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Wow! I had forgotten about this journal. :) I do most of my journaling elsewhere, but I think I will start writing in this one again as well. So....yes. I won't write much now, but stay tuned....

~kayla~

I'M NOW A LICENSED DRIVER. I'm SOOOOOOOO excited. You have no idea...or maybe you do. :D I got 94% on the test, backing around the corner was the part that killed me. Funny, that's the one thing that I haven't had too much trouble with. Anywho, I'm so excited, so, sorry for rambling.

So I haven't updated in a while...whatever. :D Life's good. I'm looking forward to school starting again (I know, I'm weird). Soccer starts this month and I'm SOOOOOOOO ready! Hey Joy, are you doing NCSL? I was just curious. Sam is getting SO incredibly big! Went camping last monday with some friends. We went to Port Angeles and Crescent Lake. It was SOOOOOOOOOOO incredibly gorgeous. I'm still working on getting my license, urggg. All I need to do is take the tests. It has to be soon though cause I have to be able to drive myself to soccer and school. Does anybody else think that life is changing too quickly? Seriously. I'm both liking it and hating it. lol. My mom, grandma, sis and I are going to Disney Land in November--YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I get to watch sam for 9 days this month while my parents go to Hawaii. I'm glad they get to escape; they work way to hard. Well, hope all's well for everyone else.

Tata,
Kay

July 23, 2005

Crowd Pleasers

Read:
John 12:35-43

They loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. —John 12:43

Bible In One Year: Isaiah 49-51

cover I once read a newspaper story about an old carnival headliner nicknamed "Cannonball." In his younger days, he was blasted out of a cannon 1,200 times, pulled a 90-pound weight across a table with his eyelids, and performed many other bizarre stunts. When asked why he did such things, he replied, "Do you know what it's like to feel the applause of 60,000 people? That's why I did it over and over."

In John 12 we learn about some leaders who were also motivated by a desire to please others. In their case, however, they refused to follow Jesus openly because they wanted to be accepted by the Pharisees. Although they had seen the Savior's miracles and believed in Him, they wouldn't acknowledge this publicly. "They loved the praise of men more than the praise of God" (v.43). And I believe we are safe in assuming that many people failed to turn to Jesus because they were also crowd pleasers who feared the disapproval of these "chief" crowd pleasers.

We are all subject to social pressures. If we are true to ourselves and to God, we'll be able to withstand the strong pull of the crowd. But if we become crowd pleasers, we'll be in far worse shape than the man who kept climbing back into that cannon! —Mart De Haan

If we, to gain the world's applause,
Refuse to own the Savior's cause,
What shame will fill us on that day
When Thou Thy glory shall display! —Anon.

Yielding to God's Spirit within prevents conforming to the world without.

I'm such a traitor! I've been updating my xanga like EVERY SINGLE day, I hardly use this anymore. :( I like to view my friend's entries though...keep writing, I love it!

I PASSED MY ORCA MATH! I HAVE NO SUMMER COURSE WORK. Math 140, HERE I COME BABY! :) *Walks on water*

Alright friends,

Can you please do the following and answer it before tomorrow night?

-List in detail the main things you look for when you choose close friends. What are your reasons for rejecting certain people as either close friends or acquaintances?

This is an extra credit assignment for my psychology homework and it asks that on top of me filling this out, that friends do it too. Love ya!

~kayla~

Quick update:

I have orientation on MONDAY! AHHHHHHHH. If I want to get in orca I have to score math 140. I've been reviewing big time. The entrance test I took for math was so horrible! I didn't score college math, but orca said that if I took the test again and still got a low score, that they would offer me a summer math class FREE OF CHARGE! WOOHOO! I really can't wait until next school year.

