Matt Thiessen and Adam Young are BFFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Y6iN1M3xY

wish i got this song on my cd :/
right now i need chap stick because of my chapped lips, while i'm doing this chemistry haha

here's another lovely song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiFYOn1AFms

nov10!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZLSDpuhcCw

hey Jon, let's hang out.

life

funny how running, good music, and fresh air change your perspective on things. it kind of clears my mind. also crunchy leaves on the way to work today made me happy.

manic monday

click for a good song :)

quote-
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." -Mark Twain
I don't think I'm an angry person. Unless frustration is the same thing..

cheese sticks and orange juice

my day:

"It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip" (art class)

trying to convince Mr. Hensil that we should skip the motivational assembly and hang out in the orchestra room

going to the motivational assembly

feeling like I'm at an Oprah show

chamber strings (so fun!! can't wait til we decorate the room)

arriving at work and people are leaving and are like you're a little late...

wondering if I should go for a jog

going to facebook instead

my face itches now

I'm not really sure how to feel anymore. There's so much happiness in the world, and yet there's so much sadness too. I'm just going through the motions again and I need to stop it.

One thing I know for sure: I love music. There's something really powerful about it.

j.f.

Build me a home
inside your scars.
Build me a home
inside your song.
Build me a home
inside your open arms -
the only place I ever will belong.

communication

Communication is a common breakdown in my life. Nate said it's the theme of 24 and how if everyone just communicated a lot of problems wouldn't happen. I also wonder at people's intentions and how similar they may be. However some people are so blind it makes me sad!

And this is my school picture this year! It's pretty much the best one I've ever gotten. haha

i am but a child

My weekend consisted of....
pretending I was a pirate
pretending I was good at violin
pretending I was a guy lead singer in a band
and pretending I was an Indian. well really native american if you want to be particular :) I made a fire and then jumped over it and through the flames.

I love love.

and bon fires

october has promise

October is the month of musical happiness and blissful singing to new melodies!

Here's the cover of Relient K's album Forget and Not Slow Down released on October 6 online and in stores. On their myspace they put up one of the new songs! It's pretty awesome.


And... oh no! I just checked up on the other album coming out and it's been pushed back to November. ugh. I feel like Switchfoot always does that. But still Switchfoot's new album, Hello Hurricane is coming out "most-likely early November." I have a feeling it's going to be the best one yet - Tim Foreman said they've never worked so hard before on an album. It's been 2 years in the making and 80+ songs. Ahhhh!!

binary gibberish

We write in images, not letters or words. Our brain was just taught to recognize these symbols so we can interpret them into images!

you've got to be kidding me

I called Apple and told them about the shattered screen on my ipod and they said it would cost $80! what!? just for a new glass screen! The guy on the line said (in an Indian accent I believe), "unfortunately this is your only option." WELL i'm thinking that I might just use clear tape.. that would work fine.

I'm going to see a movie tonight, and I'm not sure which one... and I'm bringing sleepover stuff with me, including the sleeping bag. haha. it'll be in the seat in front of me.

goals for the school year: do my work. have fun. reveal Christ to others through my actions.

Also, I just thought that I'd add this picture of Emily drinking coconut milk in Kenya :)

just a 42 hour road trip away from school

the end of the summer is coming. I don't especially want to go back to school, but seasons change and time moves on.

a week with the fam is where it's at.

who would've thought these huge creatures are in new jersey!! i saw one that was at least 10 feet long swimming across the top of the water when we went parasailing.









It's going to get them!

Matt 6:19-21
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust (or patios) destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

I put too much worth in a little piece of plastic. Who cares?

:D

Teeth.

Teeth.


Teeth.

America is obsessed with straight, shiny, pearly white teeth! I work at an orthodontist's office, so I'm around that kinda stuff all the time. Today I had a dentist appointment before work. Tomorrow before work, I go to my own orthodontist. Yep.

La Promenade

One of Monet's earlier impressionist paintings. 1875 Je l'aime beaucoup.

The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool one is on my wall now and I love looking at it.

Today I'm not really doing anything. Watching Freaks and Geeks, eating ice cream. ya know. And even though it's kind of a waste, it's nice just to be able to relax sometimes. I would be getting home from school right about now, but I'm still in my pajamas and my hair's a mess. Well... guess my life is pretty average.

a cold rainy first day of summer still = love

SUMMER is here. been waiting for it since February! but I'm wearing pants? oh well.

