Muahahaha (Psst... see the bloggy before this if you haven't already)

Hihi!
How are y'all today, eh?
Likin' that font?
Yah, so am I. :D

So, now I have this Firefox add-on (in case you didn't figure it out yet, I downloaded Firefox recently. :D)... it tells me what time it is in Adelaide, Aussie... in Ukraine... in Paraguay... and in Alaska! No more checkin' Skype! :P :P

Yeah, I love it. My only issue with Firefox is that IT WON'T PLAY MY MOOSIC ON TEH INTERNET!!! >=[
Humph.
So I still use Internet Explorer. If I wanna use my myspace or Rhapsody to play a song, or two. So my browser usage... about 95% Firefox and the other 5% is IE. Yah.

Haha, it's already Wednesday in Ukraine and Aussie. Kewl.

I also have multicolored tabs. XD It be kewl, too. On IE, if I did more than two tabs, it would be SUPER slow... on Firefox, I can have 5 tabs up, and it STILL runs like a dream! :D :D

And Firefox also has something called Fireshot... I can make little screenies of a page, or whatever I can view without using the scroller thingy over on the right... yeah. I like it, especially since it's compatible with IE, too. XD

I have a Facebook toolbar... Google toolbar... Smiley Central toolbar... I loves it.

Though I think some of the better add-ons are for the older firefox browsers, which irks me greatly. Oh, well. Family Force 5 makes it all better. XD

Yeah, I've been gettin' into them lately. I still have to listen to 'em a little more, but dude, they ROCK! Like, OUT LOUD. :D

So, I'm a-thinkin' that's it...

CZYA


What, you didn't see my post? Sorry. It's incognito. XD I stole Kopatopie's bloggy trick. Sorry, I couldn't resist!!

FUNNEH VIDS FOR YOUUUUUUUUU!

I have vids for you again. I have three!! But sadly, there's nothing very pretty to look at...


This is the first one, for Kopatopie, the big tMac fan here. XD Tell me whatcha think... be as brutal as you like.


This is a Relient K song... makes me think of Hannah Montana, but it's still a great song. :P


And the last one is a Superchick song... I love this song, and this recording is just plain hilarious to me. XD

And that be it.

CZYA

Okay...

I need to tell you guys a couple things... that I REALLY want y'all to see...

First, my youth group experience, as I told Jess:

Well... The tough part begins when one of my youth leaders comes up... and uses a scene from the movie "Facing The Giants..." As an analogy: are we giving our absolute BEST for God? Next, we're all offered a pen, a piece of paper, and a nail. First thing that popped into my thought process: Oh, boy... We were asked to write down our sins on that little piece of paper... After all of us were done, the same guy demands that we try and force the nail through our palm. And I was immediately thinking "WHAT?!" So we all tried to stick ourselves with the nail. And obviously, it was painful. But when he started screaming "PUSH IT! PUSH IT!" I was thinking, "What? Do you want us to self-mutilate ourselves?" Then, he suddenly stopped screaming, and said in a calm voice, "Jesus was nailed..." (or something like that). And meanwhile, another youth leader was slamming two nails into two blocks of wood. At this point, both he and I were crying. And after a few minutes, we prayed, and then told to nail our sins that we had wrote down to the two pieces of wood, which had turned into a cross.And after I had nailed mine in... I started singing elleldee's sig on the nb boards to myself ("tears were filling Heaven's eyes the day True Love died"), and I started crying again.

So, I guess you could say I got a lot out of it.

And there you go. I will NEVER forget what I took from this particular service. It was so touching.

Now, for the other one... I found this on myspace, and I was amazed. Remember these analogies for when you try to convert an atheist!!

SCIENCE VS GOD

"Let me explain the problem science has with Jesus Christ." The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.

"You’re a Christian, aren’t you, son?"
"Yes sir," the student says.

"So you believe in God?"
"Absolutely."

"Is God good?"
"Sure! God’s good."

"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?"
"Yes."

"Are you good or evil?"
"The Bible says I’m evil."

The professor grins knowingly.
"Aha! The Bible!" He considers for a moment.

"Here’s one for you: Let’s say there’s a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?"
"Yes sir, I would."

"So you’re good..!"
"I wouldn’t say that."

"But why not say that? You’d help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God doesn’t."

The student does not answer, so the professor continues.
"He doesn’t, does He? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?"
The student remains silent.

"No... you can’t, can you?" the professor says.

He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.

"Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?"
"Er...yes," the student says.

"Is Satan good?"
The student doesn’t hesitate on this one. "No."

"Then where does Satan come from?"
The student : "From...God..."
"That’s right. God made Satan, didn’t he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?"

"Yes, sir."

"Evil’s everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything, correct?"
"Yes."

"So who created evil?" The professor continued, "If God created everything, then God created evil; since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil."

Without allowing the student to answer, the professor continues: "Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?"
The student: "Yes."

