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Name: Squirt
Gender: Female
Expertise: Like the typical Renaissance Man...interest in almost everything, proficiency in almost nothing.
Occupation: whatever my hands find to do
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Member Since:
11/27/2006
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| Been a long time since I updated. Wow.
I meant to update last week, but nothing interesting was happening that day.
And then I turned 21.
Which was fun because my Prince's parents came down to visit. Yay! We went out to a fancyish sorta resutrant (yellow fin...mostly seafood, which is great for Jim, and usually boring for me because I can't eat most seafood...this place is ok, because even though they don't have a huge selecton of "safe" foods, the ones they have are really good)
And then we got a suprise birthday party when we came back. Which was awesome. Only I had to open presents in front of everyone, but so did Jim, so life is still good.
Only now a darling brother of mine is trying to get me to buy alcohol for him *sigh*
Also today, I spent the majority in the car place getting my breaks fixed. Jim saved me about 500 $ so he's my hero. Cuase they were trying to charge me for a bunch of other stuff as well. Some of which I *might* need someday, but definantly can't afford TOday. Thank you. And I'm not good at arguing down the par people. Also I am very murffy because I had to sit through the Price is Right, The Brave and the Beautiful (or brave and the bold, or beautiful and bold)(whatever) and As the World Turns and Dr. Phil.
Stupid.Dang.TV.
Signing out now to do actual school work...
PS...am also reading an interesting book, Sword-Born by Jennifer Robertson. I wasn't sure about it at first, but its getting better. Not as action-packed and interesting as the Karavan series (which I have yet to read the third book of) but ok nonetheless. Its not the best book ever, but much much better than Twilight. 
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| So I had this dream last night...and the more I think about it, the funnier it becomes...
Me and two other guys are fighting this one bad guy...we are all wearing Ironman-type armor...kinda like a cross between Transformers and Ironman...I was orange. So I stomp on the bad guy's head and kill him, and my two friends start trying to fix me up from the battle...some of my armored plates had come loose. Meanwhile, the bad guy is suddenly somehow not dead anymore. My friends bop him on the head and kill him for real this time. And this little robot sortof thingy comes out of his head...it looks like a radio antenna transformer. So this little guy steals some of the armor that the other guys hadn't fixed yet...he got the shoulder plate and the molded butt plate and a few other things...and all I remember is suddenly looking over at this spindly thing with MY armor on him and yelling "He's trying to steal my butt plates!!!!"
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I'm weird
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| what happened to my background pic?
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| So a few days ago at work, Sam told me that I needed to keep a blog to keep the world aware of this rebellious child of conservatism and Christianity who has (surprisingly sometimes) not gone completely wrong.
I laughed.
But then again, I laugh at almost everything.
Therefore, I dutifully dedicate this Xanga post to Sam, who tried to run me over with a large cart of fabric today. Well...thats my story and I'm stickin' to it.
Anyway. I just got back from a weekend in South Dakota. I've decided that it is a fine state. The highways get a bit long sometimes, but its nice and big and open, but not so flat and bleah that you get tired of it too quickly. Unlike the airport system that I VERY quickly tired of...the trip there took 12 hours more than it was supposed to because of weather in Chicago (it didn't look bad at all when we landed) that delayed us taking off for 2 hours, causing me to miss my connecting flight and then run around looking for availible spots on a plane, and then getting re-routed through Denver, with a break to be befriended and then...tricked? dumped? duped? by some random guy (I think he had the best intentions of helping me, but he got me into some posh place that I wasn't supposed to be and I got chased out) (thereby destroying my opinion of mankind for the rest of the trip). Which was horribly un-fun because there's nothing to unsettle your sense of well being like being a female alone in a big crowded area with many unfriendly strangers and then have the fact that you're gullible get shoved in your face. Might as well just paint a target on yourself.
Annnnnyway.
