the past 4 weeks

Gwennie's memorial

guys watching football

brothers punching each other at church

pip's new pad

skeletons in a museum

thanksgiving

gummi worms

pies and fries

maranatha kids making animals with various sweet things

home-made biscotti

borders with amaris

decorating the christmas tree

morrissey in concert

and life keeps going...

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Chapter 1

I have been thinking a lot about where i am.
i know, weird.

I graduated yesterday from LCAD. Summa Cum Laude, with art i am proud of, and so many people around me that i have fallen in love with i can hardly even hold it in. i am such a different person than i was 3 years ago...my mind is different, my outlook is different, i wrestled with doubts, fears, sadness, and experienced countless times of faithfulness from the Lord, in spite of myself.

All i can do is thank and praise Him with all my heart. and for the prayers and support of my family, my friends, of you...

i feel like everything leading up to now has been a prologue to my life story, and now it can finally begin...

RAD.


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the past 3 days

sleepy dogs in the morning...

creepiest fruit i've ever seen...and even worse when you read what it's called...

the ginko bonsai turned lemon yellow...

Sarah's been feeling awful all week...:( so she cozied up...

video chatting with Artie and Helen (Alec's parents, while Sarah investigates her birthday present from Alec (Sesame Street "Old School")...

Thanksgiving dinner table

Day-After-Thanksgiving hike in Eaton Canyon...




it has been beautiful outside. Alec has been working madly on Christmas music...

the dogs got a bath tonight while Sarah and i watched Sesame Street, Sarah finished knitting Alec's hat and Alec and i did some music...

i like my green rose earrings.




FIN


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nothing like apple pie for breakfast

it's beautiful outside...maybe i'll go hiking. i left my phone charger in orange two days ago so i have no cell phone. it's weird. i'm sorry if anyone has tried to call me...
Thanksgiving was good this year...me, my mom, Sarah, Alec, mom's friend Beth and her husband Dave, their friend Yeung and an old family friend named Wendell all sat around the table for dinner. Then another friend of my mom's named Carole and her young tenant Krista came over and we all sang. The Lord blessed it.
It was also Sarah's 23rd birthday yesterday, and Alec and i (mostly Alec) threw together an impromptu birthday song for her. Pip did a little something, too. It's pretty fantastic.

i hope you all had a lovely day yesterday.

i'm lying on the couch right now and Maela is trying to get me to scratch her head. i have a lot to do today...just kind of trying to rev myself up i suppose...

every day for the last couple of days i've had to really pound it into my head that there's life after today. it isn't always necessarily positive or negative...it just feels that way for whatever reason.
it's strange not to be able to identify your own emotions...kind of feeling hypersensitive and numb all at the same time. it makes it kind of hard to look at people. it's also hard to be productive. i should do something about that.


i'll post some pictures later perhaps




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