reality.

what we would do without reality. it keeps us on our toes. just today i had a plan of what i was going to do with my afternoon off since i didn't have to work. then i get a voicemail from THE boss saying that i'm on the schedule to work (when i wasn't when it was put out) and that if i could get here asap that would be great (of course it would be...). I guess God didn't want me at home for that long of time today. so until then i sit at work trying to think of way to "fix" something that won't be fixed easily or quickly. like everything else, things take time. good thing God gives the time we need to get what HE needs done, done! so, i'll wait. wait, for my shift to end, wait for the night to end and the next day to begin. waiting waiting waiting. it seems like we do an awful lot of waiting in our lifetime. seems wasteful but i don't know what else we would do in the mean time! imagine all the things we could do if we didn't have to sleep! we would get so much done! random tid-bit of useless information: "The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days 21 hours and 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. (...wait, WHAT??) The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration laspes." i'm sure that's not the only thing he/she lost... why, any person would compete in a rocking chair marathon is beyond me. how does that even work? trying to imagine it in my head and it looks ridiculous! now THAT is a waste of time. another piece of useless information: "A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year." ....sorry mom. so while i'm waiting for my life to take off, i think i'll sit back and put my feet up for the time being. there will be plenty of time in the future to lose sleep over an art project or test, a new baby or even (please God, no) a rocking chair marathon. no need to get worked up over nothing. no need to worry. to worry is to lack in faith. that's what i say, and i just made it up and i like it. I will trust in the Lord my God. there is not much else that is needed to be done in that area. that is His area of expertise so i'll leave it to The Professional.

family bonding...what a treat!

ooooo family! what we would do without them! having devon on a trip to Chicago with 4 girls means that he loves us SO much that he is willing to put up with us that long! haha he is such a good sport. ;) he hasn't read my blog yet but will flip! when he reads (or hears) that i wrote about him. haha
but we did some serious damage here in Chicago! walked all up and down michigan ave and when way up somewhere to find Buffalo Exchange only to be dissappointed by what we found. but that was the only negative part of the trip so i'd say we did pretty good. :)
thank you deiken for letting us borrow your condo for the weekend! i hope you find it in ...better! condition then when you left it!
i wonder how my daddy is doing these few days....strange that he didn't get to come with us, don't know if he would have enjoyed all the walking and shopping that we did anyways. lol
i have no idea how we are going to get all of our bags down to the car and FIT in the car to come home....this will be interesting. hahaha end result of successful trip. a full trunk. :)
oh boo.. i have to do an art project. they never stop coming!!!
oh and i decided that i would much rather design stationary/letters/invitations then logos...which is what we are doing in class. not my cup of tea.
BIG NEWS!!!!!: we had fantastic luck at the new Anthropologie store today!! WOW! it was great.....sighhhh

oh brother....

sooooo i get to school at 7:50 in time for my 8:00 class only to find out that it got canceled. gee, wish i would have none that at 6:30 then i could have slept in till my 11:00 class!! oh well. so i'm sitting in the library studying and going over my math stuff till about 9:15ish. finally decide to check my e-mail on my itouch. hmm. two new e-mails from my professors. one from wendy (math teacher) saying that class is canceled, well i knew that, and one from kim (speech teacher)........you have got to be kidding me...... message from kim roe: "i will not be on campus today..." ......oh. my. word. well, that's just...PEACHY! note to self: ALWAYS CHECK YOUR E-MAIL BEFORE YOU LEAVE FOR SCHOOL!!!!! i could have slept in and not had to go to school until noon!! oh brother....but hey! nothing i can do about it now! so, i left for home, got stuck in traffic, went to leaves and beans to apply for a job, the guy will be (hopefully) calling me sometime this week, (ekk!!!!) i changed my voicemail on my phone, i'm sorry to those who liked it. lol i was rather fond of it too. :) i got lots of messages saying "wow whittney, that is quite a voicemail you got there!" hahahahha i love it. and then i went to the grocery store and now i'm home wondering what to do until i have to go BACK to ICC and find a parking spot...oh joy.

what a fantastic day!!

