I have a new site now

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Go there!!!

Love,

~KATIE :)

I am back

It has been a lot of months. Once again, no real reason for not coming on. But I do wish I didnt do this. I want to update on a regular basis. I guess that will be one of my New Years Resolutions - disciplined with updating xanga - both my xangas.

The other resolutions would be to be disciplined with my daily devotions - reading my Bible and praying, disciplined with stretching and brushing my teeth/using fluoride/flossing, disciplined with getting to bed on time and waking up on time, disciplined with eatig healthy, disciplined with being more committed to my volunteering, being on time to everything, and to watch more movies and less TV - I have an account with blockbuster online and the money you pay each month is worth it if you watch many movies, but sometimes i will only watch two a month and that is a waste of money. Plus I love movies

I havent actually really thought about my new years resolutions. But those would be it. Bascially I need more discipline in my life

I am also probably going to get a new site, so i will let everyone know about it when i get it. Its gonna be weird, I've had this site since I first made this xanga - my secret xanga. I didnt want anybody (except for my friends on this xanga) to know about it and i still dont want that. Before it was because I made this xanga to try out ana - to become anorexic. after a year, i think it was that long, i realized that what i was doing was foolish. that anorexia is a real disease that is harmful and painful for the people who have it and to want to have it was ignorant. I also realized that I didnt need to starve myself to lose weight - I just needed to eat healthy, cut out unhealthy foods, and exercise - and thats how God wants it

The reason I am getting a new site is because my xanga name - xxalonexxinxxsilencexx does not apply to my life anymore. I was sad and depressed when I made that, and I did feel alone in the world. But I have committed my life to Christ since then, and have grown in Christ since then, and that title is a part of my past that is no longer with me. Am I perfect now? Is my life perfectly great? No, of course not. Only God is perfect, and no ones life is without trouble, even the least bit of trouble. And I still am working through a lot of things in my life. But God has changed me tremendously, and I want to glorify Him with my life. I still want to lose weight and be healthy, but I will do so in a way that is glorifying to Him. And it will be glorifying to Him because my body is His temple and therefore it is glorifying to Him to take care of it. That is also why I dont want people besides my xanga friends to know about this site. Even though I am getting a new one, I dont know, I guess I'm just ashamed of this one. I would feel embarrassed if people found out about it. But I guess I also need to remember that  I need to seek to please God, not people. Well, either way, I am making a new site, and I probably wont tell people in my life about it, but I also wont hide it from them. I can remember when I first made that site. Wow, that was a while ago. I was so different now. I have memories of excitement and novelty and anticipation. I was so new to the whole "ana" thing and didnt realize how many people were like me, trying to become ana because they hated their body.

I know that most people still are struggling with this, and let me tell you, I am not going anywhere. I will be disciplined with updating. i will still be your friend.

I want everyone to put their trust in faith in God, to give their lives to Jesus Christ. He will show you the path of life that He wants you to take, and He will help you to be at peace with your bodies. The power of God is incredible.

Ephesians 3:20-21 "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."

1 Corinthians 10:31 "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."

It was my birthday on Tuesday. I got sick, which wasnt that fun, cuz i actually threw up and was nauseous, which is a very unpleasant feeling, but I did get to sleep a lot and got to spend some quality time with my mom  She took me to a french restaurant in Bethesda, Mon Ami Gaby. I actually ended up throwing up in the bathroom in the restaurant, and on the car ride home. I ordered asparagus at first. I really couldnt eat anything I felt so nauseous, and I thought maybe I could just eat some veggies, but I ate half of an asparagus and couldnt eat anymore. So I just drank some chamomille tea. It was very good tea. I just thought that I had a migraine, and sometimes when I get migraines I feel nauseous as well. But I took motrin earlier and slept, so I thought I was gonna be okay, but I was mistaken.Oh well. I still enjoyed my day because I got to spend some time with my mom and go to Bethesda, despite me being sick and not feeling good.

I am 19 now. I feel old lol even though I am not old. Its just that this is my last year in the teens, and next year I will be moving on to the 20's. That's why I'm feeling old.Well, I guess its not so much of me feeling old, but me wishing I wasnt growing up. I like being young and being a kid and having my whole life which God has planned for me ahead of me.

February 26, 2008 I turned nineteen. Next year I will be 20.

Have a great day everybody!!!!

