Friday, December 10, 2004

A real quick one...

I got an 92% on my last very last English paper ever (we missed a run-on, dear becks :)... it's alright though... it's an "A".) and *drumroll please* I got my first 100% on a calculus test!!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D I got a 100% on the chapter 5 test....now I have to take the chap. 4&5 final this morning.. and first 1/2 of a spanish final.... but I thought I'd post those grades for those interested ;).... much love! I'm off...

Friday, December 03, 2004

Um...

I don't think the post below is exactly visable... my comp isn't agreeing with the whole process tonight... but anywho.. it's just an illustration of where my brain has been lately. I'll attempt a real post at a later date this month. Luv ya'll

I don't like checking the book's integration.. I mean this problem is a whole lot easier to intergrate than differentiate. Posted by Hello

Saturday, November 06, 2004

A Bit of Catching Up? And a Lot of Thinking

Aye, I have been rather neglectful of my blog haven't I?...hmm... well most recent news:
  • I dropped Digital Photography. I don't need the class and I don't need the stress and risk of a "B" pulling down my GPA. Oh, and my last assignment I turned in... the bottom of my boots were too clean and caused the picture to look set up. %)...However my teacher wanted to see the reins loop all the way around the boots, how set up would that look?..you can see why I dropped. Oh, and a side annoyance... he persisted in call the reins "leather straps" or "bull whip" even after being politely corrected. (I have roping reins on my everyday bridle so it does look a wee bit like a bull whip, but still...)
  • I feel like this is bragging *blush* but by accident I am #1 of the 14 people in my calculus class. The #3 person is my class is my buddie Laurie and I'm hoping the only other girl in our class got the #2 spot. That would so rock to have the girls (I believe all non-engineering majors) getting the best grades in calculus out of a bunch of likely engineers.
  • I just got Nicole C. Mullen's CD "Everyday People" and Superchic[k]'s CD "Last One Picked" and I LOVE them both. Such good wonderful solid stuff. I've needed it.

And so I think that's the most of the news...:) my fave quote so far from the everyday ppl CD is " You didn't die for me. You ain't my superhero. Why should I wanna be like you any ole way?!".... yup... man I've needed it. And from superchic[k].."sometimes it's hard to be a one girl revolution..". It is hard to be ones self sometimes. Especially in a world that seems so bent on being contrary to everything I am. But God gives us strength and we keep on keepin' on. "He keeps in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts Him." Steadfast because he trusts God. How oft' is our trust in our Heavenly Daddy that secure? Ya know it kinda ties in with some of what Mike Adkins was teaching at the Fall Retreat. Jesus promised to give us living water that we would never be thirsty again, yet so many of us are. Why? Because we've been drinking from the world's well and not from the well of God. You can't drink from both. One promises only increased thirst and the other utter satisfaction. Where is the utter satisfaction? It comes when we drink from the well of God until we ourselves become a wellspring. I know I've learned it to a point. This school year has not been the desert I've lived through in the past. But I'm not always satisfied. Oh for the days when school won't demand my attention and I can become so full of God that "rivers of living water issue forth" from me! Yet as I type this I feel that I am embarking on the journey. :) *sigh* A "moonshine" paper just lies between me and that... well a paper and 3 calc tests, 2 spanish tests, and some lit. quizes etc... okay the rest of the semester to be exact. %). I think I've just talked myself out of Calc 2 next semester. Or maybe not. I feel so much that the student lifestyle (that of incessant studying) and seeking after God can not truely co-exsist for any extended period of time. We literally starve our hearts and spirits to get an education. Oh sure, there are Christian organizations and functions... but if God said "I want you to spend the next two days in seclusion with me" how easily could any one of us do it? Or would you even be willing?...... thoughts meandering..... God give me patience with shallow people and boys. Particularly boys who insist on hanging with and being with the "in"/"popularity" of the shallow people. Shallow people are scared/freaked out/don't understand deep people when they're just being themselves. Then let them be that way. Why be shallow with them? So you can witness? How much of a witness are you? You're either a) giving up your own goodness of depth to be able to connect with them therefore showing them that your depth is compromise-able and perhaps not even real or b) you're showing/bringing them into a shallow Christianity. Scenario b makes me angrier than anything. Why would anyone want to be a shallow Christian? If people are truely seeking the truth then they will be willing to face the deep Christianity though it scares them. Aye... those are some tough words and I fail in living up to them sometimes. But I keep trying and I keep doing. :) My poor girlies... This doesn't apply to you as far I as I know... It's for the boys. That they would hear my words and LISTEN! with their HEARTS!!!!!! Part of me wants to shake them and part of me wants to sit and cry for the truth they don't like/want/won't hear. Did I say don't be friends with the shallow ppl? No! My friend Laurie from calc is worldly shallow but we get along and help one another with our studying... but I do my best not to sacrifice my deep self to being shallow. It's being in the world and not of it and so many Christians have given up and become shallow like the world they're in. Or they haven't even seen depth because those who have, have given up on it. Yeah, this is something that's been on my heart alot lately. I don't know what to do about it. It breaks my heart to see people convinced that they want what's second best. It's hard to trust steadfastly sometimes, but if you'll pull through and abandon yourself to God, He will satisfy you. He will never disappoint us if we trust steadfastly in Him. Can I please pound this into the heads of those who need to hear it? :) If I thought it would work I would. But I have to trust such people as I would like to pound this into to God. He knows how to reach them lots better than I do. It's my job to be faithful in prayer......................

