A Pet-Hair-Less Sofa

I must, like so many others, attribute my absence from Blogger to my newfound obsession with Facebook. It's a very addicting site. Beware.

My only problem with Facebook is that it's way too impersonal. It's fun to know more specifically what people have been up to, but the status updates are shorter than blog posts and less detailed and there's much less personality involved. If you ask me.

So here I am, on Blogger, once again. I know you've all missed me. All you people who are reading this. Which is probably no one. Except Annie and my madre and Maci. Who, of course, are not 'no one'. They are rather some of the most important people ever. In my little world, that is.

What would be ridiculous would be for me to try and cover everything that has happened to me in the last several months, since I have blogged. So I will not. I will start with now.

I'm not really into baring my soul on the internet. It bothers me. But I will say that lately, God has been doing a lot of work in my life. The past few months I've been having a really hard time with some stuff (Haha, 'stuff'. Like I said, I'm not into baring my soul online), and I've been just struggling a lot with my walk, just wanting to grow closer to God but not being able to. Honestly, I think I was preventing myself from growing because I was limiting Him. Because He can do anything, and my attitude was, "Oh, God, if You do this, then I'll..." etcetera, and really that's not the way it's supposed to work. He's in control. And it just took me a while to wake up and realize that. He's just been showing me a lot of things about myself and about other people. Things that I think He's been trying to show me for a long time, but I was kind of closing myself off to what He was trying to tell me. Because I wasn't trusting that what He had in mind for me was better than the plans I had for myself. Even though it is. It's way better. I can already tell. Ha! Anyway, it's been really cool because I've been just so stoked on Him lately and all that He's doing in my life and how absolutely faithful He is. He is absolutely everything that I need in my life. He loves me with a steadfast love and that is so awesome.

Today, I led worship for Team 56, as I do every week. The only difference between this week and every other week is that this week, I messed up most heinously right in the middle of my first song. It was terribly lame. The really sweet thing about it was, when I finished the song, all the kids clapped for me. This may not seem particularly significant, until I say that they never clap. They never have, not once. And so for them to clap after I'd just blown it was really pretty awesome of them. It made me feel not so lame, for screwing up and everything. I love those kids. That was pretty much the highlight of my day.

The rest of my day was spent doing homework. From this day spent doing homework, I have learned one thing, and it is this: chemistry is from the devil. Can I get an amen? It's a good thing I'm getting A's, because if I was getting lame grades in a class that I hate as much as I hate this one, I would have a coniption fit. No joke. I would just die, I think. Because I hate bad grades, about as much as I hate chemistry.

I also hate cats. They are evil. I do not hate dogs. But I have recently decided that I shall never have a dog of my own. At least not until I gain some sense of responsibility. This is because I like dogs, but I do not like the responsibility of caring for them. I like the responsibility of caring for children, and myself, but not dogs. They are too inanimate. They also are too unresponsive. I like to care for persons or beings who will respond to my care of them, other than barking at me, or rolling around on the floor. That's just annoying. I have decided that I am just not a pet person. So I will probably not own any pets, later on in life. Therefore, you need never fear getting pet hair on you when you sit on MY sofa. Isn't that a comforting thought?

At the present, I am counting down the days until two particular dates:

1) February 18, when I will be eligible to upgrade my cell phone and I can trash this crappy lame one that I have and get a new texting phone. Preferably with a touch screen. I'm thinking LG Xenon. But we'll see. And,

2) April 23, when I will turn 16 years old, and will not be able to do anything more exciting than I can do right now. I wonder why 16 is supposed to be such a milestone, when nothing even happens when you turn 16. I can't even go get a Blockbuster card for Heaven's sake! I suppose if I had gotten my permit when I was supposed to, I would be able to get my driver's license, but as I still have not got a permit, I cannot. And so that is irrelevant. Unfortunately. But I am still looking forward to my birthday.

AND, I get to have a birthday party this year! I suppose I could have had one last year, if I had taken the time to plan it instead of being so lazy. But this year I will have one and it will be the best.