so, i haven't been on here lately. things have been weird. not really bad, just different. i do miss old times though. things seem really tense between a lot of my friendships and the friendships of my other friends. i miss coming home and having so much to write on here even though i knew a max of probably only like 3 people would read it. i was really happy then, and i am now. it's just a different  happy if that makes sense. i've realized that no matter what you do, you can't make everyone like you. changing yourself to get what you want probably isn't always the best thing - for me anyway. i seem to be spending more time alone lately. at first it bothered me, but i've gotten used to it. it still makes me sad sometimes, but i've learned that i can't count on people to make me happy. i'm almost half way through high school, and i haven't done half the things i wanted to. but that's ok, cause i've realized that some of those things probably aren't so great things. i'm still trying to figure things out. life's changing so much way too fast sometimes and not fast enough at other times. i just don't know when to make the most of my time. so i'm mostly just blabbering right now, so i'll leave with i mostly just want to be me - i just haven't quite figured out who that is.

So Sub Deb initiation last night wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm just happy that I got through it with out getting sick. The smell was one of the worst parts - and seeing myself afterwords. First we had to sit in a kiddie pool and our partners poured gross stuff on us. Then we had to sack race and go through tires with some pretty nasty stuff in it. We had to crawl down the slip-and-slide. I don't even won't to know what was all on there because it got on my face. So gross. Then we had to climb over a hay bail and then jump into another kiddie pool and find a penny in a bunch of gross stuff. The first one to find it was the winner which was me - pretty much the only good thing about last night. After everyone had gone through, we all got in a line and sang the Little Teapot song and then we got stuff poured on our heads and had to rub it in. It wasn't reall that bad though compared to what other girls have had to go through over the years. We got it super easy. I'm just glad it's over and done with and now I'm officially in Sub Deb. yay!

Just wanted to say I love my friends so much, and I have no idea what I would do without them. They keep me from going insane, and they always make me laugh till my stomach hurts or food/drink comes out of my mouth/nose.

My uncle had cancer a while back and faught it. The other day he went in for a check up, and the doctors found a spot around his lungs. He has said before that if it came back he wouldn't fight again. I ask that all of you wil just pray for him and our family.

I finally got my permit today. I'm so excited! Now I just have to learn how to drive which is not going to be easy. Hopefully I won't get hurt.

So tonight I had my first technique dance class...and I made it! They already had half a dance so I had to learn that plus tonight's, but it was still really fun. I do have to wear leotards and tights and ballet shoes to every class, but I've always wanted to wear all the cool dance clothes. I just never had a reason for them. Now I do, and I'm so excited. It was a little overwhelming though. I have this folder thing that I have to bring to every class. There's all these rules for the dance team. I also have to remember which class I have that night so I wear the right shoes. 4 dances+1 technique class=a lot of shoes. I never knew there could be so many French words for simple and not-so-simple dance moves. And I also didn't know that technique never changes. You just alter the technique for each dance genre. That's about the only thing I learned tonight that I remember. Oh, I almost forgot! My dance teacher is like the dance teacher I've always wanted-crazy and cool and pyscho all in one. She's super skinny and old. It's great. lol So yeah, that's my first dance class for this year experience.  

So I found out today at church from my dance teacher that one of the girls on the dance team had to quit. I'm the next person in line, and I really want to do it. I get to do four dances, and I have lots more dance time which is totally awesome. Except now I can only help my youth leader with cheerleading one day a week. I was looking forward to that because I miss cheerleading so much. Also, if I'm on dance team then I won't be in a class with my best friend. I talked to her about it, and she said I should do it. And we can always do a duet together. I've wanted to make the dance team for the past three years, and now I can be on it. I just don't know if I should. What do you guys think?

Since the picture thing is being retarded, I would just use my facebook pics.