Ummm, what's everyone doing for mother's day? I have soccer tomorrow. Lalalalala....I'm bored

[X] Nintendo
[ X] Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
[ ] Fraggle Rock
[X] G.I. Joe
[ ] Are You Afraid of the Dark?
[ ] Secret World of Alex Mack
[X] Bug Juice
[ ] Nightmare Before Christmas
[ ] Welcome Freshman
[ ] Space Cases
[ ] Roundhouse
[X] The Muppet Show
[ ] Muppet Babies
[ ] Eureka's Castle
[ ] Salute Your Shorts
[ ] Legends of the Hidden Temple
[ ] You Can't Do That On Television
[ ] G.U.T.S.
[ ] What Would You Do?
[ ] Double Dare
[ ] Rocko's Modern Life
[ ] All That
[ ] Ren and Stimpy
[X] Clarissa Explains It All
[X ] The Torklesons
[ ] The Adventures of Pete and Pete
[ ] Stick Stickly
[X] Goodburger Welcome to the Goodburger, home of the Goodburger, may I take your order?
[ ] Angry Beavers
[X] Hey Arnold!
[ ] AAH! Real Monsters
[X] Tiny Toons
[X] Animaniacs
[X] Pinky and the Brain
[X] The Babysitter's Club
[ ] Underdog YES!!!
[ ] Kablam!
[ ] Gullah Gullah Island
[X] Richard Scarry
[X] Dumbo's Circus
[ ] Ocean Girl
[ ] Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
[ ] Snick Snacks
[ ] Dunkaroos
[ X] SNICK
[ ] Koala Yummies
[X] Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?
[X] Nick Magazine
[X] Ernest Movies
[ ] Radio Flyer
[X] Disney Watchers
[X] Adventures in Wonderland
[X] Homeward Bound
[ ] The Adventures of Yellow Dog
[X] Milo and Otis
[ ] Neverending Story
[ ] Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
[X] The Lion King
[ ] Labyrinth
[X] 101 Dalmations
[X] The Secret Garden
[X] Pete's Dragon
[X ] Hocus Pocus
[ ] Secret of Roan Inish
[X] Land Before Time
[X] Dinosaurs
[ ] Fern Gully
[ ] Secret of NIMH
[X] Gummi Bears
[X] Care Bears
[X] My Little Pony
[X] Black Beauty
[X] Rainbow Brite
[ ] Lady Lovely Locks
[X] Candyland
[X] Sorry!
[X] Trouble
[X] Don't Wake Daddy
[X] Mousetrap
[X] Jenga
[X ] Don't Break the Ice
[X] Hungry Hungry Hippos
[X ] Pretty Pretty Princess
[X] Tinker Toys
[X] Cooties
[ ] The castles that made tea sets
[X] Polly Pocket
[ ] Hypercolor T-Shirts
[X] Lite Brite
[ ] Sky Dancers
[X] Scrunchies
[X] Side Ponytails
[ ] Stirrup Pants
[X ] Jellies
[ ] Saddle Shoes
[X] Barbies
[X] Beanie Babies
[ ] Tamagotchies
[X] Yo-Yos
[X] Duncans
[ ] Choose Your Own Adventure
[X] Pogs
[X] Goosebumps
[ ] Magic Attic Club
[X] American Girl
[X] Island of the Blue Dolphin
[X] Saved By The Bell
[X] Full House
[X ] Step By Step
[X ] TGIF on ABC
[X] Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
[X] Boy Meets World
[X] Clueless
[ ] Mork and Mindy MORK!
[X] Simpsons
[X] Flipper
[X] Growing Pains
[X ] Family Ties
[X] Titanic
[ ] Felix The Cat: The Movie
[ ] Jonathan Taylor Thomas
[X] Home Improvement
[X] Tom and Huck
[ ] My Brother and Me
[X ] Kenan and Kel…haha! We used to watch this all the time!!!!
[X ] Hanson EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
[X] Inspector Gadget
[X] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
[X] Power Rangers
[X] Hot Wheels
[X] Creepy Crawlers
[X] Easy Bake Oven
[X] Flower Making Kits
[X] Wild and Crazy Kids
[X] Playdough McDonald's Sets
[X] Animorphs
[X ] Rainbow Fish
[ ] If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
[X] Bailey School Kids
[X] Wayside School
[X ] Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
[X ] Boxcar Kids
[X ] Ramona Quimby
[ ] Amber Brown
[ ] Allegra's Window
[ ] 3-2-1 Contact
[X] Spice Girls
[X] The brave little toaster
[ ] Bananas In Pajamas
[X] One Saturday Morning on ABC
[X ] Transformers
[ ] Spice Girls suckers
[ ] Waynes World
[ ] the dancing baby
[X] Nancy Drew novels
[X] catdog
[ ] shamomo the cat
[ ] Captain Planet
[X ] face-on nick jr

