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Name: Laura
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Metro: Knoxville
Birthday: 4/8/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: God, Kevin, ASL, random clean fun, rock climbing, Taco Bell, reading, friends, quotes, Mountain Dew, Intervarsity, girly things :), music, ect.
Expertise: Being me even thought about 99% of the time I have no clue who that is!
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
AIM:  cheery0408
Member Since:
1/27/2006
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| It's been a while...The summer in a nutshell:
*The internship at the advocacy center/Secret Safe Place was a-flippin-mazing. It allowed me to realize a little more what I want to do with my life which will be discussed later.
*Kevin moved here from Texas  . It is so nice to have him here and be able to see him (almost) whenever I want to. 
*Mountain Challenge training was rough. This weekend is orientation and that will not be fun on any level.
*IV training starts tonight  . I can't wait to see everyone.
I've decided that I want to focus on interepreting for social work particularly with children. At one point this summer I was two seconds away from changing my major to child development, but now am just going to get a strong concentration in it. This is so that if my hand goes completely to crap then I can have most of my classes for a child development major and get a degree for something in that field.
I think I'm going to take a shower...I smell funny and I'm hungry!
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| I'm totally and irreversably...screwed up....After over a month of not writing, I've finally got around to it. Unfortunately the, only time that I write is when my heart is so heavy that I just want it to fall out already. Here's what's going on:
1) It happened again...another person that I knew was killed in a car accident on Friday. Although it is not as difficult as when JR died, the sting is still strong. More than anything, I'm rekindling memories from last January and what an impact--both positive and negative--the experience had on me. I even feel GUILTY for thinking of JR during this time because it's not about me or him..it's about JC and his life, but I can't help it...
2) I'm sad...and I don't know why. This is the first year that I haven't had a real birthday or Easter and I've concluded that growing up just sucks. People that I love let me down in tremendous ways, but maybe my expectations are just too high. Maybe they don't even know they're doing it. Anyway, I'm scared because I can't shake this feeling and all I want to do is cry but I don't know why. Any advice is welcome.
3) Room selection....enough said.
Give me your opinions and I LOVE YOU ALL DEARLY. I HOPE YOU ALL KNOW THAT EVERYDAY OF YOUR LIFE!!!!!
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| I realized that at work all bad things come from the phrase "Leah always...". I was asked to cut the edges off of some cards, and I basically screwed about 5 of them up on the first try. I realized at this point that I'm just average. I've been reminded several times in the past week that I"m not that pretty. I know that I don't sign execeptionally well, and obviously I can't spell. I can't sing, I had my driving ridiculed all weekend. I swear that I can't do anything better than "ok". Why was I born without anything special about me? Today basically sucks on all levels and I have a paper due tomorrow that I need to work on. What does in matter how hard I work on it....I'll probably just get a C anyway....
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| 30 Hour Famine Basically Rocked!!!!!!!!!!!Alright, so this weekend had to be ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING 3 DAYS OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!! The famine went over wonderfully. The kids showed up on Friday night at the coffeehouse and were split into different teams. I was with the all girl pink team, and yea they were awesome. We played games and did praise and worship and listened to Chris Carpenter speak. I have to tell you that I almost forgot how much fun GOOD worship with high schoolers really is. Then we split off to our individual churches and spent the night in the Big House. I think I laughed for a good three hours total that night. MY KIDS ARE CRAZY!!!!!! They put make-up on Kermit, had us watch their home movies, and just were in general nuts all night. I got some good quotes from them too:
"Laura, don't burp....it smells like food."
"Honor the bean!" (they were giving beans to feed their team "countries" if they were good)
"Smell my finger...it smells like steak!"
"If I were gay this would be a real turn-on"
"Jesus C...I love you!"
On Saturday I had to go work at Mountain Challenge. I got back in the afternoon and helped paint a basement with the pink group. Unfortunately, it started to hurt my hand, but I got to have good conversations with a lot of the girls in my group. They pretty much rock too. Then we went to Maryville Christian for "the Feast" and basically stuffed our faces. Then today, Kermit spoke at church and the kids were in the video we shot for the sermon. He talked about fasting and why it's something everyone should do. HE WAS SO AWESOME TOO!!!!!!!! I think I fell more in love with my youth kids this weekend. They are so awesome and amazing. Pictures will be posted soon.
I'M ON SUCH A GOD HIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In other news, I finished Wicked today!!!!!!! Yayness...it was excellent. Now I'm hungry, so I'm going to get food.
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| Another updateOk, so I went to the orthopedic doctor today. He was very nice and a lot better than the doctor I saw at the East Tennessee Medical Group a few weeks ago. The bad news is that I have a slight case of carpel tunnel. For those of you who don't know, this is very bad for an interpreting major. However, the doctor caught it early and I'm now on deflamitories for my nerves. My nerves were making my thumb numb because the wrist brace I was given was agrivating the nerves. I'm told that it should be better in a few days. I have another appointment with him in two weeks. The good news is that Sandra Harrison is an AMAZING Intervarsity mom and went to the doctor with me. She gave me all sorts of encouraging words including don't let Peggy freak me out.  Anyway, I'm released to sign again on Monday, and thank you all for your prayers and messages during this. I'm just thankful that I got an answer to the problem and hopefully a solution is not far behind.
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