14.12.08

Christmas Special at Youth

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So last night we joined the whole church that our youth group belongs to for a Christmas celebration, complete with lots and lots of items (dramas and action songs).
I was in two, we did action songs to Strong Tower by Kutless and One World by tobymac. Q was also in One World.
Some of us didn't really remember Strong Tower, so we were in the back right before our turn, frantically practicing it... it paid off, though, I only missed one line of the song!
One World went awesome, of course; we've practiced that one till we are sick of the song.


After the items was FOOD, which was lovo and wasn't half bad.

Soooooo, I counted and I got only 6 hours of sleep last night. *gasp* ... As opposed to my normal.... *counts* ... 9-10. I'll be drinking coffee today, thankyou.

9.12.08

Design and Dedication

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Today I spent several hours updating the design on one of the websites I... uh... webmaster. In today's world, you kind of have to have a new design every few months or you are "outdated," "old-fashioned," or just plain... *gasp* ... "over." If you come up with something good -- a good design, an awesome layout-- well, it will be amazing... for a couple months. Then, it will be finished. And what was incredible and cutting-edge two months ago is now as old-fashioned as last week's spaghetti. I mean... at one point, the blinking marquee was IN.

(for those of you who are not web geeks, the blink and marquee tags are *shudder* very outdated)

Good design isn't enough. Good coding isn't enough. What is necessary is good design... again. A new one. Moving forward. Updating. Trying something new. Fixing the bugs. 

It got me to thinking...

See, week before last I was going through a Beth Moore Bible study. I was quite happy with myself, I had actually stuck with the thing for a few weeks. Something new... something good... moving forward. Good, eh? 
Last week I had a flu. I was struggling just to finish my school work and drop back into bed. So, I skipped the Bible study. And... I haven't gotten back to it. 

The dedication of two weeks ago didn't carry me into this week...  last week's spiritual victory doesn't guarantee that this week will be fine and dandy. As a matter of fact, yesterday's lovely attitude doesn't apply to today. As a MATTER of fact... the good work of the last minute doesn't apply to this minute. The decision to conform to Christ's character has to be a decision made every single minute, in a new way. The last amazing act of kindness I did doesn't earn me brownie points to avoid the next one that will be required of me.

Soooo.... yes, I will set my alarm clock tonight, and do my Bible study tomorrow morning. 
And that's my sermon for today. Just thought I'd share.
-Danielle

5.12.08

Random happenings

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Woah... it's been quite a while since I posted a blog! I keep meaning to... and then forgetting to... or deciding not to... or not bothering to... and... well, y'know how it goes. But that doesn't mean my life has been devoid of happenings. Here is some of what has been going on:

1. Last Friday the homeschool group did an action song at youth; we did One World by Tobymac, I think we did pretty well. Malcolm's wife was taking pics, so here y'are, one picture of us doing action song....















2. Last Saturday we had a Thanksgiving get-together over at the Schultzies' place... I think there was over 40 people there. Twas great fun... and afterwards I realized that I had not gotten a single picture. Not one.

3. And this past week mah bro and I have had some kinda flu, so we couldn't go to homeschoolers or youth... although the Sens did come by here after homeschoolers, so Hannah taught me the newest action song... who knows, maybe I can still do it with them next week...

4. Today we put up the Christmas tree, so we are officially ready for Christmas! And Christmas is most certainly in the air as it is getting unbearably hot....

I think that's about all that has happened over the past couple weeks... and now I have finally posted a blog and I can stop feeling guilty about my terrible neglect of my blog!