The camping trip summarized

I'll post some other highlights later.

Kitties!

We need a name for this one.

Meet Sasha

This is my Ukrainian niece Sasha. She likes dogs.

And finger nail polish.

She just got here last night and she'll be here for around two months.

oooooh!

So, if any of you want to get me a birthday present four or so months early... I love this shirt. Because you can't see the monster unless you're in the sun...

Who thought of ink that does that?! He or she needs a medal. (totally wrote metal. My brain=gone)

Oooooooooooh my word!

I'm. so. excited. Eight more days!!!

New pets

Mom and I found some frogspawn by the lake today. In fact, we found about three different kinds and we have some tadpoles now. They're pretty cool. However, all the little creepies that came with them are NOT cool. There was this one that was in a tube and it would poke its head out and move and stuff. There was this other thing that was like the tube-creepy but it had algae all over it! We killed it. I was getting major heebie jeebies.. I mean seriously! I basically swim in that every summer!

I guess ignorance is bliss... Anyway, I'll try to get some good pictures of them as they mature. Right now they look like the above picture. I would guess we have about 100 eggs.

...You won't be able to walk out in the backyard from now on without being attacked by at least ten frogs... XD

My epic battle for an A

Soooooooooooo.... I got the spread sheet for my biology class and it said that I got an 'A'. I rejoiced! And then I got frustrated.

I started having dreams about getting horrible grades and having to battle my biology teacher for the correct grade. I ended up having a trainer (like Karate Kid style sans violence) who taught me how to correctly challenge her.

It was an epic dream. And then I had a dream last night that she gave me a 'B' instead of an 'A'. You see, she sent us the spread sheet to make sure all of the grades were right. It was not concrete. So I was almost positive that I would end up having a 'B+'. I wasn't about to get my hopes up.

Anyway, I talked to Mary this morning and she said the grades were posted. She got an 'A' and from the spreadsheet I got an 'A'. And we both got 95% in the class. We tied for the second highest grade. (This is from the teacher that has a 45% failure rate) But I still wanted to check to make sure that all of my consideration and dreams of worst case scenarios were indeed false. So when I finally got online I logged into the portal.. lalalalla... Found my transcript link, clicked on it... It loaded.

And I sat there and stared at the monitor, dumbfounded.

Bowling: A
Psychology: A
Spanish: A
Biology: B

Not even a B+....

Dad was downstairs and I was like, "She got it wrong. It's a 'B'. A 'B'....."

"Not even a 'B+'?"

"...No.... o.o"

So then I opened up the spreadsheet and looked at it again. There I was... Madam Butterfly (Mary picked out my codename. She was Diesela. =P) It said I had 570 out of 602 which equaled a 95%.. Below me were two B's.. 81% and 85%. That's a big drop. So I sent my teacher an email that basically said, "Umm.. I'm a little confused. You had me written as an 'A' in the spreadsheet, but on my transcript it was a 'B'."

But I had to leave! So I couldn't await her reply with baited breath... So I took my printed out spreadsheet and calculator so I could add up the points myself. And indeed.. I had a 95%. So I breathed a sigh of relief.

I felt like my heart had been ripped out of my chest and replaced, but death's cold and bony fingers still had a grip on it.

I called Mary and was like, "GUESS WHAT. I GOT A 'B' IN THE CLASS. BUT NOT REALLY. AGGGGGGH."

And she replied in her most serious and concerned voice that I should call the teacher when I got home. I agreed. This is my GPA after all.

Don't mess with my GPA, people.

So I called Kristy and told her my long and dramatic story and she reminded me to breath. =P I decided to call Mary and ask her to get our teacher's number because I had pretty much nothing to do.

Anyway, to end this story..... It all was fixed!!! (Not yet, but it will be) Her computer switched my grades with the guy below me.

So if he looked he was probably like, "OH MAN. AN 'A'?!! NICE."

It will be ripped from him soon enough, back to its rightful owner. So now I feel that I can sleep in peace without any dreams of good-grade-thieves stealing my hard earned good grades.

