Hey, all!
This is just a quick update to let you know I have made it from Dumfries, VA to Millboro, VA and am now in Blowing Rock, NC (Charlotte and I just arrived). I’ll post some more later because I’ve been in a car for a while and just need to relax and chill for a while, but MAN do I have some stories for you all!
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I’ll post more soon!
Today was my last day at WGBH. Bittersweet, really, but to tell the truth, I stumbled across something absolutely wonderful when I was updating the bulletin board. The majority of this post is for my sister, Katie. : )
Yep. Devo just had a concert. I found it as I was cutting ‘GBH coverage out of the paper. Insanely awesome, right? I sure thought so.
Anyway, tonight is a busy one. I need to finish packing my things, babysit from 6-10, get my laundry done, put everything in the car, and have everything done and ready to get up BRIGHT and early tomorrow morning. I have about a 9 hour drive to make it to Dumfries, VA. Still working out EXACTLY how I’m going to go, but meh. It’s all good.
So, I guess this should be my hasta luego post, eh? Yes. Wish me luck on my trip and pray for my safety! My next post *might* be Friday or Saturday if I’m lucky, and if not, it will be sometime the following Saturday or Sunday! For those of you who will be at ACCOVAC, GA, or SoulFest, I will see you there! ENJOY YOUR SUMMER! : )
[Music] Thirsty Thursday presents: Roadtrip Tunes
(inspired by me journey, of course!)
5 Artists that should be on your ipod
5 Songs that must be included
5 Albums which are required to be present
So. This isn’t the BIGGEST trip I’ve ever taken, but I’m already getting requests that people want to be notified whenever I post something new (which I will as often as I can, no doubt!). If you’re still confused about this “trip” I’m driving to Dumfries & Millboro VA for about a week, then Blowing Rock, NC for 1.5 weeks, then up to Gilford, NH for the “weekend” of SoulFest. You’ve got two options for staying informed:
It’s all pretty simple, really, but people were asking, so I figured it wouldn’t hurt. And those of you that were tagged in THIS note on facebook, that’s because I figured you were some of the people who MIGHT like to be informed. If not, no worries! I understand! And, if you weren’t tagged in this note and want to be tagged in future ones of my trip, that’s fine, too! : )
Let me know and I hope your summer continues to go well!
I have a lot to do before Friday comes, and many people are becoming curious about what I’m going to be doing, where exactly I’m going to be, and how long I’m going to be there. So, let me give you a lil tour of my plan!
Map of my Trip
This is just a quick example of the locations I’ll be going to on my trip. I tried to get the route to show up… but my computer was being silly.
Dumfries Sky @ Night
It all starts with me leaving Quincy this Friday (July 11) around 8AM if not earlier. I’ll be making my way to Dumfries, VA, the first stop on my trip, to meet up with Andrew while on my way to my second destination. We’re going to go to a cool restaurant with live music, watch a movie, and just lounge around together, which should be awesome. If you haven’t been following along, my boyfriend Andrew is interning with the FBI on their base in Quantico doing some really neat things. While my internship finishes Thursday, he still has four more weeks after this one, so I figured it would be nice of me to stop in and say hello!
Millboro Mountains
Some time Saturday (July 12) in the afternoon, I will leave Dumfries to make my way to Millboro, VA, home of some wonderful memories and good times at Camp ACCOVAC. While ACCOVAC may be legit in the middle of nowhere, I can’t wait to get there. The past two summers, I worked at ACCOVAC for six weeks as a part of Appalachian Advent Christian Summer Ministries, and while it was tiring, it was great! This year, I needed to fit in an internship in order to graduate, so I wasn’t able to do AACSM, but I AM going to be working at ACCOVAC for their final week, July 13-19. I’m so excited to get to see my kids again!!
