31.3.09

"Death" week turns into one of the best weeks. EVER.

Good things:

finished my NPA. yes.
my apologetics class being cancelled.
the joy of Friendship bread.
coffee and hazelnut creamer.
helping Jennie pick out her graduation dress.
seeing Carissa Abrego.
being friends with Marla Bustad.
being friends with Cristi, Julianne, Christianne, Megan and Krysten.
phone call from Tamara.
encouraging classmates from nursing school. They are all pretty great.
Kendra being Kendra.
Four day weekend: Elise and Katelyn, here I come.
Got the nursing assistant job in Honey Rock. WISCONSIN! yes.
The realization of how much God cares about the day-to-day and how He has encouraged me this week. Praise Him always.
The role that humor plays as my coping mechanism.
Being able to surrender any sort of control or temptation to be anxious because of the assurance of God's absolute and sovereign control of the universe. In other words, I'm glad that God's in charge.
Easter break in 10 days.

25.3.09

A sickly, dying bird just pooped on my car. Don't ask me how I know. I just do.

...and more public self-disclosure to pass the time between now and napping, while all the while procrastinating. Well, there's nothing really on the agenda tonight except trying not to get any sick-er.

THREE NAMES I GO BY
1. Silbs
2. Linell
3. Smelly

THREE JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE
1. Certified Nursing assistant
2. Resident Assistant
3. Barista

THREE PLACES I HAVE LIVED
1. Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines
2. McAllen, Texas
3. Fresno, CA


THREE TV SHOWS THAT I WATCH
1. The Office
2. Lost
3. Arrested Development

THREE PLACES I HAVE BEEN
1. Mexico
2. Canada
3. Hawaii

THREE PLACES I WANT TO GO
1. Wisconsin!-- specifically Honey Rock.
2. anywhere in Europe, please.
3. Middle Earth (yeah, i'm cool).

THREE OF MY FAVORITE FOODS
1. Rice
2. Sashimi
3. Rice+Sashimi+cucumber+seaweed=Sushi (mm)
[3.1 Fried Chicken.]


THREE THINGS I WOULD NEVER DO
1. be a popstar
2. bunjee jump
3. become anorexic/bulimic because a) I love food and b) I hate throwing up.

THREE THINGS I THINK ARE FUNNY
1. children and the way they try to figure out life in their limited contexts.
2. most of my close friends are hilarious.
3. Brian Regan

THREE THINGS I REGRET
1. being hormonal at the most inconvenient times
2. my mom not enrolling me in dance classes when I was little
3. not camping more often. I need to go.

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE ME
1. Spiders and Praying Mantises
2. marrying someone who is not passionate about God, who becomes "content" with the complacency of mediocrity.
3. marriage

THREE UNBELIEVABLE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO ME
1. Jesus--that He would love me and save me.
2. Biola.
3. "House of God Forever" by Jon Foreman

THREE THINGS THAT ALWAYS MAKE ME CRY
1. God's glory in missions, specifically when unreached people groups hear about Christ
2. A mother losing her child, for whatever reason.
3. the horrific things that the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) are doing in Africa.

THREE THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO
1. finishing school! WAAA!
2. children!
3. Where God is going to use me.

THREE PETS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED
1. An ant named Anty
2. A dog named Twilight (short for Twilight Zone)--I was a weird kid.
3. Pedro the fish. well, he was our floor pet, back when BASE (Horton 2nd North) was the safe place!


THREE FAVORITE MOVIES
1. Once
2. The Incredibles
3. Sister Act 2

THREE FAVORITE BOOKS
1. Harry Potter (all of them)
2. Psalms
3. The Problem of Pain by C.S Lewis

THREE FAVORITE DRINKS
1. Arnold Palmer (black tea lemonade)
2. Caramel Macchiatto
3. Manhattan Irish Cream, blended

THREE THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE
1. get hitched
2. raise chillin' as unto the Lawd (be a mom for God's glory)
3. see the world and meet the people.

THREE THINGS I AM DOING TODAY
1. Sleeping
2. Napping
3. Mock Rock Dress Rehearsal

23.3.09

Thoughts about things and stuff...

the following blog entry is dedicated to: the pharmacology test looming over my head that I haven't studied for, the lack of sleep I have to look forward to in loo (haha lieu?) of Mock Rock being this Friday and I have practice every night (930-1230) till then & the ominous Nursing Process Analysis paper due on April 1st (april fools?) that is going to be, at least, 30 pages long (I am on page 2...).

A list of things I would rather be doing, or am doing, instead of studying:
1.) Blog about not studying for my Pharmacology test (ta-da!)
2.) Come up with a list of sentences in alliteration just because I like doing it: "Always aspire to accomplish and acknowledge actions, or activities....yadda yadda"
3.) Acknowledging the fact that only an extravert would openly blog about this.
4.) Reminiscing about those good old days when my world revolved around the following: eating, sleeping, pooping.
5.) I was referring to my childhood, just in case you were wondering.
6.) Yes, I just said pooping. I'm sure my future husband will understand and will love me anyway, since really that's what it's all about, right?
7.) I wish my friendship bread would hurry up and ferment so I can bake it right now and eat in about 45min-1 hour depending on my oven or the altitude.
8.) I wonder...
9.) Thinking that maybe John Calvin himself wasn't a Five-point Calvinist.
10.) I marvel at the fact that some people will sit around and debate the Calvinism & Arminianism issue till their blue in the face, but fail to see the importance of applying whatever it is that they so passionately believe into real life situations: i. e. reaching out to the broken, the poor, loving people the way Christ would want his followers to, showing mercy and grace to others, etc.
11.) Woa, I just got deep there. Tends to happen.
12.) What is the point of this list, anyway?
13.) oh yes, Procrastination.
14.) Krichelle, if you're reading this, you shouldn't be.
15.) I wonder how the sound "gack" has become a semi-permanent part of my vernacular.
16.) Thinking that it's really neat that she has a multitude of friends, Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians alike :-)...
17.) I think I'm going to watch the first episode of the third season of Lost now.

5.3.09

Freedom.

they're free.
they've always been "free."
free to live,
free to see,
free to taste,
free to hate,
free to love,
free to discriminate,
free to judge,
free to be indifferent
free to be narcissistic,
free to be negligent,
free to take charge of destiny,
free to sit and watch the stars for signs,
free to be intelligent,
free to be ignorant,
free to be wise,
free to be indecisive,
free to do harm,
free to nurture,
free to kill,
free to save,
free to be free...

free to be enslaved in their freedoms.

they're free.
they've always been free.