Stess's Journal

Last night I got called to babysit (they called around 2pm to see if I could be there at 7pm. what else am i going to do?) This time the girls were actually awake, so it was a lot more fun, plus I made more money (Woo!) Of course, on any given night I am usually up until about 2am. But when I *have* to stay up that long, I get seriously tired. (But they have satellite TV, so I can watch just about anything. Like Invader Zim. Ahhh memories. *doom song*) So when I got home, I thought I would crash, but I couldn't sleep! I was up til 4. Rrr.

At least today was Saturday, though, because it didn't matter that I slept in. I got up, meandered downstairs and learned that my parents had rented Rent *hee*, but had already watched it. So I put it in and watched it, while my parents drifted in and out of the living room, and we all sang along (though my mom was slightly off-key) and loved it. Great music! Though, naturally, I don't agree with everything the movie promotes, I really enjoyed the overall message and the power of the music. And Adam Pascal sounds like Bon Jovi.

Having mostly wasted the day, I got ready for church. I'm a Saturday-night church-goer now. (I know, heathen, right?) But I like the luxury of sleeping in on Sunday, plus the young adult group meets after the Sat. night service. Tonight we didn't actually meet, we all went together to this production called "Blue Like Jazz". It's based off a book by the same name by Donald Miller. They took the book and dramatized selections, as well as adding some jazz interludes. It was really cool. There were a couple really neat stories, and I thoroughly enjoyed the music. One part I really liked was when he talked about his first date - he took a girl to see a production of Romeo & Juliet, but he didn't understand how someone could love someone so much at first sight as to give up their identity. Then he went on to say how many people want the relationship between the church and God to be like that - love at first sight between two different beings. But he said he thinks it's more like Kat in Taming of the Shrew. God pursues us, and we must finally accept his love and forgiveness for all the times we scorned him. Cool, huh?

I also pulled a neat quote from one of the songs: "There's more to love than loving, more to pain than pain, and if diamonds take a thousand years, we must learn to understand the same strain."

Thanks to my Nana's generous "Sorry it's late but happy graduation" gift, Stephanie was able to (Finally!) buy the soundtrack to the Chronicles of Narnia. Yay!

I needed new inspiration music. This is working verreh verreh well.

Ok, time to stop goofing off and actually finish working on my resume before my dad scalps me or something.