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Thursday, November 23, 2006
Big Heart-Small Town
1.you don't know what you are doing...but someone else does
2.you can't buy a pack of smokes cause the store clerk knows how old you are without even askin
3.And when you do find somebody old enough to buy them for you...you got to drive down country back roads to smoke them
4.You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers since you know which ones would bust you.
5. You ever went or thought about going cow-tipping.
6. School gets canceled for a sports team going to State
8. You never missed a Homecoming parade.
9. You still go home for Homecoming.
10. It was cool to date someone from a neighboring town.
11. You had a senior skip day.
12. The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
13. You can't help but date a friend's ex.
14. Your car is allways filthy from the dirt backroads.
15. You think that kids who ride skateboards are weird.
16. The town next to you is considered "trashy" or "snotty" when it is just like your town.
17. Getting paid minimum wage is considered a raise.
18. You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the "rich people."
19. The people in the big city dress funny then you pick up on the cool new trend two years later.
20. You bragged to your friends because you got pipes on your truck for your birthday.
21. On Fridays, anyone you want to find can be found at Main Street or the local resturants.
22. Weekend excitement involves a trip to Wal-mart.
23. Even the ugly people enter beauty contests.
24. You decide to walk for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask you if you need a ride.
25. Your teachers call you by your older sibling's name.
26. The closest "cool stores" are at least 45 miles away including Wal-Mart.
27. The biggest news in the news papper is that a family invites someone over for dinner
29.you go to a store and see everyone in your family
30.You call a wrong number and the person you call gives you the right number
31.You are related to almost everyone in your town
32.For fun you go to the local grocery store.
2.you can't buy a pack of smokes cause the store clerk knows how old you are without even askin
3.And when you do find somebody old enough to buy them for you...you got to drive down country back roads to smoke them
4.You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers since you know which ones would bust you.
5. You ever went or thought about going cow-tipping.
6. School gets canceled for a sports team going to State
8. You never missed a Homecoming parade.
9. You still go home for Homecoming.
10. It was cool to date someone from a neighboring town.
11. You had a senior skip day.
12. The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
13. You can't help but date a friend's ex.
14. Your car is allways filthy from the dirt backroads.
15. You think that kids who ride skateboards are weird.
16. The town next to you is considered "trashy" or "snotty" when it is just like your town.
17. Getting paid minimum wage is considered a raise.
18. You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the "rich people."
19. The people in the big city dress funny then you pick up on the cool new trend two years later.
20. You bragged to your friends because you got pipes on your truck for your birthday.
21. On Fridays, anyone you want to find can be found at Main Street or the local resturants.
22. Weekend excitement involves a trip to Wal-mart.
23. Even the ugly people enter beauty contests.
24. You decide to walk for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask you if you need a ride.
25. Your teachers call you by your older sibling's name.
26. The closest "cool stores" are at least 45 miles away including Wal-Mart.
27. The biggest news in the news papper is that a family invites someone over for dinner
29.you go to a store and see everyone in your family
30.You call a wrong number and the person you call gives you the right number
31.You are related to almost everyone in your town
32.For fun you go to the local grocery store.
Labels: humor, personal, random thoughts
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Pew Puke
How many times a month do you sit in your pew at church? What else do you do? Do you participate in the worship service activly or do you just sit in your pew, mouth the words to a few hymns, sit in the message and flip your bible open to the passages that the pastor preaches from so it looks like your mind is actively engaging in the message when really you are millions of miles away. That is me most Sunday Mornings. I try to listen, for the first 10 minutes of the message but inevitably I get caught up in my own day dreams or "to-do" list and the next thing I know I come back about the last verse of the invitation hymn and every week I condemn myself for it yet for some reason I cannot change it! This sunday was no different for me but to my utter shock during the invitation a young lady went forward to get saved. I saw her walk up the isle. Pastor grinning from ear to ear looked through the congregation to find a woman to counsel her and immediatly looked at me. I was excited about the opportunity but convicted beyond belief for my lack of concentration through the message and my own lack of dedication in trying to apply the message to my own life, and yet the Lord deemed it fit for me to counsel the lady. I don't understand why He picked me, but It was the wake-up call I needed. I realized that even though Sunday Morning service is my "break" from ministry, the Lord can still use me and I need to have my focus set correctly on Him and not myself.. Ouch, what a hard lesson to learn. Don't be a Pew Puke People it's not good.
