Weekend!

Been quite a weekend, I'd say.

Kicked it off by 1, getting the overly friendly guy named Robbie to stop hitting on me. Ever since he asked me to be his girlfriend and I told him I was taken, he hasn't spoken to me. This makes life much easier, since I don't have to think of reasons why we can't hang out every time he asks me =P

Second thing was by staying up till midnight on Friday IMing Bo, which doesn't happen all too often and was rather fun, even though my chat was being really trippy cause of my lame internet connection that I was stealing off the neighbors XD In a way that was probably very stupid though... the next day we went to my grandparent's house and stayed 2 nights, and grandma wakes everybody up at 7 every morning. Ack. I hate the lack of sleep that always comes with staying at my grandparent's house.

The weekend at gma & gpa's was ok... not overly eventful. But we had lots of chocolate cake cause it was my gpa's 80th birthday, so that's cool :) We went to church with them, which was a weird experience since I'm so used to the deep teachings at my Reformed Baptist church. Their teen sunday school class I found to be really cheezy. It felt like I should have been 10 again. The regular church part was ok mostly. Some stuff I totally agreed with and other parts I was like "Uhh? no, not quite."

The most exciting part of the trip though? Dad let me drive his Impala =D very much fun! Its the same sort of car they use for the police so it can acellerate very fast!

Yay :)

So guess what?

I FINALLY GOT MY DRIVER"S PERMIT!


So now I can actually learn how to drive this summer. This makes me quite happy :-)
Especially since I passed the test to get it on the first try *big grin* I really didn't think I would.

Yay!

A Title Goes in This Box.

So, what's up?

On my life and times, a lot. School, hanging with friends (excitedly anticipating hanging with my favorite Texan, who recently got in town again!), trying to force myself to be an early-bird so that mom will stop complaining at me that I never get my chores done.... yeah.

And sudden jolts of reality, too.

My bro jokingly said mom should just have David over for the week while we're gone to camp so that she can still have a goofy, quirky teen in the house to keep life interesting for her. "Nuh uh! He'd probably drive me nuts!" was her response. I always cringe whenever Nathaniel says something about David cause half the time it always ends in mom once again voicing how weird she thinks he is. Which naturally, grates on my nerves. I really wish my family would like and accept him as much as his family does me. Or at least have mom realize that there's a lot more to him than the dork she usually sees.

As I was pondering that this evening, a sudden thought struck me: am I really trusting God here? To be honest, I realized I hadn't been. If David really is the guy God has for me, my parents will accept him at some point. I just need to wait. And if not? Then I just wait longer until the right guy does come around.

It's funny how just when we think we're doing so great God will knock us off our pedestal. For a while I began thinking how good I was doing, reading my Bible faithfully every day. But I realized today there's more to being a good Christian than that. We need to be in action as well as the Word. I usually read my Bible right before I get out of bed...this morning I dragged myself out at 7 to do chores, thinking "Yeah. So I have to do all this stupid work when I could be doing important reading?" and then that verse about obeying your parents popped into mind. And also that verse about a godly woman getting up early to work around the house. Suddenly I thought, "Perhaps this really is where I should be and what I should be doing to please the Lord."

My jumbled and semi-profoundish thoughts of the day. Now, it's time for bed.

Imaginary Superstar

Last night was completely awesome. My friend Karen and I stayed up until 3:45. She's the keyboardist of my band (pictured below-she's on far right) and a really awesome friend of mine :)

We had so much fun. We watched a romantic comedy-time travel movie, played piano and guitar... and did a photo shoot where I got to pretend to be a rock star (with an acoustic guitar! haha)

Yeah, good times =D

And sorry about the rather depressing post from my last visit here. I'm really not quite that much of a downer now. I'd just felt kinda lonesome at the time....

He threw the clock out the window to see time fly

So, thanks to Tator (aka Nathanael Hoffmann...I know it confuses so many of you when I always call him Tator. lol), I have been recently reminded of how soon Camp Hope is! Wow. So now I have this cool little counter up on the side of my blog so you all can keep track :-)

It's so strange this year though... I don't feel nearly as excited as I have in past years for camp. Completely lame, I know. Before I couldn't imagine myself saying what I just said. I guess it's just that life is changing and I just feel so distant from everyone any more. There's still a few Camp Hopies whom I have contact with semi-frequently... Winsome, Chloe, Lucy & Katie. Even so though... I dunno. Like I said, everything is different now.

Sorry I sound depressing, don't I? =P

On the Road...again.

My bro and I are getting very good at entertaining ourselves on road trips. I think I amused my family greatly while we were stuck in a traffic jam yesterday. 30 minutes of slow moving cars...so I was able to see everything on the road side very clearly. "Mountain dew bottle!" "hub cap!...whoa it's beat up. Bad-like." "ciggarette box!" "It's...a...wow no idea. But it's red! And weird looking!" "Wow- that's a mirror off a car!" .... yes I named off nearly every random piece of garbage we passed on the road side. Everybody laughed at me XD

Then today my bro and I decided that we would read all of the road/business signs and use the words on them to come up with an on-going story. So now we have this incredibly goofy tale of Pilot Allen Street and how his space shuttle crashed on a beach and he meets up with Cap'n Yobi, who is a 40-some year old guy who rides around in his red canoe and thinks he is a pirate.

Yeah.... lol. Things get interesting sometimes when the Iddings kids are bored!
And if Nathaniel saw this he'd be like "Kids!? We're teenagers, c'mon." But who cares? We're still both under 18, even if on my end it's only be like 7 or 8 months :P

♥ This Time of Year!

Mom commented about the fact that we can now hear crickets when we open the windows at night.....

Me: Awesome! I love cricket season!

Mom: When we first moved here when you were 6 you went outside one night and after hearing the crickets you came back saying "Wow mommy! We have loud tomatoes!"

Me: Yay! Loud tomatoe season!


.... Conversation of the day. Haha :)