I am so sore.....i had jv dance practice on saturday and we have to do this lunge thing in the dance that we're learning so we had to do it over and over again and my leg is so sore........wow....

       Ok, so yesterday was Halloween right? well, i had dance practice until 6 which sucked cuz my friend Rachel's halloween party started at 5:30 and then i had to get dressed for the party in the car....so anyways...the party was fun anyway....i was so tired thought that i forgot to do my homework..so yeah....plus i've just had a lot on my mind lately and i'm alittle depressed at times....well, see ya later.

Lizz

well i am tried.... played hide and seek...which was fun^_^ school was school nothing new but we had to stay in frist long and skip 3rd-sigh-  but swing was fun... did the chain saw(scary shit there).... yeah lol

yesterday night was fun... it also was funny.... someone said happy christmas to me and kaylah... and also said i was a 10th grader^_^

i also tried to drink chili....dont ask...hehehe...

well thats all

                the end

My highlights of today:

-getting a free waffle at Waffle House w/ Elissa this morning

-using my funny line in our percussion ensemble performance "I'm so stressed out! I think we're gonna do Cats in choir!!" lol

-my voice lesson w/ Donna Shaerron ^^ i love her!!!

-dancing and singing w/ my mom around the kitchen

"No matter what loneliness comes,
no matter what pain you feel,
you mustn't close your eyes to it.
Because even if you lose all your
words, even if you say it doesn't matter,
if you stumble
it will be there to help you up.
That's what kind of thing it is."

-Ayu (Surreal)

17th birthday today!

Nope nope nope.  Nobody loves Sarah's phusebox.

*dramatic sigh*

So whatever and stuff.

Ummmm.  Having a little trouble with the concentration lately.  Have to go to a bookstore and do some emergency book scrounging and reading *crosses fingers* in addition to some other homework.

'Zoli's tonight.  [That whole throwing-a-couch-off-a-baclony-in-Antioch thing didn't really work out.  Will have to do it some other time.]

I want tuna.

NOW!

And Starburst.

With hurricanes, tornados, flooding and severe t-storms tearing up the
country from one end to another, the quote of the month is.....
Jay Leno:
"Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of
Allegiance?"

Happy All Saints Day.

Happy Episode III Day.

would you stand up and walk out on me?

tee hee

i love concert horn!!! yay for concert band!!!

and... :-)

i love you i love you!!!

gangstaaaaaaaa

slideshow :]

ch-ch-check it out.

i got my inspiration to do this from amy powers...

things i want to do before i die:
-get married (on my way to that one!)
-go to europe (london, italy... maybe some other places)
-see a sunset in hawaii
-go out west
-see a bear out in the wild (weird i know)
-see a moose (shhh)
-go to the north carolina coast and see a light house
-see a broadway show
-live in NYC (on my way to that one too!)
-go to upstate NY in the fall
-see niagra falls
-dance with somebody in the rain
-see starry night
-actually eat and enjoy food outside my 10 favorite foods haha
-at least once live out a moment like "spontaneous" by andy davis
-by gloves at macy's (ahh serendipity, what a great movie)
-go to a toy store in NY during christmas time
-see a WHOLE bunch of snow and play in it!
-allow God to work through me in ways that draw people closer to Him
-make a movie
-write a book
-become so intimate with God
-stop listening to satan's lies and BELIEVE God's truth
-get to know His heart, and His desires
-stop being so shy!
-be BOLD!
-let my heart be at rest


so those are just some... i don't want to bore you guys with all my aspirations. haha. so i am hungry. and i have to go to work soon. i hope everyone has a great night! and you should wish michael dillon a happy birthday! he's 19 today!

(i did not write the below essay; i just thought it was interesting)

Extreme Feminism Incites Misandry

 

Misandry is the hatred of men for being men. I feel like lots of women have turned feminism into some form of misandry. I’ve heard many females say, “I hate all men,” or “All men are pigs,” just because of what one or two men may have done to cause them grief. If you look closely, you can easily find many misandric TV shows, commercials, ads, books, magazines, and clothing.

 

In many commercials, I see women portrayed as more intelligent than men. In one, for example, a man and a woman are in a commercial for a minivan. The woman is walking around the minivan, folding down the seats, while her husband is standing behind the minivan trying to fold up a baby stroller so that it will fit in the van. The woman walks to the back, gives her husband a look, folds down the back seat in the minivan, and puts the stroller in without folding it. The man gives her a look, as if to say, “How did you do that?” How? Why, she’s a woman, of course!

I see so much misandry in all the sitcoms I watch. In most cases, if a man does something stupid, then one of the women in the show will act like she expected it all along, just because it was a man who did it. I see it most in Roseanne, Just Shoot Me, Home Improvement, King of Queens, and so many others. Men are either presented as selfish jerks who are obsessed only with sports, sex, and pornography, or as bumbling idiots who are told by women that they are incapable.

 

There is an extremely popular company called David & Goliath that sells t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. that say things like: “Boys are stupid. Throw rocks at them!”, “LOBOTOMY – How to train boys.”, “Please don’t feed the boys.”, “Boys lie…Poke ’em in the eye.”, “Never underestimate the stupidity of boys in large groups.”, and so many others. Is it really ok to have 12-year-old girls walking around wearing these t-shirts? The worst thing about them is that they ONLY COME IN ADULT SIZES. Yes, maybe when you’re a six-year-old female, boys DO have cooties. (Good time to mention the D&G brand t-shirt that says “Boys have cooties.”) I thought girls would have gotten over that by the time they were in college, but it doesn’t seem that way, does it? Do you think that maybe young boys will be insulted when they see their big sisters wearing clothes that say these things? Teaching boys not to hit girls is a good thing, but publicly telling girls to throw rocks at boys ISN’T.

 

There are also the more serious aspects. There are many services that neglect men, such as: domestic violence services, homeless services, and disaster relief services. Men also seem to be treated unfairly in some child custody cases. When people are in danger, there are suggestions of what to do “to protect our women and children,” as if the lives of men are of lesser value. I’ve seen many organizations directed at women and children, which is good, but why not men, too? Women and children may have more needs than men in some cases, but that doesn’t mean organizations can’t help men as well.

