"oh yeah, that's a unique thing to have.. just like arms and legs!"

So it's been a while since I've blogged.. maybe not that long but it feels like a long time... Only because I feel like as the days go by I'm connecting less and less back with the people I love... :(  Lucky for me, I have lovely people here.  But anyway, I've got some sweet emails and facebook messages and such and they make my day just knowing that I have people that miss me and love me and just wanted you all to know that I love and miss you too!  And I would love to write you all long emails detailing my days out here, or better yet tell you in person!, but this week has been busy.  Not to make it sound like I don't have time for you!  And I do have evenings off still but I'm just so like, so tired all I want to do is relax and sleep and when I talk to you all, I want to give you all the energy and attention you deserve - so that will come as things settle down!  But for now, just know that I really do love you all and I'm thinking many sweet thoughts :)  Please keep me updated on your lives though because... that's the hardest thing for me, being left out... I like to know what's going on with people I love - even little random things.

Just a little bit of an update on what's been going on...
We've been, as I said before, just doing lots of training for our jobs at the events, nothing new there.  On Saturday we did driver training with the fifteen passenger vans and trailer... I passed :)  I had sooo much of a hard time back the trailer up - not because of the whole opposit concept or whatever, that was fine.  But the instructor kept telling me to go right or left and his directions totally messed me up because... I don't know my directions.  And when he'd say go left and I'd turn the wheel right he didn't correct me till it was like way out of whack.  That was ridiculous.  But yeah, and then on the actual driving I think my previous driver stories freaked him out a bit because he only made me do right hand turns and everyone else had to do left.  Which is obviously hard on Winnipeg streets with a trailer... But yeah.  I was pretty chill though - that's the worst part about my driving.  I know my driving history and it does nothing to diminish my confidence.  That's where the real problem lies...

Today we did a mock set up of the event, it took us so long!  There's like crazy lots of decorations and lights and sweet things, my merchandise tent is awesome.  Please come to local events sometime and buy something after an event (they end at nine).  It's the sweetest thing and we have so much merch and it's sweet, especially the t-shirts and BUGs.  I now have three shirts and my own custom bug :)  (Speaking of bugs we've made just over 400 now - we have a goal of 500 before we get out on the road.)  Tomorrow we're doing a dress rehearsal of an event.  We'll see how that goes... :)

The weekend was pretty sweet, I got some evenings off and Karl was in the city for the weekend so Saturday night we went to... some hotel where his sister Amanda was staying with her husband and kids (the famous kate, brooke and peyton that I so love to talk about!) and it was so fun!  We had pizza and went swimming and it was so sweet hanging out with the girls, I missed them so much already!  Sunday night Karl was still in the city so we went for a late supper since I was done working at seven - we had steak at Moxies!  And just we ate and then went for a drive and just talked for like three hours straight before he took me home... :)  I forgot how much I missed talking to him in person, it's like I never run out of things to say to my best friend ;)

That last paragraph may be more information then necessary, I don't even know who all reads this blog but I figure if I want you to keep me updated on the random little details of your lives... I should do that too for you!

ALSO!  We're supposed to do personal devotions everyday here and it's actually really sweet - we pick a verse or a passage, write it down, write it in our own words, apply it to our life and pray to God about it.  And I like it because it's not like reading a devotional book with a daily lesson that doesn't always apply to what I'm going through - this is just it helps me just read the Bible and really get things out of it, and see just how much it applies to my life.  I started by picking random verses but that was really hard because I've never really studied the Bible all that much so I was kinda not knowing where to go, so I'm reading the book of Psalms.  So every blog I'm now going to end with the verse or passage of the day!  I love youuu!!

"Your face, Lord, I will seek...
Teach me your ways, O Lord,
Lea me in a straight path."
Psalms 27 : 8, 11