Frolic

I feel like a bird. Okay, let me explain. Today is a wonderful day. This is exactly how I feel:

I woke up to see a beautiful pink and orange canvas sky outside my window. As I walk to get picked up the sun washed the whole neighborhoud, turning everything it touches to gold. I'm wearing sandals for the first time this year and there are sunglasses placed uptop my head nestled in my hair where the belong, (well while i'm inside). Now as i type the sun is still brilliantly flowing throught the library windows and the campus is alive with the sound of the nearing summer. Students have taken to outside versus the hallway benches and alcove tables. Not a picnic table our outside bence is vacant. As I walk across campus I hear Vampire Weekend play in my head.

I am so giddy and filled with exuberence I just wanna dance, do cartwheels, handstands and somersaults, and roam the campus touching everything that the sun has turned golden. I wanna roll down a hill. I feel as though i'm weightless and my heart the floating, the only thing containing it is my ribcage.

I feel inspired and ambitious. Like the world is at my finger tips, because it is. And I know I can do anything I set my mind to and succeed abundantly because GOD IS GOOD!

So I now just wanna go to a field and frolic listening to The Beatles and climb a tree. Then stop at the beach and dig my feet into the ground then drive with the music cranked and my hair in the wind.

SUMMER HERE WE COME.

Seababe

I actually don't know what it is with me and water. I LOVE the oceans/lakes/rivers....to a certain extent. You see when I was younger you couldn't get me out of the water. On holidays my parents used to call me a mermaid. I would literally just sit in the lake at our hotel all day and not come out. I would even have to have my lunch in the water. Nowadays i've adapted this fear of fish, for some reason I think they all bite horribly which is ridiculous. Anyways, theres just something about water that just makes me at peace.

The last year as you've noticed i've had this longing to go sailing well this summer its paralleled with the desire to spend all day canoing. packing a lunch, eating it out on the lake and just splishy splashing around. Anyone wanna join me?

And I wanna learn to surf!

HEY NICOLE, i'm talking to you.

NOTE TO SELF:

When feeling low or unispired this summer

READ THIS

and your bible

I wanna live this summer to it's fullest. Seize the moment cause if the last year has taught me anything you have to treasure the time you have on this planet and definitely the time you have with people You're only at this stage of your life for so long.

Me and Gab's were talking the other day about how sometimes she gets frustrated and just wants to be done with all the in between and just wants to be where she wants to be already. And thats exactly how i've been feeling the last year. I just wanna own my design firm and have a family. Maybe I wouldn't go as far as to say frustrated, theres just some days where I just wanna be there, you know. Yes, sometimes the getting there sucks but today I realised I have to much to do in this time right now. Heck i'm not even 20 yet.

I think dreaming does that to you, you get so excited for the future and you start to dream bigger and God shows you what he wants for your future and its so awesome you just want it now. If there wasn't a reason for the road to getting there God would just give it to you.

Today, in particular, was a day full of inspiration and good news. It definitely showed me how much I do love learning and dreaming. I realised that right now to get where I want to be I need to be learning and dreaming. I wanna learn something new everyday and live everyday more inspired than I ever have. Live my summer with a purpose, hence the list. To take time to be my age, and act like a fool with my friends.

SUMMER GOAL:

Live life to the fullest

God died to give you life

Forget Me Not

So theres a few more things i wanna add to my summer to do list

Stargaze several times

Get lost

Kids camp...of course

Room Reno's

Find a Design firm to intern at or just do office work or CADD work for

Climb a tree
visit OK falls
Go canoeing
Downtown several times
Never let a day pass without doing ANYTHING
Go back to that ferry terminal town Gan Chanel and I took pictures at.

Let the sun on my shoulders shine.

I'm getting so excited for summer. I have lots planned as always, and like usual most of them won't be completed but this year i'm determined. I wanna be a beach junkie.

 My plan is as soon as this semester is over legit try and get my liscence, and my parents are at the point to do anything to get it. Lesson to be booked test in May booked and if i fail i'm going to go on standbye every two weeks until i get it. Cause it's just ridiculous. Get my truck and cruise to the beach when ever i'm not working.

So this is my summer time bucket list:

Get my liscence
Road trip
be a beach junkie
Learn to suft
Turn 20!
Make a fort on the beach and
    literally chill there all day from morn to past sundown
Have a picnic
hold an actual bar b que
Have a giant tea party
Camp out in my yard
Go for a "nature walk" and take pictures
Photo shoot
Ride a bike around the Sea Wall
Camping
Find a beach that allows bonfires and have one
Bon fire in my back yard.
Make a GIANT fort and have a movie marthon in it
Finish 3 books
Read my books in the sun at the beach
Finish my sketch book for my portfolio
Interview some local Designers

Thats all i can think of for right now :)

In the Summa Time When the Weather is Fine

So i've been really psyched for summer lately. I've been thinking about all my plans. Camping, road trip, and hopefully a foreign country! There's definately a few things I wanna do this summer that I didn't get to do last summer. One of those things is spend much more time in the water. Possibly some of the time learning to surf! Its been a rough week and God and thinking about summer has definately kept me positive. These pictures were also a big inspiration!

Sit Back and Wave Through the Daylight

For the last few weeks I've had this longing to go sailing. Summer is almost over and I know I probably won't get a chance to fulfill this dream. I really really really want to go! Maybe in Setember? Cause I wanna go so very badly.