Labels: good advice, personal, spiritual
Saturday, November 18, 2006
New Look:
Well since I am putting off homework I decided to find a new blog template. I found this one at Blogger-Templates. This one is fun. If you can't see the new template hit refresh a few times. And enjoy!!!!!!! LOVE AND PEACE!
Monday, November 13, 2006
Songs About Me
I was listening to Nickle Creek's title CD (my favorite secular CD I own... it's bluegrass for all of you who care) in the car on Wednesday Evening and the lyrics to these songs just really hit me, they apply to me for sure.
"Out of the Woods"
I wish you out of the woods and into a picture with me;
I wish you over the moon come out of the question and be.
If this is gonna run, round in my head, I might as well be dreaming.
Run round in my head.
I rollercoaster for you, time out of mind, it must be heavenly.
It's all enchanted and wild, it's just like my heart said it was gonna be.
If this is gonna run, round in my head, I might as well be dreaming.
Run Round in my head.
I wish you out of the woods and into a picture with me;
I wish you over the moon come out of the question and be.
"When you come back down"
You got to leave me now, You got to go alone.
You've got to face a dream while it's all your own.
Before it slips away.
When your flying high, take my heart along.
I'll be the harmony, to every lonely song that you learn to play.
And when your soaring through the air, I'll be your solid ground.
Take every chance you dare, I'll still be there, when you come back down.
When you come back down.
I'll keep looking up, waiting your return.
My greatest fear will be that you will crash and burn,
and I won't feel your fire.
I'll be the other hand, that always holds the line.
Connecting inbetween your sweet heart and mine.
I'm strung out on that wire.
I'll be on the other end, to hear you when you call.
Angel you were born to fly and if you get too high. I'll catch you when you fall.
I'll catch you when you fall.
Your memory's the sunshine every new day brings.
I know the sky is calling, Angel let me help you with your wings.
When your soaring through the air, I'll be your solid ground.
Take every chance you dare, I'll still be there when you come back down.
When you come back down.
"Out of the Woods"
I wish you out of the woods and into a picture with me;
I wish you over the moon come out of the question and be.
If this is gonna run, round in my head, I might as well be dreaming.
Run round in my head.
I rollercoaster for you, time out of mind, it must be heavenly.
It's all enchanted and wild, it's just like my heart said it was gonna be.
If this is gonna run, round in my head, I might as well be dreaming.
Run Round in my head.
I wish you out of the woods and into a picture with me;
I wish you over the moon come out of the question and be.
"When you come back down"
You got to leave me now, You got to go alone.
You've got to face a dream while it's all your own.
Before it slips away.
When your flying high, take my heart along.
I'll be the harmony, to every lonely song that you learn to play.
And when your soaring through the air, I'll be your solid ground.
Take every chance you dare, I'll still be there, when you come back down.
When you come back down.
I'll keep looking up, waiting your return.
My greatest fear will be that you will crash and burn,
and I won't feel your fire.
I'll be the other hand, that always holds the line.
Connecting inbetween your sweet heart and mine.
I'm strung out on that wire.
I'll be on the other end, to hear you when you call.
Angel you were born to fly and if you get too high. I'll catch you when you fall.
I'll catch you when you fall.
Your memory's the sunshine every new day brings.
I know the sky is calling, Angel let me help you with your wings.
When your soaring through the air, I'll be your solid ground.
Take every chance you dare, I'll still be there when you come back down.
When you come back down.
Labels: emotions, random thoughts, song lyrics
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Missing the 90's
You're a 90's kid if:
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You just cant resist finishing this... "Iiiiiiin west philladelphia born and raised..."
