I'm off...

TOOOOOOOOOOO-morrow, Tomorrow, I love ya' tomorrow.... you're only a day away!!! Ahhh, Annie Warbucks. You always did know how to put the best feelings in words.  Tomorrow IS only a day way and I DO love it! Tomorrow I board a plane for Minneapolis Minnesota. It is there that I will meet up with my good friend Rachel and we will wisk off to my job interview in Burnsville Minnesota. After that goes AMAZINGLY... we will be off to Mason City Iowa for the wedding festivities. The actual ceremony is on Saturday evening, but the fun is all before that. Sunday morning, I'm back to Minneapolis and on a plane to Chi-town, where I will FINALLY get to see my girls!!! Monday I will see my other girl (Katie, school Katie) and the rest of the week will be spent in joy and merriment with Kate, Treen, Moogler, and Ron-Jon (i've decided I am going to start calling Veronica, Ron-Jon, just cause I think it's funny), Life is great! :)
 
Well, here we are again, embarking upon another Wednesday night of TV programming. Jessica and Ashely! You guessed it... the Simpson Sisters! :) WOO HOO! ;)
 
  My excitement for those 2 shows is only 40% fake. 60% of me wouldn't miss them for the world! :o) Ok, well maybe the world....
 
See you next week! :)

 

Just like the Bare Naked Ladies said...

ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!
 
     Well, I think they said "it's been one week" but still ONE WEEK!!!! It is now one week away from the best week of my summer. 3 more days of camp (which, actually, is quite saddening... Im going to miss those kiddos!), then I leave on Thursday morning and fly to Minneapolis. Where my good friend Rachel Olson will come and pick me up and we will drive on down to Mason City, Iowa for Betsy and Scott's wedding! I'll be there Thursday, Friday and Saturday and then on Sunday I will drive back to Minneapolis and fly to Chicago to see my girls! I will be in LZ until Thursday! Monday, I am driving for a while to meet Katie Becker at the half way point between Cedar Rapids and Lake Zurich! (THAT IS JUST SOO GREAT!) Tuesday, the girls and I are driving into Champaign to have a dinner and good conversation with Meg and her significant other (fiancee..WHAT?!) Joshie!!! :o) Then two more days with Ron, Kate and Treen and back to Ohio to start up work again the next week! :)  That's just great!!! :)
 
 
   Other than that I have nothing to report. Maybe my blog is becoming a neusance. DONT CARE, KEEP READING :)
 
      Lovies!
        Tempa

Anticipation builds...

        Well, it is now only 10 days until the much awaited nuptuals of one Ms. Elisabeth Neerhof and one Mr. Scott Storlie! That is just crazy! I can not believe one of my best friends is getting married in less than 2 weeks. That just goes to show how unbelievably old I am... and how unbelievably mature I am not :-) Bets and I talk pretty much everyday (through the wonders of modern computer technology) and I am just sooo excited for her! Everyone is! That's the other thing I'm excited about. EVERYONE!!!! It's been 2 months since we walked across the wet field to our wet graduation seats and, even though that doesn't sound like much, it's like ETERNITY to those of us who are used to spending every second of our lives around one another. Even though I talk to my roommates pretty frequently, it's going to be GREAT to see their faces! Plus the Jed and Tempa friendship will live on "face to face" once again! :o) Ha! :o) It will just be soo great! Yea for that!
 
         Katie Elaine Becker, my dearest friend, is leaving for her Puerto Rico service trip on Friday. She is the leader/organizer/head honcho for 56 kids and some odd number of adults. This girl is amazing at what she does, let me tell you!! Granted, I have never actually seen her plan/organize/head honcho-ize in person, but God has definitely given that chica a gift that she is giving back 10 fold this summer with the internship at St. Marks. Let's just hope she doesn't get sick, shan't we?! :o)
 
    So, I'm watching Ashlee Simpson again. I'm addicted to her. For real. I just really like her. Well, I like Jessica better as a person and I like Ashlee's music better. Now, I'm wondering...do those two facts make me less acceptable as an upstanding member of society? Hmmm...
 
 Ok, well... I'm rambling (shocked?! Im sure!) so I'm gonna jet. A few more things to plan for tomorrow and then off to bed. I think tomorrow is going to be a straight hair day. (oooooh aaaaaah)
 
    Peace,
       Tempa
 

July 18th already?!?

Goodness gracious people!! I can not even believe that it is already July 18th!!! That is just ridiculous!
 
