Inside the Mind of a Musical Doll

Now that it’s December, I can sing and play Christmas songs all I want without my roommates saying “JIREH IT’S NOT EVEN DECEMBER YET! STOP SINGING!” Yipee. So when I got to the dorm yesterday, I found the dorm decorated with lots of wrapping paper. It’s very pretty. We also have stockings and a nativity scene on top of the fireplace. It’s cool because the stockings match our personalities. I’m really excited for Christmas. Only 24 more days! and 11 days until school is over! =)

By the way. I just found out that I won’t be able to make it to Winter formal because of a conflict in schedules. Sorry everyone =(.

My room is a total mess right now because I’m doing laundry and packing for Thanksgiving break back home in San Diego.

Ironwood was totally awesome. I learned so much from Mrs. Pryde and the food was great. I met some awesome new people, and I got to know my PBC sisters a little better. I’m really looking forward to the specifics conference in January. I bought some books there at like bargain prices and some CDs of her sessions. Most of the CDs I got dealt with teen issues. I’m actually thinking about working with teens in the future. If I’m gonna be a teacher, might as well right? 🙂

As for the drama. Well, it’s still there, but its getting better, now that the emotional wave of anger and disappointment has passed. We’re on speaking terms now, which is great because rumors are starting to get cleared up.

Sorry for not updating much. I miss you all and Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you to all the veterans and those currently in the military for serving our country. I’m still proud to be an American despite…yeah

So, life is good now. No drama lately, although I’ve completely given up on my semester goals since I think I broke all of them 🙂 I’m looking forward to the basics conference in Ironwood next week. 4 days of nonstop lecture with Debi Pryde. Really, she has good insight on lots of things and I love learning from her. I’m also looking forward to Winter formal. They want me to play my violin again, but that’s ok because I love doing it 🙂 Well, I’m off to finish my 2 semester projects that are due this week…COFFEEEEEEEE!

It all started on friday, being Andrew’s birthday. First we hung out at his house for a little bit. Then we went to the Santa Monica beach. After watching a beautiful sunset, we explored the carnival and the pier. The next day, I took CPR, AED, and First Aid Classes yesterday. It was fun, but long. We had a lot of fun memories. I am now certified to give cpr and administer first aid =). Today we had the Fuchs, missionaries to the Philipines. They were really cool people. Now here I am doing missions intensive homework. =)

Here’s a random quote for the night: Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, and the only art of earth we can take to Heaven-Walter Salvage Landor

That was just a random titile

Hung out with Andrew today…he gave me pretty white flowers

Ate Hannah should be back from the hospital soon. She’s looking better

Finished laundry in one day. That’s a record time!

I got a new printer.

That’s all for my 2nd post this week 🙂

Since I didn’t blog last week, I’m gonna blog twice this week =).

I went to San Diego this last weekend because there were some “She’s-over-18-so-she-has-to-sign-and-you-can’t” kinda paperwork that I had to deal with A.S.A.P. In so doing-I got a much needed break from the monotony of school =). I got to catch up with my family and friends, I got some new clothes, and I got the music for my church’s orchestra so I don’t have to sight read during the cantata like last year:). The only downside to going home was there was no wireless internet. Oh well, you can’t have everything right?

Sophomore year is tough, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. I honestly think I’m doing better than freshman year. I’ve learned so much not only academically, but also spiritually. D.J. preached tonight about growing in the Christian life. I liked his illustration about this guy’s experiment: pumping iron. He would only do his right hand and not exercise his left hand. Later down the road, the guy had a really buff right arm, but the left arm was weak and skinny. It was really weird. The point of this illustration is to show us that God looks at us that way when we only exercise one area of our spiritual life. For example, when we only focus on preaching, that part of our spiritual life will grow tremendously, but what about the soul-winning? What about the prayer life and personal devotions? If you only focus on a few of these areas and not all of them, your spiritual growth will be very disproportionate.