Blowing Rock, NC
After that wonderful week with my kids, I will make the trek to Blowing Rock, NC on Saturday (July 19) around 2PM. My mom’s side of the family has a house on a wonderful campground there that I’ve been going to since way before I was born. Another bonus to the campground (besides being with my family) is that GA Camp takes place there. GA Camp was the 7th week of camp I worked at as a part of AACSM. All the different AACSM teams met up at GA Camp at the end of the summer for our last working week. It’s great, because I actually went to GA when I was young enough to, and then the past two years I was able to work there and be with some awesome teenagers, much different than the 9 and 10 year olds I’m used to having 4 out of the 6 weeks at ACCOVAC. Blowing Rock is a beautiful area, too. The Blue Ridge Mountains have got to be some of the greatest things in existence. I will be in Blowing Rock for the week of GA (July 20-26) and will stay until Monday, July 28 spending time with my family (and hopefully having Andrew come visit and see my true home).
Soulfest @ Gunstock Mountain, Gilford, NH
Then, it’s off for the longest ride of my journey. I will be in my car for most of Monday the 28th making my way from Blowing Rock to my house in West Ossipee, NH. It’ll be a long drive, but I think my dad is going to ride back with me, so it shouldn’t be too bad. After spending Monday night in my bed, I will unpack and repack and drive to Meredith where my friends Aaron and Lacy McIntyre live. I’ll be staying at their house while working at SoulFest from Tuesday, July 29-Saturday, August 2. I’ll be working part time in the Art Gallery (4.5 hour shift each day) and spending the rest of the hours I’m there watching some of my favorite bands perform to thousands of people. Each night when the day is done, I will drive to Aaron & Lacy’s to crash on the couch before getting up the following morning to do it all over again. I really cannot wait… I’ve never been able to go to SoulFest for the whole weekend before. I’ve gone for 2 days for a few hours, but never the whole weekend. So psyched. I’m going to have a buttload of pictures, so you better be ready for them!
Once SoulFest has wrapped up, I will go relax at home in West Ossipee with my family until I get asked to babysit (sometime the week of August 3), and then I will return to Quincy.
This is going to be an awesome trip for me and I’m already planning out things I’m going to do along the way to keep myself awake and alert and to have a blast. So, yeah! If you’re wondering where I am, that’s where I’ll be! I will have my phone with me for the whole trip, but will not be able to use it while I am at ACCOVAC. I will have Internet access while I’m in Blowing Rock, but every other time is highly unlikely. So! Call me if you need me, leave me messages, and I’ll try to keep you all updated on how things are going!
VIVA LA VIDA!
This is my last week as a WGBH intern. Thursday is my last day and then I’m off to many other things. I have a lot to do before I leave here Friday morning for an amazing few weeks of road trips, and I’m not the best at keeping track of them, so here’s my list:
That last point is super important to me! So, to anyone still on the ENC campus or in the surrounding area, I’m leaving early Friday morning and won’t be back til August some time! Call me, txt me, email me, message me, stop by, do whatever you have to! Let’s try to work something out!
And now I am off to jump in the shower and do a bunch of things before I go see my fam. L8r G8rs.
My heart keeps me broke.
-”Mirrors and Smoke” by Jars of Clay
I’m hoping I might be able to make this a more regular thing, but I’m not going to make any promises yet. I’m at work doing work things while listening to my ipod and I remember how many people tell me I listen to music they have never heard of before, but that it’s pretty good music. So, on my lunch break and before I head out to meet Ted to make our way to Fishkill, thus I post the first (and hopefully soon-to-be regular) [Music] Thirsty Thursday.
5 Artists You Should Know
5 Random Songs You Should Know
5 Songs You’ve Always Wanted to Know the Name of
5 *Romantic* Songs You Should Hear
5 *Easy-Going* Songs You Should Relax to
5 *Energetic/Hyper* Songs You Should Dance to
5 *Sad* Songs You Can Be Still with
5 *Angry* Songs to Rock Out to
Songs in my head at the current moment:
This list is much bigger than they will be in the future if I can keep it up. Next time I’ll prolly have just one list of five, heh. Anyway. I hope you check out some of these songs/artists and enjoy them.
Have a GREAT Fourth of July weekend!
“Will you teach us how to love?
