Answered prayer

Over the last few weeks, there have been some stressful situations in my life. There have only been three girls in my apartment, and money got really tight due to an unexpected car repair (little stuff, but there was quite a bit of it, and it needed to get fixed). Normally, I would have been freaking out about it, and stressing about how I was going to pay for it. Not this time. I just had peace that everything would work out. As of today, I have 12 scheduled hours of work every week at the YMCA, and, assuming her credit gets approved, we have a girl moving in in the next few days :). Prayer works. :D

internship

I got an interview for an internship/volunteer position (I don't which, they didn't say) at a law firm in Fountain Valley on Monday morning :D pray it goes well.

meant for evil

Over the last few months, there has been an extreme accumulation of drama in my life. It finally came to a head last week, and while I am sad that things turned out the way they did, I do feel a sense of relief. The situation has actually given me the strength to finally, completely, separate myself from a bad situation. I no longer feel the need to be cautious of my actions as they might upset someone who doesn't need any more turmoil. I finally feel free to do exactly what I want with my life. Satan meant it for evil, but God truly turned it into good. :)

bad idea

Unfortunately, my idea of giving up visual media for Lent has quickly become a very bad idea. Instead of just giving me more time to focus on activities I should be doing, it has made me anti-social. Since this is a problem in general that I must constantly fight, I sure don't need any help in making it worse. :P The problem is that both of my roommates love to watch movies/tv. In fact, if there is downtime, that's probably what they are doing. This has lead to me hibernating in my room to avoid seeing the tv, because I know of no other way to follow through on this particular Lenton principle. Therefore, I'm switching :D. Superfluous internet surfing has also become a bad habit, and since I cannot say that I am completely giving up the internet (due to my internet classes and the fact that most of my contacts with school related things happen through e-mail) i will instead give up that part of the internet. Essentially it just means that instead of surfing the internet late at night, I'll (hopefully be sleeping). Basially, what I'm trying for is some kind of balance, because I have a tendency to allow time wasters to be far too much of a focus. I'm trying to get rid of them. So, new goal: give up unnecessary internet activity. :)

Unshackled!

I found broadcasts of Unshackled! online! I'm so excited. I haven't listened to this since I was a kid. In case you're interested, the website is : http://www.oneplace.com/search/?q=Unshackled&r=home. Also, if you want it on the go, itunes has it available as podcasts. enjoy! :D

Student voting limited?

I just read an article on Yahoo! that said the Republicans were going to try to put in place certain restrictions on student voting because "students just vote their feelings." (the point of the article was to say that Republicans were trying to reduce the democratic vote by not allowing college students to vote in a state unless either they or their parents had permanent residency there, among other things. The reasoning was the previous quote by the House speaker that students only vote liberally because that's what students do. They don't have life the life experience of adults to make informed decisions. you can read the full article here) I'm really hoping this was a misrepresentation of what the House speaker said, but I can't find any conservative based articles on it. Can someone help me out here? (On a side note, it was really hard for me to find information from conservatives on the recent ruling to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood too. Are issues like this just not of that much concern to the conservative side or something? It seems like a pretty big deal to me.)

Lent (take 2)

Last year was the first year I ever thought about observing lent. (I say thought about because I never actually gave up that extra hour of sleep in favor of going to chapel :P) In an effort to replace bad habits with good ones, this year I think I'm going to give up all forms of t.v./movies that I am not required to watch (I say those I am not required to watch because this semester a fair amount of my homework includes watching movies based on the books I'm reading and comparing the screen writer's interpretation to my understanding of the book). I have been staying up late to watch them, and have used them to procrastinate on my homework. I also have a lot of unread novels, as well as unread non-fiction books sitting on my shelf that it would be far better for me to do instead of vegging in front of the t.v. Therefore, as of Wednesday, not only will I be off of Facebook (a project that started last night) but I will also be separating myself from my media addiction :P. I'm actually excited about it :D.