"So who created them?"
The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. "Who created them?"
There is still no answer.

Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom.
The class is mesmerized.

"Tell me..." he continues onto another student. "Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?"
The student’s voice is confident: "Yes, professor, I do."

The old man stops pacing.
"Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?"

"No, sir. I’ve never seen Him."

"Then tell us if you’ve ever heard your Jesus?"
"No, sir, I have not."

"Have you ever actually felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?"
"No, sir, I’m afraid I haven’t."

"Yet you still believe in Him?"
"Yes."

"According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?"
"Nothing," the student replies. "I only have my faith."

"Yes... faith..." the professor repeats. "And that is the problem science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith."

The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of his own.
"Professor, is there such thing as heat?"

"Yes," the professor replies. "There’s heat."

"And is there such a thing as cold?"
"Yes, son, there’s cold too."

"No sir, there isn’t."

The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain.

"You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don’t have anything called ’cold’. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold; otherwise, we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it."

Silence across the room.
A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a hammer.

"What about darkness, professor... is there such a thing as darkness?"
"Yes," the professor replies without hesitation. "What is night if it isn’t darkness?"
"You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called darkness, isn’t it? That’s the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn’t. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?"
The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him.
This will be a good semester.
"So what point are you making, young man?"
"Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed."

The professor’s face cannot hide his surprise this time "Flawed? Can you explain how?"
"You are working on the premise of duality," the student explains. "You argue that there is life and then there’s death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can’t even explain a thought. It uses
electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it."

"Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?"
"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do."
"Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?"
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.

"Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?"
The class is in uproar.
The student remains silent until the commotion
has subsided.

"To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean."

The student looks around the room.
"Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor’s brain?" The class breaks out into laughter.

"Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor’s brain, felt the professor’s brain, touched or smelled the professor’s brain? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir. So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?"
Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable.

Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers.
"I guess... you’ll have to take them on faith."

"Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life," the student continues. "Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?"

Now uncertain, the professor responds, "Of course, there is. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.


And there you go.
Have a nice evening.

CZYA

Houston: We Are GO

The above cover is NOT the final one... sadly... most of us newsboardies agree that this was the better choice as the final cover, not the one they chose.

And if anyone can even FIND the final cover for me, that'd be nice... I couldn't find it last night for my iTunes, so I ended up using this one... which I think was a great idea. XD

Hmmm... perhaps they thought this cover was too reminiscent of the Take Me To Your Leader tour... humph. They still shoulda used it.

As for the album...

The sound is great! It shows that they did a LOT of work to make it sound perfect... the vid is pretty good, too... especially if you didn't get the chance to view the GO tour. And for those of you that HAVEN'T seen it... dang, that light show is something ELSE!

The intro... comprised of the "It Is You" remix playing, with Peter singing part of GO (the title track). Actually, I had never seen the full extent until I saw this. Yeah, it rocks.

I had never experienced the full measure of the catwalk, either... so I was happy to see it, when I never got to see it in person.

The B-stage... I'm kinda sad Peter didn't tell the longjohn joke... that was a good one. But an unexpected surprise did happen... I won't reveal it, but it was kewl. XD

And more comes after it's released to the world... juuust wait...

CZYA

I'm A Pail On Your Boat With Slow Leaks...

Hooray for random bloggy titlez!!
:D

Yah, I'm so boredness....

Uh.... what to bloggy...

Oh! How about I post in Oppish, and then I will translate it when I'm done. Kopatopie's new blog name is an example of Oppish, btw... and she can translate what I wrote, no problem. ;)
Here goez...

OPPISH:

Hopi! I amop copallopedop Boplopuehop. I amop a bopigop fopanop ofop tophopisop Cophopropisoptopianop bopanopdop copallopedop "nopewopsopbopoyopsop." Tophope nopbop arope Popetoperop Fopuroploperop, Dopunopcopanop Pophopillopipopsop, Popaulop(ipopopopsop) Copolopmopanop, anopdop Jopeffop Fopropanopenopsoptopeinop. Tophopeyop arope kopewoplop popeopoplope, anopdop tophopeyop arope topotopalop Cophopropisoptopianopsop. Esoppopecopiallopyop Popetoperop. Hope'sop mopy fopavoporopitope nopewopsopbopoyop. Yopahop.

Okay, that's oppish.
ENGLISH:

Hi! I am called Blueh. I am a big fan of the Christian band called "newsboys." The nb are Peter Furler, Duncan Phillips, Paul(ipops) Colman, and Jeff Frankenstein. They are kewl people, and they are total Christians. Especially Peter. He's my favorite newsboy. Yah.

And there ya go. :)

Guess Whose Birthday??

Yah, you guessed it... IT'S JODY'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!
Happy birthday, dude! Hope you spent time with your family. LOTS of time with your family. Wherever you're living now. :P

I guess you figured out that I miss Jody terribly. Can I help his gentle demeanor?? And his impressive singing talent? And his super-impressive guitar skills?

