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I do love my school!

And blogging! Yay!!
This week has been a crazy one and I am glad that is it the weekend! I have a busy weekend as well but a lot of fun things going on too. I have to work on an essay for TIPS ( that isn't the exciting part)study for a TIPS midterm and do lots of other homework but other than that one of my old roomies is here to visit and tonight a group of us from The Fritz! are going out to get dinner and see a movie, since I did not get asked to Spring Formal and it would be lame to go alone ( boo boys!) this will be much more fun! It will be a great time of friendship that I need after this insane week. Last night I went to the Fritz house to hang out with Alyssa, Kate, Lisa and LoMain. Lisa and I made Rainbow cupcakes....totally doing that with my students when I teach! Seriously, it was awesome :) and we played Scategories which was so much fun! It was really good!
 Also, I have been looking forward to next semester and I think it will be a really good semester. I am able to sign up for classes pretty early since I will be a junior (finally) and so I think I am going to get a couple of really great profs. I am hoping to take both Kapic and Davis which I am so excited about! Another great thing is I will have mostly Tuesday/Thursday classes so that I will have the majority of other days to study and work. I may be able to take Choral which means I get to be back in a choir!!!! This makes me SO happy :) I miss singing in a choir almost daily. Lastly, next semester will be great because I will only be taking 16 hours so I will get to sleep and have a social life.
That is-if nothing keeps me from getting those classes or signing up when I am scheduled to. But I am going to pray that God works everything out because I know that is what I need to do. I need to trust him enough to say that even if things don't work out exactly this way it will be the right way for my semester to go, just like this crazy semester is just what I needed at this time in my life.
So I was reading Psalm 119 and I discovered a great verse (well technically Heather and I discovered it....but ya know! ) Anyway, we came across a verse that has really stuck with me. It is one that I literally don't think I have ever heard anybody talk about before.....are you dying to know what it is yet??? OK well I will tell you!

¹⁷³Let your hand be ready to help me,
   for I have^(JD) chosen your precepts.
¹⁷⁴I^(JE) long for your salvation, O LORD,
   and your law is my^(JF) delight. ¹⁷⁵Let my soul live and praise you,
   and let your rules help me.
¹⁷⁶I have^(JG) gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,
   for I do not^(JH) forget your commandments. 
Psalm 119

So the last verse is the one that has come to me so many times this week as I have been working on homework and stressing over things I can't control. It is so good to know that I have a Savior who will seek me out when I am lost because there are so many times that I need him to find me. It also brought me to this passage as well:

For I do not understand my own actions. For^(T) I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

Romans 7:15

I made the connection between these two verses because Paul is talking about how he (and I) struggle to do what we know is right and what we do desire because of our nature and the Psalmist is saying the same thing in a way. The plea for God to "seek your servant" really resonates with me in my walk. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else but I hope it encourages you a little like it did me even if I am not clearly explaining :)

I think I have rambled enough now...I really should make that last call on my list and then do some homework. 

Spring Break!

HAHA I have my blog! Yay for being home and away from the filter :) I am pretty sure that thing won't last long once the admistration re-thinks its knee-jerk recation solution to burn sites. I am glad they blocked those but not that they blocked personal blogs, so I will be enjoying the right to blog with I am home. 

So far this has been a very relaxing and interesting break, yesterday I recovered from my long trip by sleeping late and then going to the flea market with Dad. He bought my Starbucks before taking me because he is wonderful! Then we wandered around for a couple of hours just because. Once we got home Mom and G-ma were ready to go out grocery shopping so we went, because even though I was tired they wanted me to come with them. It was a good thing. 

So we went to Wal-Mart.....UGH! So I had forgotten how bad our Wal-Mart is. It isn't scarry or anything, it is just CRAZY all the time! It didn't help that it was Saturday afternoon but you know....it was bad! Also,  10 minutes into the shopping G-ma went to get something for her list and then...WE LOST HER! Wow that was intense! At first we were not worried because, sad to say, she moves pretty slowly so we never expect her to complete a task quickly. BUT after about 10 minutes of her not coming back to meet us we started to wonder about her. We seperated and searched for a while until Mom decided to just go ahead and call to see if she would pick up her cell...she did, she was sitting on a bench becase she was tired and knew we would find her :) Thank goodness for that but oh my was it unnerving. From there we made a couple more stops (G-ma hung out in the car) and then went home...

Today was wonderful, I love being home and at my church! Dad didn't preach today which was a little disappointing for me but Ande Johnson was great so that made up for it some. 

I love that this afternoon Dad and I refilled shotgun shells....yes, that is what I said....it was AWESOME! I always feel like I have earned points ( I don't know what the points are for but I have a good number of them) when I learn something like that. Tomorrow I am hoping to go shooting skeet with Dad for the first time. 

Sometimes I think every family functions like ours and then I spend a week at school and I realize that we are not the typical family. For instance, not every guy hunts! Who knew?! Also, not everyone grows up listening to 60's and 70's music, and skipping the 80's because everyone knows this was a waste of a decade as far as music goes.....this isn't normal? Really?! Ok, well I love my family just how we are and think we are the best kind of family, obviously :)

Well that really is all I have to say, I know these are really random posts but that is all I know to put up here so there it is!