weddings galore

summer!!! lasts forever in florida

This summer has been awesome!! Pioneer school, the convention, and no school!!!!!!!! I joined the Hindi group in September. I am so glad I did. I love it. It feels like your in India whenever you go out in service. Indians are so respectful and eager to learn! Me and Nina started a Bible study with this Nepal family. They are so adorable. It is so exciting helping people learn about Jehovah for the first time and the promises in the Bible and they ask you is this really going to happen? :) at the end of the study they give us coffee and say with a big happy smile "you need plenty of energy because you are the witnesses of Jehovah!" It was so cute. Today we have our monthly public talk and watchtower!

breathe breathe duck

Me and Kathy went to the pool today so she could learn to swim. She totally did a few times. After a series of exercises and drills I dragged her out to where she thought she couldn't stand up and then made her go to the side, I seriously only had like a pinky finger touching her she made it. We did that a couple times. She still seemed pretty scared, but I think if she ever felt like she was drowning she would totally survive with the float on back tactic. Then we accidently fell asleep half in the sun... sun burns hurts so bad.

I got to be a wedding photographer assistant it was fun, hard work. Much harder than I thought. Next time I will remember to bring lots of snacks! It will be interesting to see how all the pictures look. It was a very traditional wedding, so I imagine the pictures will look very traditional too. At least thats how I felt about mine.

not another home video

oh how I got pulled into watching family videos till one in the morning. The sleep phenomonon will never fail to impress me. How is it that on the night one gets 3 hours of sleep they feel better than on the night one gets 8 hours! I didn't even nap!!!! I would really like to understand that. Oh so I've been watching a lot past time videos. I really enjoy them. However, I enjoyed myself much more as an infant who couldn't talk compared to Alaska video....Oh my put a cork in that child's mouth!!!!! And the whole time I am thinking to myself how interesting it is that no one in the family has changed that much, etc. Then it struck me. I really hope I am not like that...... To redeem myself from that repulsive whiney complaining phase, I started making a new home video to update the collection.

Scrapbooking is so much fun. You got to just dive in. I never wanted to start because I wanted everything to be glued down perfect and what not... forget that. I started chopping up those pictures and writing the captions!

I had the coolest dream that I was in a video game with vi and ben. It awesome. Those games are so much scarier and intense when your the actual player!!!!!

So I'm not much of a pork eater till it was very well disguised as turkey all shredded up. After I filled my plate with because i was so hungry and I even sampled it half way between put it on my plate and it tasted so good. Then BAM I found it was pork. I couldn't not eat I had just served myself a pig amount of it...oh gosh pun not intended. I ate the pork. All the pork. I feel ok, but it is almost like its a matter of my own conscience is mad at me so it is making me feel sick. GR

saturday afternoon

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costumes are a blast and big hair, too!

I genuinely enjoy blogging. Whenever I really want to tell someone about some lame dream I had for the 10th time. I can just bore my blog with it as much as I so choose to. But I do really want to talk about it, which works because there is a chance someone will stumble upon this blog. What a great invention!

these plays are fantastic!

ahahahahahhahaha I just watched this old play from when I was at the double R. WOW Its hilarious. I also watched the ones from hagerty and I really think the pirate play was better! Its so funny! even the part where everyone forgets their lines and they just stand there waving pom branches for like 16 seconds!....... I'm really excited about this lion king dance me and some kids from my hall are doing. We had our first practice and its pretty silly, but so fun! well actually i'm trying to keep it very serious like an african tribal dance. I love theatre!

I tried to catch the assembly yesterday but.....it ended up being circuit assembly which i have already been too. So i'll have to catch another one. kind of a bummer. But it was so weird not knowing annnyone and sitting by myself. I started singing this one song. kinda loudly and then like half way through I realized I was singing the wrong song.. It was pretty embarrassing. So being that I had already heard all these parts I left at lunch and went to old navy and they had all these dollar shirts! It was awesome!

I made ava's wedding invitations! It was so much fun! It got to be rather tedious, but I just wanted to finish so bad that, well I finished them!! I am so excited for avas wedding! It's going to be so much fun! The whole family in Wisconsin, that alone will be crazy! hahahhahah I CANT WAIT! I am going to visit her next month and me and Kaitlin get to pick out dresses, because we get to be the two solo bridesmaids!

