Fun Times

As you can see, the new layout is up. Props to Nova for telling me how to do the thumbnail things, although I haven't done that part yet because I don't have my past headers on this laptop. So what do ya think of the new layout? I know the yellow is shocking but I don't think it's *too* overpowering. Do you?

I had a great birthday yesterday. Nice and simple. I went to see the movie "To Save a Life." It was GREAT. And I'm not just saying that because there was a switchfoot song in it. It was a really really really good movie. Go see it, or better yet wait for it to come out on netflix ;).

See ya later.

Coming Soon to a Desolate Blog Near You...

I'm going to be making a new layout very soon [probably tonight], so stay tuned. Also, I have a question concerning that. I need to know how to make clickable thumbnails for my past headers like my friends Sare and Nova have at the bottom of their blogs, and maybe some other friends too, but I haven't paid attention [sorry]. I think that maybe I can do that on photobucket, but I was wondering how other people did it if there's another way. I'll figure it out eventually, probably.

Okay, so I was about to complain that I have to do housework tomorrow on my birthday, but then I glanced at my post from yesterday and decided not to because there are people going through WAY worse things than having to do housework on their birthdays. I mean a 14 year old girl halfway around the world will wake up 15 tomorrow, just like me, but instead of getting to spend the day in birthday bliss will "service" 15-35 men. It's sickening to think of, but guess what. It's HAPPENING. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to turn this post into a sex trafficking awareness rant, but hey, it seems like no one knows about it, excluding my youth group and my boardie friends. But if more people did know about it, it wouldn't be happening, right? I don't know.

Ok, I'll be back with a new layout. See ya.

EDIT: [9:32 pm] ehheheheh. So I have the basic header done, but I realized that I hadn't installed all my dafont fonts on this laptop yet, and when I went to do this it said I needed an administrator's password to do so. Don't ya just LOVE parental controls? I can't even install FONTS without permission. And both my parents are asleep. Lovely. So I'm going with no new layout tonight. Man. I wanted a new layout. *throws 3 year old level tantrum* I guess I'll do it Sunday afternoon after church. Maybe. Ah poo. Ok bye again.

R.I.P. Chelsea King

I didn't even know her, but my heart breaks for her. No one should have to go like that. NO ONE. It just makes me so sick. She had everything going for her. She was beautiful. She was talented. She was loved. But one selfish man took all of that away from her. I can't even express how angry this makes me. This world is jacked up. Rapists deserve the death penalty.

Then again, so do I.

1 Serious 2 Not

We need to. Not pray for a new puppy or money or a boyfriend. We need to pray for this country. For this world. And always. Not just now. God wants us to communicate with Him. Whether things are going wrong or right. Things are not going right, currently. Haiti, Darfur, Chile, Chelsea King, and the list just gets bigger by the second. While you're at it, take a peek in the Word, if you will. My dad has this cool study Bible called the "Spirit Filled Life Bible" and I've started reading it. It has notes and vocabulary and stuff like that. It takes a good while to read just one chapter with all the extra stuff. Oh, by the way, I just started this quest into the Bible yesterday. I read the introduction to Genesis and then today I read the chapter with the aforementioned extra stuff. It's good. I like it. UM. God didn't have all those men write a huge Book for nothing. If He didn't want us to read it, He wouldn't have wasted all that time. So let's get to it.

Alright. So it's snowed for almost 8 hours now and the ground has exactly nothing on it. Because the temperature hung around 34 degrees. Not cool. But we did get out of school at 12:30 today. HEE HEE. But all I missed was chorus, which isn't a bad class at all. I like it. I wish this would've happened yesterday so that I could've missed science. But science isn't all that bad anymore either now that we're talking about chemistry and not physics. I think I'm gonna like chemistry next year because I like this pre-chemistry type stuff we're doing now. Oh, by the way we have to do a project/report on an element so if anyone has a really cool element in mind that they would suggest so that I don't have to research a boring one, that would be lovely.

