stuff

Ok, so I haven't been bored. There has been so much to do. On monday Jimmy and I went Christmas shopping. We got a bunch of stuff we needed to get. Then I spent the rest of the day at my parents house. We decorated the tree.....it looks really good. Then on Tuesday Aaron and I went over to my parents house. We watched a movie......the island....it's pretty good. We took my brother Caleb shopping too. I went to see King Kong with Aaron and Shannon and my sister Bethany and her boyfriend Travis. It's pretty good but way too long.......3 1/2 hours. I guess lots happens but it was late and I was really tired. I spent the night at my parents house. This morning Aaron and I did the grocery shopping. Bethany and Travis came too because there was a lot to get. We just hung out with my family for the rest of the day. I wrapped some presents.....finally. I still have a bunch more to do. Now I am finally home. I need to clean my house. I figured I would have lots of time once exams were finished and maybe I do but I don't really feel like it. Maybe tomorrow.....or the day after that. I also need to wrap more presents and work on a present or two that I'm making. Aaaah.....I love Christmas! I'm not going to be at church on Christmas eve....my brothers and my sister and I are going to my parents church. So for those of you that I won't see.....have a really great Christmas!

boredom

So the day I've been looking forward to for a couple of weeks now is finally here, actually more like over. Yesterday I wrote my last two exams. I think I should do well......I sure studied enough! Don't get me wrong.....I am stoked that I have a few weeks off.....but I am so bored. There is nothing to do and I am really bad at entertaining myself.....I like to be with people. I have a book to read but I can't do that all the time. And I have friends to hang out with and a family to visit but I can't do that all the time either. Today Aaron and I went grocery shopping but that's about all I've done. I'm not exactly whining I don't think.....just rambling....because......I'm bored. Ha Ha. So yeah.....I'll stop boring you all to death and go find something to do. It's not really all that bad.....I do have three weeks off! Now that's a brighter side!

You Are Dancer

Carefree and fun, you always find reasons to do a happy dance. Why You're Naughty: That dark stint you had as Santa's private dancer. Why You're Nice: You're friendly. Very friendly.

Which of Santa's Reindeer Are You?

DNA

At UCFV there is this black board in one of the hallways. People write things on it or draw pictures. It's basically just for fun. The other day I noticed that someone had writtten, "science proves that God doesn't exist." I thought that was kind of funny. The way I look at science proves that God does exist. The more I learn the more I realize that there is no way that we could have just happened by chance.....or that we evolved from snails. Did you know that a typical human cell has about 2 meters of DNA? This length is about 250,000 times greater than the cell's diameter. Before a cell divides all of this DNA must be copied (and still all fit into that same cell). Then the two copies of DNA have to be separated so that each of the two new cells is identical. Amazing. DNA is made out of bases.....A,T,G, and C. If you were to print the one letter symbols for these bases the size of the letters you are reading now, the information in one cell would fill 1200 of my biology text books.....and let me tell you that it is a huge book!!!! And that is only the information in one cell. There are billions of cells in our bodies. Imagine the coordiantion that would take. There is so much more out there to think about that it boggles my mind. How everything works and fits together....it is too much to just have happened. Something had to have created it. Someone has to tell the cells to divide. How would they know to do it otherwise. Something has to tell the geese to fly south every winter. God is in everything.....just look around.

finally...

So we finally have snow!!! On Monday nite when I went to sleep it was just barely snowing. When I woke up in the middle of the night I got out of bed to see if it was snowing. It was so beautiful....the snow flakes were so big and I could see the lights over in Abbotsford reflecting the snow....the world was completely white. It's kind of hard to put in words exactly what it looked like or exactly what I felt but those of you who love snow will understand. I was at the bus stop the other day and it was really snowing. There was a girl standing near me who was telling her friend that she gets like a little kid every time it snows. I understand what she means....I feel the same way. Like nothing matters anymore except the snow....that nothing bad can happen. The candle light parade is coming up. I've lived in Mission for over 17 years and I never remember it snowing for the parade. I've always wished it would and I think this year my wish just might come true.....

You Are "Wow"!

What Japanese Smiley Are You?

ok??

You Are a Little Scary

You've got a nice edge to you. Use it.

How Scary Are You?

