Dress-up and Movies!

All right! I've been so busy I haven't been able to post lately.

First, there are a couple movies I watched that I've gotta talk about!

When I saw the commercials for House Bunny, I was not interested at all. I hate everything related to Hugh Hefner. But one of my best friends came up to see a couple of days before I left, and she wanted to see a movie as a fun last-day-together thing. And we totally forgot about checking times before we went! (Thank goodness for the new big theater that isn't too far away!)

And the only movie on was the House Bunny... so we watched it. It actually wasn't too bad. It had almost the exact same plot as Sydney White - gorgeous girl doesn't fit into the big sorority at school, and ends up with the losers, and transforms them into wonderful people. The big difference is that said girl happens to be a playboy bunny.

It's definitely not a movie that guys should see - Anna Faris has NO modesty whatsoever! But my friend and I loved that, after her character fixed up the 'losers', they actually ended up deciding that they didn't want to be her clones, but they didn't want to be invisible like before, either. So they work on being themselves, without being too frumpy or too preppy. That was nice :-)

Another movie I didn't want to see was What Happens In Vegas. I love Ashton Kutcher, I think he's one of the funniest actors ever, but his movies are so gross! I'm NOT watching that last one he did, A Lot Like Love. The plot is that he meets a stranger, sleeps with her, and then they go back to their loved ones - but just can't stop thinking about each other!

Tough.

Anyway, I watched What Happens In Vegas the other day, and it's actually pretty good. I've been waiting for a movie like this to come out! A guy and a girl accidentally get married (aka, they were drunk.) Then they win the lottery, and a big fight over the money ensues.

Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz are great together! It's hilarious... the funny tricks they pull made me laugh until I cried. She tries to teach him to leave the toilet seat down... so he removes it entirely!

Now I'm watching Enchanted.. that's another great movie! Finally, a princess movie (besides the good old Disney Classics) that is just really GOOD! With one exception. The girl has the most ANNOYING voice, and she's cooing and shrieking and gasping throughout the whole movie... honestly. And the "Ahhhahhh ahhh ahh," singing makes me want to cover my ears!

Otherwise, love it. I think it has a message for everyone... I think people make marriage too complicated. I know it isn't easy, but I think it's ridiculous that people feel they need to date around in their teenage years and college years, and then date the person they're 'serious' about for several years, and then live together for several more before they get married.
I think it would be awesome if people would start marrying right out of high school, and divorce became illegal (with exceptions, of course). Or something like that. Maybe people need to take it more seriously, not less. Hmm.

Anyway, this message I'm speaking of... the girl and guy meet and realize they are perfect for each other. They get separated, and although people are trying to convince the girl that her guy is never going to show up, she knows he'll come someday!

She's appalled at how lackadaisical (sp?) the other man she meets is towards his almost-fiance, and starts to cry when she meets a couple and finds out they're getting divorced!

She's kind of an airhead, but it would be great if everyone got this upset about divorce! And it can't hurt for little kids to see that divorce really is a big deal...

I love the end! She ends up switching guys... her 'prince' ends up with the almost-fiance, and she and the 'new guy' fall in love. So I guess that means that the person you think is your true love isn't always the one God has for you?

Anyhow, I'm at Grandma's for a few days with Mom and my sisters - we're going to hang out for a few days and then go to AFLBS. I got all of my stuff at Walmart the other day... it was pretty exciting! I've never gotten so much stuff there at once! Abby and Sarah helped me pick it out... then it was pouring rain outside... honestly, I've never had a more fun late-night shopping trip!

The day before we left, we got all dressed up and took a ton of pictures! Here are some of my favorites...

Abortion is the SICKEST THING EVER!

I know it's murder, but I hadn't thought about it being 'cruel' murder until I started reading testimonies from the Partial-Birth Abortion Trial. Did you know they'll pull the baby most of the way out, and it's very much alive and moving, and then either crush its skull with a sort of tongs or their fingers, or jab it in the back of the head to kill it?Or they might use suction to get everything out. Or they might use the 'dismemberment' method and tear it into little pieces before they take it out. http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/RusePBAonTrial.pdf

And this - http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/Fetal_Pain/Norig%20Ellison%20ASA%20Senate%201995.pdf - says that anesthesia does not work on babies. You can't make it 'painless' for them.

