Storytime

*I am apologizing in advance for the length of this post*

So as some of you may or may not know I love to read books. I love to read to children. I love children's books specifically. I will read them to myself while a child ignores me, i could care less that I am a teen reading a toddlers book because I love them. But I also like to tell stories to said children. It is quite fun and they seem to enjoy it too. But there is this one person that I also tell stories to. His name is Chris (one of the most awesome guys i know) and although he admits he reads “most of what I write”, he does read and like my stories. He is my inspiration for many of the stories in my head. When talking to him, and only him, i get the urge to tell a story.  I will just start off with “Once upon a time…” and then just make up a story. I will just type and basically he is finding out what happens next at the same time I am. None of them are planned, they just flow out my fingers onto the page. Tonight, after telling him a story I decided that maybe I should share them with you fellow bloggers out there. I daresay you do need to be somewhat creative at writing to have a blog. So here is the story I wrote for him tonight. Oh and on a side note, almost every single one ends with a moral haha, it must be the fact that most children's books do too :) So here is story number 1…no name yet…maybe you have a suggestion? and i would also like to note they are the raw unedited ones he got, fresh out of my mind. They are not fleshed out, and could use some editing, which i may get to some day but they are basic storylines. Enjoy :)

Once upon a time a girl lived in a land of sherbet. Every morning she woke up and opened her eyes to a frosty windowpane. She would make a clear spot with her warm breath and peer upon the deliciously colorful terrain of beautiful sherbet. It was a chilly, frosty wonderland of an icy delicacy. Having lived there all her life though she was pretty immune to the cold, it was just a part of her life and she couldn’t imagine it any other way. She would walk down the lane with her spoon, passing fellow neighbors with their spoons and they would choose their morning treat. Near the large orange tree in the middle of town was a pile of freshly harvested orange sherbet. Near the grape school were piles upon piles of grape sherbet. Standing next to the lemon grocery store was a fresh batch of lemon sherbet. But the most popular and beautiful mound was that of the rainbow sherbet. It was a luscious mound that towered over everything at the end of the crystallized lane she walked upon. There people from all over the town could be found having sherbet ball fights in the middle of tasting each and every color of the rainbow. It was an amazing world to live in, imagine having sherbet every day! Everyone was happy because who isn’t when surrounded by a world such as this. All they needed to make it even more perfect was unicorns.

One day the girl and her friends overheard someone having a discussion about these unicorns over afternoon tea with their sherbet. Wanting the best for the town they decided to make everyone even more happy by going to find those unicorns. They set out on an adventure encountering more worlds then they could have ever fathomed. They passed through chocolate chip castles, sugar cookie cottages, and candy cane lanes. Finally they reached the end of the fantasy worlds and there they found unicorns. They were hidden among the sugary gumdrop trees in the forest of candy land. The girls set out rounding up a group of 12 or so then they headed back to Sherbet land. Upon their arrival they were greeted with cheers because everyone had heard of their endeavors to make this a perfect world. They were more then happy to finally have those unicorns, they would make everything complete. The girl and her friends were carried down the crystallized lane to the rainbow sherbet hill upon a frozen block of sherbet. It was a joyous time for all. Sherbet was shared and enjoyed by everyone as the festivities raged on.

The next morning, after a refreshing sleep the girl woke up, looked out her frosty windowpane, and gasped in horror. The piles of delicious sherbet had be demolished. Where there were once mounds of the yummy stuff there were little puddles left. She left her house and headed down the crystallized path. Slowly others began to awake and come out of their houses. People all up and down the lane were gasping and crying and shouting because of the dismal state of their town. The girl could not believe it. Neither she nor anyone in the town had any idea where the sherbet had gone. Then she looked over to rainbow hill and saw the 6 unicorns! They were munching on the sherbet like it was their own gumdrop trees. They had been awake all night and wreaked havoc on the towns piles of sherbet. Everyone charged at the  unicorns once they realized they were the source of the trouble. They were mad, but they were not mad at the girl and her friends. She had only tried to bring the complete happiness that everyone had craved. They had all encouraged her. They were all at fault for being so greedy.  Finally a  group of adults took the unicorns and returned them to their proper home in the gumdrop forest. The townspeople made a quick decision to ration their servings of sherbet until it all the sherbet was replenished and the town went on its merry way, no worse for the wear.

As the little girl looked around she realized that you should be happy with what you have because you don't know how good you have it until its gone.

