And after a week long absense, not much has changed. I'm coming out of my cold now, which is a very good thing. The first week of college is almost over and I like most of my classes and professors. I have one that says "okay" at the beginning and end of almost every sentence. That can get a bit annoying, but other than that, there's nothing to report.  Oh, except that I've met up with most of my friends from last semester!! *is happy*

Time: 5:47 I don't think I like getting out of bed at 5:30 in the morning. It's just...wrong. It's because I have a seven o'clock class, but I have to squish my story-writing and horses in before I leave to go to school. *sighs*  So,yeah, that's it. Thank goodness I only have to get this early three days out of the week.

God Bless,
~Kj

I would get sick two days before I had to go back to school. *shakes head and laughs* Well, hopefully it won't be too rough. Though the first day is always interesting, with people running around like crazy and what not.  I really really don't like getting sick, 'cause everytime I get sick, my whole body aches and it gets really annoying after the first five minutes.
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I should probably go see if the rest of my textbooks got here yet since I kinda need those.  Maybe later.

Let's hope I can get better in 24 hours. 12 would be even better. I dunno, we'll see.

God Bless,
~Kj

Snow!! For three days in a row now! YEEEES!! Maybe my dad and I can go cross country ski-ing now. If we both have the time. *grimaces*

My plane broke again. Well, technically, it's not my plane. It's just the one plane I've been flying for 9 months now, so I call it "mine". Appearently it had an oil leak in the engine and the folks at the airport have a reputation for being behind on such things. A reputation that they were faithful to uphold yet again. But I guess they fixed it over the weekend. The only problem now is that my instructor is busy, and I'll be back to college by the time he's not busy.  This is a problem.  Guess we'll just have to figure something out like we usually do. Hopfully the weather won't get so bad that we get grounded.  That tends to happen quite a bit too.

I went to pickup the rest of my textbooks on Monday, and the place was close because of the holiday. Duh. Then I went to the bank to deposit some money and they were closed to, but my sister and I didn't figure that out until we had sat in the empty parking lot for about twenty minutes. I did figure out how to deposit money via ATM. We sat there laughing, wondering if our trip into town was going to be a complete disaster. It wasn't we got about half of the things we had planned to do done.  Then I went back to get my textbooks yesterday, and they said that they weren't going to start selling books until Friday or Saturday!! A firend of mine, who works at the bookstore, said to go on Monday and/or Tuesday. I went both days and didn't get anywere. *laughs in situation's face* So I'll just have to wait until Friday.

God Bless,
~Kj

Some you will understand what I'm about to say. Most of you probably won't, but that's okay.


About two weeks ago, I had a very rough day working with my dad, and when I say rough I mean nasty, ugly, down-right disgusting. There was little to no interaction between us, but there are some things no one should have to hear or see. I had to pray(silently) the almost the entire time.

Yesterday, I was face with a personal dilemma. This time, my mom touched upon the subject and challenged me to do the thing that I knew I had to do but was really, really, fighting. I had already prayed about the problem, and God hadn't exactly told me what to do. He had presented me with a choice. I could keep going down the road I was on, or I could my problem in His hands and trust Him to make it work.  To be perfectly honest...I was scared. Honest to goodness scared, even though I wouldn' admit it. Cause this was a BIG ISSUE!!!

So we(my mom and I) prayed about it again and then I went and thought about some promises I had made to myself and to God. He sure does know how to get to me sometimes. You see, if I say I'll stand for something I mean to stand for it. No questions asked. Now here I was, turning on that very statement(amoung others)  So, He more or less dared me. Would I keep my promis to Him and trust Him like I said that I did, and would; or would I go my own way. He

He left me with that  thought and I just couldn't get it out of my mind. I couldn't even try to get it out. Eventually, He won. He always sooner or later. I gave it to Him and He took it and replaced my self-imposed worry and fear with a peace that says everything will be okay--no matter what happens. And that feeling bring an unspeakable joy. 
I can't explain this someone who hasn't experienced it. You become so full of joy and peace that it becomes love and you can't help but reach out to other people. You begin to not care how bad it gets, because you know that it'll be okay.  Let it be said that there is a God, Who loves more that humanly imaginable. Who cares so much that it's overwhelming. Every time you try to think about the things that He has done for you that you can't. Because it's impossible for a human mind to get the concept.

I've been a Christian since I was 9, and I am just now being to experience Christianity. I had to open up my mind and heart to God's way. I had to try to see things from His perspective. No, I don't understand it. That's what makes it so great.  If He didn't love me so much He wouldn't help me. Believe me, there are somethings I've done that...yeah. And when I told Him about it, and asked Him to come and fix me, He was already there. He hugged my broken pieces, put me back together and hugged my fixed self.  I was saved...again.

...There is a God. Don't think so? Try coming up with something so original that you didn't need anything that already exists to make it. Still don't think so?  Go hit rock bottom, and then ask Him if He's still there, believe that He'll answer...and see if He doesn't blow you away.  He never disappointed me.


God Bless,
~Kj

Textbook situation is taken care of!!! *victory dance* That is such I huge relief, I can hardly begin to tell you. Phew! So happy that's out of the way.

And a dear friend gave me the keys to downloading episodes onto my computer!! Now I can start making some real vids! Whoo! So I've been spending a LOT of time doing that. But it's cool 'cause it helps me fill up my completely empty days.

One week to go...and then it's back to the reality of college life.

God Bless,
~Kj

Two days in a row, playing hockey for an hour and a half, and two hours...and I hurt. Mostly my lower back and shoulder blades. It's nothing more than a little stiffness, but I'm not used to it yet so I'm just like flop.

I'm almost done with chapter one of my story!! YAY! I know, it doesn't seem like much, but considering that this is the fourth time that I've had to start from scratch with the same project in as many years... I'm just happy to still be working on it. Ya know?

