Twilight

Everyone has been raving about this novel series, starting with Twilight. 

So. I'm in Barnes and Noble (one of my FAVE stores) and I happen across a paperback copy priced at $11. That's a goooodd price! So, on a bit of a whim, I buy it. Just to see what all the fuss is about. 

For those of you who don't know, the series is about a human and a vampire falling in love, but obviously it has some twists that a "normal" love story would lack! Anyways, I finished reading this book last night. (I bought it Saturday.. I have time on breaks! woot)..

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and the verdict...

It was good. Not great, but good. And I certainly disagree with any person who says it is the new Harry Potter series. You're wrong. I got into the novel. And vampire stories have always fascinated me for whatever reason (O... there's the tiny bit of goth in Jeenie?). I loved how utterly in love the two characters were with one another. And I loved how everything was depicted--the limitations on touch they had, what first attracted them to one another, etc. It was a different vampire story than what I'm used to. The only thing that constantly bothered me was how annoying that girl was!! She would just get mad at random, small things and it really irritated me. But then again, so did he.. at least he has the excuse of being a vampire! (I always imagined them very moody... what would be bipolar to a human. lol) And the fact that they made obsession look like romance... I didn't like that either. I dislike the movie The Notebook for that very reason. But I guess you can get away with a lot when there's a vampire in the story. How strange. 

I'm not going to lie. The book really called out to my punk-dark side. Not in the evil sense of the word. More just my fascination for the darker side of everything. I don't like it... but I am intrigued. Hence the criminal justice major. I don't like rapists and murderers.. but something about them intrigues me. First, put them behind bars-- then psychoanalyze them. If God wills, my life will revolve around the darker side of humanity. And as strange as it is-- I can't wait. I want to bring just a smidgeon more of justice into this dying, pathetic world. If that's what I'm meant to do, I'll do it with flying colors. IF being the key word. 

Overall I'd recommend the book. I'm going to try and read the next one--although I don't think I'll buy it. We'll see I suppose. It's captured my attention better than I thought it would. :D

Hallelujah!

Merry CHRISTmas everybody!!!!

I have some praise to share! :D

Last night my brother and I got bored and decided to hang out in my room. Somehow, he mentioned something on evolution. Well this definitely got a conversation started. He said he believed it because there was "proof" and whatnot--to which I said, "It's called a THEORY. There's evidence, but not proof." Anyways he tried to use his argument of science being able to disprove Creationism. I loved that. Why? Because I believe God created science and the more I study it, the more I'm convinced. So what did I do? Being the nerd I am, I pulled out a periodic table. That's right. I showed him all the periodic trends--size of elements, electronegativity, etc. Then I showed him how it all seemed to be perfect. It is. The only thing we humans did was put it in numerical order. Anyways, we got into this huge conversation. 

He was under the impression that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. I quickly disproved that. And I explained to him how I don't blame people when they say they hate Christians--the only ones they see are the crazy ones. People who protested Heath Ledger's funeral because he played a gay cowboy in a movie once--those people, I would argue, are not convicted by Christ. I tried to explain to him how the most important basis of Christianity is love--but not the love he knows. True love. I pulled out Scripture verses. He asked me about Judaism. He asked me a whole bunch of really awesome questions!!! And I am like a million percent sure God was talking because I might have been stumped by some of those. Thank God! 

Anyways that's my praise today everyone!

Merry Christmas. Keep the CHRIST in Christmas and always remember:: Jesus is the reason for the season! 

Dear World,

You suck. 

Hard core. And I hate you. 

(I'm ok. I just needed to get that out.)

:)

I love Colorado. 

Broncos lost today. That sucked. 

BUT I got to hang out with my bestest and that was all awesome. 

I went to church at Riverside Baptist this morning!! O it feels so good to be home. It's welcoming to think of the wonderful people who all helped me start my real Walk with Christ. What a blessing these people are. 

Andrea is leaving January 8th for YWAM--a missionary program. She'll be gone for six months, first training in Hawaii and then going to wherever the Lord leads her team. 

Sam is also leaving with YWAM, either in January or May. Either way he'll be gone for two full years--living among those who are afflicted and lost. 

There is no doubt in my heart or mind that God will use these individuals and their teams to spread the Word and the Good News. And He will use every and any opportunity to preach salvation. I can't wait to hear about updates and awesome conversions! And I can't wait to see how God works in each of them. 

I miss all my friends from my home church. So much. I am so happy to be home. 

Home Sweet Home

*deep breath*... ahhhhh.....

My plane from Atlanta to Denver slid on the runway because of the ice. I LOVE Colorado! 

It was interesting. On my way home I had to make a connection in Georgia. 

The people on the plane from DC to Atlanta were all dressed up, most women had some name brand purse, no one was under the age of 27 or so except me and perhaps a few other passengers. The man sitting next to me is reading a golf magazine and is wearing a business suit. He is not someone I can strike up a conversation with. I literally get off this plane, walk across the hall into another plan. Flight 1909 took me to DENVER!! The best part was seeing the differences in the PASSENGERS! 

People going to Colorado were all wearing Volcom hoodies, Zoo York t-shirts, skater stuff! A LOT of people were around my age and younger.. and I even saw a couple of families. Wow. What a difference. 

I know I'm on my way home!!

I landed onto an icy runway and the plane slid. People were scared. I thought it was awesome. It is FREEZING here! I forgot how much fun snow can be to drive in! Today, in a half hour we got more snow than DC did the whole time I was there. And we didn't even get an inch here. LAME. 

I saw my best friend! We hung out all day. And then we went to pick up my brother from high school because he was doing a call-back for Footloose. I got to see old teachers and old friends. That was awesome. 

