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3/14/13

Baby Boy

I would hate to find out how many pictures on my phone are of my dog. I just love him! He sleeps in my room every night. Sometimes on my bed. Sometimes not. He always snores. After two and a half years, I hardly notice it, but when I'm on the phone people always comment on his strange noises. Just more reason to love him, I think. When he does sleep on my bed, it's usually in the most inconvenient place. He's so cute, though, that I get over it.

& yes, I call him my baby boy. Not weird at all. He's one of two dogs we've ever had, & the only animal we've had to like me, so I hold on tight to him!

3/9/13

Right Now

earlier today: snuggled with my kitty & said goodbye to our first international missions team

- Thinking about when my next mission trip may be. This spring break marks three years since my first one & two years since my last one. Sad.
- Watching Love It or List It. I have a love/hate relationship with this show.
- Listening to my dad prepare for his sermon tomorrow morning on global missions.
- Dreaming of learning to quilt so I can make this or this.

-r

3/3/13

Hitting It Up

I'm 90% sure that title is not correct golf lingo. Oh well.

Today we went to Top Golf in Allen for the first time as a family. Overall, a pretty fun experience! My observations:
1) I do not care to do the technical golfing stance. I get halfway into it & then just hit the ball. YOLO?
2) Injecting chocolate &/or raspberry into donut holes is weird. I did not actually try one, but it was still weird.
3) My ideal time to go would probably not be on a Sunday afternoon when everyone else is there.
4) Get the kid's pizza instead of the chicken poppers. Seriously.

ps - tonight was the first episode of this season's Celebrity Apprentice & I already want to stop watching. Ugh.

2/28/13

End It Movement.

On Tuesday, 2/26, I saw some posts on Instagram about an End It Movement & disappearing from social media for a day like those that disappear into slavery. Honestly, I don't know much about the organization (company?), but I do know that I'm against slavery. Human trafficking (not the only form of slavery that they help with, according to the minute I spent on their website) is a thing that I've been very aware of for years now. I guess you could say that it's one of my passions.

So, I decided to disappear too. I wrestled back & forth with myself all day & whether or not I would do it, but I eventually decided to. So, yesterday, 2/27, I disappeared from social media. Side note: I'm one a lot of social media. I did not use foursqaure, instagram, Facebook, Twitter, GetGlue, YouTube, Vine, Pheed, Pinterest, Tumblr, or Goodreads all day. I didn't necessarily miss the social media, I was just shocked by how much free time I had. Overall, it did make me more aware. Maybe not in the exact way that it was intended, but still.

ps - End It Movement website
pps - this is my 100th post. yay!

2/15/13

To-do list

There is lots to do right now. Read some Hamlet. Finish the laundry. Pack. Shower. Analyze a poem. Research a dude. Download my 365 project pictures. Study for anatomy practical. Journal. College essays.

Instead, though, I'll catch up on my favorite blogs. I'll write down all those things & get to them later. Oh, the beauty of being young + slightly carefree.

ps - Two posts in one day & both without photos? Yes. New thing? Probably not. Learning to find my voice? I think so.

The Lamb

In my AP Lit class, we do this thing called the Daily Bard. Each day, one person finds a poem & shares it at the end of class.

Today was my day. I planned on using a poem that a friend suggested, but it wasn't in the book so I instead settled for a poem whose title is (basically) what my name means.

The Lamb
by William Blake

Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing wooly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice!
Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee

Little Lamb I'll tell thee,
Little Lamb I'll tell thee!
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is mild,
He became a little child:
I a child & thou a lamb,
We are called by his name.
Little Lamb God bless thee.
Little Lamb God bless thee.

1/28/13

Lip Dub

Back in December, the day before the world was supposed to end, my high school filmed our first lip dub.

It started back in October when my yearbook teacher saw the McKinney High School Lip Dub. She showed our principal, & he took it from there by planning it with some of the student leaders in our school + the Career Center.

Leading up to it, I don't think many people (including myself) were excited about it. Once we were getting in place, though, it began to get exciting. They stopped the recording (as you can see) so that we could all book it down there to get into the pep rally scene.

Also, how cool is it that, after just being uploaded a few weeks, it already has over 6,000 views?

You can see me on the left at 2:03. I'm right after the bowling sign with a camera in my face. (:

1/23/13

Letterman

When I first learned about being a football filmer, I had the question of whether or not I would get a letterman. The answer? Yes. It was ordered the week after the last football game/the week before Thanksgiving.

Today, it arrived. We ran down to the field house after the final bell to receive our babies.

Now, before you think I'm completely crazy for getting a letterman mere months before graduating, just know that I thought about this long & hard. Even as we were walking into the field house, I was worried that I had made the wrong decision. I now know that I didn't.

If you know me, then you know that I hate money. I hate how dependent we must be on it, but that's another rant for another time. The point of me saying all this is that I did in fact think about this. My parents were in support either way, &, that discussing it with quite a few people, I decided to go for it.
So, here's my high school letterman.

1/21/13

Hawks

Today we went to Dallas Cowboys Stadium to watch some minor league football games, & then ate at Quaker Steak & Lube for the first time. They have super awesome bendy straws AND cheese fries. I was happy.

1/17/13

Quiet time

Today I had a nice little quiet time. I had apple sauce (normal) & Chick-Fil-A fries (not normal). It rocked.

1/15/13

Snow Day

Today we had a snow day. Except, we didn't get out of school for it.

Lame.

It was all melted by the time we got out anyway. Sigh. I love snow. Especially the kind that doesn't include ice! Just snow + the cold. I hope to one day live where snow is a common occurrence...

1/14/13

Bedside

Maybe it's because I'm lazy, or maybe it's because I'm efficient, but I keep all my essentials by my bedside.

Currently;
- 1 journal
- 1 Bible
- 3 pens, 1 highlighter
- 1 new Kleenex box
- 2 tickets to football banquet
- 1 iPhone cord
- 4 books (Christy Miller Collection volume 2, Q&A A Day, LifeStyle devotional, Praying for Your Future Husband)
- 1 Flip camera
- 1 3oz. Japanese Cherry Blossom body lotion
- 1 baby blue nail polish
- 1 bird house

1/12/13

Lights

Today, we put away our Christmas decorations. (I know, late). As sad as I am about that, it meant that I could snatch some lights to hang around my room. & I'm pretty ecstatic, to say the least.

1/11/13

Morning

One of the highlight of my mornings is the promise of a nice view on the way to school + a new day.

"They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." - Lamentations 3:23

1/10/13

Greetings...

...from my dawg. (;

1/7/13

Today

Today, one of the most highly anticipated books (to me) arrived. I actually wanted to start it five months ago, on my birthday, but it just worked out to start it at the beginning of this year. Needless to say, I'm ecstatic to have yet another way to track my life.

11/29/12

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (in Yearbook)

Today in yearbook I walked in & sat down. Then I noticed the Christmas decorations. I'm fairly certain I squealed. Needless to say, December is one of my favorite months. I'm so beyond excited to see all the Christmas decorations start being put up all over the place.