Easter Sunday!

The choir had, I mean got to sing at both services this morning. One of the songs we sang Alive Forever Amen was awesome! I'm going to tell Donny that we should sing it at 701 'cause you'd love it too Anna. After we finished singing it at both services the congregation clapped and cheered. (I'm a presbyterian so that doesn't happen on a regular basis.) Anyway. . . I am now offically a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church. I didn't really think it would matter one way or the other, but it does. I'm kind of excited. Also Wes Pres started this new tradition last year of having a Holy Week Walk between services. This year it had to be inside 'cause of the rain, but the people involved do an awesome job! It's different stations that include the major events of Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday. Cahnen was Jesus being brought before Pilate and Laura was the angel telling Mary that Jesus was alive. It's for kids too. (We took the 3-5 yr olds.) They were awe struck. It was sooo cute!
I saw Jimmy Marble at my church! It was sooo werid! I think he was as suprised to see me as I was to see him, but who knows. (He graduated with us west valley high schoolers.)
In a few hours we're having a "dinner". Only Cahnen and Laura are coming, but it'll still be fun. I'm excited 'cause we get to have ham! I love ham. We usually only have it at Thanksgiving, so yeah. I think I'll go offer my services to Mom and Julie.
School starts tomorrow. I'm kind of excited 'cause I like the fresh start you get at the beginning of each quarter. Plus I think the classes will be better than last quarter.
Hope everyone else had an awesome Easter Sunday too!
PS- My Uncle Lee is fine. The doctors found nothing wrong in his heart. Praise the Lord!

Yesterday was REALLY crappy, but today was fun

Yesterday as I was doing errands, I had a mini seizure. (For anyone that doesn't know I have epilepsy and take meds.) So I pulled into Westside's parking lot and waited 'til it was over. Last night on the way to 701, I had another mini seizure. While we were watching Ladder 49 I had another one so I called my mom and told her I was not driving home. So she and my dad came to get me and drive my car home. I was really upset 'cause I knew I'd have to up my medication which sucks. Plus I was way scared that I might hurt someone while driving and not be able to drive for six months.

Also yesterday afternoon my sister Julie told me that my Uncle Lee is having heart surgery tomorrow. (This is the same uncle that had his youngest son die of a drug overdose this past October.) Need I say they're not having a good year?

Today I went on a picinic with Jenn, Ben, his twin bro Andy and older bro Zack, Aaron, Anthony and his bro Nathan. It was actually fun. I had a great time making fun off Jenn's many ex-boyfriend problems. We played kickball and on the swings . I haven't played kickball in forever! Plus I talked to my doctor in Seattle who upped my medication as I expected. But he also told me that I can still drive.

The Ups and Downs of the Weekend

Okay, the weekend. Well Friday night and Saturday morning were fun.
Friday night Annie, Cherize and I went to different peoples houses and interviewed them about Margarete. (We met up with Kim at Daniel's house and I met their friend Laura.) We also went to the YVC dorms which are just scary so I'm never going back there again. Now I can say I've seen an angry drunk boy. Yea for me.
Saturday morning Margarete called me WAY to early for a Saturday morning! So I met up with her and Cherize, Kim, Annie at Andrew's house to prank Steve. Lets not do that again on a Saturday although it was fun to decorate and girlify Steve's Xbox. Then at home I ate breakfast and read a really sad letter from church stating that the assistant pastor at wes pres is divorcing her husband. (Please pray for them. They have two kids.) Then I got sick. I think I have the stomach flu just in time for finals. How lucky can you get? I feel better this morning but that could be 'cause I prayed to feel better. So no studying got done on Saturday. But on the upside I didn't get pranked by Steve and the traitor Margaret. Hahaha. (I stick my tongue out at you two.)
Yesterday I skipped church on account of still feeling crappy and my sister Barbie came home from Whitworth for spring break. It's great to see/hang out with her. Unfortunitly not much studying got done. But oh well.
The dreaded biology final is over! Annie and I both did badly but at this point it's not really a problem for me. Or I just don't care.
Tomorrow is the geography final. I need to study for that at some point today. It's not cumulative, so therefore not so bad or worrysome. Plus Anna and I are going to meet in the library to "study" in the morning before the actual test. We did "study" this morning for the biology test too.
Good luck on finals for everyone taking them! (Bonnie, Annie, Aaron, myself, Kim. Am I forgeting anyone?)

I really am a blonde!

Okay, here I go. Today as normal, I took Anna's car keys 'cause she has a fun clippy on it that amuses me. Except I went home after class without giving them back! I swear! I got all the way home, (from school to my house is quite a ways), I was taking my keys out of my sweatshirt pocket and came in contact with another set of keys! So I dropped my my backpack and raced back to school hoping to catch Anna. (I failed.) So I called her to tell that her keys weren't lost and she let me know that I am now a thief. (Better late than never.) I'm typing this in the YVC computer lab 'cause I have to meet my SARS disease group at three so there's no point in going home. Yeah. So everybody can feel free to make fun of me for being such a ditz whenever I see all you all in the coming days/weeks.

My sister got a job!

