I'm Done!
Haha, Kris, I hope you get the title. Well, at 3:15 in the morning, I finished The Da Vinci Code. So brilliantly done. I just wish that eventually I can write as good. So, funny story. Ever since I was a little kid, when I didn't get enough sleep, I either slept walked, or talked in my sleep. Only recently have I been hallucinating. The other night I was dreaming/hallucinating, and there was someone in my room. So, of course, I yelled at him to get out. I don't know what I yelled, but Kris (who I woke up) said that I said something like "I see you up there", etc. Actually, I woke myself up with my yelling, and I remember turning on my light. Then turning it off and falling asleep. When I was a kid, I rearranged furniture in my half sleep. I don't know why, but I moved a table really close to my bed, and I knew I had to be quiet so I didn't wake anybody up.
Well, I think that's it for now. I'm uh, going to the broccoli fields with Juddidah.
Reflections
You know, since I found out that I'm going home for a bit in May - I don't think I've ever mentioned that - I've been thinking a lot about the life I left behind. There are so many aspects to it. I did and lived at a lot of different places in the 4 or 5 years before coming out here. The first place was Fair Havens. A Christian conference centre. It was my first "real" job. I had to live at the camp which was horrifying to me. I was able to come home most weekends, but by the end of the summer, I had made some good connections, and didn't come home as much. I don't know what happened, but when I came home, everyone in my youth group hated me. So much so, in fact, that I switched youth groups. To this day I don't know what happened. The other youth group helped me grow spiritually, but I didn't get a lot of life-long friends out of the deal. Enter my last year of high school, and possibly my best. I helped form a Bible study and made some really great friends. I ventured out of the library sometimes to wander the halls, and was starting to feel really good about myself. So good in fact that I lipped off a certain teacher, but I did it in such a way that he didn't realize it. Go fig. Suddenly summer came, and because I wasn't hired back at Fair Havens (I swept too slow), I had to find another job. It was a pick between Elim Lodge and a Salvation Army camp that I dreaded to go to. Elim Lodge it was. That summer I worked at a Snackery handling cash for the first time in my life. Actually, I think it was Drew who first walked me through a debit transaction. I had a lot of fun, but it definitly was not uplifting, and I came back spoiled, but bad spoiled...spoiled milk spoiled. I hung out with the wrong type of people, and it wasn't a good mesh. After summer, I started Emmanuel Bible College. My roommate was a friend from Fair Havens. For the first semester I was in her shadow, not because I wanted to, but because I really couldn't get away from her, and because she was so durn boy-crazy, that's who people thought I was too. Jenn Wallace told me a couple of times that she was afraid to be in a dorm with me the following year, because she believed that I was boy-crazy, and she said that it was Heather-Ann who told her that I was cool, or something of that nature. But before second year, I had to go back to Elim. It was a little bit better. I lived in a motel with a girl closer to my age, and stronger in the Lord. I no longer associated with the people that brought me down the year before, and my eyes opened to the problems that plagued Elim, but not all the way. I wanted to quit so many times, but I held strong. I remember Scott K. yelling at me during a blackout because Ruth had told me that the snackery phone worked, and the whole family but me was going to a big family reunion for awhile, and I needed to say goodbye to them. I went back to my room in tears and prayed for someone to come talk to me, and in walked my friend Amy. What a blessing she was! So the summer ended, and my second year of EBC was coming up and I was darn excited! I got my own room with girls on the floor that I liked. I have to say that my 2nd and last year at EBC was the best year of my life in some ways. I made some amazing friends, and felt so good about myself. My self-esteem was never higher. And it was then that I had to leave. I wasn't getting the education that I wanted/needed. So I applied to Rocky and was accepted. But I needed a job in the summer to get money. The last thing I wanted to do was go back to Elim, but guess where I ended up. This summer was the best summer, and the worst summer. Best because of the relationships made. Erica, Drew, Holly, Lisa, Allison, Jordan, Kathleen, Bob and Marcy, Andy. Worst because of the inner dealings of weak, human people. I was sick a lot of the summer, and because I never get sick, I was a little worried. I did a lot of tests, and nothing came up until Scott K. called me at home, and I began getting sick again. Actually, thinking about it doesn't make me all warm and fuzzy. I told this to my doctor, and she told me to stop working at Elim, and wrote me a note. It's hard to go to another province after making such good friends, but somehow I did it. And in the midst of it I liked a guy, a lot. We don't talk anymore. I prayed for that.
I've realized that since coming to Rocky, I lost a lot of my self-esteem. EBC, we did our own thing, no one was trendy, and it was awesome. We all knew each other, and it was like a big family, especially in dorms. Rocky is probable more trendier than high school was, and sometimes I feel uncomfortable walking down the halls because I don't wear what everybody else does and I fell judged. Add that to the drama of Drama, and you get a very stressed 4th year who still has 2 years to go. It seems the amount of friends since moving here has gone down as well, and that hurts. A lot. I have made some friends, but the ones I lost leave holes. Well, that's it, those are my reflections, and that's what I usually think about day in and day out. I guess inside is just a broken little girl wanting to be loved
Puttin On the Ritz
I want to put on the Ritz. And it's nobody's business but the Turks. So today,
Kristin and I went to North Hill Shopping Centre, and I bought
The Da Vinci's Code. Since I have another book on the run, I wasn't going to start it, but I was waiting for rehearsal to start, and instead of reviewing my lines...doi, I began to read, and by page 11, I was hooked. Plus,
Tom Hanks is going to be the title character of the movie version coming out next year. I'm so excited!
