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i'm sitting in a slightly disorganized room eating a fruit cup in cheez-it pajamas.  i'm thinking that it's kinda yucky outside, thank goodness someone just called to tell me my lights were on in my car, i wanna watch a movie and go to sleep.  and my tooth still hurts from the filling.  and you know what?  it's time to start doin my time with Jesus in the MORNINGS.  that means i gotta go to bed sooner and get up a loooot earlier than i'm gonna want to get up!  

school is not being very friendly to me right now.  at the start of this semester, i wasn't putting forth much effort, and that was starting to get to me.  now, i AM putting forth some effort, and school is absolutely beating me up like a 3rd grade bully!   on another note, william lyon is addicted to halo.  i mean, i haven't seen this kind of addiction since the halo days of high school.  i'm really enjoying being a part of stone bridge church...there are some really cool people there and God's definitely up to something.  i found some fellow skimboarders on the ngu ultimate b-team!  and they are pretty good.  we were out skimboarding in some of the puddles tonight.  well....i was under the caf deck watching them because wet+coldness+an actual cold = pnemonia for chris brank. but it was fun watching robbie earle skimboard for the first time. ...  ... and fall.  

and now...i'm going to start reading a book.  life without facebook is fabulous.  i realized half the time i used my phone was to check my mail, and 75% of the reason i checked my mail was because i got facebook notifications.  so now i don't use my phone as much either, and this is the first time i've sat at this computer for this long in a week!  and it's only been like 15 minutes!  so now i'm getting off because nathan needs my chair for william, jobi, skeeter and nathan halo time.  i think i'll crawl in bed.  my tooth still hurts.  

it's about that time

wow.  it really is about that time to write a blog again.  the main reason i'm writing this blog is to say that i'm gonna get away from facebook for a while.  why?  because...

1.  it just consumes a lot of my time.  i don't think just limiting my time on it would work for me.  i mean, that works for some people, that's cool.  but i'm just gonna cut it out, and if i do come back, i'd like to do it for the sole purpose of encouragement.  not to try to get a date or impress people or gain popularity by having a million friends, but for the sole purpose of connecting with people to encourage them.  but in order to do that, i've gotta get away for a while.

2.  i don't want to have friends that are just my friends on facebook.  i mean the kind of people that i only talk to on facebook and not in real life.  i'd rather get calls than messages, i'd rather get calls than wall posts, i'd rather get calls than texts, and i'd rather actually talk to someone in real life than all of those combined.  in this crazy 21st century culture we live in we've somewhat lost REAL connections with REAL people.  like face to face.  and we've lost it to AIM, texts, facebook, myspace, etc.  i want something real.  and i think the people in this generation want it as well.  they just don't know it!

3.  i would consider myself faithful to facebook.  i check it pretty much everyday.  i get emails sent to me with notifications, and i can check them on my phone any second of the day.  that's faithful right there.  guess what i'm not faithful about?  God's word.  prayer.  hope.  faith.  i want the faith and the hope that Peter talks about in his first letter, i want to be filled with inexpressible joy!!!!!!  facebook can't offer that, but man sometimes i was trying to find my encouragement and happiness through that site.  

also, this weekend, i'm gonna turn off my cell phone!  i'm gonna let my parents know when i arrive and when i leave, but it's going off.  i want my entire attention on what God is doing here and now.

let me just say i have some absolutely AMAZING friends.  real ones.  that same letter peter wrote says "now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart."  that's incredible.  and God has placed people in my life that love me like that.  i want that kind of love, and i believe everyone does, and i want to offer that kind of love.  and i want to offer it face to face!