25 random things you may not know about ME!

1. I am a twin.
2. I have known my best friend since 5th grade.
3. I know how to knit... and I do it alot.
4. I also know how to crochet!
5. I have gone to NMC since kindergarten (or around there).
6. I am good at keeping secrets. (shhh!)
7. I have only been out of the country once.
8. I have never seen the Pacific Occean.
9. Charleston, South Carolina, is one of my favorite places in the world.
10. My favorite place in the whole entire world is the AGC Baby Center in Ngata, Kenya.
11. I am really good at procrastinating.
12. My only sibling is my twin brother.
13. I've always wanted a sister.
14. I go to a private school.
15. I almost always get 100s on my verse quizzes.
16. I did Bible quizzing for a few years in elementary school.
17. Monster makes me really crazy.
18. I have never had a boyfriend. ((:O, but my dad is happy for that, I'm pretty sure!!))
19. I know the words to many, many songs.
20. I play the violin.
21. I play softball and basketball.
22. I can speak quite a bit of spanish. (but I don't really have the whole understanding part down)
23. My art won two awards in an art show last weekend. (a blue ribbon and a red ribbon!)
24. I like the number 24. :D
25. I just wrote 24 random things about me!

Money earned: $20 yesterday
Money spent: none
Nutty Bars eaten: none (they're 50 cents now!!!)
Coffee consumed: none
Hours listening to music: eh... about two
Tears cried: none (:O)
Hours of studying: a couple
Books read: uno
Friends made: um... none :(
Lessons learned: 3 (softballs are scary) (Mariana's mom's cell phone is evil) (I can have a conversation in spanish with Abbie)

so... this is just a random post. I figured I'd just kind of update...

Not much to say...

Just pretty bored... lol...

-Kaylyn

humbled...

For those of you who go to NMC, you may know Pastor Chris Knight. Chris and his wife have two kids, Brenin and Corbin. Both of them are quizzers this year. Today was quiz finals, and Corbin's team was in the finals, in the quiz for 1st and 2nd in B flight. After question 19 was answered the other coach called a time out and told her quizzers not to jump, because she did not want to mess up their chances of winning. But Eric (the boys' coach) forgot about the -20 for a wrong answer on the last question and the +20 bonus... so he told the boys to go ahead and jump. The question was read, Corbin jumped, and then stood there. After the 30 seconds for him to answer were over, he sat down. The other team got the bonus correct, and won the match. The kids were disappointed... but Corbin had done the right thing. A few other quizzers were also in the room, and one sitting by him had whispered the answer. Corbin did not say anything, even though he already knew the answer, because technically it would have been cheating.

How is that for a humbling experience? I know adults who wouldn't do that... My dad said he deserved Dairy Queen for something like that. They didn't get first place because of that!

I felt bad for him... but he did the right thing.

the weekend...

It's like a breath of fresh air. Finally... time without homework, stress, and lack of sleep (not really. x])

But this past week has just been a mess. You know... all the high school drama of who-likes-whom and who-just-dumped-whom.... yeah... I've got that going on right now. And last night I basically had a panic attack about a history project...

And today I had some major mood swings. Like from uber depressed "life sucks and I want to die" to standing on top of the world and laughing and joking in about five seconds. I don't know what happened to make that happen... but it happened two or three times today in varying degrees. And I was incredibly goofy during softball because that was one of my hyper swings...

This weekend should be pretty good. Quizzing is tomorrow and I'll be doing a bit of quiz mastering/keeping score for Dad. And I will possibly be going to Mariana's house (although that may not work out) for a Saturday/Sunday hang out session. But that probably won't work out because of quizzing.

hmmm.... I really should get some of this hyperness out of my system.

the last 60 hours...

have been a blur....

to start this all off... on Thursday morning I woke up feeling really nasty. I took my temperature and it was just above 102. ((fun, right?)) So my mom told me I could stay home until 11. I went back to bed, slept until 9, took a shower, and skipped off to school. ((yeah right, I was so drugged I could barely see straight)) I kind of floated through school.

Friday morning I woke up with a fever again... but I couldn't stay home, so I went to school armed with DayQuil and Flonase.

Friday night was the last night of the drama, so after we had all of the stuff packed up in the trailer outside FBC we loaded into our cars and made our way to Brandon Puckett's house. I rode with Val and Kristin, two seniors who didn't mind driving me, so we had to drop Val off at her house so she could take some things inside and get her car.
Now Puckett's house is absolutely HUGE!! We go inside and most people are there already... but we get some food and sit around the dining room table and are talking about random stuff. And then somehow we all got shuffled downstairs and half of us were standing in a circle randomly talking... and someone found a hula hoop and a couple people were showing off their mad hula-hooping skills.
And apparently we are not allowed to listen to music... ever... We got in trouble for listening to music... ((but if that one teacher hadn't been there, no one would have cared. it's not like we were moshing or doing anything bad.))
So we decided we would watch a movie. Somehow about 20 of us managed to get in front of Brandon's tv... and we watched "1408". If you don't know... "1408" is an adaptation of a Stephen King book. A wonderful movie to watch on Friday the 13th ((which was a running joke that night)) but it wasn't Friday the 13th for very long while we were watching it. So at about 1 am, after the movie was over, we all got rides home ((I rode home with Lauren and Christen ((different Christen))))
I get home and my mom is watching "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days". I think this movie is crazy hilarious (and I'm always up for a good chick flick) so I sat down and watched it with her.
I finally went to bed around 2:30 am.

