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Name: It
Birthday: 6/7/1989
Gender: Female
Interests: I play the saxophone, love anything that has to do with band, am a growing Christian, and love to learn
Expertise: Eh, probably music I guess...but I am by no means the best at it.
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Member Since:
5/14/2005
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| Has anyone noticed how much history repeats itself?
Does this bother anyone? That we seem to be making the same mistakes over and over again. In my ACP History class, we discuss many things, but what I find most interesting is how we can apply almost every situation that was faced a hundred years ago to today. There are so many examples of history repeating itself, I'm not even going to try and list them all...but there is one that really hit me today as I was sitting in church. My pastor was talking about how the solution to problems today is "positive thinking, making yourself a better person" blah blah, basically how people are taught to make their life better by becoming optimists. Now, this got me thinking...wait a minute. Where have I heard this before? Then I thought back to English class, and how we are currently discussing Ralph Waldo Emerson, Utopia, and the way of thinking that was happening during the late 1800s. We just got done reading something from Emerson's "Self-Reliance" in this, Emerson talks about how there is good in everyone, how people can be better...perfect almost, once they reach a certain way of thinking. A "Spiritual level" so to speak. In this, people become one with nature and God. They are all connected. This is attained by relying on yourself, realizing your potential, and forgetting yourself--as in individual. This is where the Utopian societies came from (utopia means perfect, by the way). People that had attained the "Spiritual level" of thinking lived together. The idea was that people would be wonderful enough to live together without any kind of a government. All of these societies failed. Now in case you are wondering where I am going with this, think about it. Do you see the connection to today? Back then, people were relying on themselves. They abandoned the "traditons" (which were relying on God and other people to help you get through life), and did what they thought would be ideal. They wanted to rebel and break away. But did it have any kind of effect? No. I can honestly picture some of the people from today in that era, doing these things. People are looking for answers that they cannot find on their own, no matter what they do. We are put on this earth for a reason. There are other people here for a reason. We are not designed to live day by day, every day of our lives leaning only on ourselves. It is not possible for us to do. God put us on this earth. God doesn't want us to lean only on ourselves. He wants us to use our "lights" to go out and help others. And you know what? There is absolutely nothing wrong with needing help from others. There is nothing wrong with believing in a Greater Being that designed you. There is nothing wrong believing that you need a God, people, family, and yourself to get through life. We are designed for it. When you need help, reach out. It doesn't make you weak. It doesn't make others think less of you. It doesn't make others think you are brainwashed into thinking that you need a God to get you through life. Reach out If people would realize the mistakes of the past, we might be able to move into the future just a little bit more productively. I hope that people can follow this, I am in a weird mood right now and am having a difficult time saying exactly what I mean. I may come back and fix it later. Thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings  | | |
| I am out-of-my-mind excited right now for summerband to start.
Okay, update about the summer thus far
State Softball Game: We made it all the way to the big game, but unfortunately lost in the end. We set a record for the longest state game: 7hrs. Yeah, it was insane. It sucked that every time we paused the game Kayla was pitching. Oh well, it is done and over with now. We took the state runner-up picture and were sized for rings today. Yay rah.
About the only other thing that I have done this summer worth mentioning is a truck pull that I went to over the weekend. The only reason that I went is so that I could record video for my aunt. I was bored out of my mind, but the pay was good so I will do it again for her if she wants me to.
I do have to say though, that most of the truckers that I saw lived up to their stereotype. I cracked me up at times. They drink and cuss quite a bit, and are not the smartest people when it comes to everyday things...but they definitely know their trucks. My cousin (he is not bad about drinking and cussing) was talking to some others about the atomization of diesel..or something to that effect. There are not a whole lot of times that I feel dumb, but being around my aunt, uncle and cousin--with them constantly talking about trucks and truck parts--I felt dumb.
While I was swimming in the hotel, everything was fine until a group of morons came out with their coolers of beer. I was thinking "How stupid can you get? Drinking in a pool?!?" At that point I just wanted to get out and leave.
