Texting My Brother, Part Two

"quick!  how do you spell badmittin?"
"I dunno!  Badmitten?"
"that how I spelled it"

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"Hey it's almost your birthday!"
"ya u txted in the middle of a geometry test"

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"So watsup"
"Soo we are wandering around looking for something interesting to eat.  How's the party?"
"I saw a racoon doing that once"

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"Hey"
"Oh heyy" "P.S. Rachel?"
"what?"
"Homecoming??"
"Oh ya. what about it?"
"I dunno.  Do you like her?  Is she cute?  How'd you ask?"
"i said do you want to go to homecoming with me i like her but we are going as friends and yes she is"

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"I left a pack of gum in my pocket and put it through the wash and this is what it turned into"
"Wow!! Looks like space rocks"
"ya i havent seen too many of those but i guess thats what they would look like"

Swap Meet

I had my first Swap Meet experience on Saturday.  It was life-changing.  I can't believe I have never gone before!  It was reminiscent of a farmer's market, except that instead of food there was just a ton of cheap stuff.  I won't lie - I spent a lot of money.  I had a lot of birthday cash, though.  So I shouldn't feel guilty, right?

Apart from a few tops and a great pair of feather earrings, I had two incredible finds.

On the right is a beautiful pocket-watch that actually opens!  What I'm still trying to determine is whether or not the clock is real.  Even if it isn't, this makes me so happy.  I have been looking for something like it for ages.  I put it on a chain and wore it around my neck today - it's beautiful and perfect, and I love it.

On the left is a little New Testament + Psalms that I found on a table amidst a bunch of other junk.  "Everything $3," the sign said.  Carved into the front is a Jerusalem cross.  I thought it was just a fancy Greek cross, but Google taught me otherwise.  Into the back is carved the word "Jerusalem."  I continued my Google-ing and discovered many similar Bibles, all made of olive wood, and all hailing from Israel.  Three dollars on a table of junk!  I showed it to my mom yesterday as we were Skyping, and she showed me a nearly identical one that my grandparents brought her from Israel.  I'm so happy to have it.

From this Bible (it is the KJV) my favorite verse reads as follows:

"Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.  For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."

Hebrews 10:35-36

Welcome Back

I'm welcoming myself back.  To this blog.  Because I've been away.

Here's what I've been up to:
- NSO.  It's the craziest week of the year, but one of the best.
- Class.  Yikes.  Class is hard this time around - but finally interesting.  I love taking all my things out to the Landing, taking over a couch in the shade, and getting all my work done.  Typically I can't do homework outside, but I think it works there because it's kind of like a trick - outside, but kind of inside.
- Senate.  I am so excited for Activities!  Things have already gone a little bonkers, but what do you expect?  It's gonna be a great year.  We like bonkers.
- Swap Meet.  I went for the first time on Saturday with two of my good friends from home.  It was so cool!  I bought some great clothes and jewelry, a beautiful pocket watch that I plan to make into a necklace, and this incredible, wooden-covered New Testament/Psalms.  It has a Jerusalem cross carved into the front, and the word "Jerusalem" carved into the back.  I did some Google-ing to see what I could find out about it.  I found similar ones that are made of olive wood from Jerusalem.  If mine is as well, that's awesome.

That's it.  That's essentially all I've been up to.  Now that I've mostly settled into a routine, I'll be better at writing and doing the things I choose to do.  Soon I'll be better at taking photos, too - I left my memory card at home, but my mom found it and is sending it my way.  So that is fab.

Something beautiful God has reminded me of recently:

"I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice,
In lovingkindness and in compassion,
And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.
Then you will know the LORD...
...And I will say to those who were not My people,
'You are My people!'
And they will say, 'You are my God!'"
Hosea 2:19-20, 23