He has been mindful.

Merry Christmas, friends!
Just a reminder to look on at the new blog: http://lubisongirl.blogspot.com/
It's been interesting writing a new blog in my new adventure.

Psalm 139: 1-14

Hey friends! I posted about camp and it's theme and the ongoings of life on my new blog.

If you haven't done so already...direct your fine selves that way.

lubisongirl.blogspot.com

Thank you. Come again.

New Beginnings!

Fiona, Jocelyn, Lydia, Alayna, Lizzy, and Maggie

Sister photo!

Lydia the intern with the Sisters!

Lizzy looking pretty in the
freezing cold water!

Fiona and Alayna looking stunning as always!

Three of my favorite people!

I seriously have the loveliest friends!

My adorable friend Maggie Sue!

You can't tell, but it's like 500 degrees outside!

We have the most amazing place to take photos.

Lydia took this. The water was super cold.
But, I welcomed it. . .because it got triple digits that day.

The Lipscomb four: Lydia, Rebecca, Me and Lindsay!

Jocelyn took these. Too funny.

Well, we had the girls photoshoot again this year! I had just as much fun taking these photos as I did last year! 

I also must tell you that I started a brand new blog. . .it was time. So, if you could direct yourselves that way I would much appreciate it! It is under the url of lubisongirl.blogspot.com! (I know lubisongirl. . .you are probably dry heaving about the fact that I chose that. . .corny and quite predictable, but give me a break. I wasn't feeling very creative.)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos and the new blog. I'm not quite done with this one yet.

I need some sort of awesome sign-off. A lot has happened and a lot has been documented in this blog.

I'm just not ready to say good-bye yet.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Evie, Me, and Rebecca with the ever amazing
Mr. Kearns who we had for Calculus!

Me and Lizzy after the Graduation Party!

Well, I've been up to about nothing this week.

Mainly D. I. Y. stuff...I think that I have already mentioned? Maybe? I could go back and look but that would be a lot effort.

I'm thinking about starting a new, fresh blog because I'm starting a whole new chapter in my life. What do you think? I think it would be a good change. I'm afraid I'm becoming monotonous. And...honestly I feel like a little narcissistic writing about myself all the time. I'm SOMETHING to write about...not the  SOMEONE (me) who I write about constantly.

I would love to start a D.I.Y. blog. Of course, I would still update on my life.

Who knows. I will start this new collegiate blog and see where it leads me!

Maybe I won't even have time for one.

I hear the whole "college" thing is pretty time consuming!

All this Buffy watching really makes me want to kick some vampire butt.

A little behind...

I just got a mac for graduation! Therefore, I do not have

any of my own photos yet. I think that HP pt. 7 is a good enough substitute, yeah?

Welp, I'm super duper behind in writing.

Like a month behind.

What to update you on. . .hmmm. . . well I'm graduated! That's exciting. I got a mac for graduation from my father. Which is partly why I haven't been writing! I love this thing, but I have zero idea how to use it. But, I'm figuring more and more out everyday. I spent eleven days in Nashville. It was a good test drive for the real thing that is coming up in a month and a half.

My lovely roommate Taylor and I have almost everything we need for our dorm room and so I'm doing some little DIY stuff to make it homey. I'm making floral "lanterns" to hang from the ceiling, throw pillows, fabric boxes to organize things in (namely my underwear and socks because we don't have dressers!), I'm decoupaging two canvases with birds, and making a platform 9 & 3/4 sign for above our door. I will have to post some photos of this stuff. I'm having way too much fun.

I've been to college week, orientation, and IMPACT thus far this summer. Exciting stuff.

Got my schedule for next year! It includes:

-Foundations of Studio (art class yeah!)

-Intro to Communication

-Intro to Psychology

-Story of Jesus (supposedly I have an amazing professor for this!)

-Seminar (This is like a comp course. Each Seminar professor chooses a topic. Mine is with Goode and it's about forgiveness in society and through the bible. I guess we get to talk about the Holocaust and the South African Apartheid. I'm extremely excited.)

-Surface Design (another art class, HOLLA!)

Well, my family is coming up from Ohio and Huron. I'm a wreck. My room's a wreck. And I still have to make red, white, and blue cupcakes! So, I'm getting off here.

Oh and side note. If you are ready this then I'm begging you to pray for my little friend Libbie. She is in Junior High and she had surgery on Monday. I haven't heard anything yet...which makes me a little nervous. She's had so many surgeries and I just wish the world for her. She has the sweetest heart and she smiles like everyday is a gift. I could learn a thing from her. So, please pray for her and her family. 

And I'm peacing out. 

Boysmell and Girlsmell.

Most of the Senior group at church who got honored!

 We are missing Sebastian and Ryan who couldn't make it due to legitimate reasons!

