Yeah updates

So seriously, I know. I know you've been dying in this blog drought of mine. I can just tell by the overwhelming comments made suggesting, no...pleading for more blog. Well here's your dose.

I've been really fricking busy. Surprise surprise. Not only that I've been sans internet for the most part. But I've been having fun and meating some cool people.

First off I need to say I'm thoroughly impressed with Dan getting NTMQ from my last post. You are right on buddy...dead on. And that's not one of the more known quotes from that movie. Some other notable ones are:
"Where does he get those wonderful toys"
"This town needs an enima"
"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?"
To name a few.

Anyways, I also want to add to the last post that my tiredness caused by paintball turned into intense upper thigh soarness that forced me to walk down stairs sideways and staggering for the better part of a week. Guess I'm just not used to using those muscles.

So I met back up with my team after the wedding & yeah it was wierd somewhat. I'm tired yall. Please pray that I can stay focused for this last month. But I met up with my team in Billings and was thrown into a VBS involving 200 or so preschoolers. Man, if you wanna know exhausting give 5 gaming sessions a day to preschoolers. Granted, they are easily amused...but you can only play Follow-the-Leader, Red Light Green Light, Simon Says, and Duck Duck Goose so many times before you are mentally and physically taxed. On top of that we were trying to tie it all into the themes for the day. Oh I forgot the best parts of this. It was a VBS being held and "run" by a nursing home ministry. So we got to eat breakfast in an awesome restaurant-like cafeteria and get some sweet food every breakfast and lunch. But, we were playing our music under a gazebo which means that we had to set up and tear down our full system every day. I had some really good times chilling with my teammates at our host home though. We had a hot tub and sitting it and chit-chatting about serious, funny, and seriously funny topics reminded me of good 'ol rockford and the hot tubbiness that goes on there. Our hosts computer got screwed up while we were there...virus style. And I tried so long to fix it to no avail. And since they aren't computer literate I KNOW it seems like we messed up there computer. That totally sucks when that happens. I also saw Batman Begins while in Billings. Good superhero movie over all. Sure it had the cheesy dialogue that accompanies most all superhero movies, but I'm excited for the sequels.

We went onward to Casper, WY. Stayed there only a couple of nights but had some fun. We totally surprised Maria for her B-day. Well, actually it was two days before her birthday, but we thought that would be the best way to surprise her. So at the end of a one on one in which sarah led maria away from the rest of us...we bum rushed Maria dressed like pirates and fairies with a ton of waterbaloons in our arsenal. I had a peg leg and everything. We played Danish rules UNO (ask me about this sometime, it's intense), and went and sang karoake at this tiny country bar. We walked in an they were singing slow country ballad after slow country ballad. So what did I do to start off with...Vanilla Ice. They were a little shocked, but cool about it. And the karoake DJ was awesome. He had been in the entertainment industry forever. First, travelling around in a band, then signing bands up while working as some head dood at AMC records, then working as the head entertainment booker for a Vegas casino, met a women there, got married, she left him when she found out he had cancer, he no longer has cancer, she wanted him back, he said "no way, I could never trust you", and he's only doing karoake till the end of the year and then he has a position back in Vegas (after a short stint of studio recording in Nasheville). Anyway interesting. We drank, we sang, it was fun to feel normal. Soooo good to feel normal.

Then on to the AALC youth gathering in Estes Park, CO. We were at the YMCA camp of the rockies. It is such a cool camp area. Mini-put, frisbee golf, and beautiful mountains. I took advantage of all but the frisbee golf. We were the "mixer" band. There was a seperate worship band for the week, but it was our equipment so we still had to be "on" all the time whether it was with sound or powerpoint. We totally had to stretch ourselves though. We had been missing Nat for awhile (did I post about that? Her sister got really sick and she had to go back home. She's back now). And on top of that they wanted "mixer" type songs for high school age kids. Most of our action songs are for ages 1-6 ya know? And our high schooler type songs are mostly worship or performance. So we re-worked a hip-hop song that we were working on when Nat left, and I sang the main part. This was so fun you guys. I totally went into rap mode. I sound like a rapper. So many people came up to me and asked me to freestyle for them...they were saddened to hear that I'm not really a rapper at all, I just memorized one rap song. It starts out with a beat-box solo and then it goes into a group dance phrase "Step to the left, step to the right, hands in the air and keep it keep it tight, spin around and listen to the rap and clap clap clap." And it includes phrases like "I said keep it tight" and "say Aight Aight" and then there's some mixer raps that occur. Here are the two original verses plus three that myself and Nat made up:
We got God's love and it makes us all equal,
right now touch at least 18 people.
Yo, we're keeping it tight, we're keeping it live,
find 8 people and give them a high five (and say wassup!).
God's love is great, he loves us so,
find 10 people and touch some elbows.
God's love makes us humble, it makes us meek,
find 5 people and pinch their cheek.
Christ loved us so much he came down as man,
find 7 people and shake their hand.

Anyway, it was such a hit that the last time we sang it we had two stage divers. I met some awesome kids from New Mexico. And overall just had a great time. I went up to Bible Point to do some bible reading on the last day and man...the rockies right? Beauty. Good stuff.

Then on to Kalispell, MT to meet up with Nat and do yet another camp. Another set of awesome kids. And we had full day schedules...Ya know what I'm gonna save this for the next post because I'm burn out on this update already.

Okay you can tell this was a quick update but I will try harder to keep it better in the near future. I miss you guys and look forward to seeing you all again.

in Christ,
jason

N.T.M.Q. "Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours."