Eeeeek!

So this month has been FLYING!! Seriously! I think it's so funny that whenever I update, I usually talk about how much time has passed!

Anyway! This month has been full of events! The third of this month was Asia's SEVENTEENTH birthday!! Can you believe that?! She and I have been friends for thirteen years now! Amazing! :D I treasure our friendship so so so much. She and I used to be so much closer, but since we don't have many classes together, we hardly get to catch up. But when we finally do get together, we just pick up where we last left off. It's so refreshing. Asia is almost the complete opposite of me in so many ways! God's used that about our friendship to make us so strong. Ironically, it makes it easier to relate to each other and understand each other. There are no expectations, no superficiality in our friendship. I love that girl. :D

Oh yeah, apparently, I've been like so out of the loop in the Junior class. Wednesdays are "Big Earring Wednesday." Various groups in my class have special days, like one day all the girls wear the boots they have. And then another day, it's "Smokey eye makeup" day. I don't know. It's kind of fun. I've never participated in any of it. :) I've never been informed of it all either though! So whatever :D

Hmm, I'm writing this short story for the Young Author's Competition. It's about this girl who grew up with a really close relationship with her dad, and it's kind of just a spin on a coming of age story. Hopefully it'll be good. :D It's called In My Father's Love. It's totally all personal experience. It makes me cry just writing it. Ok, I personally really hate short stories about love stories. They are so cliche and irritating. If you are writing to win, you will not win. I write to win, honestly. I write to write, definitely. But when there is a competition that I'm in and it's something I'm good at, I am going to write to win.

Big sighs.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that most every female can identify with this girl. She's a reoccurring subject.

She's got a bumper like a billboard Covered in stickers of her favorite bands She's got a handful of records that she turns to  When she needs to land She's a saturday night parade through the streets That all eyes come to see including me  She carries memories around like souvenirs down in her pockets She should have let some go by now but can't seem to drop it Says forgiveness ain't nothing but a lifeless tire on the shoulder of her soul That never rolls  Chours: For as much as she stumbled she's runnin' For as much as she runs she's still here Always hoping to find something quicker than heaven To make the damage of her days disappear Just like Guinevere Just like Guinevere  She don't hold onto nothin' new for very long Yeah she writes you in as just one more tale and then you're gone 'Cause she once fell hard 'cause she dropped her guard And no one gets to stay it's just too late  Repeat Chorus  For as much as she stumbled she's runnin' For as much as she runs she's still here  For as much as she stumbled she's runnin' For as much as she runs she's still here Always hoping to find something quicker than heaven To make the damage of her days disappear Just like Guinevere Just like Guinevere  Lean into me Guinevere Be mine tonight Guinevere

The Library.

I am a frequent visitor to the library, whether that be the public library or the school library. I don't know. I am a bibliophile. I love books. :D

I went to the public library today, and I borrowed 5 books. 3 of which I've already finished reading. One was like a cultural history of the US during the 1960s, and another was about Civil Rights and the Voice of the People, another one was about something like the United States military...um...policy. I don't remember what it's called. Another one was a biography of James K. Polk...America's first "dark horse" and also probably America's hardest working president, who actually died 4 months after his term because he worked so hard. :( Another book was about Birth Order, and how the order in which you were born affects something psychologically about you. I'm a "psychological only child." I'm not REALLY an only child, but I basically grew up like one. Hmmm...I can't remember anything else.

I'm reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and I think I feel bad for him.

My Bucket List.

Ok, so I was flipping channels on the TV today, and I came across this new TV show. It was interesting. :) Ok, so like it's a show on MTV, so I don't think it's very clean, but the basic idea of the show was kind of cool. It's called The Buried Life. It's about these four guys who got tired of living a monotonous life, so they got together and made a list of all the things they wanted to do before they die. Now, they are doing every single one of the things on their list, but here's something extra: for every thing they cross off their list, they help someone else do something on their list. :) It's kind of neat. :)

It made me think of my list of things that I wanted to do before I died.

My list :D

100 things I want to do before I die. (I told you I love lists)

1. Get my divers license...or whatever it's called. (Forget driving, I want to DIVE)

2. Find out which HBBI girl led me to Jesus when I was 3 1/2.

3. Live on a farm. (Even for just a bit, doesn't have to be forever)

4. Buy one, just one, super amazing dress that I can wear a million times and it'll still look cute every single time. (I think this is just a girl thing)

5. Write a devotional book called Beauty from Ashes. (That's a verse in Isaiah, by the way)

6. Get married. :) (Gotta put that in...hey, it's on everyone's list like this)

7. Build a treehouse. By myself.

8. Meet someone who doesn't think I'm completely a dork. (This may have been done already...without my knowledge of so)

9. Go deep, deep sea fishing.

10. Stand at the top of a lighthouse (not at night).

11. Cut grass with those lawn mowers you sit on. (I know. I'm weird.)

12. Visit Coram's Fields, the preschool I went to when we lived in England.

13. See if the sheep I used to try to ride are still there.

14. Go sailing...and sleep on the boat...somewhere in the middle of the ocean, under the stars, where it's DARK. Oh it'd be beautiful.

