Living on Tulsa Time!!

Sorry it's taken me longer to post than I expected, things have been busy. I last left off with the wonderful story of Bulldog's injury. I'm sitting here trying to think of what all has happened between then and now, and I'm drawing a blank and feeling kind of sad, the wreck happened two weeks ago today and I feel like it happened forever ago. On top of which, I've been really struggling lately to remember things, all sorts of things, this is something that really depresses me because I've always had a really good memory and relied a great deal on it for all sorts of different and random things. The rest of the week after the wreck was spent wandering aimlessly between projects from what I remember, nothing too exciting. Jewell, Kaitlyn, and I made two different trips on the weekend. We spent Saturday at Garden of the Gods, got stuck in traffic due to an amazingly beautiful and breathtaking storm, and then had a few of the girls who went to the teen adventure camp come over to go through pictures and pick out which ones they wanted. Sunday we drove to Castle Rock which is about 30-45 minutes away, it has an outlet mall, the main reason we went. We primarily spent our time window shopping and just hanging out, it was a pretty good time. We got back in town just in time to go to Scum and had a great night at the service, as usual. We spent the evening talking and hanging out, playing a couple rounds of Polish Pool, this crazy random game Jewell taught us, it's sooo much fun and very addicting. Monday and Tuesday were spent working at ROP's food bank, which is always interesting. Wednesday we had a staff meeting, which for the majority of I sat and played, rocked, fed, Angelina's baby boy, Daniel, he is so incredibly precious! I love him, he's almost 3 months old. Wednesday was a slow day filled with random projects after staff meeting, I got to take off early though and headed towards the airport. I was nervous about flying out because Denver is so huge, but it wasn't too bad. The flight went pretty well, I sat next to a girl named Evelyn, she's around my age and moved to Colorado from Montana recently, we talked the entire flight about all kinds of things and ended up trading numbers at the end of the flight, I'm hoping she'll start coming to church with us on Sundays, she was talking about not finding one she liked since she moved. During our flight we flew through a lightning storm!! I love lightning storms, and to be flying through one, to get to watch all of the beauty and craziness that is lightning storms in such close proximity and from a completely new angle, was INCREDIBLE!! Dad picked me up at the airport and took me to Whataburger for dinner, it was 11 at night, so I got myself some breakfast taquitos, something I have been craving for a very long while. Tyson flipped when he saw me, yet again and spent the whole night laying as close to me as possible in the bed. Thursday I went to lunch with Grandma and had a great time eating Mr. Mambo's. I feel like since I left the old relationship I had with my Grandma, the one I let slip through my fingers, has been rekindled. We've always been close, she's one of my best friends, but I've gotten busy over the past few years and not made her as much of a priority as I should have and I've taken advantage of having her around. So our quick lunch turned into a really long one and although it limited my time to do other things, I'm glad it happened, and when I do come back in town if you are the person scheduled to hang out with me after Grandma time, I'm apologizing in advance for the fact that I will be late. After lunch I went and picked up Liz Ray and ran a bunch of random errands while jamming out to some awesome 90's tunes! I love being able to be goofy and ridiculous and completely myself when I'm with her, it's amazing. I picked up Sarah, dropped Liz off, and picked up Mom and we headed out for a girls night. Dinner was at Brownies, one of my favorite childhood restaurants, and then we headed to the PAC for Wicked!!! Can I just say that hands down this is one of my top 5 musicals/shows/productions that I have EVER seen. I loved everything about it!!! Friday I had a much needed appointment with my hairstylist, my hair was basically turning blond, and several parts of it were already there, I am now back to my dark brown with a few random purple chunks, that are more vibrant then the last ones, and they have a hint of pink undertones, I like them a lot! I went up to Airco after my hair appointment and spent way longer than expected there jumping from office to office and catching up with everyone. From there I packed up with Heidi and we headed towards the lake. I found out Friday night that Mr. Chicken and Fish was closed for good, a very sad time in my life happened at this moment. Mr. Chick as my family calls it, has been a restaurant in Wagoner for I don't even know how many years, what I do know is that my family basically went there every weekend we were at the lake when I was growing up, and we went to the lake almost every weekend during the summer. We got to the lake house that night only to discover the air conditioner was broken, and it was the one time my dad didn't drive his truck up there, so he had no tools with him to look at it. He called one of our techs who lives in Wagoner and while he came out to fix it Heidi and I took a trek down to the lake to meet an old friend from high school who was out on his fishing boat. He picked us up at the docks and we went out towards the dam and just chilled on the water, it was so amazing, I was so happy to finally be out on the lake, I had been craving it since May. Saturday Heidi and I got up early and fixed breakfast for Mom and Dad and then we packed up to hit the lake. Roberts and John and Sarah came up for the day, we spent the day on the boat, knee boarding, tubing, and skiing. Heidi made knee boarding and skiing look painlessly easy. Heidi and I were the first tubers, and of course we went together. We started out on laying on our stomachs, a few minutes into the ride my lower body had slid under Heidi and into the tube, to try and keep from completely disappearing into the tube, something that has happened before I grabbed the strap on the other side of Heidi by going over her, there are pictures where it looks like I have her in a headlock, but all you can see is her lower body, it was pretty funny. We saved ourselves from flipping several times, and when we finally did it was killer. I think we collided in the air at least 4 times, I felt like I was shoved in a dryer with someone else. We also broke the rope as we got thrown from the tube, it was pretty killer. I somehow managed to get talked back into the tube, solo this time, after about a 3-5 minute run where I fought with everything in me to stay 100% behind the boat I called it quits, normally I'm the crazy daring girl who is swinging out beside the boat trying to catch as many big waves as possible, screaming, taunting, and loving every minute of it, but I was hurting pretty bad. I spent the rest of the time enjoying the boat rides and watching everyone else tube and ski. Dad also taught me how to drive and then let me drive!!!! It was so much fun, very exciting, and also a little nerve wrecking because so many people were out. I'll stick to riding, it's more enjoyable for me that way. We had a huge feast of food that night, mom made all my favorite cook-out foods, from scratch, I love her home cooked meals. Liz came up for the night, we went swimming in the dark without lights, creepy but fun at the same time, we watched Bride Wars and had girl talk all night, it was much needed! Sunday was spent lounging by the pool, eating Bueno, hanging out with people at the church, spending time with my favorite little sister, and dinner with the rentals and some friends at Hideaway before my flight. The return flight to Denver felt miserable, we had a lot of turbulence, and being sore and sun burnt made for me being in not the greatest mood. It took forever to get out of the airport and back home to ROP. Jewell got home from Yellowstone probably an hour later and we exchanged a few stories as we fell asleep. Today was spent helping set up for tomorrow's food bank and getting the newsletter ready to be mailed out. Jewell and I went window shopping at a local outdoor mall and had some random hangout car time with Kaitlyn and Amber right outside of their house. While we were there, a shooting happened right down the street, that was an interesting experience. On that note, I'm heading to bed, it pretty much catches you up to date. I'll try and be better at posting more often so that the posts aren't so long when I finally get around to it.

Muchos love!!