25 Books (the first 12)

1) New Moon by Stephanie Meyer 2) Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham 3) The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down by Neta Jackson 4) A Grief Observed by C.S.Lewis 5) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 6) The Apostolic Fathers edited by Michael Holmes 7) Cults, Conspiracies, & Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag [...]

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Photography

Today I took my sister and brother on a hike. I have a cybershot camera at the moment and just a plain old computer… One day I’ll get a Canon EOS and a mac with photoshop. That will be the day. Despit that, these pics came out pretty good.

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new years resolutions

Im a few months late on writing down my new years resolutions and catching up on last years resolutions…. but I’ve changed a few things in my life that I found to be tearing me down instead of building me up. That said here are my 2009 Yom Kippur Resolutions: 1) piano lessons 2) go [...]

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Christmas wishlist

Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions-A Readers Edition of the Book of Concord – 2nd ed Genuine Leather Jesus and the Eyewitnesses New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable Animal Dreams: Dave Crowder Fantasia Anthology Fern Gully Pans Labyrinth Mary Poppins Who W Are Instead: Jars Of Clay Stardust Illness and the Art of Creative Self Expression Flight [...]

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dancing

So i went to the dance studio tonight. Its a christian dance studio and I joined in with 3 others in the advanced lyrical class. It was everything I would think it should be to worship God through dancing. I blanked so many times especially when we were grouped into two and asked to perform [...]

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today i ran

i ran a mile. well half of it i walked. big victory because last time i ran/walked and did it 3 times but i only ran maybe 1/4 of the time. last time i went home and passed out felt groggy the rest of the day but this time i feel rejuvenated! after running today [...]

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Psychology of Creativity

I used to watch movies like Legally Blonde or go to a graduation and be filled with desire. Not desire to graduate but desire to feel accomplished, to have completed something, to feel the joy and excitement one feels when graduating. Pride. Its not graduating I want, or psychology. But I did get a glimpse [...]

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paper…

I’m feeling good. I pretty much wrote the outline to my paper finally. I’m excited to see how God can use me through this. I was having a hard time digesting the information because I feel it conflicts at times with my beliefs, so before I started I read through Acts:17 and prayed. It helped [...]

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back on track

so after my bout with shoulder pain and the hospital = 4 days of not completing my daily chart, I’m back on track. I did everything today. I was hoping that this week I was able to complete everything then I could add more to my lists or make bigger commitments. Instead I’ve had to [...]

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its stuff like this that gets me motivated :)

So as a behavioral therapist using the ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis method) or even as a worker in the child development arena you learn alot about yourself in the process. When you expect a child to behave a certain way and then you look at your own life you realize that you are due for [...]

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