And if the baby somehow lives through that (I have no idea how it would!) they just let it lay there until it's dead.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-512129/66-babies-year-left-die-NHS-abortions-wrong.html

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08081209.html
SICK! I despise Obama. A nurse testified before him of all the babies she saw stuck in waste rooms to die, and he decided it was still a woman's right to let a little one just 'die' for convenience's sake. Can you IMAGINE if after all the joyful hugging and celebrating when a baby was born, the mother decided she didn't want it anymore and tossed it into the closet? She'd be in prison for years and years and years! Of all the neanderthals and animals in America... how is THAT man so close to becoming the leader of our country? Yeesh!

Gross stories...
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/cjohnsonop-ed.html
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/pbacampaign.html
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/Haskellinstructional.pdf
http://www.consciencelaws.org/Examining-Conscience-Background/Abortion/BackAbortion02.html

Here's drawings of it: http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/PBA_Images/PBA_Images_Heathers_Place.htm

And this guy is really not very smart.... http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/notansweringboxersantorum.html

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdbYjmbFzo
Oh my goodness! This is so awful. Watch it from 4:36 on, that's the saddest part!

And that's the end of my rant for tonight. Now let's see if I can sleep after reading all those stories...

Ha! I love this.


Here's the link to the worst video, the Silent Scream. It makes me feel very sick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjNo_0cW-ek&feature=related

The day is looming nearer..

This article is hilarious! I enjoyed reading it. I no longer have any reason to feel awkward being against homosexuality!
http://townhall.com/columnists/AndrewTallman/2008/08/21/perhaps_homophobia_isn%e2%80%99t_a_choice_either

A week ago, I was planning on bringing EVERYTHING to AFLBS. Honestly, just clearing out my room completely. Not even a dust bunny. But I changed my mind when I realized how overwhelming the task was going to be, and I'm only bringing about half my stuff. I don't need my calendar, my wall clock, all my posters, my 20+ albums, and all my stuffed animals and pillows and random decorations.
This is such a relief!

Yikes. Just eight days. I think.

"I'm supergirl, and I'm here to save the world... what I wanna know is who's gonna save me?"

OH MY GOODNESS! Once again, I am SO thankful for my Elizabeth Elliot bible study book. For maybe a year now, I have been struggling with something. It makes me SO frustrated just trying to think about it!

God promises he will save us, and protect us and always be with us, and so on and so on. And still, bad things happen. Today I could die in a car accident - and that would be all good and well, because it's God's plan, and I'D get to be with him! YEAH!

But what about the little things? What about the first day of school? What about having an unbearably hard day at work? God may be with me, but he sure isn't offering much help. At least, not to my small eyes.

I spent weeks crying over this last spring. I wanted to go to AFLBS, and I knew it was what God wanted, but I was going to be ALL ALONE. I knew He for sure wasn't going to keep me from embarrassing myself, from going through hard, difficult, and first-time things. So why in the WORLD would I want to go to something like that, when I can stay at home with my family where it's safe and comfortable?

I just did the study for today, and I'm finally understanding. It sent me to Psalm 106, which talks about how God saved the Israelites from the Egyptians for His name's sake, to make His mighty power known. NOT because he felt bad for the Israelites, or he figured they'd had enough, or he was sick of the Egyptians being mean.

And he won't save me from falling flat on my face a few times because he feels sorry for me, or thinks I need a break. What a revelation!

Even in Psalm 23, something I've read many times, it says "He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake."

Then it sent me to Psalm 143:11, where David asks God to save him. "For your name's sake, O Lord, preserve my life; In your righteousness, bring me out of trouble."

Duh. How did this not click before? God 'rescuing' me has not much to do with how I'm feeling, and everything to do with His Glory!

Last, Elizabeth Elliot asks, "If God guides you for His name's sake, who is glorified whenever your prayers for guidance are answered?"

HELLOOO! That was when I REALLY got it. Now if I can just keep concentrating on this, and remembering it when I get nervous, it should be much easier to transition into life without my family around!

Now my question is, so when exactly does God rescue me, like he says he's going to? Hmm...

“If we could wrap our minds around the concept of God, He wouldn’t be big enough.” - C.S. Lewis

I like that quote...