You remember TGIF on ABC and wouldnt miss it
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! down town baby down by the roller coster sweet sweet baby
"Go Home Rodger"!!!
You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that "How Rude!"comes from Stephanie from "Full House"
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You got super excited when it was
You begged for some GAK, and when you got that they came out with scented GAK, and when you got that they came out with funny scented GAK.....
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You danced to "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls, Females: had a new motto, Males: got a whole lot gay-er. (so tell me what you want, what you really really want.)
You watched Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Nsync Jessica Simpson, BBMak, B-Witched and Ateens in concert on Disney Channel and thought it was the coolest thing ever!
You watched Britney Spears on the mickey mouse club
You remember the craze, then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.....
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record "Your FAVORITE song of ALL time"....with a tape recorder held up to the radio loL!!
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.
Captain Planet.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together. (this was meant for young 80s children)
When playing power rangers with friends you fought over who got to be who............and still all ended up being Tommy.
You remember when super nintendo's became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to
You remember watching home alone 1, 2 , and 3........and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"
"I've fallen and I can't get up"
you remember stick stickly on nickoloden
You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates
Two words... Trapper Keeper.
You wore socks over leggings scrunched down
"Cinderella dressed in yella, went upstairs to kiss a fella, made a mistake and kissed a snake how many dr's did it take."
You though Nike Air really did make you jump like Air Jordan
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
Writing M.A.S.H. notes.
You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool
You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell"
You played and/or collected "Pogs"
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles
Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff!
All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and talking Elmo were always sold out.
You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.
You remember a time before the WB.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You know the Macarena by heart.
"Talk to the hand" ... enough said
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
When we were younger:
Before the MySpace frenzy...
Before the Internet & text messaging...
Before Sidekicks & iPods...
Before MIKE JONES...
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX...
...Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
When we recorded stuff on VCRs & paid $3.50 for a movie.
When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our
walkmans.
When 2Pac and Biggie where alive.
When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.
Way back.
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear
Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!
Wait Wait....let's not forget OLD NICK shows....Alex Mac, My Brother and Me, Rocko's Modern Life, the ORIGINAL Rugrats, DOUG!! Cousin Skeeter, Hey Arnold, Clarissa Explains it All, The OLD All That, Pete and Pete yeah the OLD nick days rules
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Crazy Church People
I absolutely love my church group! Today as we all sat around the table and in the van I realized how much of a family we have become so I figured I could share some quirks about each of my "family members":
Jason: First we have the over-observant-over-caring, big brother who finds it his job to make sure that everyone is "ok." While his big-brotherly attitude is somewhat endearing and almost too good to be true, his sarcasm and slams make you realize that he is truely a brother and not some paranormal freak like you might at first think. Jason is called to the deaf ministry, though he is not deaf, he is dumb (no he has complete ability to speak, but within a few minutes of getting to know him, you'd wish that wasn't true.. lol!) No, in all seriousness, his passion for the deaf ministry has become quite catching and his servant's heart is really uplifting, we need more guys in the world like Jason.
Nate:(I like to call this guy peaches) What can I say about Nate except that he is a born evangelist, we figured this out when he preached and went 15 minutes overtime and no-one really even cared because he was soooo fun to listen to. Nate is one of those people who really has to grow on you, and once you get past the rought "I hate you, don't talk to me" exterior, he is truely a good friend. When I first met Nate he has such a "wonderful" disposistion I called him peaches, now that I know his "peachy'ness" is just his way of "warming" up to you, I've gotten used to it and it has become a highlight of our time spent to gether for me to slam him in anyway possible, I believe he has the same outlook on me because in the middle of his sermon tonight he read a passage of scripture then out of nowhere realized it totally applied to my life and used me as his sermon illustration: No seriously, I've watched Nate become a good leader for our church group and his servant's heart and attitude has convicted me. Even with his tersness and sharp sarcasm, it is evident that Nate has a love for Christ and people and it's something we all need to learn from him.
