"This is a Call...A Call out to You"

Wow, I have tons of news to add here! I think I'll go in a numerical list, that way I might get everything.

1. The title of the blog is from a song by this awesome Christian rock band that I'm recently interested in. They're called "Thousand Foot Krutch." At first there was just one song that I stumbled on that I loved, but lately I've found some others that are pretty cool too. So...just thought I'd share that. You should go listen to them. "Breathe You In" is my favorite song.

2. I recently got some good school news. First, I got a scholarship for next year. $1000 just for having good grades and such, which made me feel pretty special. Also, the other day I got a letter from the Education department and I have been officially accepted into SUU's Secondary Education Program! Hooray! I'm one step closer to being a teacher. :) Also, in the envelope was the results from my CAAP test. I passed them all (math was a worry spot!) and I even got a pretty little certificate from the ACT people saying that I had Exemplary scores on the writing and reading segments. So, that all made me happy.

3. My spring break was way fun this year. I decided that it would be good for me to have an "Official Collegic Spring Break" - but not with the whole get-drunk-in-Cancun thing. So Kirstin and I went to hang out at Beth's parents' house in St. George for the first part of the week. We watched movies and painted each other's nails and generally hung out and chilled. Then on Monday the three of us drove down to Las Vegas and went window shopping. In theory, we were supposed to get Kirstin a swimming suit and me some church shoes but we never did get around to those... But we did have a great deal of fun, especially during the ride back to St. George. Beth hadn't slept well the night before so about a third of the way she stopped and I took over. The exciting thing was the fifteen miles of curving canyon that was narrowed down to one lane - or half a lane as the cones had been blown over in parts. But we made it safe and it was all good.

Tuesday morning Kirstin and I loaded ourselves into the car (Poor Beth had to work during the week! We missed her lots! D: ) and headed southwest. We ended up stopping for lunch in a cool 50s-style dinner just over the border of California that had lots of cool memorabilia before driving the rest of the way to Anaheim. The rest of the night we walked around the street our hotel was on. There was a pretty cool outdoor shopping center that we found.

Wednesday we weent to Huntington Beach. It was gorgeous and I had tons of fun frockling in the waves. We ate lunch at the Macaroni Grill and spent the rest of the day enjoying the air and resting up for tomorrow. While I was in California, I was understandably a bit nervous since I had heard how crazy the drivers were. But once I was in it, I just knuckled down and decided to enjoy it. With the windows down and a constant sea breeze, I was just fine with the understanding that all the cars on the road wanted to kill me. Once I got past that, it was great. And I got to make lots and lots of U-turns, which I actually kinda miss. My roommate thinks that I just want to be a California driver, and I think she may be right. I did have a little bit too much fun driving down the highway.

Thursday we packed up and checked out of the hotel. We spent most of the morning in the Ontario Hills mall. It was so big that there was an entire circus in one corner of the first of the eight parking lots. We did more window shopping and while we were there picked up a gift for Beth and one for her parents. Me and Kirstin also got Build-A-Bear bunnies to commemorate our trip. We caught lunch and then we drove as far as Prim before taking a rest. We got in late to St. George. We figure that in the last week we've spent about 20 hours in the car with me driving for 17 of it.

Friday we, now including Beth, went shopping around St. George. deciding the bunnies weren't enough, we got snugglies with Beth too. Mine is a wolf. :) Then we went to Petsmart to look at their betas since Kirstin's died last week. While we were there we saw some kittties that had been brought in by one of the shelters. In a stroke of brilliance, Kirstin thought to ask Kassiday, our landlord, if we were allowed to keep pets in the backyard, if not in the house. He said "yes!" To make a long story short, I am now the caretaker of a gorgeous little cat named Smokee and Beth has a dog named Orion.

All in all, it has been an amazing week. And I am very grateful for all the cool things that I can do. And I love my kitty! He's so snuggly and he purrs all the time. It means I will have a bit more difficulty locating housing, but I am willing to make that sacrifice. Well, you certainly got a long post out of me this time!
~Kinsey