Krista Needs...

I was told to google..."Krista Needs" and this is what it came up with
Some are stories...some are just phrases...
Story 1-
Meet Krista.
Krista likes to climb the jungle gym at the park. She loves to paint. Saturday morning cartoon characters are her television friends. Seven-year-old Annie is her real-life best friend. When she talks about Annie, her eyes light up. She gets a big smile on her face. "We play," says Krista. (Props to my real friend Annie S!!)
Krista talks more slowly than many children her age. She can't run as fast as some other children, either. It usually takes longer for her to understand schoolwork. Krista has Down's syndrome.

Story 2-
Krista has tremendously improved her reading skils since she started WoW Vision. Krista has always found reading, tracking, and drawing a challenge, but with her therapy, she has improved all of those areas. Had I known about this therapy when Krista was young, I would have had her here at an earlier age, but we are so happy that Krista has had the opportunity to experience and to have such quality therapy. Krista is pleased that she no longer needs to read and follow with her finger. She has built strong eye strength and has a stronger self-esteem about herself. We are very proud of her accomplishment and her desire to learn. The staff at WoW Vision are very professional and courteous. Thank you for your concerns for Krista's needs, and all the therapy you've provided, it's been a success for her.

Phrases-
Krista Needs Help With Her Sunscreen.
Krista needs to practice her wise-girl accent with someone.
Krista needs to have someone tell her to straighten her act out.

Interesting...
by the way none of these things are true...especially the stories...I just found it funny!!

Hmm...what does Krista need??

THE BASEMENT

At Jenn's...
Helping her move...
She asked me and Kate to go to the creepy creepy basement to grab "2 boxes"...
Venture down there...
More like 6 boxes...
Kate freaks and makes me go alone...
I grab the last box w/spider eggs all over it...
Kate's too afraid to help get it up the stairs...
I do it by myself...
Then Jenn helps...
I walk straight for the door...
I need fresh air...
Kate comes after me and asks where I'm going...
I keep walking...
She turns me around and hugs me...
"what's wrong?" she says...
"I have spider eggs all over me!!"...
and u bailed on me...
She no longer wants to be hugging me...
I'm done with scary basements...

Tandem Ride

One thing my friend HiL and I love to do is ride her tandem. A tandem is a two person bike for all you peole who have been sheltered from tandem knowledge. We decided to ride past Joe and Elizabeth's house. As we approached we noticed there were a lot of cars in their driveway, so we just slowly rode by and tried to look in the window. Then we made our way to the Seben's house. So, we began riding along 38th street, staying away from the cars and all of a sudden HiL cracks up and yells...that was Kate who just drove by!!! We started busting up...and I almost forgot that I was driving the tandem...but luckily I kept the bike moving straight and didn't crash into anything. We arrived at the Seben's, but no one was there so we headed back to HiL's house.

After leaving HiL's I called Elizabeth to see what she was up to. She was having some sort of pampered chef party and said I should stop by to see Elise(her 5 yr. old daughter) When I got there, I went to the back and said hey to Elise, and she insited that I come say hi to her mom as well. I walked into this room full of women who all just stared at me. Elizabeth said hey and then looked to a friend and said "I have to tell her!!"

"Tell me what??" I said
"Well, I told my friends that Elise's friend was coming over to see her, and they all saw you walk up and said...Is she slow or something???"

I think it's time for Elizabeth to stop calling me Elise's friend...otherwise I'm going to be "slow" in a lot of people's minds.


So that my friends was a bit of my day yesterday. Basically I just hung out with my friends all day......and then I came home, and cleaned the basement spick and span(at 11pm)....to surpise the rents for the morning!!

Corrected by the 10yr old...

A few times a week I babysit for these two boys. Everyday they come home around 3:15. Today Erick came home on time but Karl had not come in yet.

I asked, "Hey Erick, where's Karl at?"
He said he was playing outside and then said, "You know that wasn't very good grammar."

" Well, then what should I have said?" i replied.

"Where is Karl." he stated confidentally.

wow, my grammar just got corrected by a 10 yr. old.

also, i just found out his name is Frederick George Jaeske the 4th....which means Powerful Ruler...wow, what a name!!!

$0.47 per day

Learning other languages interests me.(although i don't like the part where I actually have to work at learning them) Currently I am in my forth year of spanish, and 17th year of english, and I know a few japanese, german, and french words. But Hebrew...now, there is a language I don't know!!! There have been Hebrew words for God displayed at the front of the church for a series on The Names of God that our good friend....well, we will call her Sven for privacy issues...has beautifully designed and painted. I stumbled across a news article from the Quad City Times saying the Bettendorf Public Library is offering a 15 week class beginning November 14th, for a cost of $50 to learn Hebrew. That's roughly $0.47 per day...or roughly one less pop per day. But this is what I love about it, "We won't learn grammar, we will just speak Hebrew"

The question is....is it worth my $0.47 per day/ for 15 weeks/ to take this class???

From nails to current lingo...

Senior pics were today, and I found myself asking this question.....Excuse me sir, is there any way I can get a picture where my fingernails show ????....because I grew them out nicely for senior pics!! He replied with" haha, sure...although I've never had anyone ask me that question before." Then we preceded to take the picture....maybe they could use it as an exmaple of a nice nails pose for the next sample brochure!!

