Well, this will probably be my last post for a week and a half. Sorry to leave y'all hanging with my story like that. =) As you might have read on the Froesch's blog, I'm going to Lassen for a week. We leave tomorrow morning around 6:30. So my today's list of stuff to do is:
Pack
Clean my parent's bathroom (oh joy)
Help with the last little load of laundry
Shower and shave my legs (you all wanted to know that, I'm sure) so I don't have to wake up even earlier tomorrow morning to do it
I thought there was more and I was going to impress you all with the crazy amount of stuff I had to do today, but I guess not.
I'm thinking about getting a job during senior year. My *ideal* situation would be to work at the cute little coffee stand down the road and open. So maybe have the 5-10 am shift. That way I would still have most of the day to do school. But obviously you cannot dictate to your employer what you want, although with kids in school, it might be nice to have someone who could be there in the morning. I'm going to have to see how my schoolwork load is first. It might be just too much for me to take on. And Tuesday mornings I'm probably going to do yearbook. Well, must go start packing.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Sunday, July 23, 2006
The Amazing Adventures of Ice-Girl, Part One
The call for rescue had come and Ice-Girl was on the way!! Slinging her annoying red cape out of the way, she lept from the nearest high curb and narrowly avoided being hit by a bus. The bus driver shook his fist at our dramatic heroine (no, not the drug) and roared on through the busy city streets. Ice-Girl stuck her tongue out at the receding bus and raced to the nearest crosswalk where she crossed very properly with the other pedestrians. Her blinky watch told her that someone out there was still in trouble!! Would she make it??? Her watch began to beep, slowly at first, then faster and faster as she approached her victim---er, rescue mission. Far down the block, there was a cluster of people gathered around something that was probably very interesting, but was just slowing traffic down. Ice-Girl sprinted past them, glancing down as she did. She gasped with shock!! It was a teenage mutant armadillo!!!! But the call for her heriocs was too strong to ignore. Ice-Girl ran towards the prone figure laying on the sidewalk next to a very large blue van. As she neared, she suddenly realized it was....California Brittanie!!!! Her younger brothers, a.k.a. hot water bottles a.k.a. HWBs, stood next to her in shock.
"Save us, Ice-Girl! Save us!!!" They cried.
Ice-Girl heeded their call and handed California Brittanie a cup of ice she had dispensed from her mouth into an insta-cup she had created by thinking really hard about dead spoons.
"Ahhhh....." California Brittanie quickly returned to her normal state. "Thank you, Ice-Girl! You're the hero of all of us!!"
"Happy to help." Ice-Girl replied with a small smile. "I'd forgotten how warm your body was."
Suddenly Ice-Girl's watch began to flash again.
"Keep cool!" She cried as she lifted her feet to run again. "On to save the center of the universe from the heat!!!"
The call for rescue had come and Ice-Girl was on the way!! Slinging her annoying red cape out of the way, she lept from the nearest high curb and narrowly avoided being hit by a bus. The bus driver shook his fist at our dramatic heroine (no, not the drug) and roared on through the busy city streets. Ice-Girl stuck her tongue out at the receding bus and raced to the nearest crosswalk where she crossed very properly with the other pedestrians. Her blinky watch told her that someone out there was still in trouble!! Would she make it??? Her watch began to beep, slowly at first, then faster and faster as she approached her victim---er, rescue mission. Far down the block, there was a cluster of people gathered around something that was probably very interesting, but was just slowing traffic down. Ice-Girl sprinted past them, glancing down as she did. She gasped with shock!! It was a teenage mutant armadillo!!!! But the call for her heriocs was too strong to ignore. Ice-Girl ran towards the prone figure laying on the sidewalk next to a very large blue van. As she neared, she suddenly realized it was....California Brittanie!!!! Her younger brothers, a.k.a. hot water bottles a.k.a. HWBs, stood next to her in shock.
"Save us, Ice-Girl! Save us!!!" They cried.