To see the things you see
Walk the road you walked
Feel the pain that you feel
At your feet I kneel,
I want to see you shine
See your light not mine
‘Cause light gives heat
Your light gives heat…”
–”Light Gives Heat” by Jars of Clay
I think I’m the type of person prone to learn things the hard way.
When I was about 3, I found out just how hard concrete was when I fell on the concrete stairs outside of our church building in North Carolina and hit my head pretty awesomely on the edge of one.
When I was about 4, I found out that sucking on a balloon will most likely lead to swallowing a balloon, and that’s not exactly healthy.
When I was 11 or so, I discovered that playing “King of the Mountain” on a mountain of ice is the worst place to attempt to play the game - you will slip and possibly break your thumb, not to mention the fact that you were just dethroned.
Then, if we skip ahead to college years, I learned a lot of things that I should have learned sooner, and again, I learned them the hard way.
I learned that running on wet grass can be fun, but if you try to stop on a dime, you’re screwed, and the pavement beyond the grass sure doesn’t feel good to your face.
When playing on a zipline at a playground, it’s always a good idea to let go of the zipline when it comes to its end, otherwise you could receive an anterior dislocation in your shoulder that will be giving you trouble years later.
The whole point of this post was actually to talk about me not taking my medicine… I forget all the time about medicine, or I figure I won’t need it because it “feels like a good day”. Considering the air in Boston right now is often on the news because of how unhealthy it is due to amounts of pollution and pollen mixed with heat and other things, I should definitely take my allergy medicine so that I don’t have itchy eyes, watery eyes, or headaches. I also should prolly take the vitamins my mom’s been having me take for sleep, muscle aches, and other nonsense considering I haven’t been sleeping well without it and my muscles seem to hurt often. Maybe I should take my medicine…
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Thunderous has positive and negative connotations…
Today was *technically* my last day of work for the week! I have the business meeting tomorrow, but that’s all. Which means, no waking up at 7AM for me! Woot! : ) YAY WEEKEND!
Here’s the story of the day: I found gas in Quincy for $3.97 on Furnace Brook Parkway. Pretty exciting considering I’ve been paying $4.09 and seeing $4.17. I stopped on my way back from Chipotle soooo excited to fill up my tank for so cheap, even it I did have to pay cash to do it. The guy puts the hose in my tank, locks the handle so it’ll fill til it’s full, and it clicks in a minute. My tank is definitely empty, so he comes back over and tries again. Same thing. So, he turns the hose upside down in my gas tank, locks the handle and it starts filling and doesn’t click right away. Even though I don’t think it’s the smartest idea to put the hose in upside down, I was getting gas. About 5-10 minutes later, I hear splashing and look out the window. Yep, gas is gushing out of the hose and my tank. I yell for the guy to come over, he stops it, and tells me there’s a problem with my “gas cap”. I’ve never had this problem before, which I tell him, and I just filled up recently and had no problem. He tells me it’s a new pump and it’s my fault. Not. Then he tries to make me pay for the gas spilled. No way! I told him I wasn’t going to, and he had me pay $40 instead of $46 (I should have paid a little less, still, I think) and then slammed my gas tank cover closed and proceeded to clean up his mess. Gah! So frustrating. And, since I don’t know much about cars, even though I’m pretty sure nothing is wrong with my car, the guy still has me a little worried. So far, I’ve had two people tell me I should be fine and to just try putting in $5 of gas later, but I still want to talk to my dad (who I can’t because he’s on a cruise in Alaska) or Andrew.
Marie has me addicted to this awesome show on the CW, Supernatural. Even though the real season is over, they are showing reruns throughout the summer of the season that just finished. Marie has been catching up on all the season before this one, so I watched with her from time to time and loved it. So, now we’re watching the reruns every Thursday night at 9 as if it’s the first time they’ve aired, ha, and it’s so great! This show could get anyone addicted… and now that we’re getting all caught up, once the new season starts when we’re back in the swing of school, then we will for serious be watching new episodes! Muahaha! So excited!!! And I still have to wait… about 2 and a half hours for the next episode! No cheating - even though they are all available online, unless I missed one, I wouldn’t watch it online. That’s cheating!!!
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