Little Fugue

My life is going pretty decent, for the moment. We just returned from WOL florida and I had so much fun. I got to see a lot of people I hadn't seen for about a year and some for even longer. I almost wanted to stay, but after hearing the living conditions for the guys I decided not to. Plus, I have a job and I don't want to leave it. But it was great. My schedule for the week was: Eat, Sleep, Go to the Pool. (Repeat 2x) I went to 2 1/2 meetings. One of which was the drama and the WOLBI Drama Team did a great job with that.

I leave for work in about 45 minutes and I am almost dreading it because of our new Manager we got in. See, she's from corprate Bi-Lo, which means she had a comphy desk job, and now she's a manager, which means she almost been demoted, so life at Bi-Lo is really, really bad. I love everyone else, but I can't stand her. Other then that everything is great. I am hopefully going to be getting my 90 day evaluation next week and with that I will be getting a pay raise. I was also talked to about getting a higher position at work soon, which means another pay raise. Right now, I am excited. Anywho, I must leave to clean the disatrous house.

Stepho

Hey All,

Today hass been great. First of all, Caleb, my brother, took me to Taco Bell, so I could eat lunch and on the way home we almost got hit!! Caleb, being the good driver he is, swirved and missed him. It was soo awesome!!! The second thing is I get an extra $25 at work because I had the highest increase for IPM's (Item's Per Minute) scanning. Well, I say I was the highest, but I teid with another girl from work. Last thing, is I finally got my books that I ordered. I bought "Evidence That Demands A Verdict" and "C.S. Lewis' Complete Works" I'm soo excited!!! Anywho, that has been my day. Even though no one reads this. :-D

Happy Easter
Stephen

Around 4:30 I woke up this morning to a screaming Chicken. At that moment I knew the enemy had returned. I quickly jumped out of bed, regained my balance, and grabbed the .22. Right after I grabbed the gun the sceaming stopped and I knew it wasn't going to be good. I flipped the light on at the same time I opened the door. The raccoon heard the door open and ran to a nearby tree. I ran outside and spotted him.

----> Sidebar. If you had been scared and shot by a person, would you run only to a tree 15 feet away from the crime scene? This raccoon was killed not only because he killed my chickens, but because he was just dumb. I mean, come on. I shot him already before, why didn't he hightail it out of there. OK I'm done with this rabbit trail.

OK, I spotted him. The gun I had, had a scope on it, but it was too dark to see through it. I also tried using the bars to line up the shot, but I could not see because the scope was low on the gun. The only other alternative was to wing, so I did. To make this long story shorter, my enemy is dead and we have two chickens left.

The time is 4:38 and I type this as I wait the enemy's return. As everyone well knows we had an attack on our chickens. Since then it has been a war. We have already had three attacks tonight. There have been no casualties, but much sleep has been lost. The first attack was received around 3:45. I had no gun so I opened the door and scared it to death. The second attack was as 4:10. At this point I had, had enough. I ran upstairs and found my paintball gun. I quickly turned on the light and to my surprise the raccoon did not run off. He should have. I opened fire and hit it twice. It was not enough. Around 4:25, was the latest attack, when I turned the light on the raccoon just looked at me. Then, when I opened the door, he ran off into the night. Now, I just sit here and wait for its return. When it does, I am ready to kill.

(Update)
It is now 5:05 and it begins to rain. I highly doubt the return of my enemy, but nevertheless I will remain awake until dawn. Thus, I will be awak for another hour to an hour and a half.

Stephen

I HATE Weasels and Raccoons!!! My brother David went outside and when he checked on the chickens and we had two in the cage. Apparently weasels and raccoons had figured out a way to get into the cage. It was crazy to look at. On the ladder to get into the cage there were small intestines. In the middle of the cage there was a heart. And feathers were scattered all over the cage. It was horrible!!!

About a week ago a 15 year old girl named Kathy contacted me to ask questions about guys. Well, the more I talked to her the more she went into details about different guys she dated and what they did. They never had sex or anything, as far as I know, but she did say she and her bf's made out. To make a long story short, she likes a Catholic guy, but he is dating another girl. So she is going to "settle" with a guy named Will that is a psycho and has done quite a few things that are not very proper. Plus, Will is a Buddhist.

