God's poking me...

So, today I'm hanging out at the Common Cup, which is a café in the basement of our church.
I'm on the computer, obviously. I tried to log onto my Facebook, but it wouldn't work. I kept trying, but it kept freezing, which meant I needed to keep restarting Firefox. That was irritating. Then I realized, 'You know, I spend so much time on Facebook, and not enough time helping my mom, or playing with my sisters, or stuff that's way more important that talking to friends on a virtual world.' I think stuff like AIM, Yahoo messenger, and Facebook are great, but they can consume your life. You can spend hours doing absolutely nothing except staring at a screen watching pointless movies. There are so much better things to do!!
Today I just felt God going *poke poke* I'm still here. *poke poke* Do the work your mom told you to do. *poke poke* Come on, you need to stop centering your life around friends.
Whoa. That's kind of big for me. Friends are probably the biggest part of my life. They're probably getting even bigger than God... oops. So. I'm going to try and give God the glory, give God the praise, give God the attention in all I do.

~(@ Sarah @)~

Today's the DAAAAAY! The sun is SHINING!!!!! The tank is CLEEEEEEAN!!!!

Yes, I'm quoting Nemo.
Quoting is a fun way of talking, I suppose. We play a game in drama improv where you have to talk using only the names of songs or the names of books... it's extremely difficult. You have to be really smart/a real nerd to play. *laugh* Just kidding. But you do have to know a lot about music in order to play. Which I don't... dang.

I really need to clean my room... and my letters decided to italicize themselves without my permission. Oh well, it looks cccoll.... col.cool. Oh, wow.... I need some more sleep. My sisters went to drama camp this morning and were really really loud, which woke me up. Gr.

Off to the cleaning! Urgh.

~(@ Sarah @)~

Mixer Explosion!

Alright, story time!!

About a year or so ago, my mom was cooking with our electric mixer. All of a sudden, she hears a loud 'POP' and the mixer turns off. She looks down and sees Lydia, my little sister, with a pair of dognail clippers... and the wire cut in half. We still have a black spot on our silverware drawers from where it exploded. I thought it was hilarious. Lydia, however, did not. She started crying, poor thing. Now we have a pink mixer, with which, I'm in the process of making a cake!!!!
The end.

And I'm changing my signature.
~(@ {Sarah} @)~

Prayer would be cool...

Hey,
I'm kind of freaking out. I don't know what's happening, but at this point I just feel like I'm on autopilot. I'd just like stuff to get back to the way it was... even though I know that's not going to happen. As close to normal as possible... which is pretty dang far from regular normal for me. *smirk*
Life is weird.
It decides to be wonderful for a couple days, then all of a sudden decides to throw a curve ball at me. But, I guess that's how it works.
Maybe I haven't been depending on God enough in my good times, as well as in my rough ones. Oops. Well, word of advice: Lean on God even when your life seems like nothing could go wrong!

Thanks,
Sarah @)~

Ho, wow.

I don't know where to start...... I'm just kind of... wheeee!!!!
I need to go to Best Buy sometime soon... my iPod is dead, and the charger that connects to the computer isn't working... Nor will my iPod turn on... *crying*

I'm excited for tomorrow! Brandon is bringing his guitar and I'm bringing my violin and we're going to play worship songs!!
Today I was playing my violin and I learned a song called Tambourin by Grétry, or something like that... I don't remember his name. It's a pretty easy song, but it's really fancy and sounds hard. It's also really fun.

I'm just really tired today... and really hungry. It's nine and I still haven't eaten dinner... oops!

Hugs and Kisses,
~Sarah~

Algebra Needs To Die

Hey y'all,
I'm stuck at home, doing Algebra.... I can't figure out the stupid factoring thingy.
My dad went to pick up my mom and sisters in Chicago, and my party did not go as planned. Phooey.
uhm.... I really don't have much to say. I left my sword at CTK last night, which made me kind of sad. My Bible debate didn't happen as planned... so facebook will have to do.
I'm off to see the Wizard.
I'm not in a good mood. rawr. Agitation hangover?
Oh, and mosquitoes think I'm hot. *laugh*

Hugs and Kisses,
~Sarah~

Adventure #1

Hey y'all!!

