Here we go...my very own blog. And my very first entry. I can't believe I'm doing this. But then, I suppose thats what happens when you date a geek...you yourself become one. I should have seen it coming. Let me tell you tho...its been the most amazing journey of my life. It happened December 28, 2007. He drove all the way from Minneapolis in the dead of winter to ask me to be his girlfriend. I woke up Christmas morning...and there he was. Its been magical from day one.

I'm presently in Tampa Florida working with the ASi Youth for Jesus program as the assistant girls dean. I've been back and forth to the airport today three times picking up the students that are flying in and finding lost Czechoslovakian cell phones. Coming from McBride where there's not even a stop light, to traffic in Tampa has been enough to give me an infarction, but praise the Lord I'm still alive.
Already they've considered moving me to a different department because they think I can't handle the girls... Lucky for me now, I know all the secrets for getting away with things from all my experiences in the past, so I always seem to know what they are up to.

Yesterday was one of the strangest days I've had in a long time. The day in itself wasn't so strange, but the things that happened were. It started off with a trip to Sams Club, grocery shopping for close to 80 people...talk about a gong show. It was all Evan and I could do to get the three massively loaded carts to the front, through the checkout, out the door and loaded into the van. Praise the Lord they haven't checked ID on the credit card yet...I've used it so many places. The Lord is working that one out.

That afternoon we loaded the whole group up into the many vehicles that we have, and headed to the beach. Last minute they asked me to drive the Highlander with a load of kids... After everyone had eaten, and ran off to swim in the ocean, Evan and I decided to take advantage of the few minutes we had and took off on what we've come to call "power dates." Kinda like a power nap... only... different.

We went back to the Jamba Juice we'd seen on the way in, and as we parked, we started noticing all these strange looking people. They were all dressed exactly the same; white shirts, with dress pants and belts with beepers. Men and women alike. They were all coming from the same direction, like someone had just let them out of a cage. I didn't really think much about it until Evan got a weird look on his face; kinda staring in disbelief and shock with a little bit of horror. "No way! This is Clearwater, Florida. I just remembered where we are!" I'm thinking, "ya, we've been here most of the afternoon.." He goes on to explain to me that Clearwater is the headquarters for the Church of Scientology and that this cult basically owns and runs the town. Talk about creepy. By now, they were completely let lose, and surrounding us. I saw like, three people on the whole street that were dressed in normal clothes. It felt like we were in a horror movie... the twilight zone.... a scene from a movie about the future. "No! make it stop! make them go away!" We got out of the car and walked across the street to get our smoothies.

Inside, it was full of them. They didn't smile. They looked at us like they wanted to eat us. Evan got brave and started talking to one. "So, I noticed you all have the same shirt, are you from the same organization?" He replied in a sultry, hypnotic tone, "Yes, we are from the Church of Scientology. You're not from around here are you?" Evan staggers back in horror. "Uh, uh, no, we're from a long ways away." We quickly ordered and hid in the corner while we waited. As the streets were filling with the identically dressed automatons, we realized more and more the weight of the situation and knew we had to get out as fast as possible. We ran for the car as soon as we had smoothies in hand, barely making it out with our lives....

(Of course I dramatized it a little... but its really not that far from the truth.)