bored

I'm supposed to be doing homework, but I decided to rebel and write this! oh, maybe I will put up a picture since steven says that all posts are 100% better with a picture from anywhere of anykind! Isn't that cute? A real hot dog!

laptops

I got TWO assignments done today! woooowoooo! Tomorrow is D-day. I have the biggest presentation of my life happening tomorrow and I'm a little nervous. I can't wait for it to be over. It is definitly that time of year. All I can think about is school. Sometimes I phone Steve and get sad because I haven't seen him....but then I get back to doing my homework. I haven't worked out in a month. I've been eating a lot of chocolate and gaining weight. I do my own make-shift yoga in my bedroom before bed and when I wake up in the morning....basically the same stretches that we did in grade 10 gym class, but I call it yoga. I rented a laptop from the school to motivate me to do my homework because I have to pay per day. Too bad $5000 dollars for tuition and $1000 for text books hasn't done that already....but I sat in second cup and worked hard for a couple hours with my lap top that has my school name written in big letters across the back. So this is good. I like working in Starbucks and Second Cup. I like how there are alot of conversations going on at once and it's impossible to follow just one, and not to mention the loudness of the blenders and other coffee equipment, and then the music that I have never heard before. All this ambiant noise makes me very happy. Not to mention I always drink a latte while typing away on my laptop. Of course that doesn't help with the whole gaining weight thing. Tomorrow I have to hand the laptop back to the library of my school, but I might not and just keep it for a few more days. Anyway, I'm going to start on more homework. This lady with her laptop is soo happy. That's how I feel with a laptop and now I want one.

oh my goodness! that's so and so....

I never knew how much I do this until Steven mentioned it. Now I realize that I do this all the time. Everytime I go into town I always think I see someone I know and then I say, hey...I think that's so and so.....but when I get close enough and look hard enough I realize that it isn't. Since Steve has mentioned that I do this I do it SO MUCH! Especially in the park.....I went to highschool there and it is very common to see someone I went to highschool with, or see someone who is one of my little brother or sister's friends either shopping or working. One time we were driving over the Wayne Gretzky bridge, and I thought I saw this lady I go to school with right now, but when I went to school and asked her about this, she told me she couldn't drive....I should have known that because she has these crazy eyes.....So many times I think I see my social work teachers and especially one and it has come to the point that whenever we are driving or are out and I say "hey!" Steve says, no it's not "so and so." Maybe I'm just really paraniod about people seeing me....who knows. I have a feeling that my false sightings will go down once I move because I won't be in the park nearly as much. Anyway, some friends of mine suggested that I write my blog on this particular topic. They say they don't read it, and would never have a blog...but I just think they are jealous and feel a need to be in on all this glorious blogging fun! Too bad they will never know that happiness that it brings me....
These are two famous people without make-up on.....can you guess who they are? Maybe you have a little bit of false sightingsness in you as well.

grrrrr

so I am currently waiting for one of my group members at the millwoods campus so I can give her some material, it's been 45 minutes and she isn't here. arg. not that I have anywhere to be really otherwise I would have left a long time ago, and yet, here I sit... a little miffed.

a very overdue pearls before swine

Winter Retreat memories

Today it is exactly two years ago that me and Steve met.

I went on a college age winter retreat with a whole bunch of people I didn't know, hmmm, nope, I really didn't know any of them at all. The reason Steven and I started talking was because we were asked to draw the journey of our lives, ya it could have been really deep but most people just drew a picture of their house, their elementary school, stuff like that. So Steven drew this picture of his highschool, drew a stick-figure girl inside the school with a "X" over her. So I asked him if he liked girls. He got so red..... and tried to explain his girl problems from highschool. Steven was SOOOOO easy to tease....now he knows me too well and doesn't fall prey to my schemes. He says he liked me because I was crazy, and I never really understood that. I mean, there were some seriously crazy girls who were on that winter retreat. Anyway, when I looked at the date a while ago I remembered the significance.....Steven is going to read this and comment for sure about what I wrote and either tell me I was wrong or I really was crazy. So if he hasn't commented on this blog yet, he will and I will probably be in trouble.

Velvet Elvis

I'm in a bible study with a few friends and we currently meet on sunday nights. We are reading a chapter before each study of the book "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell. We just had our fourth meeting and this book is quite good. It's different than other bible studies because you aren't searching for the right answer. We just discuss what we have read and what impacted us. I really enjoyed chapter 2 because it was about how everybody has different interpretations of the bible and you shouldn't just take something for fact when someone says that it's true even if it's a pastor or some other high up christian leader. The important thing is to read it for yourself and ask God to help you understand what you are reading. All scripture is God breathed, yet so many people use scripture to back up things that go against christianity or use it advance themselves or justify things. Chapter 3 was an interesting read as well talking about flexibility in what we believe, and why so many students going into college fall away from God because what they are learning in class isn't what they have grown up with, it's a different kind of truth and people are unsure how it fits into the christian ideology and faith system. Anyway, I recommend it, although the author is quite young and in my opinion this is shown in the way that he writes and the what he says.......it's still a good book, worth reading (I'm only on chapter 4) Anybody have any good suggestions for good bible study material??? I have heard Beth Moore speak, and after that I decided that her book(s) are going to be my next bible study material.