Also,
if you have ever visited theendqc website you will know what I'm talking about...and if not...check this out for yourself. When you put your mouse on certain words...they say fun lingo type words...
contact: oh no you didn't
events: snap
media: watch out
about:sweet
home: uh oh
I f0und myself mesmorized with this activity for a long while until a friend said...OK KRISTA ENOUGH!!! YOU'RE DONE!

And with that in mind my friends....goodnight!

The positives...

So let's look at the positives for the rest of this week...
*youth group tonight!!!
*hanging w/Nicole tomorrow after school
*No school Friday!!!!
*Getting Senior pics taken fri.
*hangin w/friends
*Going to church
*Creative Christmas Practice
*And I'm sure there's more that just hasn't been planned yet!!

Well, cya later everybody!! Come to youth tonight, I'd love to see ya there!

Life is such a precious thing.....PLEASE don't take anything for granted...because who knows if Jesus will give you life tomorrow or not. that is all i can say right now...

Deer in the Headlights

Have you ever had one of those moments where you just completely zone and forget about what you are doing?? I had one of those moments tonight. I played acoustic in Big House, and the first song was just about to begin. For some reason I thought the synth was starting this song and then I heard the drummer give a stick count, and I thought, "Wow, that's weird that he'd give a stick count for the synth player(no offense to all synth players out there)" Well the whole band hit the first chord, and I was just staring at scott and I see him give a motion for me to start strumming, and then it hits me....I was starting the song...not the synth player. Me and Scott chatted afterwards and he said, "Krista you had a look on your face like a deer in the headlights of a car!" And that's how it happened, my first time ever of playing in Big House, I am referred to as A Deer looking into the headlights of a car. Other than that the songs went great tonight, and I'm very excited to play again tomorrow....thanks Jesus for allowing me to learn how to play the guitar....all glory and honor and praise to you!!!


~And now I'm off to bed peeps

Andrew's Bday :)

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear ANDREW!!! Happy birthday to you!!! Just wanted to give a shout out to my good friend Andrew...he turned 15 today!!!

Passing on the right...

In the United States we drive on the right side of the road...and so we also walk down the hallways on the right.....but.....Do people in places where they drive on the other side of the road, do they also walk down the other side of the hallways???

I've got the music in me...

The IWU road trip was interesting and fun!! If you want to hear more about it, let me know...post or call. As for today, it has been good so far. Today I had to take a sociology vocab test which I missed on Friday. I was studying in my car during 7th period and I looked over at the car next to me. The word Bravada stuck out to me for some reason, and I soon realized it reminded me of the word Vabrado....very similar. It was at this point that I thought....wow Krista, you really are a music geek....but hey, I think the world would be very boring without music. So appreciate the music people!!! Let's give a few claps for music.

we have arrived...

The trip got off to a great start!! Ten feet from the church, I was already rearranging the stuff in the back seat. The rest, well I'll let u use your imagination...me and kate in a car for 6 hrs...you decide:) Well, me and Kate arrived last night around 10:50. We went straight to Tree of Life, where Natalie works and got to sit in there for a few minutes. Then Dan, the manager, kicked me and Kate out while they were closing...I wanted to say Dan, do u understand we have been sitting in a car for a lot of hours, the last thing we want to do is go sit in the car again for 15 minutes while you and your employees take your sweet time to close. So, me and Kate sat...and sat...and sat...and then Nat. left and forgot to allow us to follow her to her apartment. It went something like this, "Kate, I think that's nat's car that just pulled out!" Then a few minutes later, I see the black car coming back, and sure enough, she forgot about us. At the apartment we played guitar, talked, and best of all watch Fix You(Orange Vest). Around 1am we all went to bed. Well, let me say, I slept on the couch while the other two slept in the double bed. I fell asleep to Kate and Natalie laughing and then I woke up this morning to Kate laughing. After that she threw a pillow and me and I got up. Now, I'm about to embark on my 1st ever REAL college visit to IWU. T minus 20 minutes and I'll be cruising the sidewalks of the WU. Fun times, I'm sure there will be many more...

IWU

Hello Everyone!
Me and Kate will be at IWU today thru sunday. I'm sure we will have a rockin amazing time, so I'll be sure to post about it when I get back! Until then....adios everybody!

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T menos dos dias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PEOPLE THIS IS EXCITING STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ROAD TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!w/kate, so of coarse it will be a blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!T menos dos dias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Tribute to Jenn Swift

I have decided to tribute this post to Jenn Swift!! Oh the times we have had Jenn. Like when u stayed with me for the first time and I really didn't like that you were there. Or like how u made us spaghetti and forgot to drain the noodles, so me and brandon watched you eat your plate and we chose not to. But times have dramatically changed!!! Those bad days have left and the great days have arrived!!! Running around your block, just so that we could carole your favorite song, "Friends are Friends Forever!" So how about it Pastor Swift...let's be friends forever!!! We need to tell the world that jesus lives and allow ppl the opportunity to "Begin a new life in Jesus today!!!!" (We know Andrew has been allowed that opportunity) Thanks for just being you Jenn....you are sooo loud...but you are Jenn! Jennifer Swift!!! GO JENN!!!! YOU GO GIRL!!!!

~oh....what a proud product of frank and maggie born in.....'76

Road Trip!!

T minus 4 days until I lead for IWU with Kate!!! I am sooo pumped for this road trip! Also, for the record my 23 year old friend got her hand stuck in a circle ruler hole tonight! Good times:)