Catching up

Hey all.

Sorry I haven't posted in a long time. I've been keeping busy, but I thought I'd take a few minutes to catch you all up this morning.

As you all know, I finished highschool! Very exciting, but now I'm sort of in this nervous stage about the whole university thing. I am very much a perfectionist (and I fully blame my mother for this :P, as she is one as well) and I am constantly worried if I will do well at university etc. Everyone keeps telling me I'll be fine as long as I work hard and do my best. Very cliche, but I'm hoping it's true.

Regarding the whole working thing, I decided to just stick with Pier 1, with some babysitting and tutoring on the side. Turns out the manager at my work who I didn't think liked me wants me to tutor her 6-year-old 0ver the summer. Weird. God has a way of surprising people. I think it was my little lesson to not judge people too quickly, and to not assume people are mad at me, or don't like me. See, I tend to think people are upset with me a lot. I have no idea why this is. I'm often worried that I'm causing issues, etc. I'm sure it has something to do with my perfectionist nature. I know it's not healthy for anyone involved, however, and I think God's trying to help me change.

Another thing I've been coming to grips with yet again is how much more time I need to spend in prayer. I've always known prayer is important, and I try to pray frequently, but it's always been one of those areas where I've struggled. I get distracted, and then I get discouraged when I can't pray for half an hour at a time like some people I know.

Anyways, I was doing my regular "end of school, beginning of summer" closet cleaning, and came across about 4 journals all filled with my prayers from when I was a kid. When I was a lot younger, my mom suggested I write out my morning devotional prayers to a) help me stay focused, and b) help me be able to go back and see what prayers had been answered, etc. It was really a great idea. I thought I'd share a parts of a few of them with you.

God, I'm still mad at Mom for not letting me talk. Maybe praying to you will clear things up. It often does.

God, help me to be ready at 7:30 to start school.

Help Mom to have your strength today and teach really well. Help her not to miss me!

God, thank you for today. I know this might sound really weird, but thanks that Joel did both bathrooms yesterday. Help me to do my chores fast and get on to my book report. Could you maybe influence Mom to take me shopping today?

God, thanks for a beautiful day yesterday... if it's your will, could you make the temperatures stay up? Thanks so much! *wink*

Lol...and it goes on. Some of them are more serious, but some, like those above, just blew me away. I actually prayed about that? Lol. It was actually a good reminder of how we can pray about petty things like the weather, and God doesn't care. He just wants to hear from us. To hear about our day. To hear about the amusing customer at work. I know this is all pretty basic stuff, but but sometimes it's easy (at least for me) to forget. Interesting how God reminds us too.

Anyways, I'm off. Thanks for reading. :)

And that's a wrap!

Well, everyone, Elyse's highschool career is now over. Sorry for the lack of posting, many of you know that it's been a crazy week filled with school, family stuff, and God's blessing. Ask me for more details, I'm too lazy to type it all out here. Yes! My summer has begun!


.... and now I have to go to work. :P Adios!

Updates, and Thoughts about Online School

Well, I figured it was about high time I posted on here again.

In case you hadn't all figured it out, the novelty of the blog wore off really quickly. That or I am so busy with school and work that if I'm not doing either of those things, I'm sleeping, eating, or doing something off the computer to rest my eyes. Lol.

It's been a hectic couple of weeks. I'm trying to finish up highschool for good, and I just booked my last exam so I can now officially say that in 15 days time (which is SO close it's kind of scaring me) I won't be a highschool student anymore. I'm sure THAT will take a few days to sink in.

Before then, however, I have to write a short story, a children's book, a final history essay, make a tourism itinerary website, do a business assignment, do a world issues assignment, do my world issues final project, and study and do 2 exams.

Good fun. Today I'm tackling the short story.

Tonight I'm going to see Oliver! at the Stratford Festival Theatre. For a number of years now (ever since I started) AMDEC has been given free tickets to see one of Stratford's plays at the end of the year. So far I've seen The King and I, Anything Goes, The Tempest, and now Oliver! all for free. Lol, it's a pretty sweet deal, and one incentive to do online school. :P

I've been thinking a lot about my online school experience recently, as I am coming to the end of it, and have decided that just doing online school for all of highschool is not a good plan. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed doing online school, I have earned good marks, and have learned a ton, but at the same time, I think highschool students need the variety. Plus, plagiarism and cheating are much to easy (not that I cheat, I'm a good girl :P) If I was to do it again I'd do more night school and some correspondence too - just to balance out the online. Too much typing isn't good for you. You need to know how to talk and explain things as much as you need to know how to type and write things out. In my opinion anyways.

Anyways, that's my little update for you. Profound, I know. Don't expect much blogging until the 17th though, because until then I'm going to be pretty busy. Adios all and thanks for reading!