I got my hair cut

It's been a long time in coming. Like a year and a month and a few days. Gross, I know. The girl that cut my hair was really nice. Plus I saw David Wilder. I never see him at school. (He does running start.) Anyway he told me that he gets his hair cut when feels upset or something like that. I don't know about that. If I did that I'd be bald or close to it, but to each their own. (I went to Super Cuts and had to wait for half an hour so we talked.) She cut it too short, but don't they always? It's feathered, but it looks just the same as layered to me. Does anyone know the difference?
This Friday I might go to Spokane to see Barbie with my mom for the weekend. It'd be great 'cause we have NO SCHOOL Friday! How great is that? It means no test on Plauges and Peoples until Monday. (That book is sooo boring!)
Gotta go do some work for seminar. Joy.

Prayer Needed

Today between services at church we had a congregational meeting and so I didn't have to teach Sunday School so I went even though I'm not a member of Wes Pres and can't vote. We are spending more money than we're making. The only reason we're not going into debt is because we're pulling money from our reserve fund. That's bad because if we pull out of it for too long we won't have any money left in it and will go into debt. So any prayer would help.
Also my co-teacher for Sunday School's husband had a really bad heart attack yesterday. He's in the hospital and doing fine. Then I realized that he's only a few years older than my dad. So. . . you get where I'm headed, right? So prayer there would also be much apprieciated.
Now I should go do homework even though I really don't want to.

Happy Day!

It's happy for two reasons, at least.
One, Barbie flew safely into Spokane from Haiti last night! Yea for being in the United States! It's cool that she went to help and all, but now my mom will be able to sleep at night.
Two, it's my sister Julie's 27th birthday today! She's not really excited, but I think it's always a fun day because. . . well maybe it's more fun when you have friends that you can see on that day.
Yesterday in biology we made a new strand of e. coli! Plus it was resistant to two different kind of antibiotics! It was really cool!
Oh yeah, I finally learned the cute boy's name. He's in my American Popular Culture class. His name is Jeremiah and he's Canadian. He just came here right before this quarter.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. Yea for sleeping in and puting off homework.
Oh and anyone who feels inclined can keep Annie in your thoughts as she'll be spending the weekend with junior highers. Need I say more?

I'm feeling random and mad

Okay, on the way home from school I was listening to country (I know I know, yuck to most people, but KLove doesn't come in on my car radio.Sniff sniff) Anyway, I was singin' along havin' a good time behind this old man goin' 25 max until I got part of the way down Ahtanum which is when my radio dies slowly as I get closer to home. So I turned it off and was just listening to my car. It sounds like a race car. No kidding. It has so much get up and go. I was telling it that we could go up big hills, maybe even a mountains! Yeah, random, I know.
When I got home I was telling Julie all about my day which was pretty fun. Annie and I made a happy birthday to Steve/hi to Andy & Matt phone call at Annie's house and then went to Starbucks. Did you know they have a new small size? It is sooo cute! Yeah. And then we went back to school, saying hi to Julius (a dog) on the way to bio/geo. In that class we made Steve a birthday card with a dragon. Well at least that's what is was suppost to be. We missed Margarete. In biology we did fun stuff with e.coli. We put it on plates with antibiotics on them and we're going to see what happens over the week. I enjoy labs. Plus my group is fun. I was way hyper as I told Julie all of this, so after I ate I went for a walk and said hi to the llamas and horses. It was fun. Like i said, random.
This is the mad part. Later as I was watching Dr. Phil, (no snide comments please) Laura came over to our house and got a call on her cell. Now I love my sister, but she talks on the phone LOUDLY and I just wanted to watch TV in quiet. So I turned up the TV and after she finishes her call she comes over and turns off the TV to give me a lecture. Yeah a lecture like I was a little kid and she was my mommy. She informed me that I'm not the center of the universe. Yeah. If I was the center of the universe you'd know. I'd make changes. The reason I'm mad is because she has NO right to do any of the above. She knows that she shouts while on the phone so the polite thing would be to go to a different room right? Oh no. That's WAY to hard. I needed to vent and Julie wouldn't be sympathetic because doesn't have any older sisters. Plus she thinks I was wrong. Heave big sigh. This is when I wish I were an only child.
I need to go study for a geography test and do some more work for seminar on Thursday.
Sally

Tomato Soup! and class

Okay I LOVE tomato soup! I know that's it's really random, but hey, it's me. For the past two months or so I'd say I've been eating A LOT of tomato soup. Just with saltine crackers no cheese sandwhich or anything else. I'm posting this because today on the way to our cars Anna and I were talking about it and she told me to post it. For a laugh of course.

And we got two tests back in geo/bio class which I didn't do so well on so any prayer on doing well in these classes would be much appreciated. Oh and we got put into groups to work on a disease for a presentation for the end of the quarter. Anna's not in my group. Sniff Sniff. My group is doing SARS. I think it'll be interesting. Anna's doing Lyme Disease and if you want to hear a funny story concerning that, maybe it'll be on her blog. If not, ask her to post it. It's something I would do. Anna you're becoming like me! A fate worse that death. Hahaha.
Happy Days all, Sally

My Car!

