Oh Dreams

I haven't been updating much 'cause summer is lazy/busy...

My One and my brother are dating. Weird? Yes.

Then I had a "real" dream last night, which is where I learn what my subconscious is thinkin' about. From what I remember, Josh Newman, Pasha, Jordan, Elinor, and I were all in a van with an African guy driving. I remember wanting to tell Newman about Elinor and Preston dating, but we couldn't find a time when everyone wasn't around. Then I made a comment about it to Elinor, and she got a lil' mad.

I learned from this that I need to give my brother's new relationship to God and not think about it, find time to hang out with Newman, and go to Africa to have an African drive me around in a van.

Poetry Dance + Weekend

The school dance was great. Then again, I don't know if I've ever been to a dance that I didn't like. Elinor was my date, and we were both pretty stylin' (photobucket.com/roysbucket is supposed to have a lot of pictures of the dance soon, but I already put some on my Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=67861&id=631798935). Jake, who had fractured his skull a few days ago while longboarding, came to the dance, and despite having a bloody eye, he still held his own on the dance floor. After the dance, a group of us went to see Knowing at Firewheel. I liked it besides the ending, but everyone else hated it. From there, Taylor Curren, Priscilla, Elinor, and I all went to IHOP. When asked why we were dressed so formally, I said, "We like to make every visit to IHOP into a special occasion." I was too tired to laugh at my jokes, so I looked dead serious. And one of the guys gave Elinor a card with his number (after saying that Shia Lebouf was an alien).

I had some good quality time today with D. Andrew, Bri, Brett, Abrik, Trish, Zach Shey, Alan Jensen, and Juddson (aka "Bolt"). We flew kites and lay around in the park. Then our small group watched Undercover Kids. Some were surprised to find that I'm a legit actor.

Last, but not least, my dad introduced a credit system for the chores in our house. He gave us a full page of explanation, which my sisters laughed at, which only served to make my dad that much more intense about it. He's getting creative in trying to get Alexandra to do work for her designer jeans. If anyone requests it, I'll put up a picture of the credit system.

Eee hee hee hee *giggles*

My morning began with a good bit of worship time in the car (with no caffeine to make me energetic). Reflecting on the previous day, I prayed for more bad things to happen so that God could show me stuff through it. I got to school, read my Proverb in the car, then took my Dual-Credit English test. I can't make any judgments on how I did. During the class, Rush and Alex joked around for a moment about womens' "accessories" again. I wrote Rush a note. I got a 73 on my Physics test, and thanked God for the bad news. I gave Rush the note during Government class, and then hung out with Elinor as we got tutored for our pre-Cal test, then went to Jack's, where a man conveniently paid for Elinor's meal. The test was alright, and in Roots class, I wrote a story about Jasper the whale, who signed up for whaling class, but learned the true meaning of whaling by finding a harpoon lodged into his person.

I got home, tried to do homework but fell asleep, then woke up to go to Prototype. I told Caleb about all that God was showing me, and then we did our God-stuff, which was really good, then, after Shane left, Caleb and I talked about how I need to deal with my Alex-Rush situation. Good advice from him. Through talking it out, I also came to realize how to bring balance to my life. My main problem last year was that I did spiritual stuff until around 10:00 PM- 12:00 AM, and then started homework. This year, I need to make sure that I don't abuse my body, so I need to be doing my homework earlier (much earlier) and basically use wisdom with my spiritual schedule. Last night, Cassie had told me about how God was gonna give her new challenges every week to shape her into what she needs to be, that this would be her hardest year ever. But today, she told me that God was laughing at her, and she was stepping out, but he wasn't backing her up. I told her that that didn't line up with scripture, and quoted Psalms 55:22 to her, "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall." and she didn't have an answer for it. I texted to Elinor that she needed to come to Paradigm's fall retreat, and she said that she didn't think so, so I told her that she needed some God in her life, and she admitted that God wasn't in hers. So we got to talking, and she basically tried God, but He didn't seem to meet her halfway like He was supposed to, so she dropped it. God is still at work. I can't wait.