Shopping: Love vs. Hate

I LOVE shopping!
Its so great...mainly because well...its fun to have other people buy you stuff.
Let's get something straight. I don't always love shopping. I generally don't love to go spend 5 hours in a crowded mall by myself at Christmas time. But if I am going to look for something that I genuinely need then its fun to go and find the best deals....and maybe get something from Second Cup and Cinnabon too.
My aunt took me shopping yesterday. She wanted to buy me a belated birthday gift. I never knew this about her before, but she rarely buys clothes that cost less than $35. I found a really cute sweater that was $19.95 but she refused to buy it and told me to find one that was more expensive. So I found one that was $40 so it was too expensive but it was still expensive enough for her to buy. lol...and then she saw this really cute polo shirt and she insisted on buying that for me as well.
Needless to say, I like shopping with her. But I hate that I kinda feel like she spent too much money on me.

Alexis, why do you do this?
You wanted to go to Westmount because it gave you the freedom to work at your own pace, yet you don't bother doing the work? It makes no sense. Keep this commitment that you made to yourself, please? Stop procrastinating and just get down to work. You are falling behind and you can't afford to fall behind.
I know you hate biology, but you need the credit in order to graduate. The more work you do in that class, the sooner you will be out of there. Think of it that way. It might help.
Attending class might help too. If you actually went to school, you would know what to do and how to stay on track. If you did this, it would be very helpful for everyone involved.
Please keep this in mind.
Sincerely,
Your other, more sane half

Welll.....apparently I am back home.
I have no idea how long this will last.
Its Thanksgiving here in Canadia this weekend!
Thus...I will list the things that I am thankful for. :)

Salvation
Family
Friends
A home (albeit a drama filled one)
My precious Lilly the Laptop
Life
My pets
among other things....which I will not list right now...because that would take a bazillion years.

God Bless everyone and thank God for something today!

stress..

So, I am not living at home anymore...at least for a while.
There are some issues with our boarder and my parents...and my mom thought it would be a good idea for me to get out for a while.
So I am out.
Right now I am at my friend Evie's house.
I can only stay til tomorrow though...then i have to find another place to go.
Hurray?
Yeah...my family could use some definite prayer...

Faithfulness?

YES!
I HATE those spam blocker account dealies.
They blocked my blog.
I got it back though...HURRAY!!

My cat was ran over yesterday.
My friend was murdered twelve days ago.
My aunt is laying in the hospital dying.
My mom is threatening to leave.
But you know what?!
God is faithful through it all!

My God is mighty to save.
My God can move mountains.

Great Big Missionaries?

So, I have tried blogging before and I didn't update it regularly enough for anyone to bother reading it. I thought I would give it another try.

I am finishing my application for Guatemala today, at least the parts that I can fill out on my own. Then I will make a doctor's appointment sometime this week and make an appointment with the lawyer that did last year's forms. Their law firm is really cool. They donate the majority of their money to charity. I think I will get Destiny to fill out my Pastor's rec. form.
It feels so great to know that I am walking in God's will for my life instead of ignoring Him like I have been doing for the maj0rity of my summer since I got home from Peru.
I am attempting to get some people to come to Guatemala with me. Its nice, because for every person that I invite who comes, I get $100 off the cost of the trip. In other words, the more people who come with me, the less I have to pay. That, my dear friends, is a wonderful thing.

And guess what?!?! The cruise is coming up quickly! I am CRAZY excited. I hope that my mom and I will be able to manage to get along for the duration of the trip. I want to build our relationship. And I am so excited to see Jaime Jam again. And all those other amazing artists and speakers! It will be great.

Anyways, that is my first blog...so there you have it. I will try and update this more often than I did my past one. haha.