Yay, it's Thanksgiving Break here at La Sierra University! Teddy and I will be taking off on Tuesday for Las Vegas, then on to Wyoming Wednesday morn. We'll be spending time with his family for the holiday. What a great time for a road trip too! I was SO excited earlier this week when gas went under $2.00 for the first time since who knows when!! Last time I checked today it was at $1.93. And yes, I know the rest of you out in the midwest and stuff have it way better but boy am I just glad to see it at $1.93. Is our economy tanking or what?! I guess this is one benefit though, isn't it?
Well I've decided not to decorate for Christmas this year. Yeah, I know Santa would be ashamed of me. Bu,t we're not going to be around for Thanksgiving OR Christmas so I figured I'd try all my ideas next year. Little disappointing, I had been looking forward to our first Christmas in our own home. But oh well. I hope GYC and Lake Tahoe will be as fun as we are hoping.
So besides that I am just swamped with schoolwork. I will be graduating in June, Lord willing. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Yes! I'm really having fun actually, right now I'm taking Statistics and it's quite the mind challenge. But you know, getting those weekends and evenings back won't be too bad either...
Monday, November 24, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Fire!
So yesterday we had several fire encounters! We went to church and came out and saw smoke and ash falling from the sky. Some church members were told their neighborhood was being evacuated so they hurried out of the fellowship meal to try to save their stuff. On the way back home traffic started to really slow down up ahead of us, when we noticed a fresh accident. A truck had just fallen from the overpass somehow and was in flames. There was a guy in the ditch with blood coming out of his ears. We still dont know what happened there but we prayed for them right then and there. It couldn't have been more than a couple minutes since the accident had happened. Then that night after we had hung out with friends as we were on our way home, we saw the hills by the interstate we were driving on glowing with the forest fires that were burning!
It looked alot like this
It was eerie and surreal. We stopped to try to get a good view (along with like 50 other people who owned houses nearby.) We had to take a different way home because they had closed part of the interstate down. Then when we were like 10 minutes from home, we saw another fire up ahead! This time it looked like a house was on fire. So ofcourse, curiosity got the best of us and we decided to check it out. Sure enough, about a mile and 1/2 from our house, a house had caught fire and firefighters had pretty much given up. They were just standing around waiting for the flames to die down. So it was a pretty exciting day, although not necessarily a good day for some people. This is fire season right now; I hope it isn't as devastating as last year! See although the weather is picture perfect almost daily, and there is so much going on around Southern California, there is a price to pay for living around these parts. So on to more happier thoughts...Thanksgiving is almost here! =D And we may or may not be going to Wyoming. More on that later.
It looked alot like this
It was eerie and surreal. We stopped to try to get a good view (along with like 50 other people who owned houses nearby.) We had to take a different way home because they had closed part of the interstate down. Then when we were like 10 minutes from home, we saw another fire up ahead! This time it looked like a house was on fire. So ofcourse, curiosity got the best of us and we decided to check it out. Sure enough, about a mile and 1/2 from our house, a house had caught fire and firefighters had pretty much given up. They were just standing around waiting for the flames to die down. So it was a pretty exciting day, although not necessarily a good day for some people. This is fire season right now; I hope it isn't as devastating as last year! See although the weather is picture perfect almost daily, and there is so much going on around Southern California, there is a price to pay for living around these parts. So on to more happier thoughts...Thanksgiving is almost here! =D And we may or may not be going to Wyoming. More on that later.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
To those who think the world is falling apart now...
Consider some of these quotes on change:
"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
-Anonymous
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
-Abraham Lincoln
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." -General Eric Shinseki (Chief of Staff, US Army)
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
-John F. Kennedy
Lets give our new president a chance. I can't know the future; he most certainly could be the biggest political disappointment of our generation. I am not over my cynicism of politicians and their unique capacity to lie and corrupt their power. However, our idealogical and better, hopeful side of self should atleast give this guy a second look. You cannot deny he is the most intelligent, eloquent, idealogical, inspiring, collected, brilliant president to get elected (by a landslide, I should add) in decades. He deserves a chance. Let's give it to him.
"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
-Anonymous
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
-Abraham Lincoln
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." -General Eric Shinseki (Chief of Staff, US Army)
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
-John F. Kennedy
Lets give our new president a chance. I can't know the future; he most certainly could be the biggest political disappointment of our generation. I am not over my cynicism of politicians and their unique capacity to lie and corrupt their power. However, our idealogical and better, hopeful side of self should atleast give this guy a second look. You cannot deny he is the most intelligent, eloquent, idealogical, inspiring, collected, brilliant president to get elected (by a landslide, I should add) in decades. He deserves a chance. Let's give it to him.
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