Christmas tree

My Christmas tree is half covered!!!! Yahoo! Now I know very few of you know what I'm talking about so I'll explain. There is this mountain north-east of Mission and some of it has been clear cut. The part in between the two clear cut areas is in the shape of a Christmas tree and every year when the weather starts to get cold I wait for it to turn white. When the whole thing is covered we will most likely get snow very soon. I love snow!

surprised

Your Inner Child Is Surprised

You see many things through the eyes of a child. Meaning, you're rarely cynical or jaded. You cherish all of the details in life. Easily fascinated, you enjoy experiencing new things.

How Is Your Inner Child?

vancouver and popcorn

I'm just waiting for the hockey game to start.....I'm not going to Castlegar anymore. I just couldn't do it.....couldn't move that far away. I'm going to try and get into UBC. Two hours from home is so much closer than seven. I'm kind of scared to go to UBC though. It just seems so big. I'm scared of all the weird people.....scared I'll get lost....scared I'll still miss everyone out here....just scared I guess.
Now on a happy note......I spilled popcorn all over Jimmy last night. We were laughing so hard. I was asking him if he wanted some and I guess my hand slipped and he got covered in buttery, greasy popcorn. At least then he didn't have to reach into the bag for it.....just down on his lap. So that was the highlight of my evening.
Hockey game is on now.......

a thousand things

Lord, if you showed me a thousand things,
Brand new about you every day,
I would still never see the fulleness of your glory.

Lord if you gave me a thousand years,
To try to count up all the ways,
That you have shown to me that you are just not enough
You are too much.

Sometimes I don't feel like praising God. Like when nothing is going right....and stuff is just avalanching on top of everything else. When things seem like they will never be right again.....and things don't work out the way that I've planned. But God see's the big picture and he does what is best for me......even i don't see how it can be.....still I thank Him.

I know you know me better than I know myself,
I want to know you even though I know my mind can't hold it all.....

-Thousand Things
Disciple

Lately...

So, lots has been happening lately. I just haven't had the time to write it. I'm done some of my mid terms. I got an A in Psychology and so far a B in Anthropology. Aaron and I found mistakes our teacher had made while marking so now he has to re-mark them all. I just hope it doesn't lower my mark. I don't have my mark back for Biology yet.
I was having problems with my car a few weeks ago and so my dad looked at it. It had no fluids....I'm not sure how long I ran it dry for. So now I have no car. I get around using the bus, and by Jimmy and Tysey (thanks so much guys).
I found out a couple of weeks ago I got accepted to nursing school.....YEAH.....in Castlegar.....BOO! So I have mixed feelings about it. There are a lot of people I will really miss and a few people I will miss so much that it will hurt.....a lot. I need a reliable car for school because Castlegar is a really small town (much, much smaller than Mission) and I will need to travel through mountains to get to various hospitals and clinics. I was going to go to school again next semester but now, come January, I'm going to need to find full time work. So if anyone has any connections please let me know.
So that's it for now. I'm just heading out the door to go shopping with Shannon and Tysey.....

Things you may not know about me

I love music more then any other THING in the entire world; it's how God speaks to me.
I want to become a nurse and then go work in Africa or Thailand.
I have a really really short attention span...even though I often pretend I don't.
I sometimes cry myself to sleep at night.
The reason I no longer have a car is because I forgot about oil and anti-freeze.
My dad is my hero....and he would do anything for me.
It's really hard for me to come up with these things about myself....I can think of a million, but most of them I'm too afraid to write.
I am a sucker for brown eyes and a big smile.
I used to hate my hair but now when i straighten it I love it.
I would rather have major surgery than talk infront of a big group of people.
I used to be so shy I would go red if someone I didn't know talked to me.
I like nerds....normal people are boring.
I like scary movies just so I can be freaked out of my mind.
My family and I drove to Ontario and back one summer....it's a long drive.
I always sing in the car....unless I'm with someone I don't know very well, then I sing quietly.
I learn best by teaching other people.
I've had two vehicles of my own....a toyota corolla and a plymouth sundance.
I LOVE dogs.....especially my Bailey.
I'm extremely allergic to cats.
I really miss Kiya (the dog I used to have).
I hate going into my blog because I'm scared of the comments people have written.
I can't write poetry....even if you paid me.
I wish I needed glasses....just because I think they look cool on me.
I am very stubborn....my mom says I'm too stubborn.
I absolutely love NHL hockey.
I miss my friends a lot when I haven't seen them in a while.
I love my best friends so much....they always make me laugh.
I think I've written enough on here.

tag

The freedom.....dancing and jumping and singing.

I wrote this as soon as I got back from the first time I ever went to street church. Cool eh?

