Cam the Man

I've heard some people say that the you should never favor one child over the others. And I agree, but Cameron is still my favorite. Just to clarify Cam is not my child, he's my brother, but people don't really say statistical stuff about siblings. Don't get me wrong, I love all of my siblings, but Cam is hilarious. Let me tell you why he is my favorite.

Last night I'm sitting at the computer probably on Stalkbook, around 11:38 when Cam comes out of his room, stands in the middle of the hallway and stares at me for a few seconds before going back into his room. Not 2 minutes later he comes back out, does the same thing and this time goes down the hallway to do who knows what, then goes back into his room. He continues to go in and out of his room for the next 10 minutes or so when finally I say, "CAMERON! go to bed!!" Here is his reaction. He abrubtly stops in front of the computer desk looks at me oh so solemnly and plainly says, "Please don't tell me how to live my life" and goes on his way down the hall. I'm pretty positive this was one of those you had to be there moments, so you might not find it funny, but his face was stinkin hilarious. This boy had no emotion and basically told me to get out of his face! I died laughing.

This is also the same kid that at our Christmas Eve dinner 3 years ago, when my grandma went around the table asking what everyone wanted for Christmas, 7 year old Cam said facial hair. He also pretended to pass out after I took him and his twin sister to Sonic for root beer floats. He laid out across the back seat and I said, "Cam whats up with you!" and he responds " i had wayyyy too much root beer, I'M WASTED!" And lets not forget the time my fellow babysitting comrade, Sophie & I took my 3 siblings to dinner. After dinner we decided to surpise them by going to baskin robbins for ice cream and as soon as we pull in the parking lot Cam SCREAMS from the back seat, "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME WE WERE GOING TO BASKIN ROBBINS? I HAVE COUPONS!"

Did I mention that at 11 years old he already knows what college he wants to go to, and what he will be majoring in? He wants to go to Winthrop and major in teaching. Why winthrop? Right, well I asked him and he says, "The boy to girl ration is 1 to 20!! Which means Lindsey, I'll be a babe magnet!!"

This kid is out of control!

Psalm 86:5

So my teacher has started his own SSR time twice a week. For those who are confused, SSR stands for Sustained Silent Reading. Last year we were forced to take out 10 minutes of our lunch time to sit and read at the end of 4th period. For the most part SSR = naptime. So needless to say the program no longer exists and our classes are now 10 minutes longer instead. But anyways my english teacher does his own SSR twice a week for 20 minutes instead. I am a big fan. My view on SSR last year was, it's a waste! in 10 minutes you could get in about 3 or 4 pages of a book. yipee? no no, not worth it at all. However 20 minutes is awesome.

So during SSR I came across some interesting stuff. Greg Spencer gave a lecture once about the power of metaphors. Consider what metaphors people use when considering the topic of cancer. We fight cancer, we battle cancer, etc. Spencer pointed out that most metaphors listed were related to war. Spencer believes that due to the word choices that people who are diagnosed with cancer feel more burdened than they should.

"Science has shown that the way people think about cancer affects
their ability to deal with the disease, thus affecting their
overall health. Because of war metaphors, we are more likely to
fear cancer when, actually, most people survive the disease."

Interesting stuff right? so i started thinking a lot about metaphors for the remaining 16 minutes of SSR. when talking about relationships we tend to use economic metaphors. We value people, we invest time into them relationships are priceless. Hm. So basically, we tend to think of love as a commodity. When someone does something that is beneficial to us, we like them and feel they have value to us. Think about it, if someone has an opposing opinion to yours and they are so convinced that they are right, your wrong...usually your not their #1 fan. However, we tend to finance the ones who do agree and support us. We use love like money, but love shouldn't work like money. It isn't a commodity.

Happy Birthday Ashley

ASHLEY NICOLE DENT

9.13.1990 - 8.16.2006

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." --- Kahlil Gibran

It's the end of the world as we know it...

First of all, I went browsing through other random blogs just now and I laughed. Why? Because i find it VERY humorous when people put pictures of celebrities or models as their picture. Like they really expect me to believe they look like Brittney Spears? not.

In other news, we will all be sucked into a huge black hole come next month. Not really, well it depends on your take on The Cern is. I bet you have no idea what i'm talking about. It's actually the reason for the way Google looks today. check it [ www.google.com ]


So basically over 8,000 physicists from over 85 countries put together the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator that is supposed to collide opposing proton beams. What this collision is supposed to do is create the supposed Higgs boson, which is supposedly the missing particle from the "big bang". Now as a Christian, I think this is a load of bologna because by trying to discover how matter came to be, your trying to find God. So please, carry on. But anyways, i guess at 4.5 billion pounds, not dollars, pounds. They are going to find something right? Maybe we'll figure out how to teleport. And when they start conducting all of these experiments [in October.. hopefully after the 13th so i can enjoy my birthday] watch out for that black hole.

thought i would share a piece of one of my favorite songs at the moment.