Ashley: The blonde of the group, I once wondered where she fit in to all of this cuz she does not have the tersness that the rest of us have and yet tonight as she described to us in detail her plan to dictate the world, I realized that that girl is JUST AS MESSED UP AS THE REST OF US! It's amazing but the guys actully are somewhat afraid of this girl, I would like to think it's because of her plot to take over the world, but we all know because she is extremely pretty the guys are a little threatened by her appearance. (Well that's the nice way of putting it) Either way, it's hillarious! In all seriousness, Ashley is sooo much fun! Her imput to some of our "theological solve the problems of the world and our lives" discussions is quite helpful and insightful!
Val: The only native "stoughtinian" we have, Val has been at the church for years so she is the mediator between our strangness and the people of the church. Val is a rock, she is always there and the only one absolutely willing to put up with all of us with a lot of patience. Working with the kids Val is the autority figure and it's quite ammusing to see the looks on the kids faces when we say "You better shape up or your gonna go sit with Val" How wonderful that threat is... hmmm... I wonder why? But honestly, Val is a gem to our church group, she has such a willing heart and helpful hand, no matter what the activity or challenge, Val rises up to it and does whatever she can to help anyone out... it's soo refreshing to see that spirit in people my age.
Tito: Titus Morrow, I would like to classify him as a spiritual overacheiver just because he puts us all to shame in the ministry that he does, but we all know the only reason we think that is because we all fall SOOO short of the mark. On a humorous level Tito is the only one in the van who is not allowed to eat cheese and has somewhat of an obsession with llamas though he would definatly come in last when it comes to sarcasm and tersness... haha the boy is just tooo blasted serious!!!!. On a spiritual level Titus pours himself out in his ministry with the teens. He comes down to Stoughton every friday to visit and take the teens out soul winning and recruiting for the youth group, if only all of us had half the heart for souls that tito has, there would much more evangelizing done in this world.
Tyler: Tyler is the newbe in our group, he started coming this semester and I know him the least out of everyone. I can tell you this much though, I already know what I am getting him for Christmas... A headset for his cell-phone and glue because he is constantly on his phone with his girlfriend so yeah I don't get much time to talk with him. He seems like he has a good heart for God though. Lol, he seemed so proper and polite then he suprised me one day and went into DIRE detail about this bought of the stomach flue; I was scared for life.
Beth: Haha, what can I say it's beth. She should be long gone from maranatha, but apparently God saw fit to stick us with her for four more years. After a horrible life threatening thumb injury, she had to change life paths and here we are! No, in all seriousness, Beth is a valuable asset to our group, she is part comic relief part loyal friend and she give the BEST backrubs. Beth is very talented musically and her willing, soft heart is a addition to our group we cannot afford to lose.
James: He will eat ANYTHING you give him. Lol, I just have one thing to say, if he get's mono it was not my fault and I would rather make out with a llama than him so it wasn't me!!!!! No, James acts all sensitive and put out when we tease him and haha, we tease him a lot, because of something he told us the first day he came to church with us "I read a walk to remember and cried" that kinda got us all started and unfortunatly we couldn't stop laughing so yeah, I sometimes feel bad about teasing then I remember that he gets me back just as good so I don't let it bother me. So it's all good.
Me: Last but certainly not least... ME! Gimpy.. need I say more :)
Jason: First we have the over-observant-over-caring, big brother who finds it his job to make sure that everyone is "ok." While his big-brotherly attitude is somewhat endearing and almost too good to be true, his sarcasm and slams make you realize that he is truely a brother and not some paranormal freak like you might at first think. Jason is called to the deaf ministry, though he is not deaf, he is dumb (no he has complete ability to speak, but within a few minutes of getting to know him, you'd wish that wasn't true.. lol!) No, in all seriousness, his passion for the deaf ministry has become quite catching and his servant's heart is really uplifting, we need more guys in the world like Jason.
