Wow

Until today, I totally forgot about this website. lol. I used to be so stressed out about my online things. I used to need to post and I would get mad at people for not posting often enough. I haven't posted since November. Well, life has been exciting for me lately.

The most exciting part is I'm going on a mission trip this summer. I am so happy that I can finally give back to God what He has given me. I will be going with an organization called Carpenter's Tools International (CTI Music Ministry). Their goal is to reach every young person in the world possible with the Gospel. What they do is they put people into Christian rock bands and send them out around the globe. I will go to Willmar, MN first for two weeks for music and mission training, and then I will spend the next four weeks in a foreign country. After that I will come back to MN for a day for mission debriefing and then I'll come home. I don't know where I'm going yet and I won't know until about a month before I go, but I still have a lot to do in preparation for it, such as raise $3800 (actually more than that to pay for my plane tickets to MN and back, my overseas vaccinations and my passport), and do all those things that I just mentioned in the parentheses. It's going to take a lot of faith, patience, and perserverance, but I can do all things through Christ. So I'm very excited! Right now I'm making copies of a letter I'm going to send out to about 100 people telling them what I'm going to do and asking them to invest their money in my trip (their donations are tax deductible, plus, they're giving to God's purposes, which is definitely an investment). I won't be able to send all the letters out today because I don't have enough envelopes and I don't have enough stamps, but maybe next Sunday. =) Luckily for me, CTI will reimburse me for the cost of the stamps and the envelopes... it's going to be quite a bit.

Well, I'm getting really bored and I wanna do something else. The internet just doesn't entertain me that much anymore. lol. ttyl!

~Sarah~

Religious Sites Blocked in School

WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?! I am soooo mad right now. The school district has managed to block all religious websites from our schools. That is so retarded on so many levels.

For one thing, it's just the major religions that have been blocked. I typed in Wicca on google and all the sites that came up as results I was able to access. If they're going to block religion from our school computers, they need to block ALL religious websites. Not just a select few.

Also, our teachers have us learn about religion, at least the major world religions. I know that in Mr. Brown's class, we have studied every single major religion and learned enough about them to start following them if we wanted to. Why isn't the district getting all butt hurt over that huh? It just makes me so angry. We have religion in our textbooks and religion has a lot to do with the world around us. If we don't know things about those religions, we could start a lot of problems with those we interact with. If we don't have an open mind and heart to those who think differently than ourselves, then we won't be able to interact with people when we get out into the real world. If we just sit here and be all close minded about things, more wars will be fought as a result. Many wars have been fought over religion... only because we didn't take the time to understand each other.

It's not like we're pushing our faith on others by going to a religious website for our own benefit and we're not insulting anyone. Especially if we aren't shoving it in their faces, which we aren't. We simply want to go about our business when we have free time. And we do have free time. If we didn't have free time I wouldn't be typing this. I think it's time for this country to take a stand against the ACLU. It's a good organization, but it's starting to get carried away. They are taking away our freedoms more than they are benefitting them.

Did you know that the ACLU tried to make it so that soldiers couldn't pray while on duty? THEY'RE SOLDIERS RISKING THEIR LIVES!! They have to pray... or at least they probably feel like they do. I know I would be praying if I were in their position.

This country is starting to anger me. We need to get our act together. If our president is such a Christian, why doesn't he act? Why doesn't he try to reinstate our rights of religion? Grrrrr....

Well, goodbye.

~Sarah~

Snow

I'm always talking about how much I hate snow. But when it's snowing like it is today, I love it. It's snowing bad enough that they're gonna let us out of school, and I'll bet you anything that we won't have school tomorrow. The cold feeling is refreshing to me for the first time. I don't understand it really. I used to hate being cold. But today I like it. It's nice.

I like how we're already getting a snow day in October. It used to be that we wouldn't even have a chance at a snow day during this time of the year, but we do. Imagine what it's gonna be like during the actual winter months, like in January and February. It's gonna be insane. I think we're getting a break this year. Hopefully we won't miss so many days that we'll have to cut into the summer to make up for it. Maybe we'll just barely miss that determining point. That'd be awesome.

I feel really peaceful today. I like the snow. There's also a dude playing a guitar in here right now, and when I was little I would always fall asleep to the sound of guitars. So it's very pleasing to me and it makes me happy. It takes a little bit of the stress out of my day from working too hard. And I do believe that I have been working too hard.

I can't wait for the buses to get here. I'm so freakin bored. I just wanna go home and relax, although I won't really be able to relax coz I have a whole bunch of freakin homework. Ugh.

Goodbye.

~Sarah~

RAWR

Hello fellow bloggers.

I am bored. So I'm typing an entry. It's going to be a short entry. Then I'm going to leave school and go to Trevor's house and beat him up (I can hear you all cheering).

Yay.

Onward.