 

King's Island 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31027&l=7d3f3&id=598313656

 

Europe

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http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=28659&l=d555d&id=598313656

Just for you Carmen lol:

We flew into London. When we first got there, we went to Chislehurst Caves. It was pretty cold, and Keri was really scared. She hung onto to me the whole time. Our tour guide told us all these ghost type stories about the caves. The caves were used in WWII and were built by the Druids. Our first hotel was okay. It was a yachtish thing, but it was kind of small. It was better than some of the hotels (or hostel) we stayed in. Our very first meal in Europe was disgusting. They gave us a meat pile and mushy rice stuff. Literally. Keri didn't even like the rice which is very surprising since rice is like her favorite food. The next day we took a tour of Europe. We got to see where parts of the scenes of Diagon Alley of Harry Potter were filmed. We had to walk a lot. Some guy said we hit his car with our bus, so our bus driver had to get out. They argued for a while. Pretty funny. We saw the changing of the guards and Buckingham Palace. The queen wasn't home though. We went to the Tower of London which was one of my favorite places of the trip. We rode the London Eye, the largest ferris wheel in the world. When we were on it, we saw a naked couple (except for towels) on their balcony. You would think they'd know that lots of people would see them so they must not care. We met with a former member of parliament. It was pretty boring, and Keri fell asleep. While we were shopping, a girl in our group passed out. They brought the ambulance, and people were stopping to take pictures. We saw The Lord of the Rings musical which was definitely my favorite thing. We had to literally run there because dinner was a lot longer than we thought it would be. During an intermission type thing, actors came out into the audience. They were reall scary looking. I didn't want them to touch me so I started climbing over Keri. She told me to sit down so they wouldn't see I was scard and come back there. They were bothering someone in the front row (we were in the 4th row), and they made this really weird sound, so I started to climb back over Keri. They saw me and came back there. I literally jumped into Keri's lap. (As she likes to put it - went monkey on her.) After they left and I was getting back to my seat, I fell in the floor. It was pretty funny afterwords though. We went to this JFK memorial. The Steps of Individuality and the Seat of Contemplation were there. Pretty important. lol We got to go to Oxford. It was so pretty, and there were bicycles everywhere. They have this really big library and reading room that are connected by an underground tunnel. At Oxford, Keri and I got to see where the banquet hall scenes of Harry Potter were filmed. That night we went to Warwick Castle. Our tour guide person was very into character. He yelled at this girl in our group that got stung by a bee (she's allergic) and said he didn't care if she dies. He told her afterwords he was embarressed though because he didn't really realized what was going on. We learned how to stick fight, and Keri and I sword fighted. It was pretty darn cool. We had to stay overnight though, and it was absolutely freezing.  The next morning we got to look around the castle. Keri and I climbed 530 stairs in the tower and ramparts part. We dubbed ourselves stair masters. We went to Stonehenge which was actually pretty cool considering. Keri made friends with a bird and named it Sir Winston. We had to ride a ferry over night to France. There were four people to a tiny room. The room was so small we couldn't even have our luggage with us. Our first day at France was in Normandy. We went to a muesum about WWII. We also went to Normandy beach and the American Cemetary. Being there made me stop and think about how many people lost their lifes. There are exactly 9,387 perfectly alligned white markers at the cemetary. We had a wreath laying ceremony while they played the national anthem and taps. We got to go to the Palace at Versailles which was absolutely beautiful. The gardens were huge. We also went to the Louvre which has the Mona Lisa. We saw Notre-Dame. The next day we went to the top of the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower is pretty ugly. It's this really ugly brown. Not a nice black like a though it would be. We got more shopping time - 4 and a half hours to be exact. Extremely pointless. We did manage to get some amazing ice cream. The girl that was walking around with us got Whiskey ice cream. Keri tried it and said it was nasty. We went to this one food place. The girl that was with us didn't know her pin number for her card. The people at the cafe ran her card twice. They didn't speak English so we couldn't tell if she had paid for the food or not. So we just left. We still don't know if she stole the food or paid for it twice. In Belgium we went to a chocolate factory. We tried some chocolate, and it was delicous. We also saw the Peeing Boy statue. We only got to spend one day in Belgium. Sad. In Holland we went to a cheese and clog farm. They had some really good cheese. Our last two nights of the trip we had to stay in this hostel thing. Pretty scary. Our first room was horrible so we had to get another one. It was half the size as everyone else's in our group. There were also stains on the beds and mold in the shower. Extremely gross. So we had to go wake our delegation manager up at midnight to tell her we couldn't stay there. I think the place had to be an insane asylum previously because it smelled all sterile and there were bars on the windows. Our last day we went to Anne Frank's house. That was another one of my favorites. We couldn't take pictures though which was kind of sad. We walked through Amsterdam which had bicycles everywhere!

