Well here I am on vacation in the OBX with my family :)  i read my latest book Green in the span of 2 days, woot!  i have one more book i brought with me on vacation, but i might not start it til later in the week.

My brother is all stoked, cause it's National November Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).  I think it'd be kinda cool, but i'm only good with coming up with short stories.  when i try to write anything that takes up more than a page in a notebook, it sounds worse and worse the longer it gets. 

I am very confused about something...but I dont want to go into too much thought about it here and now.  Maybe after I get home from vacation, i can figure out how to voice my thoughts.

i want to go to a gift shop some time today, hopefully.

i need to find what the weather's going to be like the rest of the week, cause i'd like to go watch the sunrise.  sadly, whenever i usually go to the beach and watch the sunrise, it's a cloudy morning.  *sigh*  maybe i'll go every morning and come back home and sleep a lil bit more...who knows?  :P

oh, right now breakfast is ready... pancakes and sausage, so i'm gonna get going, :P

well, at least it feels like it...school's started up, people are back at college, etc....my summer went way too fast...i worked pretty much the whole time, it didnt feel..well.."normal".  i guess i'm still used to being in school, having summer's off, etc.  but that's ok...it's not that bad.  i dont mind..too much.  just wish i had done a lil more "summery" things...like going to moraine to go swimming, or to the drive-in more, but sadly, work made it hard to find a good night to do that..

dont know where i was going with this...oh well...

Road trips are fun..very enjoyable.  you get to go to random places, learn things, but most importantly, just have fun with the people you're with.

Aaron and I just got back from one on Saturday night.  we left on Wednesday, went to Kitanning, then to Punxsutawney, then visited Pappy, spent the night there.  next day not sure what we really did..mostly drove around i think...drove over the mountains (PA mountains are so different then CO mountains), and stayed in a hostle that night.  next day, we went to Indian Echo Caverns, then to hershey and took a tour of a fake factory...so lame...but we DID get a free sample!  :D  after hershey, we drove through Lancaster, played in a park for a lil bit, then drove on through Trenton, crossed the Deleware and slept in a Wal-Mart parking lot in New Jersey.  next morning, we visited the Washington Crossing State Park, went in the visitors center, and walked on a trail or two.  found some snails and slugs.  the one snail i was carrying around, i named him Theodore...he was an amazing snail.  then we drove back to lancaster and took an amish buggy ride.  then we took the turn pike so we could go in the tunnels on the way home.  later on the road, we saw some anvil shaped clouds, you could see the storm front coming in...it was AMAZING.  so ya...we got home saturday night.  when we were almost home, 2 fireworks went off..it was like a welcome home!  :D

sadly, the camera i was using...the film came back blank..so i guess the camera doesn't work...

a link to my favorite author's blog.  written on may 14, 2009

http://www.teddekker.com/2009/05/14/the-baby-the-whole-baby-nothing-but-the-baby-so-help-us-god/

Today marks the first day of my last year as a "teenager".

this is how i feel sometimes, i just never knew how to word it.  I was listening to my MercyMe CD the other day on the way home from work, and this song played, and my reaction was "wow.  this is a perfect description of how i feel sometimes."


Homesick, by MercyMe:

You're in a better place, I've heard a thousand times
And at least a thousand times I've rejoiced for you
But the reason why I'm broken, the reason why I cry
Is how long must I wait to be with you

I close my eyes and I see your face
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place
Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
I've never been more homesick than now

Help me Lord cause I don't understand your ways
The reason why I wonder if I'll ever know
But, even if you showed me, the hurt would be the same
Cause I'm still here so far away from home

I close my eyes and I see your face
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place
Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
I've never been more homesick than now

In Christ, there are no goodbye
And in Christ, there is no end
So I'll hold onto Jesus with all that I have
To see you again
To see you again

And I close my eyes and I see your face
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place
Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
Won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
Won't you give me strength to make it through somehow

I've never been more homesick than now

Youtube music video:
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!!