Ice-Girl heeded their call and handed California Brittanie a cup of ice she had dispensed from her mouth into an insta-cup she had created by thinking really hard about dead spoons.
"Ahhhh....." California Brittanie quickly returned to her normal state. "Thank you, Ice-Girl! You're the hero of all of us!!"
"Happy to help." Ice-Girl replied with a small smile. "I'd forgotten how warm your body was."
Suddenly Ice-Girl's watch began to flash again.
"Keep cool!" She cried as she lifted her feet to run again. "On to save the center of the universe from the heat!!!"
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
I'm just really annoyed right now that I can't change the font or post a title for some weird reason.
So...pictures...=) Argh! Now I can't do it. Stupid thing. Maybe later.
So the three topics we learned about. Dr. M did the Kingdom of God, Dr. K did the life of Joseph, and Sid did the book of Hebrews. Dr. M's talks went way over my head by the end, but they were good at the beginning. Dr. K I understood as far as content goes, but a few times I did feel he was stretching biblical applications. And Sid was easy to understand, just a little...dry at times. So over all, I enjoyed Dr. K's the best.
The details I promised goes as follows. On Sunday, Bethany, Michelle, and I walked into town, which is about 1 mile from Shallowbrook and bought chocolate milk and visited a creepy antique store. It was very hot and sweaty. On Tuesday (I think) Linda drove Bethany and I back into town so we could visit the thrift store where they were having a 50% off sale on all Aeropostale stuff. So I got a shirt for $5 there and that was nice. On Wednesday night we had a wild and crazy keep away game in the shallow end of the pool. Guys against girls except for Michael and Jonathan who helped us out. It was pretty much just a game of get the ball, get mobbed, toss it wildly to the nearest person on your team. It was fun though. Earlier that night I was pretty burnt out from all the people around me so I sat by the pool and read my book and then went inside and played the piano for a little bit before going back out and getting pushed in the pool in my clothes. So I played the W&C game in my clothes, which was kind of annoying because I was wearing cotton shorts and every time I jumped out of the water, they would practically fall off, so I couldn't move around very exuberantly. I was too lazy to go upstairs and change; besides, I didn't have a towel and Max had to go get me one later anyway. How nice of him.
On Friday afternoon Steph, Meaghan, Josie, and I left Shallowbrook and went to Josie's house where we all crashed for an hour and half or so before we went to get on the bus to go to Altoona. Then came the 5 hour bus ride which was pretty uneventful aside from the animal crackers being thrown at me randomly. We got to the Ramada Inn where the Altoona conference was at about 8:30 or so and then we went to get something to eat even though no one was really that hungry and we were all exhausted. Then we went "home" and went to bed. The people in our hotel room were Josie, Bethany, and myself. That was it. Josie was "in charge" because she's the oldest by two weeks. There were no adults or chaperones near us because we're mature and responsible enough not to need them. (And I'm serious about this). The next day I was half asleep through all the meetings and lunchtime was very awkward. It pretty much consisted of this conversation:
"Abby, you and Davy should get married. *Insert anyone's name here*, don't you think Davy and Abby would make a cute couple?"
(This is Tonn saying this next part) "Wow, Abby, I've never noticed your eyes before. They're...piercing! I feel like you can read my mind! Augh!!...(five minutes later during a completely different conversation) Your eyes are so blue! They're...they're...PIERCING! I feel like you're looking into my soul!...(another 5 min) Stephanie, you have blue eyes too, but not like Abby's. Abby's are...(can you guess what he'll say?) Piercing! (good job)"
Very very very awkward.
So then on Sunday night we took the bus to a gym about half and hour away and played volleyball while some of the men played basketball and people swam and I ran around the track inside for a little bit. It was fun.