Yeah. As of next Tuesday I will be in the house alone for more than an hour on Tuesdays and Wednesdays! It may seem dumb to some people that I would be excited about something so silly, but as the youngest I spent much of the last two years alone in the house after school until 6:00PM or so and miss it. I love the freedom to turn the music up loud and sing along at the top of my lungs just for the heck of it. I also enjoy nobody talking to me when I don't really want to talk. Plus maybe Julie will meet some people her own age in Yakima. (I know there are 27 year olds in this town, they're just hiding.)

Gotta go eat dinner, so talk to ya later.

Yard Sale and Church

Friday afternoon to night I went to first pres to help set up the yard sale scheduled for Saturday. I was there for a freakishly looong time! (3:45-7:00) I left before they were actually done setting up. So yesterday I showed up hecka early (7:30AM) which is just wrong for a Saturday, and was there until 2:00PM! I thought it was over at twelve, but obviously was mistaken. You meet some REALLY werid and scary people in downtown Yakima! Lets see, there was the guy straight from the 70s, the deathy pale woman wearing all black, a man with a nonworking leg and arm who wanted to be my best friend (creapy), the two homeless women with missing teeth who hovered over my table and tried to steal from the yard sale, the woman who wanted me to host a Cathie Lee party at my house, and the little girl who could've been a little boy except that she was wearing red and pink and had earings in her ears. During less busy spurts the other kids helping with the sale and I tried on some really scary looking clothes. (A blue and purle blazer, flowered hat for who knows what and a mumu.) That was fun! At 2:00 Greg (the guy in charge) let the Trailseeker families in to take what we hadn't sold for free. (These are poor families from Yakima. He works with their kids.) I got to see Enrique, Lupe and Yolanda who I usually only see on Wednesdays at LOGOS! I also bought a 12 set of plastic cups, a movie, two ordaments and a campbells soup mug which are for when I live on my own.
This morning I was at church from 8:00AM until 1:30PM 'cause we had an extra practice for the Pops Concert during second service and after.
Now on to homework. I have a major group project due on Friday and a Plagues & Peoples book to read.
Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Spring Quarter

I start out at 7:30 AM with reniasance to napoleon history Mr. Walker's the teacher. Jenn's in this class too. Then I have math 85 (beginning algebra) with Mr. Mayo at 8:30. When I told my mom she told me that he's my second cousin twice removed by married or something like that. How crazy is that? Mom also said that he'll know me on site 'cause he knows my parents. I just chose him 'cause he's the best (so I've heard) math teacher. I have general psycology at 9:30 with Mr. Mount and. . . Anna and Stover! Yea! I'm super excited! So I'm done with class by 10:20! That means time to go work out at West Valley Fitness after class and I'll get to go to intervarsity worship on Thursdays!

Girls Night In

Well for me it started at like three in the afternoon yesterday when I met Bonnie and Margarete at Borders. (I was there for my disease group meeting.) So we went to go see Phantom of the Opera which was actually pretty good much to my suprise. Then Bonnie and Margaret took me back to Borders to get my car and we met up at Bonnie's house where Anna, and Cherize were waiting for us. (Kim showed up right after I did.) Bonnie's awesome parents made dinner for us (enchiladas (sp)). And we finally played Settler of Catan when I was present! It's pretty fun. Need I say that Margaret won? And then Apples to Apples which is my favorite game. During Settlers Annie brought in her tape recorder with the tape we'd made for Margaret on it. So at random points in both the afore mentioned games she'd play the tape in response to what one of us had said. After Bonnie won Apples to Apples, we just sat around and asked the tape recorder random questions while either fast forwarding or rewinding the tape, and then see if what we played made sense in answer to the question we asked it. It was really funny! So if the tape's right, Annie will kill Steve by throwing me at him and Kim will find the body. (Sorry Steve, but it was Annie's idea.)

Today I get to look forward to much homework as I have two tests. ( One on Tuesday and one on Wednesday. ) Prayer for doing well on both of them would be much apprieciated since it's geography and biology respectively and they just happen to fall into the science catagory which I suck at.

Wedding Bells are going to Ring Four Times!

I have four, count 'em four cousins getting married this summer, Christmas and next spring! One in July, August, December and next April or May. I'm sooo excited! I really enjoy every cousin-in-law I'll have. My cousins are all Christians and God gave each of them awesome Christians to marry!
We went through a time when every year a cousin (or sister) graduated from high school and now it's onto at least one getting married once a year. I think it's funny how it clumps up like that. But I guess that only works when the ages aren't far apart.

In choir for our Pops Concert we're doning a Beattles lots of songs put together. (What's the name for that? Melsomething.) Anyway, one of the songs is Goin' to the Chapel and we're gonna get Married. Another is These Boots were made for Walkin' and It's My Party and I'll Cry if I want to. Those are all really fun songs!

10 Reasons Why Valentine's Day is Great

(I've read too many 10 reasons why I hate Valentine's Day posts.)

