New Years

with a new year right around the corner everybody is thinking about what they are going to do this year, whether it be lose those 10 pounds i gained over the holidays or have my devotions every night, that is what is expected of you every year, isn't it? doesn't it seem like every year you say the same things but you never keep them? what is the point of a new years "resolution" if you are not going to keep it. thinking about the coming year is scary yet refreshing. i know that whatever dumb mistakes i made this year i can try not to do next year, but what is the new year all about? i think that what it all boils down to is a consistent walk with Christ. that is the reason you don't keep your resolutions isn't it? well this year whatever "resolution"/decision i make is gonna be real and lasting. i am not going to be one of those fonies who don't really don't know what they are going to make of the coming year. i am going to think of this year as a clean slate to do better with. what about you?

welcome home dad!

my dad just returned tonight from his rendezvous in ireland. he said it was really pretty over there. i wish i could've gone. he is really tired and he looks like he is drunk because of his jet lag. the souvenirs were great. i got a pair of pretty earrings and a t-shirt. i love them both. i just want to put in a random comment but one thing i wouldn't want to do is fly to ireland. i HATE flying. it is fun going up into the air but once you are up there i am really nervous. i get nervous about the turbulence and the shaking. maybe i am stupid. that was just my random comment for the day. the point of this post is to say that i am glad my dad is back.

SHOOL'S OUT!!!

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am soooooo happy that i didn't have to take my last two exams. yeah yeah yeah yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i couldn't have gone to school anyways becuase the driveway to our house is lined by bradford pear trees and three of them fell down and are totally blocking the path. i am soooo happy! merry christmas guys!!!!

Ireland

hello everybody! sorry about the delay of updates on my blog. my computer just randomly crashed and my dad just got it up and working again. technology is a pain sometimes isn't it? i just found out the other day that my dad is going to Ireland. isn't that awesome? well, he isn't too excited about it because he isn't a person who enjoys traveling. me on the other hand, i love traveling. i want to see the world and see all the pretty places. i am kind of excited that he is going because i want to see pictures and hear about what it is like and of course the souvenirs will be nice when he gets back. ttyl. bye everybody. off to the airport we go to bid my dad farewell.

the winter olympics

i am sooooo excited! there are only 68 more days until almost non-stop televising of my favorite sport. the winter olympics are great. i think that they are tons better than the summer olympics. i think that it is more interesting to watch somebody to a 360 of a cliff than watch someone run 26 miles. that is probably just my opinion but i think it definetely is true. i predict the girl figure skaters for the olympics will be kimmy meisner, sasha cohen (definetely), i don't know her first name but she is the sister of the gold medalist sarah hughes, and i can't think of anymore. they hardly ever televise ice skating. that is sad. it is sooooo interesting. well, have you ever wondered how those girls can do some of the things they do. it is amazing! it is hard enough for me to do a little piddly jump and they are pulling triples. it is truly amazing. i want kimmy meisner to win. she is somewhere around my age. i think that would be cool. there is a guy at my rink who's name is alex zahradniceck (i think that is how it is spelled he is russian). well anyways, he is really good. he is working on his quads! that is amazing. he is only 13! by the way for you ice skating dummies quads is a quadruple axle and that means four spins in the air when you are jumping. well, his goal is to go to the 2010 olympics. it is unfair how good this guy is. oh well, maybe someday i will go to the old people olympics for people who finally got good enough to go but were too old. most of the girls at the rink are younger than me, but at least none of them are phenomenal either. i hope this blog satisfies some of you who complained about me not posting on ice skating (timford), and when it is that time for the olympics maybe you will watch just a little of the ice skating for me. thanks guys.

christmas break

i am super excited about christmas break. i love christmas! i love drinking hot cocoa and sitting by the fire listening to some good old frank sinatra christmas. i can hardly wait, but on the other hand i can. the christmas season is such a let down. you get sooooo excited over one day and then it comes and goes and it feels like you didn't even have time to enjoy it through the hustle and bustle of everything. it is a wierd feeling waking up on the day after christmas and thinking about all that happened and all the time you spent thinking about that one and it is over so quickly. i think that this christmas we should think about making it last. i am soooo selfish about that time of the year thinking about what i am going to GET and not give. this year i am going to think about giving not to get back. i am also gonna think about what else that day means. i am going to think about the fact that that is my Savior's birthday. i think we should all sit back and take a few moments in our busy to reflect on the spiritual side of christmas day. i am going to make this season last and not be let down. How about you? merry christmas early.

a little bit about me

when i was growing up i didn't have a father. people ask me what it was like, and if i could sum it up in one word i would say emptiness. i have an emptiness in my heart. that emptiness is somewhat completed with my mother. although, right now i am happy with how my life is going i do wish i could have my dad back for just a little while. well, the point of this blog is to say that i love my pappap (grandfather). for nine years of my life i lived in dothan, alabama. i love alabama and i love dothan. i was such a sheltered kid. i went to a church where there were only 30 faithful attenders. my friends were my family. my pappap filled part of the emptiness inside me. every weekend in the summer i would go with him down to his beach house in panama city beach, fl, and every friday he would pick me up from school and we would go to TCBY and have ice cream and then watch scooby-doo together. i love pappap like a father. all this is to tell you that i am really concerned with something i found out of recent. i found out last week that pappap has a tumor in his throat. the doctors don't know if it is cancerous yet but it is serious. this is one of those times in my life that i have to realize that God knows what he is doing. this whole year i have talked about dependence on God and how i should trust Him and now is my test. i know i will miss my pappap terribly if he goes, but the Lord takes us through trials to teach us. i just pray that maybe by some miracle pappap will live and that i will still have the only "father" i have ever know other than my stepdad. don't get me wrong i love my stepdad, but i love my pappap too. if ya'll could pray for me in that i am struggling with trusting God that would be a great help. thanks for all of you guy's friendship i treasure it.