I went to college group tonight at my church. It's wonderful. It makes me wonder why I ever left it. Perhaps I really will transfer. Or maybe not. I don't know. I just know that in the one day at home so far, I've had a spectacular, happy time. I find joy and peace here. Not to say anything bad about DC or the people there. It's just that this is home. I am loved and cherished and challenged in my faith here. But in a gentle, loving way. Sometimes, dare I say, I feel closer to God here than I do in DC. So here we go with hardcore prayer. I need to know what God wants me to do so that I can obey. I surrender, O Lord. Take over. Please.. I'm not competent to have any control. I'm looking forward to a lot of great conversations, times, and memories here. :) Best Three Weeks ever. 

YES!

YYEEEAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finals are OVER and the semester is finally FINISHED!!

WOOT!!!!!! 

I head home tomorrow afternoon-- going from 50 degree weather to -7. YES. I can't wait! 

uaileurgblab;fgvodzbvdfjkzbvkjzdfb~!!!! YAY HOME!

Studying.. O the Bane of my existence...

BLAH!

In four simple letters I have put how college students feel about finals (and midterms). Simple. 

I have been studying all day. I was really sick this morning. Note to self: Please, please, please, please drink lots of water all day and as soon as you get up so you don't die of dehydration. Learned that the hard way this morning. Icky. What a wonderful feeling to have a pounding headache, be nauseous and super dizzy, o and vomiting too. Great. BUT it wasn't like a bad vomiting-- it only happened because I was dehydrated. Needless to say liquids have been an essential part of my diet today. 

Chicken noodle soup, orange juice (from the amazing roommate), and of course lots of water. O and a Kit-Kat bar. You know you're in college when....

I got $11 back for three text books. LAMMMEEE. I spent like $50 on those three, probably more. But whatever. I don't even care anymore. Just one more full day. Tonight I study and say good-bye to my dear Matt who is leaving to study abroad in Germany. And tomorrow I sing (early! CRAP) for my VPE. My sickness is the worse in the morning. So I think I'm going to sleep by midnight and wake up by 9 am. This way I have a full two hours to wake my system up, take a shower, drink lots of water, and what have you. 11:00 means I get to go warm-up, and 11:40-11:50 I sing and perform. YES. 

Three hours of studying later I have an exam at 3 pm for Violence and the Family. Which should be fairly easy. After that I'm home free!! Wednesday my roommate leaves in the morning and I will be leaving early afternoon. 

COLORADO here I COME!!! 

Cross your fingers friends for a smooth trip for all of us as we all head home. 

And let's keep each other in our prayers as we all head home for the Christmas season, remembering what our Lord and Savior did for us and how He was brought into this world. 

January 6 I will return to GW. And I'll be healthy, rested, happy, and spiritually renewed. Can't wait! :)

What a useless day...

Ugh I feel like I've just wasted a lot of time today. 

Church was ok. I love worship and singing and all but my voice is shot from doing two consecutive a cappella concerts and now I sound like a frog getting run over by a truck every morning. O, don't worry. By mid-day it gets to sound only like a sick frog on the side of the road. 

I am finding issues with my church. We never just read through a book of the Bible and interpret it--it's what we do at home, in Colorado at my home church. It's what I'm used to. I honestly do feel like God wanted me at this church in DC last year but lately I feel like something is changing. I don't know if He wants me to stay and bring opinions to the table. Or if He wants me to find a new church. Either way I just need to pray through this. I feel like this is such a big decision that I need to really think through this and let God take the reigns. He's kind of in charge after all. 

On top of that I think my a cappella group had the worse gig ever today. 

Ever. 

My buddy Dave got us the gig for this Christian group. All we had to do was sing some Christmas carols and entertain the kids, say thanks and get outta there. Nope. That's not what happened. We don't normally do Christmas carols. We did not sound good. We couldn't get right pitches. (We also didn't have a pitch-pipe). And rhythms were always wrong--completely my bad. But because we didn't know these songs we just sounded awful. It was funny in an "this is the most embarrassing thing I've ever done" kind of way. And of course, because it was the first time as the new music director that I directed a gig by myself I can't help but correlate the bad gig to my being director. I know it's ridiculous. But I can't help it. I know that pitches were wrong because we didn't have a pitch pipe and because we didn't know these songs. I know rhythms were wrong because we've done these carols like once before and the rhythms are always different. I know that we only had like 10 people. *sigh* I know it's not my fault. I just feel that with this position I have more of a responsibility now and that I have to claim responsibility over that awful gig. Thank goodness we weren't getting paid. I would have returned the money and apologized. 

But I've been getting encouragement from different members of the group. I don't think I have authority quite yet because our real music director (who is studying abroad next semester-hence me taking over) hasn't left yet. I think once he is gone it'll become a serious thing. Right now I'm just freaking out. I hope that I don't screw this semester up. I hope Matt comes back and sees that I've done an awesome job and stuff... one can hope. 

I know I can do this. I just need to calm down. Really. Because God's in charge of this too. And I know and trust in that. I just need to breathe and let go. I'm not music director yet. Not as long as this semester is in session. Three days till Colorado and Lord knows how I can't wait. 

Inspiration or Procrastination?

I am sitting in Ivory Towers--specifically on my friend Kate's bed. There are four of us, Kate and her roommate and my roommate and me. 

I have no reason to create this blog. 

Kate studied abroad in Uganda and then spent a lot of her time in Africa. She's awesome. 

She kept a blog. 

I am inspired to keep a blog now. 

This probably won't last. But if it does-- welcome to my mind! Please excuse the mess. :)