 

What I have described is a mixture of misandry, which is a personal belief, and discrimination, which affects everybody. Behind this kind of discrimination is misandry, whether people see it easily or not. I don’t believe there is always a conspiracy to make men appear less intelligent than women. I think that since it’s so common nowadays, it just comes naturally. It isn’t right for women to demand respect and give none in return.

if you could pick any day to go back to, when would it be?

so... last friday, darin and i went to the
  WHITE SOX   
parade and rally downtown!  it was awesome!  don't get me wrong, i'm a  cubs fan.  i don't generally follow much baseball, especially the sox, but i did go to a game this summer and i did follow the series!  you gotta get excited when your city's team makes it big!  (and yes, i'm claiming chicago as mine)  and i figure, some day i'll be able to say "oh, i was at the celebration when the white sox won the 2005 world series!"  not a opportunity i wanted to miss!  it was crazy... but good times!
then we went to a graduate school fair at UIC... very interesting.  lots and lots of choices for darin... fun stuff.  the future is a scary thing to think about...
saturday i took tests all day - total poo.  that's all i wanna say about that...
sunday we took the cornerstone youth to laserquest!!  i haven't been since my own youth groupin days... i forgot how aggressive it can be!  the first round, our 10 high schoolers (and 4 of us "adults") played with like 50 little boys from some birthday party.  they were intense!  one kid just randomly kicked me!  what the heck?!  screaming "i hate you!  i hate you!" in my face (or as close as he could jump to my face anyway!)  anyhow... it really was fun...
this week is not quite as stressful as last... but it's still up there.  i'll hopefully be finishing my practicum my next tuesday!  my life will be SO much easier!  i cannot wait!
so... how was halloween??  we went and saw SAW 2 last night - great movie!  they're so disturbing and disgusting but yet intriguing to no end!  blows my mind.  seen it?  thoughts???
oh the life of a grad office worker.......

So I copied off the music for the horn ensemble today. I'm going to shoot for Nov. 16th to be our first rehearsal and just read through some of the music. Ruth said she'd have somewhere for us to play in December, so that's what we are going to go ahead and prepare for. Mr. Medford's going to get Adam, me, Chad, and a trumpet player out of school to go play some patriotic music somewhere. I'm excited. I can't wait till I can get paid to go play and stuff.

Lord of the Rings Symphony Saturday night! I'm excited about that. It will be after the brass festival at MTSU, so I get a free bus ride and stuff. I do indeed like me some LOTR music. Radu said that in the music they've written in stuff like "kill me now" and "keep it up for 5 more minutes!" because it's really hard. Shoot, if I had to play a two-hour long piece of music, I'd be wanting to die also. They are supposed to have a screen behind the orchestra with sketches and artwork from the movie/book to go along with the music. I can't wait!

Well, I think I did well on my Understanding Mass Media test. What a relief. I think I'm better at essays than multiple choice... odd... well unless of course I just have no earthly idea about the subject whatsoever.

English was the big surprise today. Dr. Thierren kept me after class to tell me how good my mid-term was (it too was all essay). It was such a high compliment... I could not believe it...

Then I walkd with Garrett to the bookstore and ended up sticking around to talk to Justin Vance, and things changed...



Ha ha... this was taken with a G5 Mac computer using Photo Booth. And yes, it is a distorted feature; Justin and I do not really look like that... ha ha... But anyhow, we talked about the $600 G4 on sale, but I think I've decided to wait until I'm deeper into my major to make sure I'm sticking with it to invest the money into everything I need. I do, however, think I may look into buying more memory or RAM for my current PC,  and requesting the video camera and Final Cut Pro Express for Christmas, so I can start to play around with it.

Guys. . . wow. God has been showing me so many things about my life and I'm suddenly seeing that He really was listening to me as I ((literally and figuratively)) cried out to Him out of sorrow and pain last year. He's been teaching me so many things. . . patience ((huge biggie)), trust, faith, and most importantly, love. He's shown me through children I've been around that He will NEVER hurt us, and when we cry to him when we're troubled, He will pick us up and calm us. Guys, it really freaks me out to think about what would have become of me had I done some of the things that crossed my mind when I was suffering. I'm not perfect, and I will never be. I make mistakes, and I always will. I've learned that being a prideful Christian is a good way to get your butt kicked all the way to the ground. God doesn't want proud Christians, he wantes us to be HUMBLE. Barlow Girl sings a song containing the line "I've learned that pride comes before the fall." How true is that. I've been listening to the song "Undignified" by The David Crowder Band, and I don't know about y'all, but I want to be undignified for Jesus. I want to go crazy in His name, and have people look at me as though I've lost my mind. . . because it's not mine. It's His. This is weird. I haven't felt like this in a long time. But I like it.

. . . and if I have a faith than can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1Corinthians 13:2b

GAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Pants!!!!!

A - Age of your first kiss: 20
B - Band you are listening to right now: Damien Rice
C - Crush: i don't know if i have one...
D - Drink you drank last: water
E - Easiest person to talk to: Megan
F - Favorite ice cream: mmm....birthday cake :)
G - Gummy worms or gummy bears?: worms baby!
H - Height: 5'1"
I - Imaginary friend as a kid: i don't think i had one...
J - Junk food: anything? i live for junkfood!
K- Kindergarten teacher's name: Mrs. Boatwright!
L - Longest car/bus ride: either NYC or Sherman, TX...i think they were about the same!
M - Mom's name: Waldean
N- Nickname: car, carlie, the gremlin ;)
O - One wish:  to make it in opera!
P - Phobia: stinging insects!
Q - Quote: "It was the week of enormous amounts of sex!" ~a KD lady ;)
R - Reason to smile: my friends
S - Some Random Fact:  Long Island Ice Tea has the most calories out of any other mixed drink
T - Talk about: eh?
U
- Unknown fact about me: not much about me is unknown....i like to play
with satin under my fingernails but just about everybody who knows me
knows that!
V - Vegetable: POTATOES! they count right?
W - Worst Habit: did i mention that satin thing?
X - X-rays you've had: umm...lots
Y- Years you have been in church: 15 or 16
Z - Zodiac sign: Aries

Stevie is sick of his hair. how should he get it cut?

on a more personal note... i'm sick of my hair. i'm thinking about...  which is basically what i have, just styled differently. all i need is for someone to show me how to fix it and i'm good.