*bangs head on desk*

I just spent like five hours psychoanalyzing my personality.

....

Yeah. Wow. Well, I'm almost done with the third page of my paper! Yay! One-ish more! But seriously.. Twenty extra credit points for writing a four to six page paper? YES. I will take that.

Wow...

I've been learning about DNA and I must say, I love learning about this stuff. If I didn't want to be a nurse I would want to go into genetics, it's so fantastic!

Also, it is absolutely astounding to think of how we are made from four nucleotides. Just four... Our alphabet has 26 letters. And yet with just four nucleotides God made you and me.

He's really smart. I'm just in awe.

We went to a one year old's birthday party on Saturday...

I love this picture...

This was after he got comfortable with the cake.

Before he dove in he was feeling a little cautious about the whole thing.

This is his "thinking" face. It's quite cute.

"Hmm.. Frosting.. Yes, this might just be a good thing... Maybe."

Called it!

Not really. But I decided (rather randomly) to cheer for the Giants, and they won! Yay!

Not like I cared.. I didn't even know who was playing until today and I didn't stay for the whole party. =P

E-Day

So Mary and I decided to be emo on Valentine's Day. So, I'm thinking black eye liner all around the eyes, and maaaaaaaaaaybe straightening my hair AND wearing ALL black.

Which, would involve black pants.. Do I have any? Hm... Maybe I'll wear a skirt. Wait. Is that emo? O_O

Also, I'm planning on having several Anti-Valentine Day functions in which I will watch horror movies with my friends.

(Wow.. This post was so cynical!!!)

Feeling slightly.. TRIUMPHANT!!!

Well, I just found out what I got on my Spanish test... 96%

WOOOOOOOOT!!!!

On the last one my teacher said that 65-82% was good and was what she was expecting from the class. I got 86% and I felt like dying (because I have MAJOR issues about grades.. It's sick.) but then my teacher said that if we got anything about 82% that was great and we really had to work hard to get there. And so I felt a little better, but I was still like, "Mergh..."

But then I found out I got 96% and I rejoiced!!! I really studied hard for that one and maaaaan... It feels good to get that grade, let me tell you.. ;)

Heh.

John and I just took airborne shots in the kitchen.

"Why do you sip it?"

"....Because there's a lot in there. *continues dainty sipping*"

"What's that they say? .... 'Through the mouth and over the gums. Look out stomach, here it comes!'"

"hahahahah!!!"

(yay for getting sick!! =P)

Deep-ish post alert! Run for the hills! Or read it if you want...

I was hanging out with Mary and Amelia in the cafeteria today because pickle ball was canceled (so they had nothing to do) and I was early for class. So we were just hanging out and I looked over and I saw Connor and I was like, "Eep! I'll go ask him to sit with us!" And the Anti Social Anti Club groaned and said, "Can't you wait for half an hour?" So I left them with a glare for Connor's table.

So anyway, I sat down and he kind of jumped. lol. Anyway, we started talking about stuff and man.. It's always so great to talk to him because the spiritual things are interwoven into it. I asked him if he knew what college he wanted to go to yet and he said he didn't, but he was trusting God with it. He had just told me about the things that led up to his salvation (which was like... Last March.) and man.. It really is amazing how God works all things out for our good. It would take a while to tell you the whole story, I don't even know it fully. Connor has been writing it out and he's at 10 pages now, but he's just a tenth of the way done. =P So Connor responded to my college question with the thing about trusting God and he said that with all the Lord has done in the last year he couldn't guess what He is going to do in the future. So Connor is just going to wait for the Lord and he's totally ok with not knowing (although he's not just being lazy. He has applied to like 5 colleges. =P).

This really isn't a post focused on Connor, I promise you. ;)

After he made that statement of trust he said this in regard to what he is going to do:

Two rules, love God and love others more than you love yourself, which is interesting if you don't love yourself.

And then he said, "But.. That's a whole other issue. I'll address that at some other point." lol. Anyway, it was fantastic to talk to him again and I've missed having him around because most guys at school [read every guy that I've met thus far save three. But this isn't counting the guys that I've grown up with like Allen] are not seeking God, and plus Connor is hilarious.

