So yesterday was WINDSday. For those of you who have never come into contact with Winnie the Pooh or just plain forget, here's a brief synopsis:
Synopsis: A blustery day turns into a storm for Winnie the Pooh and his friends in the Hunred Acres Wood. They seek safety at Christopher Robin's, but Pooh and Piglet are washed away in a flood, and Owl's house is lost. But before the day is over, Owl finds a new home, and Pooh and Piglet becomes heroes.
At any rate, yesterday was like the windiest day ever. Or at least, the windiest day I've ever experienced. It was gusting all over the place it was crazy! I had to go over to Kirkhof for my drama team meeting and on the way in, Alia and Libby could barely open the doors because the wind was blowing so hard. Now, Alia and Libby are both pretty small girls but still, it was definitely a difficult challenge. On top of that, Alia was driving me, Libby, and Jamie back to our dorms from Kirkhof and her car died halfway across campus. Now, if you've ever been to Grand Valley, you know that our campus here is not exactly booming. It's a rather small campus. But still, Alia's car just simply couldn't make it. So, we managed to pull into a parking lot, but not into a parking spot, before the car died completely, and Abby, who was going to drive with Alia to drop her car off at the mechanics anyway, came to our rescue to jump the car.
Now you have to realize, at this point in the night it's not just wind that's blowing anymore on this blustery day. Oh now, it's more than that. While the car is being fixed, there are ice chunks flying through the air and slamming you in the face. ICE CHUNKS! Oh the good times with ice chunks. So, when the car would finally not start and when we were finally willing to give up, Libby and I got to hop in to Abby's car first for the two trips she was going to have to take in order to get us all back to our dorm. We made it back safely and soundly, but the night was still young for me!
I came to my room, and Tod was over! So, me, Tod, Jessie, and Jenny played Pictionary for about an hour and a half. It was SOOOO sad. We kept getting "All play" on every turn, which meant that each team had the opportunity to draw the picture and guess what it was. In the end, Tod and Jessie won. It's funny, but I had forgotten Tod was such a good drawer and I joked with Jessie and Jenny saying "I DON'T WANT TO PLAY WITH TOD," as he walked out the door to get a coffee. I guess Tod never heard that one cause he didn't respond to it, or at least I didn't hear him respond. At any rate, Jessie was like, "OKAY! I'll play with Tod!" haha! Oh the good times. Me and Jenny did make a really awesome comeback though. YAY! And we each guessed some really hard ones. Jenny got DISSOLVE. DISSOLVE!?!? How do you draw dissolve? It was mad crazy.
OH HEY, if you haven't read my journal lately, read the next one under this, the November 12th one. And help me out! Thanks!
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Movies and representations
7:06 PM
So for my final in my HONORS PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY I'm going to be doing a group project on movies. Yes, that's right, movies. Pretty funny if you ask me. At any rate, I'm hoping that some of you who read this will be willing to take some time out of your busy schedules to answer the following survey. If you would like to keep your anonymity, feel free to send me your answers at CutesyMIchic@aol.com. If not, just respond in my comments. Here we go:
1. Have you ever cried at a movie? If so, which one, describe the scene? Explain why you feel you did cry or why you feel you have never cried at a movie.
2. Have you ever laughed so hard at a movie that you cried? If so, which one, describe the scene? Explain why you feel you laughed that hard or did not laugh that hard at a movie.
3. Have you ever felt angry or disappointed after seeing a movie? If so, which one and why? If not, explain why not.
4. Have you ever felt as though your ideas about a movie change when you talk to someone else? Why or not? If this only happens to you in particular instances, please explain the circumstances.
5. Why do you think you enjoy watching movies?
And that is the end of the survey. THANKS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO TAKE IT! This will help me get an A on my final! WOO HOO!
So, I've been meaning to change the look of my site for quite a while now. I had this template in which you could set an image as your background. They actually had quite the adorable little picture in the backgroud initially, but it just wasn't suiting me. So, I spent a few hours today tweaking it to my tastes. And now, here we are! It took me forever to find the right picture, but I think this one works pretty well. Unfortunately, I had trouble applying it to my archive pages, so we will see how that goes the next time blogger archives for me. I tried changing the code within the individual files, but of course that didn't work out so now one of my archive files just doesn't work at all. oh well though.
Today's been a really good day so far. I've been fairly productive, although the extreme lack of homework I have for tomorrow makes it rather easy to be "productive." I've had like no homework in my honors pysch and soc for the past week and I don't have any for tomorrow. I never read for my molecules of life class because everything he does on the tests comes from the notes anyway. And Itlaian...yeah. I probably could study harder for that but I'm not really struggling or anything where I am right now. Plus, the homework assigned is not part of our grade really so it all works out in the end.
I did some deep meditation tonight with God and boy He revelaed some pretty awesome things to me. I asked Him to point out my purpose to me, to demonstrate what I need to do with my life. He revealed to me that my main purpose in life is to spread the gospel of Jesus. I know you guys will think, "well duh, that's what every Christian is supposed to do." This was different though. I feel as though I'm getting the strongest calling ever to go into missions. To not just tell people I know about God, but to go into nations or to tribes or to places where the Word of God has never been uttered and tell these people about the awesome grace that God has given all of us. I truly believe that God desires me to spread his word through missions.
It's funny. Lately, I've just been so worried as to whether or not I would ever truly know what God desired me to do. More importantly, I wondered if I would want to do it. This blessing, this revelation, that came to me from God in a matter of minutes fills me with such joy and gladness that I wonder why I was ever worried about this part of my life in the first place.
I strongly encourage you, if you're a strong Christian, a struggling Christian, or not even Christian at all, take some time out of your day to just truly listen to God. First, ask Him some questions. Maybe tell Him what you hope to hear from Him. Then, just sit and wait and you will totally receive exactly what you need to hear from Him.