Go the Distance

Down an unknown road to embrace my fateThough that road may wander, it will lead me to YouAnd a thousand years, would be worth the waitIt might take a lifetime, but somehow I'll see it through
And I won't look back, I can go the distanceAnd I'll stay on track, no, I won't accept defeatIt's an uphill slope, but I won't lose hopeTil I go the distance and my journey is complete.          -"Go the Distance," Hercules  

    "This is my last night in the nursery." Anyone know the movie? It's how I'm feeling at the moment. Tomorrow I'm heading back to Sioux Falls, and I'm sure it will be better than the last time.  I've gained this whole new perspective on life, and what it can be like.  The "Go the Distance" song felt very fitting as my title.  I'm going to keep using Disney references as long as possible!

This last day has been a very different from the rest of my week and a half off between school and camp.  I packed most of the day, and then went to my high school's football game.  I was not expecting to see so many people that wanted to talk with me and missed me.  It had to be God giving me a little treat tonight as well, because during tonight's game the school was selling off all the old AGWSR uniforms. INCLUDING MY CHEERLEADING UNIFORM! You can bet I bought that!! For those reading this and just realizing they're reading the blog of a high school cheerleader, please understand that my cheerleading days were nothing like they are in movies what so ever.  We were a great bunch, and I'm goof friends with everyone that was on my junior and senior year squads.  I was co-captain for 4 seasons, football and basketball, and I loved ever minute of it.  Almost.  But enough.  I think if I wasn't there with my rough and tough friend Mayra, I would have started crying.  The memories in those uniforms are just PRICELESS.  It's during cheerleading that I made friends with Philippine, one of my very best friends.  It's where I tried to witness to my lost friends, and to find myself as well.  The State Basketball Tournament when we won the Championship... I really have been blessed I must say.  It was really hard to see little girls running off in our old cheer skirts, having no idea of what they mean to us.  I wish I had picked up Philippine's uniform.  I almost want to call tomorrow and buy hers. I'm a 'golden retriever,' and that tends to mean I'm very loyal, and I am very loyal to AGWSR.  I'm moving on to better and bigger things, but I am very VERY attached to my school.  I believe Philippine would feel the same way, which is why, in my head as I'm typing this, I'm trying to think of a person to call that I can see if there are more uniforms left...

This weekend is also Lifelight Music Festival in Sioux Falls, and I get to take my high school friends Mayra and Kendal.  I'm so very excited to spend time with them.  Kendal is my pretend baby brother, and I love him so much! Mayra is one of a kind, and I appreciate her and love her very much as well.  We have so much to catch up on! It's sad when I have a night like this, seeing old friends, and my loyal self just wants to spend so much time with them.  I regret not getting to see Andrea and Lizeth.  Andrea and I have been friends since 6th grade? Gosh the memories with her... We first bonded because a boy wouldn't dance with us weirdos at a school dance.  Then it was Relient K.  It was so amazing to get to see them with her last year at Lifelight.  It was like a Doxology of our friendship.

I think "Go the Distance" can be just a powerful song as any Christian music.  It's going to be my anthem for the year, I think. Getting to know my roommate, challenging classes, finding a new job, it's all part of life.  To quote Hagrid, "What's coming with come, and we'll meet it when it does."

       "I won't loose hope til I go the distance and my journey is complete!"

She Really is a Funny Girl that Belle!

And for once it might be grand to have someone understand I want so much more than they've got planned... -Belle, Beauty and the Beast

      I'm in the middle of a Disney frenzy right now, and I'm so sad that many have not seen this side of me.  Then maybe people wouldn't assume that this Disney dream is only a dream, or a silly girly fantasy.  As Walt Disney once said,

All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

While I am perfectly aware that not ALL dreams can come true, this quote can ring true for many.  This   summer has been a life changing one for me, and has helped me to see this dream as more possible than ever before.  I've been rather frightened by the thought of living in California.  I'm an Iowa girl through and through.  But after a talk with my role model, Camie Treptau, I felt it was more possible.  She helped me to realize that this Disney passion is what makes me me, and Disney is not going to want someone who doesn't have the passion I have.  And plus, living in that area is a ministry opportunity.  California and the media industry definitely need someone who loves Jesus, and I can be that girl.

I found out Beauty and the Beast the Musical is going to be in Des Moines over my Thanksgiving Break, and I am definitely getting a ticket.  Beauty and the Beast is SUCH an amazing piece of art.  If you have the recent DVD release, watch all the behind the scenes information.  I watched it this past school year and I cried! It's such a beautiful movie and the animation is just perfect, and the music makes the movie.  All the work they put into the movie and the cast of all Broadway singers...  It's simply beautiful.  They had a whole different storyline without music and people didn't like it at all at first.  Then the music came in and it all came together.  Anyway, I got off on a tangent, but Beauty and the Beast... It was the first movie I ever saw.  I was 6 months old. :D

I also read through all the informational pages in my "Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics" while "The Aristocats" was playing in the background.  I used to use this book to press flowers between the pages.  I never really remember reading it as a kid, but you can bet I read it now! I learned a lot today! Such as, Aladdin came out in 1992.  I also learned that "The Aristocats" was the last moved that Walt Disney worked with.  He never saw it to theaters.  "Fox and the Hound" was the last movie that used the original animators from "Snow White."  Tim Burton, the guy who did "The Nightmare before Christmas" was the animator of Vixey, can you believe that? Gosh I love Disney.

I'm so excited to work towards this Disney goal.  Now, don't think I'm being unrealistic.  If it doesn't work out, I am perfectly content in the knowledge that God may have a different plan for me, but that doesn't hurt to dream and to work hard towards a goal.  Over the year I am going to try to stretch my artistic aims and sketch a whole lot more.  I need practice in that.  I'll try to update this blog as much as possible now that I've gotten the hang of blogs.  If you are just reading this, I have another blog about my summer at Village Creek Bible Camp, and it's well worth the read, I believe.  Printmaking 2 is the studio class I have this next semester, so less paintings, but no less that the single one I managed to finish this summer. Hopefully I'll do a lot more than one!! I've got at least 5 other unfinished paintings yet to go! Keep on the look out!

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