Now on Blogger!

I love my LJ. But no one is on LJ anymore. I found out last night that Daniel's on BlogSpot now, and he and Alan were the only ones who I really followed and followed me on LiveJournal. By the way, I don't understand the difference between Blogger and BlogSpot anymore. But, whatever. I'm going to miss my elephants and peaches and penguins, but I guess interacting with people will be better. Plus, I'll probably actually check the blogs I'm following if I'm following them on the same site I post on, unlike now, where I get on Blogger and end up reading a month's worth of blog posts from hayleyghoover and have a ton from other people to read soon.

Speaking of not reading what I should be reading:

I have been on the same chapter of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for approximately 3 weeks and haven't been reading anything else, with the exception of Mere Christianity, which I have to read for small group. That's about 10 pages a week. Not impressive. I haven't ordered my books for Torrey yet and need to have The Iliad read and should have The Odyssey read by Torrientation on August 17th. I haven't done anything of any importance this summer. I checked the Torrey Facebook page and Nathan (one of the Torrientation leaders) has read 3 Harry Potter books and 13 other books of varying lengths this summer. 16 books so far. I haven't finished a single one. I need to read more. I was planning on at least a book a week. I need to sleep more. I wasn't reading while babysitting because I was too tired to focus. So I knit.

That's another thing I really need to do. I've been knitting this scarf for a friend since November. I finished it, but it was striped and I couldn't get the ends of the connected pieces of yarn weaved into the scarf, so I decided to redo it. It's now the end of June, and it's not even halfway done. I feel bad because it was her birthday present. I think she may have forgotten about it. I'm going to finish it before I move.

We're trying to start up afewawesomenerds again. This makes me smile, because I love Daniel and Maddy is joining in and she makes my life better. Apparently her friend, Phil, wants to do it, but he hasn't posted anything yet, so we'll see. For now, you can watch Maddy and me be ridiculous and awesome.

I am listening to A*Teens right now. Not The ABBA Generation album. Pop 'Til You Drop! (The album has the exclamation point.) I was listening to Jack's Mannequin's The Glass Passenger, and I felt the need for something more mellow. I was over at Daniel's today and we were talking about the phases of my musical tastes, and I decided to show him what I liked in elementary school, so A*Teens was fresh on my mind when I thought of something upbeat. I am enjoying it. I don't care what you think. :) It makes me want to choreograph terrible dances and record myself dancing and lip-syncing in the backyard. Oh, how I loved those times.

I think it's funny. I went over to Daniel's house today, and we spent about 4 hours on our computers figuring out tech-y stuff (or trying to) and file transferring and playing with Photoshop. We have better conversations online. ;) I love Daniel, though. He's a cool kid, and he always puts up with me being a sarcastic brat and making fun of him. I'm going to miss being able to punch him, but we'll probably talk just as much as we do now once I'm at Biola.

My day was sprinkled with several phone calls from my youth pastor trying to get in touch with my friend, Becky. She's bad at making contact and he kept losing her phone number or writing it down wrong. He's been trying to talk to her all week because we [the graduated seniors in the youth group and James, the youth pastor] were going to drive up to San Francisco tomorrow (well, today) and be all touristy for our senior trip. There are 6 seniors in the youth group. At the beginning of today, 3 of us were for sure going and Becky wasn't sure [because she kept forgetting to ask her parents and wasn't communicating with us]. I was super psyched for it all. I haven't been on a cool road trip ever, and I've always wanted to go on one. This was my chance. So imagine my dismay when I got a phone call at 11:00 from my youth pastor, saying that Becky couldn't go and one of the kids who was for sure going had only talked to his dad about it and has a mom who wasn't okay with it. I was really annoyed and sad and just frustrated, and I cried a few times. I found out on Wednesday that the Yosemite trip with my other youth group was cancelled because we couldn't find a female chaperone to go with us, and now San Francisco is cancelled. I'm going to Six Flags in July with my youth group, which is something we do every year. That's the only exciting thing I have going on all summer. I'm probably way more upset than I should be, but I was expecting this summer to be amazing and now it's the same-old, same-old. Probably less eventful, actually. So now I'm staying up as late as I want to and having a pity party alone, since all my friends went to bed. And writing this long, boring blog post. Because I have nothing better to do. I was going to read, but we've all seen how motivated I am to do that.

Write now, I just feel like I should be typing and writing and stuff. Maybe I should do some Bible journalling stuff or something, since I got my new study Bible on Wednesday. It has my name on it. It's my first Bible with my name on it. It was a graduation present from one of my churches. It makes me happy. I think I'm pretty much out of things to write about, so I guess I'll do that, now.

Oh. Maddy and I are going to drive to Chicago. As soon as we have a car and driver's licenses and all that good stuff. But we're going to do it. It's saved in my Google Maps and I'm making a playlist. Maybe next summer. Maybe next winter, since Maddy probably won't be able to drive yet next summer.

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I'm doing this anyways, even though it's not on the form:

Mood: Incongruous

Now Listening: To The Music - A*Teens

Location: My bed.

Days until Torrientation: 51

Books read: 0