Ha, just thought I'd point that out. I wasn't really feeling it until we put the tree up, made cookies, and all that jazz.
Anyway, I haven't been on in forever, so I thought I'd post. :) Nothing is really going on here. One thing I do have to mention is my 8 year old cousin, she has a tumor behind her eye. It's been there forever, but a few weeks ago it...ah, I dont know how to spell it, but it hemiraged. Yeah, I can't spell. Anyway, it started bleeding, and her eyeball was pertruding, so they drove her to the hospital. Poor thing, she couldn't eat all day, and only two of us were allowed in the emergency room at a time, so I only got to see her for like a half hour, total. We were there for forever, me and my mom, her mom, my aunt, and my grandparents.
Anyway, long story short, she's fine now...for the moment, I mean. They told us they'd never be able to get all of it out, cause the tumor looks just like tissue, but they are going to perform surgery and fix a few things to make her life easier, but I can't explain it, because I don't fully understand it. She's fine now, but the tumor...it's like, in her eyeball. Her whole eye is red, where it's supposed to be white. The kids at school were making fun of her, mom said. I felt awful. But at least she lived, and...well, things could totally be worse. God's taking care of her. :)
Besides that, no big news. I'm trying to find another job, because I quiet my old one, and school's...school. In psy., I met this lady who has 23 personalities. She came in and talked to us, but I only got to meet like 5 of them. So we hooked up, and I got her email address. We've been talking a lot, and I'm probably gonna meet up with her again. She's the sweetest, and I love the teenager in her, Kitty, and then the self-concious one, Melinda. Oh, and the crafty, cooking person, JoAnn. Then Mary herself....ah, they're almost all really sweet. Anyway, I just think that kind of stuff is super neat, but really sad. I mean, think about what those kinds of people went through, for their mind to have to go as far as making another person to deal with the psychologcial damage. *sigh* But she's fine now, and getting much better. I wish I could go into psy, but it's all so sad, I don't know if I coud handle it.
Anyway, I've been studying a bit more, and that's really encouraging. I always have trouble sitting down and doing it, but when I do I feel loads happier. Hope everybody's doing great!!! Have a good time putting up the christmas decorations :)
Thanks! I've been keeping busy with school and work. We actually just got a new Mac computer!! I love it so much! The internet is eons faster! We had dial up before. How have you been? Are you working at Taco Bell?
I'm just as I'm sure everybody else have been- busy.
Work is hard. But I guess that's life, right? I'm the sports writer for the local newspaper. Sounds easy, but it's not. I have to call people for stats, they promise to send them and then don't. I have to go to every game, and then I get to go home and write about it, and download the pics. Oh, and it's loads of fun when I'm going to send the stories by email, and the newspapers mail box is full. Makes my life real fun! *sigh* I'm not going into journalism. You have to depend on other people too much. I know that sounds awful, but I hate it when they promise to give me a list of players, or the stats, and I NEVER get them. I get paid by the length of the story. Guess how much shorter it is when I don't have the stats.
Oh well, I took the job. The pay just sounded good, but between you and me, it's really not. And I'm awful at football...dad kinda writes a lot of that for me...*ehem* all of it, to be exact. It's just so hard to understand!...
School's fine. Ap english is killing me, but that's okay. I'm happy with my grades. I decided I reallllly love accounting. It's so much fun, really, after I get the hang of it. Maybe that's what I'll be...hm.
We're leaving for disney world thursday. I'm pretty excited. Oh! For the halloween party they have, I'm being Tonks from harry potter! pink hair, robe, wand and all! I'm so excited. I wanted to visit FC, but dad said no. But he said maybe me and mom can fly there some time! That would be so cool, just me and mom visiting. Dad'll make it stressful. But they really are for me going, and I hope it works out.
