Good Morning Campers! Meet Angie, Brooke, Travis and YOU!

Posted on 06.15.08 in General and there are 18 comments.

Hello Campers, Rise and Shine!

Every morning here at Camp TSLOK, I’m going to introduce you to a few of your fellow blog readers and post a fun morning icebreaker.

Today you’ll meet Angie, Brooke and Travis.

Angie lost 100lbs!
Brooke is a fashion guru.
Travis is “I have to read this to Jimmy” funny.

Click the “READ MORE” link to get to know Angie, Brooke and Travis.

Monday Morning Icebreaker

What was your first car?

Meet Your Fellow Camper: Angie

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1. What is your name or pseudonym and where do you live?
Angie

2. How did you find The Secret Life of Kat? Why do you read it?
Through Shaun Groves and you name sounded fun.
Then I came here and you ARE fun and we are very simular in our journeys right now.

3. What do you do?
Momx3 ages 9,4 and 18months

4. What is one thing you’d like to brag about....if you were a bragger?
I’ve lost 100lbs!

5. Recommend: 1 book, 1 musician, 1 movie, 1 blog
Books:  Anything by Beth Moore or Brock and Bodie Thoene.  I’m reading the A.D. Chronicles right now and eagerly awaiting the next book’s release!
Well, I’m old school and have a specail fondness in my heart for Michael W. Smith.  I also like Toby Mac, Casting Crowns and Mercy Me.
Movie:  Well, I usually see cartoons and I’m often plauged with High School Musical.
We did actually watch a grown up movie called Reign on Me, although very gritty (read Lots of language) it was moving.

6. What is something significant you’ve learned this year? I am the Princess of the King!  I've heard that my whole life, but this year it really seemed to come into focus what that means and how to apply that to my life.

8. Based on your life experience, what is one nugget of wisdom you’d like to share?
It’s always darkest before the dawn. . .You may not see the light of God or feel the love of Christ, but it has never strayed from you.  Call out to Jesus and He will answer.

10. How many 5 year olds do you think you could take in a fight? 
Oh at least 4!

Meet Your Fellow Camper: Brooke

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1. What is your name or pseudonym and where do you live?
Brooke

2. How did you find The Secret Life of Kat? Why do you read it?
I got here through Shaun Groves. The title of your blog stood out to me...i mean, of course i had to see what was happning in the secret life of Kat! Now i see how cool Kat is, so i keep coming back.

3. What do you do?
I am a 26 year old in transition after i’ve job hopped since college. I work at my family’s VT country store in the deli/bakery, but am currently interviewing for marketing jobs.

4. What is one thing you’d like to brag about....if you were a bragger?
I have good taste in clothes, makeup, and handbags, so people always come to me for advice.

But really, who’s to brag? I should become a personal shopper.

5. Recommend: 1 book, 1 musician, 1 movie, 1 blog
Book: Anything by James Patterson
Musician: Justin Timberlake (non-Christian) Bebo Norman (Christian)
Blog: Anne Jackson - http://flowerdust.net

6. What is something significant you’ve learned this year? Always ALWAYS tithe, no matter what, and God will take care of you. I've known that growing up, but now that i have my own finances and have been struggling the last couple years moving around, quitting jobs, but not quitting my shopping habit...it's been hard to want to tithe because i still have to pay bills. But i still do, and God always comes through when you least expect it. And even when i think i can't tithe, as soon as i write the check, that fear disappears. I just know that i'm doing the right thing and i'll be ok. God will take care of you when you're faithful.

8. Based on your life experience, what is one nugget of wisdom you’d like to share?
I was in a sorority in college and was very involved with it. Being around such an awesome group of girls took my friendships with people to a whole ‘nother level. I realized how important friends are, how much we need them, and what a blessing they can be in your life. Work hard to keep in touch with friends, they love being cared for and it feels good to do it.

9. If you have a blog, what is the web address?
http://boffthewall.wordpress.com

10. How many 5 year olds do you think you could take in a fight? 
Maybe two. I’m kind of a wuss and i don’t like pain. If there were two 5 year olds jumping on me i might last 30 seconds before i raised the flag of defeat.

Meet Fellow Camper: Travis

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1. What is your name or pseudonym and where do you live?
Travis Avila

2. How did you find The Secret Life of Kat? Why do you read it?
I was trying to find The Secret Life of Lobsters, and Google sent me here. It took me four months to realize....this blog isn’t about lobsters at all!

