My Week in Song: High of 75 -Relient K

(Lyrics at the bottom)

So, now you may be wondering, why I chose that song. Well it was not just because I hit random on may play list and it was the first song to come up...I would never pick a song like that. >_>  The reason I chose this song is because, for a long time, it has seemed like my life had a dark cloud hanging over it, and over everything I did. If  I wasn't crying over emotional issues, I was crying because I was stressed about school and college applications. 


But for the first time in a long time, I have had a week where I was completely happy. 
I wasn't stressed out over school (probably because I have actually started scheduling things to make sure I get them done) and I have finally been able to move past the emotional problem that has plagued me. 


So,  I am praising God that I am Sunny with a High of 75. Since You took my heavy heart and made it light. Now I can go and start stressing out over the debate tournament I leave for next week.

Lyrics

We were talking together
I said, "what's up with this weather?"
Don't know whether or not
How sad I just got
Was of my own volition.
Or if I'm just missing the sun

And tomorrow, I know,
Will be rainy at best.
And the forecast, I know,
Is that I'll be depressed.

But I'll wait outside
Hoping that I'll catch sight of the sun.

[Chorus:]
Because on and off,
The clouds have fought
Their control over the sky

And lately the weather
Has been so Bi-polar
And Consequently so have I

And now I'm sunny with a High
of 75
Since You took my heavy heart
And made it light

And its funny how you find
You enjoy your life
When you're happy to be alive

[Chorus]

And the temperature is freezing
And then, after dark,
There is a cold frost sweeping
In over my heart

And we might break up
If I don't wake up to the sun

[Chorus]

Sunny with a High of 75
Since You took my heavy heart
And made it light (made it light)

And its funny how you find
You enjoy your life
When you're happy to be...
Alive 


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Lyrics courtesy of: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/relientk/highof75.html

Haircut (and other announcements)

I looked at the date of my last post and felt a stab of guilt. It has been two weeks since I last posted...yeah...not exactly the "every week" thing I was planning. But I am resolved to do better! 

To that end, I have decided to try a new thing. Every week I am going to pick a song that exemplifies that week, and then write a little bit about my week. This solves the problem of having to come up with ideas, and also means I don't necessarily have to think of a lot to write. So tomorrow or Sunday, expect  another post. Although I have to warn you right now, I probably will only be able to think of songs I know well, which means you will probably be getting a lot of Relient K and Owl City. 

Another thing I am going to try is having at least one picture with every post (preferably one of my own pictures). This is because I just like how it looks when there are pictures, and I also want some motivation to try and take some pictures.


Aaaand I got a new haircut. :D

                       I love it!  <3          

A Special Thanks to God

Last weekend I was at a debate tournament. I went to this tournament with absolutely no expectations of doing well. I had only found out I was doing Team Policy debate two weeks before, I hadn't ever debated with my partner and we were going to run a case that hadn't ever been run before.

But God had different expectations.

We ended up winning 4 of our 6 preliminary rounds (two of them with our new aff case) and getting 7th at the tournament. So, I am now qualified for Regionals and don't have to be worried for the rest of the season. God has blessed me so much.

Until I write again, au revoir.

~Nat

Sometimes Life Kinda Sucks

So, one of the most horrible things that could ever happen to me has happened. I found out I have a food allergy. Now, this isn't just like being allergic to peanuts (although I did discover that I can't eat them) or milk. It is something much, much worse. I discovered that I can't eat any kind of corn or processed sugar. It sucks.

Now, you might be thinking, "well that's not so bad. I mean sure you can't eat corn or have sugar in stuff, but there is still stuff to eat, right?" See, the thing is, sugar and corn is in pretty much everything. Bread, sausage, ketchup, ranch , McDonald's hamburgers. Yeah, that's right, McDonald's they use corn syrup and sugar in there patties. Then they have th audacity to also fry their fries in corn oil. It is a good thing I never really liked McDonald's, but eating out is kind of difficult.

But there are are few bright spots in the cloudy sky of my life:

1) I can still have organic sugar or sugar substitute,  and they thankfully do make a lot of good things with them.

