My Awesome Weekend

I know this is a little delayed, but my weekend was too awesome to go without a blog post for it. My weekend really started on Thursday (yeah, I know that's a weekday ha). It was the last day of classes for me, even though I still have to go through the summer with school (not sacrificing a social life, of course), but this means I can sleep in Monday through Saturday now! And then Friday came and I went back to my writing group that I'm in on Facebook with some friends. I took a quick break, but I'm back now and I missed them so much. 

And then Saturday came along. I had been waiting for Saturday to come for some time. I went shopping with one of my best friends and her mom, and I had a spectacular time. We went to Barnes and Noble and I bought this spectacular leather bound journal. I'm probably going to use it for random story related things, but I think I'm mainly going to use it for poetry. I'm not a very good poet, so I need to practice because one of my new characters is a poet, meaning I'm going to have to incorporate his poetry into the story, meaning I'm going to have to practice my poetry. The things authors do for their characters.

After spending some time in Barnes and Noble, we went to Panera for lunch and had a fun time and then we went to Target. We looked at clothes and stuff and I tried on this cute little dress that almost had a Parisian style to it. Unfortunately they didn't have my size, so I ordered it offline. I'm excited. It's perfect for tea parties (I've never been to a tea party, and I never thought I'd want to go to one, but now I'm going to have the perfect dress for it!). At Target I bought a package of three more notebooks. I didn't necessarily need them, but I liked the designs on the cover and I figured it was my birthday, I do what I want (Thor).

After Target, we came back for a birthday party. I never knew birthday parties could be so much fun! I had such an amazing time! My friend made this spectacular cake based off of my book. It was so amazing I cried when I saw it. I just had a blast, and then afterward my three of my close friends slash writing buddies and I got some time to hang out and talk and have fun. We went for a walk and then we took pictures and it was just a blast. That night was the most fun I've had in a while and that birthday was the most amazing birthday I've had in a while. Oh, and I can't forget the amazing graphics that 

And then after that, Sunday came and it was the perfect way to end such a good weekend. Church in the morning was really great, on the way home we passed by this awesome motorcycle dude pulling out of his driveway and he was only awesome because he was dressed in like this European style with white gloves, a trench coat and it was just cool, and then a relaxing afternoon in which I watched Saturday night's episode of Doctor Who (which was amazing, by the way!) and then the season finale to Once Upon a Time, which was the most amazing season finale I have ever seen. Of course I freaked out most of the time, but now I can finally like Captain Hook again, which is awesome. Season Three looks like it's going to be spectacular.

I just wanted to say again, thank you to everyone who helped make Saturday so amazing and came out Saturday night! I'm really blessed to have so many amazing friends! 

Hugs,

Christina

What a Great Morning

I had such a great morning I thought I'd write a blog post about it. Church was absolutely amazing. I love going to church and coming back and just thinking, "wow, that was a great way to spend my Sunday morning." That's basically every Sunday for me, but even more so when I actually drag myself out of bed to go to the high school service. I should do that more often. I never regret it. Anyway, another reason why I had such a great morning was because I heard some things I needed to hear.

It's been tough ever since January blew in on a harsh gust of a winter wind. It wasn't a "happy New Year." But you know what? It's okay. There are times when, hands down, it is NOT okay, and especially over the past two weeks, and if you saw yesterday's blog post, there's that too. But it's okay. I may have my things to deal with right now, but God is here for me, and He's always there when I need someone to go. This is His plan for my life and He is in control, and that's pretty amazing. 

I may not get it right now, but someday I will, but that doesn't matter. Out of these things I'm going through, I've realized that there's more to life than just winging it. I'm not going to get anywhere without God's help. There's a great deal of comfort that comes from just letting go of all of my worries and stepping back and saying, "God, you can deal with this. I don't know what the right decision is." 

Matthew 6:34 says "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it's own." 

Another thing is that I worry. I worry a lot. About everything. Especially the future. That's really unnecessary.  I don't need to worry about anything. If I just leave all of my worries for God, He takes care of them for me. Sometimes I forget this, but other times I remember just letting Him deal with the things I would otherwise be worried about. God does take care of these things, and I even stop worrying about them and thinking about them and then afterward look back and realize that they were taken care of for me, and then I have the ability to thank God for doing that for me.

I think it's a beautiful thing to look back and thank God for all He's done for me.

On Loneliness

During the week, I'm home alone while my dad and brother are at work. I do school, I write, I procrastinate writing on Facebook and Pinterest, I look forward to when they come home so I have someone to talk to. And I never enjoyed busy days when I wasn't at home and couldn't even think about writing, but I started enjoying Thursdays, even though it involved being out of the house from 9 to 6 for homeschool classes at church. Of course, I'm also looking forward to the last day so I can get a break from these busy days, but a tiny part of me enjoys them because I'm around people all day instead of being home alone. 

I look forward to Saturdays now. They used to be just another day, but now it's a day when my dad and my brother are home and I have people to talk to. Of course, when they're busy on Saturdays doing whatever they need to do, it gets a little disappointing. But, I think, out of this loneliness came two new characters for my new book that I just started writing. Their names are Cas Marinus and Rosemary Neaveh (ni-VAY-a). They're both orphans and they're both lonely. Neither of them have any good friends (luckily I'm not like them and I have some really awesome friends.) Cas has a few friends but no one that's available to talk to when he needs it. Rosemary has her adopted family, and she loves them, but she's looking for something more.

It's kind of funny, though. I started writing this book, Archi Pelago, last Sunday, and now whenever I open up the document and work on it, I don't feel lonely anymore. It's therapy, I suppose. The thing is, these characters both believe in God. They're both born again Christians. They can't get it in their stupid heads that they're never truly alone. I have the same problem. I always have someone to talk to: God. So I guess I really shouldn't feel lonely.

Oh, and I think I just called myself a stupid head. Oh well.