apparently no one was very impressed with my five random facts. my deepest apologies. perhaps i’m not as exciting as you all once thought. : )
i know i misbehaved
and you made your mistakes
and we both still got room left to grow…
so i’ve been “tagged” (thank you Gabriel Laramay) and figured i’d go along with it and actually play the game for once. i’ve always been the dork who wouldn’t keep the “you’ll have bad luck for a year if you don’t forward this to five of your friends within the next five minutes” going and i hardly ever filled out the “lets get to know you better” surveys that had the same exact questions. what’s your favorite color? favorite drink? how many siblings do you have? if there was one person you could meet, who would it be? say something nice about the person who sent this to you. and on and on it went.
i guess for this game i have to tell you 5 random facts about me. so let us start…
Number One: my parents named me after my Aunt Judy — figure that one out.
Number Two: i was invited to go see The Legend of Zorro tomorrow night. that’s random, right?
Number Three: my english/writing curriculum has asked me to make some life goals for the next year. goals for the next five years. and goals for the next ten years. i have two weeks to figure out the next ten years of my life. that’s fun.
Number Four: i simply adore hot chocolate the minute the weather gets cool. but it can’t have too much of the chocolate mix in — it’s gotta be just right. and yes, hot chocolate goes well with snow, but i’m totally cool with the fact that everyone else has snow and we don’t.
Number Five: i get stuck in ruts when it comes to food. the past few days i’ve eaten a peanut butter and butter sandwich for lunch. and i think i’ll go eat that right now.
so now i get to tag five people. this is the difficult part for me. do you realize that i know approx. 130 people who have blogs? and i just totally gave you a free random fact about me. that’s cheap.
my five people are: Colin Mackey, Leslie Haller, Lore Ferguson, James Harmer, and Jackie Card.
so that’s it. it was good while it lasted, but now i’m past it…
thinking of all our talks. and everything else.
that’s all.
i sat in the front row pew, stained-glass windows closing us in, candles lit, singing hymns and listening to the organ. i’m used to sitting in metal chairs, lifting my eyes and seeing basketball hoops, running my foot along the lines of the gym, and always wishing the sound was just a little bit louder.
i guess you could say that i haven’t been raised in what we might call, a traditional church. so yesterday was an experience. i played three songs for the people who attend the little white church down the street from me. two friends sang along. the congregation didn’t really know what to do; didn’t really know what to expect from us. but they smiled as they watched us, sang along for the one hymn we did, and afterwards thanked us over and over again and asked us to come back.
they are the sweetest people. most of them i recognized — i’ve grown up seeing them at community events and around town — and they all know who i am (one of rick’s kids). they welcomed me in, even though i said “amen” at the wrong time, couldn’t for the life of me remember the last few lines of the Lord’s Prayer, and probably made some other mistake that i’m not even aware of.
but it was lovely. and i’m ready to go back and do it again.
i’m on a high.
and just as fast i’m on a low.
this can’t be how a Christian is supposed to walk. my emotions shouldn’t have this much control.
every now and then i get a bit discouraged. that’s discouraging.
my Dad’s really cool. and not just because this picture is his desktop backround. : )
on this blog, i have a total of 1,032 comments. that’s fun.
it’s all how you see it…
i would write and let you all know about the little details of my life that make it so exciting, but alas! i’m afraid that what is exciting to me would bore you. so i’ll spare you once again and just give you - you guessed it! pictures!
oh, and for all of you who have lost hope at the idea that i’ll ever drive: i signed up for the 5 Hour today. do you know that they charge you $35 for it? they make you pay for everything - it’s getting rather old.
one more picture… me and my friday school bud.
…still i will sing to You…
great song.
people always say that you go through an “awkward stage” when you’re young. the age always differs depending on the individual, but it’s usually around 10-14.
i feel like i’m going through an awkward stage all over again. and i’m not 10 or 14. i’m 17. i’m supposed to be cool, confident, and have it all together. and yet i find myself trying to figure out where i fit, how i’m supposed to act, what i’m supposed to be doing… and it gets a bit tiring every now and then.
during the week of chris’s death, a father from the church came to me a few different times to thank me for watching out for his daughters; for being his girls friend. he told me that i was a strong girl. i wanted to tell him that i really am not. i try to be strong. i try so hard, but i am weak. and i hate it. i am supposed to be the girl with everything under control. i am supposed to hold my own and help others do the same. remember, i am “perfect” and that’s how everyone should see me. they should never see my faults or how pathetically weak i can be.
it’s a horrible fault of mine. i just want people to see Jesus through me, even as i walk through my daily life, yet i’m always trying to do things on my own.
on a lighter note, if you want to get lots of comments and be the center of many conversations, just do something different with your hair. it doesn’t even have to be all that different — just straighten your hair. you get lots of feedback when your not even looking for it. for all of you who don’t like it, don’t worry. it’ll be wavy again tomorrow.
so i found out today that, using Internet Explorer, my website is really messed up looking. and unfortunately, i’m not enough of a computer person to know how to fix such a problem. it makes it all very awkward for now.
just stop using IE. that’s my solution. : )
my sister is preparing for a guitar competition that’s in a week and a half. for ears that are interested, tomorrow night after julia’s prayer meeting and after the members meeting at church, she will be playing a few pieces that she is getting ready.
you really should come. her playing is amazing.