Weekend 'o fun

Wow, the longer the weekend, the more stuff ya cram into it! I was at my church retreat this weekend, and now I'm home, totally exhausted. I had and exam today and another one tmw, both of which I didn't study for at all over the weekend of course!

Anyway, the weekend was about faith and works and really living out your faith. I think the most interesting thing I got out of it was that even demons believe that there is a God (James 2:19). Just believing that there is a God isn't enough; you have to act on your faith.

It was an awesome weekend, and I think it made me realize how much I enjoy working with youth. I totally remember what I was like back in high school with all my friend problems, boy problems and everything else that those things involved. I feel like an older sister to most of the kids that were there, and I'm so proud of the people they are growing up to become. I got to have such good, in-depth talks with a lot of the kids there, and it's amazing what great conversation you get when there's trust in the relationship. Trust is so stinking important!

Anyhoo, I had an awesome time, and quite a lot of blonde moments. I can't remember them all exactly right now, but here's the first one.

Michelle is a blonde story #1: We're in the car discussing my fear of geese, when someone draws a comparison between geese and vampires (who have no reflections), and someone proceeds to say, "Hey, I wonder if geese have reflections?" I respond by saying, "Oh, I know geese have reflections! Wanna know how I know?" and I proceed to tell a story about a goose I saw staring at it's reflection. Did I really need to see that to know? Duh.

P.S. East Side Mario's food is FANTASTIC. Hellooooooooooo home bread!!!!

Disappointing math

1 + 1 = 2.
2 - 1 = 1.

Single again.

Randomness-ity

Blogger has a new format, and if you know me, you know I don't like change. I don't like this new-ness. Albeit, it does LOOK prettier, but frankly, I don't want to sit around trying to figure out how everything works. Sigh.

So, this Piko Piko Hammer game is the most useless (as are most internet games) thing ever, but it is so stinking FUN! I'm so addicted. Hit the red guy two times, get the coins and hearts, don't hit the spikey balls, hit the eyeballs with the right number, don't hit man swinging weird weapon....ahahahah. So fun and SO useless. AND the best thing is that it requires no technique whatsoever.

My heart hurts. Not physically, just emotionally. It's been a weird 24 hours. God is trying to tell me something, and I don't think I'm listening hard enough. Sigh.

Next weekend is my church retreat. It'll be crazy sleepless nights full of fun youth games (like Sardines, the best game EVER) and good times with God. It'll also be stressful as I have two exams right after I get back. So here I go, back to studying so that maybe, just maybe, I won't have to study next weekend. Raiiiight.

PIKOPIKO HAMMER

Piko Piko Hammer game

Displacement

So I've been thinking about this whole blog thing. I blog because I guess I assume it's a good way to keep everyone updated with what's going on in my life. I mean, I read blogs for the same reason. I almost wonder, thought, whether it gives me an excuse not to have direct contact with ppl. It's not that I have billions of minutes to spend on the phone, which makes me sad, but I really would like to actually talk to ppl and not just e-mail or chat online. That being said, if you're reading this and I haven't talked to you in a while, gimme a call. Or I'll try and give you a call. But I miss my bananas, especially. Anyhoo, that being said, lemme know if anyone wants to go to a United (the Hillsongs youth band) Live concert at Queensway Cathedral on May 20th! It's free, apparently, and the last one rocked! :)

Oh, and the e-mail is now mishelle@gmail.com. I get ONE WHOLE GIGABYTE OF SPACE! How great is THAT for someone who never deletes e-mails?!?! :)

Note-taking

I'm less than a week away from officially finishing my 4th year at York. I got my Honours Thesis back and did fantastically WAY better than anticipated (considering I finished it exactly an hour late), my teaching block is going fantastically now, and there's a P.A. Day coming up on Friday, oh, as well as Jump Rope for Heart on Thursday. Unfortunately, summer school also started this week, so I'm scrambling to keep up with everything. I was thinking as I was taking notes in class today that really, ahahahaa, all this past year, I took...literally, probably 5 pages of notes, TOTAL. No, this wasn't because I was lazy, or had powerpoint or something. I really just had all these classes that required no note-taking. American Sign Language (does anyone know any deaf ppl?) bans taking notes in classes, my ed classes require no note-taking, and well, my honours thesis required lots of note-taking but not from lectures. So basically, I've been spoiled (I'm wondering if I'll start getting hate mail from you ppl reading this blog) and am now SO unused to taking notes. It's such foreign thing to me to be taking notes in class. Ahahahaha. Yep, so that's it. Didn't note-take ALL last year. I know you hate me.

Third one of the month

Is it even possible that I have yet another infection?!?!? This one isn't contagious because it's a viral infection. My doctor told me that usually only chilren get it. I rolled my eyes in exasperation. When will this madness end? I just don't want to be infected with anything anymore!!!! Leave me alone! It's been a battle all April...me against bacteria and viruses, and I've lost every time. Craziness.