Saturday nights aren't going to be so quiet anymore...

When A&M and UT are playing... It isn't going to be so quiet in the Suddendorf household anymore.

Tasks are now delegated by score differentials. For example...

*KJ barks*
Kole: "I'm winning 27-7"
Kylie: "I'm winning 45-16. Start walking!"
OOOOHHH it's very interesting :)

6 class periods without talking... blech!

1st Period--> Group government "mini-project". Simple. Easy period.

2nd/3rd Period--> Guest speaker from Millsap, so had to be quiet and listen to saftey and stuff for 2 periods. Luckily, she was fun and energetic.

4th Period--> Calc Test.. Think I did okay? Maybe? Hopefully?

5th Period--> Anatomy Test... yeah. um.. about that. NEWSFLASH. I'm a senior. I don't remember every nitpicky detail from biology freshman year and chemistry sophmore year. That wasn't fun and won't be pretty.

6th Period--> English essay. So, I read the 2 poems and started to write the compare/contrast essay. Got halfway through paragraph two, and realized that I had misread the poems (or atleast thinking I misread the poems) so wrote an entirely new essay. But everybody I talked to had all written something completely different. So either I'll do well because it was original, or do horrible because I missed the point of the essays.

7th Period--> JV swimming, but coaches weren't there, so we had my all-time-least-favorite-sub EVER. And had to be silent. OK, come on, ATHLETICS. 7TH PERIOD. FRIDAY. We aren't a quiet group! So I figured taking a nap would be considered quiet. NOPE! "no heads on desks, this isn't JV Sleeping". Um correct, it's JV SWIMMING (because we were totally doing that... bad analogy Mrs. Carter), as to which I'm not a member of!

So now I have the music jamming and am enjoying this Friday afternoon. I have work tonight, then home to SLEEP! Unloading chairs at the new church tomorrow morning. And then spending the rest of the weekend reading 200 some pages for English. OH JOY!!

Bring it on Calculus!

OH yeah! That's right! I'm challenging you, Mr. Fourth Period Calculus Test! I know how to solve indeterminate limits. I know how to find the possible values of delta. I know the epsilon-delta definition of a proof, AND how to apply it. I know what limit statement can come from an epsilon-delta definition statement. I know how to give limit statements from graphs and tables. I know how to find limits algebraically and through "number crunching". I know true/false truth tables and even know the "whys" they are true. I know how to apply the squeeze theorem.

Therefore, first calculus test of the year, I am going to own you. Ace you.

^^ How is that for some positiveness! (After this week, if I get a mid-B I'll be thoroughly enjoyed!)

Be waiting for tomorrow's update!! :P

Coolest Room Award!

Just won the coolest room award in our house.. SAY WHAT?!?! Yepp, that's right :)

Thanks random guy who came in and took pictures of our house!

Nobody's Guaranteed a Tomorrow

When the swimming world was struck again when a beloved coach, Coach Allen, was killed this morning, it made me realize (again, as I realized it a few days ago while reading) that nobody is guaranteed a tomorrow.

James 4:13-14 --> "Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes".

James is so right. As harsh as that may sound, comparing our life to a mist, it's reality. We never know when God's work with us will be done, or how much longer we have left on this Earth. Nobody is guaranteed another day here.

Matthew 6:34 --> "Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself...".

Just live for the moment, and live every moment for our God. Because in the end, it isn't the time we spend here, it is what we do with the time we are given here. So live every second to the full, because we don't know what tomorrow brings.

Challenge Accepted

So after being home from camp, I have kept up with and stayed in touch with a couple of the people I met there. Last night another counselor that I worked with challenged me to "seek the Lord in everything [I saw]" today. Well, being the competitive/non-challenge-backing-downer I am, I replied back "Challenge Accepted". And WOW what a difference it made!

I don't think I have ever seen God in the number of ways I did today.

When it was storming and rainy, I saw God's beauty.
When there was no air-conditioning today in 2nd, 3rd, or 7th period, I definitely thanked God for what I do have, and prayed for those who don't ever have air-conditioning.
When I was sitting in class bored with anatomy, I thanked God for the ability I have to go to school.
When I got a semi-upset text from a friend and was able to respond with an "I love you!" text, I saw how God uses each of us to help out everybody else.
When I was reading poetry in English, I saw God's majestic ways through the language of the author.
When I burned myself how many times making RFL ribbons, I was thankful for the chance to fight for others, and saw how my own God fights for me every second of the day. (Exodus 12:12!)
When the rain stopped just long enough for me to run to my truck without getting soaked, I saw how God is always looking out for us [even if it is just providing a break in the rain so we don't get our new shoes wet].

And what a difference it made! Instead of...
-YUCK it's raining and gross!
-I'm going to die without air conditioning, it's SO hot in here!
-Anatomy is joke, why am I wasting my time in this class?
-Stinks you're having a bad day... Mine's going excellent!
-I don't really care about "Ode to the Grecian Urn"... poetry's lame.
-OWWWW I just burned myself making ribbons that nobody is going to appreciate!
-Great, now I'm going to have to walk through puddles because it has rained all day!

What a difference a new perspective makes! So I challenge you to take up what I was challenged with "seek the Lord in everything". You'll never know how different your day may turn out!!

Studying for Government with Renee

So the game plan was to study for government today. That was really going to happen. I was SO determined.

WELL...

Renee ended up coming over this afternoon for some much needed best-friend time. I told her to bring her homework because I knew we both needed to get stuff done.

WELL...

I ended up reading a children's book to her (I'm afraid I'm becoming more and more like my mother everyday...) and then began to teach her my government notes because I needed to study for my test, and she had nothing to do!

So I used my "teacher voice" as she calls it (drats. I am turning into my mother) and explained to her the first few pages of government notes. Then she decided to take my notes and quiz me over the section I HADN'T looked at! And ask me questions such as "Constitution". Not "what is the constitution" or "who wrote the constitution" or "what is the purpose of the constitution"... NOPE just "Constitution".

WELL...

I'm not sure how much productive studying was actually done. I'm pretty sure the answers I was giving her in "Kylie's World Language" was pretty much exactly the same thing as what my notes said in "Cutsinger Government Language" but who knows. So needless to say, some more studying needs to be done tonight!

WELL...

After giving up on government, Renee and I decided to skype the other best friend Megan (who's up in College Station now) and talked to her for a good 45 minutes. Not like ANY of us had anything we needed to do... NAH! Renee didn't have to read a book for English to get ahead. NAH! Megan didn't have any college-stuff to do. NAH! I didn't have a government test tomorrow that I needed to ace... NAH!

It was a much needed girl-time though, and I'm very glad I had it. But now I MUST STUDY GOVERNMENT!!!