Chi-town

wellllll i'm sitting here in class with nothing to do but browse the internet world consisting of facebook and blogspot. haha my computer geek friend next me to diligently working on his project while everyone else in the class is pretty much done. he's alright tho. i call him a nerd, he says i'm jealous. no, in fact. i'm not jealous. lol

my fall break starts at 5:30 tonight!! i'm so excited for this trip to Chicago!! it's exciting! get to spend some quality time with my aunt and cousin! it's going to be so much fun! can you tell i'm just a little thrilled?

oh oh oh ohohohohoh!!!! you'll never guess what i did that night??
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i cleaned. my. room. LOOK OUT!! you can now see the once again black carpet. :) it wasn't that bad but having a black carpet, you can see everything! lol

ok. well. that's all. for now. :)

car ride

so we were camping this weekend with a bunch of other families and i was saying my goodbyes and heading home when i realized that i said goodbye to everyone except my own family. that got me thinking. i was actually shocked. and then i was sad. and then i was mad. mad that i actually forgot to say goodbye to my family! i don't know if anyone else is like that, but i sure am! i forget to give my mom a hug and kiss before i leave for school and i feel like i've forgot something! that's how it was this time. i pulled out and was like "what have i forgotten, i know i forgot something." then i realized i forgot the most important thing. it's not like i was never going to see them again, but you just don't know that. and it's scary and makes you drive extra carefully so you'll get home safely again and see them in a few hours. you can't know when your last hour of life will be. i don't want to miss an opportunity to give my parents and siblings a hug. you don't know which one will be your last. live every moment like it was your last. life is short. don't waste a moment of it

christmas list attn. erin funk

1. very berry paisley duffle bag from vera bradley
2. a Canon rebel camera -with lenses
3. travel bag from vera bradley that holds all your accessories
4. macbook pro (but we all know that won't happen for a few years haha)
5. that's all i got so far

kind of an expensive list this year!! :/ haha

these shoes were made for walking....

wellll it turned out to be a beautiful day for a ride on the 4-wheeler. so i took it out for a spin. and it just so happens that on the day when i DON'T take my cell phone is the day where the 4-wheeler dies on me. well it didn't really die, it was more like in a coma. sooo i make the lonnnnngggg walk back to the house. about a 7-10 min walk. in my ugg boots, tights, skirt, and sweatshirt. yea. it gave me time to think about what i was going to tell mom, leah, devon, and tori when i got back to the house. haha it ended up with "so i have good news and bad news. the bad news is, that i had to walk from waayyyy over there! to wayyy over here! the good news is that 4-wheeler is not quite dead." so me and devon start walking over there with a gas can just in case it was out (which it wasn't but we took some anyways) we could leave it there so we were bring it back by either riding it or by pushing. i prayed that we wouldn't have to push. that would have been awful! so we get there and devon tries. 3rd times a charm on the "things to try to start it again". turns out when i hit the bump(bump as in a deep indent from big tractor tires), i kinda flew forward and hit a switch. which happened to be the switch to the start button. go figure. and once we turned that on, the 4-wheeler came back from the dead. or coma. and we came back home to tell mom leah and tori of my stupidity and my not looking for the obvious.
alls well that ends well!!!!

whew!

what a WEEK!!!! wow it's been a crazy one.

monday. was a stressful day!!! had to work after school, and was FREAKING out about the speech that i had to give on tuesday! but luckily i got out of working late and went home to finish writing my speech and powerpoint and then practice it. which i put off until 5:30. got home at 2. big procrastinator right here. so that was fun! was groaning and felt like an idiot! while i was practicing this speech and talking to myself! tori enjoyed hearing it 6 times in a row.

tuesday. tuesday was bad....lol not really i was nervous beyond being nervous!!! i hate with a passion public speaking. it's awful don't ever do it. (my long lost cat came back home today!!!!!! i gave him some delicious cat food) (mom has a mini me in boy version in her group :D) anyways, public speaking is not my forte. after that i was fine! which is crazy cause i know everyone in my class and i knew my speech. you should have seen my legs, they were shaking so badly! i'm surprised no one saw them shaking! i looked at them a few times when i took a step to make sure they came down right so i didn't fall over! it was bad, lol i couldn't move hardly. but enough of that...