 

Overall the trip was pretty great. The people were pretty cool although some of them were pretty iffy characters. Keri had to room with a few of them, but I got lucky and never had to. A lot of the people wanted to sneak out every night. And they did a few times. There were a few girls who even wanted to sneak and with a college guy and get a cab to Amsterdam the last night. One of the girls go drunk while we there. I made a few friends. Our delegation manager, Clair was the best. Without her, we'd probably still be wandering around the London airport. Our leaders were a little less than competent. One of leaders sniffed every five seconds. His wife was one of our leaders too. She treated him like her son. We hardly ever left behind a kid in our group. It was always a leader. They were so slow. Great conversation topics though. lol The guy was such a goof. He never knew what he was talking about. I can't even count how many times someone in our group almost got ran over. They drive so crazy over there. They really only drive on the left side of the rode in England. I thought they drove on the left side everywhere in Europe. Everytime we would cross a street, we'd have to run across especially if we wanted to stay together since there were 40 of us.

 

Sorry this was so long. It was about two weeks though. So if you read all this kudos to you! I'll probably think of some more stuff soon...

Hey carmen!We saw the actual moulin Rouge today. Just thought we;d let you know. FROM MEGAN

 

yo! paris is pretty cool but dirty and smelly. they have the weird lite port a potty thing s on the side of the road. everytime someone goes this thing atomaticly cleans it but it stil smells worse that a regular port a potty. we went to the eiffel tower today. it was this horrible browncolor thatloked like dried crap. Say lay (aka its ugly). i gava a euro to this woman with fake lukemia. lol. sorry bout all the errors in this post. we have free internet in our room, and like all free things, it sucks.  LOVE KERI aka THE MASTER STAIR WIZARD!!!!!

 

 

 

 

Level 1:
[ ]I had an asthma attack
[ ]Smoked A Cigarette
[ ]Smoked A Cigar
[ ]Smoked Weed
[ ] Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex
[ ]Drank Alcohol
[ ]Been In Love
[x]Been Dumped
[ ]Been Fired
[ ]Been In A Fist Fight
[ ]Snuck Out Of A Parent's House
Total: 1

Level 2:
[x]Had Feelings For Someone Who Didn't Have Them Back
[ ]Been Arrested/Seen Someone You Know Get Arrested
[ ]Made Out With A Stranger
[ ]Gone Out On A Blind Date
[x]Had A Crush On An Older Person
[x]Skipped School
[ ]Slept With A Co-worker
[x ]Seen Someone/Something Die
Total: 5

Level 3:
[x] Been On A Plane
[ ] Thrown Up From Drinking
[ ] Eaten Sushi
[ ] Been Snowboarding
[ ] Met Someone BECAUSE Of Myspace
[ ] Been Mosh Pitting
[x] Taken Pain Killers
[x] Love(d) Someone Who You Can't Have
[ ] Been in a BAD relationship
Total: 8

Level 4:
[x]Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By
[x]Made A Snow Angel
[ ]Had A Tea Party
[x]Flown A Kite
[x]Built A Sand Castle
[x]Gone Puddle Jumping
[x]Played Dress Up
[x]Made A Pile Of Leaves
[x]Gone Sledding
[x]Jumped Into A pile of leaves
[x]Cheated While Playing A Game
total:  18

Level 5:
[x]Been Lonely
[x]Fallen Asleep At Work/School
[ ]Used A Fake/Someone Else's ID
[x]Watched The Sun Set/sun rise
[x]Felt An Earthquake
[ ]Kissed A Snake
[x]Been Tickled
[ ]Been Robbed/Vandalized
[ ]Robbed Someone
[x]Been Misunderstood
total: 24