I'm freaking out. Ten days until I leave. I feel like a zombie - I have a long to-do list, but I have no idea where to start. Plus there's a mouse living in our kitchen. :-(

I started hyperventilating three times yesterday... one of these days, I bet I'm just going to faint on the floor.

Yeah, I'm miserable. I really keep hoping this is going to be one of those Abraham things, where I accept it (ha) and go along with it because I know it's what God wants, and then at the last minute he tells me that I've gone as far as I need to, and I can go home again.

Except I don't think I have enough faith. He'd probably say, "Oops, sorry, you're actually going to have to go now because you weren't trusting me enough when you had the chance."

:-(

I can't believe on how much I'm missing out on this year.

On the bright side, I'm getting muscles! :-D Last night Abby and I biked two miles and then ran two miles. Well, it was mostly walking - we were tired after biking.
And we made strawberry peach crisp. It was really good, it was just too sweet for me... now that I've gotten myself used to natural flavors, like in fruits and veggies, sugar doesn't make me feel very good. Laame!

It would be really nice if God would just stick a picture in our minds of our future spouse.

Then we really COULD have love at first sight! SCORE!

Oh my goodness... I don't get too ga-ga over celebrities, and I've only bought one of those all-about-Hollywood magazines once, before a plane trip. But I do love reading online about what they're really like. :-)
I've been looking at a fansite of Jamie Spears... I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty envious. I don't care about the famous family, the TV shows, etc, but she has 1) a career that's going well, 2) a boyfriend, 3) a baby (wouldn't want them at once, though!), and 4) a NICE farm, near her parents. Apparently she'll be marrying her boyfriend in a few months, and then she'll really be where I wanna be!

But it must be so hard. I saw a couple of pictures of her heading into the hospital the night she had her baby, surrounded by state troopers. How could someone stand to live that way? Someone younger than me, no less!

But enough about that. I realized I don't know anything about carry-out cart etiquette. I bought a fridge for my dorm room the other day. I had one of the guys there get it on a.. on a.. dang, a carrying thing! - and put it in the car for me. I felt pretty foolish when I got home and realized I actually could lift it. Lift it into a cart, maybe not.

Anyway, the reason I felt awkward is because I just didn't know what to say! (I'm pretty sure he was leering at me [rather, NOT my face] when I walked up; that didn't help). So I walked about twenty feet ahead of him all the way to the cart and really didn't say anything, except to tell him where I wanted it and to thank him. I felt like I should have made conversation, like "Sure is hot today, isn't it?" but considering the circumstances, I decided against it.
What in the world do you say to be polite to a creeper? (half kidding).
Hmm...

Last night, I had the greatest time at the birthday party. I got home around 11:30... I never stay out that late! Although the 75 mile drive may have made a difference.

I'm soo ready for a spinach-cheese-broccoli frittata with Ranch. YUM!

An interesting day...

I watched the men's individual gymnastics last night - WOW, Jonathan Horton is a cutie. The other US guy, Alexander something, wasn't too bad either. :-D

Today we woke up to find that our kitty Bailey was no longer waddling around full of babies... but the kittens were NOWHERE to be found. Do you know what one of the worst feelings in the world is? The feeling that, after you've spent hours traipsing through woods and digging in old machinery, you may have just missed a little kitten who's going to die because you didn't step a foot closer and see them.
Oh, I should mention that Bailey is the worst mother cat ever! She puts no thought into her babies at all. After she has them, she just completely ignores them - doesn't bite through the cord or anything. She'll have them in the middle of the yard, wherever. So I was a little confused when we couldn't find them - she wouldn't go out of her way to find a secret hiding place.

So I was asking God to help us find them all morning... after an hour of searching, my mom and sisters went to a friend's house, and I got busy with sewing and mowing and stuff. The mower kept killing, though, and I finally decided it had overheated and gave up.

A couple of hours later, I went back out to try again - I finally realized it was out of gas! So I pushed it up to the shop, where we'd been searching pretty intently earlier, because Bailey was up there all morning and the dogs got pretty excited when we went behind it. I saw Lilo sniffing in the grass, like she does when she spots a cricket or grasshopper, and I thought I check - just in case!

Lo and behold, she had found a little orange baby! It took me awhile to get it out of the long grass, because its cord was tangled in the grass and there were three puppies who wanted to see what I was doing.

