Show of hands

Who actually reads this thing? I mean, I feel as though this is basically a diary that the world can read. But I don't know. Maybe that is what this is. Lord knows that I need a way to get my thoughts out without wasting paper, ink, or MP board space. :) (Sorry about my ramblings about that iPod thing. I'll probably just go ahead and try it. Maybe. I'll talk one of my tech-guru cousins first.) Anyway...Ithough t that y'all might enjoy seeing a jumble of a chorus that I thought of.

I was left out in the cold;
You let me into Your heart.
Straight out of the fire And into Your arms


Maybe that's just abridge. I don't really know. Just came up with it from a dream last night. Needs some work. A lot of work.


Anyhow, good night everyone. Fliggage!

School Starts Tomorrow

Classes start tomorrow. My schedule is frightening. I don't even have time for lunch! But in all, I'm pretty excited for class. It should prove take a pretty neat experience. I have my new computer all setup. In fact I am truly writing this blog. With an actualpen. It is truly legit, as my friend, Lindsay, would say. It reads my handwriting pretty well. But, I keep getting palm prints on it. Kinda annoying, actually. But, this sucker is great for taking notes. (I still type faster, though) By the way, for those who care to know, I now have a Skype account. So, look me up!. Well, I have things to do, so see y'all! Fliggage!

Yayayayayayayayay!!

Okay, I have (finally) a computer, which means I can go online again.

Well, I'm in college, and we're going through this thing called Vision Quest. I think it's a ploy to keep the fish from missing home or something. It's fun... for the most part. I've been here since Sunday for the start of band, and I've had maybe an hour to myself.

Let's just say I'm pretty exhausted. I love hanging out and such, but I need alone time.

The main reason I'm not on a photo scavenger hunt is because I get pretty carsick on things like that.

*happy scream*

Okay, remember how I mentioned that my kittens were missing? WE FOUND ONE OF THEM! I have no idea where Byron is, but Blake! Blake is home! One of my fuzzy prodigals has returned!!!!!

Stupid Texas State Law

Okay, for those of you who don't know quite well, I am needle-phobic. I mean, literally terrified.

Did you know that there's a law in place in Texas that won't let you move into a college dorm without getting a meningitus shot? There is!


I just got it today. Owie.... :( However, it wasn't as bad as I thought. So mayhaps there's hope for me yet.

I'm Home!!!

Finally! We got in a three in the morning Wednesday. Bleah. Well, no sign of the kits, but that doesn't really mean much. Anyways, lemme tell you what the trip was like, as well as show you some of the promised pics.

Paisano is located near Alpine in th Big Bend area, so it's a desert. A desert in the mountains, so it's not all sand and stuff along that line. It's really, really pretty.

Let's see... The sermons at youth and at the Big Church were amazing, but there'll probably be a different post 'bout that... The dike climbing is fantastic, as usual. (Dikes, for those of you that don't know, are igneous intrusion that usually appears like walls of rocks pushed up into other rocks. The ones around Paisano are volcanic dikes that appeared when Paisano Peak erupted back in BC.)

It rained all during the first of the week, so everything was beyond green and blooming. I got some nice plant pictures when we went to the Marfa Lights Look Out. Of course, it wasn't as green there as it was at the camp, but that's because that's in an oak grove.

Now for pictures. Yay!



This is our cabin.


This is the view from our cabin. We're smack in the middle of a strand of oaks and cedars. I love cedars, I just wish I wasn't allergic to them!


This is a close-up of the dead volcano, Paisano Peak, for which the camp was named. Paisano means "my countryman" in Spanish.


Here's a panoramic shot I did up on top of Fatman's (the major rock to climb. Everyone climbs there.) That's the youth building down in the corner.


This is my daddy, who was very happy to find that he is not miserable in "Fatman's Misery"


Me, standing on the highest point of Fatman's.


Again, me, negotiating a rather tricky part of the rocks.


No, Archie is not lying on his back. For some reason, the image with the right orientation did not appear in "My Pictures" and I'm too lazy to figure out why.

Okie. This is a lot of pictures. I've got some more pictures of just desert shots, but I believe that shall wait until another post.

Hey-la!

Just checking in. I'm currently sitting in my maternal grandfather's office, stealing some internet time.

I've had a great time at Piasano Baptist Encampment this past week. Great sermons, friendly people who know each other (just not by name!), and of course the beautiful country is always a plus.

The downside? Almost no service (especially for someone with AT&T) and absolutely no internet, which is why I haven't been on facebook or MyPraize in the past few days.

Alas, I don't have time to go and check in on my fave internet peeps, but I promise, when I get home, there will be a longer blog post (with pickythures!) and an even longer thread. Batkat's honor.

We should be heading back Tuesday. We were supposed to head home today, but Dad decided our cabin needed baseboards.


I miss my kittens. I hope they're alive, but that's something I'm trying hard not to think about.


Anyways, I'll 'see' y'all later. Right now I have to let my mother on the computer.