If Jody never existed, I think I'd still be irked at Rusty... "Bleed" (clicky for lyrics) has helped me through quite a bit of forgiveness problems... and other problems, seeing as the song asks why we have to suffer. I think what gives me peace is the fact that I know the answer.

And that's why Jody is special to me. He rocks. :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HELMET!!!!!!!!

CZYA




















AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!!!!

If you're wondering why the vid is low quality, that's cuz it was uploaded from a cellphone, soz...

Hi therez.

It's meh again. Rejoice within your hearts! :D

Well, let's see, I had a TERRIFIC, GOD-CENTERED DAY today! Yah, it was uber-awesome. I want EVERY SINGLE DAY to be like the past two days. :)

I officially named my laptop and my Nano... they're nb-related names, so hang on to your... whatever. :P

SWAMPIE is the name of my laptop. Yah, I think I know what you're thinking... but I think it fits!! I named it after Peter's nickname for his youngest brother, David.

SQUIZZY be the name of my Nano now. Now, if you don't know, Squizzy is one of the MANY nicknames Kopatopie's "Uncle Duncan" has. XD. Again, I think it fits, especially since I got a new slip cover for it, manufactured by the same company that made our internet modem. :P

Today, I took Swampie to Youth group. EVERYONE who saw 'im seemed to be amazed that I owned a laptop. XD. And I tell you again: Swampie is equipped with WINDOWS VISTA. Yeah, the new Windows. I don't think it's that bad, but to each their own (truth is more than that, y'know. Sorry, I couldn't resist! XD)
I played more of my new nb DVD (y'know, the one every nb fan is DYING for, and it hasn't been released yet... that I got at the nb concert last weekend for $20...). Now I'm at "Entertaining Angels," or EA for short. Now, I realize the statement I'm about to make may be pretty bold, but this is MY opinion: I think that this recording of EA has to be the absolute BEST I've ever heard it, with or without Phil. *awaits tomatoes*
It sounds THAT GOOD. Peter handled the high notes SUPER well, I was impressed.

And that is about it. :D

CZYA

Debriefing for netsirK...

Okies, netsirK... since you can't view the vid from my last blog... TIME TO DEBRIEF YOU! On my favorite parts, at least... besides, you can guess which segments came from which Really Real Show episodes... :P

The video is divided up in several parts...

PART 1: SOUL GLOW ACTIVATUR funny moments...

1. *Soul Glow "plays" a little song while beating his fingers on his neck... or somewhere else... Anyways, he has a TON of fun with it*
2. *Soul Glow has a dove perched on his hand* "Cuz you are the dove beneath my... *abruptly stops singing, stares at the bird suspiciously* Hey, you're not gonna crap on me, are you?"
3. "I guess you could call me the lead singer, if you wanted to."
4. *Soul Glow is in a white hoodie, with the hood over his head* "It's a bunch of malarkey... y'know? Just a lotta... messed-up malarkey, a crock of it..."
5. *promotional pic of FF5 is shown, close up on Soul Glow* "I look good right there!!"
6. *close-up on Soul Glow* "My really real show, myyy camerawork!"
7. *Soul Glow is continuously winking* Roadie (please help meh; I dunno who! XD): "WHY ARE YOU WINKING AT ME?!?!"

PART 2: CROUTON funny moments...

1. "Soul Glow was talking about some really dumb stuff, so I didn't really get it... I just -- I wanted to -- really have a relaxing day, and usually, when he talks, I don't have a relaxing day..."
2. *Crouton is fiddling around with a straw-shaped paper* "... cuz I am the band."
3. *Soul Glow has stuck his head in Crouton's bunk* Crouts... wake up... it's time to get up... 7:30!!"
4. "They said I couldn't ride, I was too fat. I'm ALWAYS too fat!"
5. "Oh, but when I wanna ride a pony, *makes quotation signs with fingers* over 120 pounds will break a pony's back!"
6. "Not even a pony ride would cheer me up now."

PART 3: PHATTY funny moments...

1. "I'm like outside, getting hypothermia, and they're inside, y'know, playing Scrabble and like, sittin' around in the hot tub."
2. "I gotta watch my girlish figure..."
3. "I work with a bunch of idiots."
4. *Phatty has his hands clamping together like crocodile jaws*
Soul Glow: *has his feet in various places besides the ground* "Watch out for the crocodile in the LAAAVA!!"
5. "I'm gonna THROW your stuff like a sack of potatoes!"

PART 4: NADADDY funny moments...

