Well Hello there, Thursday!

Sooooo things have kind of gotten better since Sunday. Yay! Really, I just pretended to be happy with things, and that turned into real happiness. I have to trick myself like that sometimes. It's not the end of the world, so everything is grand. :) 

Today is the day we wear bible verses on a string/ribbon/whatever ha. My verse is Hebrews 12:1... 

Since we are surrounded by so many examples of faith, we must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially sin that distracts us. We must run the race that lies ahead of us and NEVER GIVE UP.

I just love that! That's all I've got for today. :) 

WORST WEEKEND EVER.

And just when I thought things were bad, they got worse. 
SWEET. 
I'm not going to go into detail, just because not everyone needs to know my personal problems. However, I AM going to write a "letter" to an anonymous person who made my life misery for a long time. I don't expect that he will read this, so that's probably a good thing. 


You- 
YOU SUCK. Can you please just move away or something?! I don't like you, you obviously hate me, and I want you to leave me alone! I neither want nor need your immaturity, stupidity, and ignorance in my life, so GO AWAY. Must you be so stupid?! I don't HATE you, but I dislike you about as much as one can dislike a person without it being considered hatred. You are pathetic. What I ever saw in you, I have no clue whatsoever! YOU'RE NOT NICE. YOU'RE NOT FUNNY. YOU JUST ARE NOT A GOOD PERSON. I put you in my phone as Satan. It was kinda awesome, except not really because you're that awful. I do hope you NEVER text or call me ever again, let alone talk to me in person. You wouldn't talk to me in person anyways... That would be too mature for you. This whole "letter" comes down to just one thing: GET OUT OF MY LIFE! That is all. 


"All you are is mean and a liar and PATHETIC and alone in life and mean..." 
Gotta love how Taylor Swift knows every teenage girl's life. 

Weekend = great... then awful. SUPER.

I decided that I'm not going to post stuff if I'm not in a good mood so that I won't be all depressing... Merrhhh. Buuuuut I'm going to make a mini exception because I feel like I haven't posted in forever. Friday was grand. Megan and I ate at Runaway Train (cheese fries = beautiful. ha!) then went to the soccer game. It was my very first high school (guys) soccer game ever! I'm lame and have no school spirit like that, but it was fun! I see more soccer games in my future. Saturday... half of the day was great. The other half... not so much. UIL Solo and Ensemble was Saturday, and our madrigal made it to state. However, on my solo, I screwed it up because I got nervous. That's all I'm gonna say because I don't want to start crying again... Let's just say it ruined my weekend. 
Anyways, I'm working on editing music for Spring Show and for my officer tryout dance for drill team, and I needed to take a break! But now it's time to go back to work. Laytuhhh. Ha just kidding! Byeee. 

One hundred thirty-seven.

That is the magic number of the moment! Let me explain: 
So many people are ordering Redefining Beautiful (in case you don't know what this is, go check it out at http://youaresoverybeautiful.blogspot.com/) shirts. Today, I added all of my orders to my handy dandy little spreadsheet and realized that there are 137 orders. Awesome, right?! Yes, it is. 
After I realized this, I checked my little countdown to the days until Megan, Jared, and I go to Paris (on a mission trip... I only specify because I feel like it's essential to the work God is doing in my life and Redefining Beautiful is a part of that.) AND THERE ARE 137 DAYS UNTIL WE LEAVE FOR PARIS!!! 
What are the odds that the number would be the same?! It's just a random number. 137. One hundred thirty seven. Just a number! Geez. God is CRAZY AWESOME. He knew this would happen. Honestly, I think He sometimes does things just to make us go, "Whoaaaa hold up a second! Say whaaaaaat?!" 
That is my wonderful story for today. Definitely made my day. :D

I'm blown away.

God is just really, really, REALLY awesome. I've been rediscovering this lately. Time after time He just keeps blowing me away with His complete power over all situations. When I surrender the situation to Him, that is. I've recently learned that trusting God is the way to go. As obvious as that sounds, it seems like it would be easy... But it SO isn't! I realized that I really didn't trust God, like, at all. When I started trusting Him in different situations (like when I'd get a gut feeling that I need to do something and instead of shrugging it off, I would do it) things in my life started changing so much. My relationship with Him became stronger. Expectations I had were thrown out the window. He just took care of everything for me! It's almost like God was like, "Hey, looky here! You're finally realizing that I'll take care of it. Ehhh, I think it's time for good things to happen to you because you're trusting me now." Hahaha after I typed that all out, I realized how corny it sounds... but I really do believe that He's using my trust in Him and my openness to whatever He's doing as a way to reveal His power and overall AMAZINGNESS to me! How awesome is that?! I'm just so blown away by God right now. That is all. :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm not too much a fan of Valentine's Day, just because it's kind of a silly, pointless holiday. Buuuut I do love the opportunities it presents to share what love REALLY is! Such as: 
"And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love."

That's Romans 8:38. I love it... It's perfect for this silly little holiday about love. <3 

My very first blog! :)

Hello, everyone. :) I feel like I should put my first blog in one of those little baby books with like "Baby's first haircut" and "Baby's first steps" and such... Maybe that's not a normal thought? Haa. Whatever. Anyways... I'm completely new to blogging, so hang in there while I figure it out. I'm going to try to make it a goal to update this at least 4 times a week, but we'll see how that goes! In our Redefining Beautiful blog (which you should definitely follow), we just did a "Meet the Bloggers" post, and I do believe I'm going to post my little introduction on here also... 


My daily obsession: Tyler Ward (my future imaginary husband... He's a YouTube singer.) covered Lady Gaga's new song "Born This Way," and I'm completely in love with it (ONLY his cover). I'm going to learn how to play it on my guitar! :D  I love how Tyler changed a few words and left a few parts out because it changed the ENTIRE meaning of the song, and I love the new meaning. Go listen to it. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2IxuUKZ-c