We are in the final homestretch, dear readers.

I can count the days of school on one hand.

Ridiculous.

My graduation is June 3rd. You should probably come if I haven't invited you all already. Rebecca and I are having an open house at the church right after graduation. There will be tons of food, photos, and music! It can't not be a good time. That double negative was very much needed.

It will be very muchly awesome and radical. You need to come.

Right, so I'm done with high school in five days. I'm not feeling sentimental right now. I will miss a lot of people. I have a lot of great friends here and a church family that I'm going to have an extremely hard time leaving. We will see how calm I'm feeling the day of graduation. There will probably be lots of crying.

That's usually how starting new chapters in your life goes.

My brother got a g6 and it's pretty legit. If you see him you should rap the song to him. I'm sure it's already pretty annoying. And p.s. I'm talking about the car not the airplane...although I'm sure you knew that.

I went to Nashville this weekend with Beth Parsley to visit Ashley Samuel. It was so great to see her and to spend time with Beth and to spend time in the city I'm going to live in in three months. Beth and Ashley are two astounding women of God. They are such honest and loving women and if you don't know them then I feel sorry for you. And they are stinking hilarious. Just saying.

Okay, I'm about to fall asleep on the keyboard....

Are you mocking me?

No photo today, I'm afraid.
I'm on my brother's laptop! My laptop decided to completely die, so I gave it to Todd Thomas and he's going to have to completely wipe the whole thing and start over. He's a miracle worker and saved all my photos though. I've had the laptop for just a year and a couple weeks, this is uncalled for. Stupid PC, I'm going Mac.

This past week was verrryyy busy for me, I was hardly home.

I have a funny story to tell you about last Saturday: Vicky was over and she brought her friend's daughter, Gabby. Gabby is hilarious. Completely hilarious. She had Emily follow up into my bedroom and film her on her iPhone. What did she do? MTV Cribs. She said, "Welcome to my house!" (With her hand on her hip). Did I mention this girl is seven years old? Too funny! My favorite thing she said though was when Katie Thomas came over. Gabby looks at Katie and says, "How old are you? You look like a wooommaannn. Do you have a car? Can you drive? Do you have a job?"

She then walked around with Katie's Wal-Mart nametag saying, "I'm Katie!" This girl cracked me up.

I'm going sit on a swing in the backyard and read now...Senior Banquet later tonight!

*K1, p1: rep from * to end.

She loves me.

Happy Saturday Morning!

I'm sitting on my couch watching the coverage of the Indy 500 Mini-Marathon to see if I can spot anyone I know. I saw The Heatherly dad. I'm hoping to see one of the Burris clan. It makes me feel really lazy to watch a Mini-Marathon from my couch...but I'm just not a runner. I have zero-coordination...

Speaking of running: I went to the Mitchell vs. BNL track meet to see my friends Peyton, Jocelyn, Kevin, Alli, and Jill. They did so good! We have some really talented girls and boys on the track team. I was super impressed with Peyton. If' you've never seen this kid run then you are missing out. I was talking with Brett at the track meet last night and he said, "If there was a running machine, it would look like Peyton." I thought that was funny.

I have a roomate for college now! Totally for sure. It's such a relief. Her name is Taylor and she goes to camp in the summers with me. That's one less college stress to check off my list before I head to Nashville.

I picked up knitting again for the first time in a very long time. I can't put it down now. I'm knitting a really thick and really long navy blue basketweave scarf. It might be one of my favorite things I've ever made, and it's so easy! I love the basketweave stitch (or pattern...I suppose it could be considered either/or/and).

Well, I got Paris When It Sizzles for 5 dollars last night at Wal-Mart. I think I'm going to make oatmeal, pull out my knitting, and watch the ever amazing Audrey Hepburn.

You can dance if you want to.

The prom group: Jessi, Rebecca, Lily, Me, Lizzy, and Maggie!

Gun photos, Lizzy and Maggie didn't really get the memo.
Although they are doing the killshot...kinda.

We all had some pretty kickin shoes. And...don't our dresses
look really great together? So many colors!

Last night was prom! I had a really great time with the girls. As much fun as I had with a date last year, going with the girls this year was definitely the way to go. I didn't have to entertain anyone besides myself. I could dance with anyone I wanted to! (Which ended up mainly being Lizzy and Jocelyn and then Ryan S. and Ryan B. a tiny bit.)

You know what I noticed? High School kids do not like line dances. Stupid. The Electric Slide came on and it was me, Jocelyn, like ten of the dance team members, and Senora Allen dancing. The entire floor cleared out. It was silly. It started being awkward, so Jocelyn and I slipped out about the middle of the dance... Do high school kids not realize how amazing line dances are? The only pressure is learning the steps and then you are good to go after that.

