You just never know...

It's crazy - you never know what the other person is thinking, how they're going to react to the things you say, or what they're going to remember and take away from a conversation. It doesn't even necessarily have to be a conversation you have with that person - it can just be one that they overhear.

Today I was at school, sitting in a hallway between classes, and I just happened to overhear a guy and a girl talking to another guy, who was sitting on a couch studying. At first I didn't know what they were talking about, but the guy sitting down was getting really upset talking to these people, arguing with them and calling them names. Finally I tuned in to the conversation enough to realize that the two people were witnessing to the guy sitting down, and let's just say he didn't appreciate it.

But, boy, I surely did!

It was such an encouragement to me to see how much these two Christians cared about the guy that was yelling at them. They cared enough to stay and talk to him when other people would have walked off or starting yelling back. You could see in the way they spoke to him and treated him that they really cared about him as a person. They didn't talk down to him, and they didn't go down to his level of name-calling and ridicule. They spoke kindly and lovingly, and it was amazing to me just to watch the conversation.

The Lord knows what we need, when we need it - even if we don't! I wasn't expecting to see that, I wasn't even looking for it. But it's all I've been thinking about all afternoon. It really touched me. They meant to witness and be a testimony to that guy sitting on the couch, and I don't know if it had any permanent affect on him or not, but they were a big testimony to me.

God knows where to put people - He really knows what He's doing! He had those two people there and me there at the right time so that I could hear the conversation and be blessed. Who knows who else was touched by the conversation?

I don't know why this incident had such a big impact on me, but it did. I admire those people and I thank God for putting me there to witness the conversation.

(Just for the record, the guy they were talking to must have felt convicted at some level, because he proceeded to call 2 different people and tell them all about it and then tell another friend all about it when he showed up! If he's that upset about it, it must have affected him more than he'd like to let on!)

2007 in Review

I stole this from Chris which he got from hs December 2003 archives. Wow, he's old. ^_^ Anyway, I know we're well into 2008 (almost the middle of February already!!) but I decided to do this anyway, since I never wrote anything for the end/beginning of a year, like I usually do.

The Year 2007 in Review-
1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Um...Well I dated a guy and then broke up with a guy. Yeah.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolution?
Don't think I made one. If I did make one, I probably did not keep it.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Trying to think...Can't think of anyone!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
Just here!

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Money. Lots.

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
There's a couple. Dawn's wedding probably being the biggest!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting my 2-year degree I think!

9. What was your biggest failure?
Um, there's a couple things I consider failures on my part. Mostly personal things - not so much things I actually did, but things I thought or felt.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing major!

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Um...Laptop!!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I don't think anyone in particular merited celebration over anyone else

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Bleh. I won't go there.

14. Where did most of your money go?
School, car

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Buying my laptop, going to Wisconsin, graduating, getting into VCU

16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Meh, I dunno!

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

i. happier or sadder?
I don't know if I'm necessarily happier, but I am not sadder, and I am happy in a different way

ii. thinner or fatter?
Fatter. Even my grandma noticed. And no, she didn't say "you look fat." I was talking about how I had gained some inches and she said, "Yeah, but last year you were too skinny!" which is an exaggeration, but whatever.

iii. richer or poorer?
Poorer. And getting even poorer.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing. Standing up for what I believe.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Procrastinating. I need to stop that.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent it at home - it was a nice quiet day.

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Nope.

23. How many one-night stands?
Zero!

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Smallville for part of the year. Chuck when it started.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't hate people.

26. What was the best book you read?
This Present Darkness and Garth Nix books, and HP7

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I'm not as dumb as I thought I was? Hehe...

28. What did you want and get?
Laptop, trip to WI, trip to PA

29. What did you want and not get?
More money. Trip to FL, but that's this year.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Um, what came out last year?? I really don't remember.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 20 (wow, so young!). I went out with Will and then had dinner and presents at home.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Comfy.

