Update

Just an update on a few things. First my grandma's thing went well last week. However, the docotors thought they observed something pressing in on her esophagus making it crooked. Not a good thing to have a crooked esophagus. But of course that would explain some swallowing problems she had been having. Soo they're getting definite results on what's really up with her esophagus sometime soon, so hopefully they'll be able to correct whatever's wrong.

As to my dad, he's going to be completely changing drugs soon to try to knock out the little part of his tumor that's left. It's a totally new type of drug, so not many people have taken it yet. I think he'll be starting it in about two weeks or so, so hopefully the side effects won't be as bad with this one as with his others. Besides my dad and grandma, I'd also appreciate prayers for my cousin who had surgery today (not to mention today happens to be her birthday). So you can basically just keep my whole family in your prayers I guess. Thanks so much. It means a lot =]

Besides all this craziness, everything else has been going pretty well. I'm just glad fall is finally here, and I'm really really happy that I'll be 16 in just about a month and a half. Freedom is almost here! haha Well if I can pass my license test that is.....

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Prayers

I would really appreciate it if you could keep my grandma in your prayers (the one who has breast cancer). Basically she's been having trouble catching her breath in the mornings, and the doctors determined this is happening because she has some fluid on one of her lungs. Soo she has to go to the hospital tomorrow to get that taken care of, plus they're going to investigate another suspicious looking spot they saw on her esophagus. Thanks I really do appreciate it. =]

Nothing much else going on except school is driving me nuts. But is that really anything new? haha. Oh and I have to take the PSAT sometime next month as well, so that should be interesting. I just hope I'll know some other people taking it at the same time or I'll probably freak out to the point of hyperventilation or something.....ha

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No Drama, Okay?

I really really hate acting. Seriously, acting or speaking in public is up there on my list of things I'd rather jump off a 50-foot cliff than do. I can just imagine; the lights going down on the stage, and suddenly the stoplight's focused on me. I open my mouth and either 1: Nothing comes out, 2: I get a total mind block and run off the stage in a fit of agony; 3: I suddenly have breathing problems because I'm hyperventilating, and the list of horrible things go on. So yesterday when our youth group was having a drama meeting, I slunk down in my chair and tried very hard to remain inconspicuous when they started asking who wanted what part. Now, you may be asking, why the heck would I, of all people, be in a drama meeting? Well before we do drama on Sunday nights we always do music stuff, which I enjoy. So, I thought, maybe after the music I could just sneak out the back and no one would notice.....Well after thinking that through I decided it just wasn't smart. I would just have to tough it out and explain to them that I just couldn't act. Not at all. No chance. Zilch. Okay you get the point....So I bared my teeth and slowly walked into the room like I was walking into an execution chamber.

There was really no point in worrying. All I had to do was not open my mouth. That really wasn't a problem though because everytime the guy asked who wanted what part everyone started talking at once. So I was very pleased. Especially when we had to end before they'd given out all the parts. So I'm hoping that next week I will be able to have the same luck. Trust me. You probably don't want to see me on a stage acting. Unless you find it amusing to watch someone trip, pass out on the stage, or die of embarrassment.

On a different note, I finally heard from my voice teacher the other day. I still haven't got a lesson time yet cause she's still working out her schedule, but at least I heard from her. I was afraid she was avoiding me or something......haha. It's a good thing I finally heard from her too, cause I was seriously about to internally combust what with chemistry (which is no walk in the park) plus everything else I've got going on. . So yeah if you hear any loud explosions in the next few days you'll know why.....

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What the Heck

*I recently saw a news article that stated how millions of innocent lives were being taken every year. I thought, "Great. An article about the evils of abortion." Boy was I wrong. It was an article on saving the lives of mice used in scientific research. And this isn't just pointless research that doesn't help anyone either. It's research attempting to get cures for diseases. So basically this guy who the news article quoted is more concerned with saving the lives of mice than he is the lives of humans? Millions of human babies are killed every year but does he care about that? Something's definitely wrong here.....

*You know what's really annoying? Calorimetery. Okay that might be misspelled, but at the moment I don't particularly care. Every day I find myself tortured by these long chemistry problems (yes, calorimetery is a chemistry term) that solve for the calorimetery of an object. I'm not going to bother explaining it. Just know that by the time I get through all the equations required to solve one problem, I've already burned through one week of school. Okay exaggerating but you get my point.

*You know something else that's really annoying? People who don't get back with you. Take for example my voice teacher who I really really liked having for the past two years. We emailed her several years err weeks ago and still no reply. And the longer I go without lessons, the crappier my voice starts to sound, and pretty soon I probably won't have one left at all and they'll have to kick me out of choir.....okay exaggeration but hey I'm ranting here..=] Plus I'm waiting to hear from somelse too involving a school chorus thing so I'm getting really ticked off and if I don't stop now I'll probably blow through the ceiling or something. So yeah I'd better stop. That wouldn't make for a good obituary headline......

Later. And I promise I'm not as mad as I sound....=]

*Crash*

The above title is the sound of me jumping up from my school desk in a fit of ecstasy, running towards the door, and promptly slamming my head into the glass and falling backwards on the floor like the klutz I am....Okay so that didn't really happen, and I'm not really that clumsy. But I was pretty eager to get done with school and I am extremely happy to have made it through another week. I am also extremely glad that I have a good grade in Algebra 2 so far. I know, that fact is nothing less than a miracle....Now all I have left to worry about this weekend is a response paper that hopefully is going to require as little of my brain power as possible since I don't have a whole lot of that left by the time Friday comes around....hahaha

For once I'm actually not too sure what I'm doing this weekend except we are going out to eat tonight for my mother's birthday, which was actually yesterday. The whole event has been rather chaotic because we ended up going to get my mom some presents on her actual birthday, which is never a good thing just to warn you. But we found her some things so it's all good I suppose. Anyways the fact that we get to go out to eat is in itself the awesomest thing ever, because we rarely go out to due to my dad's diet. So I am much looking forward to tonight. hehe Besides that, who knows what I'll be up too.....=]

Labor Day (Literally)

Let's just say I'm pretty ticked for one main reason. Every single kid in the United States (and probably every kid in Africa too knowing my luck) got off school today except for one incredibly lucky person (well 3 actually if you count the hooligans known as my brothers)....me. I know I know. You're so jealous. Not only did I have to do school, but I also had an extremely loong day. History in itself took 2 hours (and I'm not even kidding). The Constitution is not exactly the most interesting thing you can read while your mind is fresh, so imagine trying to read it when your brain is nearly dead? Yeah not fun but I made it. And I did get everything else done except for one little thing I'm finishing up tonight. So I guess I'll stop ranting now. =]

Well except for school today the rest of my weekend was pretty good. Saturday was randomly fun, church was good, Kentucky won in football (haha), and I even played frisbee without looking incredibly stupid for once. (Shocker I know). Now hopefully I can make it through the rest of the week without collapsing. If anyone was ever close to death because of overreading the Constitution and too many algebraic equations, that person would be me.....=]