~KATIE :)

So much for me waking up at 11 AM, i woke up at 1:30 PM.  lol i'm not that upset about it considering i got up right away and began my day. I know I can still get a lot done, and anyhow, these will be my last days, so i shouldnt be too mechanic about my day. 

I got up and went to Dunkin Donuts and bought a large iced coffee. I love their iced coffee.

Now i'm online, chekcing email, facebook, xanga. after this i am going to do some jumping jacks, ab work, arm work, and stretching. then i am going to read 10 chapters of jeremiah, then i am going to try to finish organizing my room so i can move back in.

This summer I did a serious clean-up with my room. I took everything out, except for like furniture and stuff. I washed the walls -yes, washed them, i vaccuumed, dusted, went into my closet and re-organized it, got rid of a lot of papers and other stuff.  I feel really good knowing that after all this my room wont be just re-organized, it will also be clean  So right now everythign is back in my room (my mom was getting annoyed cuz all my stuff was in the basement), and i need to organize it and place everything. It will be an easy job, i just need to do it and get it done. tuesday i organzied all my DVD's and CD's. that was fun  

I actually really enjoy cleaning/organizing, as long as i dont have to do it all the time.

i'm thinking of making my room clean-out a summer thing. cuz i dont plan on working in the summer b/c i plan on doing some travelling and i want to get a new job next year, so i'll probably quit around june.  and now that i'm out of school i wont have to deal with anymore papers and books. what a relief!!

how has everybody's summer been? what is everybody doing in the fall?

James 1: 2-8

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does."

My schedule has been really weird.  Not weird, just disorganized. I keep telling myself i'll get up early and go running and start getting up on time to get my schedule organized. But i've been sleeping  late every night, so it's been difficult. Yesterday I woke up at 1PM, which has been around the time i've been waking up all week. Today was 12PM. So i'm thinking tomorrow I will wake up at 11 AM, Friday will be 10 AM, Saturday will be 9 AM, sunday 8 AM, and then by Monday it'll be 7 AM, and that is about the time i want to be getting up.  So hopefully this plan of mine will work. 

The Lunar Eclipse was Tuesday morning. I stayed up to watch it but missed it. First i thought it was at 2 AM, but it wasnt, so i went back inside to sleep/close my eyes for a half hour, came out again, still wasnt there, went to sleep until 3 ish, went out again, still wasnt there, then i came inside and checked the timing to realize that it was, in my area, visible at 5:30  AM. So  i went to sleep and set my alarm for 5:30, but then awoke at 6:30. by then the sun was already pretty much completlely out. So sadly, despite all my effort, i missed the lunar eclipse  

But it will come again, it is not as uncommon as the solar eclipse. 

On another note, my eating has been weird also. I've been hungry but not hungry, have had an apetite but havent had one. I think once i get my schedule organized i will be able to start eating normally and healthy again.  I am going to Whole Foods Monday morning.  Can't wait :) I love shopping there :)

I also applied for another job at Barnes and Nobles.  The lady that i gave my application to actually said that she would call me this week, so that is a good sign. And she was talking to me a little bit about my application when i gave it to her, though it was at customer service and people were waiting so we couldnt talk all that much. But this job seems very hopeful :)

My Plans

So this is what I am going to do this year, since i'm out of high school and not in college yet.   there are three main things.

1. Train for a Marathon - this fall, a 10k which is 6 miles, next fall the marine corps marathon. A family friend is going to help me out/train me. she has been running marathons for a while. The last one she did was 100 miles long, nonstop. pretty intense huh?

2. Get a part-time job. I applied to Whole Foods and Robeks Smoothies, but i havent heard back from either. Its harder than I thought getting a job.

3. I have a Bible plan. I plan to committ a minimum of two hours every weekday to this plan.  This is the plan

Read Isaiah through Malachi

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Then I am going to study the gospels along with Romans

Then I am going to study Acts, while reading psalms and proverbs on the side.

Then I am going to study Hebrews while reading the other books of the old testament that i have not yet read

And then I will study Revelations while reading other books in the new testament that i havent yet read. This whole plan will take about 2 years. 

So i'm not gonna have a lot of free time to do a lot. I mean i'll have time to relax and everything. but people keep telling me that i should take a class or two, but i get annoyed when they tell me that. I wish they would just let me do my thing. People think that because i'm not going to school i have all this time on my hands, but i really dont.

I'm really glad i'm done with high school :)