I wish it was Funday.

So I've been in Arkansas for a week! Everything has started to settle down here and my friends FINALLY started to move in! My roommate moved in on Tuesday and things have been really good! Tonight we are planning a girls night out and I'm pretty excited about it! Hopefully we'll start to get to know each other a lot better and decorate our living room at some point! Chloe and I had an awesome talk last night and we seem to be into a lot of the same stuff. Like for example God. He's pretty tight. Plus 5

The other day I got a fishy and named him Cairns (after Cairns, Australia) and painted Australia on his fish bowl so he feels at home. I really think its going to work out. He is a beautiful blue Crowntail Betta, pictures will be up soon! Plus 4 (originally it was just plus 3 but I figure since it's a living creature I'll give it plus 4)

YOUNGLIFE IS STARTING! I went to the first leadership meeting last night and it was incredible. As most of you (since my mother is the only one that reads this) know I am a High School leader now and we just got some incredible news! A club room has been donated to us kind of and we'll start up at some point having regular clubs there! We really want to build relationships first and have 25-30 committed kids for our first club. It's going to be off the charts. Plus 6 for new/awesome club room and YoungLife excitement

Tomorrow is the first day of classed. Let's just say I'm not exactly thrilled because it means no more summer and study study study. I'm in Arkansas for school so I'm going to do my best and work through it, go to classes and what not but I wish I could be a little closer to home. Maybe 2 hours? That'd be great. So tomorrow/Wednesday/Friday I have Psychology & Art Lecture and then Tuesday/Thursday I have Communications, Human Diversity & Western Civ 1. This will be interesting. Minus 1

Everything else in my life seems to be pretty good. I am happy, I just wish I could fast forward to graduation and start actually living my life. There are many reasons for this that I may express one day on here. I may have to put my study abroad trip on hold and attempt to graduate early and work/go to school full time next summer to do so. We'll see and I'll be praying about it. No points.

As you can see I've decided to give my blogs points now. I'm liking it so far.
Total points= 14

Please be praying about my study abroad trip, money for school, Fayetteville High School YoungLife, possibly moving back to Texas, Frisco YoungLife, relationships, my roommates, Kristin and my 40 days of believing God, school and health.



I've also decided how I feel about drinking/such. My position is much like my vegetarianism position, and putting it into that perspective I finally understand. Follow me for a second.

I am a vegetarian because I like it. I don't really enjoy putting bad things into my body like hormones and who knows what.
I don't drink because I don't really enjoy putting bad things into my body that will alter my morals.

I don't mind when others eat meat around me or eat meat in general. That's their choice. It just makes me sad because some people have no idea how bad meat can potentially be if you don't get the good stuff.
I don't mind when others drink around me or drink in general. That's their choice. It just makes me sad because some people really think they need alcohol or others that don't even think about it they've just been doing it for so long because of peer pressure that they don't know anything else -- some don't even know they started.

I am missing out on some protein but I can get it in SO many other places! [Beans, Soy yadda yadda yadda]
I am missing out on some "fun" but honestly have you met me? You think I need alcohol to have a better time than I'm already having? I don't need alcohol to help me have fun or relax because I can have a good time without it.

Again I'd like to stress that I have nothing against meat eaters, or people that drink all the time/casually/socially/whatever floats your boat. It's just something I choose not to do and I hope everyone respects that, just like I respect everyone that decided to drink. No judgment, just observation.

I guess to me, I just don't understand why?
To have a good time? What is keeping you from having a good time without it?
To relax? I guess I'm silly but can't you just take a nap or read a good book? How about getting a massage?
To have an excuse to act crazy? Why do you need an excuse? Are you scared to be yourself?

I guess I'm just a kid.

This is new.

Is this the start of something new? Let's hope I get good at blogging to keep my friends and family up to date. I'm shooting for everyday but let's be real, my practical goal is 2 times a week!

I moved into my dorm yesterday and so far so good! 2 out of 3 of my room mates have moved in and I really like them! They live across the living room from me and I hope I get to know them better this year. My actual roommate (that I share a bathroom with) is moving in tomorrow and I am pretty pumped about it to say the least. Last night at 10ish I finished setting up my room and am finally all moved in! I am so thankful that my parents made the 10 hour (round trip) drive just to help me move in, I was extremely stressed out and without them I would have had a heart attack. I am so lucky to have parents that would do this for me and hope they know how appreciative I am of them. One week from today I will have finished my first day of Sophomore year and so it begins...

This morning when I woke up I read a little bit of Numbers and a little bit of Romans. In Numbers I read a lot more about the people of Israel and they lashing about against God pretty bad. The thing is they really wanted to eat meat and were complaining to Moses that they were hungry for meat and it's not fair because they had so much meat before they started all this Godmumbojumbo. So God gets pretty upset because they can't seem to just follow Him without all these questions and without whining and He pulls Moses aside and He says "I'll have the meat, and I'll have so much of it that it will be coming out of your ears" Moses doesn't really believe Him but brings some people the next day, long story short all of a sudden there was quail overflowing out of the sea. Anyways, it got me thinking- Do I truly believe God is in control of my life? and when I complain that life's a drag, how does it sound to God? When has He given me what I begged for? Did I regret that He did? I do believe that God is in control of my life, and I so often without thinking about it complain that my life is boring or so "hard". I've never once thought how insulting that must sound to God. And He has given me what I've begged for a number of times but right away I turn around and forget who gave it to me. Then I read Romans 2 and thought it was so harsh but I needed it. I found that the devil had gotten to me and created a bitter tone while reading. Don't get me wrong Romans 2 is hard to read but it's needed and I can't forget that God wants me to succeed. He gets His heart broken when we fail and it does upset Him but He isn't going to shun me forever. I need hard evidence in my life to back up being a "real doer", just talking about religion isn't enough.


I have been praying about going to Australia for Study Abroad in Spring 2011 and if you'd like to pray for that as well that would be awesome. Also, I am doing 40 days of believing God [http://blog.greggstutts.com/] you should do that, or if not please pray for Kristin and I to finish strong! (we're on day 16).

So I guess that wraps up my first blog ever. Yay. Update soon, promise!

P.S. My sister just moved into her house and it's really neat! I am really excited for her!