Fire!

It might be repetitive and perhaps even expected that I begin by saying, "___ day was so awesome!" or tell you how great something was.

Well, true to form, I'm dying to tell you about how fun the bonfire last night was.

But also, the Lord has been doing a slow and steady work in my obedience and helping me maintain a walk of peace and joy. I guess I don't know when you're supposed to get angry and snippy with people you live with, but so far, I have had nothing but peace in my relationships. With Jon, too - things seem to be going really well.

Multiple people, who have had no communication with each other about the matter, have informed me that the Lord was telling them that He wanted me to stay joyful. One person said they saw a dancing rainbow flame and the phrase "dancing," when they were praying over me, and another person said that the message was "keep your happy heart."

I guess I just get concerned that all this is too good to be true, that it won't last, that it's not as good as I think, or that I'm too easily satisfied. But I think the Lord wants me to delight - to take full joy in the gifts He has given me. They might not look rare or expensive to others, but they are precious to me, and I don't have to worry about how other people value them, because I'm not trading them away anyway, haha!
Like the bonfire! :-) a precious moment.

We ate smores and sang songs and baked a pie for Shawn's birthday.

have a good day! ~

Spoonfuls of sugar

Another day, another bushel of good times.

After I got out of class me, Elise, Meghan, and Emily all went dress-shopping. I also got a book of common prayer for 54 cents. what a bargain!

I found these two really great dresses. one was purple and flowery and fits like a dreamboat! the red one fits great and has a flowery pattern too! I love them both. What a great thing to find! and they were both less than 6$! wowweee!

Then we went to Marshall's house that he's selling so we could help clean it. he was so kind and bought us pizzas in return! i had fun, and i got to wear this really cute apron, and sweep. I felt like a Disney princess. :-)
And then we watched The Jungle Book. :-)

I think that this must be the end of the movie, and i'm stuck in the happily ever after part, because things are just.... so simply wonderful and great....

either that, or it's just the beginning of something even more exciting, and I don't even know it! :-)

The days are just packed

Well, Friday, me and Haley and Ashli all left for Nacodoches for Emily's graduation party!
when we got there we had burgers and went swimming and then Emily's dad pulled out the guitar and we all sang together, oldie-campfire-style. He's a huge Beatles fan - no wonder Emily's so awesome!!

then we had a huge dance party!

When we got back Saturday i went swimming with Elise, Emily, and Ryan. we played "monster" and some other made-up games :-)

then we went to Fuzzy's for some really great tacos! i learned that not all tacos are bad! some have nice soft tortilla shells, and are pretty much just baby burritos! :-)

Monday started again and it was back to the grind. statistics! at least I'm understanding most of it. I got help from my teacher after class on the things that confused me. I feel good about it now.

I love only having one class to worry about. Even if it is a crazy, hectic Maymester, i only have one class to go to, and the rest of the time I can spend time doing things I like with people I like. :-)

But it's very chill ... still having a blissful summer.

i don't think i could find a reason to be unhappy even if i tried.

hand in hand..

I took my first math exam today!

It was so great because as I was taking it, I kept knowing the answers! it was easy for me, there were a couple I didn't know, but for the most part, it was awesome!!! I think I did well! :-)

Me and Jon and Nathan all watched Mulan after parish wednesday night. Nathan had never seen it before (crazy!!)

I realized something... I may not dig Mexican food, but i'm finding more and more things I'm willing to eat at Mexican food places. like burritos. especially breakfast burritos. those things are marvelous.

I'm trying to adjust - obviously I am thinking about my walk with the Lord, and I want to continue to walk in purity, truth, and holiness.

and...
That's all I've got to say about that ~
going to Nacodoches for Emily's party this weekend, fun fun fun!!!!!

viva la sunshiney life!

Haven't written in a while because my laptop is currently... well, it works, but for some reason, it forgot how to get on the internet.

I have so much good news to tell you!

(I designed this on illustrator, just to work on my illustrator chops, and I feel like it's a good representation of how I'm feeling these days.)
"REASONS WHY LIFE IS SUNSHINEY"

1. The math class isn't nearly as awful as I thought! The teacher is really kind and even though he seems hardcore, he makes sure we understand the material and goes over it over and over until we understand. I was so frightened that I would be behind, but it's all coming to me fairly easily.