Once I got there, the trip was amazing though. Got to hang out with Melissa, an adopted sister I haven't seen since EXCEL and do a bunch of catching up (ok, more like me talking and her asking) and then go to another EXCEL-mate's wedding. Which was beautiful of course. I thought it was funny that her wedding dress is a variation of what I want to do (and yes, I've been planning). Things I want to do differently: not have the sermon an extended gospel message, find a way to keep things moving quickly...when you have a huge number of people that can be hard, but if you don't it gets really boring and really exausting really fast, have it late enough in the day/ structure it so that I am not completely worn out by the end of it. I know that any wedding day will be tiring but by golly I've been waiting for that afterwards part long enough I want to be able to enjoy it!!!
Many random ideas...what to do with my purity ring, thinking of music ideas (toying with the music I walk to...yeah fun stuff...I want to do one song but I think I need to re-arrange the verses... :-/) Ideas for sillyness...Dancing stuffs...swing def. going to be there, but I'm not 100% sure what to do with the English Country Line Dancing that is my style...
So then I got to hang with Melissa some more, go to her church the next morning, and get back on the plane in order to wait for more delays and other fun stuff. :-/ The way back wasn't too bad though...I think we were boarding 30 mins before we were supposed to land.
I missed Jim.
But I'm glad I got to go.
And glad to be back home and trying to get on with life...
Kinda freaked out about this next test though.
Humanities=literature, poetry, archetecture, art, philosophy, and more!
all. in. one. test.
>.>
So thats about all I have time for the moment...Happy Sam?
:D
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| So I was listening to a friend practice impromptu speeches a few weeks ago, and this was one of her topics-- "look twice before you leap" ~ Charlotte Bronte. The main point of her speech was about being cautious and not rushing into a decision or commitment without thinking about it first, although as we talked about it afterward, I had a few thoughts of my own...
Its interesting that Charlotte Bronte would have added the word twice. When I first heard the quote, I immediately thought of the saying "look before you leap." So why the added word? I think it has to do with what you're looking at. In Charlotte Brontes world, it may have had to do with one of the most important decisions a woman had to make: marrige. In that time, being an old maid was not just unpopular. It frequently signified an impoverished, difficult, and lonely existence for the remainder of the woman's life. It would be tempting to leap into marrige judging the man only on his ability to support a family. But Charlotte Bronte encourages women to look again, past the money, and include the man in her scrutiny.
And so, look twice before you leap, not just at the obvious, but at the long term effects. Don't just choose a car for the speed, you're going to need to put gas in it too, you know. Don't just choose a job for the money, you're going to be stuck there several hours a week, so don't choose a place that will drive you crazy with boredom or frusteration. Conversely, don't choose a place that you love, but won't give you enough money to meet your needs. Think past the obvious so you don't get stuck making a bad choice that you will regret later.
All of that said, there is another side to the thought. If you spend too much time looking, you may never take the leap. Its easy to be bogged down by details, by cautiousness or by worries. I think sometimes God calls you to trust Him, and just jump. You can look for an eternity and still have no idea whats at the bottom of the cliff, but God knows. So there are times when you just have to go in faith and trust that God has plans that are bigger and better than any thoughts or scheming of your own. Because just when you've made up your mind that this is what you are supposed to be doing, you can be sure that God will bring along something you weren't expecting, and ask you to run with Him. What makes the decision to jump even harder, is when you don't know if it is something God wants you to do in faith, or if it is a test of your endurance. But I think at some point you have to stop agonizing, make a decision, and go with it. That doesn't mean don't pray and ask for advice and think long and hard about your choice, in fact the opposite is true. However, if God is calling you to jump off a cliff with Him, and you refuse out of fear, you'll miss out on some amazing things.
So, should you look twice before you leap? Always. Don't make a big decision without carefully considering all the options. If it isn't the right thing to do, don't be too proud to walk away. But if jumping off the edge is what you need to do, don't be afraid, take the opportunity.
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