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Always be positive! There may be a downside, but there is also an upside! Sometimes it's hard to findthe upside, but there always is one! You just got to find it. It might take work, and it might be hard, but it's there. You can find it.

Lesson!!

Yesterday...

Love was such an easy game to play....


Yeah, anyways. So yesterday was pretty much superfuntastico. Renae, Julia, and I went to see my Opa. We brought him some KFC : ) And we ate supper with him and we visited my oma. After that we went to Booster Juice in Burlington and got Boosters...BAHAHAHAHA...(sorry, can't get over the name of that store...) Anyways, so after Booster Juice we went to Blockbuster and we were going to get a movie, actually we got a movie (Chasing Liberty) but ew didn't watch it. Then we went to Dantuma's house and we watched Josie and the Pussycats. It was all right. Well, it was pretty good, I guess. Yeah. It was fun times. We had Milos. They were good. And pop corn (two words).

Guess what else? Apparently I am now a wombat-possum. Cool,eh? Bet you have never seen one of them before! Yesss!! One of a kind, that's me!

Why Chapstick?

here's an interesting fact for ya:

Nadine = hope (Slavic)

Jacqueline = supplanter (Hebrew)

Muis = mouse (Dutch)

That's what my name means.

Is that not an interesting fact?

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Allo.

So, today I didn't have school. It was niice. We(my mom, Christopher, Kira, Aunt Jackie, and me) went to St. Jacob's market today, just for fun. It was grand. Me and Kira pretty much had these amazing cinnamon buns for lunch, they were insanely great! Indeed, I don't think I've ever had a better cinnamon bun. Yeah, it was good. Then, we went and got wine gums and Oh Henry bars. They were good too. After that, we went tooo...ermmm a glass and metal workshop thinger. There was a glass sink with a swirl of red in it...it was entitled "The Shaving Accident" BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...it makes me laugh... BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...it was funny, okay? After that we went to an antique store, that was pretty neat too. I bought a cool bracelet and I pretty much really like it. Yeah. That was my day. Oh wait, after that I went home and tried cleaning my room. But that didn't work very well. I did clean it a bit though. Not all the way. I'll have to finish tomorrow, after work...WOO.

Andyways, i'm going to go now.

L.W.

So yesterday there was a Living Worship, it was fantastic. I love you guys! It was so pretty, like, to hear all the voices all joining together to praise our God. It is absolutely incredible. You can really feel unified at these evenings. It's grand.

Also, I got to see my beautiful cousin Justine, finally! (She was in Europe for ages! She has to show me all of her awesome pictures...I'm excited!) And she was taking pictures of everything(at LW) and so she tried to take one of me but I dodged...heheheh so you can only see like a little bit of my face : ) I'm proud of myself. But then she was like "Haha, I'm going to put this one the internet" Yeah, it was funny! I think you had to be there...

AND I met this sweet guy named Gus, he's pretty much splendid, I mean his name's Gus, how can you go wrong?

love

I've finally decided what I really love.

Random, unexpected encounters with people I love. They are amazing. Like, just now, one of my cousins (who got married last month) just dropped by. Her name is Candice and I love her a lot. She's really an amazing woman. Very smart, brilliant actually. And she is amazing at piano and she has numerous other talents. Just seeing her beautiful face made me smile. I gave her a hug. She makes me happy.

Yeah, that's what I love.

One thing

So...I was wondering aloud to myself...

If I could have one thing in this life, what would it be?

So, I have come to this conclusion:

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Don't ask...there really IS a method to my madness...I'm not even joking!

Allo!

Bonjour! Je n'ai pas un bon apres-midi parce que mes lunettes ne viens pas. Translation: Good day! I did not have a good afternoon because my glasses did not come. Yep, that's what it says. I'm a French student through and through...except I don't think I translated it properly...so forget the whole French student through and through part.

Funny story, me and my friend Maria have decided that we are going to be old maids together (when we're old, obviously). But my other friend Kathryn has promised us that she would send us on double dates every Friday night until we find someone who is right for us. And so, we've retaliated in saying that if she is going to waste all that time to arrange dates for us...we may as well return the favour. And so, we are officially going to plan her entire wedding for her, so as she doesn't have to worry about it. : )

argh

So, I have to wait until Friday for my glasses now...They tried three times with their lens thinger and it messed up so now they have to send it someplace and yeah...BUT I got a new set of contac lenses(does contac have a "t" on the end...contac or contact...wierd) Anyways, I got a new pair for FREEE!!! Thats' right, absolutely NO CHARGE!! WOOT WOOT! You can't go wrong with free stuff! But, I don't have my glasses : ( Sigh, there's always a downside...but if you look at it the other way...you could say there's always an up side...wierd eh? Have you ever thought of that? Whenever someone says there's always a downside you can tell them that there's also always an upside.

