Musings on 'love'

So, it all started when Mom started redecorating the bathroom. Yeah, I know, what an odd way to start a post, but bare with me, it gets better. No really, it does! Anyway, the word love really started to seem like it was out to get me when mom went to hobby lobby looking for ideas for the bathroom, since it needs a new coat of paint. She came back wit a blue/purple box with peace symbols and 'love' all over it, a wall hanging that said 'do what you love', and a small towel rack kinda thing in the same color scheme and covered in hearts. A few days previously,  I was asked to serve on a Christian retreat kinda deal. I was thinking on it like, yeah, ok, I might give that a shot when I started daydreaming like I often do. In that, I was thinking along the lines of my giving the Christian Life talk. Then the love theme bathroom stuff came, and then the call to formally ask me to serve... and give the Christian Life talk, I said yes, and for reference this happened on Monday. Tuesday, I get the outline for my talk and a letter for the heads and professors. It said the theme was love. The retreat mom and dad work is love themed as well. All the bible verses I catch flying around the house are love themed. Several of the songs flying around are love themed. Can you blame me for thinking this one, simple, yet complex as the ocean, word is out to get me? Anyway, so today mom asked me if I was ready to life on purpose this year. I was like, um, ok. But then when I tried to open my e-sword, my computer went on the fritz. Ok, it was freaking out before that, but it was nearly 10:30 and I was starting to freak. Luckily, mom was able to sort it all out. Anyway, back to the whole 'living on purpose' thing. Part of the 'challenge' was to journal weekly. Not a big problem for a gal like me who loves to write, but I have a small problem with finding the right verses to read. So, just a few minutes before starting this post, I turned to biblegateway.com. I typed in the word 'love' and got one good verse... and a couple that might make me blush. Anyway, here is today's 'love' verse. I think I'm going to do month long challenges and do bible searches on a single word and post at least weekly on that word. Sound good? No? Too bad! I'm doing it! Anywho, here's my love verse for the day. Enjoy!

1 Corinthians 13:1

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 

So yeah. Love is important. I think I may just work my way through that chapter this month(meaning Febuary). Also, if you have another word you want me to pontificate on, let me know! I love comments :) Anyway, I've wasted enough time and I've still got a boatload of math to do. Crud! My history participation project! And the one for English! I forgot about them AGAIN! Darn school, always cramping my style(I don't plan on dropping out mind you. I'm just frustrated  Who wouldn't be?) Gah! stop typing!

Later gators!

Lil Bit

Tuesday of Acomplishment

Ok, so, Tuesdays I have Chem class at eight, so naturally I'm up at around six thirty or seven.  I got home about, lets say, ten twenty, and I get a snack and start on my Essay Writing homework. I dead wall, but I try to push through. I fail until lunch time when, naturally, I get lunch. I goofed off until about five til one when mom had said she'd force me to do part of the ton of math I mentioned yesterday. She hadn't gotten lunch and Noise was being, well, a seven year old who doesn't want to do school. So, I set down my laptop(glorious invention!) and went outside to rake leaves. I don't know for sure how long I was out there but I have two lovely, mid sized piles to show for my toil. Sometime between the creation of the first pile and the second, Noise comes bounding out along with our faithful dog. Like any little kid, he wants to play in the leaves. I chase him from my pile by raking one up for him to play in. Just as I was finishing his, mom said she was ready for me. So I come in, get a goblet of water(yes, I did say goblet. Do'n't you drink water out of glass goblets?) and sat down to work on math. I did a lesson and a quiz and started doing my bible and English. Then I moaned over to my bed, fell face down on it, and 'pet' my cat. After that almost power nap that couldn't be called a nap because I was conscious  I forced myself up and threw a minor fit when I considered how much math I had piled up. I'm talking nine assignments after the two i had just completed. Then I saw that the next two lessons and quizs were on graphs. So i was like 'Oh! Well, I can do graphs,' and so now, I have completed six assignments in math, a Chemistry lesson, my Bible for today, my English for today, and half of my Essay Writing homework as well as raking almost half the back yard. So yeah, Tuesday, much better than Monday in my book.

As for the comment suggestions, thanks! I'll try to write at least one of them, but what did you mean 'Manga type'? You mean like super hero journal, school life drama, anime fan fic? Heck, what I just wrote was high school drama. Anyway, I'll pick one and try to get it out for you. I think I've rambled sufficiently for today, though my next post may be longer. Then again, it may be longer. Eh well, se la ve.
Later!
Lil Bit.

Why I hate Mondays

Honestly, it's not the day that I have a problem with, it's what the day often brings. Like school. I really don't have a problem with school itself, but I do when I'm not where I should be. Like I am now. Mondays I basically have work in every subject of school I have. I need to read a few pages of Chemistry, no biggy. I have class at nine, ok, a bit more of  problem, but not huge. I don't eat breakfast because, a, I have my retainers in and b, I feel sick right after I wake up, not hungry, and class lasts two hours and fifteen minutes plus my house is about thirty minutes away from the church where said class is taught. Then, my 7 year old brother overreacts big time to his school, problem. He's in 2nd grade! He's ADDING and he calls it HARD?! I take a small amount of offense to that. then I check in to my computer classes and see a block of stuff. Granted, a goodly portion of the block is projects, but there's a ton of math. If you're anything like me, five assignments in math is a ton. I'm talk'n seven. Yeah, that's a pain. English, Bible, World History? Not a problem, but math? Oh yeah. I know it's not the math, per se, it's me, but still. So, to sum up, Essay Writing class from nine to eleven fifteen, Chemistry, block of projects, block of math I can't even process today, English, Bible, World History, whiny brother, annoyed mother, and cold house. Yep, it's a Monday, not too great but at the same time, not entirely horrible. Tomorrow I might gripe about having mom crack the whip and making me do four assignments of math at the very least, but I will have asked for it. Ah well, I'm going to try and address the problems of procrastination and laziness in my life but it's going to be tough and any posts I make for a while will most likely be pity parties where readers just bob theirs heads and agree with my groaning rather than something actually interesting.

Ooh! Brain Wave! Submit journal-story ideas in the comments and I'll see if I can write it out. That might make me post more often and with more interesting material. Just saying.

later!
Lil Bit