~Sarah~

Busiest Week in My Entire Freakin Life

I have had possibly the busiest week in my entire life this week. I'm taking care of my neighbors' dogs, so it's making life hard. The only reason that I have time to write this is because I have a whole bunch of freetime in history. It's all pretty crazy.

I have to go over morning and night to feed them, water them, clean up their crap, and move them from their dog run to the garage and vice versa. Also on Fridays I need to water all their house plants. I thought I was done watering plants! I will never own plants in my entire life (except for carnivourous ones like venus flytraps coz they're kewl). Oh well, I'm getting paid ten dollars a day for it. =) I'm working for 11 days. >=) You do the math... MWA HA HA HA HA!!!

The other day I got there in the morning before school and found that they had crapped all over the garage floor. This was really nasty crap, not just your normal every day crap. This stuff was gross. This stuff was so gross that I had to first scoop it up with a shovel (it stuck to the shovel) and then get a hose and spray the remaining crap out of the garage. It was insane. I had to leave the dogs in the garage for the three days straight that it was raining and cold outside, so that is why they did it. But it took forever to clean it up and I ended up late to school.

So supposedly all this stress is worth it for that $110 I'm gonna earn off of these people. And I certainly hope they stick to their word, or I'll go insane and go on an angry rampage, destroying everything in my path... hee hee.

Anyway... I have gotten up at 5:00 every morning this week to take care of those dogs so that I won't be late for school. It's starting to get exhausting, as this week has been a crazy one for homework. It's kind of angering me. I had a dream the other night that I was using a calculator to determine how many hours there are in a person's life (if they live to be 80 years old) compared to how many hours they spend doing homework. I'm sure my numbers were completely wrong and I have no idea where I got them, but I ended up calculating that people spend 50% of their lives on homework. I know that's not true, but it sure seems like it. It's ridiculous. We go to school and work our butts off eight hours a day, five days a week. Then, after each day, we come home and work our butts off for another three or four hours on HOMEWORK. It's so retarded!!! And God forbid if you have extra-curriculars or some type of job, because you're screwed. I usually get an average of about six hours of sleep a night. It doesn't make for a very happy Sarah. It makes for an extremely grumpy one who is easily driven to violence. That's why there are so many school shootings going on. Too much homework and not enough sleep. It's starting to make people mad.

On top of taking care of those dogs and having a butt load of homework this week, I have had youth group and speech practice. I would have had Sweet Adelines, but I skipped it because I knew that I wouldn't be able to handle it. I have a piano lesson tonight and I have to be at school right afterwards to do something for speech. This sucks completely. And I can't do anything that I want to do, such as go to the football game. It's all work and no fun.

I think tomorrow I'm going to spend the day being a slob. I probably won't even get dressed or take a shower. That's how lazy I am going to be. I'm going to do nothing all day, so don't call me asking me to go to some party or something. I'm done running. Yay.

~Sarah~

A Poem of Pain

Why must you make me feel this way?
Why do you hurt me so?
Why is there never a single day,
When I don't feel trapped in Hell below?

You have done so much for me.
You have made my heart whole.
But then, why can't you see,
That though you've reached your goal,

I still feel sorrow,
I still feel pain,
And from tomorrow,
There is no gain.

Where have you gone?
Come back, please.
Don't leave me alone to die.

This is so wrong,
I'm on my knees,
I just want to see your light.

That light that emanates from your heart,
When you smile genuinely at me.
I pray that we will never be apart,
And that true, unbridled love will be.

Ugh, I feel like crap right now. Don't worry, I'm not going to die like the poem says. I'm just having a crappy weekend. Well, ttyl. =)

~Sarah~

Funny Clips

Ha ha, wow.

Haha ha ha... that's funny.

Cyber slap!!!!

Holy poo!!!

You know how much I love lego flash.

Wow. That is one heck of a strong video game console.

Self explanatory.

lol... awwww...

Anyway... I am stuck sleeping in the office tonight because my waterbed has a leak in it. Grrr... So tomorrow I get to drain this water bed (4-6 hour process) because the leak isn't huge, it's really tiny and it's hiding somewhere and it's really REALLY gradual. Then I get to go buy a new matress. I think the leak is on the bottom of the matress so I can't just patch it up without draining it. The matress is like 25 years old... it's been to Kuaj with my uncle and then it came to Colorado Springs and sat in his office for a very long time before they gave the bed to me. So yeah, this matress is gonna start sprouting leaks all over the place so I might as well just get rid of it. I also have to go to Mrs. Regier's house to take care of her roses (this is the last time!! yay!) and somehow I'm going to squeeze Ariel's birthday party in there. Goodbye Saturday. Sorry I never met you. lol.

Well, I'm going to end this entry now because nobody is most likely going to read it anyway except two or three people. My own boyfriend probably won't even read this! Which is sad! lol, oh well, he's a lot busier than I am with golf on his hands. Well, goodbye.

~Sarah~