill His mission? Its so that God will be glorified! If poeple thought that Moses performed all of those miracles on his own, then God would not have done them! That is why when Moses strikes the rock, he is forbidden by God to enter into the promised land... because he did not let God have the glory for the water spring in the rock!

So back before I started on the Moses tangent... I have decided that I will stay at Columbia for at least another year, if not more.. to gain some more knowledge and maybe even get a BA (depending on how long I stay). I have all the time in the world, and knowledge is priceless and timeless, especially when it is bringing me to a closer understanding of God!

So that is where I am at right now. Kinda insane.. I mean going to College for another year is a huge commitment for me! And seriously, I have major commitment issues! (In the process of working on those!) I am excited tho! Maybe i'll even live on campus or something... nah. I may move out of my house tho! That could be fun.. haha! Okay enough about my random ideas. Im gonna go get ready to shop! Adios Amigos

Nifty Nifty, Look Who's at FIFTY!

As you can tell by the beautiful title of this post, this is my Fiftieth (hard word to spell) Post! I am surprised that it took me this long to get here, but what can I say?

So to your left, you should be able to see a picture of 11 gorgeous pines girls wearing "I (heart) Battalion Boys" t-shirts! yes, we all love you guys... hence why we support you with the t-shirts. Its an all-around good picture tho.

So what is new in the life of Kara? Well, to start er off... I havent been able to Blog for awhile because my internet has been all funky on me (in other words, it doesnt work!) And when it does work properly, this page wont load on my computer. So I am resulting to writing this at Columbia Bible College; between writing papers acutally. It seems like I have been on 'paper writing over load'.. and will be for the next few weeks until I get them all done. But I cant complain too much, only one more month left of this!!! Tonight is acutally my Bookkeeping Final exam as well. That means that after tonight, I have no more night classes. Holla! (oh geeze, did I just say that?!).

I pretty much had an amazing weekend in Vancouver doing UMA. I have no words really to describe my experience there except that it was a HUGE eye opener for me. I went in there thinking that I knew everything there was to know about drug problems, and people on the streets but I knew nothing! Absolutley nothing! I wish everyone could go and see the way I did. And listen to the people who spoke into my life this weekend. All of the things that I have been learning about the Heart of God through OT and other classse was pretty much put into practice. Seeing and understanding what the real mission for my life is was pretty much the theme of the weekend. Not that I know where I will be 6 months from now, or anything of that sort, but knowing that no matter where I am, I am still gonna be living for Christ the same.

Looking ahead, I really have had a lot of options put in my path for the fall. I am not sure what I want to do tho. I am going to wait it out and see I guess. I have been leaning towards returning to Columbia for a few clases, but man.. I just dont want to be doing all of these papers!!! I want to do some hands on stuff! Plus I still have no clue where I want to be going with my life career wise. Bah. Patience.. Thing will work out when they need to (and by that, I dont mean me sitting down and hoping that things work out.. but more me looking into things and praying about it!)

Okay.. 4 MORE WEEKS! Im going to get timmies now. Adios!

Ps. I lied, my car wasnt at CBC all weekend, my family picked it up for me on Thursday... sorry parking guy if you thought you couldnt see my camo car. It was at home the whole time! Maybe next time you'll find it!

Pps. That was quick! Just after I left the Collegium, there it was: A new parking ticket! haha It was beautiful.

UMA

Haha, okay so first to explain the picture. Basically some days i'd rather be one of the orange barrels on the job site than a flagger. However, it dawned on me yesterday, as I was working in the pouring rain (yes I was very wet) that if I were a barrel all day, I would fill up when it rained! That would be so uncomfortable! Who wants to be full of water at work? And seriously... barrels dont get paid very much (as you can see from the picture) haha... okay so now you all know that I love being a flagger more than a barrel on a rainy day.

Next topic: This weekend is UMA! (Urban Mission Adventure). I will be going to Vancouver with a ton of other CBC students and we will be staying three nights at the Ivanhoe on Main st (I think that is where it is.. I could be wrong, I'll let you know when I acutally go there). I am pretty stoked to be going cuz Ive heard such freakin awesome reviews of the trip! But im also a little Nervous... I guess the big reason I am so nervous is because I dont really know how it will all work. Im sure once I am there it will be fine, but im not one to jump into something that I dont have much control of. "just let go Kara..." I know, I know. I dont really have a choice in this one!

So apart from doing UMA this weekend, I apparently have like three papers to write and my final project for Bookkeeping to do (that project will take at least 12 hours to do!) I am beginning to wonder if it was a good idea to do UMA THIS weekend!?! You know the real reason (besides the fact that this is the first weekend that i havent had a saturday class) that I chose this weekend to go is because I heard its the "warmer" one... haha Betcha its gonna just pour on me the entire time! Yes, that always happens. Like how yesterday was the only day I worked this week and do you see rain today? No. Did you see rain on Tuesday? No. But it rained ALL day yesterday didnt it? Go figure. haha. Such is life.