1. "That's just a good example of... when I get too hungry, I turn into the devil."
2. *Nadaddy leaps onto Crouton* "I love you, *unintelligible*! I love this guy!!"
Soul Glow: "If y'all start makin' out, I'm gonna throw up."
3. *From behind the camera, Soul Glow starts making strange noises while tilting the camera in all directions*
Nadaddy: "Hey man... hey, who gave you the camera, dude? Where's *unintelligible*?"
4. *Soul Glow pushes an amp into Nadaddy's leg* "Oh, my gosh... Soul Glow, look what you did!" *shows red spot on jeans where he was hit*
Soul Glow: "I didn't do that, you did."
*Nadaddy moans* "Gosh... would you MOVE?!"
5. Soul Glow: "Your blood's gonna boil! Your blood's gonna boil!"
6. *Nadaddy is superimposed on a picture of NYC... donning goggles, a cape and is making flying noises*

PART 5: CHAP STIQUE funny moments...

1. Sweet jiminy, Nafather! Those villans are getting away!!"
2. *is holding a Family Force 5 sign* "It's basically like, if peanut butter and jelly sandwiches became a rock band, it would be Family Force 5."
3. "You wanna talk about hot chicks? They were everywhere... just beautiful chickens!"
4. "Don't you know that molten lava is made of igneous rock??"

PART 6: TUB-O funny moments...

*this section was just SO funny, it must be returned to at a later date. Seriously.*

PART 7: XANADU funny moments...

1. "Yellow and blue makes green!"
2. *in the middle of snow* "I could do stuff like this *flops onto snow* and nobody cares! *swings arms and legs around* Snow... angel... my snow angel! Look at that, that's pathetic!"

PART 8: THE OLDS BROTHERS funny moments...

1. *piano plays*
Soul Glow: *sniffles* "I have a problem with smelling sometimes, because *points to nose* I have a lot of nasal discharge... so sometimes I have to use nasal spray to smell anything at all."
Crouton: "That's okay, we can get through this; I have a deviated septum... *points to nose*"
*piano music stops abruptly*
2. *Phatty is driving, picks up his cellphone* "Hello?"
*Soul Glow is behind him, also on the cellphone, looking pitiful* "Can you turn the air down? I'm cold."
3. *Phatty and Crouton are fistfighting; Phatty pushes Crouton away and picks up a microphone* "And then it was over."


Man, it was funny. I'll get to the Tub-O segment later, that was REALLY funny... :P

CZYA

Oh, and btw, Kopatopie -- I watched two outta three CC vids... and I have some things...
SPITBALLLLLLLL!
AIRPLAAAANE!
Ok, I'm done now. :)

It's a VID!

I love this vid. And it's Family Force 5!!!



I LOVE the beginning. Makes me smile every time. :D And the second part. With the dove. XD

Okies, nothing else to see herez...

CZYA

I Feel Bad Now.

Exactly.
If you'll notice, I deleted my last blog.
Why?

Reread the title. Because I feel bad. Very much so.
I feel SO guilty for revealing Phil's facebook to the world. Once he replies to the message I sent, I will tell him it's my fault and apologize. I know it was my fault, and it needs to be fixed... as soon as I get a chance to view my Facebook (at home), and as soon as he replies.

Dude, once I feel guilt, it takes a LONG time for me to get over it. Seriously. And I have a feeling this'll haunt me for a long, long time if I don't get it off my chest now.

And the fact that Kopatopie is punishing me for not seeing Casting Crowns yesterday doesn't help matters. WHATSOEVER. It only adds to the crushing load of responsibility and remorse.

*goes and sulks in a corner, covering face with black nb hoodie*

NEWSBOYS TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

Aw, man, we had a GREAT time tonight!! Jumping around like idiots (as usual), screaming lyrics as Peter and the others sang 'em... MEMORABLE QUOTE FROM TONIGHT:

"The difference between Obama and Jesus is THE CROSS."

HAHA! Stare at it, Obama supporters! STARE AT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*ahem*
Bad news time: As I feared ever since last night, there was no meetandgreet. *sob* So much for any of that.
And no b-stage, either. Boooo!

Good news: I officially have a copy of the nb's new live CD/DVD, Houston, We Are GO.

CZYA

UPDATE before the boyz show

Hi, peeps.

This bloggy will be accompanied by another shortly. Sooner or later.

Anywayz.

netsirK was kind enough to find Rusty's myspace (clicky here) for me awhile back. Thanks again, girl! So anyway, Rusty finally got a profile photo that shows his hair! Like I said -- black. But there was this other thing...

MORE FLAIRS!!!!!

This time, they're more light-hearted and/or funny and/or nb-related. See for yourself:

:D :D
Yaaahhhh...

So, that's it for now.

Next bloggy will be about my nb concert!! w00t!!

CZYA

TOBYMAC TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tonight, we went to see tobyMac. :D :D
Yes, Ludicrous... we saw KEVIN MICHAEL MCKEEHAN. :P

Daaaang, that rocked!

And guess what?

THEY HAVE IT ON TAPE!!! YEAH, THEY DOOOOOO!!

If you want the link, go see the link on the corresponding thread on the newsboys message boards. <--- click that.

:D

CZYA

Hi hi.

