Peter Pan

Oooh my gosh it was amazing. I had SUCH a good time. The sets were beautiful, the choreography was awesome, the acting was MORE then fabulous. I was really impressed with the girl who played Peter Pan. I've seen her in other plays and I haven't been so impressed, but she was just AMAZING! she was PERFECT. The flying was fabulous. I didn't see the cords till the second time I saw the show. ( I got to go twice. Hehehehe...) Captain hook was just brilliant. the whole casting was perfect. I was really really impressed. It was just a beautifully put together show. Everything was perfect. I couldn't stop grinning at the "do you believe in fairies?" scene. It almost made me cry. well, kind of. It was just so cool. I really wish I could have been apart of it. even if I was just on crew. *sigh* I got to see most of my friends so that was awesome. I miss everyone so much. I really want to do Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. They are doing that one in the spring and a TON of people are doing it. Hopefully I'll be able to do it. ugh. I miss theater so much. :P
Alright! What to talk about next.... hmm.. Well, life has been pretty crazy. I've been really quiet lately. I'm not really sure why. I've just been very deep in thought. I'm not really all there at times. I don't know whats going on. I just hope it ends soon. I don't feel depressed or anything. It's just weird. I've been spending a lot of time in my room just thinking. or reading. :) but yeah. blaaah. I'm really tired. I've been sooooo tired lately it's soo weird! Maybe I'm growing.. something like that. ha.

Fuuun stuff.

Let's see... I discovered something this week. I'm really interested in photography. I love going around and taking pictures of random things. I've always thought it was a really neat hobby to have. so every few days I will walk around the house or the yard taking pictures of things that I think are beautiful. And I'm haveing a really good time! I've been experimenting with the different settings on our camera and trying to fix things on Iphoto. I really enjoy it a lot! Maybe thats something I will get in to when I'm older. I just think it's cool. so here are a few of the pictures I took yesterday. It was terribly rainy out, but I actually thought it looked pretty neat. :)













:D Yup. I'm having fun.
I GET TO SEE PETER PAN ON FRIDAY!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAY!!!! I am SOOO so so so so excited. they opened last week on friday and since then I've heard nothing but awesome things about it. I've seen a lot of pictures from it too. I found this picture on this blog.

:D EEEEE!!! I can't wait.

Woah.

So I was looking up some songs by one of my favorite artists Bebo Norman and I found a song that I didn't recognize called Brittany. ( it's the song your listening to right now if you have your sound turned up. :P ) so I did some research on it and I found this article. I think it's pretty much amazing:


“Britney” is a song about what our culture says and does to young women these days. It’s a collective apology for the struggle girls face growing up too fast in today’s overly adult-oriented world. The song confesses, “I’m sorry for the lies we told… We took you into our arms then left you cold/I’m sorry for this cruel, cruel world… /We sell the beauty but destroy the girl.” It’s about the lies we tell them about fame and money and what’s beautiful and what will give them life. It’s an apology for those lies. But more than that, it’s an invitation to the truth about a God who is bigger than the pain this world so often leaves them in.

I was up late, couldn’t sleep, watching some news channel, when yet another story about Britney Spears came on. My first instinct was to scoff and write it off, but then there was this freeze-frame shot of a look on her face of utter and absolute despair and confusion and brokenness—a look that I recognized. And I remember thinking “This girl is a child of God.” Suddenly, I saw her story not as something to mock, but as a real-life tragedy that is desperate for redemption and hope—a story not so different from any of our stories. Take away all the lights and cameras, and it’s really just a narrative of a girl so clearly in need of love, so clearly in need of the redeeming love of our God. And suddenly, all I wanted to do was just apologize, over and over. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry...on behalf of this fallen world, on behalf of our consumerism that so consistently devours what it wants and leaves the remnants in the wake of the search for the next fix, on behalf of believers, like myself, who mock and hurl stones rather than scribbling a message in the sand. I think that night I saw her through the eyes of Jesus for the first time. I imagined what Jesus would say to me in my darkest hour and realized that those are the words we should speak to this world, to this culture, and even to Britney Spears in their darkest hour. “I’m sorry. Hope is here.” –Bebo Norman


Isn't that cool?! I love Bebo. He's awesome. :) here's the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Q_wVfGAfA
Enjoy!

oooh so tired.

It's been such a long day. I had a piano lesson. It wasn't bad. it was just really really long. My hands were really cold so it a was pretty hard to play. but I got through it. I'm glad I have a new week to start fresh. *sigh* I'm getting along a little better with my teacher now. I don't dread lessons like I did a week ago... lol funny how fast things happen huh? :)
Anyway. It was Dana's birthday yesterday. It was a very fun day. I cleaned for most of it, but it was still a lot of fun. in the afternoon my cousins and aunts and uncles came over. And guess what we did? we played Improv games!! It was soo fun. We've never done that with the family before, so it was really cool. I love improv. it's just so fun. :) so yeah. that was awesome.
uuuuuugh so much is going on. inside and outside me. I would like it all to calm down for a bit. *SIGH* it was a very good day today. I did a lot of school which always makes me very happy. It's really cold outside, but I kind of like it like that. I think I prefer cold to hot. hehehe..
I guess I need to go to bed. I need to journal a bit. as I said, a lot is going on inside me. I love journaling. It's good for that kind of stuff. : ) I just dread the day when someone actually reads them other then me.... lol

Note to Kathryn: Sorry I haven't commented back! My computer is acting up and it wont let me comment. I hope it comes back soon. I'll comment as soon as it will let me! Sorry about that!

