I'm off, and it's early...

Hey guys. It's like seven something in the morning, and I'm about to take off for school. It feels really odd to blog so early, but here I am. Halleluia today's Friday...I don't think I could take one more day of school. this weekend's gonna be busy. Tonight I babysit for six hours. Tomorrow morning I'm bagging groceries with FCA at cubs for four hours. Tomorrow evening, I'm going to church to eat pizza and play capture the flag. I'm excited, that should be fun.
OK, I'm excessively jealous that I just remembered you're all still at home, curled up in your covers, looking forward to a free day...yeah well, sleep late for me...I'll be thinking of you with envy all day!
I miss talking to you...Jordan- CALL ME!!! Or at least e-mail me. I miss you like crazy! Seth...you should basically keep me posted on school. Did you ever move? If you're not at a public school, whe should pretty much set that blog thing up, so we can exchange the various pains of public school life...RAMBY!!! Joel, great game yesterday...it was fun to watch you, bro! Erica, I agree, we need to hang out...I could use people to hang with. Sometime soon, when school slows down a little bit (?????). Darlene, good to see you too, and Hanah and Austin. Miss you guys like crazy...hope you guys have a wonderful day.
In His Love,
casey

Guess what?

I just talked to Seth. Yeah, for the first time in what seems like decades, I talked to him. It was so good! Thanks, man...

So, I miss you all tons! My puppy, Maddie, is 25 lbs! She is going to be huge soon, but she isnt too big yet. She is still small, but bigger than she was when we got her, obviously. Tomorrow is her first day of puppy school. She is doing much better, though, with biting and just being WILD, so hopefully this will altogether eliminate it.

AHHHH! Saturday is my first debate tournament! I am so nervous. My partner and I compete against three other teams in three different rounds. Each round is 74 minutes long! That is crazy. Hopefully, we will do okay.

Well, keep blogging, its been great to read all your updates! Thanks.

Jordan

an update

hey!

okay, so, i havent blogged in about 4 days, unusual, but its okay. im glad that the teachers are bogging down everyone with homework (sarcastic). my dad got his second drain out a few days ago, he is drain free! praise God.

I saw Flight Plan today. It wasnt amazing. Red Eye was much better, because Red Eye was more suspensful. This movie was interesting, but a lot like the Forgotten until the end. I wont say anymore, but I would give this movie a...2.

Well, hopefully I will talk to you soon.

Jordan

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'm freaking out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey all you freshmen...mostly not freshmen any more...mostly just sophomores:
Today's homecoming! And I'm losing it! I got up and made brownies earlier this morning which I'm taking to Annie Martin's house when I go for dinner. Then I took a shower, and I just painted my nails. I'm trying desperately not to get bump or ruin them...it's all your faults if I do. I'm heading to annie's house at 3:30 to get ready with her (as in the dress, the makeup, etc.) and then the other girls she invited are coming at like 5:30. We're gonna have a nice dinner and take lots of pictures before we head to the dance at 7. I'm really nervous about that. Actually, I could use your prayers if you think of me. For one, I have NO IDEA how to dance, which I can see becoming a bit of a problem. Plus, I'm just scared of what I'm gonna find. I seriously considered going with a blindfold on so as to avoid things I don't want to see. When I posed this idea to a girl at school, she asked me how I was gonna avoid running into people if I couldn't see..."seeing eye dog", I replied immediately. Can you not just see me doing that? No response, please.
if I make it through the dance alive, I think I'm heading over to the Powell's house for a bonfire with some other girls. That should be fun. I just hope I can find some nice people whom I feel comfortable hanging out with. I don't just want to sit in a corner all night, but i also don't want to get hooked up with the wrong group.
So that's my day in a nutshell. This is really weird. I keep remembering DCS homecoming...Seth doing his best to act a gentleman with Erica, Jay interspersing hysterical comments here and there randomly, Jordan and Joel throwing salad across the table, picking up a spinach leaf and, looking outraged, were just like "What IS this?" Haha!!! Good times. Miss you guys.

basically

i could live off of phone calls from mar. thanks. so much.

well, today was a long day.

