QUESTION:

Why is it that Edward Cullen's face is pale white, but his ears and neck are flesh colored?

Cause I'm picking up a message Lord

And I'm closer than I've been before.

So the past few weeks have just stunk. Reasons 1 - 5 are below.

1. My core group of girlfriends are in a funk and to explain it simply:

A is mad at B, C, D.
B, C are irritated with A.
E is mad at B.
D got in a fight with E.
E in the midst of this all has found a new group of friends that does not include A, B, C, or D.

2. My brother and I got in a huge fight which ended up in a family meeting where more tears were shed and I realized a lot about myself.
A. I crave attention because growing up, I did not receive it. At least not in a postive way.
B. When it comes to my family, I am not an effective communicator.
C. I still need to learn how to hold my tongue and watch the things that I say.
D. There is more, but I am currently processing it and I don't feel like I am at a place where it can be shared.

3. School has still been in session. 'Nuff said.

4. I am been so caught up in worldly things that I have forgotten (or just simply not cared enough) to read my Bible.
A. Seriously, the last time I wrote in my Jesus Journal was 10 days ago.

5. Since I've been so overwhelmed by life, I haven't cleaned my room and I am currently out of clean clothes. Which may not be a big deal to some, but I used to work retail and I have enough clothes to last me through the Apocalypse. Not anymore....

But last night, in between sweeping all of the water out of my garage (it flooded. long story.) and having a conversation with a man who is much wiser than me, I realized that through all of this junk God is talking to me. And all I need to do is listen.


I'm listening.

Blythe!

Get a BLOG! For realsies!

So I'm sitting here avoiding the hair dryer since it is pouring rain outside. Only in Vancouver could we have a beautiful sunny day and then in a instant it turns to mush.

Yesterday, Derek and Lindsey sent out a mass text to all our mutual friends inviting them over to my house for a party since my parents and sibling (and fam) are out of town. So having an impromptu party is not my forte, just FYI. I need to have a plan, food, and a clean house. Since none of those things were happening yesterday it was kind of weird at first. Then Lindsey got there and she's crazy as we all know, and it really livened things up! We ended up talking for a long time, then the boys started playing video games. When Aynsley left, we put on Fired Up, which I have seen, oh, I don't know, 123460837 times this week. It really is hilarious, and Blythe, if you haven't seen it, go buy it right now! Anyways, people didn't leave until 2am and then I had to wake up at 8am to take Suzanne home so I basically feel like death right now. Just so you know.

I'm off to my cousin's 16th birthday, then Jacque's grad party, Christine's 21st, and then to top it off, Tal is having a party that I need to make an appearance at.

Blythe, I would totally trade you lives for tonight... I'd rather be laying on the couch all chocked full of pregnancy hormones than fighting this insane ark-like weather in my tiny little vehicle and driving all over town. Wish me luck.

I am a twat swatter

Yes, I did just reference Dane Cook. Surprised? I think not. Friday night my good friend Lindsey graduated from high school and for her party, she decided she wanted to go out to dinner and then go clubbin'. So a big group of us went to Red Robin (her fave restaurant) and then we went to FX. It's like 11:30pm when we get there and we walk in and NO ONE, I repeat NO ONE is there yet. Of course there are the creeper guys standing on the elevated wall, but other than that no one was dancing and the first 20 minutes were so awkward. Once Lindsey, Jackie, Amanda, Seth and I started dancing in our little circle though, things got better.... at least until some guy started dancing with Jackie. Now we were all pretty relaxed about it because it's just dancing- not a big deal right? Wrong. It made two of our friends really mad and they left and went to the car for 2 hours while we continued to have a good time. While Lindsey, Anna, and I were talking we saw this tall boy with a honking schnoz come on the dance floor and it ended up being a guy from our church! So if you haven't said AWKWARD yet, now is the time to do it. Since he was there I think it made a us a little more self conscious because we don't really know him all that well and I was worried he had other friends from church with him. Thankfully, that was not the case. However him and Anna danced for a while... very weird, by the way. Lindsey ended up spotting a guy she wanted to dance with and I was hanging out on the wall for a little while. I'm not really a good dancer but if I'm with my girlfriends it's fine... since I wasn't though I got to be the awkward wall flower. Once Jackie and Lindsey had their fill of boys we all went back out on the floor and started dancing in a circle again and that was a lot of fun until some guys started getting up on the two of them. Now I didn't want to be by myself in the middle of all of these people grinding so I just held Jackie and Lindsey's hand and wouldn't let them go. So by definition, I am a twat swatter.

A lot of drama ensued after that night. Well, to be honest, a lot happened before it too, but it's not really worth discussing... I've already made a color coded chart tracking all of it just so I can keep it straight. On Sunday, Pastor Paul gave a sermon about friendship and I am pretty sure he was speaking right to us. I tried getting all five of us together but Jackie had to work so I cancelled. I think a discussion about friendship will only be productive if we are all present. So that is kind of where we are at right now...

Jack Bauer = Greatest Man Alive

Friday night my friend Amanda / Goose had a 24 party out at her house in the bookdocks. Just to preface this story, I had never seen an episode of this TV show in my whole entire life and for those of you that follow 24, you know there is a heck of a lot of backstory. Also, we did not start season 6 at episode one. We started on episode 3, so in addition to the past 6 years of Jack Bauer's life, I also missed the first three hours of his day. Pretty intense to say the least. The first episode I was completely lost on, other than the fact that I did not like Janice- she's a beezy, and that Sean guy from the office- the one that was having an affair with the blonde chick, was acting rather douchetastic. Since Goose had also not seen the episodes, I had to call on a friend to fill me in on all of the 24 details that I was obviously missing. Thankfully, he's a semi-nice guy and responded to all of my text messages for the next 18 hours. Not only did I completely fall in love with the show, I learned some very valuable things about myself.
1. I do not like suspense. Honestly, most of the questions I had were answered in the next episode but I don't like to wait so I made my friend tell me all of the details before they were revealed.
2. I don't have any patience and people are insane. I don't know how the viewers could wait every week to find out what Captain Juma was blowing up or if Chloe O'Brian would get out of jail. Well, not really jail, she was just detained. Honestly, I could barely wait until the end of the episode and if we didn't find out then, I'd just text Eric and ask him because I couldn't stand the tension!
3. Jack always saves the world! He's the star! And I should not stress out about him dying or anything of that nature because he is and always will be JACK BAUER!