2) It is possible to find some stuff to eat at restaurants. I have discovered that a lot of places have a list of all of the ingredients that they stick in their food online. So I have been able to go through that and write down all of the stuff I can eat. At some places (not McDonald's) there is actually quite a bit I can eat.  

3) You know those 15 pounds you are supposed to gain your first year of college? Yeah, that isn't going to happen to me, because I can't eat anything.

Until I write again, au revoir.
~Nat

Random Thought: I Wish Someone Would Invent This

I need to listen to music at night to be able to sleep. Unfortunately this can be a problem if I am sharing a room with someone who needs silence to sleep. I usually get around this problem by just sleeping with headphones in my ears, but that can be rather uncomfortable and it tends to drain the batteries of my MP3 player. So, because of this I wish someone would invent a music player were you direct the sound to one specific area and anyone outside of that specific area would not be able to hear the sound. Now, I don't know if this is even possible given how sound waves work. But that is why there are really smart people in the word. So that they can figure out how to make impossible things possible, and then make a lot of money off of it.

Until next time, au revoir
~Nat

Christmas Reflections

A belated Merry Christmas to you all! I wanted to actually post this on Christmas, but due to sleeping in, hanging out with family and too much delicious food sitting in my stomach, I was unable to do it.

Yesterday was a ton of fun! I always love getting together with my family (even if my cousins are really weird and gave me the money to by my Christmas present from them and then made me wrap it up so that I couldn't open it till I was with them on Christmas), and yesterday was no exception. In the afternoon all of the grandchildren got together at the Grandparent house and played some games, and then we went to another relative's house for supper and presents. As proof of my extreme nerdyness, I got exceedingly excited when I discovers my present from my Grandparents contained post-it-notes.

But even though family, presents and post-it-notes are all awesome, we all know that, that isn't what Christmas is really about. Unfortunately, it is hard to focus on the birth of Jesus, when opening presents is so much more interesting, and most of the  time I really fail at it. But this year I decided that on Christmas eve I was going to read the Christmas story from my Bible and really spend some time thinking about it. As I was laying in bed, contemplating, the extent of Jesus' sacrifice really hit me. See, most people focus on the cross and how much He suffered for us there, but his suffering started a lot sooner than that. I mean, He left heaven, an absolutely perfect place, where He was with God all the time, came to this completely messed up world and lived with us for over 30 years. I mean when you think about it, would you be willing to leave paradise to save a group of people who hated you? Probably not. I doubt I would have done something so selfless. This is just another example of the awesome love Jesus had for us, and how completely amazing our salvation is.

So yeah, this is what I am going to try and think about on Christmas from now on.

Until next time, au revoir.

~Nat

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Of Night Owls and Early Birds

I like to stay up late. Really late. Like, 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning late. Don't get me wrong, I love sleep, and always regret having to leave it when my alarm clock goes off. But there always seems to be one last interesting thing I need to do before I go to bed. Even when I try really hard to get to bed earlier, I never seem to manage to get under my covers before midnight.

Of course these late night lead to late mornings. I usually don't leave my bed until after 11, and I often get ridiculed for sleeping so late. Which leads me to a question: why is it socially unacceptable to sleep in past 9:00? I mean, seriously, why does a person have to be awake during certain hours and asleep during certain hours? What is wrong with sleeping till noon and staying awake past midnight? I say, absolutely nothing. I personally think better later at night (yes I know technically 1:00AM is "morning" but I consider anytime that is dark and most people sleep to be "night")  and my thoughts flow more freely, so it is easier for me to do things like write (which is why I am writing this at 1:27AM). Now, if I am tired, some of those thoughts won't be coherent, but they come out of the recesses of my brain a lot faster if I am writing after the sun goes down.

I guess the point I am trying to make with all of this, is that the notion that everyone has to go to bed in the hours where the letters "PM" follow the numbers and get up before all of the hours ending in "AM" have passed, is silly. Go to bed when it works best for you, get up when it works best for you, and don't feel horrible just because you are eating breakfast when everyone is eating lunch. Although I would probably not recommend staying up past midnight when you have to leave at six the next morning for a debate tournament. It is not fun.

Until I write again, au revoir.

~Nat