Well, thought I should update. Things have been really quiet here since I'm on SPRING BREAK! WOOHOO! I've been eating easter candy and laying around though--I wish I could go out and do something fun. However, I might go to the tulip festival tomorrow. When we lived in Mt. Vernon we really didn't care about it because we saw the tulips all the time, now we're all excited. hehe. We have a favorite ice cream shop up there that we go to as well. So anyways, Joy, you're the only one who ever comments hehe. I don't think anyone else reads this. Oh well.

Pictures of Sam...

All I have to say is....WOW. Didn't expect indoor soccer to be anything like that! I felt bad because I wasn't able to do that good but hey, I tried my hardest and that's all I can do. ALthough it didn't help when my dad said that I looked funny because my legs looked like they were 'wobbly' the whole time...thanks dad. When I got home I discovered that I had two black toes and all circulation to my feet cut off because of the shin-guards. fun. Okay, see ya later!

P.S--I really do like indoor soccer, I just hope i get better. :)

Here's one more photo from Saturday:.

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Hello All! Long time, no chat! Soooooooooo much has been going on here! Guess what? I LOVE DRIVING! I COULD DRIVE ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL DAY LONG! My second drive was supposed to be all about parking the car but when I got there and explained to my instructor how frustrated I was with it he asked "Well, would you rather do your third drive rather than your second drive? I looked at him like he had just told me we were going to Disney Land "You mean I can do freeway driving today instead of parking?!!!!" "Sure, why not?" And so now I have driven on every road around my house. I accidentally got up to 80 miles per hour on the freeway. woops. Hey, give me a break, we were near Stanwood and everyone else was going 80-85. The actual speed limit was 70. I had to merge and do lane changes like 7 times each. It was fun. The mini cooper drives like A DREAM!!!! Now if only I can master the art of parking a vehicle... Last night Alissa and I went to a Lincoln Day dinner at the Everett Events center. We had to buy new dresses (formals), and get all of our accesories (jewelery, shawls, etc)...unfortunatly for me it was a bit much...but Alissa enjoyed it. I'm just not real big on putting lots of makeup on and all sorts of 'bling bling' jewelery. Ahhh well. Mom and Alissa insisted I wear extra make up so mom did it...what a pain in the rear that turned out to be. AND doing my hair took forever! I'm so happy that my mom was willing to do it for me though--she's the best mom anyone could possibly have. So anyways, we get to the dinner and guess who we got our picture taken with? That's right....DINO ROSSI! He's so awesome! It was actually Mike and Sarai Hope who invited us to this dinner as a way of thanking us for campaigning for them. I just love those two. The speakers were incredible...Bob Williams, Mike Siegal, Dino Rossi, Hank (something or other)... These doings always get me pepped up to do more campaigning. Bob Williams had a speech on 9/11 and how many have forgotten about it; he brought of the point that more people were killed in the 9/11 attacks than at Pearl Harbor. I could just go on and on and on...but I won't. Tomorrow my dad and I are going to be attending a Running Start meeting at my school. Can you believe it? I get to do running start next year!!!! That's so weird but cool too. My brother says that classes at Everett Community College are way easier than HomeLinks though. Works for me. hehe. Sunday School went well today--I didn't know it but all of the other teachers thought I was 18 0r 19! (?) That's WEIRD. I don't look anywhere near that age. lol. I have now been asigned as the new worship pastor. WOW, I hope this goes well. I want to start doing softball this spring--I'm SO sick of being trapped in our house. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Oh, I'm finally better! However, Sam got the same thing I had. poor buddy. :( Alright, I'm going to leave for now. Take care all! Signing off... Stay tuned....