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Name: Tiffany
Interests: God, people, history, literature, knitting, colors, chemistry, cloud watching, star gazing, music, polotics, health, education...I am sure there is more, but I can't think of them.
Expertise: LEARNING
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  whitevenus9
Member Since:
2/23/2005
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| Mom held a candle party to receive the hostess discounts, which is why we hold all of our parties. I bought a couple of candles for my room that night and one of them happened to be the purple candle refresh. When I tested the scent of the candle it was a pleasing clean smell, and when I received the candle, it still had a pleasing clean smell. The scent of the candle, though, was so strong that I could still smell it when I placed it in a zip lock bag in the drawer of my desk. I assumed I would never use the candle unless I wanted to die of scent suffocation, which upset me because I felt stupid for buying it.
It has now been a year (give or take a few months) since I bought the candle and I am burning it... I wonder if I just got used to the smell while I sat at my desk or if the scent died a little from sitting so long. Perhaps the answer is both. However, I find that my fears in life are sometimes similar. Last year I wanted to take dance lessons again, to find a group of Christians to fellowship with, to stay in contact with my friends around the US... etc, yet I didn't because I was too busy and too afraid. I feel ready to burn some wicks where fear have kept me from lighting the match, perhaps because I have lived with the fear long enough or maybe because the consequences of inaction have lessened those fears. In either or both cases I will not be able to with out the strength that Christ brings, so for those of you who make it this far pray for Christ to conquer my fear and my willingness to let Him do so. | | |
| So far I have discovered so much this weekend that I would rival Columbus.  Yesterday, the rose my dad plucked from our rose bush fully bloomed. When it was first placed in the house it was just a tiny little rose, but now it is enormous and beautiful with God's paint brush gently touching the ends of the pale yellow petals with the redish color of cranberries. Later that evening, I found a website with the 7 min trailer for X-Men: The Last Stand (which looks sooooo cool!! AAAHHH!!).
This morning on the paper route, (I did it for my brother who is at state for track.) I discovered that my grandma and I can deliver 200 papers in less than an hour. At work I made some unpleasant discoveries. There was a dead mouse in the out door pool which I skimmed out and took to the dumpster.  (GROSS) Then the ice machine wasn't working, and the guys that closed last night did not do any laundry. SO MANY WHITE TOWELS!!! HELP!
After work, my Grandma took me to lunch, and I realized that the jello is my favorite part of Hometown Buffet. I know it is silly, but I rarely have jello. It is some much fun to slurp. (giggle) Later, I was looking in my wallet, and I found the newest quarter, Nebraska. I swear it came out of no where  .
When I got home I took a nap and woke up hungry. Maybe my family is on their way home from the meet, so I called to see where they were. It was 6 PM and Mom said they wouldn't be home until 11, so forget waiting to eat dinner with them. However when I called, I discovered that the boys had taken 4th in the state track meet (pretty awesome for a team that has never made it in the top ten before). My brother got like 10th in high jump and his four by one team didn't make it past the qualifying rounds by 2 hundredths of a second. (HARSH)
So I grabbed my grandma again, and we played hand and foot while I ate Chinese food. For dessert we had Junior Mints and oolong tea, an odd but excellent combination!! My last discovery was in the mail from Camp Wabanna. It was the legal stuff for employment and all, but it was probably the best discovery of the day. Ya know, I should write a book about this day, of course I would have to exaggerate some stuff.... Oh wait I just did write a book about it  ! (no exaggerations though)
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| I love the smell of all the flowers in the spring, but we really need some showers for the heat.
In my sociology class, we have been talking about world hunger, the world bank, and the W.T.O. Which all lot of the world hunger we have today is created by the way world trade is forced on other third world countries. Did you know we have enough food to feed everyone in the world 3000-4000 calories a day (so much for overpopulation)? If that happened, it wouldn't only be the US that was fat! Some kid in my class said that it was evils of capitalism that was causing world hunger. After all capitalism is based on the exploitation of people.
What are they teaching people in school? Do they even know what the father of capitalism said capitalism was based on? Better question, do they even know we have a father of capitalism?
"Help people so you can make money." (Adam Smith) Find a product or service that they need and sell it to them. Granted people are corrupt and in any economic system there will be a few people trying to grab as much money/power as they can, but just because we see that happening in a capitalistic world doesn't mean that capitalism is evil. we have seen the exploitation of people in socialism and communism. So I am bad, I didn't say anything in class against his comment. At the time I didn't feel like I had enough info. Hopefully I will be able to bring it up again in class, but honestly who is filling these kids head with nonsense?!!!
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| I bought my tickets to go to Wabanna, but I don't arrive until June 15th early in the morning. It is sad to miss so much of camp training, but I don't finish my finals until 5:30pm June 14th. My journey and summer begin the moment I hand in my Organic ACS test.
It will be awesome and I can't to see everybody that I have been so horrible about keeping in contact with. I miss you all, but life never seems to give me time to be the best of correspondents. Aw but soon I will see your faces and get a few moments to at least say hi before all the kids come. Oh the kids. If you can't tell I am very nostalgic.
Anyway, my sociology class has been bring up some interesting points about how the world is run. I know that we should try to better the lives of the next generation by making choices that will help decrease poverty, disease, and war. But sometimes it is like they are trying to put all the blame for those problems on people who are rich and more privileged. I don't think that everyone who is rich and privileged uses their blessings in a manner that God would have them. No doubt our individual decisions should be looking out for those around us. We should buy things that not only help us but also help the people in need and keep the environment cleaner.
And I agree with my prof that all the civil movements have helped open people's eyes to discrimination, but I feel like we are swinging too far from one radical way of thinking to another. I suppose if we could get everyone in the world to "love their neighbor as they love themselves we wouldn't have all the problems we have today."
Until that day comes, I want to be the like the man who though the starfish back into the sea even though there were thousands of starfish on the beach and no possible way to get to them all.
He was asked.
"What does it matter throwing that starfish in the sea? You can't save them all."
And answered.
"It mattered to that one."
With the blessings God has given us we should bless others, and it is always good to remember that each of us has been blessed by God one way or another.
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| Way to much to do not enough time to do it in! I thrieve in these
situation, because it will all get done. Pray for my brother I am
trying to convience him to come to camp next summer (this summer is
already out of the question). If he does I want to take a road
trip home all over the country. Wouldn't that be AWESOME!
We could even go to the Mall of America, so he can shop for
shoes. It is strange that my brother likes to shop more than I
do. But it would be SO COOL. A last hoora before we begin
living very separate lives.
Maybe he will let me go see some cool historical places too and then we
could go to a concert. It would be the second concert of my life,
but it would be awesome. hehe I wonder how many times my mom
would want us to call her on our way back home? LOL I love my mom.
(huge smile)
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