I'm leaving for my next nb concert tomorrow morning. 9 sharp (mine and Verja's time). Wish me luck, all!!!
I really wanna get to PetePete this time. :)

My next blog shall come from our hotel... presuming it has wifi, and it's not as hoovery as the one at the LAST hotel we stayed at. *grumble*

CZYA

Flairness

Okies, here's something I wanna show y'all.

There are some GOOD flairs on Facebook I wanna show ya's.

FIRST OFF -- TO ALL PALIN HATERS AND/OR OBAMA SUPPORTERS:

Ready to reconsider??
In God's eyes, human life is valued higher than polar bear life. ;)

Ah, here's another good one:

Oh, so true. :)

Oh! Oh! I love this one, too!!

Amen. :)

And this one...

I'm not ashamed to let you know,
I want this light in me to show!
I'm not ashamed to speak the name
Of Jesus Christ!!

And yet another:

XD At least it gets peoples' attention.

And one more... when you've got no one to support in the US elections...

:D :D :D

Okayz, I wanted to show peeps all those. :D :D Do you loves 'em as much as I??

CZYA

*sniff* I was sick.

But not anymore!! :D

OMIGOSH! MY NEXT CONCERT'S IN FOUR DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hyperventilates*

I need to get Pete's birthday card ready.

In the meantime...
I have some more vids for you!!
But... I have to give you links.
Embedding them is forbidden. UGH!

Brandon Heath: "Give Me Your Eyes" <---click that (I know you've already seen this, netsirK)
Michael W. Smith: "Cry For Love" <---click that

Okies, that be it.

CZYA

The Man named Rusty -- Part Deux

Hi, peeps.
'Member this??
My blog about Rusty?
Well, hold on to... WHATEVER you want to hold onto.
Cuz I'm about to add on some MORE things you need to know about this dude.
Ready??
Here goes...

• He loves hats about as much as Peter does, and it tends to cover up his hair... which is black, curly, and looks kinda like a mullet. I often joke that he does have a mullet, and he's always like, "I do NOT have a mullet!!"
  Which makes it so much funnier. :D
• Ludicrous will LOVE this -- he is a HUGE fan of Casting Crowns and CONSTANTLY edges something about them in EVERY youth group service... which tends to drive me up a wall.
• Rusty is EXTREMELY stubborn -- it took SIX years of poking and prodding from my pastor and his family for him to finally become a Christian.

And I think that be it for now. I wanted to go ahead and get that off my chest. :P

CZYA

It's another random bloggy...

Flairs and Other Matters

Hi, peeps.
Goodness, I did not blog yesterday. ACK! I'm losing it!
*ahem* Anyway...


I got home from school yesterday and slept for 4 HOURS. When I woke up, I thought it was early morning and was about to beat myself up about having not taken a shower, then I realized the clock said 9:30 PM. I was SO relieved that it wasn't 3 AM or something.
So I quickly got up, took my shower, ran back to my room and came on Facebook. And I did quite a bit of stuff on there. Like make some flairs.

That one happens to be one of my favorite creations. :D
Then me and Jess had a long conversation that lasted until... 1 AM, I think.

I hope I can do this again sometime!

Next week at this time, I'll be in North Charleston, eagerly anticipating my next nb concert!!! :D

CZYA

UPDATE: Click here for the video of a GREAT song. :D

Facebookness

I have Facebook now.

Rejoice!!

I'm learning about the flairs and other stuff. Some of these flairs rock, too!

I found lots of flairs hating on Miley and Obama.

:D :D

Then I found some hating on Palin.

>=[ BOOOO!!

*ahem* Anyway...

This Hannah Montana flair had to be the FUNNIEST I have ever seen!!

XD XD XD I seriously LOLd at it. :P

That be it for now.

CZYA

Well, since I have nothing ELSE to blog about...

Ok, I'll quit hiding it...

Ludicrous got me hooked onto this song:



It's downright hilarious, and I just love it. A lot. Why didn't Toby recruit any of the nb, especially Pete or Duncan? That'd be something to see. :P

That be it for right now.

CZYA

Giggle!

Happy birthday to me...
Happy birthday to me...

Wait a minute...
I have friends to do that for me! Duh! XD

Today be my 14th birthday, if you haven't already noted that. XD
Today, things happened. My dad's laptop officially became MY LAPTOP! XD I like it a little more now. :p
I've already modified it so it's customized to my fitting. XD Including a nb-decorated background. One of my favorite photos, too. I'll get it out later. :p

Let's see...
My presents...
A new iPod...
Dad's laptop... (:D)
$42 for my next nb concert (the $2 is in ONE bill. Which means I'm not spending it)...
And cards and other virtual gifts!!
Thank y'all!!
I'm soo happy. :)

CZYA

UPDATE!: I forgot a gift -- I got a new live Adoration CD! Milwaukee!! Dang, they did a good job filtering out the crowd noise on this record. Either that, or the crowd was really, really unenthisiastic, which I don't entirely believe. :P

TODAY BE PETER'S BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OH PETER!
HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYYY TO YOU!!!!!!!

