Whirlwind

It certainly has seemed like a whirlwind this past week- hence my not posting which I apologize about. Must get better about that. Sorry. Anyway, there have been three big things happening this week.

The first is, of course, marching band. Naturally, I'm totally loving every second of it....well...not the seconds when my water bottle exploded but pretty much every other second. We have worked hard for several hours every day this past Monday-Friday usually around 4 to 9 in the evening. It's been a lot of fun to get back with the family (and oh what a crazy family we are) doing slides and flip-flops and jazz runs in advanced technique block, frantically memorizing music, marking and re-marking sets with chalk and soap, marching and playing and getting yelled at and singing and marching and getting yelled at again. It's been good. Really really good.

The second thing has been nowhere near as much fun. Summer homework. I've been working like crazy reading biographies, textbook chapters, articles, and novels, answering questions, doing reading logs and taking an AP practice exam. Thankfully, I am nearly done and should finish tomorrow or Monday. I have made great progress the past couple of days, for example I just sat down today and wrote a two and a half page essay on why John Brown was an influential person in American history.

Not cool.

Very very boring.

And finally, the hurricane. In a few hours Irene will strike my area, and who knows what's gonna happen then. As one of my friends posted on facebook today, 'I live in Maine! I should be worrying about moose attacks and blizzards, not hurricanes!'. Hurricanes are kind of odd for us out here, I mean we were supposed to be hit by Earl and Kyle last year but they both went out to sea, but Irene isn't going to do that. She's going to be tearing into here tonight, so tomorrow and Monday should be interesting. For those of you also on the East Coast where the hurricane has already hit or will hit, good luck and my prayers are with you! I will try and give you an update of how I am doing through the storm tomorrow, but if the power is out I'll have to wait on that :)

Praying For A Friend

Olive Tree told me about her soon-to-be grandfather a couple weeks ago, right around the time he proposed to her grandmother.

I hadn't heard anything else, so I thought things might be OK for now.

Yesterday, I was at church from 6-9 in the evening for choir and handbells. 

I wasn't there to get her call when she rang my house.

But I got her message, and that's when I knew something was wrong.

Anyone who is friends in real life with her knows this:

She's not one for leaving messages like this: 

"Hey Cornet Crazie! If you can just give me a call back, that would be great. Bye!"

No, Olive Tree is one who forgets that it's a message and not a phone call.

Her messages are usually really long and rambling. And it wasn't like that.

And so when I found out what was wrong it was like a punch in the stomach.

I had never met Dodge, but I know what it's like to lose someone you love to cancer.

Hey. It's only been May since I went through this.

Pray for Olive. Pray for her grandmother. Pray for Dodge. Pray for their family.

a taste of summer

I. Hate. Global. Warming. Just saying. It's global warming that brought us an early spring (which I don't mind) and also the uncomfortable weather today. I didn't even know what it was supposed to be like today, but lets just say that I'm glad I wore shorts instead of jeans and put my hair up! I walked outside at 7:20 this morning to leave for school and the humidity hit me. I didn't check the thermometer in the kitchen when I left, but even so early in the morning it was over 70º!!! And it went worse from there. The heat in school was awful, but not as bad as it was outside, and we couldn't open windows because it only made it hotter. Breathing became difficult because of the humidity; it was like up were choking on air, and the air itself felt solid. The auditorium was the best place because it is so big and open, but marching practice was torture. Breathing was bad within itself, but playing an instrument???? I never thought I'd say it but.....I wish we hadn't had band today, just because of the weather. Plus I was having extra problems because of my asthma. :P So I'm waiting for the giant storm that with break this spell, but I don't think it's going to happen for a few days. Yay....

Also I have a prayer request: My grandfather has been battling cancer since last summer and he's not doing particularly well right now, if you could please keep him in your thoughts.

Submit A Prayer Request

Is there someone or something that you would like to have prayed for? I'm not talking praying for a present or for that cute guy in room 229 to go out with you, but if your cat went missing, or a family member is sick or something like that. If you would like your prayer to go on the sidebar, comment here at any time and I will put it up there. You can also tell me whenever I should take it down.