Anywho, this girl is 15 years old and wants to date a guy that is a Buddhist even after I've told her that God doesn't want us to date people that are not Christians. Her excuse is, "I'm going to missionary date" which is dating to lead the person to the Lord. I told her that her plan was retarded and she didn't like me saying that and told me to be quiet. I told her I had to go and for her to read the book Every Young Woman's Battle. Needless to say, I have deleted her off of my list and plan not to talk to her again.

Yesterday was sooooo great!! Veronica, Andrea, My Sis Esther and I went out to lunch and hung out yesterday and it was soo much fun!!

First, we me at TGIFridays and ate lunch, talked, ate a dessert, and talked some more. We were there for about 2 hours and then went to the Chattanooga Visitors Center. We got some great ideas on what we wanted to do the next time we met up and then we got tickets to the Incline Railroad and then to the Museum at on top of Signal Mountain.

The Incline was soo great. We started going up and it was fun, but the further we went up, the scarier it got. Then up towards the top it reaches a 72 degree angle. It was CRAZY, and the only thing I was thinking about was, "What if this cable breaks? What would happen to me?" We get to the top and the next stop is the Museum.

When we got to the Museum and the shop we were expecting live actors and all of that Jazz. Instead, it seemed as though a person had a hobby of setting up battlefields and decided to charge people to see it. We sat and listened to the funniest rendition of the Civil War story anyone had ever heard. This lasted about 20 minutes and we left and and went back to the Incline for our trip down.

At this point it's 5:30 and the last train was leaving for the bottom, so we jumped on. We sat down and immediately the railway started to move before everyone could sit down. Veronica, one of the girls we were with, looked over at us and was like, "Hey! HeY!! HEY!!!" She was freaking out. Of course, we had no clue what was going on, so our hearts jumped because we thought we were going to die. Fortunately, the person driving the train was on it and everything was under control. But it was the FUNNIEST thing. Veronica, Andrea, Esther and I laughed about that for the resat of the evening.

As we proceeded to drop Andrea off at her car (we were all riding in Veronica's car) Veronica's front right wheel started making a weird noise. When we dropped Andrea off, we looked at the wheel to see if there was anything going on, but we didn't see anything and hoped that something had gotten caught in the will and that it would fall off. Veronica was on her way to drop Esther and I off, when the noise got worse. We pulled over and looked again, but saw nothing. We were about 5 minutes away from the church, so we decided to look at it when we got there.

We show up, and aerobics class was just getting out. My dad came over to help and we pulled off the wheel. The problem was one of the pins that held the brakes on. One of the smalled pins came out and the larger on popped out and was rubbing against the wheel. After about 10 minutes we got the pin straight and put a paper clip in the place of the smaller pin to hold the larger on in place. Thankfully, Veronica made it home safely and hopefully she has a good trip to Illinois.

I guess that was my excitement for the day. Until next time, the is Stephen signing out.

I was recently asked from a person on AY where I had been. Well, two weeks ago I had finals at school and since then I have started a job, so that has been taking up my time. On top off all that my internet has been freaking out and I would only be on for 3 minutes then have to restart my internet and in all of the stuff happening with the internet it would not allow me to sign in to AY. Needless to say, I have been getting on, but I cannot post anything. Today I was on for a few minutes before my internet freaked out and signed me out again. Sorry about that.

Stephen

Hello everyone,

Wow it has been a while since I have posted in this. I recently started a job and finished finals so my life has been hectic. I finished putting my schedule together for the fall semester and I have 6 classes and I'm getting 15 hours. Whoo Hoo!! My job seems to be going fairly well. No one has killed me and this week they have me working more hours then a lot of people. I think it has something to do with people that do more business or something and I guess I get a lot of people through my line in a little amount of time.

In other news, I don't think I have any other news. Yesterday, was Mother's Day, so HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!! Anywho, a family I have known for years came to church and this particular family has a son named Connor. Connor is about 11 years old, is Autistic, and has ADD. In other words, he's a little kid in his own world, can't relate to people and has a short attention span. But this kis is the greatest kid. He has a book from the Chronicles of Narnia and last time he was at church we started reading it, but never finished. This time when he saw me he ran over, opened the book and wanted me to finish the book. I enjoyed it.