Okies, I'm at home now... here goes:

PETER! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
You jumped into your destiny about 23 years ago, when you thought up and founded our favorite band.
But it took a lot of hard work to get there.
While your career didn't take off until almost 16 years ago now,
We still look back on all the work you put into the newsboys,
And we also realize
You could never have gotten even that far without God's help.
You and the band have been through ups and downs.
From gold records to beloved band members' departures,
And even the death of a former band member,
It seems like the newsboys have been through it all.
And yet, by the grace of God, here you are.
Still going strong, not a hiccup in your fanbase.
And still giving the glory to He who continues to deserve that glory.
The words you wrote and co-wrote,
The music you created,
The lives that have been touched by the two blended together.
God uses even your oldest songs to touch the lives of your fans.
How do we begin to thank you? Do we even thank you? Or God?
The answer, I think, is very simple, but the fact remains: you are a fisher of men,
Just as your namesake from Jesus' time was called to be.
If it weren't for the fact that you answered God's call,
At least half of us would either not be here, or not be Christians.
And while you don't even know how many lies you touch and have touched,
Just know that God uses you in a way that has the potential to blow minds.
We salute you and your work, Peter Furler.
May you continue to work for the Almighty,
And give Him His rightful glory.

There. My little tribute.
But luckily, that ain't all. :D

My first GIMP photo. Turned out pretty good, in my opinion. :p

And then you've seen this one before.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PETE!!
YOU ALWAYS WIN THE DRUM DUELS!!
AND THE WRESTLING MATCHES!!
XD XD

CZYA

EEEeeee!!

Guess what?!
I GOT THAT iPOD I WANTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And to show you what it looks like, I present to you the return of the red photo. XD

It's supposed to be silver, and you can barely tell that. XD Yet another attempt by my finger to block flash. Grrrr, that flash. :P

That is my OLD iPod. It is a Shuffle, and I will be using it for other purposes. It is no longer my nb Pod, it'll hold the OTHER songs I enjoy! XD

And you can barely see that my name is engraved on it. It's on my new Nano, too, but the engraving's on the back. XD And the back is very, very reflective silver. :O Which means no photo. :(


And this photo... well, netsirK will know what I'm talking about with this. It's my iPod shuffle dock/stereo system. :D Costed me $20 at a local Kmart. XD

Luckily, it won't go to waste! :D

In other news...

I went to church today. My new Sunday School class (I got a new one last week, cuz I'm in high school now) is pretty cool so far.
One of the girls was listing a prayer request for the Florida Keys cuz of Hurricane Ike.
And she spelled Ike.... 'Ick.'

XD XD

And during the service today, there were electrical peoples working on the power lines, and our church's power surged about 3 times. The first two knocked out our slideshow system. :( But it was a cool service nonetheless.

And on a sad note...

There was this kid...
He was skateboarding down a busy road just outside of the city which I live (Wilmington)...
A truck pulled around...
BOOM! ...
He gets hit.

That was a true story. Poor kid went Home today. He left behind his parents...
And a younger brother.
Booo!
Everyone around me, dropping like flies...

:( :(

I go eat lunch now.

CZYA

Title = Nonexistent

I haves some stuff I wanna blog about.

First off, this vid. WARNING -- what you are about view is STAGED, and may freak out some people if they don't know that important piece of information. Such as me at the time I first viewed this (on YouTube), and as a result, I no longer wish to view it. It. Scares. Me.

Then I came across this vid. Ludicrous loves Casting Crowns, but if you want an alternative to their songs "If We Are The Body" and "Does Anybody Hear Her," this is your song. The message to all three songs are nearly identical. ;)

Ok, new subject.

We chatted today (I'm sorry, Verja. I messed up your perfectly good plans. While I will loathe it to no end, I deserve any unflattering and potentially censor-worthy comments you can throw at me), and I learned that Ludicrous doesn't know who Jody Davis is.

:O :O :O :O :O :O :O

YOU mean... to tell ME... you have NO clue... who THIS dude is??:

Well, now you do.

Jody Davis was a well-known newsboy, and the band's first PERMANENT guitarist. Lots of people say (and continue to say) he's the best guitarist the nb EVER had. As for me? I just loved how sweet he was.

When he first joined the band in 1993, he had SUPER LONG hair.

Yah.
Then, sometime between the Not Ashamed tour and Going Public, he got a buzz-cut during a live show; hence, the nickname "Helmet."

And that was the last we EVER saw of his long-flowing mane. Never seen again. We killed it in action. XD

We fans loved to joke around with the fact that a Jody smile caught on camera is RARE. Photos exist, but they are the same ones.
So what does that mean?
Jody had a sour personality?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As I said, Jody is a sweetheart.
VERY loveable.