<3

I give up:

- No more letting my wall down

- No more letting people in

- Maybe no more hurt

doesn't it suck that you can not always save your friends? I hate to see my friends go through tough times, and it breaks my heart that all i can do is sit here and just watch them get hurt. i wish that there was something more i could do for them. For now prayer is all i have to offer.

so life has been quite busy lately...definitely fun and exciting, but very busy.

and i got hit on the head this morning by the falling shower curtain rod-OUCH :(

So Halloween was awesome!

I was a coloring book and Jessi was a postcard!!

Jessi won most creative costume and we are splitting the prize since we worked on our costumes together!

And we each got $3 Sonic Cards b/c of my mad pumpkin carving skills!!!

Yeah I know pretty flipping awesome!!

Well we had an awesome time last night.  Hope everyone else's Halloween was great too!

eliz

I've been doing a lot of thinking and some crying. I can't believe that it has all come own to this. I had a lot of hope and faith that it would be o.k. That you would come back, but now I'm having trouble believing.

These are two pictures I keep loking at when I think about it all. Pictures of you and me. I want to be happy but everything is getting all out of hand and screwed up.

I'm starting to think that I can't win this fight. That I lost when he left. I want so bad to believe that you arecoming back, but I'm starting to worry that I've been stupid believing at all. I guess I really messed up when I let you go without finding out how you felt about me and what was going on between us the whole time. I stayed confused and didn't really outright ask. I was afraid of all of it. I was afraid of what could be going on, of what could happen. I let my fear stop me, and it still holds me back. I don't call and talk about it because I'm so nervous and unsure. The last thing I want is to cause that wierd tension between us, that would make it uncomfortable to be around each other, and I don't want to ruin a great friendship. I haven't talk to you in a month and I miss you. I want to know, but I'm afraid to know. I'm scared and hurt.

But I also feel like I let you down and myself. Because you believed in me and stood there beside me. I gave up on you I guess and I keep quitting and chickening out. But I don't what to do. I tried to fight I tried to believe and call and everything, but I'm just not strong enough, or brave enough. I'm sorry; I'm sorry.

I'm gonna go now before I drive everyone nuts.

Forever yours, Lucky

So yeah last night was Halloween. Here are some pictures of my dad's pumpkins. I don't have any pictures of me as Bad Sandy to put up right now.

They are always really good.

I gave out candy at my house as usual. I aw some really cute costumes on the little kinds. There were several kids dressed up as Spiderman, a few Batman costumes, and several princesses and witches. I also saw a couple of vampires and on kid dressed as Flash and one as the Thing. There was a little kid in a Wolverine costume who when I said "Oh look it's Wolverine." corrected me and informed me that he was a vampire. All in all it was interesting.

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Okay, so last night sucked.
I had to goto work, and then I had to take my little cousin's to Kittrell Festivle thing. It sucked so hardcore. Gah. I wish I could have went to Main Street, World Outreach, oorrrr...just somewhere else.

Dude.
My internet doesn't work. at all.
So the only way i'll be able to do this, is by getting on here ...at school.
And their computers are hella slow. rofl
Whoa! It's Chris Slate on the announcments.

shyeah. that kid. he's cool.
OPA! (sp?) hahaha.

uhmmm I am so bored.

If anybody wants to do something this weekend. call me.

eight four nine five eight seven two

welll....I guess i'll get on here tomorrow. o_O

Leave some comments, and i'll love you forver.

Ashlee

"If through a broken heart God can bring his purpose to pass in this world, then thank Him for breaking your heart." - Oswald Chambers

Also, check this out: Words...

OMG, GREEN TEA IS AMAZING!

"The moment I say something
Everything may slip down through my fingers like sands
And I only wait the time passing by so calmly"

-Ayu

Wow....I can't believe my birthday is here! Well God thank you for giving me everything you have in my life! This past year was absolutely amazing, and I will never forget it! You have changed my life! Bring on a new chapter in my life!

How was everyone's halloween??
Mine was good, went trick or treating, so that was cool.
I got a cell phone!!
[615]513-5685
yep yep.
I"m not doing too well in Geometry.
I need two100's to keep me from failing.
ahhh..But yeah, so that's all I really have to say<3
Close my eyes, let the whole thing pass me by,
There is no time to waste asking why
I'll run away with you by my side

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through.
May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

What will He do? He will sanctify us wholly. He will carry on the work of purification till we are
perfect in every part. He will preserve our "whole spirit, and soul,
and body, blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." He will
not allow us to fall from grace, nor come under the dominion of sin.
What great favors are these! Well may we adore the giver of such
unspeakable gifts.

Who will do this? The Lord who has called us out of
darkness into His marvelous light, out of death in sin into eternal
life in Christ Jesus. Only He can do this: such perfection and
preservation can only come from the God of all grace.

Why will He do it? Because He is "faithful"—faithful to
His own promise which is pledged to save the believer; faithful to His
Son, whose reward it is that His people shall he presented to Him
faultless, faithful to the work which He has commenced in us by our
effectual calling. It is not their own faithfulness but the Lord's own
faithfulness on which the saints rely.

Come, my soul, here is a grand feast to begin a dull month with. There may be fogs without, but there should be sunshine within.

Shelby

finally got one of the pics loaded. in the end it wasn't worth the trouble. 
we must be close to getting out of here cuz everybody's taking pics like crazy.  action photography at it's finest.  this is my platoon on the D9.
i'm second from the left inside the blade. 

this dozer was fun for all of 10 min.  after that you're sweating profusely due to the enclosed cab.  the sweat and the sand in the air mix and make a kind of muddy paste.  might be fun in a cooler climate.

So House of Heroes is gonna be here in the good ole orlando on
Wednesday. . .and I was quite excited. . .and was not looking forward
to forking out $18 to see just them and stryper. . .

well then they did the myspace deal where the first 5 people from each
city to e-mail the tour manager i guess would get in free.


I was taking a little trip with my neighbor when that was posted. . .so
i didn't think I could've won. . .but i e-mailed them anyway


and now i'm awake @ 4:17am because i can't sleep and pretty sure i'll
be seeing HoH on wednesday. . . and I can feel free to go backstage and
hang out with the band. . .


CRAZY!

My heart hurts. I'm emotionally drained. I'm angry. I'm confused. I'm scared. I'm frustrated. I'm sick. I can list the symptoms. I can list the things heavy on my heart.
The one thing I can't do is name the root of it all.

