Cooking up a storm.

Okay, so in reality, my Mom, cannot cook.

Sure, she can cook meatloaf, and spaghetti. But, I think that's about it. I honestly don't know how she has lived.

I am officially in love with allrecipes.com. I made a personal pact with myself that if I was home I would try to cook myself every meal. Well, i've been having LOADS of fun with it, I've even been making my parents dinner every night*, since when I come home, and all I see them eating is takeout, (or popcorn,) while watching netflix movies, or Lost on their laptops.

Well, since now I feel like such a 50's housewife (or daughter, lol) I have *ahem* discovered when I attempted to make things like Pizza, or anything breaded, turned into major FAIL moments.

SO, also new pact. Learn how to make home-made pizza, or lol anything breaded, it turns out to be successful! :)



**Just a side note, last night I made stuffed zucchini, AMAZING rice, (if I say so myself) salad, and strawberry lemonade :) Yummers.
Tonight, I have lemon garlic chicken with potato's in the crock pot right now. I got to figure out my side dish still...Here I come allrecipes!

conversations.

Aren't conversations the best?

Face it.

You only asked that person what kind of music they liked so that you could tell them what kind of music you liked.

Don't lie.

You only asked how that person's day was so that you could tell them how your day was.

And it always kind of quirks you off when they don't ask you back...



So, personal new mission. I am totally, absolutely, going to ask that-whichever person what kind of music they like, even when I don't want to hear what it is.
:)

quick post

I know. I told myself I really would be writing on here a lot more. But of course, I keep on forgetting.


I'm getting a little messed up in life. Things keep on happening to me, that are just right out of a movie it seems.

I used to get so annoyed with people not trusting other people, but yet I find myself not wanting to tell anybody anything. I think it's mostly because i'm embarassed. Not because I don't trust you guys, it's just that I can't stand thinking that anybody will take advantage of me again. Is that not trusting?

Crap. It totally is.

I need to make a phone call.

Help me out.

So, I was pondering this.

I was kind of annoyed with the fact that we weren't getting cricket wireless,. But, since I have to deal with it, I'm going along with me getting a new phone along with a new 2-year contract with T-Mobile.

In about 4 months (on my birthday) we get to start up a new contract...Which means, new phone! Whoop dee doo...So, I get on the Internet right away, and start looking into things...where I found two phones, that I would love to have. It's the samsung behold (the brown) , and the samsung highlight. (the top two, in blue)

For around $80 each, I can get one of 'em. It's just a matter of when I can get them, and if I can really get them.

So, help me pick, I know you probably don't know that much about either of them, but, let's put it into the the judging-the-phone-by-it's-cover method.

Which one should I choose?

Sonlight-Core 300

August 24th.


August 24th.


August 24th...

That day, is constantly rushing towards me like a tornado, and I don't know what to do about it. On August 24th, I start school.


I think this is the first time I actually have a date to put in my calendar, where I can label it as "First School Day".

Quite frankly, it scares me to death. The first couple of days within getting the books, I was too busy with them to actually think about it.

Since i'm practically my own teacher (have been since 7th grade) that big-blue-death-binder (as I fondly call it) is death row. Can I hang myself now?

2300 pages, of NOTES. Don't go on thinking that homeschooling is all "lets-sit-on-the-couch-in-my-pajamas-all-day-long" kind of deal. It's intense.

I sat for 3 days, at my dining room table, I figured out which books I was reading each week, I switched ALL the notes from the back to the appropiate week tab in the binder. I took all the old books out of the book-shelf, and put them in a box, and then I organized my books to which order I was reading them in, and put them in the empty, (can I add clean?) book-shelf.

I'm thinking i'm getting a little bit German here...lol. I know my Mom won't do it, so I do it. And golly, I enjoy it :)

Even though I still have 9 more weeks of notes to transfer, I have to say, (as I am in the beginning of ALL school years,) i'm freaking excited!