.......Boys boys boys. When will they ever grow up and become men? Not by the world's standards but real men in the Word? *sigh* It seems they come so close and something comes along and totally de-rails them from their journey into God. They don't forsake or walk away from God. They compromise or just plateau and never really take that step over into manhood. They get soooo close. *musing smile* But then.. what would I do if there really were men in my life?...*soft chuckle*.. trip all over myself trying to catch one?...lol.. prolly. ah me.. And that brings me full circle back to wanting more time to become a woman of the Word me-self. .......*amused hmph*.. and I got online to research for my paper %) *sigh*. I bet you're wondering about the paper (at lest I know Becks is ;)).

We're reading Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart (I'd suggest reading it especially if you are interested in the history of southern Appalachia) and we have to write a research paper on some topic related to the book. I'm attempting to do my paper on the economics of moonshining, ie, why the mountaneers made moonshine, it was easier to transport than corn, it didn't spoil like corn, etc. Not turning up much evidence... it'd almost be easier to write a paper on the history of Moonshine (but that's Laurie's research topic...yeah we have calc and lit. together) since that's the info I've been turning up. Whatever... I'm about ready to head off to see what Mom's watching on TV and then head to bed... I've been typing for over an hour. Amazing.. and theraputic... I suppose :).. we shall see.. I really should get goin' though. I love ya'll. God bless you each abundantly (especially if you needed to hear what I had to say and LISTENED with your heart ;)). Be good ;) or at least try...lol :)**hugs**

Good night.

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Commentary on the New Pics Below

Right now these are my two best bets for my still-life assignment. That is unless I can come up with something better between now and Monday. :) We shall see. Well, if you have a favorite let me know! Post a comment and tell me what you like about it or why you think one is better (or worse) than the other. Love ya all!