I just can't believe it was still alive! Bailey probably had them really early this morning, so it was laying in the wet grass for hours! It was dry and warm when I found it, but it hadn't nursed or gone to the bathroom - it still had the placenta attached! (btw, that stuff is NASTY!)
We didn't find any other kitties, though, and I know there had to be more. Saddest thing ever. :-(

But anyway, I am incredibly thankful for a wonderfully sunny day and a really smart, beautiful, gentle dog :-)

Stupid me, I didn't take any pictures. I think the sun got to me - I am so fried!

And, lol, I am kind of a hopeful hypochondriac. I dream of having a tragic fall where I break my leg and am rendered helpless for weeks. Usually, however, my aches and pains are nothing at all.

But not today! My mom had me drive home, and she kept asking me why I sit hunched over the steering wheel. I realized that although I hadn't thought about it before, I go crazy when I'm driving for very long - I try to sit up straight, but my spine and tailbone really start to bother me, like there's little hands inside tickling my back, and the only way to make it stop is to stretch forward. And then I can't breathe! ARGH!
So Mom suggested it might be my tailbone screwing me up, and I remember that 4-5 years ago, Abby went over a bad bump with the 4-wheeler when I was on the back, and I came down really hard. I couldn't sit for days, and it bothered me for months! Maybe I've just gotten so used to it I don't notice anymore... I couldn't figure out why I would get so antsy in church, after an hour of sitting I thought I was going to go nuts if I didn't stand up - I wondered why I was acting like such a three-year-old!
I'm thinking it was broken... so I'm going to go to the chiropractor and get all straightened out! I'm excited!
I probably shouldn't be, though.

I am in awe of gymnasts... seriously...

Hey, I think God reads this blog! I've been telling people how much I miss all my buddies, and now it looks like I'll be seeing them this weekend! HURRAY!

I tried to fix my hair tonight, redying it... hopefully it looks more normal in the morning!

I like watching the olympics... the only part I care about is the gymnastics. They're absolutely amazing!

Anyway, I don't have anything else to say, except this. I. HATE. BIKINI. WEARING.

Kind of. I have verrrry mixed feelings about this. I love bikinis. They're very cute, and very comfortable. They're just so darned indecent, I never wear them without shorts and a shirt.

But it seems that nowadays almost all the girls I respect as Christ-seeking Christians are following the trend and swimming in the equivalent of their underwear. Funnily enough, I think they'd be horrified if a large group of people saw them in their underwear.
Thank goodness my closest friends haven't gotten in on this yet!

I am just so confused about everything.
I am definitely looking forward to Jesus coming to get me... no more hard things!

"It's raining, it's pouring, today is so boring..."

I absolutely LOVE my Elizabeth Elliot book! Really. It makes me feel like I'm actually getting something out of my devotions... haha.


I just found Daft Punk and got a whole bunch of their songs... if they're bad songs, whoops.. my bad. But I'm really excited to go run or something and listen to them!


Less than three weeks until I leave... I'm trying hard not to think about it, but I keep feeling like I'm going to throw up.


I went to visit my married friends with another girl last week... it was SO MUCH FUN. My friend is nearly engaged, so we went and got her ring picked out.
But I was soo frustrated! After they'd dated a few people on and off, both of them had their dream guy practically fall into their lap. And here I've been going all these years thinking I'd get a good guy sooner if I DIDN'T date.

Then the day after I got home, a family friend told me I was way too young to be thinking about marriage (laughing as she said it) and that I'd better not get engaged anytime soon.
I told Mom about it... and of course she reminded me that I had to quit freaking out about it, because no matter what anyone thinks, and no matter how many of my friends are suddenly getting married, God is sending my guy at the perfect time.

Whatever. I get so confused and frustrated thinking about how it's all going to come together. I wish I had my degree and a houseful of kids right now, but apparently God wants me to do things the long and hard way - why couldn't he come swooping down and whisk me away to 2013? ;-)


I can't stand having bright pink/red hair anymore. I gotta head to Walmart pretty soon, tonight maybe. And I get to buy a fridge!

On Saturday I got to see a whole bunch of people I knew when I was younger... I wish I could get over there more often.


Here are our new babies:

"And the caissons go rolling along.."

