Ok... maybe one week since I last posted here. Sorry. It's not that i'm busy, but I am... I'm working on my fall goal list now since it's finally fall! So i'll post more on that and what's been going on in my life lately.
Night!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
4 Stories
Hi! I'm an avid blog reader. I consistently read: A Beautiful Mess, which led me to: Smile and Wave , which led me to many others. Maybe i'll post a list of the blogs I read sometime. But another I check out is Freckled Nest and since i'm new to keeping up and consistently blogging (i have several blogs, I just don't keep up with them... yet :) ) i've decided to maybe get out there more in the blog world, and participate in things.. Well I saw this today and thought it would be cool to do:
Here's my 4 Stories about Swimming:
1.) Camping: Every year my family and I would go camping near Lake Michigan. It was my favorite vacation. And every year the moment we go there I wanted to go to the beach right away, but we had to set up everything. The next day we definitely went to the beach. I loved the beach. Swimming to me normally involved a floatation device, such as a inner tube. So I wasn't much of a swimmer. I would float out in the water and have fun doing it, with the small worry of floating too far out and end up on the other side of the lake, so I'd usually stay where it was semi shallow. We swam about every day. Also on these trips we would go to meijers and and get more food or whatever we needed. I always got a something new for either school ( got a book bag one year) or a toy and an ice cream cone, normally Super man flavored. Well at the checkout I was looking at the papers and there were those fake news, and one said sea monster in Lake Michigan, I was freaked out. (Oh and an important fact to the story, this was when I was about 7 or 8, I was pretty young). The next time we went to the beach I did not swim. I went to this little ankle deep chanel from the lake, but that was it. I looked out into the water to see if I could see anything, but didn't I was scared. I slowly came to realization that it was ok to swim in the lake, everyone else was. And by the end I did go back.
2.) Canoeing: Every year there is a canoe trip for the band students. Being new to the band I was involved in a lot of activities in 9th grade. We got to our desitination, I wasn't sure what to do with the bag I brought with the change of clothes and towel so I brought it with me. I got into the canoe with my friend, and we were off. It wasn't too bad at first. Since I can't actually swim (I can float and kind of swim) I was a tad nervous. It was fun too, till we tipped over... I was soaked and scared, especially trying to hoist myself back into the canoe. It was embarrasing. And all of my extra clothes got wet. I think it was the most embarassing water experience ever. I got over it, of course.. But to this day I will never canoe again.
3.) Lessons: When I was young, probably around 6-9 maybe, I took swimming lessons. I am quite shy and don't really feel comfortable in swim suits (then, getting better now). And changing into them in a locker room (I always went into a bathroom stall) was the worse. So swimming lessons weren't off to a good start, since I couldn't wear my usual t-shirt in the pool. I remember learning the things, swimming with the foam board, being extremely nervous about jumping in (still am), and more things. I do enjoy swimming in pools, at my own pace and for fun. Lessons were not fun. And sadly I did not pass... And I did not try again. Swimming lessons weren't really my thing, clarinet lessons however I did enjoy, but that's another story.
4.) Comfortable: Growing up, other than when I was little, about 3rd grade and up, I also wore a t-shirt swimming. I just wasn't super comfortable wearing a tight swim suit in public. Even though people of all shapes and sizes wear them, I would not. With my youth group, in my preteen age, we went to an amusement park (like Cedar Point, but it wasn't). And in the group was a boy I liked since forever, but we were friends, pretty good friends (and that's it). Well we were going to go on a water slide together, but you could only wear a swim suit on this, he was also a t-shirt wearer, so we both took them off and went down, then quickly put them back on when we got done. I was not liking that, especially that it was with a boy that I was kinda liking. I was so glad in high school at the youth group I went to it was a rule to wear t-shirts, if you wore a bikini style swim suit (for modest reasons, especially around the boys). Up till last year i've been alittle more comfortable, I wore shorter sleeves on t-shirts (still haven't done the tank tops yet), and thanks to a friend, I can wear swimsuit tops (normally the tankini ones) with out a t-shirt! It's kind of freeing.. I know that wasn't really about swimming, but swim wear.
So those are my stories!
Thanks for reading!
-Jen
Here's my 4 Stories about Swimming:
1.) Camping: Every year my family and I would go camping near Lake Michigan. It was my favorite vacation. And every year the moment we go there I wanted to go to the beach right away, but we had to set up everything. The next day we definitely went to the beach. I loved the beach. Swimming to me normally involved a floatation device, such as a inner tube. So I wasn't much of a swimmer. I would float out in the water and have fun doing it, with the small worry of floating too far out and end up on the other side of the lake, so I'd usually stay where it was semi shallow. We swam about every day. Also on these trips we would go to meijers and and get more food or whatever we needed. I always got a something new for either school ( got a book bag one year) or a toy and an ice cream cone, normally Super man flavored. Well at the checkout I was looking at the papers and there were those fake news, and one said sea monster in Lake Michigan, I was freaked out. (Oh and an important fact to the story, this was when I was about 7 or 8, I was pretty young). The next time we went to the beach I did not swim. I went to this little ankle deep chanel from the lake, but that was it. I looked out into the water to see if I could see anything, but didn't I was scared. I slowly came to realization that it was ok to swim in the lake, everyone else was. And by the end I did go back.