Level 6:
[ ]Pet A Deer
[x]Won A Contest
[ ]Been Suspended
[ ]Had Detention
[ ]Been In A Car/Motorcycle Accident
[x]Had/Have Braces
[x]Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
[x]Had deja vu
[ ]Danced in the moonlight
[x]Hate(d) The Way You Look
total: 29

Level 7:
[x]Witnessed A Crime
[x]Questioned Your Heart
[x]Been obsessed with post-it-notes
[x]Squished Barefoot Through The Mud
[x]Been Lost
[x]Been To The Opposite Side Of The World
[x]Swam In The Ocean
[x]Felt Like You Were Dying
[x]Cried Yourself To Sleep
total: 38 

Level 8:
[ ]Played Cops And Robbers
[x]Recently Colored With Crayons/Colored Pencils/Markers
[x]Sang Karaoke
[x]Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn't
[x]Made Prank Phone Calls
[ ]Laughed until some kind of beverage came out your nose
[ ]Kissed In The Rain
[x]Written A Letter To Santa Claus
[ ]Been Kissed Under A Mistletoe total: 43 Level 9: [ ]Watched the sunset w/ someone you care/cared about
[x]Blown Bubbles
[ ]Made A Bonfire On The Beach
[ ]Crashed A Party
[ ]Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A Car Full Of People
[x]Gone Rollerskating/Blading
[x]Had A Wish Come True
[ ]Been Humped By A Monkey
[ ]Worn Pearls
[ ]Jumped Off A Bridge
total: 46

Level 10:
[ ]Screamed 'Penis'
[ ]Swam With Dolphins
[x]Got your tongue stuck to a pole/freezer/ice cube/Popsicle
[ ]Kissed A Fish
[x]Worn The Opposite Sex's Clothes
[ ]Sat On A Roof Top
[x]Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs
[x]Done/ATTEMPTED A One-Handed Cartwheel
[ ]talked on the phone for more than 6 hours
[x]stayed Up All Night
total: 51

Level 11:
[ ]Picked & Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree
[ ]Climbed A Tree
[ ]Had/Been In A Tree House
[x]Have been/Are scared To Watch Scary Movies alone
[ ]Seen a Ghost
[x]Have/Had More Then 30 Pairs Of Shoes or Flip Flops
[ ]gone streaking
[ ]Been to/Visited Someone At Jail
[x]Played Chicken
[x]Been Pushed Into A Pool With All Your Clothes On
total: 55

Level 12: [x]Been Told You're Hot By A Complete Stranger
[ ]Broken A Bone
[x]Are/Been Easily Amused (very)
[x]Caught A Fish
[x]Caught A Butterfly
[x]Laughed So Hard You Cried
[x]Cried So Hard You Laughed
[ ]Mooned/Flashed Someone
[x]had someone Moon/Flash You
total: 62Level 13: [x]Cheated On A Test
[x]Forgotten Someone's Name
[ ]Slept Naked
[ ]French braided someones hair
[x]Gone Skinny dipping In A pool
[ ]Been Kicked Out Of Your House.
[x]Rode A Roller Coaster
[x]Had A Cavity
total: 67Level 14: [ ]Been Used (horrible feeling)
[x]Fell Going Up The Stairs
[ ]Licked A Cat
[x]Bitten Someone
[x]Licked Someone
[ ]Been shot at with a paint ball/bee bee gun(OW!)
[ ]Had sex in a field/garden
[ ]Flattened someones tires
[ ]Drove in a car until it ran out of gas
[x]Had five dollars or less and bought something.
total: 71

Final Total:71 out of 140

 

Two names you go by:
1. Megan

2. random names

Two things you are wearing right now:
1. shorts2. t-shirtthings you want very badly at the moment:
1. a way to handle stress better2. a certain someoneTwo people who will fill this out:
1. Keri, possibly2. And I don't knowTwo things you did last night:
1. texted a very important someone2. thought about something importantTwo things you ate Yesterday:1. a cookie2. chipsTwo people you last talked to:1. Sydnee2. my momTwo things you're doing today:
1. reading a book2. thinking about something very importantTwo longest car rides:
1. Florida2. OhioTwo favorite beverages:
1. Milk 2. sweet tea