Babysitting Machine

 

Having been called a babysitting machine multiple times recently i feel the need to address the matter. It makes me laugh because its such a normal part of my life. But then upon closer inspection I see that to a normal person (i refer to normal as one having a life) the massive amount of children I watch is overwhelming.  I as of right now have at LEAST 15 families i babysit for. Not all are regular jobs but I am their on call babysitter. Every week, on a normal week, I rack up at least 9 hours of childcare. Amazingly this has even decreased since the beginning of school when it was more like 11 or 12. But see that's a normal, every week, schedule. As we all know we have officially entered the holiday season. Normally any business becomes very busy around now. Well my job is no different. This is my busy season. Don’t believe me? Want some proof? How about I give you my schedule for the next 2 weeks or so.

Dec 11th (today): Michael 3:15-5:45 and Twohill 7-10

Dec 12th: Twohill 6:30-10 at least

Dec 13th: Nursery 9am-12 (This is volunteer though)

Dec 14th: Stickles 3:45-5:45

Dec 15th: Dayne 4-5:15 and Rory 6-10

Dec 16th: Dayne 4-5:15

Dec 17th: Women's fellowship 9am-11? (find out on Wednesday)

Dec 18th: Michael 3:15-5:45 and Twohill 6:30-10 maybe haha

19th and 20th I am free as of right now

Dec 21st: Henry 9am-2pm and Stickles 3:45-5:45

Dec 22nd: Henry 9am-3:30pm

So I hope that gives you some insight. Some of these days even include final exams. fun fun fun :) As you can see for the next 12 days i have 2 or 3 free days. But these days have the chance to fill up within the next week or so. When you write it all out like that I agree it can be a lot…more then most are used to. But all i can say is…I LOVE it. I love the children and constantly being surrounded by them. Sure the money doesn't hurt towards my college education but its definitely the joy i get from the children that’s the motivation and reason i surround myself with them. I am thinking of being a nanny as my job but right now i am not sure. I just want to interact with children until i can have my own.

Those are my thoughts on my newest nickname…enjoy.

My Adventure in the First Snow

So basically I have a problem with college. Today we got 6  inches of snow at my house, it was hailing when i woke up, and the street had not been plowed yet when i woke up. Yet when I called “weather phone” they informed me that “ School is running on a normal schedule today. Have a great day.” I hung up the phone depressed. How in the world was I going to make it to my 8am class on time I wondered. I decided to skip it because it was just the 2nd to last one of the semester, not important. But I needed to go to my 10am one which was my English final exam.

Getting ready to go I figured that since our house is in like its own climate that maybe Quinnipiac hadn't been as affected by the snow. Boy was I wrong. The whole way to school I had to slush through snow on the roads, drive extra slow trying to see because of the pouring rain, and when I finally arrived at QU walk through puddles to the main campus. Upon arriving in the QUAD I thought I had been transported to the middle of Lake Whitney or something. Every single pathway had like 2 inches of water. Something they decided not to advertise in their beautiful brochures.  People were splashing through on their way to class. There were UGGS and Rubber rain boots everywhere! Unfortunately for me I own neither of these. So my socks were a bit soggy by the time I got to my class. I took my exam and got out of that lake as soon as possible.

So since I did not have a snow day today, when i believe one was merited, I must go to class soon. Ugh, one of my last night classes. Criminal Law. Its final review time tonight. Friday ends QU101. Monday ends Photography. Wednesday ends Criminal Law. Thursday ends Sociology. Then I am officially done with this semester! I can’t wait for it. A month of Christmas break! :)

Off to class in this soggy slush I go. Bye.

Exhaustion

So I didnt make the 3 days. I was planning on it then got to my computer at 11pm and decided I just couldnt, writting a blog would have made me fall asleep. Then yesterday I was out from 10am to 10pm. Didnt even get to finish my homework because I got home and was EXHASUTED. It was a great weekend though. And I just found out some news about finals, and classes ending earlier then expected which is pretty sweet.
ahhh even now...my brain is too tired to think.....So i just ate chips, cookies, and had some soda. while in the library...bad girl, then again the lady just passed by, saw my trash and said nothing. I dont understand why you arent supposed to eat in here but then everyone does because its never enforced. Whats the point of saying you cant? hmmm....exactly, idk either.
So i am going to have lunch soon with my friends then I think I will go home and take a nap. Another thing I dont understand...why did we have naps in kindergarten, when we had all the energy in the world, and yet do not in middle/high school, or college. They should have a mandatory nap time. right after gym would have been nice :) With the number of people who fall asleep in classes I think it would be beneficiary to everyone on a whole.
I am wearing fuzzy socks. They are warm. It was freezing out this morning. I love fuzzy socks. One christmas everyone in our family got socks, at least 2 pairs of fuzzy ones, dont know what it was about that christmas but our feet were nice and warm in the snow!