Exhibit#2 Posted by Hello

Exhibt #1 Posted by Hello

Friday, October 15, 2004

For Meditation

"My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you..." Isaiah 26:9a (NIV)

"With my soul I have desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early..." Isaiah 26:9a (KJV)

"All night long I search for you; earnestly I seek for God..." Isaiah 26:9a (NLT)

Looking down the Cullasaja River off Hwy 64. Posted by Hello

Sunday, October 10, 2004

It's Really Late

And I just finished watching The Italian Job. Pretty good "high crime" movie. :) I'm scary... I like crime stories especially the ones that are so smooth no one gets hurt. *yawn* Binder still goes unfound.. but I will find it Wednesday (I'm on fall break now 'til then). Congrat's on thy kitty's new name, Becca! Sarah is a lovely name. :) Oh, Debbie (of the previous post) believes she will name her puppy Munchkin. 'Cuz that what she does.. she munches on your ankles. *soft chuckle* My calc teacher rocks... she's gonna let me photocopy all her class notes. All of them. Ain't that grand? Yup, Valerie's the cooliest. I'm exhausted. Oh, I guess I'll mention that I've done "something" to my hair *innocent smile* until I see those who I know I likely will at the Fall Retreat... I shall not post what I've done. You'll have to guess. ;)... We'll see if the peeps at school notice on Wednesday.. but I really must be off to bed. I love ya'll.... Blessings and Buenas Noches!

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Okay..so the roller coaster can go up anytime now...

Dear, I'm sounding cynical. I DID get my calculator back. It now sports a large "Life Is Good" sticker on it's cover. But I left my binder (with all my class notes) at the lunch table today and Dominique had to bring it to me in Math Lab. Not bad? Ha. If that wasn't enough I called Mom promptly as I left math lab to let her know I'd be a bit later than she expected and while I was talking and getting in my truck I put my binder on the tool box and forgot about it. It fell off somewhere between the school parking lot (most likely spot) and I-40 at "disfunction junction". Surely someone turned it in to a teacher or the A.A. & A.A.S. Transfer Office. I lost it after offices closed so I'll find it tomorrow. It has all my quizes and homework and class syllabi in it. *sigh* This losing stuff has got to stop.

On the bright side, Debbie (a math lab....well, almost legend, the lady lives there doing her math homework and we all love her) is trying to name her new puppy. She says it's bites and attaches itself to your ankles like a little piranha. I told her she should call it "Anha" short for piranha. All the math lab workers like it. Debbie just couldn't quite grasp why it had to be Anha and why we so emphatically liked that name. I dunno why.. we just did. :) Debbie finally got to the point of saying "There's something behind this isn't there? It's either your girlfriend's name [pointing to Nathan (he doesn't have a girlfriend)] or your mother's name [pointing to me]." We both denied the allegations but Debbie kept going on so, that we couldn't stop snickering. So I finally had to give in, "Yeah, Debbie, we couldn't fool you could we? You're right. It's Nathan's girlfriend's name." Debbie came back with "Yeah! I bet you met her on the trail didn'tchya!" and she giggled. Nathan didn't seem particularly pleased. He made it clear it wasn't true. :) I thought it was kinda funny. He shoulda played it for all it was worth with Debbie. She'd have gotten a kick out of it in the end. (Oh, side note, Debbie's old enough to be my and most of the tutors' mom, so she wasn't hitting on Nathan or anything... just teasing him.)

I'm tired and beat. Oh, Becks.. thanks for the hug dearest. It was much needed. My condolences for Benji dog. As for the kitty.... Hershey? I mean really why not? or Reeses..or booger chin (hey you said it not me ;)..lol..) Okie I really need to go to bed. God Bless ya'll.
Buenas Noches


Monday, October 04, 2004

What a Roller Coaster...