Nate:(I like to call this guy peaches) What can I say about Nate except that he is a born evangelist, we figured this out when he preached and went 15 minutes overtime and no-one really even cared because he was soooo fun to listen to. Nate is one of those people who really has to grow on you, and once you get past the rought "I hate you, don't talk to me" exterior, he is truely a good friend. When I first met Nate he has such a "wonderful" disposistion I called him peaches, now that I know his "peachy'ness" is just his way of "warming" up to you, I've gotten used to it and it has become a highlight of our time spent to gether for me to slam him in anyway possible, I believe he has the same outlook on me because in the middle of his sermon tonight he read a passage of scripture then out of nowhere realized it totally applied to my life and used me as his sermon illustration: No seriously, I've watched Nate become a good leader for our church group and his servant's heart and attitude has convicted me. Even with his tersness and sharp sarcasm, it is evident that Nate has a love for Christ and people and it's something we all need to learn from him.
Ashley: The blonde of the group, I once wondered where she fit in to all of this cuz she does not have the tersness that the rest of us have and yet tonight as she described to us in detail her plan to dictate the world, I realized that that girl is JUST AS MESSED UP AS THE REST OF US! It's amazing but the guys actully are somewhat afraid of this girl, I would like to think it's because of her plot to take over the world, but we all know because she is extremely pretty the guys are a little threatened by her appearance. (Well that's the nice way of putting it) Either way, it's hillarious! In all seriousness, Ashley is sooo much fun! Her imput to some of our "theological solve the problems of the world and our lives" discussions is quite helpful and insightful!
Val: The only native "stoughtinian" we have, Val has been at the church for years so she is the mediator between our strangness and the people of the church. Val is a rock, she is always there and the only one absolutely willing to put up with all of us with a lot of patience. Working with the kids Val is the autority figure and it's quite ammusing to see the looks on the kids faces when we say "You better shape up or your gonna go sit with Val" How wonderful that threat is... hmmm... I wonder why? But honestly, Val is a gem to our church group, she has such a willing heart and helpful hand, no matter what the activity or challenge, Val rises up to it and does whatever she can to help anyone out... it's soo refreshing to see that spirit in people my age.
Tito: Titus Morrow, I would like to classify him as a spiritual overacheiver just because he puts us all to shame in the ministry that he does, but we all know the only reason we think that is because we all fall SOOO short of the mark. On a humorous level Tito is the only one in the van who is not allowed to eat cheese and has somewhat of an obsession with llamas though he would definatly come in last when it comes to sarcasm and tersness... haha the boy is just tooo blasted serious!!!!. On a spiritual level Titus pours himself out in his ministry with the teens. He comes down to Stoughton every friday to visit and take the teens out soul winning and recruiting for the youth group, if only all of us had half the heart for souls that tito has, there would much more evangelizing done in this world.
Tyler: Tyler is the newbe in our group, he started coming this semester and I know him the least out of everyone. I can tell you this much though, I already know what I am getting him for Christmas... A headset for his cell-phone and glue because he is constantly on his phone with his girlfriend so yeah I don't get much time to talk with him. He seems like he has a good heart for God though. Lol, he seemed so proper and polite then he suprised me one day and went into DIRE detail about this bought of the stomach flue; I was scared for life.
Beth: Haha, what can I say it's beth. She should be long gone from maranatha, but apparently God saw fit to stick us with her for four more years. After a horrible life threatening thumb injury, she had to change life paths and here we are! No, in all seriousness, Beth is a valuable asset to our group, she is part comic relief part loyal friend and she give the BEST backrubs. Beth is very talented musically and her willing, soft heart is a addition to our group we cannot afford to lose.
James: He will eat ANYTHING you give him. Lol, I just have one thing to say, if he get's mono it was not my fault and I would rather make out with a llama than him so it wasn't me!!!!! No, James acts all sensitive and put out when we tease him and haha, we tease him a lot, because of something he told us the first day he came to church with us "I read a walk to remember and cried" that kinda got us all started and unfortunatly we couldn't stop laughing so yeah, I sometimes feel bad about teasing then I remember that he gets me back just as good so I don't let it bother me. So it's all good.
Me: Last but certainly not least... ME! Gimpy.. need I say more :)
Labels: people, random thoughts, Stoughton