So, day one. We had just gotten there. We were in bed, and it's like 11:30-ish. We hear this beeping and and a little light flashing under our door. I look through the peephole in our door and see a bright flashing light. I go out the door, and what is going off but the fire alarm. We suspect somebody burned popcorn or something. Anywho. The whole dorm has to go outside and stand in the parking lot for about 20 minutes while the police come and check on the building. Woo-hoo! Adrenaline rush!

Hugs and Kisses,
~Sarah~

........ it would take hours to recount the quotes of Ballet Mag. But, I'll tell you one. Now, you have to imagine 3am, me in a very sleepy voice, absolutely serious. I didn't laugh at all. It was weird. And really long. But hilarious. So, Katie (a girl in level 8) comes into our hall with a legwarmer wrapped around her head, a banana in her hand, and a posse of banana holders behind her. They kidnap Beth, our counselor, then let her go. About 5 minutes later, Lindsay (a girl in level 9) runs into our hall screaming, "Where are my bananas?!?" Katie and her posse run in, still holding the bananas, and hold up Lindsay. Later, while Rachel and I are laying in bed getting ready for sleep, we're talking about ninjas. Then pirates. I say, "Pirates names always have something to do with beard. Blackbeard, Whitebeard, Graybeard..." Rachel says, "Bluebeard, Purplebeard..." I say, "Pinkbeard!" Rachel says, "Pinkbeard the pirate would be gay." I say, "I'm pink beard the pirate, and I'm a girl, so that doesn't work.... and I have a ship. Made of sponge. The sponge holes are really big, so it's like a cavernous cave in my ship. And it's coated with tar, so it doesn't sink. My sail is made of cheese, so it's not electric conducing... er... it doesn't conduct electricity. I sail around in my ship and fight the good guys. Except, I always win, because bad guys always win. The good pirates will come on my ship, but I have my little Reepicheep mouse rapier and stab them full of holes and they spurt blood, and it's a beautiful sight. Then my crew is made of bunnies. Well, people with bunny ears and bunny tails and bunny legs. And they carry claymores. So we went to this village and I ordered my crew to attack. The chopped up the houses so they fell down and crushed all the people inside. They dug them up and threw them in the ocean. The ocean turned a nice shade of red, and it was a beautiful sight. Then we went to the king. The first mate held him up with his claymore and said, 'Pinkbeard the Pirate wants you to be a captive.' And the king says, 'Pinkbeard the pirate is gay.' And I say, 'Pinkbeard the Pirate is a woman.' Then the King follows and I put him in my deep cavernous ship, and put him through unimaginable torture. He gets stung by anemia... I mean.... amememenenome.... anemone. But only one at a time, very slowly. Then when he's in so much pain that he can't stand it, the ship sponges him full of water, then sucks it all out again. Then the anemone sting again. The repeats until he dies of starvation. Then we go to my island, which is shaped like a heart. In the inverted point of the heart, like the top, I have a parking spot for my pirate ship. And I drive my pirate ship around the island and park there. In the middle of the island is my castle, which is made of marshmellows... no. It's a regular castle, only it's covered in marshmellows, and the sun melts them, so I have a white sticky shiny castle." At this point, Rachel is asleep, so I stop. This is what happens when it's 3 in the morning and I've had 20oz of Dr. Pepper. Hugs and Kisses! ~Sarah~

I'm home!!!!!!!!

Hey y'all!
I'm back from Mississippi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had an awesome time. I'm really tired, so I don't think I'll post everything... but here are some highlights.
1) Fire alarm... ugh.
2) water
3) sickness
4) injury
5) solo!
6) poor Gracie

I might elaborate on some of those later, but this is just a 'hey I'm back' post.

Hugs and Kisses!
~Sarah~

GOODBYE!!!!!!!!

I'm leaving for Mississippi tomorrow!!!! I'm really really excited, but really really sad at the same time. Yesterday was saying goodbye day to at least half my friends... then I went home and cried. It wasn't this bad last year. Like, I didn't cry at all. Strange...

I really should be packing, but I need to go to the store... bah.

Okay... that was all. I love you guys! Thanks for reading! Talk to you in two weeks, and hopefully I'll have some pictures!

Hugs and Kisses!
~Sarah~