HA! Not mentioning any names, but I'm watching a 40+ lady in a tight midriff shirt and short shorts stride around a stage singing about her body to screaming kids. Wearing heels so high a backup dancer has to hold her hand and support her waist whenever she tries to maneuver the stage steps.
Ughhh, I'm going to be sick.

There's also something I have never seen this in an awards show before... so far ten or fifteen teens/twenty-somethings have come on stage in uber-short strapless dresses and stand there awkwardly trying to tug them up where they belong! LOL! Silly girls.

I'm thinking about joining the Air Force next summer. I'm having very mixed emotions about this!
-I will die during boot camp. However, the only reason this idea is occurring to me is because my physical shape has so vastly improved - before I never thought it was possible! I weighed myself this morning and I've lost 13 pounds - I'm down to what I weighed at 15!
-In college, I realllllly want to get married and have a baby right away. Deployment would just not work well with that. Actually, do you get out of it if you're pregnant? Cuz I could go for that! ;-p
-I don't do so well being yelled! In fact, I can think of three army retirees I know of right off the back - I don't get along well with any of them. Too harsh! But maybe it would be good for me. Scratch that - it WOULD be!

That's... about it.

Good things:
-THEY'D PAY FOR COLLEGE! OH that would be SO AWESOME!
Can you tell I'd be excited for that?
-I would like knowing I was totally prepared to defend my country, although I hope I never have to.
-This is pure pride... I want people to be way impressed by the fact that I'm in the army.
:-D
One more benefit... I would be in KILLER shape! I've been talking to a friend who's been in the army for two years, and she said that the requirements they give you in order to get tuition assistance are like having a part-time job - fitness training a few times a week and stuff. So having a 'job', where your 'workload' is to stay in shape, means free tuition!
That isn't bad any way you look at it. And I think once I actually get to fitness level they require, it shouldn't be TOO hard to keep at it.

So I'm likin' this idea. I'm going to pray about it all winter and talk to my parents about it, and then maybe give a recruiter a call next spring...

Ooh. One random question. My grandpa was in WWII, and his favorite song was "When the Caissons Go Rolling Along". I went on the army website, and their 'theme song' is just like this song, with all the same words, but they changed 'Caissons' and 'rolling' to "Army" and 'marching'. Or something like that. Is that just because nobody knows what caissons are (including me), or what?

Time for a happy post!

Wow - I just reread my last post. Majorly disorganized!
And it's time for a happy post. It's almost one, and I should be getting sleep - I'm going to CHURCH tomorrow! I'm uber-excited because we haven't been to church for most of this summer. Pretty bad Christians, huh?

So to begin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjnvSQuv-H4
Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin. It has Robin Williams in it - I love it!

Today I made zucchini muffins. Amazing. And tomato/egg muffins. They taste good, but they made the house smell like barf. Baddddd idea.

I just got a very sweet comment, so I want to say thank you :-)

And lately, I've been thinking about something on the serious side. But it can wait for tomorrow... I mean, later today.

And in... six hours or so, the sisters and I are going to go for a walk on a sweet trail nearby, and take pictures. Unless I'm just too tired and sleep in till church time.

Abby and I went running again tonight. It was awesome. For the first time, I ran more than I walked. WOOHOO! Progress! It took less than an hour to go about three miles. By the time I leave, my goal is to be able to run at least half a mile without stopping to gasp for air.

Now my pillow is sitting right next to me on the couch, and it's a big, fat hint. It's saying, "GO TO BED. NOW."

So I shall respect the pillow's wishes. I do hold it in such high esteem.

Ooh, speaking like this reminds me of something. I REALLY wish somebody would come out with a show set in like, the Pride and Prejudice era. I'm not sure what it's really called, but that would be SO COOL!

Good night, all! Happy weekend! (My mommy comes home on Monday night, I can't wait!)

Blah. My nerves are wearing thin again...

Oh m'goodness. I've started freaking out about going away now... I got my packet a few days ago. I cried the rest of the day and woke up with HUGE eyelids!

I called Mom, anyway, and she told me if I hate it, after the first semester I can drop it. So that should be enough to keep me going.

Anyway... I've gotta get going - I need to leave to pick up my sisters from seeing the new Mummy movie in a few minutes. And I want to put my new favorite song, Give Me Your Eyes, on the new blog Abby and I are starting. It's http://www.picturablyyours.blogspot.com/ - so you can go check it out! :-)