Oh, and dad said he'll cover the fb game for me on the friday of the singing, so I get to go in oct! I'm really glad about that, I miss you guys, and to be honest I really need it, spiritually. Singing at the Indy thing always picks me up :D
Okay, I've talked enough. I hope you all are doing okay, and I pray I'll see you soon! ♥
p.s- everybody stared school now right? :p It seemed like I started before everybody...lol
Hahaha... I think I would have had my brother and dad write the sports column for me, if I were in your shoes! I never wanted to be on the newspaper though. I was too busy with everything else I was doing.
Are you going to Disney World for a vacation? Your costume sounds great!
yeah, we've all started school lol. btw, tonks! sounds cool, my friedn was that for halloween last year! she had trouble with the hair though, good luck with that!lol
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the 7th and final year of our favorite fictional book character's school year is finally out for all his wonderful fans to spend hours reading. That's right, Harry Potter 7 is finally here, and was of 7/21/07! I'll tell ya right now, there are no spoilers in this, so it's okay. I know SOME of us haven't been reading like they should have *cough* my brother*cough*...
So anyway, we dressed in our matching "Dumbledore's Army" shirts
*points at 5th book* and went to the midnight thing at Barnes and Noble. To make a long story short, we stood in line an hour earlier that day to get wrist bands so we could come late that night and still get in front. Well, no, the decided to cancel out the bands and make us get in line. Thankfully, my cousin saw a friend, and we might have...ah..."slipped" into line.
We waited 30 minutes :)
These jerks in line were passing out pieces of paper with all the spoilers on it (deaths, etc) Thankfully I didn't take it...man, if I'd read that I probly would have cried, and screamed at them. Seriously, you don't know how I act about spoilers. Basically it's the worst thing you can tell me; depends on how much I love the subject of the spoiler you tell me. Point is, Harry Potter is not something you talk to me about until I've read it.
So, all in all, the book was good. Most of my preditions were right, which was great after my cousin got really mad at me for thinking something, and she thought the oppisite...but I was right. She won't talk to me about it now :) I cried like a billion times. If I read something about some characters that died now, I tear up still. Mom makes fun of me.
anyway, I hope none of you are haters of it, or I might just cry, cause that'd be sad...
hope to see you all soon!
it was really fun...we got to do some wooden sword fighting type stuff...so that was really fun...then we went shopping and came home...it was a long day...or at least it felt long :)
hey! i am a huge fan too! i loved the book! it was my fav beyond any of them. but yes, it was VERY sad. about those people handing out spoiler sheets! SHEESH! that's terrible! glad i wasn't there because i would've probably been dumb enough to read it! glad you didn't get spoiled though.
I finished the book a couple weeks ago. You should've taken the paper and look at it AFTER you're done with the book, just to see if those guys were making it all up ;)
i have excuses for not fineshing the book as early as u did. i fineshed it the other day, it wasent very sad for me, but i did cry when one character died
yeah...it's fun...tomorrow we a picking the yearbook cover...it should be lots of fun...plus i get this awesome badge...so i can 'run free' and it makes me feel really important...
Hm...I had so many thoughts for this blog, and I forget them all tonight. Ok so... First of all, I went to New York and Washington DC with Megan Wright. That was the most amazing...ah, i loved NY. I can't even tell you how the lights, the cars, the city made me feel. I just kept on thanking God that he let me see the beauty in such a thing..If only one day I could live there, I'd do it in a heartbeat. And that brings me to my next topic...
This is, sadly, a dream I don't think will ever happen. And that's when it hit me; I'd thought of my first dream, hope...wish that I can almost tell you right off the bat that it will never happen. I'm limited. (starts singing from the musical Wicked...anyway...) Make sense? I may not have a lot of self confidence in my actions, but I've always been very positive about the Disney :P "All your dreams can come true" thing. You know, if I work hard enough, I can reach a goal. But new york...ok, so if you know me fairly well, you know it's like my dream to write for the New York times. or National Geographic. Don't as me why, it just is. But seriously, are there any awesome chruches up there? I highly doubt it. And if I do happen to have a family, I would never raise one up there. Not saying anybody who does that is bad, but I just couldn't bring myself to have kids where there's not room to breath. Just cause I love it doesn't mean a child can or would as much as they would an open yard. Just my thoughts. *sigh* i dont think i'm making sense. Anyway, the only reason I'd ever go there is if I only have my career going for me, which really would be a sad life... So i decided it's probly too selfish of myself to go up there. But who know's what'll happen, yeah?
