So, I'm sure you've heard me use that expression a lot. I really like it, because it's true.
Not "fighting" as in trying to get at each other's necks, but "FIGHTING!" as in keep going!
It really is true, you know. I say that to myself a lot because I have to remind myself to keep going.
For instance - here's one thing I'm working on.
Our body is the temple of God, right? Shouldn't we work to keep it in good shape?
1 Cor 9:26-27:
Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and keep it in control.
(That's only part of a verse, by the way...)
But this is what I'm working on. "I discipline my body and keep it under control."
We shouldn't let our appearances just rot, should we??? If we take care of our bodies, not only does it do us wonders, but it's honoring God! And no, I'm not saying go anorexic to lose weight...that's a no no. I mean WATCH what you eat and don't gorge yourself! Our family's back on the "low-carb" diet, and I feel SO much better! More energy! More strength! More dance power! :P (I like to dance...)
God blessed us with the bodies we have...we should take care of them.
Wash your hair - don't let it get careless.
Wash your body with good soaps - take care of everything from your face to your feet.
Feel fresh in the mornings. Dress up, if you have to!
Drink lots of water - don't feed yourself junk food.
Don't JUST take care of your bodies, but take care of your souls, too, friends.
When you get up, just don't do your physical exercise - do your spiritual exercise, too!
Anyway - I just wanted to say that. Thus...Fighting! =D
Keep fighting, friends - you'll be rewarded one day!
Always FIGHTING, ^.^
-Han
P.S. It's POURING here! Really! 3:39 and it looks like it's about 7:30! Dark! Sheets of rain! Storms! Thunder!!!
(And last night it did the same thing - I forgot to close my window, and was woken up at 1:53 in the morning by rumbling thunder. I rolled over, looked down at my window, and saw my curtains billowing in, and it lightninged! It was soooo cool!
her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high
Saturday, April 9, 2011
He's My Big Boy
Yes, he is...he's my very special Big Boy.
He's now weaned, and so tall. He's strong, too. I love my Big Boy.
He always gives me a kiss on the nose, and naturally, I return it - I love how soft he is.
Yes...he's my Big Boy.
New Chickens!
Yeah, we got four new chickens. ^.^
They're so cute!! Nathan graciously gave me three of them, so he's got one. :)
Anyway, I already named them, so without further ado, I'd like you to meet:
They're so cute!! Nathan graciously gave me three of them, so he's got one. :)
Anyway, I already named them, so without further ado, I'd like you to meet:
Solar
She LOVES laying in the sun...
Captain G
Yes, a stupid name...her full name is Captain E.G.G....
so...thus Captain G for short. ^.^
And Yuki
She's very shy...but I think she'll get better. ^.^
I hope you like them!!!!
Always Fighting,
-Han
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Who Am I?
WARNING: Some of these are completely insane...you may never look at me the same way again - reader discretion is highly advised. Nightmares may follow...
1. If you're ever around me for any length of time, you'll find that at various intervals, I'll pop both wrist bones, my thumb joints, and my neck. Occasionally, you'll hear me make my fifth vertebrate my fourth...
2. If you were to observe me drawing a person, you'd find that subconsciously, I mimic the facial expression on my drawing's face...
3. I often make a weird subconscious face that looks a little bit like this:
5. When I clean the kitchen and no one else is around, (especially in the evening where I make coffee, clean counters, wash dishes, all with a small overhead light and it's dark outside and wonderful...) I play "Cafe". Seriously. I'm the owner of a small, tiny cafe that I run, and while I'm about to close down at night, I get a couple of visitors that I think are special, and go ahead and make them some coffee while they sit at the island, and I talk to them while I'm cleaning. ^.^ (I used to play "cafe" a lot when I was little.)
6. I get chill bumps and do some weird little happy dance when I hear Epic Score.
7. I often look mad when I'm not. Really...in this picture, I'm NOT trying to look mad!
9. For me, the shower is my theater. As I scrub my hair and get soap all in my eyes, I adore belting out lines and arguing with pretend characters. (Hey! What better place to be a "rain-soaked" dramatic actor that just lost the most important person in their lives!?) XD
10. When I'm sitting at the computer, reading a book, or trying to do math problems, I have the horrid habit of tapping my index finger on the area between my nose and my top lip:
13. The first thing I look at on a person is their hands. I tend to highly notice the little part between the wrist and the thumb.
14. I tend to be cold all of the time - occasionally, even during the Summer. (Hey, right now, I'm wearing a hoodie!)
15. Speaking of hoodies - I'm a hoodie maniac. I LOVE hoodies!!!
16. I'm the kind of person that would adore taking a photograph of a lonely chair in the middle of a rolling hill with storm clouds around it. I'm that kinda person. :P
17. I subconsciously clench my jaw a lot - it's become a habit.
18. Now for something hilarious...
This is generally what happens when I sit down to do math. This is at my desk in my room. I'm going back and forth between doing math and reading the track names for the CD I'm listening to. (Which happens to be Epic Score....) My guess is that you'll find this rather hilarious - my mom was about to die laughing and then goes, "So THAT'S why you never get it done!"
Seriously...I am NOT acting for the camera. Noooo. This is really, truly what happens!
19. The very, very first thing I notice in a movie, even before the first screen is up, is the MUSIC!
20. Yes, it's true...I still sleep with my teddy bear, my beagle Buddy, and...*sniff*...my blankie. ^.^ I'd die without it! (I feel like that kid on Charlie Brown...)
"Maybe I'll make it into a sport coat!"
