Here comes the next post and the last post of the month of May!!!! We're coming to summer :-)

I have to say: I have a love/hate relationship with Summer. We're great buddies when it comes to getting out of school and being able to relax a little bit. I'm down with the whole full-time job too. Summer and I start fighting when two online classes get through in, practicing for an upcoming 25 minute solo piano recital, being actively involved in my church college program, social life, pursuing a significant friendship, and the many other things that I try to get done while there isn't a school semester to fight.

So here's the question: How can I stay balanced with so many things that I want to do? More importantly, how in the world can I stay actively focused on God and growing in my relationship with Him?

I am so easily distracted. I bounce from one thing to the next almost instantly. I did this as a child. I'd start playing with barbies, and ten minutes later want to color. Then after fifteen more minutes, I'd hunt down my brothers to play with their legos. And so on. The same is true of me today only on a longer time-span. I start something and then get bored with it and want to switch to something else. Yeah, I do have a lot of things that I'm interested in and I am seldom bored for long periods of time, but I never get anything done. It's a wonder that I have stuck with piano as long as I have. Honestly, if I evaluated my life, you would definitely think that piano is more important to me than my relationship with God.

Let's be serious. It is. I can say in my mind or to other people as much as I want that God is way more valuable to me than piano is. But look at the facts! I live my life as if piano is the most important thing to me. At school, that's almost necessary. At least, it is a different situation than the summer. But now it is summer and I have to find a way to pursue a love-struck relationship with God while still practicing piano.

Tomorrow is my first day of work and the first day of one of my classes. The struggle will begin. I have a lot on my plate for one day. Work, quiz, piano, musical (I'll try and talk about that another time), Bible Study, work-out, making dinner, etc. It's just hard to fit all of that in to one 16 hour day. And no, I can't stay up late. I'm one of those people that absolutely has to have 8 hours of sleep.

Tomorrow is also the first day of my new Bible Study. I'm going to use the Inductive Bible Study Method to work through the book of John. I'm also going to resurrect my prayer journal. I need to do a lot of praying.

So that's my plan of attack. Get up early and get into God's Word first thing so that I can think about it all day long. Pray for me as I struggle against myself. My Victory is in Christ and I have faith that He will win for me. He has already won for me!

Now, if you will excuse me, it's past ten, and I still have some crunches and push-ups to do before I get to read "The Case for the Real Jesus" by Lee Strobel and then hit the hay. Have a wonderful week and Happy Memorial Day! May God bless and protect the men and women fighting for our country!

Welcome Back

So I started thinking the other day about making a vlog. I thought that it would be a lot of fun and that I would be able to put forth a lot of my ideas and be able to maybe influence some people. I don't know, I just thought that it would be really fun.

Then I realized that it was going to take up a lot of time and a lot of effort. This summer I won't have very much extra time with working full-time, taking two summer classes, and practicing for my Junior Recital. So then I fell back to this blog and asked myself these questions: Why wasn't I posting on my blog? Why did I want to start a v-log when I couldn't keep up with my first blog.

A few weeks after that, I answered my own question. I didn't want to work on my blog because I wanted to have an audience. A built-in audience. Someone to read my blog. Something that I didn't have then, and don't really have now.

Then I discovered something else. Sudden Inspiration! Maybe, just maybe I ought to post some, and then people will actually read my blog. Wow! What a thought!

So I shall persevere in my blog and post. At least, as much as I can post. And hope that people will read me. So, read! yay!

That is all. My agents need me now, so I have to go.

Long time no --- entry?

So I realize that it has been quite a while since I had an entry on my blog, and I decided to fix that ;) I try to keep up on stuff, but it's all getting away from me. School is crazy busy, and I'm involved in a lot, so I stay on my toes. Right now is Fall Break, so I'm chilling at home. It's nice to get to come home once in a while ;) I like my family. I also got to make chocolate chip cookies today, and Honey-Oh Bars. :D That's exciting. I get to take them with me back to school.