I woke up at 5.
I left the house at 6.
Got to Walmart at 6:10
Got to school at 6:40.
Had See You At The Pole at 7.
Had school at 7:55.
Had a debate meeting at 3:03.
Had a debate mentoring meeting at 3:10.
Left school at 4:30.
Got to church at 4:50.
Bible-quizzing practice at 5.
Church at 6:30.
Home, finally, 14.5 hours after I left, at 8:30.

I am TIRED.

God Bless you.

Jordan

PS. This is Bond Falls in UP Michigan. Less than 2 hours away.

okay, i just reread my last post, it sounded pretty rushed and weird. anyways...

it is 6:16 am. I am about to go to driver's ed. this whole drivers ed thing is annoying. well, all we do is watch movies and stuff. whatever.

so i went with my family to march of the penguins yesterday. one of the theaters in town has held it over for 3 months so we figured it would be good. i never thought i would go see this movie, but it was good! it was interesting. it was funny sometimes, stupid sometimes, and sad sometimes. It was good, overall.

Yesterday, I had a really annoying day. My spanish class switched to second lunch, so, now i eat later. i have 2 1/2 classes, then lunch, then 1 1/2. weird. i use to have first. but, i dont mind switching, because there are some pretty cool people in both luches, really, its fine, but it throws off my day. then, things got worse. spanish was annoying because there are some jerks in there that are really "im cool"ish. they were making fun of a bunch of people, it just ticked me off. then, my debate teacher forgot to tell a student that my group was meeting with him, so, that was off. no more meeting, although we need it. i guess we might meet wednesday. oh, and in debate, we needed to have five briefs on the enemy combatants, which probably meant nothing to you, but i really need to say this to get it out of my system, haha, and i didnt know, so my partner and i had five briefs on all four novice topics, which this is probably really confusing, and if you really care, im me, and ill talk to you, doubt ill get many of those IMs. And to top off a great day, some fourth grade kid called me weird. "Thanks." haha, i dont really care about that part, i just thought it would be funny to put it in there.

okay, ill ttyl...

Jordan

i was just going to bed, and i have more to blog, this is just one thing to joel

JOEL! my dog is like your dog! It is 11:17 pm, and i just heard sirens. then i hear this wierd noise outside, and it freaked me out. then, haha, it was maddie! i just thought of your dog, because with the whole howling thing. She was howling with the sirens, it was hilarious

ok, i will blog more tomorrow, but i need sleep. see ya...

Jordan

ps...seth, i want you to move here. haha

pss...i havea lot more to blog about my day and how annoying and stuff it was, but i gotta go. see ya!

red eye

i saw red eye saturday with josh , abe, and ryan, it was ok...i thought it was kinda corny, it reminded of cellular, really fake. i don't like it when everything turns out perfect, becuase its so unrealistic, but there was a couple spots where my heart was beating pretty hard, but id give it one star....

life

i know that is a lot of my blogs titles. but i dont care.

i saw finding neverland with my family tonight. it was good. if you were involved in the debate about it at the holmes house, please talk to me and ill tell you my opinion.

im not dealing with life too well right now, so please be praying. my brother too. he isnt having a great time with school.

thanks so much

please please please keep in touch.

jordan

help the cause

here is the deal , jay, seth, austin, and i are getting an xbox 360, but jordan probably is not, so lets donate him money for that cause, or on his birhday november 9, send him him money for an xbox 360, that would be awesome if all of the five had one , becuase we could play with each other when ever, so donate!

Okay, I'm through with this not having contact stuff

I want to know how everyone can get a hold of everyone. Except me.

Jordan

this one is for seth

at trigs
(grocery store)
there was
a dog bone
called
THE BEHEMOTH

made me think purely of you.

Life...

