Wow... it's offical that I have the best job ever. Not only do I get to play with babies and kids but then there's the days like today...

I woke up at 11 becuase I didn't set the alarm and it was raining (rain + basement = no light to wake me) and when I woke up there was a message on the machine from work and they wanted me to come in from 12-2. So I called them back and told them I could do that, and they were very glad, and she told me that I would be with the young 2's again, but that there were only 3 of them there today and that I'd be there during their nap time so I could just bring a book or something. So basically I got paid to spend 2 hours reading a book I would have been reading anyway. Woohoo!

Then I came home, etc.

Oh, last night during girl's night Katrina taught us how to make books - like for pictures or journals, etc, and it's really fun and I really like the way mine turned out, so I think at some point in time I might make more and maybe try to sell them or something... Meagan, one of my housemates, makes and sells journals... could be fun. If you want to see my journal let me know, but you're not allowed to open it anymore because I started writing in it today.

urrently Reading
Searching for God Knows What
By Donald Miller
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This summer has been so amazing I just wish I had better words to describe it with.

Yesterday was such a great day... I was so at peace... mellow in a good way.

Woke up around 9:30 then just played a little. Then we went over to the church to pass out flyers to the community about our cookout that we're having Saturday. The people who live over there are really nice, it was fun to meet some of them. But it was FREAKIN' HOT outside... in the 90's. Came home for lunch and to relax, then it rained and cooled down quite a bit. Leslie had to go back to the church to get some Mary Kay stuff to mail to a client, and meanwhile I swung in the rain - AMAZING!

Came home and just relaxed, read a little bit, enjoyed the rain and the cool weather. Cooked chicken quesidillas for dinner.

This morning - French Toast at Conner's house followed by a discussion on the hardening of our hearts... it was a good discussion.

Came home.. went to campus to make fliers for our church's community cookout on July 2nd.. had issues there so it took awhile... went to the church to make copies... and eat freeze popsicle things... came home, cleaned the bathrooms with Leslie (they were gross) and then started cooking dinner for lotsa people (pasta)...

Later got a phone call from Chad Hacker... Emma had just gone to sleep and Tori just fed and he and Cherie wanted like 30 min to themselves so Stacy and I went over to play with baby Tori... only two weeks old! I love it. She made a loud poo too haha. Funtimes. Yay babies.

Then Starbucks to visit Kurt Rahn and get drinks (I got a cold non-coffee drink b/c I didn't want caffeine). Then home and I played with Stacy's keyboard. Now she's joined facebook.



Okay.

You can tell I saw DeeDee yesterday... I have a nice new set of bruises.

Going to see Traci and Lisa today, should be good...

Excellent class today. I hate calling it class because it's not really. Talked about integrity. Talked about failure. Failure is good.

Need to process it.

Tomorrow I'm going to Fort Wayne to hang out with two amazing girls I haven't seen in a long time. Yay for freshman year friends! Speaking of... saw Angie at dinner yesterday, haven't seen her in awhile either.

It's weird how things come full circle sometimes, like how I'm living with Audrey and Heather right now and they were on my freshman floor. And other things. Okay....

This is a weird post, sorry... thoughts changing faster than fingers can type.

Yesterday we went to the Reds game in Cincinnati. I don't like baseball but it was a good time to hang out with everyone and I got a nice sunburn and they won, so I guess yay for them.

This morning (7:30) I went into work with the 2 year olds - it was fun. Got off at noon then came back to the house and hung out with Mallory and Leslie, then Leslie, Stacy and I went to get stuff so Stacy could make cheesecake for Nathan's birthday today. Shh don't tell him (about the cheesecake. He probably already knows it's his birthday).

What a day... I wasn't sure what time it all started because Audrey borrowed my alarm clock, but I know she was still sleeping and that she wakes up early, so it had to be freakin' early. (Later I found out it was a little before 6 am.) So anyway, I'm lying there awake (down in the basement) and I hear what I SWEAR was a gunshot. I started freaking out. I knew there were people upstairs sleeping and my mind was very irrational - 6 am... I started wondering if someone shot someone else (some apartments across the street are pretty shady) or even if someone shot themselves (not necessarily a housemate, just in general). Then a few minutes later I heard someone pounding on our door and I freaked out even more, this time wondering if we were going to be robbed or something. (I don't like early mornings and strange sounds). Then people start mumbling and someone was running up and down the stairs (from 1st to 2nd not from 1st to basement) and Audrey woke up. I told her I heard a gunshot and had no idea what was going on and I told her she should pray (I already had been). Stacy slept through the whole thing. Then Audrey said she had to get up soon anyway so she went upstairs and came back down and told me and Stacy that the police were here and she thought that a neighor shot a deer and put it in front of Megan's car. That's not really what had happened....

Picture 9 girls (we had 2 guests last night) sitting on the front porch watching this cop stare at a baby deer he had shot, which was lying in front of Megan's car. Apparently a lady who lives near us had gone for a walk and saw this deer lying there and assumed the car next to it hit it and didn't report it (it was not fully dead at the time and she didn't want it to suffer) and so she called the police. So Officer Clementine (do you know him roomie??) came and he shot the deer so it wouldn't suffer. Then he rudely acused Megan of being the one that hit the deer. We were all witnesses to the fact that she had parked her car there at 8:30pm last night and had not moved it since. She was being pretty calm about it but Audrey was getting mad b/c he was being so rude about it and Melissa was just pissed in general. He claimed it had to have been Megan because there was fur and blood on her car.

Megan was drinking a mug of tea and he asked it if was coffee and when we said no he asked if he could have a cup of coffee (I guess he had joked to Audrey asking her what we would do if he asked and she said we would probably make a pot of it) so when he asked, Audrey was right, we made a pot. Finally he came to the conclusion that the blood and fur probably got on her car when he shot it. So he called some guy to come take the deer away.

A random old man shows up in a red pick up (at this point several neighbors are out watching) and with bear hands begins to gut the deer (Audrey took a picture with my digital hahaha) and throw the guts on our lawn (but later puts them in a garbage bag) and then picks the deer up and drains the blood - again in our yard. He throws the deer in his truck and then walks in our house to wash off his hands. Officer Clementine tells us that the firemen will come and wash the blood out of our yard and if they don't show up before noon for us to call.

So this all ended around 7:30 am and I went back to bed at 8 and woke up at 11. This afternoon the firemen still hadn't come so Leslie called and they showed up. One of the neighbors was watching the firemen with a look of "now what?" on his face and I also took pictures of them washing our lawn.

Yet another crazy day at the intern house...