...is this thing we call life. I lost my Nalgene (water bottle) Friday. Recovered it from my friend Caleb today. Lost my graphing calculator AGAIN today. Except this loss wasn't a fair trade. The last time I got mine and another person's TI-86 mixed up. This dude made out like a bandit with my and his TI-86s. Very very uncool. But, being a peer tutor I had to enter him into the computer (since it was his first time in Math Lab) and his name is Eric Anderson. He's a rather hansome red-head. He has MAT 171A (pre-calc algebra) with Jackie Caldwell (she rocks) and since he said he has a test tomorrow, and I know Jackie only gives tests on lab days, he must be in Section D5. At the moment I can't remember what class room he'll be in at 12-1pm... but it's 3rd floor Elm Building. In Nathan's words, "Man, you're gonna stalk the guy. Well, at least you know now where to let the heavy artillery lose." Yeah.... I was a bit more than peeved with losing it again!Again! Does my calcy hate me???? It keeps running away. :( :'( *sigh* And the boys irritated me today at lunch about why have artificial limbs for horses? (I was reading and article about it in my Equus magazine I had with me.) "Just shoot 'em and eat 'em." *sigh* God help me. I know He has a reason/plan for why I eat with all these younger ppl. I generally don't mind them but somedays 16-17yr. old boys are just too much. I'd far rather just eat with my Hannah girl. Ah! Her birthday is tomorrow! Dang, I can't come up with a card that quick....shoot. Ah, me... what a Monday. Oh, and I failed to know my past tense conjugations of "dar" for the Spanish Quiz today too. I thought it was a vocab quiz not a grammer quiz. Oh well... and I haven't had/taken/just plain done enough Bible Study-God Time lately either. I don't like - I mean, at least it isn't a desert this semester. I just feel like I'm drowning in the studying and I'm plain sick of it. And right about now (if you haven't quit reading this out of disgust) I prolly sound like a spoiled, whiney brat. I admit, I don't feel 20 right now. I feel more like a confused, overwelmed... I dunno what age. Maybe age isn't the point, if feel like... like.... not a floundering freshman....almost like I'm not where I ought to be. But I know I'm to finish my associates degree. Bah. Humbug. Maybe I just need to got to bed. Part of me want's to just sit down and cry.. another part wants to tear something up (a napkin or a pencil to knaw on wouldn't be to bad..or maybe a feather pillow..aye yes.. make a nice mess).. and part of me want's to just quit and ride horses. Or hide under a pillow until it all goes away. Well, I need to see if I can go find Hannah a B-day card from my store and then go to bed. I love ya all. Hope you have days more like my last post ;) :)...
Buenas noches mis amigo/as.

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Low D High minus High D Low over Low! Low!

:D I'm just havin' a glorious day, a glorious glorious day! I had my first serious chem student needing help in math lab... and I got to review moles and empirical formulas and and...oh heaven's was it so much fun. And I got my graphing calculator back. And fun camera talk at lunch. And my photography teacher loved my architecture picutures! Well, at least the stair well ones. He said the window one was a decent picture but not nearly as exciting as the other two. It added a bit of a "discontinuity" to the series. I wish he'd quit using calculus terms...lol.. he has no clue what real discontinuity is ;). *happy sigh*... Did I mention I'm having a great day? "Walking on sunshine..whoooa... walkin' on sunshine...whooa.. walkin' on sunshine, now don't it feel good!" :D I'm just havin' such a great day! Oh and Josh remembered to burn the "Bond" CD for Dominique and me. It's a very cool twist on classical music. **walkin' on sunshine..whooa..walkin' on sunshine...whooa.. walkin' on sunshine..whoooa.. now don't it feel good!!** And I'm sorta talking to A for the first time in ages. :D....**now don't it feel good!** And eating great, wonderous, awesome homemade pizza (pesto base). *happy sigh*.. ah life is good. Welp, I'm gonna fly away on my great day!!! I wish the same to thee all!!!

Walkin' on sunshine, whoa/Walkin' on sunshine, whoa/ Walkin' on sunshine, whoa/Now don't it feel good!!!

Friday, September 24, 2004

Random thinking instead of studying...

Hmm.. So the death totals rise to 11 and may go up more as the river goes down (inverse relationship? sorry... mathy-ness %p). I still haven't had a chance to go into the town of Canton and see but it was bad. Mom said the river had gone up to the roofs of most one story buildings. A lot of buildings are being condemned. There are Ashevillians in my classes at school who have lost their homes to rock and/or mudslides. Hurricane season has been rough on western N.C. And inspite of it a glorious fall creeps upon us.