I don't like this. This is not me. Instability has rarely been in the list of my characteristics. I don't like people like this. Yet, I sit here choking, on the verge of tears, sleepless, and I can't say why.

I went to intercession tonight after the J-Group stuff. 1,000,001 things occupied my thoughts. I fought to find peace in it all and left it no better. What kind of "leader" has problems like these? People ask me what's wrong. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know! Is there something wrong in my heart? I search, but don't find answers.

Now, I'm sleepy. Mercy in the moring, Father... please.

 Well, The Judgement is over...I'm glad!! It was awesome to be doing ministry, but it was exausting and then add work and school in there too...ahhhhhhhhhhhhh it was crazy!!! I feel so bad because I got so impatient and snapped at several people...I didn't mean to!!! Well, that is about all I have to say...ttyl later!!! I love you Guys!!!

SAW 2 is soo freaking GROSS. . .and kinda scary. . .but I watched it all. . .gah. . .I have never seen so much blood in my whole life. . .I think now Im gonna try and sleep and will probably have a trashcan by my bed. . .just in case! well Im out to do HW haha yeah its midnight Im a procrastinator . . .have a great week-

-whitney-

so i didnt do too awfully much today/tonight. but it was cool.  it's the fact that it's just fun to get to together and watch scary movies and what not and hang out with friends.

i'm loving this weather. it's awesome.

i have a paper due tommorow, and a big time chem test. oh well.

piece

http://www.slack-time.com/music-videos/Rock-Music/Bowling-For-Soup/1985.shtml

So this Phusebox has been a little neglected lately.... Mea culpa, mea culpa.  Or as the French would say (I think -- they never taught us manners in that language class.  Hmmmmmmmm.  Maybe that's why American's are despised overseas.  The news at 9:00!) -- Ma faute, ma faute.

I'd write about my dazzling life, only.... My life isn't very dazzling.
-- School.
-- School.  (Exams tomorrow and Wednesday!  Fun!  Not.)
-- Work.
-- Unwritten college applications
-- Confusion
-- A costume that needs to be made by January.  A costume that involves an outer layer of 6 yards of fabric.  *Slam*  For an event that I don't even technically have permission to go on yet.

That "burgeoning social life" as Mother once referred to it, has suddenly vaporised.  I think a certain workforce is largely to blame.

OH!!  Guess who is a legal, voting, lottery-ticket-buying member of 'adult society' in all of SEVEN days??!  (According to our ever-enlightened government, one is suddenly granted Advanced Reasoning Capacity and Intelligence upon reaching this age.  I'm still waiting for some people to get their share.)  Yes, that's right.  Me.  Moi.  Yours truly.  The object of your idolatry -- errrrrrrr, amiability..... Anywho.  I'm just a little excited.  Just a little.  *Grins*  And I turn eighteen ON election day, no less.  Naturally, there are no elections.  *Sniffle*

"Git 'er done!" -- Mother.
"I'm revoking your country license for life." -- Me.

*Later*  "Git 'er done!" -- Mother.  *Weeps*
"GAHH!  YOUR COUNTRY LICENSE HAS BEEN REVOKED!!"  -- One guess....

For the record, I think every one of you is an amazing human being who deserve to know a person much better than myself.  *Hugs!*

so pretty sure fall retreat this weekend rocked. the speaker was totally awesome, he could completely capture my attention and then hold me breathless until he was done. which is hard to do with someone as inattentive as myself. but it was awesome and i really learned alot about myself, and more about the wonderfulness that is my Heavenly Father. i also learned more about a few close friends, and formed a new bond with one of them, which is totally awesome. so in all, it was an amazing weekend.

so on to some more awesome news, my new job rocks. for those of you who don't know, i now work for gaylord entertainment at the opryland hotel. the perks rule, and the money is great. but Lord, please don't let money take over my life.

something small but awesome is that my dad is thinking about actually letting me come home for Christmas break. i think i would like that. it might be nice. please pray that he says yes.

and the most awesomest of everything...my friends rock. my God rocks. 'nuff said.

-Joy in abundance

erg. yeah.

Does anyone give a fuck about how i feel?
about my feelings?

I'm effing human.

And damn... I just cannot get over something thats been bothering me for a few months now... and i'm still extremely sad about it all...

Here's the thing...

Me and Morgan used to be bestbestfriends, well, all the sudden we meet Brianne, and it was on the CatholicHeartWorkCamp that they got to know each other better...
as time went on.. I became replaced by her.

It fucking sucks to be replaced,
and the feeling hurts a lot.

Sure... everyone tells me to move on, because i have more friends... but Morgan was just the only true bestfriend that i hadn't had in a while.

but now, i'm hoping that our friendship isn't completely diminished..

but i think it is...
and it sucks.

i hope its not true.

And so... i've practically cried every night because i lost the best friendship, and i wish i knew what the hell i did wrong.

will i ever know?

but seriously, i'm so effing emo... i never was, but i guess i've changed, and sometimes,
just sometimes,
i feel like giving up on life.

    Happy Halloween to every one. Hope everything is cool and the holiday is full of fun things. I wanted to go trick-or-treating, but I decided that I wasto old for that. J/K! For once I just didn't feel like getting dressed up and running around beging for candy.
    The Bravery concert kicked ass. I loved it! I had so much fun it was crazy. The band was amazing, the croud wild and the cigarette smoke like a great cloud over the stage. Now I'm not a smoker but if you were you could just breath and get your nicotine. Danni I have to say I love you so much for going there with me. Sorry it wasn't the best night of your life but I promise I will make up for it one of these days.

My house got rolled, I, alone, with a hoe, went out there and cleaned it up with the hoe from the tree tops that the toilet paper was in. I am 99% sure who did it, and believe me there will be hell to pay.

AO fall retreat=AMAZING!! God is soo good!! Got to know some new ppl and had a blast with that!! I had an interesting conversation with Wes and Christian, learned a lot...lol!! I learned so much from the speaker this weekend. He did an amazing job!! The bus ride home was fun. I chilled, talked to someone who I needed to straighten some things out with, danced to Ben Harper with Daniel B., and watched family guy with Adam, which was hilarious!!! LOL!! Well yea, I'm out cause I'm tired and it's cold!! TTEL!!! ByE!!!