Other then that, nothing is really going on or has gone on in my life. Today I am calling Belkin, the manufacturers of our Wireless Internet Router, because I will get online then 3 minutes later get kicked off. Needless to say, I have signed in and out 5 times in the writing of this post, so today at 11:00 I'm calling them to get this working. Until next time

Stephen

Road. Dark. Stars. Shadows. Four. Sandals. Robes. Quiet. Suspense. Grove. Trees. Alone. Questions. Anguish. "Father!" Sweat. God. Man. God-Man. Prostrate. Blood. "NO!" "Yes." Angels. Comfort.
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Peter. "Me?" Rooster. Thrice. Guilt.
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This is all from Matthew 26:36-28:10. Wow. So Amazing.

Wow, I have no life. I go to school come home. On weekends and Wednesdays I go to church. Let me think what is going on with school. I absolutely detest my Comp 1 class. We do nothing but read in a book and write reports and never get decent comment on the essays we write. It's horrible. I enjoy constructive criticism and get nothing. I can honestly say that i like Computer Lit. more then I do Comp 1 and that isn't saying much.

I love all of my other classes. Pre-Cal is probably the class I am doing the worst on because it's hard. I enjoy my teacher though. She's cool and when she sees you aren't doing too well she'll mention something about it to make sure that you're keeping up with everything in the class. Music Appreciation is fun. We just got done with the 5th Symphony from Beethoven and that man was a genious. To be so enthrawled with a single four notes for an entire symphony is just CRAZY!! Finally, my Electronics Music Class. I love that class!! It is the best class I am taking this semester.

Other then school nothing is really going on for me. I have church and you heard my experience about that already. I guess I will leave you all with that then. Until next time I will bid you all a fond farewell.


Stephen

( The Test )

I have no clue what I got out of this test and I don't know if it's a good thing. The only reason I'm putting it up is because I just answered 12o something questions and I am not letting that go to waste.

Hello All,

Wow it's been a little while since I have updated this thing. Not much has gone on in my life. I had a friend of my come to church with me on Sunday and nothing seemed to go right. The power went out and when it came on everything on the computers had reset, including the delay time on the projectors. It was horrible!! I felt so bad for them because they're visitors and they won't want to come back if all of the services are like that!!

Other then that I moved bedrooms and it's very interesting. I'm in the den now which is a bigger room, but it seems as though since I moved in everyone is using the den. I don't get it, but oh well, I LOVE the roominess. I finally have elbow room.

School is going fairly well. I had a test in computer lit and made a 93. I could have done better, but it was a dumb test. All of my classes are going pretty good. I absolutely dislike my Comp I class. We do absolutely nothing in there except read pages out of the book and talk. How am going to learn how to write? I am horrible at grammer and yet she doesn't explain anything about grammer.

Anywho, that's all that is going on. Until next time.

Stephen

P.S. I like my new icon

You Have A Type A- Personality

A- You are one of the most balanced people around Motivated and focused, you are good at getting what you want You rule at success, but success doesn't rule you. When it's playtime, you really know how to kick back Whether it's hanging out with friends or doing something you love! You live life to the fullest - encorporating the best of both worlds

Bonjour À tous,

That's about all the French I know. Anywho, A lot has gone on since my last real post. For starters, we finally have our whole house to ourselves after almost seven months. It's going to take a few days for me to finally realize that I don't have to "cater"to anyone except my immediate family. It is going to be nice to realize this though.

In other news, our neighbor Mr. Guess died this morning about 2:30. He had a lot of health problems and I'm sorry to see him go, but he was a Christian and I will see him again. It's weird, Mrs. Guess will end up realizing that she is alone in her house, after living with her husband for years. We, on the other hand, have only lived with our aunt for about 6 1/2 months and it will take us a little while to realize that we have an empty house.

TOnight EJ, Caleb, my dad and I are going to be doing the praise music tonight in church, so that should be fun. Tomorrow it is back to the grindstone and starting school. I am really not looking forward to it, but I guess I will have to live with it for another 3 years. I think if I get accepted by Disney into their college internship then I will be a character role. After listening to how fun it is, and will be, I want to be one.

I guess that is about all I have to say. Except I know one more thing in French.

Au revoir,
Stephen

You Are Likely an Only Child

At your darkest moments, you feel frustrated. At work and school, you do best when you're organizing. When you love someone, you tend to worry about them. In friendship, you are emotional and sympathetic. Your ideal careers are: radio announcer, finance, teaching, ministry, and management. You will leave your mark on the world with organizational leadership, maybe as the author of self-help books.