1. Candy
2. Get to see/hang out with friends
3. Don't have to worry about your guy (that you don't have) forgeting to get you something
4. I got two really good romance novels from my parents
5. It was sunny outside! I love sun!
six, seven, eight, nine and ten- God loves me and all you all no matter what

I feel better now! Anybody else?
Have a good rest of the week everyone!

KLove

This afternoon my dad and I took my car to Randall Park and then to Costco to get gas. We fed the ducks at the park. I know it's pretty corny to feed the ducks, but my dad wanted to and nobody else would go with him. It was actually kind of fun because there were no geese around. (Geese are scary because when we were little my dad would make them chase us and they'd try to bit us 'cause they wanted the bread we had in our hands. It was very traumatic.) Yeah.

Then on our way to Costco my dad rolled down the window to fiddle with the antanna(sp). He's strong so he made it go up a few more inches! (Mom & I had tried and we couldn't make it go up anymore.) So I tried KLove and it worked! I'm so happy! I was getting deprived.

Gotta go 'cause Julie needs to get on the internet. Talk to ya later.

Randomness

Yesterday Anna and I skipped our 8:30 class and went to Essencia Bakery and Starbucks and her work to give an oatmeal cookie to her co-worker Marty. It was my first time skipping a class. I'll probably never do it again because with my luck I'll miss the day that Mr. Blisard tells us something important like we're having a test on Monday or something.

Tomorrow I'm meeting my disease group (SARS) in the library which reminds me that I gotta print my info. off the computer today. The people in my group are pretty nice I suppose except the blonde girl is super ditzy! But at least she has the hair to match her approach to geo/bio. She asks the questions that she must not think about before asking.

Today at Apple Valley my mom had her problem boy run out of the room in the middle of class! I didn't see what happened, but he's done stuff like that before.

Julie just got home, so I gotta get off the internet.

Family Time

Yesterday afternoon at about 1:00PM Barbie got home. It was sooo great to see her! There's something about seeing her in person after her having been in Haiti for three and a half weeks. Anyway, we all had lunch together while she told us about the babies she'd grown to love. Then we went for a walk up the canal road onto the Indian Reservation. Julie made dinner and Laura & Cahnen came over to join us. (And Barbie's best friend.) After dinner we begged my dad to get out slides from when we were little, which he did. After being hassled by four daughters, who could say no? So for the next few hours we just sat and laughed at the funny pictures. It was great! We haven't done that in forever! (At least not with all eight of us there.) We also did a puzzle. (One of those billion piece ones, ya know? At least to me it seemed that way. Need I say we didn't finish it?)

This morning I went to church with Valerie and we sat with Laura and Cahnen with Uncle Stew sitting in front of us. It is sooo funny to listen to him comment on what's being said or done up front! He's really funny once he gets into it! (That sounds pretty redundant, but I'm not in the mood to change it.)

Oh, and we have a Haiti Team at church that's leaving Thursday. They go to Terre Blanche and run a medical "hospital" of sorts and a VBS. I sooo want to go someday! The only problem is they only go in November and February so it's always during school.

Now onto homework. Sad Days. But I have a test tomorrow and one on Wednesday. Plus the weekly seminar. Talk to ya all later.

My Pretty Boring Day

Okay, today it was sooo windy! Oh my gosh. If it hadn't been for the wind it would've been really nice. (Curses the wind) I went for a walk this morning despite the wind. The tumbleweeds were everywhere! It was crazy! There was also an extremely yappy dog who freaked out and went wild when I walked past his yard on the other side of the street.

I went to Old Navy this afternoon and got a really cute green purse. I also got two shirts one 3/4 and one T-sirt, and a $1 deck of cards with those nasty Valentine's Day hearts on the back. They were just random (and cheap), so I had to get them. What I really wanted was to get a sweatshirt but alas, the only ones they had were for boys and even the smalls are too big. Sad Days. (I'm geting extremely tired of people commenting on my WVHS sweatshirts.)

Hope everyone else had a good day.

SALT

Last night Annie, Keith, Andy and I went to SALT. It was A LOT of fun! The paster at CMA church is awesome! He spoke on faith and the different ways it can be unhealthy. I learned a lot. The werid thing is that when I got home I did a devotional that goes along with the sermon series at church that was about fortitude in faith. I think God was trying to tell me something. Andy drove us there and I'm just glad I got home alive. He drives a little to fast for my sanity. Plus he told us just as we were entering Yakima that he wasn't wearing his contacts. I didn't even know he had contacts and I'm glad I didn't until the very end of the drive.

I tried to post this at school, but the YVC computers in the lab are dumb! I sat there and waited for it to publish itself for longer than I should have to. I finally gave up and got off the internet. (Annie and I had to get to class.)

I'm not going to Spokanne this weekend. Barbie has to work Friday so she's just going to come over on Saturday and stay until Sunday afternoon. I think she's coming to please my mom more than anything 'cause mom needs to physically see with her own eyes that Barbie is safe and everything. Personally I don't blame my mom. But I get to see Barbie! It'll be great! I'm excited.
Jenn, if you see George around school in the near future tell him happy birthday for me as it's his birthday today.

Only one more day of school this week!
Talk to ya all later.

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