Discoveries!

What I have discovered this week:


I have discovered that there are some things I will never have control over and some people I will never completely understand. I just have to give it to God.


"Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You." - Psalms 56:3


I love that verse! So simple, and yet so true.

20 things you should probably know about me.

I was thinking (what a novel idea, thinking) a few days ago, and I was incredibly bored. My thoughts spun tales, and then once again, my brain yelled at me to make a list. This time however, instead of a list of things I love, it wanted to make a list of things that people should probably know about me. Here it is!

20 things you should probably know about me:

*I am very stubborn. You would probably have a better time at getting me to stop figure skating than to get me do something I don’t want to do.

*I get carsick very easily

*I am shy until you get to know me.

*I am a dork (and proud of it)! :)

*I do not like hockey players. They steal my ice time and leave big ruts.

*I don’t forget things easily.

*I LOVE SUNSETS!

*I also love rain and snow and the smell of smoke (campfire).

*Oh, and freshly smoothed ice, preferably still wet.

*Ask me about politics or abortion, and I will never stop talking....like, ever.

*Only three people can make me smile real smiles (you know who you are...)

*I am very, very passionate about Russia. I love the culture so much, and I want to do mission work up there in the hopefully-not-to-far future.

*I am a klutz.

*I kill any plant I touch (I killed a cactus, which I didn't even know was possible...poor Alfred)

*I get cold very easily

*I am different! I like playing Frisbee in the rain, I have bruise wars with friends, I find inspiration in the oddest things, and I will balance on absolutely everything (fences, tired, curbs. Anything. Just ask any of my friends and they will vouch for me.)

*I am overly sarcastic, so don’t take anything I say personally. :P

*I am obsessed with Paris.

*Figure skating is NOT ballet on ice.

*I hate the color orange.

Awkawswardness

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille ball) from I Love Lucy.

I have discovered that I am less skilled at using chopsticks than Lucy Ricardo is at singing. If there was a chopstick competition, I wouldn’t just get last...I would get disqualified and thrown in the county jail.

It all started at the "O-Zeki Japanese Restaurant.” It was one of the traditional sushi places where you take off your shoes and sit cross legged on cushions. I accepted the awkward/awesomeness (which I will now call awkawswardness) with a smile. Then I saw my competition. Chopsticks. The foreign objects seemed to smile at me as I sat down, as if knowing the horror they were about to put me through. I glared right back at them and in triumph moved instantly to grab a fork. I happened to be sitting at the one place setting without one. Of course.

I begrudgingly picked them up and they slid clumsily from my hands. I noticed my uncle had them situated perfectly in his own hands, and he clicked them together once or twice to make sure they were placed correctly.

“Hey uncle Mario! How do you use chopsticks?” I looked at him in hope, and he gladly showed me.

“Just pinch the top one and balance the bottom one in between your thumb and pointer finger.” He showed me. I tried. The term ‘easier said than done’ has never been more suitable. 

This was me:

 

I have decided to leave the chopstick usage to the professionals, and embrace my awkawswardness joyfully.

Besides that, Canada is amazing! The fall colors are GORGEOUS and the family time is even better. My family is crazier than I thought! The day included:

*Eating walnuts off of a walnut tree (did you know they come in a paper shell thing that you need to peel off? I didn't!)

*Doing a faceplant onto pavement

*Riding the ogopogo monster replica

Me riding the 'Ogopogo monster'

*Climbing through trees

*'Jecuzzee-ing'

*Getting lost three times

I must admit, I miss my friends and my cat...but this 'vacation' is a wonderful and much needed one. :) Who knows what tomorrow will hold! Aye?