Later that night in Davy, Max, Andrew, and Drew's room, Liz, Jen, and Alley and I watched Batman Begins with Davy, Max, Andrew, and Michael. I only watched an hour and a half before I fizzled out. I was the mother though. Someone had to keep those kids under control. I scolded them for throwing food at each other (and me) and for fighting with each other ("Andrew, stop yelling at your sister!" Alley isn't really his sister). They thought it was amusing until I started drowning out the movie too much while telling them to behave. Then the barrage of food started. Actually, it was only about three animal crackers, but Max had been throwing things at me all week and it was starting to get a little annoying.
Then Sunday we took another 5 hour bus ride back to where we started, this one being a little more interesting because everyone was more tired. Tonn and I researched baptism in our Bibles and came up with interesting scriptures to promote issues of sprinkling, immersion, and infant baptism. If you want to know what we came up with, let me know. I don't know what to think about it now.
Liz, Davy, Stephanie and I then went back to Josie's house where we were spending the night and worked out arrangements to go to Bloomington to hang out with the rest of the people who were staying at Josie's cousins' house. We ended up with Stephanie driving Josie's older brother Caleb's 5-seater car to young Dr. M's house to pick up his daughter Paige to take her with us. Their house is really nice. Really really nice. Think multimillion dollar home out here. Yeah. So they let Stephanie drive their Yukon Denali, Ted's only caution being as he handed her the key, "Don't go over 90". It was a really nice car, not suprising after their house. Oh, the house has an indoor pool with it's own kitchen (which is nicer then our house's kitchen) and two bathrooms and a nice grill/BBQ thing. Wow.
So we drove to Bloomington, had pizza that was almost in Normal (we took a picture with the city limit sign for Normal) and then walked to ice cream in the ghetto part of town. Then we went back to the Cousins' house and played a couple games and then tried to go home. Mrs. Cousin pointed us onto the wrong freeway so we went half an hour in the wrong direction. So it ended up taking us an hour and a half to go what is usually a half hour drive. We dropped Paige off and squeezed back into Caleb's car (we added Drew) and drove the 5 mins back to Josie's house at 1:30 in the morning about. Then we slept, got up, ate, left, got delayed in Denver, and finally got into ONT at 11 at night.
Phew.
It was a lot of fun and I'll try to put pics up later. Sorry about the ridiculously long post.
So...pictures...=) Argh! Now I can't do it. Stupid thing. Maybe later.
So the three topics we learned about. Dr. M did the Kingdom of God, Dr. K did the life of Joseph, and Sid did the book of Hebrews. Dr. M's talks went way over my head by the end, but they were good at the beginning. Dr. K I understood as far as content goes, but a few times I did feel he was stretching biblical applications. And Sid was easy to understand, just a little...dry at times. So over all, I enjoyed Dr. K's the best.
The details I promised goes as follows. On Sunday, Bethany, Michelle, and I walked into town, which is about 1 mile from Shallowbrook and bought chocolate milk and visited a creepy antique store. It was very hot and sweaty. On Tuesday (I think) Linda drove Bethany and I back into town so we could visit the thrift store where they were having a 50% off sale on all Aeropostale stuff. So I got a shirt for $5 there and that was nice. On Wednesday night we had a wild and crazy keep away game in the shallow end of the pool. Guys against girls except for Michael and Jonathan who helped us out. It was pretty much just a game of get the ball, get mobbed, toss it wildly to the nearest person on your team. It was fun though. Earlier that night I was pretty burnt out from all the people around me so I sat by the pool and read my book and then went inside and played the piano for a little bit before going back out and getting pushed in the pool in my clothes. So I played the W&C game in my clothes, which was kind of annoying because I was wearing cotton shorts and every time I jumped out of the water, they would practically fall off, so I couldn't move around very exuberantly. I was too lazy to go upstairs and change; besides, I didn't have a towel and Max had to go get me one later anyway. How nice of him.