Ok well this week was quite bland. I would have to say nothing real big has occurred this week. School is going swell I suppose. It's actually going by pretty fast if ya ask me. I mean it's already the freaking last week of the second six weeks. It seems like last week I was scared of going into High School. Now it's just starting to seem quite normal. We had a Pep Rally this week and of course the freshman didn't win the spirit stick. The seniors did as usual. And speaking of "winning". Our football team did not win one single game. We are lost all ten of our games. Yeh we are not good this year. And of course Riverdale won like every game. So Jon, Will, Josh, Joe, and I are starting an Ultimate Frisbee league. It is going to be amazing. You might think Frisbee is stupid but its actually quite fun. I guess that's all I did that was fun this week was practice Frisbee with Jon. We are getting better by the day. So today I and some neighbor friends went into this field. We traveled at least three miles. We went through woods, field's, hills, rock cave things and everything. Fun stuff it was. So this weekend went by fast. And I don't feel like going to school tomorrow. But I know no one does. So I guess that's about it. My fingers are tired so I'm gunna leave. Peace

-Tanner

   Today was kind of rough, I've been worrying so much about my girlfriend and mine's relationship lately its really an emotional hazard. I'm been pretty pissed off all day because of some little things she's done over the last week or so. And then on the way back to Kroger, The Kid took over again...

  For all of you out there, the Kid is my alter ego. Really, a super ego. He's my version of Superman and Jimmy Buffett mixed into one meaning that he is unstoppable by normal measures yet longs to be chilled and relaxing in the Carribean.  He is The Kid. Now the name was given to me by my fellow coworkers back home in Atlanta since I was the youngest employee by about a decade. Anyways the name is not important.  He is everything I want to be, and when I get caught up in the nonsense of this little world he is my relief. The Kid has no cares except where's the closest Margarita and hammock.

  So, as I was coming home from a little grocery shopping some Buffett came on and I begin giving myself one of those peptalks from The Kid. "What are you getting upset about? Is your life really that bad? No girl can control you like that...you run the show...." Now whether I actually run the "show" or not is debatable but the talk worked. Whatever she wants to do back home in Athens is her deal. I can't change what she thinks is right or wrong to do in a relationship so why waste my breath? The Kid doesn't put up with it, he states his mind and then moves on. Now, believe it or not this little "talk" helped me out immensely. I need to quit letting everything little thing get to me. I'm here for one reason, to get an education and get where I want in life that's what I'm going to do. If she says she loves me as much as she does, then she'll come around. There's nothing I can do to make the process go faster or force it, so why get bent out of shape over something dumb.

  To be honest, I thought The Kid died when I got back into dating and got into this relationship. I always thought of him as more of my "single-ego" that keeps me moving when things are rough. He's more than that, he's what's inside of me when I'm brave enough to be myself and don't care what people think. And believe it or not....I think The Kid is coming back....

7 things I plan to do before I die:

1) Get married
2) Have kids
3) Travel Europe
4) Write and publish a book
5) Make a full-length movie (even if it's never released to the public)
6) See Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
7) Obtain a backstage pass to a concert

7 things I can do:

1) Take pictures
2) Act
3) Swing dance
4) Bake
5) Scrapbook
6) Study (apparently some find this to be amazing)
7) Touch my elbows behind my back                                                   

7 things I cannot do:

1) Deny God
2) Hurt someone I love on purpose
3) Buy an article of clothing without at least some sort of asthetic value to me (even if it is entirely practical)
4) Become a Democrat
5) Inhale smoke without gagging or coughing
6) Be interested in geology :-P
7) Turn down yummy-looking chocolate (or at least it's pretty rare)

7 things that attract me to another person:

1) Sense of humor
2) Love for God
3) Upbeat personality
4) Smile
5) Listens
6) Talent
7) Intellect

I'm happy to say that I've had my first lesson with Radu where I've walked out of the room smiling.

For those of you who preach that it is wrong to work on the sabbath, may I remind you that preacing is your job, and you are doing it on the sabbath.

Thank you Trevor Atwood.

Happy All Hallows Eve.

That's right, we shot a horror film for Halloween. Well, sort of. Definitely check it out. Be sure to turn down the lights, crank up the volume, and light some candles. Well, you can skip the candles if you want. Just watch the film!

HOLLA wath is up peoples been like a month or so since i updated on this thingy lol well yea thinsg r goin good i reckon lol i can complain but i wont to much lol leave me a thingy aight i am aight holla at yall later LOVE AND PEACE

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Oh, the wonderful cross
Oh, the wonderful cross
Bids me come and die
And find that I may truly live
Oh, the wonderful cross
Oh, the wonderful cross
All who gather here
By grace draw near and bless Your name

soooo its offical......im gonna be staying single for a while!!! God has really put me at peace with it! i feel like i need to grow more and learn more about Him! God will let me know when im ready! im tired of just jumping into a relationship and then just getting hurt in the end! soo its all on him!!! today was a tuff day in that area...the devil really tempted me but i came through!

well im off to write a paper!!!

Love Through Christ!
~Rachel~

I'm not doing anything for Halloween for the fifth straight year... maybe next year I guess...

 Gloria Patri

    Nathan

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November 4th, 2005 // FRIDAY

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So HAPPY HALOWEEN everyone! I am about to leave to go over Garrett's house to watch a scary movie with my friends so that should be fun... I hope everyone had a great day and all that good stuff.. also if you guys could pray for my youth groups fall retreat coming up this weekend its gonna be awesome so please pray for it and that would be great. Welp I hope everyone has a great night and don't do anything retarded I will talk to you guys later

                                         IN CHRIST john

happy halloween!

^_^

mmmm candy.

yeah, ive been marching 3  years and never in my life have i heard judges tapes so good. holy crap it was amazing. i mean, in every tape we heard "low reeds look awesome" or "the woodwinds sound amazing" or "those mellophones were smokin". and at the end they were like "im so glad i got to hear a band like that. absolutely amazing, best band we've seen all day. great everything. the marching, the music, im really really impressed. sign me up for lessons right now!!!"

makes me smile.

bleh
no more phusebox for me
i barely even go to it so yea
xanga>>>stupidityexplainsme

VMI was great, we won and our run was so freaking clean!!!!!

