"sir, is this the face of a bat who would lie to you?"

today i stayed home from school...cause i feel just plain gross. but i'm going to school tomorrow. oh well. i'll be fine, it's not like i'm dying or anything. and you know what? today actually was a pretty good day, to tell you the truth. i got to sleep in till 10. then i read for a while, worked on homework...that type of stuff. all day. then i went to TNT (KABOOM!) (yeah, no one else thinks we're clever...) which was so much fun!!! and then starbucks was cool, except they closed early because of a water leak or something to that effect. so i came home at 9:45, finished my homework, watched Anastasia with Maria (whom i LOVE!) and now am going to BED! whew! what a day.

so i figured out that i am in the middle of eight different books right now. nine, if you count hamlet for school. this is because some days i find the need to add another book to the pile i'm reading...even though i'm not done with any of the others yet. it's just too tempting. so today i started reading The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning. good book, thus far. i'm diggin it.

you know what?...i want RAIN. like really, really....i just want RAIN. and then after the rain is done i want to sit and watch the stars for hours and have good talks with friends and sing to the Lord and OH MY GOSH i just want it to rain!!!!

the end. and then i found five dollars. or pesos. i don't know anymore.

"dad, johnny cash isn't cool, phil collins is where it's at!" --chris martin

the coldplay concert was...hmmm... FREAKING INCREDIBLE!!! they played all of my favorite songs and a lot of wonderful ones that i didn't know. they truly put on a really good show. it was amazing. AAAHHHH!!! i had so much fun. okay. calming down. oh wait...no i'm not. COLDPLAY ROCKS MY FACE OFF!! and there was this band there which i had not heard of before...called Rilo Kiley...they were actually quite good. i was impressed. but coldplay was still better, i have to admit... :)

i have officially finished and turned in my holland application. it's done and i can't change anything about it now. if it's God's will that i go...i'll go. if not...i won't, and either way i shouldn't worry about it. so yeah. the end.

school tomorrow. sick out.

"for some reason, going from wavy lays original to this tastes like fish."

okay, so my friend alex told me pretty much forever ago that she had AWESOME tickets to the coldplay concert for tomorrow night...and i was ever so jealous. every time coldplay was mentioned, she would rub it in that she had tickets and i couldn't go...sad story. but anywho...the cool part of the story...tonight, she calls my cell, and we're talking, and she goes "well listen...you know that coldplay concert? we kind of have an extra ticket. and i was kind of thinking you might want to go with us." i think there was seriously silence for about 15 seconds, and then i was like, "OH MY GOSH!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!" and to conclude...i officially have an equally awesome seat at the awesome coldplay concert tomorrow night. HOLY FREAKING COW.

alex, you rock my face off. I'M GOING TO SEE COLDPLAY!!!

"we're devils, we're black sheep, we're really bad eggs, drink up, me hearties, yo ho! yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!"

i have recently been informed that today is national talk-like-a-pirate day!!!! arrrr!!!!

"sorry i'm not home right now i'm walkin into spider webs so leave a message and i'll call you back"

so have you ever been like, "wow, i haven't talked to so-and-so in a while...i should call them," and then you call the person, and they don't answer, and then you're really sad, cause you realize how much you miss them? that's how i feel right now. sad story...people should always answer their phones. ALWAYS. it should be a rule.

i have decided that this school year is going by too quickly--there are far too many things i need to do and learn before it is through and i am already running out of time to do them. time machine, anyone?

so i went vintage shopping with kris-tea, heather, and amanda yesterday--we didn't really find much vintage stuff to buy, but we had a great time!!! it was a truly marvelous day. most def... each weekend so far this year seems to be exactly sufficient for me to relax--weekends in past years never seemed this long or this fun. i don't know why. but yeah...weekends are cool. so yeah...the end?

yo quiero taco bell!

okay so on second thought...english papers are not remotely fun. at least not when your teacher changes her mind at the last minute about stuff. argh...i'm just kinda bitter cause our teacher told us we would have a certain HOUR AND A HALF to work on our papers today...and then today arrived, and we received much busywork and ZERO time in class for our papers. so now is time for working on a paper, because our teacher apparently decided she likes to "mix things up" on us. grrr.

but oh well. talk to me when it's done...i'll feel better. right now i just want it to be done...and i dread doing it cause it be no bueno.