On Friday afternoon Steph, Meaghan, Josie, and I left Shallowbrook and went to Josie's house where we all crashed for an hour and half or so before we went to get on the bus to go to Altoona. Then came the 5 hour bus ride which was pretty uneventful aside from the animal crackers being thrown at me randomly. We got to the Ramada Inn where the Altoona conference was at about 8:30 or so and then we went to get something to eat even though no one was really that hungry and we were all exhausted. Then we went "home" and went to bed. The people in our hotel room were Josie, Bethany, and myself. That was it. Josie was "in charge" because she's the oldest by two weeks. There were no adults or chaperones near us because we're mature and responsible enough not to need them. (And I'm serious about this). The next day I was half asleep through all the meetings and lunchtime was very awkward. It pretty much consisted of this conversation:
"Abby, you and Davy should get married. *Insert anyone's name here*, don't you think Davy and Abby would make a cute couple?"
(This is Tonn saying this next part) "Wow, Abby, I've never noticed your eyes before. They're...piercing! I feel like you can read my mind! Augh!!...(five minutes later during a completely different conversation) Your eyes are so blue! They're...they're...PIERCING! I feel like you're looking into my soul!...(another 5 min) Stephanie, you have blue eyes too, but not like Abby's. Abby's are...(can you guess what he'll say?) Piercing! (good job)"
Very very very awkward.
So then on Sunday night we took the bus to a gym about half and hour away and played volleyball while some of the men played basketball and people swam and I ran around the track inside for a little bit. It was fun.
Later that night in Davy, Max, Andrew, and Drew's room, Liz, Jen, and Alley and I watched Batman Begins with Davy, Max, Andrew, and Michael. I only watched an hour and a half before I fizzled out. I was the mother though. Someone had to keep those kids under control. I scolded them for throwing food at each other (and me) and for fighting with each other ("Andrew, stop yelling at your sister!" Alley isn't really his sister). They thought it was amusing until I started drowning out the movie too much while telling them to behave. Then the barrage of food started. Actually, it was only about three animal crackers, but Max had been throwing things at me all week and it was starting to get a little annoying.
Then Sunday we took another 5 hour bus ride back to where we started, this one being a little more interesting because everyone was more tired. Tonn and I researched baptism in our Bibles and came up with interesting scriptures to promote issues of sprinkling, immersion, and infant baptism. If you want to know what we came up with, let me know. I don't know what to think about it now.
Liz, Davy, Stephanie and I then went back to Josie's house where we were spending the night and worked out arrangements to go to Bloomington to hang out with the rest of the people who were staying at Josie's cousins' house. We ended up with Stephanie driving Josie's older brother Caleb's 5-seater car to young Dr. M's house to pick up his daughter Paige to take her with us. Their house is really nice. Really really nice. Think multimillion dollar home out here. Yeah. So they let Stephanie drive their Yukon Denali, Ted's only caution being as he handed her the key, "Don't go over 90". It was a really nice car, not suprising after their house. Oh, the house has an indoor pool with it's own kitchen (which is nicer then our house's kitchen) and two bathrooms and a nice grill/BBQ thing. Wow.
So we drove to Bloomington, had pizza that was almost in Normal (we took a picture with the city limit sign for Normal) and then walked to ice cream in the ghetto part of town. Then we went back to the Cousins' house and played a couple games and then tried to go home. Mrs. Cousin pointed us onto the wrong freeway so we went half an hour in the wrong direction. So it ended up taking us an hour and a half to go what is usually a half hour drive. We dropped Paige off and squeezed back into Caleb's car (we added Drew) and drove the 5 mins back to Josie's house at 1:30 in the morning about. Then we slept, got up, ate, left, got delayed in Denver, and finally got into ONT at 11 at night.
Phew.
