iA mi me duele la cabeza!

A mi me duele la cabeza....that's my favorite thing to say in Spanish. (and yes, I am pretty sure that is a real favorite and not just a...oh well yea it's my favorite-right now at least- or anything...)

It means: My head hurts real bad.

Hey A-dizzle....aren't you proud of me?

Sarah's Tip For The Day

This is almost mean...but not quite because you all have no idea who I am talking about so it is ok! haha- unless the kid sitting next to me right now looks over and realizes I am talking about him, but he is all caught up in checking out a video game or something on his computer, so I think I'm safe. Okay here comes the tip of the day: When you are unsure of the exact state of your breath...Keep your mouth shut! Okay, so it is one thing when you are talking to someone or sitting extremely close, but this kid is at least three feet away! That is some powerful bad odor-age coming from one little mouth! ahhh ok so remember, unless you are 100% positive that you smell like the mints in the basket at Porter's Welcome Center, then keep it shut guys!!

Sick Sick Sick

Thanksgiving Dinner was great! Yummy...really. Until Friday Night came that is. My entire family-cousins, aunts, uncles, parents, my brother, even John Wiley because he ate with us at my Grandmother's house and Bryce too because he had some leftovers- we all got sooooo sick. Now Bryce is convinced that it was a virus, but I think it may have been food poisoning. We alllll got it and almost all at the same time! That is so weird. But he does have a point in that food poisoning usually shows its ugly head just a few hours after eating the food...but we got it the next night. But still...I don't know what it was, but it was bad. It had me spilling my guts every thirty minutes Friday night...ahhhhh. It really really sucked. The funniest part of it all, though, was hearing my mom and my aunt on the phone every hour or so trying to decide what it was...'who ate what? Which people are the most sick and what did they eat as opposed to what those who were less sick ate?...Well Granny didn't eat any potatoes or dumplings, Sarah didn't eat the turkey, what did Noah eat again? What about the cheese? Maybe it was the macaroni. No Granny ate that! hmmm.' It was funny...It was the highlight of a pretty terrible couple of days! I think everyone is feeling better now. I guess it would look better for my poor Grandmother if it was a virus and not something in her food!! haha But hey, it all tasted good to me! Hope your Thanksgiving was as eventful as mine was-without the whole food poisoning/virus thing, of course!

Learning in Discipleship

This semester the Senior girls have been in Kenneth's Discipleship Training Class on Sunday Nights. The class has been all aobut Church Doctrine and Theology. Each week Kenneth gave us a huge stack of papers full of information about what we believe, why we believe it, and where exactly in scripture these things can be found. It had been so great; I have to be honest, I have not done a very good job keeping up with all of the papers, but hey! that's why I have Amelia as my friend! haha- anyways, we have all learned so much and this class really got us to start thinking about things. For instance: How long do you think it took God to create the World? Please say "seven days" or really six....but the point is that He did it in seven DAYS, not seven hundred years, or seven thousand years! No, Genesis tells us that He did it in seven days, so He did? Where is the controversy? I know I know...the word used is thought to be trsnslated in different ways. (ambiguous-ooh big word of the day...beat that Amelia! jk!) The word is YOM I think. okay, so some people think that the word may not mean a literal 24-hour period in all the places it is used...hmmmmm okay, but even if that is true then why does it also say in Genesis that there was Morning and there was Evening the first day? That would be just dumb to say that if God didn't really create everything in the literal seven day period. oohhhhh man. I just think this is really important. How can you believe anything else in the BIble if you cannot believe that our God created everything in 7 days?? I realize that there are Christians out there that think it is not a literal 24-hr period and I try not to get too caught up on this, but hey, I find it very important. Another thing we talked about in class is drinking. In scripture it does not come right out and say "DO NOT DRINK" it says not to be filled with wine, but filled with the Holy Spirit....so don't get drunk. Alot of people think it is ok to drink, just don't get drunk. Hmmmmmm. I disagree again. Proverbs 20:1 says, "Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler, he who is led astray by these is not wise." or somthing like that, I don't have a Bible with me I am at school. If God says that wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler....then do you think He wants his children to be drinking them at all? I don't think He does.

We talked about Baptism and the Lord's Supper and different denominations and so much more...I just love this class. I think Kenneth may sweat alot in there though because Amelia loves to ask the tough questions! Haha I think learning about doctrine and why we have it is soo so important. I also think we should know where we stand and be strong and be able to back it up with Scripture.