wednesday. oh wednesday. you kill me. for one thing, i always have to miss church! cause ihave my 3 hard classes on thursday and i always have some sort of project or test that day! this particular wednesday i had an extremely tedious project due and once again, i kinda procrastinated (need to work on that). so i got home from work which was 6:15. and got to work. didn't finish the project until 12:45am. i am exhausted right now. and i'm covered in buttery brown sugar. but that's a different story which i'll tell in the next paragraph.

thursday. today. the end of the week. kinda. end of turn-everything-in-thats-the-end-of-projects/speeches-for-this-week. i turned my project in and my teacher said that she really likes my shading!! she called it perfect!! :D how exciting! makes me feel good inside. so i get home and to celebrate i take tori on the 4-wheeler. that was fun! we almost killed it but then i realized that the gas tank switch was on off. so we were all good. haha then we drove in the bean field for a bit got as close to the interstate as we could then went and "raced" some cars along the side of the road (mom, if you're reading. i didn't really, just went really fast and there was car along the way next to me lol) then we decided to get some hedge apples! which means crossing the road. first we couldn't find them but we did. we also found farmer Brown. we hi-tailed it out of there! didn't know if we were trespassing or not. left asap just incase! then we headed back home. and they all lived happily ever after. the end.

just kidding! well i hope they live happily ever after! but it's not the end!

friday? tomorrow tomorrow i love ya tomorrow you're only a dayyyyy awayy!!!! friday means camping trippp!!!! which means weekend! which means have to work on yet ANOTHER art project! and study for a midterm AND get 3 sections of math done! well there goes my weekend! i'll make it fun. it will work out. it always does! somehow...

wow i'm tired. oh! i forgot to tell about the buttery brown sugar! it's on the front of my shirt. i was cooking this afternoon and we had put squash in the oven and i was taking all the squash out (they were filled in butter and brown sugar while in the oven) with a spoon and the spoon slipped and went right into the buttery mess and splashed it all up on me and my arm!!! haha there was no one to laugh at me so i laughed for me and them. :)

well i think that covers my week. time for bed. goodnight!

suede

so tonight we had a benefit dinner for our young group to help pay for a missions trip to mexico. during the clean up, me and leah ramseyer had a tick-tack-toe game on one of the suede couches by the wall. i won. 2-1. it was quite entertaining.

my uncle had to set up the pack-n-play in my room for miles, and he couldn't find a spot to put it! how embarrassing... hahaha oh well. i'll get around to cleaning it one of these days

my ear is sore. not sure why or how....

my christmas list is out. :) its a pricey one. BUT a much needed one!!! promise. girl scout honor!

it's a fuzzy socks and sweatpants kinda night tonight

Stickling weiner roast

what fun tonight was!!! almost all the Stickling clan were at our house tonight and we had a giant bonfire, delicious food, and an intense of volleyball!!
volleyball was epic!! one face shot to Julia and few head shots to others. get out to the court and first thing we have to do is weed it. :) thanks guys! now i don't have to do it! the sand was freezing! incase you were wondering. i was bare-footed. i'm going to be sick. lol hope not! can't afford to get sick. ever.
my aunt molly told me she was going to put up a pack-n-play in my bedroom for baby miles to sleep in. i told her that if she can find room to set it up then go for it. looks like she found room! haha
as tradition, most of the guys in the family get going in a game of one-on-one basketball where everyone is against everyone else. it's quite entertaining to watch!
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felt like typing the alphabet out.
i am quite exhausted and when my head hits the pillow i'm going to be out faster then a light bulb.

untitled

i've been told that i should start a blog by my cousin. he says that a book deal would follow after shortly. ...any publishers out there? a book=writing. i'm not a fan of writing. anything with using punctual grammer and junk does not appeal to me. my uncle has always been saying that he thinks i should be an author....i laughed to face at that one! my aunt said that a blog would be a good idea for me because everyone (i really doubt everyone) wants to know what is going on inside my head. well you aren't going to find out cause I don't even know!! it's a mystery...
today is the day where go i go have a party in my classroom! :) what fun this will be! the best part is that i have no clue what i'm going to do...