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Hey!!! Wow, it seems like i can't keep this baby up! haha.....but I always get on here on the 8th of the month. Weird. Yeah so anyways....so much has happened since nov. 26th!!!! where can I begin? Mary Grace has a wonderful visit with us for Thanksgiving. She is SO the BOMB!!! I love her so much. She's like, most definitely the coolest grandma in the world!!! can't explain it. She's so non-adulty. I really love that about adults (who are like that) and I want to be just like that "when i grow up"!!!!!!!! No doubt about that. I don't think there are that many out there, but it seems like alot of the "grown-ups" that I know are like that!!!!!!!!! I live an awesome life. When people who are older than you don't "act like it" and, i don't know, lord it over you with all this "oh, well.....you're to young to know much of anything" it makes me respect them more than if they did. I guess everyone who has experienced situations like that can relate. It's not like they don't know that they are older than you, it's like it doesn't matter. The respect that they are owed for being older than you is understood, so that makes it so much easier to get along. (i guess if you are on the younger side and do not give the understood respect, then that could make that situation a little different than mine. hehe. i have one thing to say to you "RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!" You'll see how much older people know when you get to be one of the "older people" (this coming from me kid-in-body-and-spirit-extraordinaire!!) Anyways, as i was saying, Mary Grace is the BOMB! and we had a wonderful thanksgiving. I have so many blessings in my life that are often overlooked!!! Thanksgiving is a special holiday because it helps you to refocus on the many things that you are blessed with. The best thing that I have been blessed with, without a doubt, is the awesome salvation that I have been given by my holy amazing, love of a Savior, Jesus Christ!!!!!!! He is my life!! Seriously. You can't understand that unless you have accepted His life changing gift! The sad thing is that so many people don't consider it something that they need. Oh! You need it alright....but it's like, you can't really see how much you need it til you have it......or until you have lost your chance to receive it. aww. so many people will do that. it breaks my heart. If you think that you might be(come) one of those people or you just have NO idea what I am talking about, email me NOW!
I'm sitting in my living room right now. *sniff sniff* (not @ CP haha) Tuesday is my last english class there and it might be my last computer class too. I hope it's not my last computer class.....we missed the Thursday class last week due to um... ahem..... incliment weather.....and tuesday was going to be our final!!!!!!!!! so i REALLY hope that since we didn't get to finish the powerpoint projects and labs, that we will do that and not the test on Tuesday!!!!! that would be bad for me considering that i didn't study @ all. ahhhh!!!! So yeah....A week ago was my mom's birthday and we went to Trio's (ugh! nastiness) I don't like that restaurant. it reminds me of the 80's and it's all teal and the servers are mean (well, not really, but you know they would be if they didn't HAVE to be nice to you!- one time sarah was like "lets go to trio's for lunch." so we did ~it was probably like 2:00~ and we walked in and no one even came to seat us! we stood there for 20 minutes and then we were just like "forget this! chili's it is!" grr.) that's not the only reason i don't like it there either......there's probably like 15 things on the menu, TOPS, and most of the stuff is BAD!!!!!! k enuf a dat) Sarah's birthday was Thursday and we had a pretty good day of it no-power and all ("what??" you say, "NO POWER??!".....dun dun dun.......
Tha-a-a-t's right, NO POWER!!!!!!! We had a freak ice storm on Wednesday!!! Worse than any of my many moons in North Carolina! Every year.....or probably every other year....we get our annual less than a centimeter of snow on or around christmas/new year, but this was fantablulous! I was like yess!!! ICE! it's so close to snow, if you want to, you can CALL it snow!!!!! woohoo!!! haha.....So this Wednesday morning, my mom wanted me to go take my driving test so that I could get my lisence. hm..... (exactly what i was thinking) I begged her the whole way there in the car, but she was like, "Hey, Rachel, it's JUST like rain, you can do this" ha! in your face. I totally failed my road test. I felt like a loser. I could now be safely counted in the statistic of those people who have failed their driver's test. boo hoo. and the REALLY sad thing is that it wasn't weather-caused. (you probably think that I am a bad driver....nice deduction...but you're wrong...I may not be very mechanical or some kind or coordination-ical person, but i am Ve-e-e-e-e-ery cautious. yes.) surprisingly, even though I am so very cautious, we get back to the DMV and they guy (who was pretty freaky himself) says to my mom "well, she's got a problem with complete stops" ahhhhh!!!! and also grrrrrrrr. Apparently, this dude didn't feel that the completness of my stops were good enough. I just stopped as completely as I had ever been taught. well, little did I know that I had (i guess) never been taught right. No one ever said anything to me like, "whoa, don'tcha think you could've stopped a little more complete there, rach?" or anything like that. anyway, I also think that this guy (probably north carolinian through and through~meaning that he doesn't see driving in an ice storm something that ANYONE would do....especially not for a road test~) didn't reeeeally want to go out for a road test. The DMV was emptier than the streets on Thanksgiving morning (which I know from experience are almost totally empty) and with the clemint whetha and all, i'm sure that ole' pardna was in for a relaxing, no work day. HA! My mom, being the persistent woman that she is, asked "are you doing any road tests today?" surprised and a little taken back by this outlandish request, the man (remember he's kinda....ok REALLY freaky) paused for a second to let this crazy thought register and replied "uh....ok," and after asking me all the necessary questions and obtaining my permit and insurnace info said "are you sure you want to take your road test today?" (in my head I was screaming "NOOOOO!!!! mommy take me home!!" but it had to be done. i learned something from that though......#1~ to slam on the brakes next time and sit @ the stop sign for at-LEAST 5 seconds when taking the driver's test (especially if i get THAT guy again! heh heh!) and #2~ that things like that are not that important. I am a child of God awaiting my eternal home, and little porblems like this are NOTHING! and #3~how to do a complete eeeaaarrrrch!! stop. hahaha!!! yess! i'll be doin' that from now on....so if you are ever driving with me, don't wonder why we sit @ each stop sign for a strangly long while, even if we're late....rachel learns her lessons she does.