Verse of the day~ Romans 15:13
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

in friday's paper

He first noticed her standing alone near the crowded dance floor. Titian hair, alabaster skin, striking. The prettiest daisy in the field.
Winfred Stevens steadied his wobbly 16-year-old knees. Like a toddler walking in daddy's shoes, he clumsily walked slowly over to Esther Cope and tumbled heart-first into a pool of twinkling blue eyes. He nervously asked if she'd ... um ... uh ... er ... like to dance. As the band in the fig hall at Menlo Park in Perkasie played George and Ira Gershwin's "You've Got What Gets Me," she said yes and smiled.
He took her hand. She took his breath away.
Seventy-seven years later, she still does.

think about it th-think about it

Funny the way it is, if you think about it
Somebody’s going hungry and someone else is eating out

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier’s last breath his baby’s being born


I actually do think about this a lot. It's sad but I think that hate and sorrow let us understand a little more about love and how powerful it is.

I'm waiting for so many things it kind of hurts. I should focus on the present! It would probably make life so much easier.

fix you

When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse.

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream, down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I...


Tears stream, down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I...


Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you.

(coldplay)

something has come up and summer plans are once again uncertain... I hate this!

hmm today i think my favorite
song is elements combined - fiction family or The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders - Sufjan Stevens. it's a tie
shoes are jellies!
color is green
food is strawberries

I'm not doing field hockey next year which makes me kind of sad. I was looking forward not having to carry the igloo water jug.

If I'm sad at school I usually don't want people to be all like "oh, what's wrong? are you ok?" so what should I do if there's a sad girl next to me who looks like she's going through some really hard stuff? Do I ignore that and act like things are fine?

p.s. a picture i took with the Order of the Basin (is this the final name?)

Summer Reading List!!

Stupid school prevents me from reading... SO I have to take advantage of summer :)

Harry Potter 2-7. yep. im a little behind the average fan :/
The Sweet Far Thing (great and terrible beauty book 3)
Poetry? I don't know any good collections but this would be nice beach reading
Bible

I'd say it's a pretty good list.

I just don't want to regret my choice later on, and I don't know what to choose.

corny? but sadly true

It's Thursday night and
I'm strumming a song,
layin' here dreaming of him.

The day will be bright
when he comes along,
but outside everything's dim.

If you can see that you and me
together would be so happy,
then give me a flower
and let's talk til we run out of hours.

Take me off your back burner
and that dusty shelf
I know at love we're still learners
but I'm tired of being by myself.

It's Thursday night and
I'm strumming a song,
layin' here dreaming of him.


(i guess it's kind of weird how i talk about "him" and then talk to "you" but not sure how to fix it and make it still work. so pretty much it's a failure of a poem. oh well.)

snapshot

This weekend was a breath of fresh air.. but now I'm getting hit over the head with the reality that teachers are dumb and give tons of homework over breaks. Everything I did was like a snapshot of summer. Friday was boring - which happens a lot in summer. Saturday I listened to the waves all morning and into the afternoon with a little Jack Johnson in there too. And of course, what's summer without sunburn? In the afternoon I played frisbee, roasted marshmallows over an open fire, watched the stars and lightning fighting over the same sky. I got to laze on Sunday afternoon, and then slept over with friends that night. In the morning we frolicked in the basin, drank tea, and played our instruments for no reason. My family did our Memorial Day traditions of eating bar-b-q outside and having a croquet tournament. I went to a sweet 16, and swam in a saltwater pool - so incredibly smart by the way! Tomorrow... I have school.

p.s. Note to self: Learn how to play the violin like Andrew Bird.

Orchestra? or Hogwarts?

music is like magic in so many ways.

I'm getting fat with all these carbs I'm eating.

blah.

don't feel like doing homework

I'm kind of ashamed that I watch American Idol, but I really really want Kris Allen to win! Adam is so annoying and he can't win.

I have to write a story for creative writing and I have no idea what to write about!! I need some inspiration..

future? I don't even know what I'm doing this summer!
not sure if I should do field hockey.. and if it will prevent me from getting my only hopes at a job.

Mary (the old lady that comes to my house) is over, and is worse than ever. It's going to be a long week.

Thoughts on writing?

A weaver who makes intricate tapestries has to plan ahead. They have to practice a lot, so that they learn how to make the colors interact with each other so it makes a beautiful picture. In this way weavers are a lot like writers. To make the tapestry is a craft, but the colors and creativity also make it an art.
My creative writing teacher told us that we're not artists at all, but more like carpenters. She said that writing a story is no more different than building a house; with characters, a setting, a conflict, a climax, and a resolution. I think that she's only partially right. Every writer has their own style, just like every artist or weaver has their own touch and flair.
So if I'm going to write a short story maybe I should do a bunch of character sketches first and then I can stick them in a scenario. People are very similar to each other. We all have universal feelings, they just come in different flavors. I love my friends differently than my brother loves his friends, but both are still love. People also react to situations differently. To make a character we have to come up with their personality - all the flavors of universal feelings they have, how they think and process things.
It's weird to think that I'm a character too; under the pen of God who created me and who I can always trust to provide for me. The story of the world is so huge and intricate, I can't even imagine how God made it.

