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Nov. 16, 2007

How Time Flies

Yesterday, we had the first snowfall of the year. It was only a couple of flakes, but it made me realize how fast the year has gone. It's already mid-November! The fall quarter at the college ends next week! It seems like just yesterday I took my midterms (which I got very good scores on...PTL). In 6 more days it will be Thanksgiving. Is 2007 really almost over? Yet another year, come and gone in the blink of an eye.

There are so many things to say that I hardly know what to write about. I could tell you about the STACKS of books I've been reading, or the fun semester of co-op that just finished last week, or the amazing things that have been going on at our youth group, or my thoughts on the primary elections, but there's just so much that it's overwhelming. ;-)

I guess I can tell you that my parents finally decided on a girl's name for the baby - Maria Joan. The middle name is for St. Joan of Arc and the first name is for Mary (of course) and my mom's grandmother. For some reason, we can't come up with any good boy names, but Mom is fairly certain that this baby will be a girl, so she isn't worried.

I think I told you all that I am playing the keyboard for the monthly youth masses at our parish. Last week I totally butchered one of the hymns, but hopefully I'll get better. I don't play very well when under pressure. I really want to stick with this, though, because I feel that it's a ministry that God is calling me to. He gave me the ability to play the piano and He even provided an organ for me to practice on. Someday, I hope to be a church organist, so I am trying to prepare myself as best I can right now.

It seems like so many people are leaving HSB - either going to blogger, getting their own URL, spending more time on facebook or myspace, etc. I have been spending WAY more time on xanga, just because I like the setup so much better and I have so many close friends there. I will probably quit this blog sometime, but I don't plan to do it right now. I'm going to hold out for a bit longer and see what happens.

Mrs. Dixon and Amanda are going to be leading a reading and discussion of The Hedge of Thorns by John Hatchard over at the HSB Literary Club. My copy is on its way through inter-library loan...all the way from Oklahoma!! I may not get it in time, but at least I will be able to read it with everyone and join the discussion. There is still a bit of time to find a copy before next Wednesday!

If you aren't able to do that, look forward to some updates on The Society of Avid Young Readers Blog. I offered to help Cassy manage the blog and she agreed to make me "assistant manager" since she has so little time to update. ;-) We are planning to read The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. I have some cool ideas for the upcoming year. Stay tuned!

Oh, and I'm going to put in a quick plug for Ben over at God First, Knowledge Second. He is doing a survey for a school project. It only takes a couple minutes to complete!

That is all. ;-) Hopefully it won't be too long until I update again, but until then-

Sylvia

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Nov. 16, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Chris

Yeah i will soon be leaving hsb...but i hope to keep in touch with my friends on here!