May has been an awesome service month! I feel like I've been out like everyday! Its great, no distractions! And boy someday I am bound to find Gini at home!!!!!! I sure will! I got a jade plant. It is so cute and it hardly has to be watered.

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I love my friends! There are so many smart creative people just here in Oviedo! Tons of inspiration in a little town.

Worth the 95 degree 1 in the afternoon blazing sun! added to the 419 railroad track adventure/shoot.

We had our first meeting in the new hall tonight! I think everyone was a little discombobulated by being a new building. It was so different and new, yet I feel like I had been there so many times!

another day another week and hello to you too

I finally developed this roll of BW from the photo shoot of nina. It was hard to choose which ones to print, she looks stunning in all of them. I have two new favorites. My photo class is officially ended.....very sad.

I cannot believe I got a B in my drawing class. I almost wanted to tell my teacher "ARE YOU CRAZY!" when one misses 4 classes and fails to turn in 2 assignments and to quote my teacher does "most poorly" on their final project, a B is just not deserving. Seriously (and I loved my final project, how insulting) But instead, I told myself to shut up and take what you can get and just don't tell the girl over there who is crying over her C, just walk away. And that's how it went. My teacher is very different! But aren't we all. I am just glad its over!

RBC and camping last weekend. Double the fun! I got a picture of a bug in the scary shower. Crescent City is a very relaxed build compared to Oviedo; very chilled.

April went by so fast! It's crazy now with only 2 meetings a week how easy it is to not talk to people from your own hall for such a long time and so much can happen in what feels like no time at all.

My mom is having a Live Art Night in June. How classy. Unfortunately, the date interferes with the Kamine out west adventure which I was going to join them on. I'm off to bed. Goodnight star, goodnight moon, goodnight you.

Schumannananan is the name

I was making myself a lunch for tomorrow and sometimes you just run out ways to make the usual sandwich interesting. However, I did get some free slightly old spinich, kale and other various sorts of greens. So I sauted these baby greens with kelp powder and chili powder and garlic! It was so good and I still have a huge pot of kale. As I was pouring out the water I boiled the kale in, I was thinking... I bet the old boiled water now has most of the nutrients. Considering the leaves are much smaller and smushed, I bet that boiling water just zaps all the nutrients out with their size. It was hard to throw the actually nutrient enhanced water away, so I saved a cup of it and will try gulping it down tomorrow morning!

My dad made a truly Schumann concoction. He poured orange juice, tons of chlorophyl and water together. He hardly even thought about. I didn't know he liked the chlorophyl stuff too. I tried and added apple juice. It was pretty tasty! I would say it was very close to those fancy naked juices

too soon

It is so sad my photo class is almost over. I am going to miss it so much. We only had to do 3 portfolios this semester and its not enough!

Painted Girl Photos

what a jolly day

The flu/cold/virus/monoksfhihfiaba?... Such A BUMMER. At first I was so scared I was getting Ben's mono, but I feel a lot better today so I think I am clear. It was a very boring, painful, and sore weekend glad its over.

You have the power to make any uneventful day quite significant- Just enjoy one of 5 Guys burgers and fries juicy, deliciously mouth watering hamburgers. Personally I feel the fries are unnecessary. They are too good to be true and under 5 dollars! Make sure you put jalepenos on it, unless your allergic. It really compliments the meat. And don't forget the pickles!! I think that is actually where the juicy part comes from, there a vital condiment. Seriously, its been way too long since I've had one, almost a year to be precise.

I bought some larger paper to just print some of my favorite photos on. Big paper is nothing short of phenomenal. This is just the next size up from a 8 by 11 too. So much detail and precision. I printed a few of Ava with paint on her face that I took from the beginning of last semester. I think I might try to sell some. If I sell one for 20 bucks it will pay for the paper!!! YES

what's next

The guest bedroom rocks! It has piles of pillows and like 3 of them are these soft down ones. Picasso is enjoying the company of Gidget. He is quite the social cat. I think He just needs a change of environment to spice up his life everyone once in a while. Keep him on his toes.