It was a lot of fun and I'll try to put pics up later. Sorry about the ridiculously long post.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Well, I'm back officially. We got in last night about 11 after being delayed in Denver for an hour and a half. Bleh. I was very exhausted. But Shallowbrook and Altoona were both a lot of fun, even though I was half asleep through all of Altoona which was right after Shallowbrook. Here's a typical day for me at Shallowbrook:
Get up at 7:30, stumble down to breakfast in my pjs. (Shallowbrook is a horse farm with a very large mansion on the property where everyone stays. Boys downstairs, girls upstairs) We have homemade food there for all meals every day so that's nice. I eat quickly and then scoot on back upstairs to run through the shower before the first meeting at 9. That meeting goes for 50 minutes, then we have a 15 minute break. Another 50 min meeting, and then a 15 min break. Then ANOTHER 50 min meeting and then lunch, at which I sit and talk to random people about random things. After lunch at 2 we start the round of meetings all over again. Three more 50 min 15 min sessions, and then it's dinner at 5:15. After we all sit around digesting and discussing, we all get changed and go play volleyball or football or ultimate frisbee until it gets dark and then it's time for the pool and hot tub until about 11 when it's time for devotions. Girls go upstairs, boys go downstairs and then everyone goes to bed. Then it starts all over again the next day.
So....
If your idea of fun is to sit through six hours of meetings a day in muggy Illinios, you might be Abby.
I don't have pictures uploaded yet from my camera because its charging, but if you want to look at literally hundreds of pics from Shallowbrook, go to Tim's site. It's in my links on my sidebar.
I'll post more later in more detail. I'm just glad I'll be able to see everyone again in about a week and a half.
Get up at 7:30, stumble down to breakfast in my pjs. (Shallowbrook is a horse farm with a very large mansion on the property where everyone stays. Boys downstairs, girls upstairs) We have homemade food there for all meals every day so that's nice. I eat quickly and then scoot on back upstairs to run through the shower before the first meeting at 9. That meeting goes for 50 minutes, then we have a 15 minute break. Another 50 min meeting, and then a 15 min break. Then ANOTHER 50 min meeting and then lunch, at which I sit and talk to random people about random things. After lunch at 2 we start the round of meetings all over again. Three more 50 min 15 min sessions, and then it's dinner at 5:15. After we all sit around digesting and discussing, we all get changed and go play volleyball or football or ultimate frisbee until it gets dark and then it's time for the pool and hot tub until about 11 when it's time for devotions. Girls go upstairs, boys go downstairs and then everyone goes to bed. Then it starts all over again the next day.
So....
If your idea of fun is to sit through six hours of meetings a day in muggy Illinios, you might be Abby.
I don't have pictures uploaded yet from my camera because its charging, but if you want to look at literally hundreds of pics from Shallowbrook, go to Tim's site. It's in my links on my sidebar.
I'll post more later in more detail. I'm just glad I'll be able to see everyone again in about a week and a half.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Hey guys!! I'm here in Illinois typing on Bethany's super sweet Apple laptop she got for her birthday. It's really nice because Tonn hooked her up because he works at the Apple store somewhere. My brain is very overloaded right now from 6 hours of Bible teaching a day. I'll tell ya'll about it when I get back. And wade through the thousands of comments that have flooded my inbox. Lovev ya all!
Friday, July 07, 2006
Well, tomorrow I will be in Illinois. Stephanie, Liz, Davy, and I are going to Shallowbrook for a church camp thing and a Bible conference out there that is next weekend. I will be back on Monday the 17th, so don't hold your breath for any more posts until then because they won't be coming.
I am very sunburned.
I am very sunburned.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Saturday, July 01, 2006
I really liked the message on Sunday that Pastor H. gave so I thought I'd share my thoughts on it. The intro on the folder says this: "Those who follow Jesus Christ will find that the ethic of heaven not only brings personal reward in terms of better human relationships, it also fits the disciple to be of missional benefit to those in need of forgiveness and freedom in this world, while proving the reality of their commitment to Christ."
The first and by far the most applicable one to my life was Mercy and Its Rewards.
Luke 6:36 says, "Be ye therefore merciful as your Father also is merciful". So here we see that our model of mercy is Jesus Christ Himself. He led a perfect life of mercy by not arrogantly judging, not assessing our guilt, by freeing and forgiving and generously giving (ooh! it rhymes!).
