OC stands for obsessive compulsive

wow.....long time no blog....and i have to confess, people....I've found a new love. yes, its true folks, I've been unable to blog because I have recently (ok not this weekend but last) discovered the long lost art of...... knitting. K, seriously kids - don't laugh - but I'm obsessed!!!! Even now, as my hands are typing this, they long, they YEARN even, to be knitting. I don't know really how it happend, it just, sort of....happened. It all started when I went to Borders with my brother and his fam to go to a Bethany Dillan concert (k, WHO books a show in a freakin BOOKstore?) and I've never really heard of her so I start to wander and come across this wicked book called "Stich n' Bitch." The title made me laugh because my next door neighbour abi and I haved joked about starting a Stich n' Bitch with our friends - its where people get together and knit or work on their other projects and eat food and have a good ol' girly time (yes, Davide, you can come too - I know you want to :) ). So anyways, I bought the book and it turned out to be the coolest book in the world - full of step by step instructions and cool articles and awesome patterns - for like, wristbands and cell phone holders and bikinis and bandanas and stuff....so the next day I got out my brother's yarn and needles (yeah, he went through his knitting phase in highschool - yes, you can laugh at him), and learned how to make all these patterns and then the other day I went and bought my own yarn and needles and I haven't been able to get enough of it! I've already made a bandana and a cool striped camera case holder and now I'm making a surprise for a friend (hmmmm.....I bet you're all hoping its YOU, aren't you?? Well, you'll just have to wait and see!!!! Eeeeeeeehahahahhahahah!!! (k that's a wicked witch laugh.)

yeah. so besides that, I was REALLY sad to leave the Biblical Counseling Center on Friday....I absolutely LOVED it there and will miss everyone so much - I love you Don!! - (I'm still in Chicago until Wednesday though and will first going to Barrie and will stay there till sunday and then be coming back to k-town on sunday). anyways, God taught me soooooo much by being at the center and and feel like a new person but I will have to explain that in more detail later.....cuz, like, I'm jonesin' for some knitting right now.....

lates!
-J

good news!!!!!!

crazy me
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so this is my reaction after hearing the news via email today that i have been offered a position with Queen's School of English to be a monitor for the summer.....hurray!!!! So basicially I'm living in rez with the international students who have come to learn English, as well as designing and implementing extra-curricular activities for them in order to help them get to know Canadian culture and improve their "social English" - and have fun of course! this includes taking them on fun weekend trips to Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, and camping and canoeing and stuff, plus i'll be designing fun language workshops for them during the week - hurray for a fun summer! Plus it'll give me great experience working with ESL students to pump up the ol' resume for ESL jobs overseas next year! Thanks, God!!!! And hello kingston in the summertime!!!!!!!!!!!!