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Name: Abigail
Gender: Female
Interests: my Savior, baking, singing, hanging out with my friends, sleeping
Expertise: none
Occupation: not worth mentioning
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Member Since:
9/13/2006
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| When did this happen???I woke up this morning to the sounds of my Dad wishing Amy a happy birthday. Yeah, today she turns 18!!!! My parents, my poor parents, now have 3 adult daughters. Well, adult by legal standards. When did this happen?????? ACK! I feel like I trip out about this often but it's so strange to think about the fact that we are "all grown up". Now it's important for me to keep in mind that Anna, Amy and I though we are all over 18 still have SO much growing up to do...but wow!
I remember laying in bed at night listening to Anna tell stories and throwing stuffed animals across the room at Amy and Allison (I always missed by the way, I have terrible aim). I remember playing make believe in the back yard or being forced to be in one of Anna's plays (which I always quit right in the middle of). And I remember how we used to rent the same movie every time we went to the movie store (I don't know why my parents didn't just buy it for us)
Now, Anna and her boyfriend are seriously talking about getting married, I'm going to be an RA at college next year, and Amy just walked out the door to go have breakfast with her boyfriend. When we get old enough to do those kind of things? This is weird....
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| More BooksThere is a used book store out on the west side. It is called Page Turners and I should keep my distance because I want to bye up the whole store. Today I got three new books, all Jane Austen. I got Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and a very old book that is a collection of all of Jane Austen's novels. That last one is kind of just for looks. Something about an old book just makes me happy  I know that it's pages are yellow and the spine is a little torn and the pages are slightly bent, but that is what makes it so appealing. Oh and the smell. I love the smell of books. Now I need a bookcase for my room next year. | | |
| 2 Movies and A BookOkay so in the last week I have experienced two new movies and a new book. The movies... not good. The first one was "Definitely, Maybe" it's about a man telling his daughter the story of how he met her mother. It was kinda cute but there was something about it that made me go "ick!" The other one was "Jumper" if you haven't seen it, don't. It was, in my opinion, a waist of time. My family is really bad a picking out movies.
The book on the other hand was incredible!It's called A Voice in the Wind was the story of a Christian slave in ancient Rome during the persecution of the early Church. It was about how God used the struggles of her captivity to change not only her heart but those of the people she served. It's written by Francine Rivers. I really enjoyed it even thought the end made me cry. I hate it when i finish a book. I always want the story to keep going. The good news is that this book is part of a series so I get to follow the story for two more books YAY!
Any way... I'm starting to get really excited for school to start again. I can't wait to spend some time with the other RA's and to meet the new freshman and to fall back into the routine of school and work. But I am also glad to have this last month here. I have a feeling I still have a lot to learn before heading back and I continue to pray that God will use this time to prepare me for the year He has before me. | | |
| My MOM!!!Today I woke up and got ready for the day and then my mom and I took Max (our blue heeler puppy) on a walk. We walked about 6 blocks down to a small new bakery. Then we walked over to Bella Rosa (a lovely coffee shop). There we enjoyed our coffee and shared a pastry from the bakery. Next we walked to Rite Aid and then home. It was quite nice. I really enjoy those times with my mom. She is such a godly woman who simply loves me no questions asked. Mom is always willing to listen to me and I respect her coucil more than almost anyone else I know. She can be goofy with me and we have the same taste in shopping and food, but she often gives me a different perspective on situations that I bring to her. She has been there for me during many rough time this past year. I know that it is hard for her not to be with me when I'm away school. It's hard for me too, but I'm home now  I love my mom's friendship and am so glad that I get to spend the summer hanging out with her. | | |
| The EndI love quote books! Someday I plan to devote at least one table top or shelf or mantle of my house to a collection of books filled with note worthy quotations. Yesterday I bought a new addition to my small but growing collection. It is called Famous Last Words : The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells. It has been an interesting read, or should I say an interesting skim (one doesn't really "read" quote books). It covers last lines of books and movies, epitaphs, and of course the dieing words of writers, celebrities, criminals, and saints.
Here are some of my favorites:
"Oh no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast"- last line from the 1933 King Kong
"In the beginning is my end. In the end is my beginning." - on the memorial to T.S. Eliot
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have"- last words of Leonardo da Vinci
"Is it my birthday or am I dying?"- Lady Astor when she saw her family gathered around her bed.
" Such is life." - Ned Kelly
"Lord- open the King of England's eyes." - William Tyndale protestant martyr and author of the first English translation of the Bible
"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."- Oscar Wilde
I was reading these to my parents and my dad asked me what I would want my last words to be. I guess if I have a choice I want them to be something like this... "Take me, for I come Thee"- John Bunyon author of Pilgrim's Progress.
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