Ok, well before I continue with my tangent on how incredibly fast this world flies before our very eyes.... I would like to send a quick shout out to my good friend and roommate of 4 years Nicole Joy Bleckwehl! HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY!! If you live in the Northfield Minnesota area, stop in at the bank and wish her a happy belated bday this week! :)
(HA! No one reads this that is in that area... Im not even sure if SHE reads this!)
 
 So... I have discovered that Blogspot has given us bloggers new fonts and font colors to liven things up a bit. Me gusta! Don't worry... I wont be 12 years old and change the colors every time I write... just tonight. Because it's new ;) Ok, for my 2 avid readers (the eldest siblings of the Dagostino family) I would like to clarify my last post. I was joking... I am going to vote. BUT I don't like Kerry or Bush, so I'm gonna vote for Deirdre :) I really dont know enough about political life to form that strong of opinions about it. I just know that I don't like those old guys running for president, and I think someone else should hop on the presidential bandwagon. Treen, you wanna run together??? Like Junior High Student Senate Style?!?!? Sounds good to me!! We can make it happen in '04!! :) heeheehee. Awesome politcial rant on your blog, Treen. Everyone Check it out!! www.musicwman1.blogspot.com She's my girl!
  
 Well, things in Ohio are still going swimmingly. Today, actually, I got an Email from a job prospect. It is a facility for children with autism in Burnsville, Minnesota. It seems like a very great place, and somewhere I would REALLY like to work.  They already have a music therapy program in place, which is GREAT! As much as it would be OK to start my own program, it would be even greater to join in one already created ;) The website didn't have any MT  jobs posted, but I emailed them and told them who I was and how I would love more information on their facility and program. Mainly, just so they would have my info on file if something were to come up between now and December. Well... they Emailed me back and said they are looking to hire a new MT to begin in the new year. WHAT?! PERFECTION?!?! Well, I sent them my resume and now I am looking into making a video of my sessions to send on over. I am also going to look into taking a sign language class to gain some more knowledge with that. So... this music therapy thing is really working out! WOO HOO!
 
 Ok, so I just got done watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Let me just say... I'm not a crier. Those who know me, know that... BUT if you want to see streaming tears from these green iris's.... then make me watch that show! Goodness! Not ONE time have I been able to watch that show w/out crying. It's just such a great show and the people who get new homes are just sooo grateful! Way to Go Ty Pennington! :)
 
 OK... time to head to bed! I am actually really tired, and I have to clean my bathroom before I fall asleep. BOO to household chores! :)  I hope you all had a great weekend!!  I'll see most of you pretty darn soon and that makes me happy!
 
 Love,
  Tempa :)

Election?? No thanks!

Yeah, that's right! I have decided that I don't want to vote in the upcoming presidential election. Mainly because I don't like Bush and I don't like Kerry. I think they are both corrupted people with their priorities all messed up. No, I think they are corrupted people with America's priorities all messed up. If Bush is re-elected, we'll have a Christian man running a country that fights, loves their money, and has crappy schools. If Kerry is elected, we'll have a crazy man running a country that fights, loves other peoples money, and has adequate schools that promote sex by handing out condoms and the morning after pill without parental consent. Hmmm.. How will I choose?

I just hate politics. I don't hate many things, but politics is one thing that I just can't stand!! I understand, I guess, that without it we would not be able to live in a nation that is as well-off as we are, but I don't understand why we have to be so well-off. Granted, I will be the 1st to tell you that I like money. I'm a spender not a saver, I'm a buyer, not a seller. BUT I'm also a spoiled brat, so Im not a good example :o)

Here's my idea. You know how there are all these movie stars that are making like 12+ million dollars per flick? They all have a net worth of something like 38 quabillion, but they are famous so they will more than likely die early of drug overdose, alcohol, or vicious murder, and never be able to use all that money, ya know?? So... we take 1/2 of their earnings from each film and give to another country. It doesn't even have to be one of those countries with starving children that we so easily ignore. It can be Scotland.... or Canada.

NO! I have a better idea.... We take 3/4 of all boy band marketing profits from the year 2000-2001. That will total like 8 trillion dollars, and we use some of it to put a down payment on our national debt. Maybe refinance, if possible? And then we raid all the dollar general stores in the Midwest. We buy nice little trinkets, stick them in Shrek 2 goodie bags, and send them, compliments of the Red White and Blue, to every country in the world!!!

That, my friends, is politics!!


~Tempa~

another week ahead...

