Me

I made a somewhat extremely obvious observation earlier today. If you don't know me, then... you don't know me. If you aren't involved in my daily life, then you have no clue about me or my inner workings. Let's change that.

I'm 15 and preparing for my second year of high school.  I'm active. I play golf and softball competitively, and basketball on my own. I like to compete. I'm hoping to be captain of our scholastic bowl team next school year. I'm a nerd. As if the scholastic bowl thing wasn't geeky enough, I was on the math team. It was kinda cool when I was the only under-classmen from our school to make it to the state competition, though. I love making music. As of this second, I play clarinet (2nd chair as a freshman) alto and tenor saxophone, a lil bit of trumpet and flute, Irish tin whistle (that's a fun one), keyboard, piano, bass guitar, 6 string guitar, and ukulele. I'm sure that list will grow continually, though. I love to learn. When you love to learn and you love to win, why not push yourself to be valedictorian? That's been a personal goal of mine for a while now. After 25% of my journey through the hell-hole they call high school, I'm ranked #1. I still have the most challenging classes ahead. Fingers are crossed, though.

If you've read my previous couple of posts, which I suggest you do, you probably would gather that I am in LOVE with the Lord. That would be correct. That's not always been the case, though. I've grown up in the church. I got baptised when I was 8. I sang all the songs, clapping along when necessary. I had a Christian mask on. I wore it so long and so often that I put all my effort into keeping the mask on, rather than taking a look at what I was wearing.  Thankfully, this year it's all changed. I've made my faith real. It's legit. I am not ashamed. I LOVE GOD!

So what's in the future? Well... in the near future, like Thursday, my family and I are heading up north. My father's parents own a cabin on Twin Bear Lake in Iron River, WI. It's about a 10 hour drive from here. It should be really fun, though.  It's great there. However, there's no TV, Internet, or cell service there so when I disappear from June 30th through the middle of July, this is where I will be. I'm not ignoring all zero of my readers.


The beautiful lake


The fun continues. The day after I return from vaca will be spent laundering all of my clothes. Yay... It will be worth it, though, because the day after that, I will be off to Little Galilee for a week! The most amazing church camp ever!! I'll try and jot down a blog while waiting on my shorts to dry.

The far off future: I've already mentioned my yearning to be valedictorian. After that, I've narrowed it down to two choices. A) going to the University of Illinois and majoring in chemical and bio molecular engineering or B) going into the United States Air Force and being a scientist (basically being a chemical engineer).  After either one, though, I'd like to get my doctorate in chemical and bio molecular engineering so I can add my name to all the research I do, instead of doing all the work and then attaching some old rich dude's name to it.

All in all, I'm a pretty happy person. I really enjoy my life. I fight with my 8 year old sister constantly. I find my mom annoyingly over-protective and my dad well... we get along usually. We just give each other our space. Through all of that though, I'm happy. It's not that I don't have my bad days. Oh gosh, I have PLENTY of those, but why should I give up when I have a mighty father in Heaven who says this...

"For I know the plans that I have for you," declared the Lord, "Plans of good, never for evil. Plans for a future and of hope. In those hard days when you pray, I will listen. If you are truly looking for me, you will find me." -Jeremiah 29:11-13

He's never let me down :)