I myself have a tendency to judge very arrogantly. If I see someone doing something that I think is wrong or inappropriate, then I'll get all proud and think, 'Well, God must really approve of ME, I'M not acting like that. And I'm humble.' And then I realize what I'm doing and have to start all over again. V. 37a of Luke 6 says,"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not and ye shall not be condemned..." Pastor H. used an illustration that I can't remember exactly but it was good! Something about tax auditors.
Not only should we not judge, but we should not condemn people as a result of that judging, whether it should be the saved or unsaved. God has already determined our guilt and we were as guilty as they are and still would be were it not for God's free gift.
The thing I also struggle with is seeing the unsaved in that light. That Jesus came to save them too, not just us "blessed people" and that we need to be missionaries all the time to show them that way.
We should guide them, not as the blind leading the blind; we should teach them, not as students teaching students; and we should heal them, by first pulling out the log in our eyes.
Luke 6:45--"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure or his heart bringeth for that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh."
If we have good hearts we can produce good things just like a good tree cannot bring forth bad fruits and a bad tree cannot bring forth good fruits. We are known by our fruits.
The question for applying truth to life was
"When people who know me best see the fruit of my life, what will they conclude about the validity of my claim to be a disciple of Jesus Christ?"
More to come on that subject...
The first and by far the most applicable one to my life was Mercy and Its Rewards.
Luke 6:36 says, "Be ye therefore merciful as your Father also is merciful". So here we see that our model of mercy is Jesus Christ Himself. He led a perfect life of mercy by not arrogantly judging, not assessing our guilt, by freeing and forgiving and generously giving (ooh! it rhymes!).
I myself have a tendency to judge very arrogantly. If I see someone doing something that I think is wrong or inappropriate, then I'll get all proud and think, 'Well, God must really approve of ME, I'M not acting like that. And I'm humble.' And then I realize what I'm doing and have to start all over again. V. 37a of Luke 6 says,"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not and ye shall not be condemned..." Pastor H. used an illustration that I can't remember exactly but it was good! Something about tax auditors.
Not only should we not judge, but we should not condemn people as a result of that judging, whether it should be the saved or unsaved. God has already determined our guilt and we were as guilty as they are and still would be were it not for God's free gift.
The thing I also struggle with is seeing the unsaved in that light. That Jesus came to save them too, not just us "blessed people" and that we need to be missionaries all the time to show them that way.
We should guide them, not as the blind leading the blind; we should teach them, not as students teaching students; and we should heal them, by first pulling out the log in our eyes.
Luke 6:45--"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure or his heart bringeth for that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh."
If we have good hearts we can produce good things just like a good tree cannot bring forth bad fruits and a bad tree cannot bring forth good fruits. We are known by our fruits.
The question for applying truth to life was
"When people who know me best see the fruit of my life, what will they conclude about the validity of my claim to be a disciple of Jesus Christ?"
More to come on that subject...
Well, it was very very nice to sleep in until 11 this morning. I don't get to do that very often. The reason I slept that late was because I was up until about 3:30 or so last night reading. Actually, before that I went to go see Superman with Brittanie, Nicolas, Davy, and Wayne. It was kind of a lame movie. I was disappointed. And we didn't even get to wear underwear on our heads!!! The dumbest line I've ever heard in a movie was in that one when Lois Lane is standing on Superman's feet and they're flying around. And then she says breathlessly, "I'd forgotten how warm your body was". Brittanie and I got a big kick out of that one.
I didn't understand what was going on most of the time because I thought the plot was confusing and the dialogue was not very intelligent. But I have to say, the little boy was cool and if Lois wants to give up Richard, I'll take him! They casted Superman pretty well though. He looked like Superman and Clark Kent should look like.
Wow. I've never posted a whole post on a lame movie before. Impressive.
I didn't understand what was going on most of the time because I thought the plot was confusing and the dialogue was not very intelligent. But I have to say, the little boy was cool and if Lois wants to give up Richard, I'll take him! They casted Superman pretty well though. He looked like Superman and Clark Kent should look like.
Wow. I've never posted a whole post on a lame movie before. Impressive.
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