But I do have to complain for like 2 more seconds. I told mom about this wish, and she gave me that look. Oh, you know the one. The "this is another of your childish dreams that'll go away in a few weeks". I hate that look. In my defence, I've had very few career dreams that I've thrown away since i was little. So I dont want to hear that I change my mind all the time. I've loved the city ever since i was little. And what's that mean anyway? I get the same look when I talk about writing my book. :P But it will happen, Lord willing, I'm telling you right now. No look is going to stop me. *sigh* alright, i'm rambling. If you got this far, then props to you cause I dunno if I could have read all this stupid complaining. Anyway, hope to see you all soon!
p.s- Harry Ptter tomorrow!!!!! anybody else going at midnight? I hope this will pick my mood up a bit. yay for dressing up lol
He spent some time in NYC a summer or two ago. He may know what the church situation is like up there. I know of one, but you'll have to speak Spanish to get a lot of good out of it ;)
caleb churchill stayed in NYC for a while, too. you could ask him. and good luck with your book! i'd love to write a book, too; i just have to figure out what i have to say that someone will want to read. :)
There are probably some people whose lives have taken them straight from their dreams to realizing those dreams. But the rest of us have had some grandiose dreams (you should see things that were written in my high school yearbook about my plans!) that were never realized, because our paths meandered a lot differently than we planned. BUT (this is important!) you can be content, whatever your lot, if God is first in every decision. Her recent blog talks about this eloquently. I love you, Meagan. You're a sweetheart!
Yes, apples. Ok, first I have to warn you this this post is gonna be so random, you may just want to leave now. Some of it might be weird, but just hang on, okay?
So, I was eating an apple, right? And I started thinking about all the apple metaphores made at DoV camp. 1, was like how christan girls are at the top of the tree, and the non-christian girls are the rotton ones at the bottom, and the right guys have to climb, and make it all worth while, and...yeah, it sounds kinda weird, but somebody in my cabin said it during a devo, and I thought it was kinda cute.
Then there was the one about how you can see what kind of seeds are in the apple, but it's harder to look at a seed and see the apple it's going to turn into. Just like when we go out to teach people, we need to talk to the people who haven't "blossomed" yet, or become a christian, cause you have no idea what they could turn into. I know that's not worded the best, I can't remember exactly what they said, but that one stuck with me.
So, I decided that if anybody has some amazing apple references, then you should tell me, cause for some reason they seem to stick. :)
I haven't talked about DoV camp at all, so I should probly do that now. Amazing is the only word I can use, and that doesn't even describe it. That many studies, I love, and everybody cared so much. I had some awesome talks with people, and got to know so many girls. The studies were something that'll stick with me forever, and I learned some awesome things there. I can't wait to go back next year. :) oh, and I found out that I actually CAN live without air conditioning for a week ;D
p.s- my brother is now on here, Nathan, and he is in need of friends. i prefer the friends to be people that he actually knows, but whatever floats your boat. and if you are wondering about his name, it is an inside joke he stole from me. yeah, i know. lol his name's sugarshots682. :)
yeah, my friends weren't happy when i quit band, either. i quit band for XC and now i'm quitting XC for better things. i really think it'll be better this way. even if it isn't in this life, as long as it helps us get to where we want to be in the next then it will be worth it.
I think, David, that the point is: There are lots of girls out there, and it's really easy to find non-Christians out there (unfortunately). In my humble opinion... girls have a similar "boy tree". We have to weed through a lot of "bad apples" to find the "good apples", too!
Great apple thoughts! Here's another one to add to the mix: sometimes blessings are like apple trees alongside the path of life. If we focus all our attention on acquiring these delicious apples, who's to say we won't pick some rotten ones along the way or get hurt trying to climb so high? But if we focus on our goal and continue walking the narrow path, God will fill our basket with too many apples to even carry!