I have been introduced to The Matrix, and if you've seen my myspace page, you probably understand that I am quite impressed with it!!
Ttyl all | | |
| Okay, so yeah my birthday was last Wednesday...and what did k80 do?
What else other than have a Star Wars marathon at my house!! That's right, all six movies...13.5 hours for those curious.
It was the best time I'd had in a long time...not quite as good as Gatlinburg, but still a great time.
Starting out kind of slow, Travis Cawthorn, David Dupree, Nathan Steirs, and Daniel/Pactrick Bockover were the only ones to show up on time.
A little later, Ryan Mason, Jake Brunsman, Barbie Howard, Riley Paulsen, and Amanda Thornberry. What a crowd, we had so much fun.
Starting at 11am, we didn't get done until 1am...it was great. We went through 3lbs of hot dogs, 7lbs of BBQ pork (yuck!!), and 3lbs of spaghetti (that was for dinner). It was insane. Not to mention all the fruit and other misc. things we had out for people.
I didn't even open my presents until around 10 or so...that was great too. I got some great cards, and David gave me a set of tapes from the old radio program!! I was--and still am--really excited about that.
The best part of the entire night though, was after most people left (sorry guys, I don't mean it like that). Travis, Ryan, David, Daniel, my brother and I all went out to the front and light-saber fought in the moonlight. It was amazing. And no, we weren't just hitting each other with sticks like 7 year olds, Ryan was actually teaching me how to sword fight...I loved it even though I got bruised knuckles from the whole experience. :) (I think that I may be turning into a masacust [even though I am not going to attempt to spell that word corectly], because I seem to get hurt so much that I am enjoying it now ;))
Okay, that is all for now, since it is 3am, and I need to get up tomorrow.
ttyl,
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Hey all....what can I say, I've been busy?
Yea, so much has happened since I last updated that I am not even going to begin to try to explain. But I will elaborate on a few highlights:
Gatlinburg: This was so much fun that it will take a while to explain.
I ended up hanging out with Mathew P., Tenely R., and Riley P. This in itself (if you know any of them) should explain some of the fun that I had. Matt has to be on of the most random people that I have ever met in my life...we will be walking down that street, and he will make a random comment that doesn't have anything to do with anything that we were talking about, start whistling a random tune, or break out into a random song. It was very entertaining. :) I had never really gotten to know Tenely before this, but I roomed with her and hung out, she is very entertaining as well. She too will come up with a random comment about something (but not in a ditsy way) and will get everyone to talk about it. --Although I will admit, Mathew and Tenely can get into some....interesting...conversations that I didn't want to hear or be apart of :D...but it was all good. When they did this, Riley would turn to me and tell me not to listen or to cover my ears--to which I would respond that I had tuned out a long time ago. :) I'm just disappointed that I won't be able to become more acquainted with Tenely or Matt before they head off to college. I had already known Riley pretty well at this point, so I didn't learn to much more about him :)
I do have to say that I don't think I could have picked a more indecisive group to be with...and this is not a bad thing, but it is just not my style. At the start, Riley said that he was not going to take charge of the group; because that is what he always did…therefor he refused this time. Matt and Riley decided that they were going to make Tenely be in charge. This was entertaining in itself (Tenely, if you read this don't be angry, I'm not trying to be mean, I just found this whole experience new and fun), because Tenely is not one to take charge...she seemed to me more of a follower (really they all did, but I was determined not to be a control freak--I was just going to sit back and enjoy the show for once). So, the whole time, we are walking painfully slow for me, and are saying the whole time "Do you want to do this?" "Well, only if you want to" "Well I don't really care, it was just a thought" "Well its fine with me if you guys want to do that...." it just went on and on until one of us would actually walk into the store. Riley thought that it was driving me crazy (and it was to a small extent), but in all reality I just thought it was hilarious--thinking to myself "Would they really just stand out here all day and do this back and forth thing if they were able to?"