Strangely enough, I was working on my math homework last night and I found the tediousness of it to be soothing and enjoyable. Call me a fool, but I really like doing boring and repetitive work. So much of the time, I spend doing creative things, so it's like taking a break...

I also think I was wrong about myself and not being able to understand math very well. It's coming to me very quickly. I think it's because I'm applying myself.

2. I didn't have a graphing calculator (have one in fort worth) but Ashli is letting me borrow hers! Since she moves out in June and my class ends in June, it's a perfect arrangement! This way Jessie can use mine in fort worth and I can use Ashli's here! G-d is so good!

3. I have devised a way to create a wonderful and cheap sandwich. Elise took me to Kroger to get groceries and I found this delicious cheese and delicious wildflower turkey breast and it was pretty inexpensive and will probably feed me for more than a week. But i toasted these sourdough bread slices I got and put the cheese and turkey and SPINACH LEAVES i got and the sandwich turned out pretty... well, pretty PROFESSIONAL! I loved it. Looks like i've found my new routine-lunch... :-)

4. Jon ('nuff said)

The Lord is wise! Giving me all these good things and I don't deserve them! What will i do with all these gifts!?! praise Him, praise Him, my soul!!

Move-in Day

Wow-o-golly!

The past few days have been... wild
In the best of ways!

Thursday was really fun. I got all moved out of Honors and all my stuff is in Crow! I don't have a room yet but I am currently sharing Maggie's room :-)

Dustin, Drew, and Jacob all helped me move my stuff, and it went really fast! I was surprised!

Moving day, moving day...I got a pretty good workout.

Then Elise and Ryan and me all had a dance party - we danced to super-chill music! I felt like a tree, swaying in the wind. It was so nice.

Chris and Gina and everybody in the world came over. We had pizza and tacos! Mmm.

Then I had my first roommate night and we all took a walk.

At the end of the day, those three things helped me fall asleep super quick: 1. movin' boxes, 2. dancin', and 3. walkin'.

So here I am, waking up in Crow House. The days to come will surely be wonderful. :-)

The Penultimate day

I guess the past few days, there's not much I can say. But the things I would say, if I could say them, are pretty great.

Whoops. Haven't written since last Wednesday? Has it been that long?

Let's see if I can recap.

-went home
-Had a lovely dinner with the family at Ci Ci's :-)
-saw Jessie's band concert, Night at the Pops.
-awkward high school reunion situation...
-Dad and Grandma came to visit C3!!!

It's a strange thing when two people you love dearly meet each other. I don't know why.

Went to the mall after church. I didn't even know that Ross has some weirdy-weird stuff inside.

Then I took a nap. Then me and Andy printed off our notes at the library and went to Jupiter house, and then we ditched Jupiter and went to Fuzzy's. You know, I never thought I'd spring for a Mexican taco shop, but I adore breakfast burritos. :-)

There are so many things in the wide world I didn't realize that I love. I guess I just carry around a shoebox of things I have decided to love, and have grown up loving... but there's a whole big wide universe of loveable things, and who am I to say that I don't like them if I've never tried?

I did pretty good on the final this morning.

Then I went over to Crow House and made some peanut butter cookies. Man I really love to bake. I miss it. I think it was Caitlin that said that baking was the best cure for unrequited love. I don't know if it's true but it sure helped me out when we were both crushing on boys and I tried making cookies. And eating dough.
Gosh I love making cookies!

Then hung out with Jon for pretty much the rest of the day.

Tomorrow I think I have lunch plans with Jessie, sometime plans with Maggie.... well, it'll be a great day! :-)

(Gone are the days that I'm able to write in great detail - but my love for you remains constant and true.)

The Day I just kept sleepin' and sleepin'

I got sick again. But it's only a cold this time.
Still, I feel tired and for most of today, I didn't leave my bed. No way. I just slept and slept and slept.

I did go to class. Even on the day that I was sick AND it was raining AND I couldn't find my umbrella, I still went.
Why? I care about my education, dad-gummit

After I had lots of sleep I felt a lot better. I'm feeling much better - I guess I just needed those billion extra hours of sleep.

So I woke up feeling great. And I had lunch with some friends.

Then I went to parish and we had spaghetti and the garlic bread was SOOO GOOD! It's our last formal meeting until June. I hope I get a job and can stay during the summer.

