Black Out

July 20th,

  I found the title quite fitting today as I have been without power from friday evening ti'll 3:30 today which, reminds me, I must sincerely apologize for not posting when I said I would.  Between how tired this tin can has been lately and the power outage I'm afraid this is the first "available" night I've had since the 17th. I say available although it's two in the morning, I've just begun, I've got alot to write, and I have to sing for church at 8:30 am as well as lifeguard, setup and take down, but hey if everything worked out all jazzy or something like that then I wouldn't be eighteen.

  As my time progressed in the past month I quickly realized I would not be able to actually account for every day that passed (in my writing absence) so I'll do the best I can to write out the "highlights" of the past 30 days using my personal journal to roughly recall the events as will follow.

June 18th-20th,

  I wrote my first letter since like fourth grade!  I felt so accomplished and ehhem....It was in cursive...mhmm.  My cousins were over and we hung out played a ton of games, went on a stream hike, went to the movies and ate lots of food.  My interview with CAP went great!

June 22nd,

  I'm just going to type exactly what's in my journal from this date, after all, isn't that what this is?

"6/23/13   ~Carmen  

It was graduate sunday at church today and I got to stand up and state my name, future plans, and then answer a random interview question as well as being prayed for by the congregation (and getting a CD)
which was very neat.  things got crazy when I got home though, it was Carrie's graduation party but it was pouring and there was lightning as well which canceled Me, Becca, and Logan's time to shoot as well as a zipline group Logan and I set up for earlier.  This city-slicker couple also came in to camp and drove down into the middle meadow while it was raining.  So someone told Logan and I that they needed to get out so we went down and tried (not knowing) that they we're fine ti'll morning. So we tried getting them out which resulted in them getting stuck further and getting more upset. We finally drove them to the lodge where they were "afraid" because it was so quiet and big.....really?  So anyhow after that, one more trip to middle meadow and a boat load of troubles with our soda machine we got them safely settled back in the lodge with some food and hopes for a better day tomorrow. "


 June 24th,

   This day was packed, It was my first day of five as a PCC VBS Crewleader, my kids were Josephine, Edward, Bethany, and Nicole, despite they're initial shell shock they were great.  I helped pulled out the Dodge Avenger from our middle meadow and split wood all evening. I also had a great call with Nathaniel as well as the "official" confrimation call from CAP.  Today was also the day I received Benjamin's first letter as well as some pretty bass (that's hip/beast etc...) mixed CD's.

June 26th,

  I went to see Now You See Me with Abigail and Priscilla......It was amazing.

June 29th,

  This was at least the eighth day in a row i'd been sick, yah.  Not much happened today except that I wrote my fifth song while manning the office.

July 4th,

  Independence Day, I spent the evening at Caz Lake hanging out with Chloe, it was an awesome evening.

July 5th,

  Apparently I was so sick I slept ti'll 12:50.....that's unheard of for me.

July 6th-17th,

  ...a crap load of work.


July 18th-19th,

  A tiring apprenticeship and a really amazing youth group.