E-mail

Have you ever realized how important e-mail is or how important technology alone is in our current way of life? I had a major wake up call today. Earlier yesturday I went to check my e-mail, only to find everything worked perfectly except for the inbox link, which leads me to my only means of communication with half of my friends. At first I thought it was only a temporary glich, but I came to a horrifying realization after I woke up this morning to find that the problem had not vanished, but continued well into the evening. You see most of my friends lives at least an hour away by car, some one or two hours or more by plane. The only way I can keep in touch with them is through e-mail. The problem is fixed and the only e-mails that I had recieved was junk mail and advertising. Go figure. But computers are only an expanded version of the technology we rely on daily. I woke up this morning and was getting ready to clean my room (a sight you will never hear of again), and my light went kapowee. I have no window in my room to watch the gorgeous sunrise in the mornings on the rare occasion I get up early for something other than work or school. Without a light in my room, it is impossible to see anything, so I was going on a desperate search through this cluttered house that everyone we know claims eats things, praying to find the one thing that would save me from being grounded from my car. I'm so thankful I found the last one. I get to keep my car tomorrow. And not to long ago, my battery for my car completely died. I went from being free to get to places like work and church back to being completely dependent on everyone else. And what if Y2K really did happen. I don't even want to think about that. The every day technical gliches is already to much for me to handle. Oh yeah, our washing machine just broke. Back to the old fashioned way... Save me now. I have to use my brain after school and band practice. First day of school tomorrow. Tell you how it went later...

Summer Life

First I want to say something about the animals we saved, since I haven't figured out how to put up pics. A few months ago, a guy gave us two puppies. They are smaller jack russel terriers. We named them Naomi and Rachel. Not long after that, a family gave us kittens they found on the side fo the road in the rain. We took them to the vet and bottle fed them and all that stuff that the mother should have done. The weakest of the two had a broken rib, and could barely move when we first got him. About a week later, we almost lost him, but with prayers he is just as strong as his big brother now. I was going to post pics, but I can't figure out how, so Tony (the tiger) is gray tiger striped and storm is a deep gray with gray-green eyes. They still have their baby hair too. They was only about three weeks old when we got them, poor things. They were found on the side of the highway in a trashbag in the rain. Who could do that? My mom is talking about giving them away because we already have way to many animals, but I don't see why. They are very smart and loving. The puppies on the other hand are so stupid. The kittens were litter trained at three weeks old. At almost four months, we are still have problems with the dogs. DECA Camp was so much fun, but I'll tell the stories once I get the pictures up. During the summer, I work with an after school program. We have day camp all through July. Last week was the last week for the summer. The staff had our farewell/ my birthday dinner saturday. Half of the staff won't be coming back next year. Two are leaving on missions trips and one has more to do with college. Her schedule doesn't work out. So all that is left is Machaela (pronounced Macaw, don't ask) the boss, Leon, a coordinator, and me, a high school assistant. So before October we have to find three replacements. Before this year I was just a volunteer and student in the program. We had some interesting conversations about the students, and the staff that's been in RAP for a while told stories from previous years. It was so funny. I wonder what they said about me when I was a student. But I wasn't one of the trouble makers. Well, I think I'll figure out how to get the pics up. The stories will be better with those. So God Bless.