This weekend I was feeling really bummed about the astronomically high gas prices (almost 4.00 a gallon in SC, and at some gas stations it is at least that much) and a thought went through my head - "why don't they make cars that run on water or something?" so I looked it up. Here is just one video about one guy who is onto using water as an energy source.

also, here is the link to the website on how to convert your car so that is runs partially on water, and also has a few other videos on using water as an energy source to charge cell phones, iPods, even laptops.
I find this incredible. I stopped buying gas from companies that purchase oil from Middle Eastern countries a few months ago, and started only buying from domestic oil companies, but this seems like the best alternative. Not only would it make driving cheaper, but according to the website your car has cleaner emissions as well.
Of course oil companies are going to fight it with all they've got saying it won't work, and will never amount to anything, but isn't that what western union said about the telephone, and wasn't that also the response to automobiles in the first place?
I'm just saying, I think they're on to something.

I am 17, going on 18...

In these last fleeting moments before I am officially 18...I am slightly terrified.
The last year has quite possibly been the best year of my life.
I gave up a lot and I gained a lot, too.
I wonder what this next year has in store for my life.
I'm excited and so scared all at once.
Tonight is a paradox.
Tomorrow it will be over.
There is no escaping it.
No escaping time.
I just...I love being 17.
I hope that 18 is just as good as 17.
...Actually, I hope it is BETTER.



I got a
baby's brain and an old man's heart
Took eighteen years to get this far
Don't always know what I'm talkin' about
Feels like I'm livin in the middle of doubt
Cause I'm
eighteen
and I don't know what I want
Eighteen
I just don't know what I want...

Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.

I've been thinking lately that maybe I should be more consistent in my blogging.
It's hard for me to understand why anyone why anyone would be interested in what is going on with my life, or in what I think, but...Here goes nothing.
I make no promises on how consistent I will be, but I will try to post at least once a week.

Lately I have become seriously addicted to the TV show "24" with Keifer Sutherland. It's a show about a federal agent named Jack Bauer who works for CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) in L.A., and each season represents one day in his life, 24 hours, in real time, where he has to save the world, basically. A lot of my friends have been watching it for quite some time (I think it's in the 8th season right now) so last year, i decided to see what all the fuss was about. I rented the entire 1st season disc by disc from the video store up the street (I don't have cable, and even if I did, what are the chances of catching it all on re-runs?) and now I see why everyone is obsessed. It is SO intense, and it totally drags you in, so if you watch one episode, you need to watch the rest of the season, or at least the next episode, in hopes that it won't leave you on the edge of your seat. While watching the first season, my mom came into my room on about the 10th episode, and got completely dragged in. Well, since there are 24 episodes per season, and 4 episodes per disc, meaning 6 discs per season and $4 per disc up the street, meaning $24 to watch a season (coincidence...maybe), I have been hesitant to rent the next season (also it is pretty dang time consuming), so I was STOKED to find the entire second season at the library!! For free!! Of course, my mom and I watched it in about a week, and I have already put the third season on hold from the Library.
Well, the whole point of this blog was for me to rave about the Library, but I guess I ended up raving about 24 more. Anyway, as it turns out the Library is awesome.
They have all kinds of other shows, and every season of 24 so far.


...Not to mention some awesome books.

we used to talk about girls who play guitar

tonight i went out and ate some tasty cambodian food for dins.
i cut my lip on some ice. it hurt.

im so cold right now.
the weather today was so bipolar.
like...annoyingly so.
it's spring now (well, officially on the 21st..) and i think the weather should stay the way it has been before today (which has been perfect...)
mostly because now i can wear dresses and shorts and tank tops, and i don't usually need a jacket or tights or leggings or anything.

i had to get a drug test for my new job, and instead of urine, they do hair testing, so they had to cut 80 hairs from the crown of my head...and i can feel where they cut it, and it's really gross, because it feels like a shaved head. and now when it grows back it will look all awkward and stuff...bums.
for totes.
i miss...so much. so many.
i really miss brittani, david, nicole, and rhiannon...well, all the ropers. and lis and providence. <3
and all my napans. <3
and thompson, and little evelyn and big evelyn, and franklin (fire!) and teodo (acid!) and all my other african friends. <3
i want to go back to ghana so bad.
i read this guys blog who is living in ghana, and i was laughing so hard remembering all the things that i grew to love last summer.
im bummed we're not going this year.
thomas is. im jealous.
i should use my free flying and go there.

i was remembering like, junior high yesterday. it was super weird.
and freshman year.
yikes.

i don't know.
i don't really miss it, but i think it was fun.

not as fun as this last year in my life though.
i was also thinking this past week about how much fun i've had in the last year.
like....so much.
like valentines day...
and spring break in napa was just....so amazing. it was so fun.
even with getting my jones bumped, and weird living situations, and dogs running away, and hating feelings, and me and ernie being broken, all the epicness made up for it.
and summer....like visiting david, and everything months, and yosemite...and all the good things that happened.
fall brought hilarious math teachers and great surprises in the surprise room.
and winter...well, christmas night was one not to be forgotten...

im just being nostalgic or something.
but ivanna's goldfish are being cannibalistic and it's fuh-reaking me out.
and we're gonna watch a movie.
goodnight.

praise god from whom all blessings flow

so, as it stands this second, i am planning to move back to santa cruz sooner than previously planned.

things here...haven't worked out the way i thought they were supposed to.

it's funny how life goes.
you think you know everything that is supposed to happen...and then...everything doesn't go the way it was 'supposed to'.
although i am going to have to change plans...life is going...wonderful in some ways.
in the best way possible.
reading my bible has always been a challenge for me...i just have never been able to consistently stay with it - reading it every day, that is. when i did read it, i loved it, but then...life would get in the way, and seduce me away from communicating with my creator. for some reason, when i came up here, i decided to read my bible. and for the last month i have read my bible every single day. it has been....too magnificent for words, honestly. i have read through john, 1+2 thessalonians, colossians, and some psalms. tonight i am starting a new book...i can't decide what to start. all of it seems so incredible, and intriguing...the life of Jesus is so amazing, and so inspiring, i love to learn more about him. but i also feel really drawn to the prophecies about him, because they all came true. and that to me is totally awesome. and i want to read them, and read the fulfillment of them.
i also love reading the old testament stories...i love paul's letters...i just...i love all of it. i don't want to skip a day. not one bit.

anyway, as my life is about to change again, i put all my trust in the only one i can trust.
the creator of an inspiring world with new wonders to behold each day.
im so excited.