Hey,

I talked to the McNerney children online today. Kinda creepy. They are now 15, 13, 9 and 6 years old. That is RIDICULOUS!!! They seem to be doing well. They go to public schools now, which is good for them, I think. Ainsley seems to be a bit on the skankish side and Kaeley seems pretty put together. Just like we suspected all those years ago!! I still can't believe that Giffin is SIX years old! That is just ridiculous!

I had a pretty crappy week as a whole. I was sick and tired and then sick again. I'm worn out! Tomorrow will be a long day. Camp during the day and sessions at the office at night. I'll leave at 7:15 and get home at 8:30. NIIICE ;) I'll survive though :)

Ok, IM not gonna talk much tonight. I've got stuff to plan and things to do:)

I'll talk to everyone soon :)

Love,
tempa

tiiiiired

hi,

Im sick.
Im tired.
Im crabby.

Im Out~
Tempa

Three day weekend!

CAUTION:
This Blog entry was written at a time of quite unstable mind. The author of the proceeding testament was not only pre-menstraul at the time of composition, but also under the proverbial weather. Beware of sudden tangents, emotional verbage, and unexpected subject changes. Please proceed, but proceed at your own risk:


Hi friends,

What a craptastic time to get sick, huh?? I went to bed Friday night with a sore throat and a headache. Assuming it was the normal day before "the visit" symptoms, I thought nothing of it. Waking up saturday morning, I realized that infact it was the ol' influenza. DAMN HIM!!! (Yes, the flu bug is of male persuation. Why else would it suck to have it so much?!) Oh well, I get sick like once a year, so I should count my blessings instead of crapping on everyone else's 4th of July parades :)

So I recently bought the new Sara Groves CD. Hands Down... my favorite artist... well, tied with Ginny Owens. Sara Groves (and Ginny for that matter) is just an AMAZING story teller. Her lyrics paint pictures of scenes as if you were there experiencing them with her. Amen Sister. I have 4 favorite songs on the new album "The Other Side of Something"... Esther, Like A Skin, All I need and my fave favorite... Roll to the middle. Esther is a song about her grandmother who was called to Africa to help the childhood AIDS epidemic in those countries. It's out of control! The AIDS epidemic, that is... although the song is out of control amazing, too :) All I Need is just a really fun song about how we are never content, but should be. Like A Skin is a lyrically amazing song about change. She relates the change of our lives with Christ to the ability a snake has to shed it's skin. BRILLIANT! At times, it's like this woman knows my heart. "...Feels like I have been waking up only to fight with the same old stuff. Change is slow and it fills me with such doubt..." Wow!! Roll to the Middle is one of the only full-fledged ballads on the album (seemingly why I like it the most), but the lyrics are simply breathtaking... and because of that fact... I'm going to write them on my blog.

" We just had a World War Three, here in our kitchen.
We both thought the meanest things and then we both said them.
We shot at each other till we lost ammunition.

This is how I know our love and this is when I feel it's power
Here in the absence of it, this is my darkest hour
Both of us are hunkered down and waiting for the truse.

All the complicated wars, they end pretty simple.
Here, when the lights go out, we roll to the middle.
All the complicated wars, they end pretty simple.
Here, when the lights go out, we roll to the middle.

No matter how my pride resists. No matter how the wall feels true.
No matter how I can't be sure that you're gonna roll in too.
No matter what, no matter what, I'm gonna reach for you..."

Man a livin!! That is amazing!!! Hearing those lyrics with her amazing melody is like you were part of that fight and part of the peace that comes with knowing love is stronger than whatever the fight could have entailed!! That's the kind of love a lot of us are waiting for, that's for sure!!


Anyway... Thanks to the sound advice from an old friend, I have started applying for jobs. I'm not finished with this internship until December, but it's a good idea to get my name out there and at least get some applications on file at places. I have applied for a few youth ministry jobs and a few worship pastor jobs in the Iowa/Illinois area. I am also going to start contacting schools for autism in those areas and see what I can work out there. I've got time, but I might as well start getting my feet wet ;)

Ok... My mom is calling me upstairs for dinner. Then I am watching the Season finale of for love for money!! It's gonna be HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peace guys!

Love,
Tempa

Saturday blah!

Hi all.

Happy 4th of July. It's raining and I kidna feel like my head is going to explode, or like I'm gonna puke. Since I don't puke, I'm guessing it will be the 1st option. So, I am going to head to bed. Get me some sleep!!

Have a great Independence day! Keep being awesome!