"title and registration"

Today was fun.

Registration.
That part was slightly less than desirable but at least it was a chance to catch up with a lot of my friends.

Although its been a nice break from most people there.
Out of my class of around 500-600, there's only a small percentage I really like.
Everyone just seems really consumed with "high school" and that's kind of really annoying to me.
Ah, well.
One more year.
Which hopefully goes by quickly.

(Haha, good timing, Metro Station.
"You won't be 17 forever....")


But as I learned yesterday, "There are no good days. There are no bad days. There are just days of grace."

Oh,
Good.
Lord.

Amazing.

And so is this:

Graham Cooks' Words of Wisdom

"you're not able to do what God has called you to do; only He can do it. But He's called you to live in His faithfulness; he's called you to live in His consistency, that He will come and do all the things that need to be done.
So, Beloved, you cannot find security in what God is doing, because God commits you to the impossible; He asks you to see the invisible; He calls you to do the outrageous. There is no security in that place, there is no security in what God is doing. There is only security in who God is.This great God that we serve will throw us into situations beyond us with no other thought than that His great heart will sustain us."


I feel like that's exactly what I needed to hear this year to prepare me for now, the next coming year, and the next however long.
You don't even know.
It makes me so happy/excited and ecstatic on the whole.

Anyways.

TODAY

I went to registration with good friend Juliann, and then we eventually met everyone else there.
Registration took so long! Crazy.

After like, 2-3, they all left to go shopping and to give one of our guy friends a clothe make over at the mall.

But good friend Meagan and I had other fun, fun, fun plans.

We went and hung out at her house for a bit, and then we ventured off the Borders.

oh my gosh

We are obsessed with that store.

Actually, before we went to Borders, we went to Fuego to buy her sister a birthday present.
While paying for it she was .19 cents short so the nice cash register man found 20 cents that they weren't using and gave it to her.
(remember that)

Then we went on over to Borders.
Again ---> We are obsessed.

I can not even begin to describe what their cute/adorable/wonderful things do to us.
And it was worse because we both didn't have any money.
So instead we made a rather brief (compared to the other times we have gone and spent hours there) run through of their new stuff. (pencil pouches, notebooks, themed accessories..ect.)

We finally got to the end of everything, and she found these cute, super bouncy glittery balls with a little animal super-hero inside.
Of coarse we stopped there and chatted for a while and bounced the balls mindlessly.

After a few minutes a worker guy comes up to us and just started talking. I forget what he said, but it was nice.

We looked around a few minutes more.

And then he came back and started talking to us again.
He looked somewhere between 20-30 and he was super nice.
We were still bouncing the balls, I think, and he said there was an even cooler one that he had and to hold on a sec while he went downstairs and got it.

He came back with the best thing ever.

A crystal ball, bouncy ball, magic 8 ball thing all mixed into one.

Completely blissful fun.

After obsessing over that, we went downstairs to go find a book that her mom wanted. It was in the health and diet section.

So before looking for it, we checked out the health section and noticed some cancer books. (remember that, too)
Then, moving to the right a shelf or two, we stumbled upon an.....interesting section.
Very interesting one.

And to our immature minds, the funniest section ever.

Oh. My. Mother-crunking. Goodness.

Sexuality.

Hahaa

I haven't laughed that hard in such a long time.
I stopped breathing and my stomach just kind of turned into one big knot, and it looked like I was crying intensely.

My goodness, the titles were hilarious!
So ridiculous. You don't even know.

We were a mess.

And this whole time there was a lady a few feet away.
I think she was feeling awkward and trying to ignore us and pretend like there wasn't two girls laughing at titles like "erotica", "erotica 7", "do me" and "hot cougar sex".

I have certainly never seen that section before.
Wow.

Okay, it isn't even that funny, but it was just the timing and everything.
Hilarious.

And then our friend who gave us the bouncy ball came by once we tore ourselves from that wonderful bookcase and looked at workout books to distract ourselves.

He came up and said, "Do you know how many hours people spend to make them look like that?"
"How many?"
"Like...40 hours a week."
"That's a lot of hours"
Then we talked about how Michael Phelps eats so much and how crazy that is and then he said that he could because he works out so much.
And then to Meagan he said (and this is where it all comes together)
"And you know, you can start swimming and working out and stuff when you get healthy again."

*sound of a record scratching*

Mhmm.
I completely forgot that bffl Meagan is a cute little baldy from the mean, mean, mean Mr. Chemo.

Remember the 20 cents from the first cash register?
Mhmm.

As we were walking out of Borders, Meagan said, "I just thought of something. I wonder if the guy at Fuego gave me the money because I'm bald."
We stopped walking and thought a minute. We laughed.
It was true.
I love how that never occurred to us.

Anyways, after that we went back to her house, ate dino bites, chicken flavored rice, and watched the first season of Dawson's Creek until 9pm when I went home.

Overall, it was a wonderful day.

And oh man.
The sunset.
So effing beautiful.
There was mountains.
There was purple sky.
There was orange sky.
There was pink sky.
There was a cloud that looked like an angel.
There was water.
Lot's of water.
Puget Sound water.
Glorious.
God is so beautiful its hard to stand sometimes.
It's craziness for my simple little human brain.


Hmm, I was ready to go to bed at like, 9:30. My intense day of funrawrfun and school pressure was a little draining.

Friends, I bid you goodnight.

-jk