:) Fall is coming strangely this year. Only the oak tree next to Nick's barn is following the usual pattern. It always seems that the leaves change as if God had a huge paintbrush that He just allows to drip across the mountians and the individual trees such that different splotches of their folage turn until God sees fit to paint them in their full array of color. Not so this year. It seems that God is sitting back and ...... waiting? That He isn't doing the painting but He's letting the sun kiss the trees. And everyday the rays of the sun seep deeper and deeper so that on the day they reach the ground the trees will be in their full array of color. :) Interesting little muse, eh? :) It's good to muse though:):)... for now it beats the biochemical explanation all to heck...lol.. don't worry, I'll spare thee ;).

Such a mish-mash of thoughts in my head right now. I have preterite tense and extra homework assignments in Spanish to master. Two sections of Calc homework (that I'd rather be doing than the previous) and a psychotic printer that doesn't want to print my pictures so I can decide on my architechture assignment. Oh, and a speech to write for lit. And a party to go Saturday evening.. and a friend I'd like to get together with Saturday afternoon.. and 2 1/2 days to accomplish everything in. With room somewhere for Bible study and refreshing in the Word. "I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me"... *wry grin* aye, that's what God just rememinded me of. Ah yes, and my printer is healed and maded whole/ blessed by God therefore it isn't psychotic. *sigh* ah me...I guess I'd better get started on all this junk. God keep thee all! (I'm liking my archaic pronouns...can you tell?:).) BE GOOD!

Eh, one addtional thing... I got a 96% on my chap. 2 calc test...now for chap. 5 spanish grade to come back. :) Thank God for having the mind of Christ! I really am going now.... ;)

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

What a Day

:) Estoy muy cansanda. Pero hoy es buen dia. (make that "es" a past tense for me. ;) I can't do it yet :).) ...lol.. I shouldn't blog when I have Spanish in my head should I? 'Course I've been like that all day. Not in complete sentences, no, but bits and pieces come in Spanish. Sometimes I hear English and translate it to Spanish w/o trying. Weird stuff.. but that's not what makes today good...

numero uno! :D... My chapter 2 calculus test. Yes, it made my day good. I wish my labs were as easy as that test. Valerie LOVES insanely hard labs. But if you can get her labs, her tests are easy. Or at least I think so. There was only one thing that half way freaked me out. The other ones I think I'm good on. At least one of my classmates (Laurie) thought about the problems the same way I did. *shrug* That's at least two of us thinkin' like that. And one of the two of us have the mind of Christ ;) :).

numero dos!...I got help with my architecture assingment! :D Pictures of buildings are something that... well... I don't often walk through a building and stop and go "man! I love this architecture! I think this would be a great picture."... Don't get me wrong; I think there are some awesome buildings out there. I just never think photographically of them... oh heck, you get my point. So anywho, my friend & fellow math lab tutor, Nathan, hung out w/me downtown and helped me look at architecture a little differently. And he explained the metering mode/whatever on my cam. :D That was really cool...lol... I'm so ? funny? odd?... if someone will just tell what something on my camera does I'll remember it for the most part. But if I just read about it, I don't always get it. Oh, and REAL coffee. *soft chuckle* I was introduced to real coffee today. Alas, Starbucks is not real my friends, the cool double decker bus/coffee shop downtown is where real coffee is made. And it is good. Starbucks and Barney's don't make a grasshopper coffee-something-or-another to order like they do there. Strong too... well, strong enough to wake me up completely. That's coffee that accomplishes something ;). I haven't truely had that effect since Brazillian coffee... but we won't go there *innocent smile*.

