Saturday, July 31, 2010

haha

"Man Caught, On Security Camera, Trying To Steal Security Camera"

Friday, July 30, 2010

Last night I finally got my computer to download several things. Among them was the 475MB SP2 download. I'm hoping that helps my computer live life a little better. If it doesn't, I shall blame the goddess responsible :)

Then this morning, sleeping in until 7:30 was nice.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Good

Good has happened. I promise. My life has not been a meaningless pile of nothingness. I just haven't had the time, or the inclination when I had the time, or the internet when I had both the time and the inclination, to do so.

Saturday we had a great time at Nexus. Still only me and Christina, but it was good.
Sunday we had a very boring time hanging out at the church. Oh well. It really rained that day!
Monday was boring, from what I remember.
Tuesday was better. I worked with Larry Bohlman and Jude Oppong (from Ghana, married the lady from ghana... christina something... ). Then had the Tuesday Night Mime Small Group thingy. that was fun. we didn't do much, but the talk was great.
Wednesday, I failed miserably at everything I tried to do on the computer. Except play music really loud and play Risk. Then, I went to the small group which the Firewall has established. That was funny. I didn't know half the stuff cuz a lot of it was TV shows, but still, I enjoyed myself. Still maybe not my first choice of Wednesday evening activity, but we'll see. (Mother insisted I try that one first.)

Monday, July 26, 2010

:)

I am, for no particularly apparent reason, feeling happy.

It might have something to do with the fact that I am not worried anymore about whether or not I will pay my tuition bill in time. or the fact that i have almost convinced my mother to allow me to use the internet at home and update my computer.

or neither of those, i don't know. either way, :)

OH! also, random acts of goodness are quite fun. some person at the college was quite confused about where she was supposed to go, so I was able to help her out :D that was nice. :warm fuzzy feeling:

Sunday, July 25, 2010

*yawn*

This week has been boring. and stressful. but more boring. But...

I am fully recovered from CYMA week (I think).

After reinstalling Vista 4 times, my computer now works again (albeit with 4-year-old drivers...).

I am halfway through Crime & Punishment. And I accidentally read the end of the story =/ (I was looking for the notes, and I didn't find them on that page)

I read Burn by Ted Dekker & Erin Healy. that was an interesting book.

I am currently in a fairly positive state of mind. (and am a stalker/lurker)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

double-plus awesome

Today at CYMA was nice. not much of note, for me at least. except that I am tired!

And I had to take Jon and Rachel to a swim meet this evening :( but good stuff happened. Like, I had both The Power of Your Name (Lincoln Brewster) and Those Nights (Skillet) stuck in my head, pretty much equally. And a totally epic rainbow!

I will try to describe the rainbow (and shall fail miserably to do it justice).
It was big. I actually watched it grow across the sky. At times I swear, it was visibly growing.
It was bright, at least at it's peak awesomeness.
It was nearly doubled! Below the RedOrangeYellowGreenBluePurple bands, there were much smaller, thinner, less distinct bands of RedOrangeYellowGreen. Wow!
On top of that, some distance above it, was another rainbow. It was inverted, so it went purplebluegreenyelloworangered, and it was much less distinct. My theory is that we were experiencing double refraction, which is pretty awesome!

then it started to rain a little, and then it slowly faded away. But it was totally a doubleplus epic win rainbow!

And I get to lead the LiT small group tomorrow after CYMA! Yikes! But I'm sure we'll still have a lot of fun.

Monday, July 12, 2010

CYMA day 1

Having Olivia in the balcony for the first day was really nice, cuz she already knows the sound board and MediaShout is really easy to show people how to advance the slide. so it was awesome. (Thanks, Katie!)

There was a surprising lack of interesting, exciting, dramatic, yikes-like things happening today. which was nice, but a little weird anyway. The chaos was too well controlled! lol

But I got no work done on the outreach... I really need to start thinking hard about that. but tomorrow is another day, right?

And then small group afterwards was hilarious. "Nehemiah the bdoopa-dooper" lol

Sunday, July 11, 2010

CYMA!

CYMA is tomorrow!!! and the LiT retreat/really long training meeting was today, and that was a lot of fun :D

And then I got to hang out with the Olenicks and Blackburns and Tellups and Lanman and Stummer. that was fun. I got thrown/dragged into the pool by David (that was interesting). And we were detonating Hydrocrackers. We were setting some off in a water bottle. I was in charge of putting the cap on once the hydrocracker was in the bottle. The first one failed, so the second one was held out of the bottle longer so that it would light proper. A little too long, it turned out. I was about 3/4 done screwing on the cap, Mark was telling me to hurry up, and I was actually in the process of dropping the bottle when the cracker went off. It didn't hurt my hand at all, but it sent a shock wave straight at my face... that was interesting :)

Then I couldn't get in touch with my Mother. I was a little worried, but I got to hang out with the Olenicks until 9:30 instead of 8 when they semi-kicked out everyone else.

And Mark was organizing his music binder, and I saw that he had the song "Shine, Jesus, Shine" in there. About 10-15 years ago, my parents had a couple of praise & worship cassette tapes they would play in the car, especially on long trips. That was one of the songs, so naturally I commented on the fact that Mark had it. I knew the melody for the chorus, but not the verses. So we asked Blake, who was on the computer, to look it up. (at this point, my Mother had come.) He found it on YouTube in about 10 seconds, so we listened to it (me, Mother, Mark, Blake, and Carol). In the suggestions bar or whatever next to the movie, there were a whole bunch of other songs which I also recognized from that tape... Some really nice memories come back listening to that song. It was awesome!!!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

heehee

it is 6:30 on saturday. It is thunderstorming, and we desperately need this rain. I'm listening to Skillet. I'm supposed to take Rachel and Jon to their swim meet (the pool is less than a mile from the house) but I really don't feel like it.

And CYMA starts today! Okay not really... but we're gonna plan stuff for CYMA today, and then there's the LiT retreat tomorrow, and then CYMA starts on monday! woot CYMA!
(can you tell I'm excited?)

Thursday, July 8, 2010

lol

My family fights about the silliest things sometimes. I was just listening to an argument between Rachel and Josiah (and sort of Clarice too). Not only do we argue about the silliest things, but the arguments we use can really not make any sense.

The futility and insignificance of it all just struck me as very funny. I laugh in all your faces! HA HA HA! lol

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Long time

Basically, I was lazy last week and didn't bother to post even though I could have. *shame*

Oh well. Last week was VBS, which was quite enjoyable.
Sunday was the 4th of July, of course. We didn't really do anything. But we did go see the fireworks in Bel Air, which was interesting. And boring.
Monday was Clarice's birthday. She is now 16! Again, we didn't really do anything.
Yesterday was nice. It was hot, but oh well. I went over to the Olenick's. David and Daniel and me and Blake and Mark played Boggle :) I think that after 4 rounds, Blake had 3 points, Daniel had 4, Mark had 5, and me and David were tied at 24. lol

And today I am going to go have a job interview at 1:30. I am hoping to get a job as a math tutor at HCC.

And next week is CYMA. I really can't wait!!