My mom has a blog, with a story, its cool, Jacob mentioned i should link it, so here it is: Tanta's Kitchen

Procrastination...and Christmas?

I feel as if procrastination can be talked about by everyone in every way possible. Usually in my sphere of things its always about homework or at least school work. Often time i find that's all I think I procrastinate about. But recently I have broadened my view of what I do in life and how much never gets done on time. It feels like I am in a constant battle to get done with my to do list, and to get it all done by a deadline. When in fact I shouldn't even have a to do list. I should just be doing things when I come upon them and not have to worry about when it needs to be done by. But we are a world of lazy people whether or not you like it, most of us have just over time grown into this and its a hard mold to break. Because of this we do find the need to have a to do list and sometimes that bugs me but oh well, at least thinking about it is a good start to things...right?

Want to know what I have found I procrastinate with?

~Papers. I find i write better under the pressure of a deadline unfortunately and the grades i receive are not a good reinforcement to stop procrastinating because rarely are they bad.

~Reading my bible. I would love to be able to do it every day but i find myself putting other things before it on my "to do list". Then it gets pushed to the next day, where i read extra to make up, but its not the same because i know i am just reading because i missed it.

~Laundry. Yeah this is a huge one, if you have ever seen my room you know this. I will wait until i have no possible outfits left, then i end up doing like 4 loads of laundry...that's a lot.

~Using Presents. I know this is kinda a weird one but trust me I really want something, receive it, then find I don't use it a few months because I didn't have time. Want an example? I got a car for my birthday. My brother got me a CD player/stereo thing for it. That was in June, it is now December and it has not even been installed. I wonder if the warranty is up.

~Reading. I love to read, pleasure reading is a favorite past time. And yet Facebook or video games, or TV (actually not much TV) lures me in. In the corner of my room i have a stack of 15 books i want to read, not have to, but WANT to. (A few of those are also presents i have yet to use from June)

Okay so I think you get the point. I need to work on this but I find i am slowly. Homework is getting done a bit more on time and laundry is being washed a bit before it is absolutely necessary. Which rocks. Cause then i have a variety of outfits to choose from :)


On another note. I have ONE week of classes left, yay! Then a week of finals. Which I am hoping isn't too stressful. Then an entire MONTH off of school. Which is awesome. Yes, be happy with me, its awesome and you know it.

I am so excited for Christmas you can't even imagine unless you happen to be overly excited for it too. Are you? I don't know. What i do know is I am going to Sturbridge Village this weekend for a Christmas outing which will be soooooooo full of holiday spirit and then Sunday is our Carol Service and singing Christmas songs is always good for you :).

What your favorite Christmas song? Mine is most definitely "The Christmas Shoes" by Newsong. It is sad but amazing. They even made a movie from that one song, which takes skill, and the movie was great. One of the only ones i have actually cried during...anyways...enjoy your day. enjoy my post. maybe i can make it 3 days and do one tomorrow too! Because the one before this counted as yesterdays whether or not it was posted after midnight.

Ciao.

PS. That was nice and long right Elizabeth?

EDIT* Yesterdays was posted before midnight. So it will eb 3 days in a row if i get one in tomorrow...busy day though...so it may be really late who knows

Jacob

Yes…the title says Jacob. “Who?" you ask may this be?  Well I will tell you. He is probably one of the most awesome people i have met this past year. I met him a year ago, a friend of my friend Mike. We went to the mall and Jacob was one of the reasons it was an enjoyable trip. He is just plain funny. I think after becoming a world famous musician he can become a world famous comedian. But maybe that's just me. So on this trip Jacob continued to make us laugh after trying to play in the little kids playground thingy, changing all the hats on the mannequins and telling us we could get diabetes from a Cinnabon cinnamon roll. It was the beginning of a great friendship.

So now that you know him you’re asking why do i mention him? Why is he the title of this post? Simply because he is my inspiration. The reason I am writing this blog. He recently started his own blog (www.justatpar.com). Its hilarious and I love reading it. Really look forward to each time he updates it which he so kindly informs us about on Facebook :). The fact he is keeping it up, and that he decided to read mine, made me think I shoudl update mine more then once a century haha. Elizabeth I know i promised in the last one I would write more….and didnt…so this is for you as well has him okay?

So whats new in the life of Kay? Well not much really other then a hugely busy weekend coming up! With wreath making, a trip to Sturbridge village, meeting my “little” (BIg Brother Big SIster Program) a carol service and rehearsal for that as well, I am quite booked. While seeing friends in between my car is going to be everywhere! I best go get gas tomorrow!

Well its late…and i am doing homework. So this shall have to satisfy for now. Maybe it will be my new years resolution to write more…hmm still got time for that ;)

Kay