I started painting my room today. I love big daunting projects that seem way to big for one person to do, because when there done its awesome! Plus a little distraction from the present is refreshing. So it's a bigger project than I thought. The Dreamsicle Pink on the walls now is actually high gloss, so it won't ever come off and is washable. Therefore.. a primer is needed or else the new paint won't stick. So says the Home Depot paint specialist. Hey well turns out my dad has a big bucket of primer looking stuff sitting in the middle of the backyard... I guess I can't be too mad at him for letting all the air out of my car tires at 2 in the morning... free primer. Painting is hard work! It took me like 3 hours just to get the walls primed! Tomorrow its Torquoise and Lily pad pink. It was hard not to pick the bright loud versions of these colors, I got the cooler more soothing versions of them. I am excited.

I love my Chinese call. Its this family of pleasant nodders. There always a little rushed and attention deficit, but still listen and nod politely. Untill Mahgee gets out, the little white dog with no eyes visible eyes that is, then they just start shouting at the poor little dog who just wants to play, but the shouting is in Chinese so its all good. Everytime the same thing. Mahgee gets out. they scream. it doesn't come. 5 minutes later the Mahgee gets picked up by its leg and dragged back in. Someday maybe they too will see this cycle of events that proceed our conversations and realize that the dog never listens.

Satan has made the world such a scary place. Its hard to understand why some choose to be part of it. We all deal with problems so differently, but hiding from them is the strangest way to cope. No matter what all things will be revealed; what's the point of buying time out from reality. Why hide? Its such a weak and malleable thing to do.

I love Andrew Bird. He has some really sleepy songs, but the violin is so pretty. I like the Soldier On album best.

sunny days are coming

What a bizarre day. Awkward silences have never been my forte, but lack of communication- indefinitely worse. It can drive someone crazy! up a wall, down the street and straight to China. Are you scared of me or something!

Florida warmed up this morning. Strange bits of cold we've had. The service group was surprisingly limited today. Just the three of us. I'm guessing its just a cool down from the track campaign. The cool breeze on a sunny day was superb.

Picked up my cello today and shaky fingers need to be worked! thats all.

no its superman!!

No just a bird. Today was kind of a boring day. I like a good old hang out around the house day everyone once and while. Memorial was very nice; I love getting to say hi to faces you haven't seen in a while. My mom got in a car accident on the way. She's fine, she handled it like a pro. She was most concerned with getting her elderly passengers to the memorial. She frantically made phone calls to arrange to have at least two seats saved for the older ladies. But the poor corolla got rear ended. I guess it could totally be worse, but the I<3mycat sticker.......smashed. My mom was actually pretty sad about that. There will have to be another trip to St. Augustine to get another one of those from that oh so famous City Cat Country Cat store! It feels like this track campaign went by so fast. I feel like I hardly got to invite any of my calls. But I am excited that on older lady call said she is coming to the special talk. But I have a slight feeling she just wants to meet my family and she knows the go to the kingdom hall. She really sweet and whatever motivates you.

I miss having Avril here. I was looking at these two kids who looked a lot a like, one a foot smaller than the other, whispering to each other during the meeting and it reminded me so much of me and avril. The Schumann row has shrunk drastically! Just me and Nina now. It's strange not being the big family making all the noise, however, I do appreciate being treated like an individual. Whereas before it was always Schumann family. I feel like such an adult! Driving myself to meetings and then not having to sit with your family, because they go to different meetings. I like having freedom, but sometimes I think it would be nice to have some parent telling you what to do. Like curfew, for example, I really enjoyed thinking I have to go home I have a driving curfew! There are definitely ups and downs to both sides. On the other side, the idea of a parent telling you have you to go to school for a certain amount of time seems so absurd! I like the concept of making personal decision on what you will do because you know its right and not because your told. But sometimes you need that push from someone.

So Picasso was actually active today. He was playing with a ball. Like some kind of dog or something- says nina.
What do you think you are cat! Lately he has seemed so bored. Like right now he is just staring at the wall. I gotta go give him some playing . see yea!

road block

We like doing things we are good at, right? There is the occasional challenge that appeals as well. But, overall who wants to continue doing something they feel that they are bad at it. Its no fun. Especially, if you are not forced to do it. Finding the personal motivation is most challenging! Self discipline! Doing it even though your head and body says "No, don't do it!" Can you imagine if we were robots and did everything by schedule. I don't think it would work. All those spontaneous acts that make life so special would be gone.

Ohhh, I really don't want to do homework! -Alice