Random Stuff

Today is the one year anniversary of my blog! So in order to celebrate, I am going to try to do a follower collage. If you are interested in participating, send me your most favorite picture (it can be one you have taken, or one off the internet) and one way that God met you in 2009. I will create a collage out of all of the images and post your quote under it. Email or message me by January 9th with your submission and it will be featured on my blog the following Monday.

Here are a few of the things I have been doing recently...

I created a National History Day Website for my Honors Modern World Studies Class. If you want to see it, click here.

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g to be doing one of my little sis soon :) (the picture doesn't do it much justice... it looks much better in person.)

I sent in my college applications and have been fighting with Agora about sending my transcripts.

I have been doing various GIMP 2 Tutorials... here are a few of the results...
It's basically just to teach myself how to do graphic design and how to use GIMP 2 (a free graphic program that is highly comparable to Photoshop. I definitely recommend it to those of you who want to dabble in graphic design.) There are tons of tutorials on the internet. A couple of sites I have found to be helpful are...


They are both pretty good at explaining how to do things step by step, allowing you to go back and change things to be how you want them.

God has been so good to provide me with another babysitting job! They are an awesome family with three adorable kids. So far, things have been going really well with them, and they have me come over two times per week. Thank you GOD!

I'll be 18 in 22 days. That's so weird. I can vote in the 2012 election. I could buy a monster-size throwing knife if I wanted to, and if I got really crazy, I could get a tattoo (don't worry mom, that's never going to happen :-P).

But yea, I have been thinking a lot about my childhood... remembering things and reacting in two different ways. "Wow. Was I BAD!" and "Wow! How amazing is God!" SO when I think of that time I stole tomatoes out of my neighbors garden at the old house, or that time I chased a girl with scissors and called her a dummy bear, or the time I put juicy juice in my dad's coffee, or when I caught the microwave on fire with Erin, or when I thought that Sprite gave me the "silly-willys" I can know that it was all just a part of being a kid. I'm not what one might have considered to be an angel, but hey! Look on the bright side... I didn't get sent to prison for not wearing my bike helmet either! I have said stuff I regret, but God has been helping me to see that rather than condemning myself for it, look at it as a learning experience and a chance to realize that I have been forgiven. Before Jesus, I would have gone to hell for taking that tomato (or those twenty tomatoes) from my neighbor's garden without him knowing. It's not abusing the Grace of God, it's realizing that I'm merely a human. As long as I have asked for forgiveness of my childhood crimes and never do it again, I'm still clean in His eyes because Jesus covers it all. I really can't imagine what not knowing that grace would be like.

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  1. aJanuary 7, 2010 at 7:10 PM

    You should buy a monster-sized throwing knife.

    Really.

    ReplyDelete

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