GROCERY STORE WARS!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VIVA LE MOUTHELUTION!!!!!!!!!

So I'm not sure I told anyone about this...But Thursday I'm competing in a speech competition....No pressure.....Right??...Dude...If I stress about this anymore than I already am I'll die of a heart attack!! Seriously!! I am so doomed!! Ok, so I know I can do all things through Christ...But I'm starting to think I'm gonna die....or at least that entering was a bad idea...So there's like 2 rounds. There are 6 rooms and in each room there are 7 people each competing for a spot in the final 6...So there can only be one winner from each room...And then they compete in front of a live audience...For one of 6 places...The only ones worth mentioning are the first 3...First place wins a plaque..500 dollars and a lithograph worth $500....plus about $200 in "gifts" whatever THAT means....2nd place is $300 and third place is $100...All places win a plaque...I have an exam earlier that day...and the competition is from 6pm to 9pm....and all I can say is..."help me...!!!....Heeeeeeeeeeeelllllpppp meeeeeeeee!!!..........." or "we're all gonna DIE!!!"...Yes, I am nervous!! Which I have to say is an interesting place to be in....I HATE this!! I have 6 minutes to try to give a persuasive speech and I'm so...ARGH!! this is SO over-rated!! On the one hand I'm like....Sweet!! I could SO go for the $500.....but then again...I have SO much to do to be ready that I'm like!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!....There HAS to be a middle ground!! It can't be like this for the next two days!!! I'll die!! Seriously!! The stress alone'll kill me! I guess I'll just have to try to think about this as a test.....of some kind.....and that I'll just have to put on some kind of persona....well...not in those words exactly but you get the idea....I never really saw myself as someone who'd get nervous about public speaking.....well..It's not really the speaking but the COMPETING that's got me running and hiding under my desk in abject terror......Who'd have thought all my shy notions would suddenly come back with a vengeance!!! Ugh!!

Jason, So You Wanted To See My Latest Facebook Profile Picture........

So the following is a picture from my Make-up for Stage and Screen class from last semester. . . . . It is not two pictures photo shopped together, but rather one picture....Everything was done in halves. The wig is only a half, the hat was only a half and I only did half of my face to look female and half to look male.....etc...So here are the results...I welcome your predictions and comments!! I just WISH I could see the looks on your sisters, and mothers, faces when they see this picture Jason...So you're going to have to either take a picture of their reactions or videotape it!!! And I'm DEAD serious here!!!

New Attitude 2007 Conference Promo

For those of us who have been here....Who went for the May 2006 conference...Then you'll recognize this...Otherwise...For the ones who didn't go...Go...Come..Enjoy this blessing with the rest of us.

Ok so this really touched me...

So whenever I'm around people I have this...how do I delicately term this....problem with thinking that people hate me....Anyway so I was working, and yes I mean working. You see I have this belief that when you do something you should do it right the first time...And that you do it to the glory of God...and most people my age....well...they just don't see work that way. But I was helping with the June Dance show, and I could REALLY speak about that!, and I was working backstage. Which I don't normally do. I'm more of a front and center stage kinda gal. But I noticed that before each dance most of the girls got...a bit scared...and I decided that I would try to make it a little easier, not to mention helping them find their props and keep track of thier jewlery- which an earring didn't make it and I still feel bad about it-and so I, true to form, told joke and we sang songs and told stories and applauded and the like before and after...To make them feel ok about it all. And so Mrs. H asked me if I wanted to do it again this year....To which I said sure...Who wouldn't like an excuse to be around their friends and to see those friends dance....Like Monica!!! And somehow she ended up telling the dance girls about it...Don't ask me how....And they were so thrilled about it that they were like excited and happy..Now I have to step back and look at this from an objective perspective...WHAT IN THE WORLD DID I DO THAT WAS SO MARCIFULLY GREAT??!!! I mean a smile here a laugh there and some generous applause doesn't equal giddy dance girls! So they're excited to get to work with me for the Christmas show...And I'm touched that they even care/cared....And I can't help but wonder what in the merciful world I did to deserve that kinda reaction...But yeah...I just thought I'd share that....Have a great week.....end... 

I'm not computer illiterate...I'm just technologically challeneged....

Well...I was on the marvelous invention, the computer, today...And I noticed something incredible...I know practically nothing....Now don't look shocked! I was given the blue screen of death and I found myself not only at a loss for words but at a loss of action!! What was I to do?? So I did the SCIENTIFICAL thing to do...Iny Minie Minie Moe...Until I came up with an answer...Which turned out to be to just stare at the thing....But ALAS!!! I fixed nothing...I learned nothing and I was left with a computer sized hole in my heart! Why? I know quite a bit about the human body...At least I have been told so. And I know how to cook and bake...to various degrees of success. But when faced with this thing...This piece of modern equipment that those around me sing the praises of, while they talk about how wonderful it is and how there hasn't been anything this wonderful since sliced bread...I can only wonder....Is there something wrong with me?? I realize that I have been called stupid...That I have the "midas" touch of doom when it comes to mechanics...But throwing aside my terrible luck with all things mechanical...Where did I go wrong?? WAS I even the one who went wrong?? No, I determined!! The fault lay with another!! MY MOTHER!!! That's right noble visage! MY OWN MOTHER!! The woman who has done so much for me went and made me technalogically...."special" .....and I am left with only the pain in my heart to comfort myself with! When noble souls try to teach me, my mothers training kicks in and all I hear is nonsensical gibberish and Latin....AND I SPEAK ENGLISH DARN IT!!! When these thoughts had run through my head I noticed that the sky was bluer...And that I wasn't alone...Yes, millions of American's, and I'd be willing to bet other nationals, HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH A COMPUTER when there is anything but smooth sailing...That's right!! I'm not alone! There are others who see a wigged out computer as a glorified paper weight! Redemption, though only capable through Christ you know what I mean here!!!, was at hand!! I decided that stupid I am, at least to a point, and I can accept that!! YOU HEAR ME GREAT GOD OF THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY!!! SMITE ME OH MIGHTY SMIGHTER!!!!...*sigh* Now that I've gotten that out of my system....In closing I only can say to those of you reading this who happen to be technical kung-fu masters whose kung-fu is strong...Look kindly upon us humble technilogically challeneged souls....We couldn't help it...Our mothers made us this way!!