The rules are as follows:
1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five other people to do the same.

So I tag Shannon and whoever else hasn't been tagged.

the voice of God....

You'll find trusting difficult and a lie, even a simple one, will break your heart.
A word said innocently enough will make you cry.
You'll lose friendships but the ones that stick will become stronger.
Love will become hard, even risky.
You'll learn how to smile when you want to hide and laugh when you want to cry.
You'll believe that valleys will never turn to mountains, and when they do that mountains are too difficult to climb.
Sometimes you'll feel like cursing me.
But this needs to happen.
I break so I can rebuild stronger.
I want to teach you about love....not selfish or jealous love, but pure love.
I want you to learn not to judge people and not to believe in rumors.
I will teach you to help those who are hurting....though it will be hard because you may think you have nothing to offer them.
You need to learn to trust me and in doing that I will teach you to trust others.
You need to learn that I will love you no matter what.
I will always accept you and I will always forgive you.
Because I love you.

Adventures

A tanker truck flipped over just before 6am this morning in Abbotsford spilling 22,500 litres of gas and diesel fuel. The fuel entered the storm drainage system and over 400 homes had to be evacuated. Schools and businesses were closed. The evacuation was lifted sometime this evening and the families were allowed to return to their homes. Wow! My mom's best friends lives really close to where it happened so she had to be evacuated. They came to her door and told her that her and her family had to leave immediatly. Even though I feel bad for all the work that the emergency crews had to do and for all the people who had to leave their homes there is a huge part of me that wishes that I was one of the people that was evacuated. It seems like a kind of adventure. It's definately not something that happens everyday.
I just love when things happen that are completely out of the ordinary. A couple of years ago I was over at Shannon's house when a neighbour came and started pounding on their door. It had been POURING rain all day and the street that runs beside their house was flooded. REALLY FLOODED!!! The water was in danger of pouring into their basement. Aaron and I went outside to take a look. The leaves were clogging all the drains so the water had to where to go. We walked all the way down to Mac's in the pouring rain unclogging the drains as we went. By the time we got back to Shannon's house we were completely drenched from head to toe. But it was so much fun. That for sure doesn't happen every day.
I just love adventure I guess. Even though neither one of these things is really that huge it is still something different....out of the ordinary.

Now for something different. My car has been acting funny for about a week now....not accelerating properly, making noise, and steam rising from the hood. I was dropping Aaron off at his house the other day and it started smoking really bad. We opened the hood and saw that it was coming from near the rad.That evening I went over to my parents house and my dad took a look at it. He checked the fluid levels.....no oil.....no anti-freeze.....WUPS!!! My dad spent half an hour trying to get the temperature down so it would be safe for me to drive it home. Tonight I drove it to the shop. They are looking at it tomorrow morning. On the way down my car wouldn't stop shaking. The smoke coming out of the tail pipe wreeked of anti-freeze. My dad thinks I'm going to have to replace part of my engine. OUCH!!!! If anyone reads this can you pray that it doesn't cost a fortune to fix and that no permanent damage has been done. If I have to replace my engine I might as well just buy a new car.....and I do not have the money for that. It wouldn't really be so bad if the whole thing wasn't my fault. Why didn't I remember to check the fluids. I guess I'll never forget now. Maybe I should just see it as yet another adventure...

cool

So I've been back at school for a few weeks now. Aaron has the same english teacher that I had last year. He was talking to her and she told him that my final exam was one of the best she's ever marked. WOW!!! I didnt think I did that well but I'm not going to argue with her that's for sure. Just thought I'd share that little story. Don't have much else to say.....

You cannot kill
What's not your creation
-TFK

Blue???

BLUE You give your love and friendship unconditionaly. You enjoy long, thoughtful conversations rich in philosophy and spirituality. You are very loyal and intuitive. Find out your color at Quiz Me!

Forever

Pooh, there's something I need to tell you

Is it something nice?

Not exactly...

Then it can wait.

It can, for how long?

Forever and Ever....


Forever and ever is a very long time, Pooh

Forever itsn't long at all, when I'm with you.


I wanna call your name forever
And you will always answer, forever
And both of us will be
Forever you and me
Forever and ever...

I wanna stay like this forever
If only I could promise forever
Then we could just be
Forever you and me
Forever and ever...

I wanna be with you forever
I want you right here beside me forever
One thing you should know
No matter where I go
We'll always be together...
Forever and ever