numero tres.... okay so this wasn't good but it added to the overall "what a day" experience. I came home quite content and (thank goodness) fully awake from my jaunt in Asheville and headed out to feed mi caballo (horse). When I whistled for him, he just looked up and nickered as loudly as he could. Odd, he normally ignores me and then comes ambling up. I whistled again. Nick made this lurching forward attempt at walking towards me and stopped with his right hoof just barely touching the ground. Then he made a more collected attempt at limping forward that worked. Long and the short of it? I spent the next two hours diagnosing a hoof abcess, finding where on the bottom of his hoof I should make a hole for it to drain, doing so, and putting a epsom salt soak/poultice on it for the night. *yawn* mmm. Maybe I should try for that Vet. Assistant degree from AB Tech. I have nack for it..*yawn*.. but I'm taking a year off. Except perhaps to take Calc. 2. *eye roll*...I better just go to bed now :)... I need to get up earlier so I can check my boy's hoof. *yawn* Hasta luego my peeps...

Sunday, September 19, 2004

"Just take the green from the grass...

...And the blue from the sky up above/And if you color my world just paint it with your love."

Yeah, I've had that song stuck in my head today. But try singin' it to God. :) It's quite nice. Ya know what else is cool? We have the mind of Christ. Yeah, I know you know it. I've been told that and have known it most of my life too. But do you believe it? Do you realize that if you'd studied and done everything in your power to learn something for a class that come test time you have every spiritual right to ask God to help you on the test and talk to Him DURING the test? Seriously! It works too. Ask Him for help when you're studying about what you should focus on. Thank Him for helping you remember everything you've learned. And during the test when you come across something you feel unsure of/don't know, talk to Him about it. I did that for my first calculus test and it worked. It was a review test covering all of pre-calc algebra and pre-calc trig. And with my teacher that isn't easy. She doesn't give you the nice middle of the road stuff. She expects you to be able to do the most challenging problems. I felt completely overwhelmed by the mass of info I had to know, and while I was sitting studying trying to figure how on earth I was going to remember all the sum & difference of cosine,sine, and tangent formulas, all the half & double angle identities, my unit circle, and everything else I stopped and wailed to (rather than asked) God what was I ever gonna do? I immeadiately felt no need to look at the sum & difference formulas again. But I still felt a need to look at the double and 1/2 angle identities. So I did. Come test day sure enough there were 4 out of 10 problems that I was lost on. One was a silly logarithm rule I forgot but God rememinded me how to prove to myself on a calcy. And the other 3 were ones I tried giving up on but after asking God about He reminded me of what He had me focus on in my review time. It took me ten minutes to come to a satisfactory answer on one of them. Another did use a double angle identity but all of them were asking things/ways of thinking about math that I'd never seen before. I felt satisfied when I turned my test in. I still wasn't certain I got those 3 odd ball questions right, but I didn't have a nagging worry about them. Wanna know what I got on the test? A 91%, in the end a 96% because she had to grade it on a 5point scale so everyone would at least pass. And I'm not in a class of dummies either. The test was just that hairy. And God is just that good. And it's not just for me my dears. Don't shake your head and say "yeah, I tried that and it didn't work for me." Be stubborn and tenacious; don't let Satan rob you of what God intends for you. There are so many little ways Satan tries to rob us of God's best for us. And the sad thing is how often he succeeds. Do you realize the Father's great love for you? HE LOVES YOU!!! Yes, I know you know that. But He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. Have you seen The Passion? Everytime Jesus stood up, every lash He took, every drop of blood, was His "I love you! I love you! I'm living through this because I can't bear to see you in this pain. I love you! I love you!" And He has freed us from the curse having become a curse for us (Gal.3:13-14). All He asks in return is that we love Him, walk in His love, and keep the faith by walking in faith. We are more than overcomers through Him who loves us (Romans 8:31-39). Facts are facts but the truth is the Word of God. And if we'll speak the truth even in the face of facts that contradict it, those contradicting facts will come into alignment with the Word of God and the truth. When you become convinced of the Father's love for and towards you, you can become convinced and certain that what He has in store for you is inexpressibly good. And not just good to Him...He wants to fulfill your deepest desires, but like a good parent He won't until you're ready for them. He isn't withholding because He wants to. It's driving Him nuts to bless you beyond your wildest dreams. You just have to focus unequivocally on Him. Not because He's selfish, but because He wants to teach you and help you grow so you can receive from Him the wonderous things He has for you. :)...*sigh* There is so much in my heart about this. I pine for all my friends to grasp this, to see how important it is to focus on God. :) Above all to see how not-a-chore it is to focus on Him. Work, yes, but a chore? No. Walking in love is hard sometimes, but it gets easier.. and there is such joy and peace in it.
And as much as I'd like to continue... I must go to bed. God bless you my dears & sir. I pray that this takes hold in your spirits (Eph.1:15-20).
Buenos Noches mi amigo/as

