so....what now????

stealth bombshell.

Saturday, December 25, 2004

wow, it's been a great week!!! wednesday was awesome what with the SNOW!!!! w00t!! it was so cool to look out the window while i was taking exams and to see snow outside....in december...in texas. SO cool. at the moment i am at my grandparents house in oklahoma, and i decided it had been too long since my last post and i needed to write one. lol. also on wednesday i went to go see phantom of the opera. and then, on thursday....i went to see it again. it is sooo good!!! i loved it. and i would go see it again anytime. i mean....i've always loved the play, and michael crawford will always be my favorite phantom. but the movie rocked!! i'm so happy.....anywho, i just wanted to wish everyone a merry christmas!! i love you all!!!

(and you all need to go see phantom of the opera. right now. go.)

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Hear Me
by Kelly Clarkson

you gotta be out there
you gotta be somewhere
wherever you are
i'm waiting....
cause there are these nights when
i sing myself to sleep
and i'm hoping my dreams bring you close to me
are you listening?

hear me i'm crying out
i'm ready now
turn my world upside down
find me
i'm lost inside this crowd
it's getting loud
i need you to see
i'm screaming for you to please
hear me
can you hear me?

i used to be scared of
letting someone in
but it gets so lonely
being on my own
with no one to talk to and
no one to hold me
i'm not always strong
oh i need you here
are you listening?

hear me i'm crying out
i'm ready now
turn my world upside down
find me
i'm lost inside this crowd
it's getting loud
i need you to see
i'm screaming for you to please
hear me
can you hear me?

i'm restless and wild
i fall but i try
i need someone to understand
(can you hear me?)
i'm lost in my thoughts
and baby i've fought
for all that i've got

can you hear me?


i got the new Kelly Clarkson cd today from Anne for christmas!!! i love it. rock on.

Saturday, December 18, 2004

this week has been crazy. and awesome. and sometimes a bit confusing and frustrating--but for the most part awesome!!! and then today was such a blow-off day, i pretty much did nothing in all of my classes. progdin was a blast!!! good times. tomorrow's a pretty full day, so i will write more later. all i have to do is finish one stinkin project, among other things. but hopefully i won't have too much of a problem with is. wish me luck on my last few days of school before the holidays!!! man, do i love christmas!!!

wow....i'm really tired.....bedtime!!!!!

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

it's been a wonderful day. really. i cannot express enough how good a day it was. and the great thing is, we're almost done with this semester of school!! after 4 1/2 more days of school, i will be halfway done with my junior year. how cool is that??? i'm excited. also, everything just seems to be going pretty well. if i can just manage to fit in two more projects in my schedule, plus some studying for exams, i should be home free. oh, and i have to read the grapes of wrath before january 6th. hopefully i can read it fairly quickly. in fact, i think i will devote the rest of my free-time in class to reading it, so my break can be worry-free, at least as far as school goes. really all i have to do is get my self into my work mode until wednesday. except friday and saturday night--those nights i can have fun and not worry about life at all. i'm really kind of in work mode already--i've always been that "freak" who enjoys learning, and actually kind of likes to study and do homework...i only complain about it because i'm lazy, when in fact it is truly not that bad of an experience, because i know i'm learning, and i love to learn.
anywho.....since i am quite doubtful anyone cares to hear about my study habits, i will just say a few things more. i am loving beauty and the beast rehearsals...granted it's not fun to stay after school until 6:30 or later, but i like how it's starting to fit together somewhat. also, my favorite part of this week: yesterday, i got the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King extended edition dvd!!! i'm so flippin excited. i've only watched a little over an hour of it so far, because my parents refused to let me stay up really late just to watch a 4 hour movie that i've "already seen". bah. there happen to be 50 mins. of it that i have never seen before. hence the excitement!! i have been waiting for this for SO LONG!!! i was pretty much jumping up and down as i waited for the dvd player to start playing the movie. and what i've seen of it is wonderful--but, i mean, really....how could it not be!! i love Lord of the Rings!!!
well now i really should go...i'm putting off some of that homework which i enjoy so much. lol. laters!!!


Sunday, December 12, 2004

this week was SOO GOOD!! lol. my choir concert went absolutely swimmingly......i had so much fun!!! and i think we did really well. it was an awesome concert. then friday i didn't really do much.....and yesterday i spent most of my day acquiring the necessary parts to build a simple reed switch motor for physics. argh. today my goal is to build it, at least for the most part, so that i can spend monday-thursday trying to make it work as best as possible, so i can get a good grade when i turn it in on friday. honestly...why do i have to care so much about grades and being a perfectionist and trying to do everything beyond the best of my ability??? sometimes i think maybe i'm just wasting my time....but i honestly do not know any other way to look at things. i either do them whole-heartedly, or not at all. weird.
ooh and the winter ball was last night, and it was sooooo much fun!! we got ready at ambrad's house and took pics, and then we went to bari's for dinner! then when we got to the dance, i got to hang out with all of my cool musical theater friends (you guys rock!! i love you all!! mwah!) and a couple of people from my choir as well. i had this whole plan: i brought my digital camera with me--it had 160 pics left on it--with every intention of using up all the pictures. didn't happen. i took a grand total of 9 pics before the dance and 3 after. that was all. oh well, i still had a great time! and then me, amanda, maria, katie, katy, and heather all spent the night at ambrad's house and watched movies, i fell asleep at about 3:00ish or a little after. then i woke up at 11:45 this morning to amanda telling me to wake up and that everyone except for me and katy had left. so we ate donuts and talked for a while and now i'm home!! and i'm tired!!! so now...time for a little relaxation before the inevitable staying-up-all-night-to-work-on-an-electric-motor stuff. toodles!