34. What kept you sane?
Who says I'm sane?

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Who else? Orlando Bloom. But that faded quickly toward the end of the year. I think I'm old now. <.< >.>

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Probably illegal immigration. I think that's the one that gets my goat the worst.

37. Who did you miss?
Everyone, as usual.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
I didn't really meet that many new people. I got to know some people better and that's always nice.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
Live life to the fullest day by day, doing God's will. Don't let worldly stuff get you down - in the end, it doesn't matter anyway. God's in control of everything and He has a purpose; I can rest in that and leave it in His hands. I just fudge stuff up when I try to take control anyway.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Wow....No clue.

Why wear high heels to school?

Today was so-so. I have had a lingering headache all day, I guess because of the weather change. It's twenty degrees colder today than it was yesterday! But I've had a pretty good day, I guess. I'm sitting in the student commons at VCU waiting to leave for my Economics class, which goes until 9 or later. *yawn* I try to pay attention, but it never works out. We'll see how it goes tonight. I'm loaded up with caffeine - just drank a bottle of Coke and a cup of Dr. Pepper and I have a can of Vanilla Coke in my backpack for backup.

Nothing eventful happened today.

I don't know what to write about.

Romney bowed out of the race. Now we're looking at Huckabee or McCain. Neither one sounds promising, but I guess Huckabee is the lesser of two evils. I think I preferred Romney to him, though. I don't know what I'll do if McCain makes it. Probably cry. This country is going down the drain fast.

A toilet in this one bathroom at school today would not stop flushing, literally, for like...2 minutes straight. It was odd.

I'm full. I just ate a 6 inch tuna sub, a small bag of Doritoes, and my Dr. Pepper. More than I needed. Much more.

Guess we're going to head on over to economics in a minute.

Less Than a Year

So, I think that by coming back to this in less than a year - I'm doing great!

Let's see...my last post was April 30, 2007, eh? Shortly after that, the bottom fell out from under me again. I wrecked my second car in May, and boy was I depressed after that. It was awful. Just ask Mario - not that he talks to me anymore or anything. Hm, maybe that's why...

Anyway.

I recovered, I lived, and I went to Dawn and Ron's wedding in July. I had a blast that week. In August my family went to PA to see our penpals, and I had a blast that weekend, too. I also got a Dodge Caravan, and that's kind of a long story. Let's just say, I thought it was a great van in great shape, but not so much. I've put so much money into that thing, I just want to kick it. Um, what else happened... I went back to J Sarge in the fall and only took two classes. I was kind of burnt out from going five days a week in the spring and summer, so the two classes was nice. I quit the Cafe in June for a couple reasons.

I'm going to VCU now! This is the fourth week that I have been going. My friend Sierra and I go together, and I actually really like it. I wasn't sure if I would, and I was always really against going to VCU because it's such a HUGE school and in downtown Richmond. But now that I'm going there, I love it. I almost wish I could afford to live on campus. I feel like I'm missing out on something by not. The classes are great - there's more homework, but most of it's reading, and I don't do all of it since the teachers just lecture on it anyway. Economics is the only class that I might have concerns about, because it's a night class and only one night a week. Well, I am concerned about my Mass communications 101 also, because the teacher grades with a perfect bell curve - meaning a certain percentage of the 300 people in the class will get an A, a certan percent will get B, etc. Not good - I want the grade I EARN.

Newsflash - I applied at Kings Dominion. Okay, don't have a heart attack. I never thought I'd do that again, but I figured why not give it another whirl. I NEED THE MONEY. And they're owned by Cedar Fair now, so they're supposed to be majorly improved. Supposedly. But I really do need the money, and I know I can make it there. I applied for merchandise supervisor, which is quite different from rides, but I thought different might be good. I'm willing to work in rides again, but also a change would be nice. I might go in on Friday morning for an interview.

Those are the highlights.

OH! Also, my family is going to Florida the weekend after Valentine's Day, and Sierra's coming with us and we're going to DISNEY!!!!!!!!!

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My "I" key isn't working right.