Brings out the worst in people

Let me just start by saying I love games. Game night is possible one of the best ideas anyone has ever had. It is fun and exciting and really brings people together...well for the most part. But let me tell you!! There is a particular game that I truly believe is of the devil. Nothing good comes from this game. It brings out the worst in people, and they don't simply get over the next day. No siree! I understand that I may have somewhat of a competitive nature in any game I play but this one brings out the worst in EVERYBODY. The infamous game of RISK. So much fun, yet so destructive.
So it was set like this.... Kari, Erin, Matt, Kyle, and myself decided to have a friendly game of risk (or so we thought). I had no intention of backstabbing anyone or getting anger (nobody ever does). I was fortunate enough to get 2 of the australia pieces, setting me up perfectly to creep into asia with my sly lil army fellas. There was nobody around me cause everybody knows that you don't really have much of a chance getting asia and everyone has people over there so they are a bunch of lil ones over there. Just after I take over the whole of australia (piece of cake) Matt King decides to put his bonus pieces (he had conquered south america) onto siam (right above australia). And he attacked me with no mercy. Luckily I wore him down with my smooth rolling and he gave up. But there was revenge in my heart. I was bitter and angry! What made it worse was that Kyle had decided to team up with Matt (even though they are hardly even friends) so there was no way to get to Matt to take away his South America bonus! (Kyle was being a lil gatekeeper bully man)
For those faithful readers that are not familiar with risk, let me put it to you this way. Matt was mean and I was angry at him and Kyle was lame so I was angry with him.
Now, Erin was mad as well but Kari (who is dating Matt) was neutral for a while but decided not to attack her boyfriend and she was in africa so Matt was basically off limits. Then she got mad at us for attacking her and I accused her of being a traitor over to the boys side. Let me just voice my opinion that risk is a game of strategic world domination.... you cannot think with your heart!! There is no sharing of the world.
Anyways, we really got into it last night and were yelling at each other pretty intensely, so we decided to take a break and go to bed (it was 2:30 in the morning).
The battle continues tonight....
Hopefully our friendships make it out alive.

nerdy

Man I'm such a nerd haha. So good news everyone. I was asked by one of my profs to be a teacher assistant for her next year in the stats psych class and I had to apply through the computer lab to do it. Then I had the interview a little over a week ago and I was beginning to think I didn't get the job. Maybe because they knew I overloaded my credits next semester so they thought I would be too busy. But today I got an email saying I got the job!!! So I am super excited about it. It will look great on future apps and it's on campus and only during the week and around my crazy schedule. It is absolutely perfect!
More good news...I am taking mom out for a surprise birthday supper to the melting pot tomorrow night because she has never been before!
Even more good news...Kings Dominion on Saturday...finally.
And some more good news...Brandon is suppose to be coming back home from Iraq next month which is a month earlier than originally planned! Hopefully he will get in before I leave for Germany!

Garret kicked the bucket...

Haha. We went and saw Garret and Jason in their play last night and when Garret carried this dead guy on stage he kicked a bucket and it made the loudest noise. omgosh I almost DIED laughing. Had some serious laughter control going on. He did really well in his section of the play...wish it was longer but that's alright. It was really good. He is just so silly.

colds are awful..God is great

I HATE colds. I don't know what happened but Sunday I woke up with an awful head cold. (I blame Ms. Marks and Ms. Castle...and Mr. Castle....just too much CFAW fun I suppose). So as I was saying...I had the worst time sleeping and such and skipped my classes Monday then had tests and quizzes galore Tuesday and Wednesday...needless to say focusing and studying was quite difficult in my sick state. Thankfully I feel better now...just in time for the whole lot of nothing I have to do this weekend. Oh well.
I have an interview tomorrow in the ILRC to be a lab assistant and tutor for psyc stats next year. Hopefully I get it because that would be beyond awesome!
Me and Erin are seeing Garret and Jason in a play Friday night haha I'm pretty stoked about it...should be rather interesting.
And my interesting story of the day is that in my Abnormal Psyc class we had a guest speaker come in who struggles with schizophrenia. He told us about how he did a whole lot of crazy drugs (some of which I have never heard of) and he had this episodes of hearing voices that would tell him to run around naked in the mall to get the devil out of him and a bunch of crazy stories like that. For the past 3 months he has been on medicine that is helping him with little side effects and he started going to church and says that he believes now the only thing that got him through those time was God and he was given those difficulties for a reason...to be a witness to others and to tell her stories and bring hope to people that feel there is nothing left to hope for. And it really just amazed me because on a Christian campus like Liberty you don't really hear a lot about people that have struggles like that or come from such a difficult background. It was just really cool to hear him talk about how much he hope he has through his sruggles.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Our struggles do not diminish our faith or our hope in Christ. They are opportunities for us, to minister, to grow closer to God, to realize the extreme suffering he felt on the cross for us. And we can stay strong in our knowledge of the life after death. We will one day live in a place free from sin and suffering and not be burdened by these earthly trials. Just my thought for the day I suppose.

I have a blog!!

Thanks to Becky and Michelle I have made myself a blog. Officially a "blogger" as they say. They are here for CFAW!! with Zach and Briana! It's gunna be a pretty fun time. I would be jealous if I wasn't a part of it. Also in the good news category for the day....I was offered a job on campus next semester by one of my professors to be an assistant in her classes and tutoring some during the week. Which was a total blessing because my finances are in BAD SHAPE...yikes. Also needed prayer for a summer job. I applied some places already because I want to be the FIRST in the door and I'm going to Germany and want to have a job when I come back. School is almost done for the year which I am soooo excited about. Even though I'll be taking classes over the summer. It will still be a much needed break though. Alright guess that's it for now... oh except I would like to share my realization that occurred to me in a dream the other day... I think I'm subconsciously afraid of the color purple because a person in purple kept chasing me in a maze and I could not get away from him. Thoughts from any professional, or amateur, dream analyzers would be much appreciated.
God bless yall