I slept until 2 pm. Then I kind of meandered around the house after taking a shower. ((I think I still have traces of stage makeup on me, though!))

We ((my mom and I)) went to Jamie and Jolinda's around 5:30 to have a reunion with our Kenya team. We had a good time looking through each other's albums and hearing about the babies that have been adopted in the time we've been back in the US ((quite a few have been!!)). I had a good time.

And then there was Sunday school today and all that stuff... and a little bit of homework to finish up...

But this weekend was a blur.

prayer...

Hey... if you guys could pray for my friend, it would be greatly appreciated. On Tuesday he left school early to go home (he actually lives near Indy, but he lives in a group home up here) because his uncle died. We were talking right before he left and he was blaming himself for his uncle's death (well... partially anyway). He isn't in the best mental state to begin with (he's bipolar) and could really use a lot of prayer. He should be back here by Friday... which is good, because I need to talk to him about some things... but anyways...

And for me, because the next three days are likely to be incredibly stressful. I have drama productions Thursday and Friday night, cast party Friday night, and then whatever homework that is assigned tomorrow. Also Friday is the end of the quarter... and then next Friday I have a paper due in history.

thanks guys...

-Kaylyn

abortion...

I found this online... and I thought it was pretty interesting....



In the United States, there are many situations in which abortions are recommended, even encouraged. Sometimes an abortion is recommended because of difficult circumstances and other times simply for convenience. Here are four cases for you to consider. Should this baby be aborted?
Four Cases:
Case #1. There's a traveling preacher and his wife who are living in poverty. They already have fourteen children. Now she finds out she's pregnant with the 15th child. They are very poor and probably will be unable to afford a doctor's attention. Considering their poverty, the excessive world population, and the number of children they already have, would you recommend she get an abortion?
Case #2. The grandmother is an alcoholic and the father spends his evenings out drinking in the taverns. His mother has tuberculosis. She has already given birth to four children. The first child is blind, the second child died, the third child is deaf, and the fourth child has tuberculosis. Now the mother is pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you consider recommending an abortion?
Case #3. A white man raped a 13-year-old black girl and now she is pregnant. Her family lives in extreme poverty; in fact, to survive, food often has to be stolen. If you were her parents, would you recommend or require her to have an abortion?
Case #4. A teenage girl of thirteen or fourteen year old is pregnant. She is not married and lives in an outback area with very little in way of money or resources. The man she hopes to marry someday is not the father of the baby, and he's considering walking away due to the embarrassment of the situation. There is no hospital available nor are doctors able to give her medical attention. Would you consider recommending that she get an abortion?


The Reality:
Case #1: You would have just aborted the world-famous Methodist preacher John Wesley.
Case #2: You would have just aborted the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Case #3: You would have just aborted Ethel Waters, the marvelous black Gospel singer.
Case #4: You would have just aborted Jesus Christ, the savior of the world.


Since we are killing off over a million of our babies each year, how many other geniuses, artists, musicians, scientists, saints, and others have we assassinated? If the "pro-choice" (pro-abortion) folks have their way, the world may be deprived of a genius with the cure for cancer, the first female president, the inventor of new technologies, the saint who could have led us closer to God, the inventor of medical miracles, etc. In the lust of personal peace and pleasure, are we Americans killing the very people that God has sent to assist, teach, and save us?

summer... maybe?

You know that feeling where you walk outside and it's waaaay warmer than you expected and you're wondering why in the world you are wearing a sweatshirt and long pats? Yeah, that happened to me yesterday. I expected it to be really cold when I walked out from school, but it was so warm that I took off my sweatshirt immediately.

Then today it was the same thing. I wasn't quite sure why I was wearing jeans and hadn't just left my gym shorts on.

I had forgotten how freeing summer feels at first. You step outside and push up your sleeves and remember that you can now go without shoes without being afraid of frostbite. And you immediately get happy. It's like you get high off the warm air.

I just love spring... it makes me so happy... and makes me put on my hawk nelson cd full blast. :D

love always,

Kaylyn

Self-Injury Awareness Day

For those of you who don't know, today is March 1st... and March 1st is self-injury awareness day (or SIAD).

For those of you who don't know, self-injury is defined as inflicting deliberate harm on oneself without suicidal intent. This can include cutting, burning, hitting, and eating disorders. A common belief regarding self-injury is that it is an attention-seeking behaviour; however, in most cases, this is inaccurate. Many self-injurers are very self-conscious of their wounds and scars and feel guilty about their behaviour leading them to go to great lengths to conceal their behaviour from others. They may offer alternative explanations for their injuries, or conceal their scars with clothing. Self-injury in such individuals is not associated with suicidal or para-suicidal behaviour. The person who self-injures is not usually seeking to end his or her own life; it has been suggested instead that he or she is using self-injury as a coping mechanism to relieve emotional pain or discomfort. ((taken from wikipedia))

I have watched many of my friends struggle with self-injury or eating disorders. They were not attempting suicide or anything, they were just trying to deal with stress and their lives...

If you know someone like this... I understand your pain. It's something that is hard to deal with. It's hard to watch someone you love use something like this to deal with their lives... but it's part of reality. They are not trying to hurt those around them... they are actually trying to help them. They are trying to keep their emotions from spilling over... they are hiding, making everyone think they are ok.

If you know someone like this, you probably don't know what to do. First of all, don't overreact. Second, try to look at it from their perspective, try to understand. Third, don't jump to conclusions.

To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA) is an organization that helps spread awareness and help about self-injury and suicide. Check out their website ( http://www.twloha.com/ ) to find out more information.

peace,
-Kaylyn