And the question I think you are asking...
"Why did Jody leave??"

I was getting to that.

See, on February 13, 2001, Jody Davis welcomed his daughter into the world. Prematurely.
Then comes March.

Peter and Summer's anniversary. Jody's wife, Erica, goes out to get more formula for their daughter, Bethany.
Minutes later, Jody gets a frantic phone call from Erica: Bethany is not breathing.

Everyone immediately gets up and rushes to the hospital, where Bethany survives a brush with death that baffled her doctors.
Bethany got better, but her recovery was very, very slow. She was still quite sick even after all that. Jody spent more and more time with her, and eventually had to leave the newsboys.

Last we fans heard of Jody, he and his wife and daughter moved in with relatives in Arizona. Does he still live there?
Your guess is as good as mine.

But the fact remains: I miss him. Terribly.

And that, Ludicrous, -- and whoever else doesn't know who he is -- is who Jody Davis is.

CZYA

I WAS MISTAKEN.

Correction -- that 2 PM downpour from yesterday was NOT Hanna.

What woke me up at 1:30 AM this morning WAS Hanna.

Well, actually....
No, it wasn't...
What woke me up at 1:30 in the morning was this strangely creepy and somewhat frightening nightmare (and I had the same nightmare TWICE!), that I have no recollection of now, thank goodness, that got me up.
I was quite unnerved, and I wanted to set my mind straight, so I turned on my TV. I always do that when I can't get to sleep or am too freaked out to go to sleep.
So, the TV stays on for a good couple of minutes, then BOOM! Power surge. EVERYTHING SURGED. Gasp, breathe, breathe. I was NOT happy. So I turned the TV back on, and within a few MORE minutes, BOOM!! ANOTHER power surge.
And what makes it all the more creepy for me, is that whenever we get a power surge, something (I have NO idea what, but I may ask) in my living room beeps. And while it's normal for me, it DOES tend to freak me out in the middle of the night in the middle of a natural disaster after a frightening nightmare occurs twice. Yah.
And I turn on the TV again... BOOM!!!
Complete darkness hits my room.

Beep!
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.

A power OUTAGE. Oi, that makes the beeper go HAYWIRE, beeping at an annoyingly continuous pace. But it doesn't last for too long; my VCR starts making sounds, my TV's little red light flickers back to life, and so does our outside house-mounted light, which for some reason had been on for most of last night.
After all that, my mother comes in, and I switch from my previous channel to the Weather Channel, and the news is in: Hanna made landfall.

Thanks to God (:D), I manage to calm down enough to retrieve my iPod from its charger before the next surge. So, for the next.... I dunno, hour... I go through power surges, IMMEDIATELY followed by an outage. Of course, by that time, I was no longer freaked out by the nightmare I had, and was happily jamming to iPod.

The surges were coming at a much slower rate by 3 AM, and I took advantage of the situation by grabbing that bogus laptop I use and blogged about earlier. I turned it on (eventually), and I found our internet modems had been temporarily knocked out. Grrrrrr!
And since I didn't really want to leave my room then, I decided to give up and put the laptop back in its proper place.

And I stayed up until a little after 4 AM, then I went back to bed. The TV was turned off by the last power surge I remember.

And when I woke up later, I stared out my window, saw all the debris, and said to myself, "Is that IT?!"

I've been through worse. But most of the worst ones, I don't even remember. XD
Like Fran.
Or Floyd.
Or Bonnie.
Or, my personal favorite of all of 'em (and the only one I remember), Ophelia.
Ophelia rocked. The debris from that thing was EVERYWHERE! XD

Can we get another Ophelia, please? XD

Ok, that be it for now.

CZYA

Aftermath: Tropical Storm Hanna

We interrupt this natural disaster to bring you this special announcement...

I GOT SOAKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Goodness, it was a blast. I'd do it again, but...

The downpour has taken a rest...

Perhaps the eye is above us?

Wait...

I don't think Hanna has an eye.

:O

Ike is next.

OH, GOSH!

I leave you with this photo to contemplate:

CZYA

Note: no comments about my thumbnail, please! I like it. XD

HAPPINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray! I has some good news!

1. Tropical Storm Hanna's gonna hit North Carolina!!!!! Why is that good news?? Well, first off, I like hurricanes. A lot. That goes with my love of rain. :D Second, we have no school tomorrow becuz of Hanna! I happy.

2. My L&J class went to our computer lab today. We went to the website of the House of Representatives. Learn about stuff. XD So anyway, we got a little worksheet that eventually instructed us to look at bills (possible future laws/Constitutional amendments). So I clicked a random bill... and it was about MARRIAGE! Some Texan representative has a GREAT idea about a new Constitiutional amendment... a marriage being defined as a partnership between one MAN and one WOMAN. Notice, it doesn't say TWO men, or TWO women. :D :D Leviticus 18:22, people!! Look it up!