Aarrrrg

(this was written last week. I just forgot to post it until today. :D )

I am soo frustrated right now. I'm really not feeling good. I really want to be standing up and moving, but when I do I just feel worse. I am so silly. I can't stand sitting down for more then 15 minutes. so it's a real problem when I'm sick. Mom keeps telling me that I should do my math, But my brain just doesn't want to work today. I don't know what to do. I've pretty much been in my room all day reading. It's driving my mom nuts cuz she really wants me to be doing something worth while, like school. But I just can't do that today! I'm also really upset because I have a piano lesson tomorrow afternoon and I am sooo not ready. I didn't practice yesterday because it was just so beautiful out side, I didn't want to be doing anything inside. So now I'm in trouble. It's just crazy. I'm pretty frustrated with life right now. I don't know what to do.
One of the reasons I'm upset because I really don't like my new piano teacher. She's not a bad person. she's nice.. I think I don't like it because we're not friends or kindred spirits or anything. The last two teachers I've had were people I really loved and could be around for a whole hour. I would feel comfortable talking to them about my day and what is going on with my family. When I talk to Chelle about my family I get kind of nervous because I get the impression that she doesn't like kids very much. one time I came in to my lesson and one of my pieces had been drawn on with a pen by my little brother. she looked at it and made some remark about how destructive little kids are. It made me kind of mad because I really love my siblings and I didn't care if they wrote on my music. And dude, I could still read the music, so why does it matter. But in any case, maybe that's not it. Maybe I don't like her because I don't WANT to like her. See, we know someone else there who also teaches piano. And when we first signed up we asked to have her teach me. Latter, the teacher called us and told us that she had too many students and couldn't take me on. So I got pretty upset. But I figured that God had something in mind and maybe the different teacher that I was going to get was even better then our friend. So on my first lesson, I walked in expecting to have a great time and to really get along with her really well, and I walked out feeling really depressed. Nothing had clicked like I thought it would. And ever since then I've been trying to figure out why it didn't. I still believe that God has something wonderful in mind, but I'm kind of getting inpatient.
Another thing is, is that I don't know how much I want to play the piano. I mean, I LOVE playing it, don't get me wrong, I just don't know if I actually want to do it for life. Clara wants to play the flute for life. She wants to become big and famous and make CD's and stuff. I'm not sure if I want to do that. If I wanted to become big and famous, I would much rather be an actress. There is a BIG difference between the joy that I get from being on stage, and the joy I get from playing piano. And I just like acting better. or, I think I do. I don't know. I love them both so much. I just seem to be happier when I'm on stage. Ugh. it's all really confusing. I'm not sure what to think. I probably shouldn't worry about it and just leave it in God's hands. It just doesn't seem right to be spending a tun of money on one thing, when I could be spending it on something that I want to do more and I enjoy more. *sigh*
So yeah. that's my rant for the next few months. it probably doesn't make any sense to anyone but me, but that's ok. :)
I better get going.

~Cecilia

I'm super girl!

Yesterday was a really really really long day. My mom woke me up at 6:00 and asked me if I wanted to go to mass with her at 6:30. My first thought was "uuuugh it's sooo early. my bed is soo worm. there is no way." And then a second latter I was on my feet getting dressed. God pretty much pushed me out of bed.
The mass was beautiful. There were actually a lot of people there which I didn't expect. It was nice just to be at mass with my mom. Even if I did have to get out of my nice worm bed and walk in to freezing cold weather to do it. :) I'm glad I got to do that.
And as it turned out, it would have been a very bad thing if I went to a latter mass. cuz right after we got home and had breakfast, me and my dad drove to the middle of no where and chopped wood. well, he chopped the wood, I staked it all in the car. but it wasn't bad. I actually had fun. it just took FOREVER. we were out for about four hours, but it felt like a whole day. But now we have lot's of wood for the winter. So all is good.
When I got home I hopped in the shower and then pretty much conked out. except I never did get to sleep...
Everybody else hadn't gone to mass yet, so they left me with David and told me to make dinner. the good thing was that they told me what to make and gave me a recipe. I wouldn't have been to happy if they didn't. Not like I was very happy that they had me make dinner in the first place... I was rather annoyed. but it turned out ok. David was awesome. he was being very sweet and played by him self for most of the time they were gone. So that made me VERY happy. I turned on my music and made dinner which didn't turn out too badly. (oh and by the way, my mom left for her uncles funeral, so that's why she wasn't at home with me. )
So yeah. it was just a really long day. Not a bad one, just long.
I'm super girl.

Oh, and one more thing..

I forgot to put this in the last post... :)