OOOk, it's 11:42 and my brother is taking a shower.....before he went in the bathroom, he told me that i wasn't allowed to be on the computer when he went to bed b/c the light from the living room keeps him awake .....AT NIGHT (if there is any) and so i had better listen to my younger-but-stronger brother who, sadly, has never been taught not to beat up on girls. grr. Gotta remember that when i'm a parent. yep. so if this is the last paragraph, then you will know that he got out of the shower before I finished my typing and turned off the computer before I could save it!!!! ahh....that's life here. be glad you have a nice, passive, younger brother who isn't like that to you @ all (if you do.....who knows, could there be such a brother?)
So the huge ice storm on WEdnesday night took with it not only my driving eligibility, but also, our water, power, my mom's left rearview mirror on her car, 3 gallons of icecream and one ham (that our dog ate b/c it was "keeping cold" outside) my sister for two nights, our stove, my turn in the nursery @ FB, and the wed. and sun. meetings @ FB. grrr-ness. ~~~~side note ***oooh YESS!!!! come to find out that it was SARAH in the shower (she just walked out of the bathroom) and NOT david!!!!! I guess he was just empty-threat'in me!!!!! yess! haha....but I really do need to go to bed soon.....i have a big day of school work tomorrow! yay. **trying to control my enthusiasm, as you can see~~~~ So yeah, the ice storm, referred to on the NBC6 weather as "dun dun dun......WINTER STORM 2002" (with movie-guy's voice) took many things from us, but it was a fun, family time this past 4-5 days. yep....good times, good times. We washed our hair in the sink with pots of boiling lake water that had to be brought up in 5 gallon buckets and heated over our small gass wall heater, we lit candles every night at about 5:30 p.m., we slept in sleeping bags on our beds, read picture books a-loud (i really liked "Tell me the secrets" or whatever that book is by max lucado i think), we had to pour more of the lake water in the toilets to flush them, we cooked 2 frozen pizzas in our fireplace, boiled who knows how many teapots of water on a cookie sheet perched on the wall heater, and chicken "viola!" on a propane powered burner that david made my parents buy after dragging them out b/c he was sick of no power, we had fun hooking up our car to power a different times: a lamp, the phone, the cell phone charger, the computer, the TV, and the VCR., we learned to live without hairdryers, alot of heat, running water, lights, TV (for the most part~we did watch a shirley temple movie one night and this video called "cheers for miss bishop" another), the internet (kinda) alram clocks, the phone, clean dishes, ice cream and all other cold foods, and also all hot foods, and sarah (she couldn't take the old-timey-ness and slept @ two different friends' houses who had poer for 2 of the nights when she had to work the next day.) so yeah...it was FUN!!!! woohoo! And, they say that we're going to have another ice storm this Tuesday!!! yess!!!! I don't know though. We might not lose our power again. But the people where Sarah works said that this one will be worse. (although sarah came home with some information from these same "people" the other day telling us that "500 people in Gastonia alone died in the two days previous from carbon monoxide poisoning because they had brought their grills in their houses to heat them" hahaha!I know, I was like "WHAAAAA???" we found out later that the truth was "5 people in NC has reported to the hospital because of carbon monoxide fumes having to do with their grills"......hmmm...yeah. anyways....I forgot that Sarah is painting her room and she is now sleeping (or rather lying) on the couch 7 feet away from me most likely hoping that I will quit my loud CRAZY-fresh typing and let her actually sleep. I don't want to be rude....so yeah...I'm gonnna finish this and go to bed. It IS 12:15 now and i am in need of sleep. Like my mom said earlier "Don't think that because we have power, that means you should stay up really late" (she's a smart woman....gotta love them elders....no not elder-LY....she's not that old!Gotta respect 'em too.....and I should honor her...even though I guess I probably can't do that now. I'm no longer staying up late.....THIS could be considered GETTING UP EARLY! 12 AM. lol....JPC...i'm not a smart-alek. Most of the time. I don't try to be anyway....sometimes I get carried away with myself, i admit. so i better go.....um....ya think? ok and good bye, and to all a good night!
Love always in Him, rachel ><>
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