Hmm, I enjoy art and photography, I really do.   Should I just set aside all my doubts about it, and just go for it, since i like doing it?

The sun rose over the small town in the mountains.  This town rested in a valley with a small lake.  All the men went out to the fields at dawn and started working.  It was a Saturday so all the kids were playing in the town square.

When the sun had risen a third of the way in the sky, one could see a strange shimmering wave in the break between the mountains.  Around three o'clock, the shimmering mass was an hour's walk away from town.  No one was sure what to make of it.  The moms had their kids stay in the house while the men headed out on the road towards the rainbow colored swirl.

When the men drew closer, they realized that the swirling rainbow mass was a whole bunch of bubbles.  But why were they moving?  Upon further inspection, the men realized that the bubbles were bubble people.  The men stared in awe at these creatures and whispered questions to each other.

"What are they?"
"Where did they come from?"
"What's going on?"

The bubble people walked up and stopped in front of the men.  They all had two fangs sticking out of their mouths, and drool--or at least what looked like drool--was dripping from their mouth and teeth.  Then the bubbles, with surprising speed, lunged at the men, killed them, and ate them.  Then the carnivorous bubble people continued on to the town.




I need a title for this story!  any suggestions?

I came up with carnivorous bubble people a long while back, probably when i was in elementary (5th or 6th grade), drew a picture of what they looked like, then on 4-13-07, i wrote this story as a free write journal for Mrs. Wise's class.  I'll post a picture maybe on deviantart...maybe remind me to do that, :P

 

What is there to life?  It's frustrating...I often wonder why the heck I'm here, i feel useless and in the way.  i hate it when little things upset me so much, i feel like a big baby, fussing about it, getting upset to the point of tears....what the HECK is wrong with me?  i KNOW i shouldn't be getting upset, but i do, and that frustrates me more, caue i dont want to be upset over something so small and stupid...

I've been really wanting something chocolaty lately, so i made some brownies yesterday.  if not for myself saying "NO!  IT'S UNHEALTHY", i'm sure i would've eaten the whole pan by now...

The world is going to end tomorrow...

So yesterday, I talked to my friend Heidi, and found out there were some Portersville basketball games that evening, starting at 4, and all 4 teams were playing, so I decided I should go, since I haven't been to any games yet.  So I got to the school gym slightly after 4, and I saw my friend Tim Hoban, I love that kid, he's amazing, :P  He saw I had my sketchbook and he wanted to see it, so I showed him what few drawings I had in it.  I also showed them to his sister, Norah (she's an amazing person as well, i lover her!).  Then i found Heidi and quickly sat down beside her, I've missed her so much!  I was so glad to see her again.  so we talked for a bit.  I think most of my night last night was just us talking and goofing off, and not really paying too much attention to the games, XD

We took out my sketchbook, and we drew a big picture.  When i look at it, most of it's her stuff, but we both drew it, and it's full of fun, random, awesomeness.  I need to take a picture of it cause the paper's too big for my scanner...

I had lots of fun last night.  And yes, I was half paying attention to the games, mostly the girls games, and I REALLY miss playing basketball...even though I wasn't really good, I had lots of fun, and I liked the competitiveness and trying my best.  I miss it so much.  I could come in for a practice sometime...maybe I will when I don't have to work, 'cause by the time I'm done working, I don't feel like doing anything else, I just want to get home and rest and relax, and unwind.

Anyways, I had tons of fun last night, and I'm so glad I went, :)

After a long exhausting week at work, one might think, "oh, it's the weekend, I get to sleep in and relax!".  but then you remember that the walls and floors of your house are thin, and you can hear everything once someone gets up in the morning, and you regret going to bed late because you know your parents are always the first ones up on Saturdays, and they get up...somewhat early.  oh well, i'm just glad i got about 8 hours of sleep compared to the rest of the nights this past week.

On another note, Psych is the BEST SHOW EVER!!  :P





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