3. The laptop is working for right now. :D Yaay!

So... I will answer netsirK's question from a couple blogs ago: "Where'd I get that pic of Peter and Rebecca on my notebook??"

All four of those photos came from my copy of the January 2004 edition of the now-defunct CCM magazine. I have the cover as one of my wall posters. Pete and Rebecca happened to grace the page BEHIND the front cover, and I loved that photo. XD That magazine is how I learned that Peter owns (or is that owned??) a Blackberry. :)

Above is the cover. :D It's missing poor Jody. Oh, well.

Well, I bid y'all adieu.

CZYA

SNARL

I'm mad at this stupid laptop. It won't quit flickering.
I think it's a fault, but I've already dealt it considerable damage in my rage, so I doubt I'll be able to gather enough proof to Gateway that this stupid screen is faulty. So I'm stuck with this stupid thing.

I might be off for a while... at home, anyway.
I hate this laptop. TO DEATH.

Selfish, yes, but I want SOMEONE to pray that either this laptop shapes up... I shape up... or I'll be able to take it to Gateway and convince them to replace the faulty screen.

Thanks.

HOMEWORK

I'm gonna dedicate a bloggy to something we kids ALL dread (even the nerds, at times):

HOMEWORK.

I just got a big ol' LOAD of homework today. Luckily, I got most of it done on the bus.

Here's my workload:

ENGLISH WORK:

Decorate notebook (funny, but it is! XD)

Sign a door (XD)

and

Write a letter to yourself (XD)

SCIENCE WORK:

Read 2 chapters and define at least 11 terms from each chapter (actually, this was ALL THIS WEEK'S worth of homework. Which is done now! XD)

LAW&JUSTICE WORK:

Study for quiz tomorrow.

I want you guys to see my notebook, but it was tough to get a good photo. Stupid flash. I gotta find out how to disable the flash on this camera I use.

*sigh*

Ah, well. Three pics of the same book, so you can get a somewhat good view of every single pic I have on it. XD:

The red photo was an attempt by my finger to block the flash manually. XD At least you can see it a bit better. XD

Do you notice a common trend??
If not, then I tell you.

PIC 1: Peter and Rebecca St. James
PIC 2: Group nb photo
PIC 3 (only viewed clearly in 3rd photo): Peter and tobyMac
PIC 4: A group shot of the following groups:
newsboys (excluding poor Jody)
tobyMac (Nonohoicha - commence your screaming and squealing)
Rebecca St. James
and Third Day (Jess - commence your screaming and squealing)

Yah. See the trend?? XD

Okies. I see y'all later.

CZYA

:P

THIS is the computer I normally use:

As one can plainly see, it is a laptop.

THIS is what it looks like when it's OPEN:

And THIS is my bogus mouse.This mouse ALWAYS malfunctions. No wonder it's a discontinued product.
But my parents LOVE this type of mouse, and wonder why it was discontinued.

HELLO! It doesn't WORK half the time!!

Anyway.
The laptop is a Gateway.
It contains Windows Vista, home premium.
I don't know why people keep dissing Vista; I like it. But that maybe just because it's home premium. XD

The MAIN thing that bugs me about this laptop is that its screen tends to fizzle out quite a bit, especially recently. And when it goes pitch-black, it's virtually impossible to see ANYTHING. And it's getting harder to remedy. It bears the scars of my anger, it's done this so much...

I'd love NOTHING better than to take this thing to Gateway and demand that they either REPAIR or REPLACE this faulty screen. Surely, at least ONE product of theirs doesn't have this faulty screen. Grrrr...

Aw, well. Until I can get some sort of power for my Mac laptop, I'm stuck with this.

CZYA

SEPTEMBER!!!!!

It's officially September, mates!!!
It's ONE WEEK until Pete's birthday!
And I have 19 days to get his birthday card ready. *GASP!!!!!!!!!!*
But it'll be done, I think. ;)

Anyways...

I'm a little on the sad side...
I'm mad at someone... yet again... and I need to calm down some, so I can apologize... cuz I know it's my fault in the first place.

But that's not all.

Most of you know -- especially netsirK, whom I talked about this subject in-depth with over email -- that my friend Sara died last July. Her family is still mourning, and in a way, so am I... especially when something came up in church yesterday.

See, I've been praying for Rusty's mother as well, who was sick with stage 4 cancer. Her situation was very, very different from Sara's.
First of all, she's older... and this diagnosis is a recurrence, which I might explain later.
Second of all, it was hard to know whether she was a Christian or not.

Which explains why she was spared. The news was given that her cancerous tumor was nowhere to be found.

And I'm happy for Rusty. But... I found myself crying when the news was announced at church yesterday. Maybe I'm not done mourning Sara, and this reminded me of it.

I don't know why I feel like something could be done... that both women could've survived... but that's not the way God planned it, and I need to get that through this thick skull of mine. It just shows how much I'm losing contact with reality...

Oh, well.

End Melancholy Rant.