3. What do you do?
I sell oxygen. Seriously.

4. What is one thing you’d like to brag about....if you were a bragger?
Besides my devilish good looks and consummate charm, if there was one thing I would brag about, it would be my humility.

5. Recommend: 1 book, 1 musician, 1 movie, 1 blog
Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing, Kierkegaard
The Quiet Man
Seth Godin (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/)

6. What is something significant you’ve learned this year? That North isn't always the direction I'm heading.

7. What is your favorite quote or verse? 
“There will be absolutely no asking about whether you were entrusted with much or little, whether you were given many talents of silver to work with or whether you were given a hundred-pound weight to carry. But you will be asked only about your faith and about your faithfulness.”

-Kierkegaard

8. Based on your life experience, what is one nugget of wisdom you’d like to share?
Things take time.

9. If you have a blog, what is the web address?
http://www.avilafam.blogspot.com

10. How many 5 year olds do you think you could take in a fight? 
I tried this out at a friends birthday party. I took out three on my way to the punch bowl. If I were backed into a corner, that number could easily rise to four or five.

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Mine was a brown 1986 Toyota Corolla. His name was LB.

I inherited my great-aunt’s 1981 pale blue Chevy impala.  It had a CB radio, so my hs friends and I could talk to truckers, and when my sister got stuck with (I mean, inherited) it, she named it Stella, after a story involving someone’s post-creamation ashes that I only heard third-hand. 

You asked. 

Well, I’m originally from the UK so you may have never heard of this, but my first car was a 1981 Triumph Dolomite 1850HL. Pageant Blue with tan interior and wooden dash etc. Actually it was a bit of an old man’s car, but pretty fast, great handling and cheap classic car insurance. I loved it.

My first car was an ‘88 Toyota Tercel named Gus-Gus(yes, like the mouse from Cinderella).  He was very good to me for 248,000 miles.  And then, he made me feel unsafe so I had to say goodbye.  And, not that anybody cares but, for some reason my brother also named his stomach Gus-Gus.  It’s not a large stomach so the name thing has always puzzled me.

A 1987 Camaro, white with T-tops.  Those T-tops are expensive to replace when they get stolen.  I know.

my first car was a brown 1985 Chrysler New Yorker… it talked to me.

“Your door id ajar”
“Your fuel is low”
“Your headlights are on”

A blue 1991 Ford Festiva - my parents bought it for me (as a total surprise) when I was working at YWAM Denver and had NO MEANS to get a car. They bough the Festiva, parked it in the driveway of the house I was sharing with 9 other girls, and asked me to come outside for a minute. I think it took me at least five minutes for it to sink in “a car? but.... but..... whose is it? Mine? What do you mean?” I loved that little car and kept it till it died in 2004.

I drove a white Monte Carlo.  I can’t remember the year.  I just remember being happy to have a car to drive!!

I had an old white volkswagon rabbit.  I LOVED my little car and only got rid of it when I got married and my husband convinced me that a convertible was not a practical winter vehicle in Montana. 

Almost forgot....nice to meet you Angie, Brooke and Travis!

well I have driven 3 different cars, but my current car is actually in my name so I’m going with my 99 corolla recently purchased =) named, goldilocks…

A Dodge Shadow that I promptly totalled in two weeks.

My first car was/is LaToya. She’s a gold-ish ‘99 Toyota Corolla. My parents bought her for me from a little old man who was a snowbird and only drove her to church and the grocery store. She only had 15,000 miles on her. I’ve had her 4 years and she’s never given me any trouble at all, and at 59,000 miles I should get several more years out of her. Just got the windows tinted and everything. haha...I love my car.

thanks for the shout out, kat. holla.

my first car was a 1965 Mustang. total chick magnet...except for the guy driving it.

just got mine appr. 6 months ago!
he’s purple dodge stratus named Anton because ‘stratus’ reminds me of anton strativarius. (or however you spell it)
he’s really the “family car” but i’m the only one driving him so he’s mine!

i’ll get a new car when i graduate!
class of 09!

My first car was a 2000 silver Plymouth Neon. I got it my last semester in college! I still don’t know how i made it 4 years of college without a car, crazy!

The little interview was fun! I totally forgot i filled all of that out!

1978 Ford Fairmont station wagon (red).

And I’m not as old as it makes me sound. (I was born in ‘75.)

I drove The Beast from 1992-1994. Pulled into the driveway one afternoon and POW! She blew up. Never started again.

1967 Chevy Nova...Dads old work car...smashed our Weber grill into the house pushing on the clutch instead of the brake....miss those days!

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