Happy Halloween, go get fat on candy!

well, turns out that my little sister has lice...yes, i said lice...i
made it a point to make sure my mom checked my head...she didn't see
anything, but i'm washing my hair with some kind of stuff that kills
them just in case...it really freaked me out because my mom said that
hannah used my brush yesterday...so i was like flipping out...well, at
least it didn't happen after christmas when my sister and i are sharing
a room...man..i would have been cleaning every single thing in our
room...

for the past three years, i've been sick on halloween...the one year that i'm not, my sister gets lice and freaks me out...grr...i hate halloween...but on the other hand, it's matt's birthday...hard to believe he's 14 now...still acts like he's 8...


anyways...going to the appointed halloween party tonight...well, i
guess that's what they're calling it...didn't have a costume, then
remembered that i had to be a nun for the variety show, so...you can
probably guess what i'll be wearing tonight...haha...might even freak
some people out...


but yeah...i hope that everyone's doing alright tonight...be safe while
out in the dangerous neighborhoods, and don't get caught rolling
someone's house...


mucho love!

[speck]

i remember one afternoon at school, i was in kindergarten.  i went so fast down a slide that i couldn't stop and i tripped over a log.  i sprained my arm.

i remember Christmas eve one year.  my brother got a timex watch and i thought it was so cool.  that night we made pallets in the floor in the den upstairs and went to sleep anticipating santa claus coming.

i remember one year for my birthday a bunch of my girl friends came over to spend the night, and we watched 101 dalmations.

i remember at the skating rink once, a boy came up behind me and tried to hold my hand.  the song that was playing was "i saw the light in your window tonight" by wynona judd.

i remember the first time i rode a roller coaster.  it was the rockin' rollercoaster at opryland.  i was scared out of my mind!  i didn't ride another roller coaster until my senior year of high school.

i remember one time when we visited my great grandmama in the nursing home.  there was a mentally retarded man there.  his name was ray, and i always played with him.  i would hide behind his wheelchair and jump up and scare him.  we had fun together.  i loved him.  i wonder if he is still there.

i remember when my brother was in boy scouts.  one night his troop came over and camped in our woods.  i remember walking in the woods and my dad showing me the place where they slept.

i remember this big yellow van my dad used to drive.  it had a bed in it, and it was huge!  he always used it when he went hunting.

i remember one thanksgiving night sitting in my bedroom watching home alone 1 on an little black and white television.

i remember the night i plotted to run away.  i wrote a note for my parents and everything.  it was before my brother and i switched rooms.  i never ran away.

i remember when my brother and i would play american gladiator with a blanket and a 3-liter mountain dew bottle.

i remember a time in kindergarten when i went up to my teacher and said, "you can call me hairy since my arms are so hairy."

i remember when mrs. meador the librarian read the book "junie b jones and the big smelly school bus."  she was so good with the voices that i immediately checked the book out and read it myself.

i remember the first night i had stuffed crust pizza from pizza hut.  i  still remember who was there.

i remember one afternoon i went to the place where my mom got her hair cut.  the girls gave me a makeover.  they curled my hair and put make-up on me.  then that afternoon, my dad and i watched the indian in the cupboard.

i remember the first time i said a cuss word.  my dad was lighting a big fire in the wood stove, and i was watching.  i was so amazed that i said, "oh s**t!"  my dad sat me in the corner.

i remember when i had ear surgery.  i looked at my brother after i came out and said, "who are you?"

isn't it neat how God gave us the capacity to remember so many things?

I think being a Christian is a brave committment.  Think about it.  We go from trusting ourselves, our parents, or the people around us (tangible trust) to trusting something that can't be seen or even audibly heard (intangible trust).  I still struggle with completely putting my trust in Him, but I'm slowly learning what that means.  But in return for this commitment, you receive a kind of life and depth that gives you purpose in place of potluck, passion instead of party games, and more opportunities to dish our Christian service than the lady who pours the punch.   

Just a thought...

I think that I am learning a lot right now and I think that the thing that I am learning the most is that it's not as hard as I think it is at times. Also I am learning that it is ok to say that you messed up and you have to start over again! 

we listened to the judges tapes today. and apperantly the mellophones were SMOKIN'!!!

and flat. sad.

but then we watched the video. wow. it was amAzing!!! just... wow!

heh.

so... yeah. i guess that's about it.

i love you a whole bunch!!!!

Sorry guys! PhuseBox has been running extrememly slow lately due to the increase in traffic (which is a good problem to have)...

We are going to be moving over to new servers very soon. After that, the site should run pretty quickly. Sorry again!

Keep spreading the site!

[nt]

I hope everyone has a safe and happy HALLOWEEN!

Take Care and Keep Scaring!

Danny

Ok, I'm going to remember to bring a movie for 5th period tomorrow because we've been planning a movie day for like two weeks.

I have a lesson at 4:30. I got lectured on scales last week and how I should play them more than I do, and how I need to do the etudes he gives me and not be like his college students who "forget." I don't forget...they just slip my mind.

Halloween is tonight. I was watching something on how it is really a pagan holiday that the church wanted to use as an excuse to get all the non-Christians in Ireland to convert. The same with Chirstmas, but we'll wait till December for that.

"So how about them smoke'n mellos?"

wow. this site is confuzzling. lol. im just now figuring out how to work it. meh..well, Happy Halloween, guys! ^^ <3

"...and I was in love.  She was from the America beyond the oceanic Hudson.  She had apple cheeks and spoke with a twang....she would laugh at my jokes, or smile when she caught me staring at her.  She was a Red Delicious transformed into an Ivory Snowgirl.  She had a natural innocence, a perpetual virgin quality..."

in your love, my salvation lies...

i QUIT phusebox sorry guys!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

well  i am happy yeah!!!!!

           meg

I realized today that sometimes I'm scared to talk to God ...and many times, it's not because He'll say no, but because He might say yes.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

Happy Halloween everybody.I hope everyone has a great halloween and a safe one.

very, very good

[i wonder how long it will take for word to get around?]

*EDIT*
Oh, and happy halloween everybody!