Oh, man. I miss you all so much. Call sometime. Darlene, I'm really sorry I missed your call.

Well, on Thursday, we headed out of town to St. Paul/Minneapolis. We went to a pastors conference. Yes, we went to Mall Of America. Yes, it was awesome. And it was so good to see Chris!

The Mall of America is so awesome! It is a little different from how I remembered it from when I was little. First, we went to Camp Snoopy. I rode the roller coaster along with a girl from church, Lyssa Messerli, Pastor's daughter, Michael's age. My mom and my little brother rode a different ride, a little complicated to explain. So I wont. Haha. Then we went to eat. I ate at two differnt places. Long John Silvers [Evanne! ha] and Asian Chao. It was good. I hate oriental food, but I tried this one thing. It was good. Then we went to Krispy Kream for dessert. Oh, and we went to the LEGO store! It's so neat. Lego's rule. JOEL, SETH - I WENT TO MY FIRST APPLE store. They ROCK. I love Macs and that is all there is to it. I liked them before I went to the store and I liked them better after I left the store. Seriously, I can't describe the feeling. Haha, after that, I went to a store by the name of - Erika, Hannah, brace yourselves - The LOVESAC. Those beanbags are still SO comfortable. Seriously, I about fell asleep. In case Erika and Hannah don't remember, We went there with John at Shaumburg mall. We also went to the Mall Of America Store. It was SO fun.

I swam like the whole weekend. haha, swimming is good, but i get tired of it sometime.

On Saturday, we went to see chris! It was so fun, I miss him so much. We saw his room, etc. We went to the mall there, and ate at Ruby Tuesday. Mm, mm, good. Then, we looked at some different store, including ANOTHER APPLE STORE!!!!!!!!! I love Macs, but I already said that.

Chris, I miss you. Jay, get online and BLOG. Austin - keep on making points and stuff. Haha. Everyone else, I;ll hopefully see you soon. I wil also hopefully send you a pic of me [school] in the mail. It might be huge, because the people at RHS think senior picture size is wallet. Jerks. I have 20 of those.

Well, talk to you later.

Jordan

hey jordan

dude do you remember that one awesome day when we had african drum lessons and chris came to pick us up and our weird teacher maybe him write something on paper and put it in the basket...what did he ahve to write again? and then we went to chuckie cheese with your youth group and darlene came, we ahd a blast, i saw that picture we took there and it reminded me of that awesome day

KC's updates...no Dr. Hargrove, I'm not from Casey and the Sunshine Band

Hey guys,
It's been a while since I've posted. I've kept up on reading what everyone else writes, but I thought it's time I contribute a bit again. Well, for those of you who didn't read the detailed description on my personal blog, there was the first big fight at MacArthur the other day...and it was like six inches behind me. I dove out of the way and turned back around to see fists flying in every direction, tables being torn wrecklessly down, chairs being thrown at people. My friends and I went back to our table after it was finished and found blood on our books and food that we hadn't had time to grab. Some kid had left pretty beat up evidentally. That was a scary moment for me, a real piece of the real world. Other than that, nothing drastic has happened. I'm finding my classes are going to be difficult, and it'll be almost impossible to pass with straight A's this year. Chemistry and European History are both college classes, and are INCREDIBLY tough. Socially, I suppose I'm doing OK. I'm still getting to know people, but I feel uncomfortably out of place. It's like as a Christian I don't feel like I can enjoy the leisure of blending into my surroundings. I have to bear the burden different. I don't feel like I can participate in the fun, the laughs, and the jokes, most of which are based crudely on some pretty messed up stuff. But I haven't figured out how to "keep myself unspotted from the world" and have fun at the same time. So for now, it's pretty lonely. Everyone else is having a great time, and I'm just kind of off by myself being the "goody-goody" girl. I'm afraid it's frightfully difficult to be myself, much more challenging than at DCS, where I immidiately felt at home with Christians and friends. I don't know how to react to a world that's completely different from me, so I just keep quiet, keep to myself. That's not a healthy perspective, I know, and it's not good for my spirit to be all shut up like that. But I simply don't have any friends there, and it's such a struggle to make new ones in a public school of 1400. OK, enough whining from me. I'm trying to keep my chin up and maintain a positive and trusting perspective. I'm not sure I'm succeeding.
But anyway, I'm enjoying church a lot, where I find myself suddenly revived, even with the strange new group we've formed. Between that and e-mail, I'm surviving. So if you have a few spare minutes some time, jot me a note...it means the world to me right now! And Jordan, I'm still waiting to hear about school for you...call sometime.
Flashes of DCS memories still run through my mind at least one hundred times a day, and I can't stop thanking God for all of you. What a joyful year you brought to me last year...you're the best group ever. I would appreciate your prayers right now, and I'm praying for many of you right now too. Miss you greatly.
Casey