If you want, look at this link, (it shows what i'm doing this year)

I am really excited about the books i'm reading this year. I'm reading things like Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis all the way to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald...The one thing I think i'm not too excited about is the Chemistry part. I think this is one of those things that just creeps me out, and puts me into the "I'm too stupid to do this" mode.

I still have to figure out my schedule for wake-up times, because now i'm starting to do worship sets at my church on thursdays and fridays at 12 pm and 1 pm...So, new schedule looks like:

Mon-Wed: I get to wake-up at 7:30 am.
Thu-Fri: 5-5:30 am.

Ta-da! I got it down. Haha.

spiffy lookin' blog.

Yep.

I just *ahem* designed a new blog... (with the help of google of course!)

Tell me what you think about it!

Booo sucky nights.

Yesterday, was fun.

For the most part...

I got to the furnace around 11:45, and did the set (think worship team, worship hour, la dee da) with Susan, which was okay.

I'm really excited about prophetic singing lately. Sure, I suck, but at least I'm not a scared chicken about everything now. I mean, I keep on looking on how much I have gotten more confident in the last three weeks, compared to the last year 1/2....BIG DIFFERENCE...Susan (worship director, and also prayer leader on this) asked me to go on the piano afterwards and do a song since we had extra time, so I go up, and of course all the sudden, I get worship A.D.D, for all the other singers/musicians out there, do you ever go up there, and forget how that one part of the song went? Well, you get the point.

The rest of the day, before the bridegroom watch, I pretty much walked around brain-dead, ate, talked to people, talked on the phone. My friend had a pregnancy scare, my other friend had a cheating boyfriend scare. Ahhh, Teenage girls.

Well, since I've been on 2-3 sets a week with prophetic singing, I get a little more edgy in what I think....of course I get all crazy, ACTUALLY THINKING I'M GOOD...I told my parents that I'm really enjoying spontaneous singing, and how i'm getting better at it.

Okay, after bridegroom watch, Alicia says "Evie, come and sing with me on the compassion set." At that moment, I was not feeling good whatsoever, I really felt like I was going to puke, but I went up there thinking I could do it anyways. Alicia was prayer leading, and asking me to sing spontaneously after everything she prayed.

Well, since I was so self conscious about my, I don't know, I-feel-like-i'm-about-to-puke stage, I couldn't concentrate. I wasn't in a good spot. My headphones kept on going in and out, I couldn't hear anything, and, well, it wasn't good.

I think I sang two extremely random things that didn't have anything to do with what she was praying, and it was off-key, and I couldn't go along with what her husband was playing on the guitar. My parents were in the seats, hearing me really for the first time. I was uber-beyond-uber embarrassed. (And even now, I don't know why I was so embarrassed, lol)

I gave my apologies to Alicia, and went to go sit down. I told my parents I wanted to go home. They told me to wait outside, and that they would be out in a second.

I went outside. And waited by our car.

Okay, well, I don't cry often, and I don't get angry often. I'm a pretty happy person in general.

At that moment, I just got plain ol' upset. I cried, I didn't puke, but I felt like I wanted to. I waited outside for 25 minutes.
I didn't want to go inside and tell them to-get-their-butt's-out-here-right-now, because I was still embarrassed.

I talked on the phone to Margie, and Adam called me in the middle of it. Thank God. I think Adam and Margie are just about the most perfect people to talk to when anybody is upset. God knows how many times we have helped each other through teenage-drama.

Yeah, so I was angry my parents left me out there for such a long time. I'm not a psychopathic daughter who yells at her parents constantly.
I know my parents won't stand for that, but I don't like people treat me like crap when i'm sick. I deal with it enough, and I definitely don't want to deal with it then.

Okay. The official Evie-rant is over. Thanks for reading.

I'm back!

Watch this youtube video, it's awesome! All the 2008 top hits, mashed together, (the beginning is a little slow, but i love it :) )

Just wanted to let ya know. I'm back on blogger! I know, it's been awhile, I really keep on telling myself to get back on it, but never happened.

Let's hope I can get to it 5 days a week. (new goal) I've been really been really busy. And, WILL be really busy. And I really want to talk about things that have been happening.