So, one of my guy friends brought one of his guy friends to church yesterday. This guy thinks i'm "cool" (lets just put it that way) So now he's gonna start coming to church every Sunday. I don't quite understand his feelings for me, seeing as how i wear baggy pants mostly and just plain t-shirts but hey.. whatever. All of this I find out yesterday by my friend at a church meeting. I "made an impression" So now i just figure that he can be ministered to more often if he keeps on coming. He's a pretty cool guy, I don't mind getting to know him.

what a wonderful day. i have hours upon hours of free time (i awoke at 8am, and my lab isn't until 1), with 5 unfinished songs in my back-pocket notebook, and i can't write anything else for any of them. i'm drawing a complete blank. it's really irritating.

anyway, everone who reads this should go to www.purevolume.com/michaelburton and listen to my music. nobody has lately, and i need some musical popularity. thanks.

and happy halloween.

love, mike

one of my favorite photos of my love.



eating pizza.



with a cowboy-ish type hat.

Yesterday morning, the pastor of David Crowder's church in Waco was electricuted during a baptism. He was reaching out to adjust a mic while standing in the baptismal and got shocked. He passed away shortly thereafter. Wow, how crazy. You can visit ajc.com, ubcwaco.com, or cnn.com for more info.

I think I cut the bottom of my tongue on my teeth...it hurts!

marching season is finally over *sigh* i'm happy, but sad at the same time. i'm glad we went out with a bang :)

so it's monday morning, and my homework for 2nd and 3rd period isn't finished. well that's what the teacher's are gonna get when they pile it on on my busiest weekend anyway.

mmmmmm gotta love warm guys on cold nights....

Hey look its a picture of my ear.

So this is a really random picture of me that I thought would be cool. I like it and decided to use it as my profile picture.

So yeah I'm gonna go to class. I'll probably have some pictures from tonight of me in my Halloween costume and getting ready soon.

way to go matt for your logo!! it's very crafty :)

yeah, i went to Belmont Saturday morning for a "preview day" to learn about the school and check out the campus and stuff... i kinda really wanna go there but i don't kno if i can afford it, let alone get in!>.< i'm gonna check out MTSU too but bleah.... -_- i'd rather go to Belmont at the moment.... i even got a Belmont School of Music shirt while i was there and i carry my lil Belmont packet w/ me everywhere lol i'm such an over obsessed nerd ^^ well, leave remarks! ciao!

I'm sitting here helping Jazz do her memory passage for this six weeks. She's really good at this stuff, has puases and artistic stuff. Really good stuff.

why on earth must boys be so friggin confusing! =(

edit--

k apparently you can't see pics unless you use phusebox and i dunno how to do that.

Go to xanga.com/barefeet27

Amusing pictures.

Really.

Go now.

______________

KurtSimmons

IsMyHero.

alright guys whats going on
it seems as though i havent posted in a while, and that sole reason for that is no one reads anymore lol. i felt cool on the first entry with 14 remarks, but thats life. predators....havent been winning lately. so thats always a let down, mom bought me a shirt though which its pretty cool. things of other nature, have been as up and down as a roller coaster, but ive come to except this fact. and i think that whats about to happen here in a little bit, is going to work out. lol. could i be anymore vague. i had to do this project today at this girls house that i dont know at all. you know the usual. it was alright though. lol well i would tell you my real feelings about the matter but i dont know who reads this. but i guess all i got going on now, is playing a game this afternoon at four thirty. going to be pretty sweet, jordan and i worked on the pump up cd last night. and other than that and doing incredibly horrible in all my classes except second period, i got nothing. lol pretty boring lately. but things can go either way now. down or up i mean, because im stuck in the midddle. and of course im hoping for the latter.
keep it real.

Isn't she beautiful.  I finaly got one. Meredith and Carmen... now i can leave you two alone.  I love this beautiful toy about like some of my friends like Macs.  

photo from kimkmcil

 This week has been soooooooooooooooooooo hard!!! The word hard doesn't even begin to cover it!!! Everyone has been attacked so much this week, i just can't take it anymore...i was fine the first night or so and then, it got worse! I didn't let anyone no that I was having problems though...i wanted to be strong for everyone else. I mean even my closet friends couldn't tell there was something wrong, then finally I decided to talk to Brady and Meagan and that helped!! I know everything will be better after tommmorrow night...but it is really hard!! I don't want to even go do it again tommorrow!!Please just be praying for everyone on the cast!!!

A kid passed out at "The Judgement" tonight...
it was kinda funny, kinda not...
I look over and see this kid react really strangely as Rebecca cut herself. I thought the seen just really affected him. Then he stumbled a little and caught himself. I realized what was going on, stepped over and grabbed his elbow and held him up just as he just about bashed his head into the corner of the file cabnet behind him. I could barely hold him up cuz the angle I was at and my arms were extended....

No New York City for me for New Years. Probably no NYC for me anytime soon. We just decided against the long drive and having to rush through driving and then turning around and driving back....

But we're still heading to Nashville to the Passion 06' Conference. Im excited!

One of my roomies brought home his guitar and I spent this evening fooling around on it and now my fingers are all sore and crap.

I dressed up for Halloween last night! Fun times. Pictures are in the gallery thingy.

I'm finding myself in a predicament that I do not enjoy. As I am no longer a member of the ITA, I can not compete in their tournaments any more. I competed for well over 10 years in traditional Taekwondo, so this is not something that is very easy for me to give up.... especially as my body is in the stage that is usually considered as prime. So what is left to me? Sport Martial Arts.... Here is the delima. I HATE SPORT MARTIAL ARTS!!!! I hate it with a passion. (I wish I could justly express in words my utter distaste for SMA, but you have better things to do than read a small novella about the deficiency of SMA) I find about as much honor in SMA as I do in professional wrestling. I feel as though the SMA world has lost focus of the art form in which the martial arts where created. There is no consideration for technique in sparring, nor is there any cosideration for what is practical in katas/forms. But I find that if I want to compete, I must do so in such an enviornment. I am going to call a guy about a tournament next weekend in Dalton, GA. I am in no shape to fight at any true competitive level right now, but I think that I may go ahead and do it this time. I guess we'll see how it works out.

-Jeff

What do you say at the end of the weekend?

"Thank goodness it's the weekend-end, I need some pointless work!"

Hahah... yeah right.  I'm trying really hard not to let myself stress out as Monday rears it's fugly head, but it's hard.