Anyway, yeah. I do. I've had the blanket since I was a BABY, and Buddy since I was ten. I recently adopted the bear because I love having something big to wrap my arms around at night. =D Call me weird, but hey...I'm me. ^.^
21. My. Room. Must. Be. CLEAN. No exceptions. (Except Sunday morning when I toss all my clothes on the floor...)
22. Everything must be in absolute order. Everything from my watch that stays on my lamp, to the chapstick that sits beside it. Everything on my desk MUST stay in a certain place, or I become deathly distraught.
23. I find paint chipped alley walls fascinating, for some odd reason, and everything like that seems to capture my attention.
24. I eat ice cream with a fork.
25. I cry during really sad movies because, that's not just that character...that's the actor!! 0.0 (especially when it's an actor you really like.)
26. As soon as my feet hit the floor (along with the rest of my body) in the mornings, I put on a toboggan. Two of them, actually.
But, I'm a huggable person.
28. DJ Dex must ALWAYS be wearing his headphones...
What can I say?
....I'M ME!!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Fog's White Breath, Frozen Outside my Window...
Very frozen, indeed! The rain is drizzling down, and it's so foggy, I can barely see past the back deck! These pictures were just taken moments ago, and between that time and now, it's even MORE dense.
Just wanted to stick these up. I wish you could see the view - or lack thereof - outside my window!
I'm in a dramatic mood.... my heart keeps burning, but the clock goes on as ever, tik-tik-tok.
Always Fighting,
-Han
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Psalm 19
Have you read Psalm 19 lately? Wow...it's amazing. Please read it! I don't have the time to type the whole thing up here, but...it's great. =)
God is so good. Dad and I were talking the other day about how we won't be truly joyful unless we read our Bibles and love Christ. Joshua 1:8 was brought to mind:
"This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night; so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success."
Please read Psalm 19, and don't forget to do your Bible reading in the morning!
Always Fighting,
-Han
Psalm 19: 14 -
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer."
Father Daughter Retreat -2011-
The Retreat was great, by all means, and we had a really good time. The teaching was excellent, and my favorite was one by the Botkin Sisters entitled "Adventurous Femininity", where they made it clear that femininity isn't just sitting around knitting and doing really girly things, though it does include some of that - it's what you need to be doing to help your dad, whether that's doing something like ranching, carpentry, etc., just as examples - but doing it in a feminine way. I thought it was very good. =)
Anyway, we had lots of fun, and went to the Butterfly Center everyday to goof off for a while. On one trip, there was a bus load of Chinese tourists, and since I was holding a butterfly in my hand, they all crowded around me and where taking pictures, and this one girl asked if she could hold it, so I slid it onto her finger, and she asked me to take a picture. Here it is! Doesn't she look thrilled? =D
We got to go bike-riding only a couple of times, sadly, because Saturday it was raining, and I had my "horror story" experience. Long story short, there was a tornado only three miles from the gardens, and we were supposed to meet some friends at the Butterfly Center. We didn't know about the warning, and we were going to bike over there. A little ways from the hotel, we decided that it probably wasn't a good idea because it was beginning to rain. Back to the hotel we raced, and by the time we got there, it was pouring. (When I say pouring, I mean "coming
in sheets-of-rain pouring!) We got in the car and drove over there, and just as we got there, our friends were getting out, so I asked dad to let me out and I'd run in with them while he parked the car. It was still pouring, but I jumped out and ran in anyway. By the time we got in there, we were soaked, so my friend and I went to the bathroom and were drying off with paper towels, when we heard this roaring noise. I thought it was one of those loud AC unites, so I didn't pay attention. (It was loud; there were several people in the bathroom.) Then in the background, I hear
someone say "It's hailing!" My friend and I, in the confusion that followed, ran from the bathroom to find that there were golf-ball sized hail literally pouring from the sky. The roof on the building is made of Plexiglas, so you can imagine what it sounded like! (It was DEAFENING!) Everyone was running around, some slightly panicked because of the tornado warning, running to the windows (don't ask me why!), and trying to call on their cell phones. It was then that I realized that dad wasn't in the building! I pulled out my cell
phone and dialed his number, and didn't hear a ring or anything. I looked at it and it said "Calling", so I kept listening (or trying to, anyway...), and then heard a "beep" - I looked. It read, "Disconnected". Lovely. I tell you it was something right out of a movie! THEN - get this - the power went out. It was only for a minute, but it seemed to read my thoughts.... >.>
Anyway, dad got in alright, but it was kinda scary!
We went to the Azalea Bowl, the Horticultural Center, where I found this cute Japanese Oak tree, and the lake, where I captured a picture of some ducks swimming. :) It was really nice! We had a really, really great time. I enjoyed it!
The High Tea was really nice, though we got some poor service this time. -.- Other than that, it was fun. We got our picture taken, and are still waiting for the results of that in the mail.
And now for my new friends -
This is Faith. She's absolutely hilarious and makes me smile. I'm hoping to keep in touch with this dear girl!
I don't have individual photos of the rest of us, but I do have this one big group photo:
I also got my picture taken with Doug Phillips, Elizabeth and Anna Sofia Botkin, and Liberty Phillips. We all got to chat for a while, which was great!
To close up the trip, we stopped at a Baskin Robbins, and I got Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream. =) It was reeeally good. ^.^
Thanks, Dad!
Always Fighting,
-Han
Monday, March 28, 2011
I'm BACK!
Loads of pictures to come, I promise! (Hopefully tomorrow!)
The Lord is so good!
Love you guys! Prepare for a picture blast!
Always Fighting,
-Han
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Well...
This is actually being posted right as I walk out the door - it's on a timer. :)
Love you guys so much!
I Say Goodbye!
Always Fighting,
-Han
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