1."In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team."
2. "Oh, who doesn't own an interositer these days?"
3. "You see, we're not "The Wonders" right now. We're "Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters". "
4. "You wear too much eye makeup. My sister wears too much. People think she's a whore. "
5. "Prepare for the fight scene!"
As you probably noticed, there are 5 more quotes, and some of them aren't as easily recognizable as the previous 5. The rules are as follows:
1. I do not care where you get your information from, it just has to be right
2. You must also get who says it.
C. If you do not know the character's name, the actor's name works just as well.
To the Broccoli Field Juddidah!
What's with today, today. It is my goal to one day have a completely coherent post articulated by only movie quotes. And that's gives me an idea for a contest..if you will. I will enter a few quotes, and the person able to get them all, will win.
1. "Damn the man, save the Empire"
2. "Oh my lucky stars, a negro!"
3. "And you: friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless! Do you want me to send you back to where you were? Unemployed in Greenland! "
4. "Mark my words, your uppance shall come"
5. "Good rice good curry good Ghandi let's hurry"
Alright, the contest begins, and a new one will start when all the quotes have been correctly answered. Good luck.
Andy You're A Star
I am really enjoying The Killers. I bought their CD because I liked their song "Somebody Told Me", and there is no song that I skip over. That's rare for me. Today I bought a Dire Straits cd. They're pretty good too. So
Trevor came over yesterday and taught me how to do cool stuff on this site. I'm excited to do more. Not a lot else has happened.
Kristin joined us for a week, and I think for this week, I'm going to have more fun than I have in a year. Oh, and 4 months till I get to go home.
SAD
This morning is the morning of Valentines Day. Not being attached to any other person, it is just another day for me. It would be fine, if everybody I will be coming in contact with (or almost everybody) is attached in some sort of way. Translation: watching other people celebrate a day that I won't be. The only thing I'm looking for is listening to Jack at work and on my computer. They are not doing any love songs at all today. I don't get this day, but I'm sure as soon as I find someone, my opinion will change. ug
Just Call Me Mrs. Lumphead
To start this off with a good note, I was finally able to play hockey. It had been a year, and it was probably one of the best times I've had in many many days. And of course, what isn't hockey without an injury or two. I must explain, that I'm not very good at the stopping, something I'm well aware I need to work on. Needless to say, I fell, and hurt my bum (seriously think I pulled something) and somehow managed to get my stick to smack me on my head. What's worse than that is that I cried in front of 3 strange boys. I now have a gloriously large goose egg on my head, but thankfully nothing wrong with my brain, and their was no cuts; I really lucked out.
Moving on, as I was visiting Drews blog, I read an article he had as a link. It was a journalist from GQ's take on Creation (the music festival), faith, and it had a little bit about folks from West Virginia who I really want to meet someday. If you have time, I really recommend you read it.
http://andymack.blogspot.com/ A comment this man put down really made me wonder about this generation of Christians.
"And among the Jesusy, there's plenty who are super f'd up. He preferred it that way, evidently."
Called to mind are people that I know, some go to Rocky, some don't, but it seems their attitude is the more jaded they are, the more "f'd" up they are, the better the Christian. I'm sorry, but because you're ok with smoking pot, because it makes you get a better rapport with the heathens, then you need to do some thinking. I realize that some people may be reading this, and thinking "oh the hypocrisy" and I'm sure you're right, but that doesn't mean I'm satisfied with that hypocrisy and it doesn't stop me from changing how I am.
I'm going to get off my imaginary soapbox right now, and I hope that you all will still say hi to me the day after reading this.
Disclaimer: The grammar in this blog is extremely bad, but I got hit in the head.
My alter ego
Princess of Power
 | You scored as She-ra. You are the princess of power. You are one tough woman. You can take on an army of foes and come out strong. You have no fear.
She-ra | | 83% | Frosta | | 73% | Scorpia | | 70% | Mermista | | 63% | Glimmer | | 63% | Castaspella | | 63% | Entrapta | | 47% | Shadow Weaver | | 43% | Catra | | 40% |
Which She-ra character are you?
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Qu'est que c'est?
| You scored as Aragorn. You're Aragorn! This ranger from the north is the personification of bravery. He always thinks of others before himself, and, though he becomes King of Gondor, he is not one to crave attention."I would have gone with you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor."
Aragorn | | 75% | Samwise | | 69% | Frodo | | 63% | Gandalf | | 56% | Faramir | | 44% | Arwen | | 44% | Pippin | | 31% | Eowyn | | 31% | Gollum | | 25% |
Which LOTR character are you?
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I love the quizzes that Faith chooses. Faith, you are my quiz master! However, I don't get that I'm Aragorn. Is it the messy hair, because I do brush!
Coming soon: The first installment in Choose Your Own Adventure
Title coming soon as well.
Choosing to Choose
So, I've been really thinking about starting up a Choose your Own Adventure, and realized that it will take a lot of work, so here's the deal. If at least 5 different people say aye, they would participate, then the adventures will come - and Kris for five dollars a week, I will let you know of all the different scenarios you can run into.