This was a really good, but sleep deprived week. I slept from 1 to 6:30 today and I could still fall asleep right now. Ridiculous. Wednesday I went with Jake to see Monty Python's Spam-A-Lot at the IU Auditorium. (If I already wrote about this, skip this paragraph...). It was sooo funny. They had a song about how they couldn't put on a Broadway show because they didn't have any Jewish people. My favorite part of the song was when the main dude yelled, "Papa can you hear me?!?" Ahhh...so terrible...but so funny. They did a song about the Lady of the Lake and the Laker Girls. Funny stuff. The musical was mainly The Holy Grail, but in musical form. They added a lot of songs too (well duh.). The Camelot song was really funny too.

Lizzy and I have all the lyrics to Busta Move memorized.

Yeah, we are so cool.

I really need to shower and think about sleeping again...Bye!

Moon river, wider than a mile.

Senior Academic Banquet! This photo makes me laugh.
It's impossible to get us to all look at the camera and smile.

The friends that torture each other, stay together.
That's not a real saying.

Happy Easter! How did you celebrate the Resurrection today? My alarm clock didn't go off so I missed bible class, was ten minutes late to church, then went to my Aunts for lunch.

I've got a lot of thoughts in my head about the Resurrection. Mostly questions:
Who would I be without it?
Where would I be without it?
How would I live my life differently?
Where would I go?
Would I be scared?

My entire life is defined by the fact that Jesus did and rose again. He showed that there is life after death if we believe in him. What if there wasn't? Would there be a point at all? If there was no life after death then I wouldn't find a need to follow any morals, love anyone, or care about anything bigger than myself. It's crazy how one thing sets a whole world in a different motion.

One re-life defined millions for the rest of the living world.

It's so hard to wrap my mind around this love. This craziness. The wonderful, supernatural occurrence who defines my heart and my actions and my being. I suppose the question should not be W.W.J.D. but What Would I Be Without the Resurrection of my Christ? Too long to put on a bracelet I know.

No one is going to go out and buy those rainbow bracelets.

On a different note- I've been in an extremely crafty mood lately. Yesterday I bought three plain chipboard letters (my initials) and decopauged them to match my dorm room. Today I'm doing the same to a bedside table I bought for 5 bucks. I painted it antique white, distressed it, and now I'm working on decorating it.

Before.

After! I used scrapbooking paper, mod podge, and sparkles.
The W is my favorite, the paper has little birds all over it.
The first one is pretty cute too, it's all vintagey.
The J mehh...it's okay.



Silly sociopaths, tricks are for kids.

I wish I had more time to spend on this blog, but I just don't lately! Terribly sorry.

This past week has been a little insane! I'm in search of a new roomate now! My roomate isn't going to Lipscomb anymore, and I'm feeling a little frantic trying to find someone new. I'm sure everything will work out, but I'm still feeling a bit stressed out.

On top of that I'm working on the most ridiculous paper for ACP class ever.

It's not that it's super hard.
Or super long.
It's just super stupid.
And I have super senioritis!

I got some heels for prom and earring so big they touch my shoulders.

They heels are like a grey/silverish and peep toe with ruffles. Mmmm . . . so good.
If I started wearing things like that everyday would you still talk to me?

I got my bedspread in for college! It's great! It's from Urban Outfitters, and it's light yellow and the entire thing is ruffles. Ruffles, ruffles, ruffles. I'm such a girl. I can't stop myself.

I don't have anything particulary deep or thoughtful to write about right now.
Thinking.
Thinking.
Thinking.
Nope, nuffin.

You know how on Baby Momma in the beginning of the movie when the main character (whose name is escaping me right now. . .) has baby fever and she just sees babies everywhere? Yeah, I have doggie fever. I've been seeing dogs everywhere. Googling pugs. Awwing over English Bulldogs. Ohhhing over Labs. I'm going crazy. I know how Beiber fever girls feel now. Poor little pre-teens.



Soapstone and Acrylics

I feel like putting down under jokes, but I
can't really think of any good ones. Or any at all really. . .

Sorry, I've been very neglectful of this blog! This past Thursday Rebecca and I loaded up the little Focus and headed to Nashville for the weekend. We got home Sunday late afternoon.
Okay get this, we ate at:
- Arnolds
- Loveless
- Carrabas
- Sweet Cece's
- Genghis
annddd McDonalds

So. Much. Food. Blahhh. . . I mean, but whatever. It was all good!
We visited Ethos church with Luke, Caroline, and Callie-ann on Sunday. The preacher's name is Dave Clayton. He's a young guy with a big vision! I was blown away. I've been listening to his sermons on podcasts and I cannot stop dwelling on them. It's sucked up my blog time, sorry!

