Ooooh! Food!

My goodness! God is so wonderful it's weird!  He's given me so many talents / gifts and I've just discovered another! I had to make dinner for my family tonight and I wasn't sure what to do, so I made it up as I went along. (it was fun!)

I started with ground beef  in a frying pan. I couldn't tell you all the things I added to it- white wine (cooking wine) fish sauce, black pepper, pizza spices, steak sauce, chicken bouillon cubes, steak spices, parmesan cheese- lots of it- and a little bit of water...maybe some other stuff too. Any way I just sprinkled this and that in the pan until I ran out of ideas and it smelled good. Then I sliced a roll of wheat bread and spread butter and garlic powder on it and put it in the broiler for a few minutes (I  think it was in for about a minute too long). I set a salad (lazy- bagged salad nothing thrilling) on the table and sliced a melon... and I think that's about it. It wasn't a lot of food but boy! was it filling! and it tasted good! I don't think I've ever tasted anything quite like it- it was, I don't know, earthy? that's not a good word for it... anyway it turned out really good.

I've cooked like that before and I enjoy cooking like that. I like baking too- I'm one of those people that guess-timate and sometimes completely deviate from the recipe or don't use one al together! But hey! they food tastes good! (i just wish i didn't burn things so often)lol

Anyway- I just felt like writing that :)

Gotta go!

:)

Samia

:)

Last day of High School - Forever!!

So, right now I'm sitting in a CIT (Computer Information Technology) Lecture. Some guy (who's not my teacher) is talking about computer security. Yeah, so I'm not really listening...
Anyway, after this class, I have the next class and then I'm done. I'm graduated! No more High School!!
Oh my Gosh!! What am I going to do with myself?!! Jk, lol.
:)
So, last night my Mom and I (in the span of like a minute and a half) decided that I'm going to go camping with three friends in two weeks at the beach. I'm also going to do a birthday (for my little brother) / graduation party, at the beach on our last day of camping. It'll be fun!!
Now I need to do graduation pictures. I've never done any type of school pictures, except for my college ID card. I like taking pictures so much, I wish I could do them myself, but I can't imagine self portraits looking halfway good. :-P
I'm going to a very cool birthday party on Friday. I'm excited! My friend is doing a kind of Bohemian style garden party. With flowers and lights and candles and yeah, it's going to be lots of fun! It's going to be late, like at seven thirty ish, so that the sun is down. Because she's going to string lights around the bandstand in her garden. It's going to be sooo pretty!
hm...

Oh!!! CAMP!!!
I went to camp last week! It was AWESOME!!!!! I was on the Outlaws, our team color was orange and we came in dead LAST!!! and I'm proud of it!! I got to take the flag home with me! I painted it for the team, it has "wooden" lettering that says Outlaws at the top and then there is a silhouette of crossed smoking pistols in the center and then at the bottom it says "We're kind of a big deal" It's awesome!
The most exciting thing about camp, though, is that we had John MacArthur as our guest speaker!! He was just going over the doctrine of justification, the basic gospel, but the way he explained it was so cool! One of my favorite things that He said was that when God saved us, He didn't only save us from the consequences of our sin, He saved us from our sin itself. We don't have to live in sin anymore, because He saved us from it. Isn't that cool! It's so full of hope! I've heard that before and I've always believed it but I've never thought about it like that before!
I made a lot of friends at camp and had a lot of fun, I really liked the bus ride on the way there. Eighteen hours in a small place with like thirty five other people...it's AWESOME!!! You get so tired and then eat candy and get sugar high, my gosh, it's like every body's high! It's so hilariously fun! On the way home we were all so tired that now, everything is my fault (don't ask me why, I was sleeping when this was decided), Joe's new name is the Stud muffin (That was my doing-not my idea, but I officiated it) and Noah is the bear(which is funny cause that's what his name means...:) Sooo much fun! Next year is my last year )`: But I'm really looking forward to it. I pray that God would grow me so much by then.
Well, class is over, I still have one more class after this,but I think I'm going to go get some fresh air... :)
Later-

Life is getting scarier...

Very much so in fact. I went to the college ministry on Sunday and now I'm terrified of growing up. I'm not kidding. Getting a full time job, learning to be even more responsible, getting married (if it's God's will) children, ... Yeah, I know all that's a long way off but I'm still scared! How do I know that I'll make good decisions?! Will I like my job? Will I marry the right guy?!
Okay, so maybe most of this is about marriage. Honestly, I do want to get married. I didn't used to. But now God has given me the desire and I'm not sure what to do with it. That little saying is so true; "You don't decide who you're going to marry. God does. You just have to wait to see who you get stuck with." Marriage for me is a wonderful thought, definitely something I look forward to. But I'm absolutely terrified that... I don't know, that I'll marry the wrong guy or blow off the right one! And I know that it's not even my decision:God decided long ago. And what if it's God's will that I don't get married!? then what? I have no long term plans. I'm going to work full time for the next year and then go to Master's for hopefully four years and then what?! If I get married, according to rumor, it'll be while or just after I'm at Master's. If I don't get married...am I going to live with my parents for the rest of my life?! I love my parents and I'm not running screaming from the house, but I really don't think I could live with them forever. I do love them. :)
And here's the college thingy! I was/am going to go to Master's to get my degree in music education, but now I'm not so sure. I definitely want to go to Master's but do I really want to take music? If I don't get married will I be able to live off of that? If I do get married, will I be able to use that? I love art and music and food and sewing and lots of stuff, but what do I want to take in college?!!
I need prayer. Lot's of prayer.
Sometimes I just wish that a knight in shining armour will sweep me off of my feet so that I can just forget about college all together...

Yeah, I'm scared.