Saturday, September 18, 2004

Bright Skies

***CORRECTION TO THE BELOW*** It has been brought to my attention that mile marker 15 in TN would be at the west end of the state which would be highly unprobable in the context below. It's more like I-40 is closed 15miles into the state of TN at whatever mile marker that would be. Thank you for your patience with my sleepiness in this post. ~ The Proprietor of this Blog~;)
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I do think the day after a hurricane is the brightest. Part of a poem I wrote kinda captures today well...
"The crystal clearness of September,
No cloud in sight.
Every leaf in awesome splendor,
Stark-defined by sun's pure light..."


It was one of those days that makes you want to run and never stop for the pure, mad delight of it. Like at the end of The Last Battle of the Chronicles of Narnia when Aslan beacons them "Furthur up! Furthur in!" and they run and don't grow weary...aye, it's Biblical. :) And to think, such a beautiful day on my mountain side and such devastation not so far away. Nine deaths so far for Western North Carolina. I-40 is closed from mile marker 20-something to mile marker 15 on the Tenn. line. The Pigeon River washed away part of the highway and it's closed indefinately. There have been mudslides and downed trees/powerlines all over and they don't expect power to be back on for everyone 'til at least Wednesday. We're blessed they got power back to us so quickly. We only went 24 hours without. The Canton-Clyde area only had one death so that cuts down on the probability that it's someone I know or am related to. But enough of the hurricane...

I've been reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil and Rappaccini's Daughter for Amer. Lit. They're quite wow. I'm liking Hawthorne the more I read him...lol.. I suppose we all must have our "morbid" favorites, eh? (At least I don't like Faulkner or Hemingway *shudder*... talk about morbid..) Okay.. I'm being boring aren't I? %)

I got to catch up on the
Believer's Voice of Victory daily broadcast today! :D... very good stuff. Billye Brim has been teaching on some awesome prophetic things about Jesus wanting us to be able recognize the signs of the times like we recognize the signs of the weather. I'd try to relate them here if I could but I'm still wrapping my mind around them. Billye was talking about the Feast of Shavot (sp? Trumpets) and the blowing of the shofar. I'll always think of Miss Elaine when I hear about the shofar. I love hearing it. :). But anywho... some awesome, awesome stuff. Wow.. there's been so much God-stuff on my heart lately. Perhaps a little at a time I'll share it. But I'd highly suggest checking out the link above and Billye Brim's teachings :)...

- a tuneless happy hum skips softly across my mind - I suppose I should be off checking out my usual online haunts... lol.. and sending a select few the link to my new blog so dear Becca isn't the only one reading this?...lol...*amused smile*

Hasta luego mi amiga/os!
G'night

Friday, September 17, 2004

Just Wanted to Say....

...a big and wonderous thanks to my Rebecca for helping me tinker with the fonts. My dear you're a wonder! Lots of love!

So I've Really Done It

...I've made a blog of my very own and I have entirely mixed feelings about it. :) But here I am. We shall see what becomes of this in the weeks ahead. Well, I'm gonna go read Becca's new additions and um... find out what else I can do with this thing. :)