Okay funny story: Rebecca and I were talking today after we told out friend Tanner Happy Birthday and she said, "I'm craving jell-o." She told me she thought it was because in elementary school Tanner's mom would bring in jell-o eggs for his birthday. I thought it was really funny, but she didn't find much humor in it. I mean, Tanner's mom conditioned the kids in Tanner's classes to crave jell-o on his birthday! It's like Pavlov's dogs but more fun!

Ah, I thought it was funny at least.

You are so dumb, for real! Chicago!

Entering Chicago for our fun-filled trip!

Hey hey girl! Who is that in the mirror?

The whole group at the big mirrored bean in The Park!
This multi-million dollar bean provided a lot of amusement.

Heading back to the church van after traipsing around trying to
find a Starbucks.

My very favorite animal in the zoo! Isn't she beautiful?
If I wasn't so into art I might consider working with animals like this!

Got back from Chicago last night! It was such a great trip!

Other than the people, my favorite part of the trip was the zoo. We looked at every single animal there and then went over to the conservatory that had a whole room dedicated to orchids. My favorite were the seals (above) and there was a huge polar bear that was so great. Also, the giraffes. I forget how amazing giraffes are!

The planetarium was super great also! Well, except for the 3-D movie about The Great Observatories of theWorld or something like that. . .I wouldn't have minded it if it was an exhibit or something . . . but why waste the 3-D technology on observatories when there is space? Anyway, the Imax movie we watched was good. It was narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and there was a bit about the Big Bang (which didn't impress me) but the images of the stars and space were so stunning.

Dad said we can get a dog. Finally. I'm so ready.

Okay, I'm going to go outside because it's soooo beautiful!

Family Feud.

The first crayon drawing I did back in September or October.

First off, on my way home a boy on a scooter was behind me. I turned left onto my road and his scooter was backfiring so much I thought it was going to blow up, so I looked at him. He gave me the eye contact and slow nod. . .like the "I know you're checkin me out" look. Fail. No larger boy with your hat backwards riding down the road on a backfiring scooter, I do not think you are the least bit attractive.



I have had an insane week. My art portfolio needed to be sent out last night, so I had been working my butt off trying to get it to look nice and sent in. It had to be in silde format, so I assumed Powerpoint. It also had to be in pdf, but I didn't know what that meant. So, I just went ahead and did it in Powerpoint. Thank you Jesus for Ethan Helfrich! He sent me a converter so I could get the Powerpoint into Adobe. . .whew. I started freaking out a little Tuesday night.

Anyway, add that to some homework, just chore stuff, and trying to keep friends happy by doing stuff I've been a wreck. Last night I had some time to myself, but it was quickly eaten up by the prom dress search. I paid for a dress online only to get an email saying it wasn't available. What a mess.

So, tonight I have some time to myself and I just want it that way. I'm cleaning my room, reading a story my friend (who started a blogspot- General Life Americana) wrote, and then I'm going to the dance team's pep session!  And, I am most definatly going to enjoy this amazing weather.

I'm really ready for Spring Flipping Break. I'm going to State to see Lizzy, Jordyn, and Kaitlyn dance and I'm going to Chicago with some people of the youth group. We are working at a soup kitchen, going to a zoo, conservatory, and a planetarium. We are also going to Ed Debevic's, a restaraunt who has the waiters be rude to you. I'm pumped.

Okay, this has been a long post about nothing really worth writing a long post about. . . there you go.

Yeah.

Me, Rebecca, and Lizzy at the boy's Sectional game!

I haven't written in a while, my internet was being silly for a bit. I will upload the other part of the video soonly. It wasn't working right. . .

Good news- Yesterday I went to Crawford with the Academic Team to participate in the Fine Arts category. It was all based around Latin America. We got fourth, the Math group got first, and the Science group got third! So, way to go Mitchell! (I don't really think that any of the categories besides Math test intellegence, but memorization skills. Oh well.)

Bad News- Images of the tsunami and earthquake in Japan are all over the news, so I'm sure you've heard. It's hard to watch. I feel helpless, besides prayer. We watched a newsfeed in my Psychology class and I cried and cried. My friend Kayle told me we could turn it off, but I told her it was okay. You just can't live your whole life ignoring sad and hard things. This seriously breaks my heart. I know that things like this have happened in Haiti, Chile, and other places as of recently.

There was this shot of the wave carrying mud, houses, cars, boats, and fire rushing toward this above ground highway with cars speeding past. It didn't show the wave meet the highway, but there is no way that some of the cars avoided the vicious wave. Those are families, wives, husbands, mothers, sons, daughters, grandparents, and friends. I see the Burrises in one car and the Parsleys in another. I see my aunts and their families speeding past this wave. I can't even imagine what the people in Japan are feeling right now.

Well, yeah. Rebecca, Lizzy, and Lindsay are coming over any time. Gonna watch Thr3e.