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

mid-school fete de noel last night was soooo much fun! everybody looked to prettymous, and i took loads of pics. woot!

this has been a really good semaine so far, even tho i haven't gotten much sleep because i've been reading every nuit, and i have rehearsals at 7:30 tomorrow matin (grr....). but oh well. i'm still rather heureuse. i've gotten to be closer with some amies i didn't expect i would ever get to know very well. and then ce soir was chouette, i went and bought this new livre, called Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke...it's fabulous. it's highly likely that i will finish reading it tonight or tomorrow night at the latest.

i hope you all have a great week!! au revoir!

Monday, December 06, 2004

in the midst of life, we often forget to truly live it. the Lord offers us an abundant life. why would we refuse such an offer? too often we waste our time on things like school, or whatever it might be that you put as your top priority most of the time. we stress out about it, and we're unhappy with our lives. we miss out on joy and peace, because we "don't feel like" spending time with God. in attempting to make life simpler, easier....we are in fact just being lazy, and in effect missing out on the best things in life. we need to stop forgetting to live life. be spontaneous. take the long way home every once in a while. accept God's offer of an abundant life....and spend time with God. see what a difference it makes.

Sunday, December 05, 2004

you know what? god amazes me so much. he puts people in my life that i never would've realized i would need. now that those people are in my life, i am so thankful, because i know how much less progress i would've made in my life if i had never known them. praise god that he's in control and he has a plan that is so much more intricate and beautiful than what we might imagine or fantasize about. we are so blessed!! and the thing is...this all goes back, yet again, to glorifying god. he blesses us with things like, say, certain people in our lives, so that we can praise him and glorify him in hindsight of what we would've been like had we not known that person. the point always was, and still is, his glory! wow it's really late i should go to bed!

theme song of my life: "The End of All Things" -Howard Shore, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. it's just instruments, no words. but the message that the music itself gives is stronger than words. i want my life to be like that. like words are only used when necessary. instead, my behavior should stand out, as should my love for others. tonight, a friend and i talked about how we as christians are supposed to be known by our love. i want my love to send as powerful a message as that piece of music. a message that moves the heart. we glorify god with our love. it hurts my own heart when i recognize the times that i am not glorifying god in my life. we are told to worship him. it isn't a request, it's a command. if we don't, the rocks will cry out. the freaking rocks!! that's a bigger deal than we make it. my prayer for a long time has been that i would never look at the christian walk as following rules. it's so much more than that. it's a relationship with god. it's the holy spirit living through us. being humans, we cannot be like christ as we are called to be. we must allow the spirit live through us, cause if we don't how the heck are we supposed to live an abundant life, and one that is pleasing to god? the point is, we are supposed to be dependent on him. i know i've said that so many times. but the point is it's true. and i'm writing it so much, half because i want to tell everyone, and half to remind myself of it. it helps me to write that kind of stuff down--helps me figure out my own thoughts on stuff. anywho, i suppose that's enough of my ramblings for now. i'll ramble on some other time.

Faites-moi savoir que je suis vivant.
Laissez-moi tomber dans la grace.
Vous m'aimez davantage que je sais.
Je vous donne toute la gloire.
Oh Seigneur, vous etes saint.
Je suivrai votre volonte.

Je ne sais pas ce
qui se trouve en avant, mais
vous etes pres de moi.
Je ne dois pas me cacher.

Friday, December 03, 2004

have you ever had one of those days where it's just awesome, and you're in a really good mood, and then you come home and find yourself incredibly bored? that was my day today. school was cool--we sat outside the school for over an hour because of something along the lines of a small fire in the d-hall bathroom. at least that's what the teachers are saying happened. i'm not really sure. all i know is the fire alarm went off near the end of 2nd period, about a quarter to twelve, and 3rd period didn't start until one o'clock. anywho, that was pretty cool, cause it made 4th period only last 50 minutes. that was pretty sweet. and then, i was supposed to go to b&b rehearsal after school, but it turned out i wasn't needed today, since i'm just in the chorus. so i was all excited, thinking "hey, now i have all this free time tonight cause i'll be home a lot earlier than i expected.yay!" wrong. i have had a little too much free time tonight, and the sad part is i didn't even really get anything accomplished.
another reason the day was so annoying is because i've got some friends who are going through some really rough patches, and i didn't even realize it, and it's just like...i feel like i haven't been there for them when i should've been. and i don't like that. so basically i'm just annoyed with myself. and sad. but at least i've gotten rid of the momentary stupidhead. hopefully i can be there for these friends in the future.