By the way, I am doing freakin awesome right now! Not just becuase I have had my coffee already... but beacuse I just feel good. (Yea, I am now re-addicted to timmies coffee... ive had one every day this week! some days two or three)... Things seem to be working out really good, and I am getting to excited about going up to Pines in like 6 weeks. I know that it will rain the entire spring, just because I will be there, but who cares!?! Its kinda like going home I guess? If that makes much sense to ya'll. May not cuz if you've never been to pines, you wouldnt have a clue what I am talking about. But those of you who have still may not really get it. Maybe Im just stoked to have my big kitchen back! haha I loved cooking with GIANT appliances last spring! Making apple tarts in huge muffin tins that cover the entire counter :P (a little bit of over exaggeration there... the counters are big too). Its all pretty much awesome.

Im now off to see my optomitrist and find out how bad my eyes are! haha I seriously cant see road signs any more, so it will be a good thing to get new lenses and contacts and what not. Hopefully I dont have any scary eye diseases that will make me blind by next week, cuz then I cant work anymore. Or drive.. or type - well acutally I could still type cuz I dont even look at the keyboard (I am THAT good!). Okay Have a great weekend guys and gals!

Au Revior

Ps. Parking guy... I will possibly be parking my car illigally ALL weekend. Be prepared! (if you can find my car.. I have camoflauged it... so you gotta have super car detector lenses to find it)

Midterm Madness

I am not sure why, but everytime I have tried to write this week, the post never works. I guess my computer has some serious issues that need to be worked out, but for your information, I am on the school computer right now. (therefore, dont expect pictures..)

So I basically didnt sleep last night. The reason for this is because I had been studying all day yesterday and all I could do was lay in bed and recite what I had been reading... BAH! Well it was more like a "half-sleep" that I had last night... Cuz I was still awake, but my eyes were closed and I was pretty out of it (some of you may understand this half-sleep thing). I 'woke-up' at 0500 and decided that a shower wasnt worth being cold for. So I went back to sleep for another half hour... then I woke up again and decided that I didnt need a big breakfast, so I slepd for another half hour, then I woke up and decided that I didnt need to stop for coffee.. and so when I finally woke up at 0645, I quickly got ready and ran out the door so I could get a few minutes review in before my exam started! I knew everything that I had to do on the exam before I got there, but it was still awful. I just cant memorize worth peanuts!

Midterms aside. Last night I took a sweet break from studying and went swimming with Heather. Swam some innacurate lengths, chilled in the hottub... ya know, the usual! It was really worth it tho, cuz I acutally exercised (which i havent beeen doing lately) and I love swimming!

Work has been pretty nuts.. I had friday off after my long 15 hour shift on Thursday (crazy BC Hydro boys). I wasted pretty much my whole friday - except for getting my youth work assignment started... but im sure it was alright cuz I was so far gone all day; probably couldnt have been productive if I tried.

Had my final for Payroll Saturday morning... that class is done - 95.03%!!! Went out to the Old Spaghetti Factory for Rachels 19th Birthday! that was a hoot. Sunday I dont think I did anything all day, except talk on the phone and pretend to fix my trunk (yes, it is still broken!). I acutally dreamt last night a bit about how I was going to wire my trunk down... im so strategic.

I need some timmies coffee... Im outta here!

ps. To the CBC parking guy... last week, I parked in the visitors parking lot for 10 minutes!! I was disappointed to see that I was not fined.

Progressive Mood

It is extremely hard to be creative when I am listening to music. Not that the music doesnt help with setting a mood... but I keep changing genres every other song so I cant focus. Its my fault. But to keep you moving along with me, I am listening to Damian Rice.

So this week has been interesting. Totally throwing me off to be working on days that I usually dont. I have worked tuesday, wednesday and thursday. Wednesday was sweet. I got to hang out with the cute excavator operator all day again. It was good fun, and I found out that I was one of the few women they have had on site... but they were super friendly to me! I must be having some good luck lately, cuz yesterday I ended up working for BC Hydro in North Vancouver. My o My were they some good looking fellas! haha It was a lot of fun cuz the crew was younger and they liked to joke around a lot. Made the day go by faster (if that is possible) You see... I left my home at around 5:30am, and when I got home after work, it was 10pm.. you do the math! I did a lot of standing around and drinking coffee for most of the day, but then when it got dark again, we got silly and cold and tired.. haha suddenly we were watching logs roll across the road and thinking they are funny.. but THEN realizing that we need to stop traffic! haha oh man.

I think that it was fun last night, even tho I was so tired and shaking from all the caffine I had had. I couldnt sleep for a few hours after I got home.. and it may have been becasue of the adrenaline. Apparently when you realize how long you have been working and are tired, but then think about the OT time your clocking... your body goes nuts! Fun times. Im just glad that I wasnt the one who had to drive home! My partner drove me in the work truck! (i was just listening to Micheal Jackson)

Umm today I dont know what to do with myself... i have the day off because I worked enough yesterday... and I know i should study.. but I dont feel like it cuz im still tired, but I cant sleep! I was up at 5am... haha went back to sleep but not really, my body doesnt work that way. It has become routine for me to be awake at that time every day, no matter how much sleep I have had. (Now its Mariah Carey).

Keith Urban is awesome.. (Im listening to him now) Im sorry, I cant make this longer and better but im still tired and not feeling too good from work yesterday. Gonna go tanning or something! Enjoy the silly March snow folks!

Keith Anderson - Pickin Wild Flowers! Tis the closing song of the day!