Track's going pretty well so far. Although I'm not that great at running fast for short distances. I'm more of a longer and good but not dying pace. But that's okay. You have to work on your weaknesses, right? My legs hurt from yesterday. Hahahah. For cross country we don't do a whole lot of speedwork, but track is all speedwork. Yay for me. I'll get through it, though. We have our first meet in about 2 weeks. I hope it goes well. *grimace*

CLOSING REMARK: check out Nova's blog because she has a new layout and I think it's REALLY COOL. biya!

Ran Dumb Fac Tym

Just in case you don't read gibberish or whatever language that is, this post is entitled "Random Fact Time." You may or may not find these enjoyable.

• My fingers on my left hand are so calloused from guitar that the trackpad on this laptop doesn't even respond to them if I use the actual tips of my fingers.
• My feet are cold.
• SOUR PATCH KIDS ARE MY FAVORITE CANDY THAT ISN'T CHOCOLATE.
• I still have my ski invasion bracelet on.
• I'm boring.

Yeah, I'm boring. Hah.

I have something cool to share. I think I've finally figured out a rough sketch of a plan for my life as far as dating/relationships. On the radio station I listen to they have "encouraging" or "thought-provoking" messages sometimes during breaks between songs, and one I've heard a lot lately is one about dating. The guy started with a story about how he had a girlfriend in first grade and said "it's possible to fall in love in the first grade, cause that's how God designed us, but first grade is a little young to be tying the knot." Then continued by asking "so what age should I start dating/fall in love?" or something to that effect then he asked another question. "If you met someone today that you wanted to spend the rest of your life with, would you get married this year? Probably not, so at what age do you want to get married?" The first time I heard this, I said "25" in my head. Then he said "Let's say you wanna get married at 25." HEH. "And it only takes a year or so to get to know someone, so you should start dating around 23 or 24. Until then meet different people and build friendships, and don't get serious until you're good and ready" or something like that. That's cool. Why waste my time worrying about guys now? It's not like I'm getting married anytime soon. This is my mindset. Other people might think differently. Cool. Something to think about, though.

OK BYE.

Shallow Statistics

Do statistics have to be numbers? Stupid question, I know. I'm guessing the answer is yes. But I thought the name "Shallow Statistics" was cool. So here they are. I guess they can be called "Petty, Unimportant, Slightly Whiny Facts That Cause Me to Question My Internet Activity", but the first name is more appealing, I think.

• I haven't recieved a text in over 48 hours.
• I haven't been @replied on twitter since January 28th.
• No formspring items in 3 days, no actual QUESTIONS in 2 weeks.
• No blog comments since January 26th.

That's enough. Now that I've got that out in the open I apologize for sounding whiny. I don't even care about the internet as much as I used to. That's good. I'm beginning to live my life more off of the computer. Haha I can hear the chorus of "well if you don't care, then why are you trying to make us feel bad for you?" Sorry. I guess that is what I'm doing. Well, don't feel bad. Feel glad that I'm trying to get away from sympathy.

In other, more important news, please pray for my friend Caleb. His grandma passed away recently. Ah Caleb. He's my new friend, I think. I think he's a friend. If fighting and cutting eachother=friend, then yes, he's a friend. Oh also eating delicious 89 cent burritos at taco bell together. Friend. Yay! Ski Invasion is how the friendship began. My friend Alex is also his friend now too. Friends are cool.

MAN. I don't understand how-- neeeeeeevermind. I shall rant this rant at a later time. Heh. Bye.

Alka Seltzer is NOT My Friend.

EWWW. Have you ever taken alka seltzer??? My stomach's been all dkhgaiahgioahr since yesterday so my mom told me to take alka seltzer. You have to dissolve 2 tablets into 4 ounces of water then drink it. Now 4 ounces looks like nothing, and it is nothing when you're just drinking water. But when you have 2 alka seltzer tablets mixed in there, it's the most torturous 4 ounces of your LIFE. It was like drinking sprite mixed with chlorine mixed with WOOD. ICKY. But my stomach already feels better. That's good.

So I realize that I haven't posted in a while. Oops. Let's see...what has happened in my life since the 4th? Oh, first and 2nd track practices. Ski invasion. Good stuff. I don't have a large attention span so I'll write more sometime in the future maybe.