It doesn't help that Halloween is tomorrow, and I don't have anything fun to do.  Hopefully, I will find friends who have plans and are willing to let me butt in on them.

Gah.  I need to get white tights or stockings or something for my costume tomorrow... well, if any of my friends have plans, that is.  If they don't, then I'm pretty sure I'll be in not-dressing-up land.

Which is kind of lame.

I'll have to invent some grand tale about how amazing my Halloween was so my mom won't feel like she's wasted her time or money.

Even if she doesn't know, I'll still know.  It's the money I'm mostly wigged about.  She spent somewhere around $50 on the materials for my costume, and she doesn't come by $50 easily.

*sigh*

Not stressing.  Not stressing.  Not stressing.  Not stressing.

I can make it through this week alive, right?

Tonight I went to the Judgment  House at the family worship center and it was me, ben, shelby, meredith, olivia, cole, michelle, and rachel randolf. It was WOW lol it was amazingly fun, yet amazingly scary. Thanks to my excessive weakness to blood and people slitting their wrists, I passed out on about the 5th scene. It was so crazy I was only out for a few seconds but I woke up on the floor with people all around me and it was just...crazy. But anyway I felt better almost immediately and so I was able to finish the tour. It was really good. I would recommend it unless you're really sensitive to blood like me. It was fake, but they did a pretty darn good job of making it look real. Well that's my story for the day....unfortuneately this hasn't been the first time that this has happened...I really HATE it when it happens. Out of all the things, God had to give me a certain sensitiveness towards blood and slitting wrists. But I guess I shouldn't complain because I have so much to be thankful for. When things like that happen it makes me turn my eyes toward heaven and get a reality check of how blessed I truly am. It reminds me that our time on this earth is short, and we have so much to live for. I hope that is an encouragement to yall.  I hope yall have a great week. God bless.

~Garrett

i was all upset that no one was calling me to hang out, so i went to the HoeDown at World Outreach. and it was fun. Kasey couldn't hang out cause, coincidently, she felt sick. and Anne had an essay to write. so i hung out with a bunch of 13- and 14-year-olds. it was fun

but how weird is this...

i have a crush on a freaking 13-year-old boy! he's not even in high school! i thought i was over that!

... i guess you can't control who you like. (?)

aaanndd, Germani and Asia invited me to go trick-or-treating tomorrow night! ^_^ that makes me happy. but Kasey prolly can't go. i really feel like the two of us are drifting. and i hate it. i cried about it last night.

::sideways-mouth face:: love to my homies...

7 things I plan to do before I die:

1) marry a hott musician
2) move FAR FAR away from Tennessee
3) have three kids
4) lose 50 pounds
5) grow hair long enough to cover my boobs :giggle:
6) go to France
7) eventually; get over my fear of driving.

7 things I can do:

1) make purses
2) i've been told i give some pretty killer hugs
3) touch my toes
4) draw stuff <3
5) kiss you on the cheek
6) miss bruce
7) read

7 things I cannot do:

1) lie
2) understand football
3) dance
4) ask guys out because i'm a wimp
5) drive
6) live without music
7) tell time

7 things that attract me to another person:

1) adam's apples :purr:
2) he has to love music as much if not more than i. (good music)
3) bilengual (not required but still very hott)
4) taller than i am
5) Christian
6) humerous
7) pretty hair

7 things I say most often:

1) jola
2) diz-ang
3) i'm poor
4) totally
5) eh??
6) he's really hott
7) oops

7 people I want to do this:

1) you
2) you
3) you
4) you
5) you
6) maybe him
7) you

So...

Last night was the Pike Halloween Party. Good Times. It was EXTRA cold outside. I was a fairy/ butterfly. It was pretty cool, I had the BEST looking wings like EVER! All I did was dance dance dance! I saw a lot of people from high school that I usually don't get a chance to see around campus lately. Before we went to the party...we went to a "pre-pary" at one of Schuylar's sisters house. Then after the party we went to the Beta house...I love Beta's...they're SO cool! Then we got back to Sky's apartment around 3:30....I was HELLA tired after that!!!

Uhhhh...yea

pretty sure someone rolled our house and smashed a pumpkin on our porch...stupid teenagers. Pretty stupid stuff... you're suppose to do it on Halloween Day!!! Not the Saturday night before it!!! C'mon...everyone knows that!!!

For the most part

all of the boy drama that surrounded me in my last post has pretty much gone away....Why does it have to be so difficult?

I heart you

-Britt

   I was sitting here today, the longest Sunday of the year it always seems; just looking through my travel books and magazines.  The places around the world never cease to amaze me, and the travel bug once again takes control of my life. Then I walked out into my living room and The Wall caught my eye again...

  For those who haven't ventured into my apartment here in Oxford, MS there is a wall. A wall that is 10 feet tall and about 20 foot wide, that is completely covered from top to bottom with pictures, park maps, post cards, parking decals, etc. Everything we gathered over the last two years is pretty much up on our wall, and I love it. My life never ceases to amaze me, the things I've done and the oppurtunities that I have been given to see this country. The world is filled with many things that are proof of our Lord's power and beauty, but I for one think that America holds the most of these...

   See my America isn't split between Democrat and Republic, between Blacks and Whites, or North and South. It's split between mountains and oceans, beaches and deserts. My America is the most beautiful and magical place on our Earth. In these mere 50 states we have so many amazing things, and for a country that is only a couple hundred years old the culture and history is amazing. I've seen the whitest deserts and the tallest mountains, from the hills of the rockies I've eaten a hot dog, and from the coast of the Pacific, I've been sun burned.

  As much as I have the urge to travel the world round, I must never forget the things I have right around me. Even in the remoteness of Mississippi, there are things that can astonish even the most traveled person. For instance, less than an hour from here you can see where the God Father of Blues sold his soul to Devil at the crossroads. Or maybe you want to see the home where the Muppets were created at by Jim Henson? They are things....

  There wasn't really a purpose to this post except to remind of all those out there that are longing to cross the Atlantic or maybe even the Pacific that don't forget what's around you. The things that I cherish most in my travels are things that no one else knows about like the man walking a dinosaur in South Dakota, or the 7-story tall Jesus statue in Arkansas. Get out there and find something that is yours. Something that when you see a photo of it brings you back to the person you were when you were there, back to innocence of the unknowing. Make this your America as much as I've tried to make it My America...