:)

I know, a little backwards with the posts. Fourth of July

Okay. I know I should of posted my "fourth of july" post, earlier, but I forgot.

Just wanted to mention, only because I remembered it for a moment, I absolutely HATE 4th of july's. I don't know what my problem is, but it's one of those things, and one of those dates, that I cannot let go of for the life of me.

I think the biggest issue in my life which I probably need some major help in, is the fact that if something absolutely terrible happens to me, I remember that date, and pretty much hold on to it. I think of it as my "depression date". I dwaddle in it. I think about the terrible thing, and I sit in my little pity-party. I know. Ridiculous.

North Carolina

Right now, i'm sitting in the passenger seat of the car. I'm staying at Peace Valley Campgrounds, and somehow we got the wireless connection to come through, from about a block away. It's a miracle!

I haven't written a blog post for awhile, so I thought now would be the perfect time to do it.

I'll start off with, NORTH CAROLINA IS BEAUTIFUL. The second you see those mountains it's like a giant can of febreeze just sprayed you in your face. That mountain smell? So-ho legit. :)

Everything is covered in leaves/vines/moss/whatever-you-want-to-call-it.
I guess there is a little county called Hanging Dog, and there is ALSO a little church there, called Hanging Dog Baptist Church. As soon as my parents heard that, they drove 30 minutes to get there to take a picture with the sign (My dog even happily jumped in with the polaroid). As soon as we took the picture, we saw right next to the church was this cemetery on this hill, with tons of old gravestones. My parents for some odd reason love looking at the old gravestones, just to look. So, (if you can imagine it clearly) is: my Mom and Dad, running around, trying to find the oldest gravestone there. I think we saw one gravestone, where the man died in 1901.

Oh, also, I think I have fallen back in love with reading. Yeah, I felt like there was a "dry season" (lol) for about a year, that seemed like every single book I picked up was slow...but lately I can't get enough of 'em...and well, I'm happy. haha.

I'm really missing the prayer furnace/friendship center lately, and I'm almost sick of running around everywhere like this. I don't think I have officially yet unpacked my toiletry bag since my trip to Texas. Once I get back from this long road trip/camping trip, I think I'm in Chicago for a good six months.

...

*sigh*

I am officially in Atlanta, Georgia...Well, actually i'm in McDonough Georgia...in a Hotel (*ahem* Motel room :) )

I guess I should go on and clarify what I meant from my last post. Lots of people are pressuring me on what I'm going to do, for well, really the next couple of years.
I guess my two sisters, when they were around my age, both were taking college classes, both had boyfriends, (who had met the family) and, well both had consistent jobs.

Well, then there's me. I haven't really pursued all of those things like my sisters. I have no idea what I want to do, I'm not super interested in taking college classes, Jobs? Sure, I have a couple of babysitting jobs here-and-there. My secretary job though, has gone zip.

Um, Guys...well, first of all, my sisters were (are) much prettier/thinner than me, (which some people won't let me forget) and just that I'm a little bit more picky, just for the fact that I've experienced, and heard too many stories. I want to be cautious with who I date, because honestly, having your heart broken SUCKS. I haven't experienced that to the fullest, but I've had a lot of crying friends on my shoulders, and I don't want to be one of those girls. It's just that, I guess I have had too many people come up to me in the last couple of months asking questions like, "So, where's your boyfriend" or "Who have you been dating lately." or even "You're not dating yet?" Here's the thing, I'm not a 40 year old cat lady, and I honestly don't understand that "issue" ...saying that marriage, is at least 5 years away (and that's if I marry YOUNG, haha).

Although, I must say, there HAS been possibilities lately in that department...I won't say too much yet. But seriously, possible possibilities. :)

ALSO, I'm thinking about different things I want to do just with plain-old life. I'm thinking about pretty much dropping the friendship center, and going elsewhere....I'll have to talk about THAT later as well. I'm going to really have to start looking around, but also, I have a couple of ideas. :)