2.) Canoeing: Every year there is a canoe trip for the band students. Being new to the band I was involved in a lot of activities in 9th grade. We got to our desitination, I wasn't sure what to do with the bag I brought with the change of clothes and towel so I brought it with me. I got into the canoe with my friend, and we were off. It wasn't too bad at first. Since I can't actually swim (I can float and kind of swim) I was a tad nervous. It was fun too, till we tipped over... I was soaked and scared, especially trying to hoist myself back into the canoe. It was embarrasing. And all of my extra clothes got wet. I think it was the most embarassing water experience ever. I got over it, of course.. But to this day I will never canoe again.
3.) Lessons: When I was young, probably around 6-9 maybe, I took swimming lessons. I am quite shy and don't really feel comfortable in swim suits (then, getting better now). And changing into them in a locker room (I always went into a bathroom stall) was the worse. So swimming lessons weren't off to a good start, since I couldn't wear my usual t-shirt in the pool. I remember learning the things, swimming with the foam board, being extremely nervous about jumping in (still am), and more things. I do enjoy swimming in pools, at my own pace and for fun. Lessons were not fun. And sadly I did not pass... And I did not try again. Swimming lessons weren't really my thing, clarinet lessons however I did enjoy, but that's another story.
4.) Comfortable: Growing up, other than when I was little, about 3rd grade and up, I also wore a t-shirt swimming. I just wasn't super comfortable wearing a tight swim suit in public. Even though people of all shapes and sizes wear them, I would not. With my youth group, in my preteen age, we went to an amusement park (like Cedar Point, but it wasn't). And in the group was a boy I liked since forever, but we were friends, pretty good friends (and that's it). Well we were going to go on a water slide together, but you could only wear a swim suit on this, he was also a t-shirt wearer, so we both took them off and went down, then quickly put them back on when we got done. I was not liking that, especially that it was with a boy that I was kinda liking. I was so glad in high school at the youth group I went to it was a rule to wear t-shirts, if you wore a bikini style swim suit (for modest reasons, especially around the boys). Up till last year i've been alittle more comfortable, I wore shorter sleeves on t-shirts (still haven't done the tank tops yet), and thanks to a friend, I can wear swimsuit tops (normally the tankini ones) with out a t-shirt! It's kind of freeing.. I know that wasn't really about swimming, but swim wear.
So those are my stories!
Thanks for reading!
-Jen
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Good Evening!
Just thought i'de stop by for a brief post. If you noticed, on your right is a new playlist. I think I will change and update these every week. So be sure to check in to listen to new music for your reading and listening enjoyment. This weeks will be All about Jesus. And I tried to get it alphabetical, but that was a little tricky. I'm really inspired by my Savior and Creator. I'll share more on this later, but just wanted to introduce the new side feature.
Have a lovely night.
-Jen
Have a lovely night.
-Jen
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Fall Goal List
Hey! So with fall coming up, officially in 9 days. And I think fall time should be filled with lots of fun moments, and some things can only be done in the fall time. So here is my Fall Goal list, which can be added too (#21!). Hope it inspires you to come up with you own fall goals.1.)Complete a crochet project (ex: scarf)
2.)Take a drive in the country for no reason other than to see the surrounding
3.)Take lots of pictures
4.)Take walks
5.)Walk the trails at Fritzdale Park
6.)Go out to breakfast more often (not everyweek or so, but once in awhile)
7.)Make a homemade Apple pie
8.)Make pumpkin seeds
9.)Go to the Cider Mill
10.)Get a pumpkin at a pumpkin patch and carve it
11.)Watch a Charlie Brown special
12.)Get red highlights
13.)Have a 'Lord of the Rings' movie marathon
14.)Have Craft Night Parties, where a group of people get together and craft, on a regular basis.
15.)Make Caramel Apples
16.)Try a Candied Apple
17.)Sew an Apron or two
18.)Go out for a coffee alternative (ex. smoothie, hot chocolate) at a coffee shop.
19.)Go to a football game
20.)Learn to play the guitar (or start)
21.)Come up with More things to do!
::sigh:: I love fall!
-Jen
Welcome!
Hello!
This is a new blog adventure. If you don't know me, which I think most of you don't my name is Jen. I am 26 years old and am totally in love with Jesus. I'm currently addicted to peanut butter twix, the Office, I Love Lucy, and Wendy's french fries, which I don't eat a lot because I never feel like driving there, but I think about it often (I guess it's in my benefit not to want to go there). I love to make things and create things through sewing, scrapbooking, and photography. I love to try new things in crafting, just not food so much (picky eater). I also like to make list and goals. I think I have time making list than time spent on fulfilling them. So that's why I'm starting this blog, to post list of goals, and document fulfilling those goals! It seems like a fun journey and i'm excited to start this project. Not all list will be goals, but I will throw in some fun ones too.
Thanks for reading!
Thanks for reading!
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