Middle Schooler of the Month

As seniors this year, we do not know very many of the middle schoolers at Porter...That's just the way things go, but we want to make an effort to get to know as many of these kids as we can becuase they are pretty cool...well some of them haha just kidding-and we only have a limited amount of time left in the student ministry. ok well last month we wrote a post about Alex Pennington so he can be for October. Sooo....now for November's Middle Schooler of the Month: Caitlyn Luttrell.

Caitlyn is one of Sarah's "little sisters" for the Girl to Girl Mentoring program, so we kind of already know her, but that doesn't change the fact that she is too cool!!. She is so awesome. She is very fashionable-her clothes are too cute and she always always has the most exciting accessories to go with them, and great shoes too. Caitlyn is also a strong believer and that is very evident through her actions and attitudes toward everything. She always has something positive to say; we have never heard her say anything negative about anyone or any situation.(how many of us can say that about ourselves?) Also, something really encouraging about Caitlyn is her willingness to share her testimony. She has done this two times, in front of the Student Ministry, that we are aware of, and both times she did a fantastic job just because she was communicating to others what God is doing in her life. Caitlyn is both encouraging and challenging to us in our walks with the Lord. She is only in seventh grade, but my goodness, she is still showing us things that we should be working toward. Thanks, Caitlyn, for being the great girl you are!

Today

Today is a gorgeous day! I don't think it could be any more perfect than this. The temperature is just right, the sun is shining, the sky is blue...what a beautiful day the Lord has made for us!

My spanish teacher isn't wearing an undershirt, but it's such a great day that I'm going to let that slide.

Slippery Boots -oh no!

Last year I made a total fool of myself when I disasterously fell in the middle of the crowded hallways of Dunbar. Books fell, papers flew all over, I landed on all fours...Oh gosh, and I think I just sat there for a second or two, dumbfounded. Wow. But I am one-hundred percent positive the cause of the wipe out was my boots. That's a no brainer, right? haha anyways...today I wore those boots to school again. It is the first time since the incident, so I was torn between wearing them and not. (But you see I just bought these adorable, grey, wool, sparkling, really long pants...I had to wear heels so they wouldn't drag the ground, so of course I had to wear the "danger shoes"....ahh.) I am making a conscious effort to stay upright; I am walking slowly and thinking about each step that I take. I was late to third block but hey, at least I didn't embarrass myself. Well I am at lunch now and so far so good...although I did have a close call about an hour ago. I was coming in from EBCE and I tripped. I wobbled around a little, but luckily there was no butt-floor contact or knee-floor contact, so all is well! Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Pink

I just love the color pink so much! Don't you? It makes everything better...from ugly shoe styles-make 'em pink and they are too cute!- to milk with strawberry flavoring! Yum! There is just something exciting about eating and drinking pink stuff. I have an urge to put food coloring in everything I eat so that it can all be pink. Man I would love that. Pink is definately the best color in the world!!

Something Very Important

There is something very important, yet extremely overlooked in our society today........undershirts! Okay guys, here is the thing: undershirts are a definate requirement for all males ranging from ages eleven to one hundred and two.

For some reason, this has recently become an issue for me. I always take notice of it now...I do not have a solid reasoning for my new obsessive attitude towards the whole concept, but I do have some thoughts on the matter:
#1 Most of the men in my life wear them...and my dad and brother have always always found this a given item of apperal.

#2 The whole "Tough Guy" oooh look at how manly I am with all this chest hair just hanging out all over the place image crisis is just sooo not attractive - at all! yuck

#3 Someone recently informed me of another reason that I hadn't even thought of---Guys get hot and sweaty and sometimes that can ruin a shirt. Why ruin a nice shirt? Ruin a cheap white one instead. This makes total sense and only adds to the obvious conclusion: wear the stink'n undershirt!

#4 It just looks nicer. More complete and finished. Not so sloppy.

#5 Shirts are just too thin. You NEED some extra fabric on so that we do not have to see anything that is just groose (especially older men who are now stuggling with a new bodily change resulting in 'man boobs.')

So I guess that is all...my lunch time is almost over and I hav eto get back to class. Oh one more thing-my friend told me last year(we were discussing this topic) that HER dad didn't need an undershirt because he was hot. oh dear...wrong on so many levels.