Arrested by your truth and righteousness
your grace has overwhelmed my brokenness.
convicted by your spirit, led by your word
your love will never fail
your love will never fail
‘Cause I know you gave, the world your only son for us to
know your name, to live within the Saviours love and he took MY PLACE,
knowing he’d be crucified and you loved, you loved, a people undeserving.

a lot of times i forget stuff, for instance my blog password. but how awesome is it that God gave up his ONLY SON to die for my baggage!! how rad is that! and i am FOREVER forgetting how undeserving i am. i deserve death. i always think about this sermon dustin did when he talked about Philippians 2 and how we are to do EVERYTHING without complaining or arguing. anyways, he said, are you complaining? do you even UNDERSTAND the gospel? cause if you did, we would find no reason to complain.
so, just chew on that for a bit.

The Perfect Gentleman

I have come to the conclusion, that my second favorite quality in a guy, is being a gentleman. If you ever went to a girls lock-in or a summer camp where girls were in some sort of small group together, you have made a list of qualities you want for your future husband. Allow me to read mine from the 7th grade.

Hubby Qualities
[please don't judge me, i don't use "hubby" anymore]

1. Growing Christian
   
2. Sense of humor
3. "A" graduate
4. sensitive to me and others
5. athletic
6. wants to be a dad
7. pure
8. likes to have fun
9. loves me for me
10. is good with kids
11. good looking
12. a gentleman
13. no smoking
14. no drugs
15. not an alcoholic
16. faithful

I'm just going to stop here to prevent any more embarrassment to myself. I'm so glad that him being funny [#2] is more important than him being faithful to me in our marriage [#16] and also that not an alcoholic is a criteria AFTER being good looking. man 7th grade...awesome. Not that any of those are really bad, per say. It's just a weird order, so I would definitely need some rearranging and subtracting/adding of the criteria.

Back to being a gentleman, now, 5 grades later my list would be a lot different. Like I said, I have come to realize that being a gentleman would be somewhere around second on my list. I love that kind of guy. The one who opens the door for you, and were not just talking regular doors, car doors too. He offered up his seat anytime a girl walked in the room and will sit on the floor instead, or offers the girl the front seat in the car while he climbs to the back. Don't forget all of the "after you"s. Basically he will put a girl's needs before any of his own, and enjoys it. Honestly, I can only think of one guy I would consider to really be a gentleman. Which is sad...maybe I'm too harsh. Not that I expect every guy to do that, actually I've come not to expect it from most guys. Which is fine, because the guys I know are my friends, so it could be awkward when good ol' friendship opens the car door for me. But I mean, I still love that regardless. I think it can show maturity too, not always though. However, it definitely shows respect.

I know this will be so hard to believe when those of you who know me read this, but I don't always LET guys help me. Hm. I'm not really sure why either. Opening doors? yes please, check, done. But when it comes to carrying things, unless I'm really about to keel over, I can usually handle it so thanks but no thanks. It's not that I don't want their help, it's just that I know I can carry a box or a suitcase on my own.

So I feel like I just made myself to be a hypocrite because I talked about how I love the "gentleman" attitude, but I then basically I said I don't always need it. I'm very hard to understand, like an onion, lots of layers. Please believe, I'm not one of those crazy women's rights activists or anything that thinks women should rule the world. Anyways, I guess men, never be afraid to offer your strong manly help, but if she shoots you down, don't take it personally, women CAN do things for themselves sometimes. Hmph, that didn't really help either. Never mind, I'm sorry for all the confusion.

News Flash

So recently I have been watching a lot of Fox News...for several reasons.

1) My grandmother is in town and I'm pretty sure she believes that is the only channel all TV sets receive because that is ALL she watches. oh, well she watches wheel of fortune too, she could make wheel of fortune go bankrupt if she was on that show.

2) I am a registered voter this year and I feel it is my civil duty to at least know a little bit about the issues and people I'm choosing between.

3) I really enjoy watching the anchors get frustrated and yell at each other and then wish each other "the best" and flash their pearly whites at the end.


Yes I know niether of these fine young men are candidates this year. i just really like this picture.

I hate it when people try to bring up politics like they know what their talking about though. I will openly admit I know little to nothing about politics. [a side note: a flock of geese just flew by my window, doesn't that mean winter's coming?] I know a little bit about each party and some stuff about what each candidate stands for etc. etc. I'm not really a fan of politics now that I think about it. When it gets down to 2 months before the election the candidates just start focusing on how McCain doesn't even know how many homes he has and how un-american that is or how Obama has the right to say Palin has no experience, when Obama has never even been governor. I don't know much about Palin, but personally I'm really excited we have a woman candidate for the Republican party, did you know she has 5 kids! That should be experience enough. I joke.

I was thinking about it and have we ever had such opposite candidates? When you consider age, race, experience in power, faith in the government and their views on the world they are definitely contrasting. Obama is a whole generation younger than McCain. BUT, they are going after the same voters, independents who aren't die hard for one party or another.

So, there's the wisdom I have taken in and you will probably never hear me talk about politics again. That one's free. ha! Approximately 2 months and 5 days to election day!