*sagebrush blowing in the wind......western howling music in the backgroud..... (if ur not bored, but just a really devoted ophie blog reader, i suggest skip the first two paragraphs...unless u just like to read)

WHOA.....they have a new blog post template.... i feel so lost....this is intense....but i like...cept the html lingo is so foreign to me...not that that's anything new....but now it's just more strange and foreign than it once was for a computer illiterate like myself.

ah yes... so the beauty of summer.....it's got boredom streaked across the sky......ok not really, just the afternoons get a lil drab around my place, not much to do but read. contrary to my away message which says, "kinna bored...no job...no money....and everyone seems to be busy...hehe...SO..im gonna read invisible man....and pick up my sister later so she can come home and play monopoly with me. yea gosh... i sure love summer"--- i am not reading. i started to, read mabbe 3 pages, sounded interesting...and i snoozed. it's the oppresive heat....makes me tired.

today was genuinely a really really good summer day. i was pretty tired the entire day. i had that "allnighter hazzy" feeling that you get the day after an allnighter cept i didnt pull one. went to Star of Hope with my Atlanta mission group, after breakfast at mc Ds. (i love hasbrowns and jam...emmm). it was overall a really good experience. i never felt so useful/productive before. it's like at home, i wud never voluntarily do some of the stuff i did today. i.e. cleaning plates, wiping tables, sweaping, mopping.....chore like activities cept in no way did they feel like chores. it just made me sorta think, "wow, im willing to serve people i dont know in this way, but i dont even serve my family by willing doing these things." sorta my butt kicker of the week. but yea, after that whole experience i kinna wanna make dinner tonite....=P but i think the kewlest part abt serving at star of hope was this SUPER amazing lady named miss BJ (i think) that we got to work with. just a simple lay out of her daily activities
*get up at 3 or 4 am: hike 6 miles to the bus stop
*catch the 4:55 bus and get to work by 5:30 or 6:30 and prepare breakfast for 270 people
*after breakfast, wipe about 12-15 tables, sweep, mop, set silverware, and make lunch for over 100 people
*serve lunch and not get to eat lunch
*after lunch, wipe about 12-15 tables, sweep, mop, set silverware, and at around 1:40ish hike to the bus stop, and wait in the swealtering heat for the 2:05 or 2:15 bus. THEN she's gotta hike that 6 miles after she gets off the bus to her house.

now lemme tell you, this lady isnt of a ripe young age. But she must be SO much more fit than couch potatoes that watch movies and play computer games all day during the summer. this woman goes down in my heros category. i really admire wut she does, which definitely takes a lotta discipline to do that every day. and BOY am i glad we got to lighten her load today by helping set stuff up, clean, and serve food. She genuinely looked like she appreciated it, not to mention we got free food as well. she even told us some experiences she had when she went to atlanta. she made it sound so sublime....maaan i cant wait to go serve there too!!! she wanted us to take pictures of atlanta for her and bring em to her when we get back....hopefully we'll get to do that ^_^.
so after that i went to pick up my pictures from the last day of school. for the first time in years, the pictures i took by myself of me and another person actually turned out decent, of course the ones ppl took for me look better, but yea, that made me happy. so then i decided to hit half price books to see if i would get lucky again and find invisible man or crime and punishment. so i looked around......for like.. a minute...didnt find it....then WAM as i was walking past a cart, right on top was invisible man in TOP condition....ok not quite TOP but...semi-TOP condition, so i got it. Then i headed over to b & n and got crime and punishment, which wasnt costly in itself. after that ordeal, i headed over to gap to purchase an important item. i probably waited in line 20 or so minutes for the cashier. when i finally got there, she apologized and THEN she said i was the lucky winner today, cuz i won a free 10% off my next purchase at gap ^_^. yea.. just my luck eh?
i may be a little bored now, but my good day makes up for any boredom i may be experiencing presently. tomorrow is friday, wow....so fast... not liking the fast time passage tho....time needs to not want to pass so quickly...take it easy, enjoy the summer......calm down......i only get 2003 summer once....gonna go be productive and read...or watch friends or something.....hope everyone had an awesome day.