Only a week and a half until I'm back at college. And I discovered that half of the books I need aren't even avalible yet. Even worse, they didn't list the course that I'm taking so I don't know what I need!! Grrrrrr! Hopefully they'll be updating the list soon. They said they would but...yeah.  Oh, the woes of an college student. lol.

God Bless,
~Kj

Only two weeks left of winter break and then it's back to college for me.  Ooooooh boy! It's one of those things that you kinda look foward to because it will keep you busy again and if you're like me you almost always have to be doing something, even if it's a little something; but then again you know that you're going to miss being home all the time were it's a whole lot easier to put up with life. ....yeah. 

But I'll get to see all of my friends again and that's something I've been looking foward to for a little while now.  Sometimes I think we've had too much fun together, if there ever was such a thing. Not like "could get you in trouble" fun, just fun.

....I still have to get my books for the next semester!!! *wide-eyed stare* Maybe I should try to get that done today. What a novel idea right? Had all of five weeks to do this and now that there are only two weeks left, I start to think about getting my books.  My excuse...I didn't know when the book list was coming out...but I didn't check until this morning. *grimaces* Yep. Welcome to the wonderful knowledge of my awesome time management skills.

*where are you?!* Imma waitin' for someone else on another site so that we can work on a "project". Yes, I know where they are but I have get going in a half an hour sooooo....I've been up for an hour and a half already...and I'm starting to get hungry. That's all I can complain about. I've been up long enough to get hungry and that usually takes some doing.

Welp, ttyl
God Bless,

~Kj

Ya know how you can know someone for a really long time and they're just a nice person and then they change kinda for the worse. Not that they don't care but they don't care nearly as much as they used to and they care about different things.  And then, after another long while you get a glimse of who they used to be. Something that you've been waiting for for a long long time and you grab onto it and hold it for dear life....and it still slips through your fingers and you're right back we're you started in the hard place.  And you love this person so much, you want to help them but they don't seem to want helping, in fact they say that you are part of the problem or the whole problem for that matter.

*huff of air* If there was ever a test of faith that was hard for me to pass, this would be it.  Yesterday was especailly hard for some reason. Not sure why, but if I could rate myself on a scale of 1 to 10 on the faithfulness scale I think was a 2 or 3.  Thank God He's much better at this than I ever will be.  He always knows just how to pull out of things like that. Always.

Well I just wanted to "put that on paper" so that I didn't have the feeling of having to say something still bouncing around the nether regions of my brain.

God Bless,
~Kj

It finally ligit snowed at my house!! And it's cold out so it won't melt and I can finally go cross country skiing and sledding and stuff. YAY! I've been waiting for this for soooo long, I'm so happy it came at last. Just in case you couldn't tell.  I think we got...maybe six or seven inches, but the drifts are almost up to my knees, so yeah. I live on Windy Lane, East Coast, USA. Not actually my address.

I found out this morning that one of my closer acquaintences basically did some anonymous back-stabbing, and I'm happy about it.  Not that I'm particularly mad about it, more along the lines of extremely disappointed and hurt. It does take a good deal to get me really mad so that's why I'm not steaming about this. That, and I've kinda come to expect this from people.  The situation is, me and another friend of mine were "writing" this story online. We are a fandom for Buzz Lightyear of Star Command(property of Disney/Pixar) and we love what we do.  Anywho, dear lovely instigator seems to think that our story is Mary-Sue-ish and wishes that we would keep "religion" out of the whole thing. Now, granted that was the way that Disney made it and I'm all for straight-up canon, but you can't expect everyone to stick to that. What is imagination for if not to take an idea and run with it.  Yes, I and my dear writing partner are Christians. Yes there is a difference between religion and Christianity. Sorry if you're offended by this by I'm the kind of person who takes or leaves the whole thing on this subject. For everthing else there is at least one compromise.

To me, when writing or looking at someone elses writing, you should take the good and appreciate it. All personal prefrences aside; critique things that you think need critiquing and do it in a MATURE, PROFESSIONAL manner. Please!!! I have no problem with someone pointing out an "error" in my work, as long as they don't do it "cheaply".   I have read several pieces that I don't necessarily totally agree with, but they are well done works. So I tell the author that the piece is well done and then in an unbiased way as possible(without compromising my values) make a few other points. It's NOT a HARD thing TO DO!! I'm not even a good/professional/ameture/writer. I'm hardly half-way to being okay by my own standard.  But I understand the concept of basic courtesy.

And then there's the fact that this individual actually took part in writing the story. With us!! For a good long while too! And then they seeming just turned around and wrote this. We hadn't heard a word out of them of a long time until now, and what a rude reintroduction it has been.

*huff of air* I'm done venting now, but I'm still frustrated that someone I called a friend did this. I should be mad, but I can't be mad at someone for having their own way of looking at things. It's just they way they said it that bothers me. They could've at least talked to us in private instead of pulishing something on the 'Net and waiting for us to find out.  On top of that, half of what they said was totally, completely irrelevant and/or a personal slight without a real name.

Okay, I'm done making everyone else miserable by writing this, but it was bound to come out sooner or later. I'm fine now, moving on until this requires addressing...in private. 

I hope everyone has a truely awesome day!!
God Bless,

~Kj

WHOOOO! My first  post of 2010!!  And it's about what happened yesterday. Which was basically two or three hours of hockey, with skate sharpening, shoe-shining and work in between. Yay! And I think we're going again today to see if there will be anyone else at the rink so maybe we can get a real game going.  That would be awesome!

And it's snowing again! I love snow, but it's also windy so it probably won't be hanging around much...at all for that matter. Oh well. 

HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!

God Bless,
~Kj