15. Visit the Painted Desert.

16. Get married to someone who can cook up some deeeelicious biscuits and gravy. (Once again, don't ask. I love, love, love that stuff)

17. Learn how to take some decent pictures.

18. Teach a 2nd grade class, even for just a day.

19. Climb a mountain. A real one. ;P

20. Ride a camel. Or a llama.

21. Get my writing published.

22. Leave Harvest/Guam long enough to miss it and come back and see how it's changed.

23. Meet up with people I grew up with...but no longer live here.

24. Walk in a park and vaguely hear some brilliant person playing...(think August Rush haha)

25. Learn how to tell time. Well. (I know how. I'm just horrible at it.)

26. Learn how to multiply by 9. (Uhhh, I was very distracted when we learned how to do this in elementary)

27. Raise a family.

28. Visit the zoo. Everyday for a week.

29. Go on a hike, where the whole time we're walking through mud...like knee-deep. (love it)

30. Get some weird janitorial/housekeeping job in college. (for some reason I really want to do this)

31. Dance under the stars.

32. Grow a garden of flowers. All over the place. In tires. In the ground. In old barbeque grills. In old drums. In buckets. In old toilets. Everywhere.

33. Paint a picture on the wall with my hands.

34. Roll down a hill.

35. Roller skate everywhere, just for a day.

36. Make homemade ice cream.

37. Decorate a house.

38. Work in a bakery.

39. Go to my best friend's wedding. (This is implying that she gets married before she dies)

40. Write a letter at least once to every person that means something to me. (I better get started. I'd be writing a million letters)

41. Visit a Holocaust museum.

42. Run a 5k. Like run. Like all of it.

43. Live on some island off of the coast of Alaska, even just for a month...or a week.

44. Swim in the Mediterranean.

45. Bike through the English countryside. Just a wad of cash, the clothes on my back and a toothbrush.

46. Get a crazy haircut.

47. Bring back the 1940's style.

48. Star in a major play...somewhere.

49. Meet someone like me. Like...JUST LIKE ME. But not me.

50. Meet my doppleganger theory person...(look it up)

51. Help support finding the cure for cancer. Somehow. Even more.

52. Figure out my family tree.

53. Go camping. For longer than just the weekend.

54. Catch fireflies.

55. Own a little rowboat.

56. Jump in lake of freezing cold water. (not the kind that will me get that hypothermia thing)

57. Ride in a helicopter.

58. Road trip.

59. Live in a house where there are at least 3 bookshelves in almost every room.

60. Find the perfect blend of tea, water, milk and sugar.

61. Climb a really, really big tree.

62. Visit missionaries all over the world.

63. Get in a submarine. Not like the silly Nautilus tourist submarine, but a...legit one.

64. Be involved in full-time ministry. :)

65. Make a quilt.

66. Go hunting. (I don't know...it sounds...not Ruthie at all, but it does sound interesting)

67. Ice skate...like better than when I was little.

68. Meet a boy who writes like I do. (This also may have been done. I don't remember)

69. Ride in a little teeny weeny airplane.

70. Drive a truck, a big one.

71. Raise bees. (I like weird things. I've been inspired.)

72. Find an instrument I can really play...

73. Touch someone's life. Even just once.

74. Get lost in the city with someone else I know.

75. Visit a castle. An old one...not one that's been turned into some tourist trap.

76. Grow up to be one of those sweet, sweet old ladies.

77. Stay friends, yea best friends with Asia. More than just on facebook. ;)

78. Count how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

79. Learn how to ride a horse. Well.

80. Own a huge aquarium of fish.

81. Stumble upon a hidden garden.

82. Be part of a parade.

83. Go to a fair.

84. Live somewhere cold.

85. Own a copy of everything Jane Austen's ever written.

86. (Get married) Name one of my sons after my husband. (well..it's true)

87. Find a way to be in the cafeteria when the lights are off. (I've figured out in all the 15 1/2 years I've been at Harvest, I've never been in the cafeteria when the lights are off)

88. Own a cat. (I hate cats.)

89. Go to the Olympics. (Hopefully, the London Olympics...there is actually a good chance of me being able to go...randomly)

90. Find more books by David Lubar.

91. Visit Stratford-Upon-Avon, where Shakespeare's from.

92. Perform one of Shakespeare's plays.

93. Live to see the day we get lights for our soccer field at Harvest.

94. Sink a 3 pointer.

95. Watch Asia swim the English Channel and live to tell about it.

96. Be a witness like that little old man in Australia.

97. Start a phenomenon.

98. See more and more of my relatives get saved.

99. Eat some REAL spicy food. All kinds. spicy :)

100. Tell someone how much they really, truly mean to me and how much I love them.

I love lists.

What I've accomplished since I first wrote this. :D

8. Meet someone who doesn't think I'm completely a dork
22. Leave Harvest/Guam long enough to miss it and come back and see how it's changed. (three weeks in the States is long enough)
37. Decorate a house.
49. Meet someone like me. Like...JUST LIKE ME. But not me.

So now I have 96 things on my list. :D

On a brighter note.

245 days.
35 weeks.
8 months.


I think that is wayyy cool.

An anti-climactic post.

I know that the last post was all nice and warm and fuzzy, and it would be kind of ironic to not write anything sentimental to follow such a sweet post, but...I really gotta say something.

So there are these people that I used to know, and they are like sort of my age?? I don't really know. But have you ever come across people that you did not ever get along with? Well, I have. And I just feel so funny right now!! :) It's kind of silly really. But I'm thinking back to about two years ago and all of the things that did happen that I didn't know about...I don't know. It's just an interesting memory...awkward, even. I don't even know what I'm trying to say. Anyway...

Happy New Year's!!!

Happy New Year's everyone!!! We went to the beach right by the Outrigger and watched the fireworks. And of course, we took a few pictures. :D Here are some. :) Hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed year!!! God bless. :D