I thought about what he said about loving yourself and it didn't really hit me how deep that was. It is so true. If you don't know your worth in God's sight you won't know anyone else's worth. I'm going to use an example of girls because, well, I am a girl and I'm not exactly sure how this self image thing works for guys.

Wow. I am really hesitant to write about some examples of not loving yourself and hurting others because it's really ugly and I do it a lot. I'm sure that every girl has done it, you see a girl.. Any girl and you size her up. Either you think that she is more attractive than you and you search for faults, or you think that she is less attractive than you and in that thought resides smug pride. I've been watching a movie with friends and the lead actress will come on and two of my friends immediately point out the actress's perceived faults. Sometimes I catch this and I look at them like, "What in the world are you doing?! God MADE HER. He MADE YOU. He chose EVERY SINGLE PART OF HER and He chose EVERY SINGLE PART OF YOU. You're BOTH lovely!!!" But mostly there's a voice in my head that joins them... And far too often it goes unnoticed by me.

Or if you know a girl and you feel so less pretty than she is. Little snide comments that seem innocent come out, but if you really looked into your own heart you would see jealousy.

How in the world am I supposed to SHOW Christ's love to some girl if I envy her?!?! It wouldn't truly be Christ's love because I would always be putting myself before her and trying in every small way to put her down.

But what about when I remember how I am loved and because of that when I love myself? What happens then? Then you can actually love that person! Then you know that God made both of you with a purpose and that nothing can make either of you more or less loved by God. Then you'll find yourself not tearing her down, but building her up.

Can you see how important loving yourself is? I would say that it is key to showing Christ's love. It's key to coming to live how we were supposed to live. Not with jealousy, but genuine care for others. I think that when you love yourself, truly love yourself then you can love others better.

I also think that girls tear each other down because of fear. That's just it, it's plain old fear. Fear of losing status, fear of losing attention... But you know what the Bible says? Perfect love drives out fear.

Wow. I love how God did that. I left early for school because of the snow, but the roads were fine but because of that I got to talk to Connor for like half an hour and the Lord used him to remind me of what love is. And I just looked up love in quick verse and 1 John 4 came up. Wow.... I love how God works. :)

This is my cry for us! "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God." (vs. 7)

"Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." (vs. 11-12)

(note in verse 16 how it says that while we are on earth we are like Him.. We're representing Him, you guys..)

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." (vs 18)

"If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother." (vs. 20-21)

Letting petty pride live on is not an option for followers of Christ and I've forgotten that.

Love each other, guys. Let's practice living like our Lord.

Ah...

I just finished watching Finding Neverland. I liked it a lot and it made me cry.. lol. Not many movies do that, so that's saying quite a bit.

Anyway, I OWNED my psych test today (100%). There was much rejoicing. I basically sprinted upstairs and gave my mom a high five with a VERY happy and content smile on my face. =)

Cuteness!

AGH! MOM! FOOD!!! *rushes mother* *crushes puppies*
*happiness*
TEH BAAAAAAAAABIES! The big one on the left is from the last litter.
He's my friend. Today he crawled out through that far right hole in the fence.. It was quite amazing, but he was determined! He knew we were meant to be together!
Look at that face! It says, "I am content.."
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby!!!!!! I wants him. :(
*sigh*

Dear Elyse..

I've decided to answer some questions people had when they googled a word and found my page. If I had a chance to answer their questions personally this is probably what I would say.

My blog's name is Jehovah Jireh, this is because in my life I am learning how He provides perfectly for every situation. He will never stop being Jehovah Jireh (the Lord who provides) to me, ever. Now that we've covered that I will move on, I've received 161 hits for respect just because I made one post about it. Well, if you want to know more about respect I suggest you read that post, there were also a few hits for self respect, well.. That's in that post too.