My parents and I drove to Tri-Cities this morning to pick up my newly painted car! It looks sooo pretty! A nice blue with a little bit of purple in it. (I wasn't expecting that.) I drove my dad's car back. It was the third time I've ever driven on the freeway. So all in all it wasn't to bad. I know that it's werid that I've only driven on the freeway three times but I didn't have a car at my disposal until this past June and that car DID NOT go on the freeway unless you wanted it to blow up with you inside. Plus my drivers ed teacher told me that I was a horrid driver and he'd pray that I never hurt myself or anyone else with my car. Which wasn't the greatest confidence builder in the world. It took me a LONG time to drive around town by myself and I hadn't really thought about the freeway.
I watched Harry Potter #1 and did a little homework, but I really need to do more because I have a test on Monday and I haven't read the 131 pages yet or studyed my notes. Oops. But geography and biology have more stuff due at a consistant rate so I've been doing that first.
Sally

My Thursday and Randomness

All this week Jenn's been giving me a ride to and from school because my car's in Tri-Cities geting painted until Saturday. So today we got to school at 8:00 and did homework for seminar in bio/geo class. It involved a lot of "helping" each other. I'm a bad girl, what can I say?
On Thursdays after school I go to Apple Valley and help my mom in her afternoon kindergarden class. This week they're studying sense of taste. I shrug my shoulders. Anyway I was in charge of that for the afternoon class. I had five five/six year old boys. They had to taste coffee, unsweetened lemenade, pepper, salt, sugar, flour, baking soda, baking chocolate, cocoa and I forget what else and tell me whether they tasted bitter, sweet, sour or had no taste. It was the funniest thing! One boy swore up and down that everything tasted sweet and wanted more. Another boy shouted out what he thought everything was when I set it in front of him which set the others off. It was great. I really enjoy helping my mom. I get all the fun without the work. What could be better?
At choir tonight we did regular get ready for Sunday's second servive singing, but also we're gearing up for our Pops Concert which we do every other year. It is sooo much fun! We have three different themes and songs to match. My favorites so far are Lullaby of Broadway which we did two years ago and And as the Rabbi Sang. Another song we're doing is He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. Did you know it has another verse about gambeling that you don't learn as a kid? It's majorly funny! (The Rabbi song and the concert in general.) It has some religous aspect, but mostly just fun stuff. I also has skits and random stuff like that. Anna you have to come! And bring your family. Daniel could too if he wants to. It's on April 21 &22 I believe so most of you all that read this can't come.
Now for the randomness. My sister Julie's car which is an 87 Toyota Corolla can still drive down the street without the key in the ignition. Isn't that cool?
And last week as I was driving my mom home from church while we were on 79th, she opened her door and hit a dog that trys to get out in front of your car at night and early in the morning to freak you out! It was sooo funny.
going to watch CSI, Sally

Bible Verses I like

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refraim,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

Ecclesiates 5:2-3
Do not be quick with your mouth,
do not be hasty with your heart,
do not utter anything before God.
God is in heaven
and you are on earth,
so let your words be few.
As a dream comes when there are many cares,
so the speech of a fool when there are too many words.

Psalm 46: 1-2a
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear."

Matthew 6:14-15
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

2 Timothy 1:7
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

going to study for a biology test, Sally

Funny and Prayer

A third one of my friends got stuck in my driveway today! (or ditch) It was Jenn and she did better than Annie as she successfully flatened one of my mom's plants that looked dead anyway . . . But at least she wasn't all the way in the ditch. I think everyone in my family excluding mom, dad and Julie have gone into the ditch or come close to anyway. My cousin's done it multiple times. Some of Valerie and Barbie's friends have also gone in the ditch. Each time it's slightly amusing.

My sister Barbara is in Haiti for this whole month so can you keep her in your prayers? She's working in an orphanage for sick babies-HIV, malaria that knid of thing. It's very sad. She's been sick and not geting a lot of sleep.

going for dinner, Sally

Awesome poem and more

In my lonely keep-to-myself times,
Hear my sighs, Lord,
For I am tired of going unnoticed and unloved.
In my my fearful I've-been-hurt-before times,
Hear my anxiety, Lord,
For I'm scared to stick my neck out again.
In my grieving words-can't-express-the-hurt times,
Hear my tears, Lord,
For I don't know if I can face tomorrow.
In my angry leave-me-alone times,
Hear my grinding teeth, Lord.
For I'm so blasted mad I could scream!
In my worried knot-in-the-gut times,
Hear my wrinkled brow, Lord,
For I'm burdened today with yesterday and tomorrow.
In my hectic hit-and-run times,
Hear my pounding feet, Lord,
For I'm running late instead of running to you.
In my searching I-don't-understand times,
Hear my shrugging shoulders, Lord,
For I struggle with the whys and hows of life.
In my troubled I've-done-it-now times,
Hear my beating heart, Lord,
For I feel the weight of having failed-again.
In my anxious I-need-action-now times,
Hear my tension, Lord.
For I'm tired of smashing into doors.

-Magazine cutouts-
So we all fit
You can change the world
Be proud
Fulfill yourself
unstoppable
I choose to be smart and capable
Your friend, therapist, advisor (God)
The power of being yourself

All the above Valerie put in a diary she got me for our birthday

I'm REALLY frusterated because this is the fourth time I've written this!

going to relax, Sally

I have a blog!

Do you like the title? It was Julie's idea. It means a gathering of people to discuss ideas in France. Plus they both start with an "S".
Right up front I'm going to apologize for not posting very often because I probably won't.
Anyway, today my mom, dad and I took my car to Tri-Cities' Maaco for a paint job. It's going to still be blue, but a prettier one than as is. While we were there we went to the mall and I got two pairs of jeans for $12.00 each. As we got near Yakima it started to snow! Sad days! When we got back to Yakima we went to the mall here and I got three more pairs of jeans also for $12.00 each. Yea for good deals for frugal people!
On Monday I'm having Annie and Jenn over for a study group because we have a test in biology on Wednesday and Mr. Seveyka doesn't review.
Sally