well, I have this twenty page (at least) paper to write . . . I'm on page 6, but I just don't feel like writing about Conferencing and Communicating with Parents! Let me explain. I have a class this semester called Classroom Organization and Management. There is like a ton of projects for it. We have to make a interactive bulletin board without buying anything pre-made, write a 20 page paper on our Discipline Plan of Action, make a powerpoint presentation, read a textbook, read three other books, and write two-page summary & evaluations for three articles that we had to find. We've done most of the stuff, but now we are on the paper . . . and I cannot stand writting papers. Anyways, if you haven't guessed yet, this semester is pretty intense. In addition to COM, I have Math II, Theo II, Old Testament Prophets, Weight Training, Development & Learning, and Teaching Art & Music. I think that once we get past Thanksgiving break and this horrible paper, things might slow down . . . but maybe not :)

This is the funniest story ever . . .

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Home Depot was sued by a shopper from a Colorado store who claims he got stuck to a restroom toilet seat because a prankster had smeared it with glue.

Bob Dougherty, 57, accused employees of ignoring his cries for help for about 15 minutes because they thought he was kidding.

"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The Daily Camera, of Boulder. "They just let me rot."

The lawsuit, filed Friday, said Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck at the store in Louisville, Colorado, on the day before Halloween 2003.

A store employee who heard him calling for help informed the head clerk by radio, but the head clerk "believed it to be a hoax," the lawsuit said.

Home Depot spokeswoman Kathryn Gallagher said she could not comment on pending litigation.

The lawsuit said store officials called for an ambulance after about 15 minutes.

Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, and Dougherty, "frightened and humiliated," passed out as they wheeled him out of the store, court papers said. The toilet seat separated from his skin, leaving abrasions.

"This is not Home Depot's fault," Dougherty said. "But I am blaming them for letting me hang in there and just ignoring me."

Well, on that note . . . I think I'll work on that paper some more!

Man, it has been quite a full summer!! I was a counselor at Lamoka Baptist Camp for five weeks this summer. It was really draining, but an awesome experience. The last week, two of my girls got saved on Monday night. That was definitely the highlight of my summer! They went foward during chapel and I was able to talk and pray with them. It was a big reminder to me that it's ALL about God! I had some rough weeks too. I think the worst was Junior week, because I had eight clingly, homesick girls and one independent girl who caused quite a few arguements. That is the same week that I had two girls who weren't saved and after I explained salvation, they told me that they didn't want to get saved. Yeah, I new it was going to be a hard week on Monday when I went to go get changed for the swim test and all of my girls followed me into the bathroom and were waiting outside the stall door for me to finish. But one of my girls did pray for assurance of salvation, so that was really encouraging. Ooopppss! Time for dinner. I'll write more later.

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I'm home for the summer!!!  Can't wait / really nervous for camp to start.

You can tell that I am home . . . I'm updating again and it hasn't even been a week!  Right now I am on my mom's computer and it's about 5 or 6 years old and needless to say, it is really slow (major "who-knows-what's-wrong" problems).  Sometimes when I am typing, it's still thinking and and therefore I'm typing and nothing is coming up, but then all of a sudden all of the words jump up on the page.

Well I went a little overboard this morning . . . I had to clean the dining room and living room and I ended up vaccuming the couch, the pillows on the couch, the little rugs by the door, sweeping under the couch, dusting, sweeping down all the chairs . . . well maybe not overboard but def. more than we do on a typical morning.

So I'm returning to school on Monday. We get Monday off cause they don't want us traveling on Sunday. So we don't start classes again till Tuesday. And guess what? I did get some homework done, but not nearly as much as I brought home. But I knew that was going to happen, I just brought it home in case something happened and I was sitting around with nothing to do. (In a family of nine that RARELY happens -- Mom can always think of something for you to do or talking's always good too) 

I talked to Ashlee the other day!!!! That was fun. I miss her, but not too much cause I know that I'm going to see her again in just a few days. I think the biggest problem is that it is making me think of what this summer is going to be like. I know that I will be working at camp, so that will be a nice diversion from the norm . . . I just don't think that I will be able to see Ashlee at all and that will be very sad.  And I know that we still have six more weeks, but people say that these last weeks go SO fast!

Well, I think that Margaret has to get on here now. So better go try to fix the keyboard on the other computer or something. ttyl