I have received 102 hits for wisdom teeth and that's not counting the various other "impacted wisdom teeth," impacted wisdom teeth," "wisdom teeth out," and "wisdom teeth operation." I have very little advice about this because I am not actually a doctor, but you will find embarrassing pictures of me and some wonderments about the surgery from me. I do suggest that after your surgery that you DO NOT go to Starbucks, no matter HOW MUCH you want it, it will just end badly, believe me. I woke up from my surgery, mom got me to the car, lalalla and I was like, "Maaaaaaahm... STAAAAAAHBAAAAAHKS." XD And then I cracked up because I could hear how retarded I sounded, "STAAAAAHBUUUUUUKS" And then my mom looked at me and was like, "Are you sure?" "STAAAAAAAHBUUUUUKS!!!" hahahahah!!! That was some good times right there. ANYWAY, I got my iced tea... Aaaaaaaand lol. You can't use a straw for a few days so that you don't suck out the blood clots that form in the holes so I was trying to sip it, in the car, with a numb and swollen face.... Besides the fact that I was bleeding and I had like four cotton swabby things in my mouth to soak up the blood, so I was drinking my own blood.. =x And then the cotton swabby things tasted like blood and a black iced tea lemonade.

Moral of that story? Don't order Starbucks after your wisdom teeth surgery, k? K.

hmm.. Moving on, 56 hits for "ferret" and 26 for "ferrets." Well, here's the thing. I hate them. They creep me out and they smell bad. Don't buy one.

Now for three in a row, "bobbing Jesus," "I have a lump on my wrist," and "moses the lord will provide." Well, Dashboard Jesus is the post for you, lucky contestant numero uno. I too had a lump on my wrist, but it went away. Don't have surgery if you have a ganglionic cyst and it's tiny, just wait a few months and rub it to see if it goes away. Mine did, maybe yours will too. :) Aaaaand for #3 I have no idea. The Lord will provide Moses? I think He already did. 0_o

"how to feel beautiful when no one thinks you are" well, I would say to you that people do think that you are beautiful. Our self images are pretty whacked because we are all sinners, so don't think you know how others perceive you, "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?" the next verse goes on to say that, "I, the LORD, search the heart," (Jeremiah 17:9-10a). Just think of that, you don't know your own heart, but the Lord does. Perhaps He is the only one to say who is beautiful or not, and believe me... He knows that you are beautiful because He made you, and He made you flawlessly! But, if you want to read more about how God views us you can head over to my post about beauty, which you might have already read.

Alrighty then, moving on. "lord will i ever have a boyfriend?" I'm sorry, this made me laugh. And I'm not sure how this person found my blog.. I mean, it's not like I make a lot of posts about how I feel like I'm missing my better half and that I really need a boyfriend. Because I don't. I suggest that if you are wondering if you will ever have a boyfriend to read the Word and find out what He has to say to you. Although, perhaps this post may have something for you.

"picture of pomeranian with jesus" hahahahahhhahaa!!!! You are quite the creative one, eh? "random facts about macaulay culkin" lol. Umm.. I had a friend named Seamus who lived down the street from the time of our infancy to about eight years of age and he looked like Macaulay Culkin, fortunately he no longer does and he has not followed Macaulay's path, as far as I know. "sufjan stevens casimir pulaski day" That is a good song, but then again I just love Sufjan. "best movie ever" that would be Bride and Prejudice.

Well folks, that's about it for this edition of Dear Elyse. Fare thee well!

!!!

I get to see a cadaver on Friday!!!

I. Just. About. Died.

So in Biology today we got to play with the molecular model toys. Before class started Mary and I looked at our box and I saw little springs you could use to double bond stuff, like a double bonded Oxygen or whatever. And I got REALLY excited and I inhaled a bunch (I'm not sure why...) and I held it up to Mary..

And she looks at me...

And then she asks me if I've seen the Village. And I'm like, "Yeah.." And she was like, "Do you know who you just reminded me of?" ....

XD

I was like, "SHUT UP!" And then we almost DIED laughing. But I would like to say that Mary also got excited when we made the molecules and we ended up fighting over who could make Methane. We = nerds. And I guess I'm just nerdier or more childish or something. =P

(Usually I think the world is the one who has social problems, but in reality, it's just me...)