Check your handbooks, it's no trick

VAMPIRE WEEKEND
WOOT WOOT WOOT
so stoked for the concert and spending some time with the best friend downtown :)

LIFE KIDS 2010

So it's definately been awhile! Life has been super duper busy. The week after my last post was kids camp! I cannot believe how extraordinary it was. I keep having dreams that its still happening and then waking up fully expecting that i'm back in that week. It is in fact a saddening feeling that it is indeed over, but its exciting to think about all the kids that were saved and have their lives changed and that next year is coming up! The last week basically all i can talk about it kids camp. I think my family and my friends that weren't part of kids camp are sick of hearing me talk about it. I'm sure. I keep telling the following stories; only these are just tid bits because well..then i would just ramble on remembering how amazing those moments were and you would just be bored.
Keasen - that kids just makes my heart grow and break all at the same time.
"everywhere we go..people wanna know.." - team cheer
The Bethlaham Boys and The Galilee Girls Morning arobics
How i still have Boom Chicka boom, Battlefeild, and many more songs stuck in my head.
Kareoke Star Sr.
The kids had to pick out kitchen utensils not knowing that would be what they are dinner with.
Monk's dinner and dog food. Oh my.
Colossal Canyon...Paula + No hands.
Bus rides.
When Jesse's team won, and still to this day he is gloating about it
Baptism
ALL the kids and how much fun I had with them.
and just everything in general.

Get an idea of how awesome kids camp was because i'm 100% sure i'm missing alot there.

Cheerio Mate

Letitia's last night in Canada
No sleep
'Nough Said

Project Summer 2010

So I have decided i'm going to accomplish alot this summer. I'm looking at it as a way to get me moticated before going back to school so I stop being such a procrastinator.

1) Keep my dear friend Eduardo alive
This is a test because every pet I have I never properly take care of; usually involving me not cleaning its cage. If I can keep Eduardo alive along with a few more additions I think i'll be ready for some other pet. Maybe we'll start small with a Goldfish.

2) Learn Piano
I've always had a love formusic. When I was little my dream wasn't to be a teacher like all the others; I wanted to be a singer. Although I kept it a secret to myself. I'm excited to pursue this new idea. I know its going to take a lot of work and practice, who's gonna keep me accountable.

3) GO CAMPING WITH FRIENDS!
I want to do this so much since May long weekend was sooo much fun last weekend with the bestests. I want a week where me and my friends can go into the wilderness sit by the campfire and talk about anything all weekend. Talk about god, inspire each other, pray, and worship. I just think the whole weekend would be amazing for all of us to just get away.

4) Start a sketchbook/paint more
I'm taking drawing next year in college and i'm a little intimidated. Since i didn't draw all that much through high school besides grade 12, I don't want to go into the class starting with nothing. I want the class to just carry on from where I was not feeling like i'm the biggest noob in the class.

So for now that is all. I'm sure I'll come up with more, but lets just see how I do with this.

The "Real World"

So it's June. That time of year when school winds down, and the summer feelings start to pick up. Plans are made but most never followed. The beach towels and the bathing suits are brought out while the turtle necks and scarfs are put to the back of closets.
Every Monday Grad's are posting picture from their proms. All the pretty dresses, the limos. It's making me a tad nostalgic. Don't get me wrong I don't miss high school I guess I just miss school.
PS. I'm stoked to actually be going to college next year! YES!
I can't believe the fact that I have been graduated a year. Out in the real world so people call it. It doesn't even feel that different. I feel like I've been spending my whole life to prepare for this so called "real world." And this is it?

So this past year I have learned so much about myself it isn't even funny, yet sometime i feel like what i thought i learned didn't end up being true.
Contemplated getting promoted, to wanting to quit my job all together. I apparently can't decide if I love it or hate it.
Wanted to move out but just couldn't justify the finances, because my family situation is just unbearable.
I am doing things and in charge of things I didn't even think I would ever be involved in, proving just how much god is in control. But that's a whole other post altogether.
Found out who my real friends really are, no longer do you have to make small talk with the people you sit beside, or are in your high school "clique"
I got to find out who I can really do life with, and that I definitely love my bestest friends, and the people I have become much closer to. Here's the thing, when high school is over and done with you know the ones that count are the ones you still make an effort to stay in touch with.

Many people told me, "No, don't take the year off, you'll never go back to school. You're going to do nothing with your life."
Truth = This year was the best thing I have done for myself. No, I may be miserable at work at the moment, but hey school has always been easy for me, and i knew this wouldn't be. All of the above wouldn't have happened if I didn't. I wouldn't have been sure of everything I am of now. First and foremost, my relationship with god has grown tremendously. He has opened so many doors for me and given me so many experiences that the rest of my life will never be the same.

So I'm going to stop writing this essay now, pce.





Oh and now blogger isn't even letting me post pictures in my blogs, thnx alot!

Look out summer here we come.

Okay so his voice makes my me melt! I just wanna listen to his voice on repeat over and over and over again.
And this is live! Fantastic.
Like someone said in one of his comments;
If Gavin Degraw, Jason Mraz and James Morrison had a three some this would be their son.

And I love the ending... "Some people will see this as me messing with reality, but whatever."