Never going back to O.K.

a great new song and CD by The Afters. i get so excited and inspired when i listen to, and comprehend the meaning of, that song. it makes me really crave a concert from the Afters so i can hear that song live, because i'm sure it's the most amazing thing ever. well, actually, there's a lot of artists i would love to see in concert, but it just hasn't worked with my schedule to go. one of these days i'll get myself and Joel out to a concert, and we'll love every minute of it. we had better, seeing how much some of these tickets cost.

Second Semester...

Now that i actually take semester long major courses, i'm feeling the thrill, or horror, about switching semesters. it reminds me of the first day of school, but not fully. in this case, i have the same teacher, during the same class period, and some of the same people are in the class. the only difference is that all the girls got put in some other class. well, all but three girls and myself. i can tell it's going to be an interesting 90 days.

three periods before that, we made a realization at lunch. we're going to have some serious girl power time at lunch now. the two guys that used to sit at our lunch table(the ones who talked about Arby's all the time) have moved on with their life, and now are stationed at a different lunch. so it's like Susie Shellenberger says on that promo for the mother-daughter cruise, "It's just us girls..." i think it'll be fun to have just girls at the table now. it was much quieter today, which we all thought was really weird. but we'll get used to it.

on another rant, i'm a little displeased with how many parents let their young kids sit in the front seat of the car. i guess i noticed it a lot today. i mean, i can understand how it feels weird driving, and having your passenger in the back seat, but that doesn't mean i'm going to put my sister's life in danger by letting her sit up front. she has to wait two and a half more years just like the rest of us. whoa, getting off topic a bit, i was just thinking where i'll be in two and a half years. wow.

well, i think it's time to call it right there. it's time to watch the PBS special about the Pioneers of Television. tonights show is about Game Shows. i'm sure it'll be interesting.

4 down, and one really hard one to go

midterms. terrific. i've been taking two finals and three midterms all week. that means i've had a test every day. well, yesterday i had two. but it's okay because while my sister is still sitting in her classroom watching it snow, i'm here at home watching whatever cooking show is on PBS.

i've found this year that Praise and Worship music is really great to listen to while studying. on tuesday night i listened to K-LOVE radio online while i studied physics and english. last night, i had to put on the headphones because i wasn't moving from my comfortable spot, and yet someone wanted to watch television. but i found a praise and worship online radio station. so i listened to that a little, and that was good. so far yesterday morning, and this morning i listened to a song by Hillsong London. it's called "Where the Love Lasts Forever". a friend of mine told me about the song last week, and i really like it. so that's been helping too.

today when i came home i loaded some more praise and worship stuff onto my iPod. so tomorrow morning, before one of my hardest midterms i can listen to some Chris Tomlin. that'll be pretty cool.

my brother on the other hand, has been listening to jazz a lot to help him cope with midterms. that's been interesting.

let's see, what else has been going on lately....oh, my brother and i are going to try to look for a new youth group. some friends of mine talked me into trying to go to youth group again. but i didn't want to restart this journey by myself. and actually, at the time when i was trying to think it through i totally forgot that Joel could come with me.(oops) so now we just have to decide where we want to go. because of midterms, i haven't done much research. if there is anyone reading this who lives in the general area that i live in, please suggest away!

well, i guess that's pretty much it. for those doing midterms this week, i hope you do well. just think, all you have to do is just press through tomorrow, and then you have a three day weekend!

explaination...

the post below is the beginning part of a song i'm in the process of writing. but the sunset when i came out of walmart today inspired me to post this part of my song. i think maybe in the second verse i'll write about going to wal-mart today and seeing that. we'll have to see what God comes up with. and maybe i'll post some of my other songs on here too. i wish you could all hear them. i'm working on that too.

Paint the Sky

I don't understand
The Heart of an artist
How they come up
with all their creations
I especially don't understand
The artist heart of You

Where did you get the idea for the sunrise
for this morning's commute
It made a potentially bad ride
Turn into something even I cannot explain

*chorus*
You paint the sky, at all the perfect times
When i need encouragement
It makes me feel like
Everything will be alright
When You paint the sky

A word of advice

If you are ever thinking of moving, and realize there's a dog food factory near the house you are considering to buy/rent, don't move there. move to the other side of town instead, where you will only smell the dog food when it rains, and on weird days like today. i really don't like those days, but at least it doesn't smell like this all the time. i'm glad my parents decided to move to the west side of town, instead of the east side. and if i ever post on here about being excited about moving somewhere on the east side of my town, would someone please come over and knock some sense into me before it rains again and i have to smell that nasty stuff?

*sigh*

it's been quite the week. it's hard to believe new year's day was just three days ago. it seems like forever ago. then again, it was hard for a lot of people to get it in their heads that it was friday. maybe that's why Christian club attendance was lower than normal.

it's really cool what we're doing in Christian club coming up soon. we have this "Mega-blessing" planned. for the next few months, we're going to have everyone bring at least a dollar a week, and then each week we'll use that money to do something for a group of students around school. today we told the club about it, and got their feed back. we also bounced around ideas. two other people were presenting, and then the one girl looked at me and asked me to write some of this down. so i told notes on the meeting. i'm really excited for this, and i hope it all works out.

in other news, i got all the info so i can start planning my schedule for next year. because i'll be a senior(that's so weird to say--i feel so under prepared), i have a few options. so i really need to pray about what God wants me to do. for some reason, i'm feeling like a normal schedule is not for me. so now i need to figure out what i want to do next year. well, i have awhile to think about that.

lastly, i would like to express that i don't like the way the high school teaches purity. except, it's not for the reason everyone else gives. it's because today, my health class teacher told us that he wasn't trying to tell us that we had to wait until marriage to have sex. thankfully, i was standing next to a friend of mine who goes to one of the area churches, so i exchanged a glance with her. i'm glad to know that someone else in the class agreed with me. i've heard a statement similar to that on tv. i honestly don't know why people would have that point of view. and i don't know how people could do that without feeling so...dirty. because that's how i would feel. i just needed to get that frustration out of my system.

well, i guess i just want to warn you that midterms are coming up, so i may not be posting quite as much as i was. we'll just have to see where life takes me.