My piano recital is coming up soon....and I haven't practiced over break very much. Oops. Dr. Keck will read me the riot act :P But I got to relax this weekend.... And see lots of friends. In that sense it was worth it. In the sense that my lesson on Monday will be rotten, not so much worth it. But I did pass my hearing for the recital just before leaving on Fall Break.

Oh, and when we go back to school, we get to start singing Christmas music for our Festival of Christmas extravaganza!!! I'm really really really really really excited ;) because Christmas music is the bomb, and we get to do choreography and act really cheesy.

So anyway, that's my life right now! I'll try and post more often now....

ergh

How do I manage to get sick so much? I have been home just over a week, and I have contracted something else!> In this one, I have trouble swallowing. My tonsils are so swollen, I talk funny (like a man) and have trouble eating because of swallowing. I almost choked on dinner twice tonight. I hate this. I must have the poorest immune system of a normally healthy person in the world...

THE END!!!

I"M DONE WITH MY FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE!!!!!!!

And I got an A in piano, and my teacher instead of 2 credit hours, they are awarding me 3 piano credit hours! ! I'm pumped! And she assigned me my Sophomore Recital music....Bach, Beethoven, and BRAHMS, oh my! But I'm soooooo excited! I'm on cloud nine, and ten, and twenty-four, and fifty-two! I'm delirious with happiness right now, and I'm about to place the order for my sheet music. This will be a FANTASTIC summer! I hope joy is contagious, because I'm going to infect the WHOLE WORLD!

I LOVE MY LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quick Post

I haven't much time right now (homework and all), so this is brief....

I am still alive!!!

Hard to believe, what with finals and juries, but it is true. I'm breathing. Sort of living. Ready to be done! But that doesn't come for about two more weeks. It's a good thing that it isn't any longer, because I would go insane!!

Anyway, that's all for now. Good night all!

Storms

Last night a massive storm system passed over my hometown. Because it is Easter weekend, a friend and I drove home from my school in Arkansas. This large storm system split into two also big cells that quickly developed into equally large storm systems. One of those systems traveled east, just to the north of the town I live in, and actually hitting the north side of town. The second system traveled northeast, then shifted to northwest, hitting my college and the town where several of my good friends live. My house didn't receive any hail damage, just heavy winds and rain, but my brother's house did get hail, though no substantial damage. I don't know how Hot Springs and Arkadelphia fared. Please pray for my friends and the school that they are all safe and that God protected them last night.

Oops! ;)

Hello Friends, Followers, and Fans!

Sorry to have left you all waiting for another post for so long. College life is quite hectic. In fact, it's downright crazy. I have been so busy this week. I pulled an all-nighter, and was up very late just about every night this week. Hopefully I can post something a little more often.

So, it's finally the weekend! I'm very excited. Tomorrow morning I'll be working at Tiger Serve Day. My fraternity is singing at nursing homes and things like that. Then I have homework....as usual. And, if I'm lucky, I'll be done in time to have some peeps over for open dorm night.

I went to guy's open dorm night tonight. We watched Dr. Horrible's Sing a Long Blog. Ya. It's interesting. The music is alright. I don't know what I think about the plot. It was sad, and pretty unexpected for such a light video. Anyway, I think I liked it, but I'll have to think about it more.

SO, that's enough for now, because I want to go to bed. Good night all! Until our next meeting...

P.S. points to who guesses the movie quote and character.

Progress....or is it?

Just a simple thought today, maybe more tomorrow.

If Pro is the opposite of Con, what is the opposite of Progress?

You just ponder that one for a while and see what you come up with.

Kittehs!

Here is another funny pic that you ought to look at. By the way, this whole site is incredibly funny and never inappropriate(at least that I've seen)!

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/funny-pictures-your-cat-has-very-bad-hiding-skills.jpg

Enjoy it!