thank you Lord for giving us *gluten free* food

For the first time in what seems like forever I got to have warm, freshly baked bread, right out of the oven. Steam rose from it's soft crusty body, and I could hardly believe that this wouldn't kill me. The possibilities are endless now, and I can finally bring a simple sandwich as part of my lunch! Maybe now I won't be hungry when I get home, because my stomach will be full. Maybe now someone will sit on my PB&J sandwich and it will be the best thing that ever happened to me because I will have a squished sandwich for lunch!
I'm not craving for anything right now. And that in and of itself is a blessing. Thank you lord for giving us food.

fact

there is no combination of words I could say
but I will still tell you one thing
we're better together

How are you?

'How are you?' is a commonly asked question, and the common answer for it is 'Good.' But honestly, I could give you 19 totally different answers and they'd still be correct. Maybe we should be more specific. 'How are you doing physically?' 'How is your relationship with God? How is your thought world doing? How do feel about... If someone asked me 'How are you?' I could answer with wonderful, exciting, awful, confused about a lot of things, silly, blah, mad, pained, dead, alive.
I don't know. I think I'm going to go to bed now. Paintball tomorrow! Not sure how I feel about that one..

For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn. (Hemmingway)

You breathe music? Me too.

I am still waiting for him.

Well. At least Jesus loves me.

Could be poop, could be chocolate.

Not afraid of heights, just falling.

It only happens in Disney movies.

Fortunately, I'm their favorite third wheel.

April Fools Day Failure

I feel like an April Fools Day failure. In the past my pranks have never ever worked, and whenever someone does a prank on me, I always fall for it, if only for a little while. Like today this guy at my lunch table was like yeah I saran wrapped my little brother in the bottom bunk, and I jello-ed my sister's car keys. My mom told me it was a snow day this morning and I believed her. (and I get that one every single year). In the past I tried sending anonymous love/stalker letters to friends and for some reason they always knew it was me! Last year I tried to freeze Nate's toothbrush in a cup, but it didn't freeze all the way so it was pointless. Today in Bio, Ms. McGlynn pulled an extended joke on us by giving us a "mid-term" to take with impossible questions. She even sent someone to Security when his phone went off! I'm still wondering if that was real or not..

Robert Frost

"A Late Walk"

When I go up through the mowing field,
The headless aftermath,
Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
Half closes the garden path.

And when I come to the garden ground,
The whir of sober birds
Up from the tangle of withered weeds
Is sadder than any words

A tree beside the wall stands bare,
But a leaf that lingered brown,
Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,
Comes softly rattling down.

I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.


This is kind of sad so it isn't very fitting for Robert Frost's birthday,
but it's cool because with all the grim scenery he creates, he gives us
some hope with a pretty little aster flower.

pondering over a cup of tea

What would life be like if we were perfect? If Eve never took the apple from the serpent, and there was never any sin. Would there still be need for money or governments? Would we go to school willingly? Would we be naked? I think about this sometimes. I can't even imagine not ever being jealous or never having a bad day. I wonder if there would be secrets among us, or if we would just tell people how we feel.

frodo, don't wear the ring

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
a light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
~good 'ol J.R.R. Tolkien

I love this poem! and it's so true.

shading apples

You know how in the Matrix, that guy (obviously you can tell I'm a big fan) could move really fast, but it just looked like everything else around him was moving really slow? That's what i feel like life is like right now. Time has slowed down and I can actually do what I want to do. Like shading apples. Sitting outside with a crisp Spring breeze and the warm sun and just drawing a simple cluster of imperfect apples... What a wonderful wednesday.

question

If you could be a person of the opposite sex for 24 hours, who would you be, and what would you do?

Carol Burnett said she was asked this once after a sketch, and I thought it was pretty humorous.
If the male could be fictional I would be Jack Bauer and save the USA and possibly the world in 24 hours. And if I had to be a real person, I would be Jon Foreman and make some amazing music.

Reflections

Lately I've been falling behind on my devotions, and I've been procrastinating school work like crazy; I don't know what's gotten into me! So my first goal is to get back into the holy Word of God every day for a little bit.

One of my favorite passages is Romans 12:1-2
"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will."

I need to remember that the merciful God who saved me, also wanted to change me. I need to live my life totally for God, and not be afraid I might fail. It doesn't matter if the world thinks I'm weird or crazy because I'm in love with my Savior.