Andrea and Holly

We visted Andrea and her family in Lake Tomahawk and Holly was there! It was so fun! I hope to see you soon, all. And if not, at least talk soon!

Jordan

church, jerky bees, and no school

Well, I am about to go to church. I decided I wanted to wake up early, so I got up at 7. I woke up to static, and I about yelled at Michael to turn off his alarm. Then I realized it was mine. I sat up, and turned the dial the opposite way, to beeping, and i kept turning it, so it went to static, and stuff, and I was so frustrated because I couldn't turn it off, so I just unplugged the stupid clock.

I woke up, took a shower, when out to Maddie, and all of a sudden, I hear Maddie yelping and running through the woods, because she goes into the trees behind our house a little, not much. When she came up to me, I started petting her head, and I found a bee in her fur! It flew off, then back to her head. Now, normally, she would be running around right now, but she is laying down on the blanket on the ground. :(

And last, but not least, NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY! Maybe we should drive down and visit you all! I would be for it. Turns out school is going to be hard, academic-wise, and obviously, socially-wise, when you have about 10 friends in a school of 1200, that is a little on the weak side, especially when you miss your friends from Decatur, ;).

Well, I'd better go, I will talk to you all soon. Hopefully. Seth, either I am calling the wrong number or you hate me. Haha. And Erika, I love that collage.

Jordan

First day at RHS

I know you are all DYING to hear about my first day, right?

Well, I woke up at about 6:15. Got ready, got our first day of school picture taken, then off to wait for the bus. Michael and I saw a deer while waiting it ran across the highway. Then, the bus came. Michael had a friend so he sat with him. I sat across the row from him. With this really cool fourth grader. He's pretty much the best. Ever.

So we got to school, and the horrors began. Just kidding. I got into the commons, the main room, found Nathan Wilcox and stood with him. Saw a few people I recognized. So, then I went to homeroom. Mr. Linteureur [?] is awesome. He is funny and I like him a lot. He told my friend, Eric Klemm to watch his language, because he thought he said something instead of "shift". He was telling a story about a car. So that was funny. Then, I tried to find my locker, but guess what? No luck. Turns out #497 isnt in between lockers #1-1000 or so. It is between #1001 or so to #1500. Annoying. Well, anyways. Then, I was late to Algebra 2. Turns out that is going to be a REALLY hard class, because we cover 2-3 lessons a day. Ugh. Then, Global Studies...EASY. Then lunch, which I like because I have like 7 people I know in it. After lunch comes spanish which is going to be a cinch or sinch or zinch. Then, debate, which is going to be HARD but really fun. All in all, it isn't horrible. It isn't amazing or even "good". But it certainly isn't terrible. The halls are horribly congested. Some of the kids are HUGE. Massive.

School really makes me miss you guys, seriously. It's hard being alone. Not alone, but basically alone in a school that huge. I am so blessed to have people at the church trying to make it easy for me. Nathan, Eric, Danielle, Hannah, Becky, and some others. But that doesn't change the fact that I miss you guys terribly.

And thanks so much for all the prayers. They have helped a lot.

Jordan