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| I come home tomorrow. I can't wait. I have loads of pictures to print out tomorrow and I have tons of stories to tell. Plus I get the house to myself, Katherine, and grandpa who is never home for three days. So needless to say vacation isn't done yet folks. Sigh, I am soo greatful to the many different oportunities at hand that I have had the past few days. It was great to have so much quality time with my family (even if the car rides were hilariously miserable). I also picked up a couple new keychains and postcards so I am pretty stocked up on new merchandise for my second photo albumn that I have been working on. Yay, I love new material.
We went to Epcot and the Magic Kingdom today you can all go to facebook and see the pictues there of the rest of my vacation. I am planning on taking some photos of me around the house without anyone else around and some gag photos of me doing some crazy things to show my parents when they get home so they can be like, "Eva, we thought you were growing up, but now we can see you never will." And it will pretty much be the most hilarious thing for me for like a day. I love being mildly and obnoxiously entertaining.
Chris is also leaving tomorrow so everyone pray for him to have a safe journey and also for growing in life and spirit. Prayer works for everyday little things too. Pray for me and my sister coming home. Also thank God that everyone has stayed safe on the trip so far. For my friend Kristin as she is getting ready to leave college this next semester. For my friend Aaron as he is working on another film already. And that's all I can think of for now. Oh! For me and Maria finally getting to see each other tomorrow. Thank God for her safe journey through boot camp and also home.
Highlights of Epcot:
HONEY I SHRUNK THE AUDIENCE 3-D
SOARIN'
TEST TRACK
GOLF DOME (COMMUNICATIONS HISTORY)
FINDING NEMO
TEST TRACK AGAIN!!!
Highlights of Magic Kingdom:
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON TREE
ALADDIN CARPET RIDE
PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN(sp)
TOM SAWYER'S ISLAND
IT'S A SMALL WORLD
DUMBO RIDE
PINNOCHIO PIZZA WITH FIREWORKS COMING FROM BOTH
DIRECTIONS
MAD HATTER'S TEA PARTY!!!!
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| I am sooo tired. I wish I could write all about today.
Highlights:
MIB
SUESSLAND
GIGANTIC TRIDENT
"Where is the theatre in 360"
POPEYE: BEFORE AND AFTER
BIG X-MEN
JIMMY NEUTRON SEATS
skittles making my tongue go numb(no matter how hungary you are never eat a whole bag of sour skittles in less than five minuets they will hurt you)
SHREK IN 4-D
ET
"Where are the Blues Brothers"
BEETLEJUICE IN REVIEW
FEAR FACTOR LIVE
FIFLE GOES WEST
Hot tub and phone for an hour. Ahh, nothing more relaxing ever than a hot tub before bed. I wish I had one all the time, but then maybe I would be spoiled and not like it so much.
I am tired. Love you all. Praying for all of you and excited to come home. Yeah I miss you all already.
-Eva Marie-
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Well, I made it!!! I made it to Orlando Florida! Right not I am in the nicest resort condo I've ever been in. And yes, there will be pics of everything. I don't think I could miss out on a single thing with my camera attached to my face. Speaking of which, hold on a second...
Oh yeah, go check out my pcis on facebook. Sorry I will have a few new pictures on Myspace, but not many. In any case I feel much better and am having a good time. I will be writing quite a bit though still.
We went to a place called Wonderworks and it was a building that was built on the outside upside down. That was really cool. It had a bunch of different things that would play with your mind and like a giant simon says game, a theme song trivia game, a virtual 360 degree video game, and a flight simulator, it also had this thing that is could adjust your image and show you what you might look like if you were a different race. I make a hideous hispanic, and middle eastern, however I look rockin as an asian or someone from India.
This is like the second time I have ever seen a palm tree in person. The first time was when I was five so it doesn't count. I can't remember that far back. The only thing that I will say is still the biggest downfall with family vacations is that it absolutely sucks having all seven of us in a van at the same time. UGH!!! In any case we are going to Universal tomorrow and
For the rest of tonight I am going to scope out the joint and see what fine look attractions I can hunt down...lol J/k. Seriously you all know I've learned that curiousity not only killed the cat but mamed it and sent it back home via Ground Mail.
Hannah and Maria, hope you guys had a safe trip home and I will see you both soon. Liz, thanks for the Happy Thanksgiving message and yes I will be home soon with lots of stories, pictures, questions about your holiday, and homework!
