Life: how mysterious

I'm so excited! School starts up again on September 20th. That's only 19 days away! Summer has flown by so fast it seems like forever since I graduated last Spring. Now that I have my AAS, I am doing the Business Transfer this year. It is packed with math, economics and politics. LOVE it. There is some business in it too.

To pass the time this summer (the time that was not spent having a blast at all the camps I went to...), I've been exploring computers: setting them up, taking them apart, trying to hack into them (because I forgot the password...), trying to sell stuff on the internet (craigslist, ebay, half.com): junk from freecycle, old textbooks, ancient baseball cards, and all the other random stuff that people might buy online.

Last night we rehearsed Howell's "Requiem" for the impending funeral for dear Betty Appel, who is dying of cancer. All of her family is with her for her last weeks, or days. Her husband, three sons, their wives, all their children (her ten darling grandchildren), her mother, and her brother. It will be so hard, but it will be glorious! May God be praised.

Aki has gone back to school. Now she attends NSA in Moscow, Idaho. This is Josie's second year. Becky, Melanie, Sukey, Sarah and I plan to take a trip over there to visit them sometime, after Reformation Day, most likely.

Gretha and Anna and I HAVE to get together before school saps our sanity. I have a chronic saying, "We need to DO something!" and Anna has a chronic response, "You ALWAYS say that!" and Gretha comes up with the plan, day and time. Dear Gretha. She thought that since the Drive-in Theater is closing for good, and none of us have been there, we should go there before it is no more. She's not sure what movie we are going to see...she's still looking into their showings. :) I just love those girls. <3<3<3

I get to babysit three of the cutest boys (the Gildehaus's!) once in a while. I watched them all day on Monday, and I just noticed how much Austin is talking! He had quite a conversation on my cellphone with who-knows-who, but he had all the appropriate pauses for the other person to have a chance to speak. So far, the only intelligible words I can decipher were "what" and "why?" my name, which he pronounces, "Gah-kee" and of course, "mommy" and "daddy". I think I'll wait around for Austin to grow up, and then I'll marry him.