I haven't posted anything in a while, but nothing really exciting has happened either lately. I had my dance recital last Friday. I got an award for being on the hip-hop team and a perfect attendance award. I really thought I would get Most Improved Dancer, but sadly I didn't.  It's all good though. I have next year and the next year and the next year. I can't believe I only have three years left of high school. Today when all the seniors went crazy, I thought about how I'm going to feel when I'm graduating. It's going to be so awesome, but I'm also most likely going to cry. A LOT. Like Jessica put it the other day, "After high school's college, and then after college is life...and life's scary." Most likely also, I'll lose touch with my friends. Everyone says that you'll be best friends forever, but really? It's a little sad to think about. I was thinking about how people say ignorance is bliss. In a way I agree.If you don't realize how short of a time you have, you aren't worrying about making as many memories as you can. You aren't sad. If you do realize how short of a time you have, you try to make as many memories as you can. You're happy, but at the same time you're sad because you realize it's only a short amount of time before it's all over. And today we read a story about time traveling, and the teacher asked us all what's one thing you would change if you could go back in time. Mine was I only wish that I could have taken more chances and not have been afraid.

 

So I'm so ready for summer. This year has been so stressful, but it's still be crazy awesome. I can't wait for some chillaxing time.

period 1: World History

period 2: Creative Writing
period 3: Physical Science Honors
period 4: Writing Skills
period 5:
period 6:
period 7:

People You Mostly Talked To During:
period 1: Sydnee, Tyler, Maggie
period 2: Sydnee, Gen, Sam
period 3: Teddy, Keri, Batey
period 4: no one
period 5:
period 6:
period 7:

 

Random Questions:

Who was your favorite teacher?
today - no one

Who annoyed you most during 3rd period?
Sheldon

Who did you sit with at lunch?
Sydnee, Batey, Gorzny
Are you most likely to fall asleep or not pay attention?
not pay attention

Which class did you get the most homework?
science

Which class were you the most hyper?
creative writing

What was your favorite class?
science

Do you like lunch?
ugh, gross!

Do you like going to school?
To see my my friends.

Who sits behind you in Period 3?
Cardona's plants.

How many kids are in your Period 2?
Like 35 something.

What teacher do you dislike the most?
Mr. Trondsen grrr

Can you talk in your 3rd period?
we're technically not supposed to, but we do anyway

Who sits next to you in 5th period?
i don't have a 5th period
Who sits in front of you in 6th?
i don't have a 6th period

Summarize your year in three words?
lots of stress

What do you hope next year is gonna be like?
less stressful, more fun

What do you hope will change next year?
Have more classes with my friends.

Wow! I haven't posted anything in a long time really. I guess it doesn't really matter though because there's really not than many people on here to read. But even no one does, this is still the best way to clear my thoughts. Knowing someone will read it, makes it a little better I guess. So things have been going pretty good lately. I've noticed that I have started to really trust and confide in my best friends which has always been hard for me. Nothing extremely exciting has happened lately. Well maybe something has. It's complicated, and it's definately one thing I'd only tell my best friends to. But yeah, if this something does happen then it would be really exciting. And even though I'm stressed about scinece fair, I'm also not really that stressed. It's a very weird feeling. A feeling I've never felt.  Probably the best thing going on right now is dance. I'm really excited about recital and competition. Oh yeah! I meant to post a thought about our dance competition two weekends ago, but I just never got around to it. We got gold. But in dance that's actually the lowest thing you can get without getting anything. (It goes: gold, extreme gold, platinum, extreme platinum.) But that's still good considering our dance team is horrible. I have dance team try-outs coming up soon, and I really hope I make it. This will be the third time I make it, but I feel like I've improved a lot this year. So if you've read all this kudos to you, but if you didn't, I really don't care. (Not that you would ever read this part anyway. lol)

So for our science fair project, me and Keri are using the whole potato battery thing for our basis. The only thing is that, I can not get it to work. If anyone knows how to make one work, I'd really appreciate the help. Science fair is this Friday, and we haven't even started on our project. Well actually, I've been trying to make it work the past three days, but no luck. So yeah, right now I'll really freaking out and I don't want to fail.