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| While I have always been a sucker for life experiences and not doing what my parents what me to do, I can't make this decision in clean conscious. While, yes, these military people want to see me do that, and I have tendencies of being like them, and I have a huge respect for the military that I definately didn't used to have, like Hannah said I can not condone women on the front lines. Also, I feel paniced when I think about doing it, but when i think about just still going to school and succeeding and making my way like any other civilian I feel fine, I just feel bad for disappointing the people who would like to see me go. But the thing is there is always going to be someone disappointed, so I am just going to have to do what I believe is best for me. So, I guess I will just have to make this decision as soon as I think I have God's voice in my ear. UGH!
In other news, I am finishing up school here soon. Yay! Which means I will never have to take these classes ever again! yay! I am now at a B in Ethics, B in Sociology, C/D in English, and C/B in College Success Skills. This is awesome for me. especially since I improve at the end. Yes, I am taking new classes next semester. Ones I have never taken before.
Now, I really need to go out and find a new job when I get back from vacation. That would be really great. Like super, because I really need to start saving up some serious dough for moving. My parents are totally covering moving expenses and I need to be able to do everything and succeed. I think I am ready to really have a blast I just need to make sure that I keep writing everything down in my PDA and that I continue to journal my life like I have been on here.
This has taken out so many frustrations it is miraculous and when I do get feedback from you guys it really helps. I never am more precise and clear about what it is I am feeling than when I am writing on here. Plus, I think it has given people a greater understanding as to how I truly work. Thanks for the prayers this week you guys they were really felt and appreciated yes there were weak moments, but they weren't like what they have been these were like little tremors that were from a far away place.
As I always say to myself everyday to get me through each day and move out of the valleys of my mind, "God has the best for me out there somewhere and I am going to love it. No matter how many horrible things I am going to have to go through to get there I am bigger than they are. God is bigger than everything and since I have Him looking out for my best interests I am bigger. I've got an awesome adventure ahead of me." | | |
| Yeah, so I don't even know where to begin. Chris came home and I saw him once yesterday which was super tough and I saw him once today, I don't know which was tougher. I kept a good form and I stayed classy so thank you to all those prayers out there for me, I really feel God's hand. It was tough, but I did what I needed to do and the rest of it is up to God, I can no longer think about the past and move forward. I want to keep all the friendships I have made, but friendships are a two-way street and I have done what I can to meet half way. I can't help that I have a vacation, and he can't help that he is busy.
However, I also had my meeting with my parents and told them all the thoughts that were running through my head what with life, and school, and finances, and future. They were both very supportive and understanding as much as I could ask them to be and therefore, I have a lot of thinking to do right now. I don't know what I am going to do this next semester, but whatever it is it needs to move me in the direction of St. Louis and of getting me on my way to my degree in Journalism/Mass Communications.
I am still thinking about the military and so the changes that I see in Chris and Maria are piviotal in that I am watching them. I don't think they will ever know how closely I am watching them right now(good thing they don't have myspaces huh?). I am seeing how they have changed for better or for worse (why would I want to do something that I am going to regret or make me less of who I am today?), and yet allow me to go home.
I will not be waivered from that goal. I want to be home and going to school. If the military would make that a worse thing, or harder for me to do I wouldn't even consider it. I really feel it would allow me to understand and communicate better with people in the future as I continuously work to my ultimate goal of becoming a deconess someday.
However, I don't want it to be my first career. I want it to be a second. I want to be a fully well-rounded person for this is my honest belief that I would not be able to fully recognize and deal with certian people without knowing where they are coming from and more and more I realize to be a parish deaconess, I will run into more people returning from overseas, being in the military or from a military family and though I fear going myself would it be enough of a building in my life to be able to communicate and counsel those by having been in the military a turn myself? I don't know. Couldn't I relate enough to most people by continuing on the path I have already placed myself on? My dad says, "yes" myself, "I don't know." SO, in other words, I have a lot of thinking to do and a lot of praying to do and a lot of research to do.
Also, do I want to get my AA online and go to school online at MSCTC even when I move and then worry about going to school at SIUE or even Mizzu. I don't know. I really do need to start making these decisions though and stop putting them off for tomorrow. If I never start I will never finish and so far that has been my life. A bunch of unfinished projects.
All I keep seeing is this one really insignificant(sp) event where I was about 10 years old and I had gotten this craft idea from a magazine about little floss(thread) people that you could then attach to a key ring and make a really cool little person. And I bought the floss, got the toothpicks glued together in the form of a person and started the project. I started it, decided I would have more time to finish and left it. I never finished it. My mom then found it later and said, "look at this. This is just like everything else in your life you start, but then you never finish." Moral of the story: I have still never finished anything. I start, but then I always think there is more time and never finish. I want to finish something. I need to finish this decision, make it, and be happy with it.
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