I guess I'm just excited about the future. I think a lot of seeds are in the ground right now. And I know how faithful the Lord is - so just think! What a lovely harvest is on its way! :-)

that's all for now ~

Loverly recording #2

I thought that today was going to be really tough, but it turned out to be not so bad after all.

I turned in my research paper, presented my project, and had my last day of English. The end of the year is coming up really fast. I didn't expect it. Everyone else is so excited for summer. But it kind of makes me feel sad. I really like school.

More Loverlies recording happened today. I sang harmony. It was kind of strange. There was a black circle on the mike with what looked like cloth covering it. Jon called it a "pop filter." It's supposed to block your breath from reaching the mike.
Anyway, it was kind of embarrassing singing without any music behind me - I mean, I could hear it, but it probably sounded silly to people listening.

On the way home we had a cookie party. I sure do like cookies =-)

Oh! in class we had a red velvet cupcake party! The girls in honors baked them! And they were really great! They had sour patch kids in their frosting! Mmm!

I guess it just goes to show. Just because you think it might be a hard day, doesn't mean that it won't suprise you and turn out great.

But you should still walk out your front door with a big smile, and be cheerful no matter what.

~

I guess the old saying about kindness is true. Just because you think someone might not like you, that doesn't mean you're right. Sometimes people just don't know how to love each other. And some people don't know how much you love THEM! That's why honesty is so important. You should always tell people that you really like them.

I stopped hanging around people that are sarcastic and.. I guess funny.. but even if it's only joking, I don't want to hear people putting each other down. I'm not sure what they think about me, but ... I'd rather be thought of as someone who isn't witty and hilarious than someone who is cruel.

The Lord is good. I'm happy to serve Him. Sometimes I don't realize in my heart how Good He is to me. Earlier I just felt apathetic and idolatrous. But the Holy Spirit is awakening me to those moments and nudging me to when I need to 'shape up.'

Steven Adams and the Spider dream

Today the power went out.


I was taking a nap after having breakfast with Grace and Andy, and I was having a dream…

In my dream I had a male roommate named Steven Adams. I was singing showtunes, thinking he wasn’t around, and loving my new room, when all of a sudden, I saw a spider. It was TINY, but I hate them. I screamed. I heard him start to wake up in the other room. I was super embarrassed – because of the showtunes and the screaming.
I apologized. He walked over and I said, “I’m sorry, I wouldn’t scream at a little spider, but this is a big one,” and suddenly that teeny thing was a giant tarantula.

It was big enough to carry a little hook and started riding on the hook on little strings it had spun. I started trying to kill it with a shoe and Steven thought I was brave. But after missing it, my bravery ran out, and I tossed the shoe to him and said, “You do it, you’re a boy!” and he freaked out and we both ran away.
We hid in the kitchen, and I realized I hadn’t ever introduced myself, so I told him my name, and he told me his (but I had already seen it on his belongings, so I knew it was Steven Adams.)

I woke up to the lights flashing on and off. Finally everything just turned off. I was hoping it would come back on, but I just gave up and went to Bruce to eat.
That’s all for now ~

Ice Cream Sunday

A good day, I'd say!

I got to play "cord-e-own" (accordion) in church today.
It was pretty swell - people said they liked the sound :-)

Then, after church, we went out to Braum's for ice creams! I got an ice cream "sunday" !
It's been a long time since I had one. The fudge was just sooo almost solid.

Then I went and worked on my paper. I'm nearly halfway done! I'll finish it in no time!

It rained really hard today... I was napping and I heard "pink, pink" and opened my blinds and there was hail tapping my window!

I got a ride to Communion with Carole. Communion was sweet. We prayed for unity. And then Nathan played that Rich Mullins song, "Peace (A Communion Blessing)" what a great song!

Warren mentioned that we shouldn't let people try to get us down because we were young, but at that moment, I thought of the Quaker church in Maine, and I was the only young person there, but they were all very concerned with the leading of the Spirit and doing right in the eyes of the Lord and building up the church.

Warren was an older person amazed at the faith of younger people, but I was a younger person amazed at the faith of older people. What's my point? We should learn from each other and not be quick to pass judgement on "old dead faith" or "youthful ignorance." The Spirit within us unites us as brothers and sisters.

It makes me happy to think about how children can teach old people things, and old people teach children. Each part of the body helps the other parts. The shy, the bold, the smart, the young...

We're all ingrafted onto the same tree, swaying in the same Spirit, rooted in Truth.
Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.