Another thing that Riley thought was driving me crazy...and he was right about this but I wasn't going to let him know that at the time…was the itinerary. I love having free time, don't get me wrong--and I don't like having to be somewhere at a certain time, but when I have an itinerary, I look at it constantly and make sure that it is followed---Riley tried to break me of this habit unsuccessfully :)
We had the absolute worst bus imaginable...seriously it was raining incredibly hard at one point, and we had to get onto the bus. This was an experience, because the water that was collecting on top of the bus was literally dumping all of it right above the only door into the bus! So you got a shower as you entered (and this just happened to fall exactly when we were going to contest and were wearing nice clothes and such....it was pretty hilarious in a sad way. :)
We went to the arcade after our performance...this was another indecisive decision time. I knew exactly what I wanted to do...motion ride, bumper cars, and laser tag...but I wasn't going to be insistent upon these things, and was just going to do whatever. This made things interesting as well. We started out with a motion ride, and then went to a retarded 3D movie that wasn't worth anything. BUT the motion ride was so much fun!! At one point, there was this huge jerk, and I bumped into Riley, knocking him off the seat :) He was like "I am off the seat! I am off the seat!!" This in itself was hilarious. Then we were waiting around to play laser tag once there was less of a crowd. During this time I played Mr. D in air hockey...and he won technically, but he cheated and the darn table didn't give me one of my points (excuses I know, but I'm a competitive person ;)). So at this point it is getting late, and we decide to just come back in the morning-and to kill time we would just walk around some more.
So morning rolls around and we decide (after some more of the usual...) to go to a pancake house before we go back to the arcade. These pancakes were amazing!! I have never had pancakes that were this awesome before...:) Anyway, then we head to the arcade to play lazar tag with some people that we were going to meet there. They had already started, so we decided (after some more of the usual) to just walk around for a little longer; come back later to use our last thing. We walk around, going into random stores (with not so much of the usual...it was getting better :)), and the time is getting close to when we need to head back. I keep asking if we should just give our tickets to some other people, but they were "usual" about that too...and we just ended up not using them :)
Just to clarify, I was not annoyed during this trip if I sound like it at some points...I had so much fun and was more relaxed than I had been since the summer. :)
I would do it all again with the same people in a heartbeat.
More recently: Riley/Matt/Zack's Open House(s): This open house was a lot of fun. I ended up staying the entire time--much to someone's annoyance, because I was just constantly talking pictures :). But it was a lot of fun, now if my friendship with Riley continues after he leaves, :) I will be able to put faces with names. Riley's uncle is hilarious and Matt's family...just nothing needs to be said there. ;) They are all great. But none of them remind me at all of Kim (their mom) :)
I will say though...Emily may have gotten more pictures of me than I of her...but I have to whole summer to make up for that!! Muwhahahaha :D
My birthday is in 9 days....I get my braces off on June 12.
We just won sectional in softball...and it was an excellent game!!
Life is life...what else could it be?
This is K80 singing off for right now (hopefully I will be updating more now with summer)
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| Hey all
Not much happening at the Belesky house right now. Just sitting around doing nothing. It's nice...haven't done that in a while.
Last night softball went on insanely long. We (the JV) literally got done at 11pm...and called it a tie. The varsity played 12 innings (a normal game consists of 7), and they won 1 to 0...what an exciting game. I did get to sit varsity though (I know that most people don't get to excited about that, and I would love to play, but last year I had to sit outside, and just be JV...I hated that with a passion.) Taylor E was complaining about it, saying it was torture...I didn't say anything, but my experience last year made me want to. She is a freshman, and needs to be glad that he is letting her even sit varsity. I would have given anything for that last year.
God really helped me last night though, I didn't do to bad at first base...and I had three good hits (that is about the amount of hits I got the entire season last year). I was excited to say the least. I even got to slide into home and score!! I was so excited that I ran back to the dugout, and leaped at Jeremy to give him a high five. I know that it was all God, and it was incredible!
That's really all I have to say. Not much else has been going on other than softball...I got more sleep last night than I have in "a long 'ol time"--Can anyone tell me what movie that quote is from? ;)
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