"that sound you hear--that BOOM--that's my mind blowing."

i LOVE rain!!! today when i got home i had to just go outside and stand in the rain for a while, cause i was like, "heck yes!! it's raining!!!" and it was so cool. but yeah...God rocks.

i don't like english papers...or i guess i should say, i don't like starting english papers. in a weird way, i actually kind of like them once they're begun--once i have the intro and thesis and a basic idea of what the paper will consist of. but right now i'm just at the icky stage where i don't know where my paper is going...i hate that feeling. and yet at the same time...i kind of like it. it's cool to not be decided yet on the exact subject of the paper...it leaves you free to contemplate the possibilities.

i'm kind of bitter because i won't be able to go to on the pine cove service weekend this october, and i REALLY want to go. i am just in one of those moods where i really want to be back at pine cove...i miss it so much. i hope that i get a job there next summer...i'll be filling out an application very soon!! i miss pine cove. :(


best thing ever: a stormy day at pine cove.

just for the record...in case you haven't heard...my life has been going to awesome lately. i mean, yeah, okay, there's stress...but stress comes pretty often, and lately i have really been just asking God to give me peace and the cool thing about a God who answers prayers is that, hey, He gave me peace. so all i can say is that God is amazing. and faithful. and AWESOME. i mean, how can you see something like a thunderstorm and not see that God is awesome? man...He's just so cool.
joy is truly an incredible thing. God has just given me so much joy lately. i love it. PRAISE GOD!!! aw man, life is so good right now!!!

i must say...i'm quite impressed with myself. i'm not even procrastinating that much!!! i started my Holland application, thinking "oh gosh, i'm not gonna know what to write," and finished a little over half of it!!! how cool is that!!! i'm so happy. now all i have to do is take a little breather and then finish the rest. whew. why is it that it is scariest writing about the things you care about the most?

this weekend has been very long and, i must say, quite interesting thus far. a lot has happened in this short span of time...but it's mostly been internal stuff...i've had a lot of "alone time". but also a lot of time to get to know other people. just a lot of time in general. it's weird--like i said, a very long weekend.

i bought this new book called captivating, and thus far it's amazing...
i think i may have met an actress from the wb show everwood at starbucks...
i'm realizing how much i've changed over the past months--heck, even the past few weeks...
my desire to be in God's word is only growing deeper and deeper, and i'm loving it...
i'm applying for the Holland mission next summer, and there has been a lot of prayer involved thus far because i have NO IDEA what to say...
i have no idea where i want to go to college, or even what i want to do with my life, and that's really annoying, but PRAISE GOD because He is giving me peace about it...
i have some amazing friends in my life, who have always been a part of it but whom i have never really gotten to know well enough...and i can't believe it took this long for us to finally connect...

senior year is, thus far, complicated, but wonderful. i wouldn't have it any other way.

muahaha!!! this is officially my 150th blog EVAH!!!! that's wicked cool. so, in honor of this momentous occasion, i think i should do something special. yes, something VERY special to recognize this event. what should i do, you ask? why, i think i should...write a poem!!!!

"my blog, how do i love thee? let me count the ways.
i love thee to the depth and breadth and height
my computer screen can reach, when feeling out of sight
from my refrigerator or tv.
i type here of the level of every day's
most stressful moment or meanest teacher,
i love thee freely, as i strive to finish homework;
i love thee purely, as i stay up late typing rambling thoughts.
i love thee for thy beautiful green template
(which is new, and i think better than the last).
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost mind, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after this post."

yes, i think that went quite well. happy 150th, my blog!!!

to do homework now or to wait until later: the eternal question.

three day weekends are officially my favorite!!! i LOVE them!!!

by the by, i would like to attract everyone's attention to the bottom of the list of links on my blog (**cough**NATHAN**cough**) and notice and new addition...so that i can stop being bugged about it... (**cough**NATHAN**cough**) :)

so today i got my first ever "paycheck" for piano lessons. it was wicked cool, but also kind of strange, i have to admit. dude, i'm earning money! so awesome. it's just so cool to say that i have a "job". but i dunno. is "private piano lesson teacher" considered a job when you only have two students? i mean, sure, for my mom it's most def a job, but she has like 50 students. right now i have two. hopefully i'll get more tho...that would be nice...who knows. i like teaching piano. it's cool. wicked cool. anywho i have some homework to do (but not too much, which is so totally awesome!!) so i'll go do that, then, um...sleep? gosh, i don't even know what i do with my time nowadays...