thankful

Components of a good day:

• Early morning encouragement.
• Meeting a homeschool graduate who works for GU on my way to class. (!!!)
• A pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks with Mom.
• A phone call from a sister I really miss, in which we laughed heartily at my suggestion that the rest of our family had been whisked away, considering none of them were answering their phones and it is, after all, Halloween week...(what can I say? My Spanish teacher spent the entire class period telling us ghost stories!)
• A high school football playoff game. Go Scouts!
• Driving rain. I hate that piddly, pipsqueak, wanna-be-rain drizzle that we so often have. If it's going to rain, let it be the real deal. I love rain that requires you to put your wipers on full blast.
• Freedom to laugh.

homeschooled?

A bit of homeschool humor for us awesome homeschoolED kids. :)

high school football

this one's a doozy

I have had some peculiar and disturbing experiences with guys. Like Andrew, Mr. I'll-hypothetically-ask-you-out-over-text-so-if-you-say-no-it-won't-be-like-I-actually-asked-you. (I said no.) Or the random guy at the mall. "This isn't a pickup line, I promise..." BWA-ha-ha...yeah right. Desperate duck.

But this one isn't quite like the rest. Yesterday I got a text from a number not previously stored in my contact list.

Mystery Person: Whats up
Me: um, who is this?
Mystery Person: M__ J__ what u up to girl
[I must insert: at this point I busted up laughing because it just so happens that this guy's brother used to work for my dad! One of those 'I see you...but you don't see me' things.]
Me: Um, I think you have the wrong number...
No Longer Mysterious Person: whose this
Me: Who do you think it is?
Not At All Mysterious: idk

So I immediately text my older sister and we both enjoy a pretty big chuckle. Perhaps he simply found a random number and decided to text it - to which my dad says "so he took a fifty-fifty chance and hoped it was a girl." Or, he thought it was somebody else and, darn the luck, it was me.

Either way, I got my laugh for the day. :)

yeah, we look alike

I was playing around on Yearbook Yourself, yearbooking (never knew "yearbook" was a verb, did ya?) my sister and me. This kinda cracks me up.

The years are 1960, 1952, 1958, and 1985.

about me: in google images

1.What is your first name? 2.When is your birthday?

3.What kind of car do you want? 4.Where do you go to school? 5.What's your Favorite season? 6.Whats your favorite type of shoe?

7.What's your status?

8.What's your favorite movie?

9.What's your favorite song?

Where do you find a picture for "too many to have one favorite"?

10.Favorite Disney character? 11.Favorite clothing line?

12.Favorite vacation destination?

13.Favorite dessert?

14.Favorite letter?

15.What are you most afraid of?

16. Favorite TV show? 17. What annoys you most? 18. What's your job?

19. Whats your favorite animal? 20. How old are you?

a sewing day...

...with Sara...

Mistyn...

and Lori.

=)

moving the cows

fall break plans

It's fall break, baby! I am ecstatic that the semester is half over (1/4 of senior year down, 3/4 to go!), AND that I have a four-day weekend. Bring it on!

Here is my list of things to do:

• physics homework
• puzzles with Mom
• sewing day with Sara and Mistyn
• work Saturday and Sunday
• baking day with Breanna
• watch Sue Thomas F.B.Eye with sisters
• clean up disheveled and chaotic room
• read Humility: True Greatness and The Screwtape Letters
• wash my sweet ride. :)
• play with my guinea pigs
• NO driving to school

I am planning to take gobs of pictures this weekend to show you everything I will hopefully do! What are your weekend plans?

pizzle!

Mom and I love working puzzles. Nobody else in our family gives a hoot. Crazy them.

focus

It's a dreadful phone picture, but these are red glasses that I drew on my hand this morning. I got the idea from my mom, who used to draw a pair of glasses on her hand every single day. Why?

Every time I glance down at my hand today, I will remember to ask the question: "where is my focus?" As humans, our thoughts are continually flitting this way and that, with little focus. Or, we tend to focus on the negative. (At least I do!) Instead of telling our minds what to think, we listen to whatever our minds happen to be thinking. Today, I want to be aware of what I am focusing on, and I want to focus on what is pure and good and moves me forward instead of holding me back.

"Focus on your potential, instead of your limitations." -Alan Loy McGinnis

hallie's baby

(pictures taken by Mom)

tonight's 14

On occassion, my sister posts on her blog fourteen current things she happy about. (Yeah, I know it ends in a preposition, but "fourteen things about which she is currently happy?" Um, I think not.) I am muchly thankful tonight, so I am posting my current fourteen things.

-my mom, who must have super powers
-late night chats with Audrey on skype
-positive attitudes
-Meredith Andrews' music
-ponytail holders and bobbypins
-webcams
-my Abort 73 t-shirt
-Goodwill
-kick-butt coworkers
-sweatshirts
-my invaluable phone =)
-soap
-fresh bread
-honesty

Have any you'd like to add?