I just had to laugh at the answer to this test. I found it kind of humorous.

Stephen

Wow, today has been AMAZING!!! This morning I woke and and realized that my aunt was moving out today. I was soo excited!! Then I get upstairs and my aunt is sitting on the couch. I thought to myself, "Hmm I hope she is moving out today." I asked my mom and she restated that, yes she was moving out. I was ecstatic when I heard that.

After about an hour of moving everything out of the storage room she needed, I went back upstairs and to my surprise my aunt was on the computer. We still kept pushing on to move her out. We got everything loose in the van and headed over to the apartment. Well, we get there and the guys were still laving the carpet. We then head back home and guess what!?!? My aunt was sitting on the couch. I think we were more excited about her moving out then she was.

After we ate lunch around 12:30 we headed back to the apartment and a guy was there painting. We asked if we could put the stuff in the apartment and he said we could. After we moved everything in the living room in the apt., he was done with the trim in the room we were going to use, so we moved everything in there. Right after he got done with that one room, he left and said he would finish later. Then we left.

When we got home, the movers were there, so we went inside and sat down for a little while. The mover got to the big screen TV and that thing is in the beast. My dad and I went outside and helped them move it around to the driveway. That was the last piece of furniture, so Caleb my dad and I got in the car and went to the apt. once again. We got to the apt. waited for a few minutes and the movers showed up.

They moved almost everything in, the only things that were left were the couch and the TV. The TV came first and as I said before it was a beast. The guys took a couple of minutes then they came up and asked my dad if he could help them. Well, I went down and grabbed a corner, the four of us brought the TV up, and they went back downstairs to get the couch. They started bringing it up and got most of the way up and they could not get it inside. My dad went outside with Caleb and they started getting it through the door. Then they handed it to me, Caleb, and I and the two other guys brought it inside.

Well, Caleb and I went back to the back room and started setting up the bed when we heard some girls out in the living room. We were freaking out. It ended up being my sisters, so that was a relief. My aunt came with them and she was going to stay there for a little while and clean up. The girls left after a few minutes and we were waiting on my dad. He came up and we were ready to go. We asked my aunt a few questions like "Do you have any cleaning supplies? Is there anything you need? Would you like to come over for dinner?" She answered the first one and started crying. Of course, she was doing for sympathy, but I was like, "Let's go daddy!” Well we got home, things started settling in, and we started to realize that we had our home again.

My uncle showed up around 4:45 and our attitudes started picking up. We ate dinner and my dad and uncle took my aunt back to her house and is now picking up ice cream I think and should be here in a little while. Wow today has been crazy. I think one person will read this, but oh well. I guess that means I need more friends.

Stephen

It's happening again!!! The last three churches my dad takes on for the Youth Pastor position the pastor up and leaves us hanging. Then when the new Pastor comes on he pushes us out the door, leaving us to find another church. Why does this keep happening?? Hopefully this church will be different then the rest, maybe this church will pick a decent pastor that won't feel threatened by my dad.

In other news, it is a definite go that my uncle is coming. He will be with us for about a week then head back down to Florida. Normally, on Spring Break college students were thought to go to Florida, in our case Florida is coming to us. I guess that's about all that is going on in my life right now.

Stephen

Ciao All,

Well I am still counting the days until my aunt and cousin moves out. The count is officially down to two days!!! She moves out on Saturday and we all are ecstatic!! My mom just got done calling the people moving her and they will be here Saturday afternoon and she will be out by Saturday afternoon. As you all can tell I am excited about this move.

In other news we don't know if my uncle from Florida is going to be coming up or not. His work may not let him off for the week. I really hope that he is able to come up. Speaking of Florida, Esther and I will probably be working at Disney if they hire us. We are going to shoot for going January and coming back in May. That's exciting!!

School is school and it is as mediocre as ever. Some classes I love and some I absolutely detest. For instance, my Electronics music class is awesome, but my Computer Literacy class is horrible.

I guess that is all that is going on in my life right now.

Ciao,
Stephen

I have to admit one thing to the 1 person who reads this, I am very computer illiterate. I am!! If I wasn't I wouldn't put myself through this course at all. Right now everyone in class is typing out papers and it's just like I could be doing something better. That's just me though. I have learned absolutely nothing this semester and I really doubt I will. I am extremely bored because I am learning SQUAT!!

Other then that my day is going fairly well. I will update later.

Stephen