From Where I'm Standing

RAIN
Roller Coasters
Beaches
Olive Garden Bread Sticks
Raw Cookie Dough
The Weekend
Colorado
VitaminWater
Those long perfect hugs when you really need one
The hugs when you get picked up in the air
The hugs when the person you're hugging smells really good
Ok, just hugs in general
Coffee
Futons
Frozen Yogurt
Running through sprinklers
How shopping at Costco makes you feel like a chef for the Royal Navy
Driving in the Summer with the windows down and the music up!
Chickfila
Converse
Flipping over the pillow to get the cold side
Sleeping while hugging the pillow
Sleep
Sour Gummy Worms
Bare feet
Tanning
Firelight
Hot Showers
DORY!
California Sunshine
Beaches
Little Sisters


and here's some other things that I can relate to...

I SWEAR the referee is going for the other team!

Oh thats a tan? I thought you got attacked by orange markers!

I hate it when I wake up after spending the night at someone elses's house and you
have to wait forever for them to wake up! (Unless its at some certain people's houses, I just go eat breakfast and play with their baby sister =))

Frozen Computer...maybe if I click EVERYWHERE it will work again!

I love your accent, it's awesome! Say more words!!

The awkward moment when you get the lyrics wrong to a song

When I turn off my lights, I make a 5 foot leap into my bed

My earphones must be untangled before I can listen to music

Panicking when your finger gets stuck in something stupid

I could NEVER date someone if they couldn't make me laugh

If duct tape, tylenol and bandaids can't help, you have a serious problem!

You're 6 years old! why do you have a cell phone??

I'd rather carry 10 grocery bags in one hand than make a second trip

Hearing "Just a small town girl" and shouting "Living in a lonely world!"

Procastinators Unite!!! Tomorrow...

I can't just hit the crosswalk button once, I need to hit it like, A THOSAND TIMES!

Seaweed touched my foot, might as well be a great white shark!

Sometimes I feel like randomly lying on the floor

I don't care if I look stupid! At least I'm having FUN! Unlike you!

I want to re-live that day/night

I HATE "Battery Low"

Ok, If we get caught, here's the story....

"You look tired" "Thanks for politely saying I look like crap!"

If Walt Disney watched the Disney channel right now, he would cry!

I have always wanted to get in a cab and say "Follow that Car!"

I'm Not Flirting! IT's called BEING NICE!

"That little spider is more scared than you are!" "Oh did it tell you that??"

I love it when you leave your hoodie at my house and I sleep in it cause it smells just like you

When the teacher says both of our names and we are totally busted cause we weren't paying attention to a single thing she said, who would when you can just smile into each other's eyes??

Sitting out on the grass, you holding me, looking at pictures in the stars, life just got better for a little while...

We talked about old times, I smiled cause you remembered

Oh you hate me? That's funny cause I never did anything to you but be born

I miss you. The old you. The new you sucks






So, hopefully you have actually gotten some of these, and I didn't waste TOO much of your time =)

But this is just all the little things in life

From Where I'm Standing,

Annie

Ok, so, as everyone has probably gotten from reading anything in this blog yet, I'm a Christain. For some reason, a lot of my Christain friends and aquaintances think that therefore there is a mold that I fit into because I'm a "Christain." Same with being homeschooled. "Oh You're homeschooled? So that means that you're a nerd and you wear skirts, right??" No. And just because I'm a Christain doesn't mean that I'm this hypocratic and judgemental person. I can't say I always haven't been. For 3 long years of my life my family attended a legalistic church. I loved my friends there, but hated the life that the people there tried to make me live. To be honest, because I was a girl, I was supposedly some weakling who needed a strong husband to protect her with a sword and that my destiny was to sweep floors and have kids. Not my dream in life. Yes, I want to get married, and yes I want to have kids. But I believe that God has given me other dreams in life too. For a reason. A couple years ago, if I even mentioned wanting to have a band that wrote *GASP* contemporary music I could've gotten my family excommunicated. So I kept my mouth shut for a couple years. Until we ended up leaving (With a little kick in the rear) because we thought that it was wrong for a group of elders to excommunicate someone for obeying their consience. I'm not mad at any of those people, and I still talk to some of them. Some of them won't even make eye contact with me cause I wear jeans, figure fitting shirts and listen to music that talks about stuff more than God. It still hurts to look into the eyes of someone who used to be your best friend but they walk on by like you're nothing more than the dust on the sidewalk. But, I've been able to go my way.

And I like the free life a whole lot more.

After leaving our former church, I was mad at the elders and I was increadibly mad at God. God had taken away most of my friends. He was a mad God that would send fire from heaven if I didn't wear a skirt to my calf. And if my hair wasn't long enough. If the shirt wasn't loose enough to fit my older brother. My God was a pretty pathetic one. But I realize now, the God I was afraid of is definately not the God that I love with all of my heart now. Not the God who loved me so much that he would die for me. It wasn't the God who did miracles infront of my hand. I had been told, not by my parrents, but by the leaders of the church that God didn't perform miracles anymore. If that's true, I don't know how to explain a lot of things I've seen before. Like when I was dancing and almost broke my ankle. I sat down on the floor right there in the middle of worship and winced. A quiet voice told me "Keep Dancing, Emily. Come and dance with me." So, I limped up and did the most pathetic twirl you've ever seen. It hurt. I tried some moves and thought I was about to faint in pain and then suddenly, as I was dancing, all of the pain left. That wasn't the old God. This was someone completely new. And I love him with all of my heart.

It wasn't till about 1 1/2 years ago that I met this God. And I'm glad I did. I had dark mascera globbed onto my lashes and gray eyeshadow, more out of rebellion against our old church that for the look. It looked awful. I had cut my hair pretty short, cause I knew my old friends wouldn't have liked it. And then I met Jesus. And ever since, I've been living the free life. I'm not mad at my life. (very often =)) I'm not mad at God. I'm not mad at my old church.

I wake up and wash my reasonably long hair and dab a tiny bit of mascera on. (Yeah, I realized I look better with long hair anyway)and go outside with my bible. I like reading my Papa's words outside more. I'm not a perfect student, but I'll tell you what, when you learn to be happy with whatever's going on, you get better grades. =) I'm finally pursuing my dreams and starting a band. (DRUMMER WANTED) I must say that the free life, realizing that we have freedom in Christ, and that all we need to do is love him. (When you love someone you will automatically try to do what's right)

I don't have much but my mp3 player and guitar and a smile on my face from a good God.

And I'm living the good life. The free life

~Annie