Sunday, July 01, 2007

Waste of my Life.

I was quite excited yesterday that I finished my homework & it didn't take too much time. Got that out of the way before leaving for vacation Wednesday morning. So, given that, I had big plans for today, but nothing really firm.

Go to church.
Unpack.
Do some laundry.
Go hike a mountain with my journal & my Bible to spend time with God to try to listen to some answers.
Pack for vacation.
Go to bed early.

Well, I was out late last night dancing, where I danced maybe 8 times - I spent a lot of time catching up with someone that was visiting from California. On the ride home I had prayed that when I put my iTunes on random, that God might speak to me through the songs that came up. Well, the next song on the radio seemed to answer that prayer, so I had to go buy it on iTunes & stayed up even later.

Yeah, I overslept & didn't make it to church. It felt good to sleep, but I didn't go last week & won't go next week 'cause I'm out of town for dance. So blah. Then I head upstairs & start playing a game on the computer, have lunch with my family (where most of us are in our PJs still), and then go back to the silly game.

Here it is, after 3:00 & I haven't done anything - still in my PJs, unshowered. My baby sister is out with mom getting a laptop for college (yay high tech graduation presents), and she asked me if I'd go to the gym with her after they got back. Now what? I don't really want to shower before going to the gym. Maybe I could start laundry since I'll be showering later. It really would've been cool to go to a mountain, though.

*sigh* I don't know what to do.

I just hope that I end up doing more than nothing today...

Saturday, June 30, 2007

So Confused.

Life is so confusing. I don't know what to do.

I know I should pray.

Why won't I just make time for Him?

Monday, April 02, 2007

Avalanche!

Sunday seemed to be a rather lazy day for me. I'd gotten to bed around 10:30p the night before, which was earlier than expected since I forgot my book at Tim's place the day before. I only woke up a couple of times overnight, and lazed around in bed once my body was done sleeping since I didn't want to wake up. I got slightly caught up on mySpace, took as long of a shower as I'm able to at my house, and even made it to church a few minutes early for once.

Church was quite enlightening as well. I'll get to posting my notes sometime soon - quite a lot this week! I took my time leaving church to socialize with the people I had dinner with the night before, as well as someone I'd talked to quite a bit last I'd seen her. I got home, and mom was wonderful & offered to make me pastrami (since they had it without me for dinner the night before). It was quite tasty!

As tempting as it was to just laze around my room and do nothing, or watch movies, or dance DVDs, or tool around on the internet, I managed to refrain from it. For quite some time I've wanted to go through my closet to get rid of clothes that I haven't worn in years. Mind you, my "closet" consists of two sets of Yaffa blocks stacked 6 high with a rod and shelf going across them. Well, I actually started working on it. I pulled out a lot of clothes that I decided to give to Goodwill or Salvation Army. I went upstairs to ask my sister if she had extra space in her closet for all the dresses that I rarely wear. When I got downstairs & back into my room, my "closet" tipped over! I really shouldn't have tried to catch it...

I'm sure that after seeing this that it comes as no surprise to you that I'm a pack rat. I never wanted to admit it, but here I am. I am a pack rat! You wouldn't believe the number of empty cardboard boxes I had piled up in my room! They came crashing down everywhere... And there were just so many clothes that got tossed across the room. That didn't even include the clothes that I had already gone through and deemed as donations! Since the shelves came flying outwards, they catapulted so many things out of them. All my FIRST shirts ('cause I've been collecting for a really long time) all came down to the floor in one area. They remained mostly folded, so it was quite easy to ask mom to put them away for me without needing to direct her too much. Needless to say, I am quite thankful for all of her help. I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much done without her!

Oh, did I mention the sheer amount of hangars that I had? Most of them weren't even being used! I just didn't want to throw them out, just in case I might need them to hang something. Not that I had any space in my closet anyway. It was jam packed! Anyway, beyond that, we slowly waded through the mess of my room that happened, though progress didn't shine through.

It took a while, but we managed to put the closet back together. That was quite heartening - I even saw some floor - until I looked at my bed. After sorting, I managed to fill 2 trash bags very, very, very full of clothes that I didn't want to hang onto any longer. Mom & I joked around with my sister that she put the bags in the back of her van & sell them to her friends for $2/item.

After about 5 hours after the fall, my "closet" was pretty much back to its "normal" state - though with quite a lot less clothing. When we first started, mom didn't think that I was going to be sleeping in my bed last night. I actually managed to do it! I even packed my gym bag before bed & picked out clothes to wear to work... It was a really exhausting day - did I mention that I was grateful that my mom helped me so much? Near the end, I was on my own, but that little extra effort gave it a ton of closure to make my room look much neater - don't you think?

I'm glad it was such a productive day. I really had plans to do all this cleaning, I just didn't expect to get this much done in all day! Funny how God forced my hand to just get it done yesterday... He's so good to me!

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Been a Long Time...

I'm really bad about updating this thing.

As I wrote that title, I had Led Zeppelin's Rock 'n Roll running through my head. That's likely attributed to the fact that I witnessed Guitar Hero for the first time on Saturday night at Julia's halfway-through-build-season party. I still haven't played. I think there are a handful of high schoolers that have some sort of interest in changing that.

So, as I looked back at my last post, I decided I should update on some of that stuff.

I still have my job. I made it through a year of working with that guy that I didn't get along with too well. I've started a new job within the company -- I like the work & the people so much better. I'm scheduled to move tomorrow, and my phone already moved, so it's hard working on stuff but not being able to call people about it, hence the distraction of updating. I don't know how long I'll be doing that, though, as "staffing will be very dynamic for the beginning of the year." Oh, but apparently, there's plenty of work out there.

I finished the classes I'd signed up for. Supposedly, I completed my Graduate Certificate, but I haven't gotten anything in the mail about it -- since August. Still up in the air about taking 5 more classes to get my Masters degree. I got accepted to WPI to do it, but I haven't taken any classed beyond the certificate. Not too worried about it at this point. If God wants me to do it, things will happen to make it obvious.

I'm in the middle of FIRST season right now. The kids have had a driving chassis for more than a week. More parts are scheduled to show up rather soon, and the goal is to have a completely working robot one week from today. That gives almost two weeks for debugging & driver practice. I'm quite excited about it! The kids seem to be as well!

I went to Swing Diego this year. I had an absolute blast! It was a much needed break from life, work & robots. I'm even more excited that it's moving to May for 2008 -- now I won't need to tear myself away from robots & feel guilty about it. Competition-wise, I didn't do so well, but I expected that, being west of the Mississippi & all. Dance-wise, I had a blast, but didn't dance as much as I could have. It was weird, when I was packing to go home Sunday night (I need to remember to wait to leave on Mondays so the weekend doesn't feel so cut short), I felt like I was just arriving, not leaving to head home. Church-wise, Geoff had a cool sermon on Sunday; it was similar to some stuff I'd heard a few weeks prior at my church. And Benji did a dollar dance to donate to D.E.M.A.N.D. -- which I made sure to do.

I just signed up to get certified for teaching WCS with Robert Royston. It's called PDIA & it seems rather neat. Now I've just got to start teaching at some point... I want to, there's just this thing called time that I've been lacking.

Tim & I are still together. He's working through some growing pains. Can you believe it's been more than two years? It's crazy. Oh, his older brother has their 4th child on the way. His younger brother has their 1st child on the way. Crazy baby action!

So that's a lot of where I'm at right now. I'm sure I missed a lot of it, but that's alright. I'm sure I'll update this thing again some time in the next year. ;)