So I got my braces off today. I hate my retainers because they make me talk like a retard. I didn't want to get my braces off either which is very untypical of most people. I'm really going to miss my braces. I guess it's not that bad. I can brush my teeth easier, but other than that I'm really upset about getting them off. I think my teeth looked better with braces because now my teeth look huge. Like buck teeth huge. I also have a missing tooth, so they had to build my pontac tooth into my upper retainer. So that means I can't take it out to eat at school or restarants. Well I guess I could, but it would look really weird with a big gap in my teeth. So yeah, hopefully I get used to my retainers. And I also get an invisible one for my top teeth in two weeks which will make things so much better.

The past few days I've noticed that I keep zoning out. When I come out of it, I have no clue to what's going on. And a lot of times, I hear people talking, but I don't really comprehend what they are saying. I'm just kind of looking around and nodding politely. Tonight at dance it was really bad though. Even though I've been working on the same dance for almost a year, I kept blanking out and couldn't remember what came next. I didn't really feel dizzy. Just like I didn't know what was going on. Ms. Katie (my dance teacher) kept looking at me weird and told me to sit down if I felt bad. At one time she was talking to me, but I really didn't understand what she was saying. Then Sydnee said my name and Ms. Katie started laughing I guess because I didn't respond. So I started dancing, but I just couldn't remember ANYTHING. Ms. Katie made me sit down for the rest of the class. I know this probably isn't a good thing, but I hope it's not serious. I was hoping maybe one of you guys would a clue to what's wrong with me. I really hope I don't do this this Saturday because I have a dance competition, and I don't want to look retarted. My mom wants to take me to the doctor, but I don't like bloods are needs. Actually I'm absolutely terrefied of them. So yeah...I'm a little freaked.

You know when your parents say that makes me feel old, well I bet you'd never see the day when you say...That makes me feel old. I found this on the internet. It's a little long, but it really does sum up our early childhoods.

 

If you Are a 90's Kid this is For you !?

If you're under the age of 13...you shouldn’t even read this and if you do, you should not repost this. Just because you were born in '97 doesn't mean you're a 90's kid. It's not like you could remember the original Simpson’s. I am sorry but three conscious years of the 90's just wont cut it.

You're a 90's kid if:
You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]
You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.
-Gargoils  (That show always scared me for some reason. lol)
-Looney Toons
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You just can’t resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west Philadelphia born and raised . . ."
You remember:
-LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE!!!
-Step by Step
-Family Matters!!!
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World!!!!
-Wild and Crazy Kids

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school. You remember trading in those pasty pop-tarts for those kick *** Toaster Strudels.
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not
when everything was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
-skunk in the barn yard
-ms. Mary Mack
-big Mac a tea a tea
when cops and robbers was a daily activity.
When we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.
When we used to obey our parents
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.
"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.
Captain Planet. He's a Hero.

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
You remember when Super Nintendo’s and Sega Genesis became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2, and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"
You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow
-and Ghostwriter on PBS
You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where's Waldo books.
You remember eating Warheads.
You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-Animporphs
-ghost busters
you remember watching...
-my little pony tails
-gummi bears
-tail spin
-goof troop
-chip n' dale rescue rangers
You remember Ring Pops.
You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.
If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"
When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.
You played and/or collected "Pogs" :)
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.
one word. . . . . . . . Furbies.
You had a pager but still had to call from a land line.
Cell phones were the size of a brick.
You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
And Windows 95 was the best.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.
Michael Jordan was a king.
YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!
All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out
You collected those Beanie Babies.
Carebears
Gak was the coolest stuff invented.
Lambchop's song never ended.
The old dollar bills.
Silver dollars, which were cool to have.


