good grief.

what’s with all the engagements recently?

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and on a different note…

10:30pm, me: “so what time are you gonna pick me up tomorrow?”

kaitie: “what? umm… we don’t have school, classes don’t start till 5″

haha yeessss… another 2 days of freedom =)

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you gotta love 1-2nd samuel… haha the story about Dagon falling down before the ark of the Lord…

what’s new… hummm…

break’s been awesomely slow and restful =) finally figured out what i’m gonna do next semester… decided to stay at Hood and try for fulltime, tho i may end up dropping to part time (lol, one of the most frustrating things in the world is losing some of your ability to think clearly…) i’m going back to MC next fall, and if i’m still going to school it’ll be either college park or UMBC after that, we’ll see what happens

BUT all that’s boring…

thank you Lord for friends… long nights don’t seem all that long when there’s someone to talk to and keep your thoughts out of the realm of the nonsensical, and when you learn a lot it’s doubly kool

so my family could really use prayer right now… my grandparents (the ones who live with us) are in Italy on vacation… here’s an email i sent to their cg

“Details:
John was out several hours ago at night walking to an ATM. He didn’t come back for 2 1/2 hours so Joyce was trying to get in contact with the police. They finally called her and told her John had been hit by a motorcyclist and was in the hospital with a broken femur. He just got out of surgery. Because they’re in a small town where not many people speak English, communication in the hospital has been difficult. He’s in a lot of pain, and it’s unclear how long he needs to be in the hospital, but Joyce keeps hearing something about 20 days. Thankfully the motorcyclist stayed with him all through the surgery and his insurance will cover this. It looks like John has to personally go to the station to fill out a police report as well.
 
Please pray:
*For relief from this pain
*That he wouldn’t have to stay long in the hospital
*That God would remove the language barriers
*Peace for Joyce with all her decisions on how best to care for him, where to stay, how to get home, etc
*The Lord’s guidance in navigating the health care system
*Wisdom for the rest of our family here at home as we try to support them
*That the healing process would go smoothly, there are many factors that could cause it to go wrong”

so ya… erk… it was chaos here but i think everyone’s doing pretty well with trusting God. My dad has to fly out there tomorrow so you can pray for him as well (haha my mom was trying to get him to take her also so she could see Italy)

(liz be grateful… that’s what you were saved from several times when you tried to cross with those crazy italians driving ;))

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death note:

L was awesome, hahaha

his marshmellows… sugar addiction… and the way he sits… soooo great. and he’s brilliant

(“you want to be useful?” “yes!!” “go bring us some coffee” hahaha)

that IS a picture of tifa…

lol ok these are SO great… made my night… :P

 

(haha!)

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“it’s just that, some of us have to forgo that luxury so that the rest can have it. some very few of us have to force ourselves not to [...]. like me. like you.”

“what can i do?”