So, my sister is now most likerly giong to the Maritimes and Montreal with my Australian cousin next week! I'm so jealous! Sigh. Instead, I get to go to school...woooo(that was a sarcastis woo)

But, yeah...I'm supposed to be studying for this massive French test I have on Thursday...I should go! Procrastination...boo!

Discuss

Don't you think it would be good if we learned about the other religions(Muslim, Jehovah Witness-ism, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, even Buddhism) at school? Then we would know exactly what they believe and we can compare our religion to theirs, and we can compare our religion to theirs, and we can convince them (or ourselves) that ours is the true faith. Also, they might actually listen to us better because we would be able to see where they are coming from, we will understand what they believe, and not just be like "No, this is what I believe, and it's right, no matter what you say." We should listen to them and softly (after all, God spoke in a whisper) point out to them where our belief differs from theirs and where it explains better, not just outright tell them, "No. You're wrong!"

I was discussing this at work with an extremely brilliant co-worker named Rosalyn (I hope that's how you spell it), it was great!

So, right now I'm doing a fiendish sudoku, it's pretty fiendish all right! Very difficult! I have like, not even half filled in yet...but that's okay, because I'm not giving up...yet.
So, yesterday I was having an amazingly difficult conversation with someone I know. It was really wierd, because I was asking all these hard questions about how she could believe how she does (never doubting and strong). So I was asking questions about how she knew He was there. And she answsered me by saying:
He is right there with you, Nadine even if you don't feel Him. If you draw really close to Him then you can know that He is there. It's different when you pray about things and watch for God to answer them. You can ask God to do things in your life and then trust that He will answer them according to what He thinks is best for you and then wait and see what He does.
I made some random replies in there, but I thought it would be best to leave it out. After that, we went on to talk about how if God wasn't upholding this earth, we would all be nothing.
She said something later, that really struck me,
Faith is only confusing when you are running from the truth.
I think that is well worth remembering. When she said that, I objected and said I wasn't running from the truth, but I guess I kind of am, I'm not really accepting that God is there, I'm not taking the step to trust in Him completely, for everything, because it's too scary and I'm a wimp. My mind is full of questions like "What if we're wrong and there is no life after death?" And then there are people who are so amazingly strong, and always there to help you, but maybe you don't want to talk to them, because they make you feel inadequate...if you know what I mean?

Another thing, she told me to look at the text James 4:8a. It shows exactly what you (or me) should do in this situation.

Come near to God and He will come near to you.

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I went to the eye doctor today and my left eye is now worser. So, I'm getting glasses again.

Yeah, I also got my health card done(finally!)

AND, I went to school again, as usual.

Now, I'm attempting to learn my catechism...but to no avail. And, I'm eating a stroepwaffle, which is marvelous. So, all in all, an all right time, except that I really need to learn my catechism. So, I must depart with serenity and equity and everything else that means speed.

Today

So, I finally went home today...I've only been away from home since Thursday, so it's not that long, but it feels long to me! It was long. Deziree and Christina are over and they are a blast, I love it when they come over!

I have this amazing book, called One Pink Shoe, my friends, Maria and Kathryn, bought it for me for my birthday, it's a level one reading and it's about Barbie and her one pink shoe. It was amazing, I would even reward it with astounding, or incredible. I was most happy about it.

So, right now I'm going to Grade Eleven(sound so much bigger than Grade Ten!!!!) And I have English, French, Latin, and Chemistry. Chemistry is my best class I think...from what I can tell at least. I think French is going worst rightnow, but I am still trying to remember all the things I've forgotten from previous years. So, French should get better. Latin is pretty easy, for now, it should get tougher, but it's pretty good. English is English, it's not bad, it's not especially good, I'm not complaining. I think I should try a little harder though, just because I know I can. Maybe I should just be happy with what I have now...but I think I should try harder.

But, for now, that's all I've got

See you!