Everyone watched the WB and yelled at people who interrupted them.
You collected all the Troll dolls
If you even know what an original walkman is.
You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You know the Macarena by heart.
"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said
You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.
Before the MySpace frenzy . . .
Before the Internet & text messaging . . .
Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .
Before MIKE JONES . . .
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .
Before Spongebob . . .
Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
When we recorded stuff on VCRs.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman.
When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.
You had slap bracelets!
Dr.Grip was the coolest pencil to have
Way back.
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.

Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!

Bannas and PAJAMAS !

We are taking on the 40 Day Revolution at my church mostly with our youth group. A lot of the things have to do with school, but since we aren't in school I'm asking all of you guys to pray for our or your schools. Pray for all the issues at our schools. Ask God to help the spiritual climate of our schools.

So today is my birthday, and I turned fifteen. I guess it's pretty cool that it snowed on my birthday except it messed things up a little bit. It was fifteen years ago today that I was born...and it was snowing really heavy. I think that's pretty cool. Other than that it just seems like any other day. I don't feel any older. I don't get any presents today. My did get me a brownie cake though which was really tasty. Oh, and Keri and Batey called me and sang Happy Birthday to me which made me happy. I thought everyone had forgot it was birthday today. I remember in sixth grade I did forget it was birthday. I was at Leslie Littleton's birthday party, and I just totally forgot. Sad, I know. Overall, I guess I've had an OK birthday this year. At least I'm here to 'celebrate' it.

 Prayer Requests

My dad

My cousin

My youth group

The guy I wrote about in an earlier thought

All my friends traveling while on Spring Break

Unspoken

That my birthday party works out

 

So right now I'm extremely frustrated. There is not one day that I can have my birthday party where everyone can be there. And even though I know I can't control the weather or other things, I feel like it's my fault. My mom told me that I can't please everyone, but she failed to mention that the birthday girl is not pleased right now. I just wanted one day where all my friends could be there, but that just seems impossible to do. So I don't know what to do. I guess I'll just have my party next week and whoever comes comes. Hopefully things will be fun, but I don't know. :-(

Our youth conference this weekend was so amazing. Probably one of the best ever. During our sermon yesterday, the preacher talked about what has really bothering me the past year. He talked about how so many Christians, me being one of them, are 'empty suits'. We have the appearance of a Chritian, but we aren't living it outside of church.

having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from those people turn away!

2 Timonthy 3:5

 

Last night and well into the early hours of this morning, our room talked about what the sermon meant to us. Two of the guys came to say goodnight and ended up staying in our room until about one in the morning. What started out almost getting us in to trouble, ended up being one of the revivals ever. One of the guys paticular, I really honestly feel like God spoke to him last night, and is going to continue to work on him. We aren't really best friends, but I've known him for a pretty long time. As we were talking about things he's done wrong, he actually began to cry. I felt bad at first because I was practically yelling at him, but now I feel like it made him realize he needs to really surrender his life to the Lord. I just want to ask everyone to pray for him and the rest of my youth group. Last night we found out a lot about some of the people in our youth group, and we really need some help. Just pray that we will all stop being 'empty suits' and really do something. 

 

So something has to be seriously wrong with me. I'm already stressing about next school year. I'm already worried about failing algebra II honors. The only thing is I know as I hadn't taken it that I would have regretted it. I'm still waiting for the regret of taking it. Sometimes I just wish I could be a stupid person and not care about my grades, but then I wouldn't get anywhere life which is definately not good. At this point in time I plan on relearning everything from eighth grade in algebra I this summer to get ready for algebra II, and I'm most likely going to have my head in a book twenty-four seven next year studying. My friends tried to get my to take regular algebra, but my mom really wanted to take honors. She also said the ultimate decision was up to me, but I just didn't want to let her down. Sometimes it feels like its more stressful coming from a dumb family then a long line of super geniuses because I'm the first person to come along that even has a chance of being something important. So if I mess this up, everyone's going to be really dissapointed. Other times though it seems like my parents don't really care how well I do in school. I mean they do, but I guess it feels like they just assume I'm going to make good grades. Which most of the time I usually do, but when I don't do so well I don't know how to tell them. I just wish I could be smart. I mean I know I'm smart, but I mean really smart so I wouldn't have to worry about my grades, but unfortunately I'm not so I have to turn to writing about on here which you guys probably really don't care. So yeah, how has your day been?

Would You Improv for God?

Are you one of the 5 Million + viewers who have checked out the 'Frozen Grand Central Station' You Tube video? If you haven't checked it out- here's the link.

If you have seen it, you probably had some of the same reactions as I did. It's both fascinating and freaky weird as you see 200 improv actors simultaneously freeze in place at one of the busiest places on planet earth. They are 'frozen' in mid-step, picking up papers, and all of them have obviously been trained well to stay as motionless as possible.

I'm sure the stunt brought mixed reviews. You could see that some were annoyed (i.e., those with little to no sense of humor) - and others were probably convinced the aliens had finally landed and commenced with their global body snatching plan (i.e., those with way too much free time).

Would you ever do something like that? I think I might enjoy being part of a harmless public stunt - except of course in Grand Central Station, where I'm pretty sure you'd get your wallet or purse stolen if you froze for even 5 seconds.

It seems to me that most people just go about the daily grind with little outside thought until something creative and radical happens. It also seems to me that this is true in a spiritual sense with your friends who don't know Christ as well. Sure, maybe you've had a few 'talks' about God, but after a while it gets in a rut, and you never seem to get beyond a certain point - right?

Ah - but this video gives me an idea that just might help you in this area. No, freezing in place in a crowded public area is not what I had in mind, but doing something creative and radical for God publicly in front of your friends is one of the best 'rut killers' around. For most people these days, the God talk tends to remain just that...talk...that is until it's backed up with radical action.

And it's not like this is a new plan or anything. It's actually one of the primary strategies that people in the Bible have used for centuries. Here's a short list:

Noah - built a gihugical boat. How is that radical? Well, since it had probably never rained or flooded before, the entire population of the world thought Noah was one French fry short of a Happy Meal. But aren't you glad he went ahead with his public project? Yep, he saved civilization.

Joseph - dared to tell the Pharaoh of Egypt that he could interpret dreams. If he blew it, he'd be toast inside a few seconds. But he went ahead with the triple dog dare, and - oh yes, saved civilization.

Daniel - threw open the shutters of his home and prayed to the God that was despised by the all his neighbors - even though it could bring him the death penalty. And it did. Only instead of death, he gained some new furry friends in the lion's den.

I could go on and on - but do you know who completed the most radical and life changing public act of all time? You guessed it - God Himself. He was so desperate and crazy in love with the people of planet earth that He came down here wrapped in flesh. He lived a perfect public (and private) life, led a miraculous public ministry (can you say feeding 5000 folks from 5 loaves of bread and two sardines?), and of course, He died one of the most cruel - and public- deaths that you could ever imagine. Oh yeah, then He came back from the grave and appeared in public to over 500 people in 40 days.

Talk about a radical and creative way to get people's attention for God!

And it worked. Now it's your turn. Auction off your iPod to give money to the poor, skip a movie and volunteer at a homeless shelter. Start a public blog that does nothing but investigate the claims of Jesus. Pass out pro-life flyers near an abortion clinic. Use your imagination - but keep it completely motivated by this message:

For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Freezing in Grand Central Station is cool - but even cooler would be to do something that caught the attention of people around you and turned it - not to You Tube...but to the God who wants an eternal relationship with them.

Head: What you need to know about this truth

People who don't have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ need to see radical and creative evidence of vital and authentic Christianity.

Heart: What you need to feel about this truth

Simple question: If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would there be enough physical evidence to convict you? If not - perhaps it's time for a heart check and a lifestyle shift.

Hands: What you need to do about this truth

Write down a few ideas you have about radical and creative ways to show the world that you are a Christian, then get together with your youth leader and youth group to discuss how you could put those ideas into action.

 

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