I would really appreciate it if everyone who reads this post would pray a blessing on the Gearhart family. I can hardly think of a family who’s more deserving of your prayers and blessings. Even if you don’t know them, all three are absolutely fantastic people who love God and love others to the best of their ability. They have been a blessing to me and many, many other people. So if you would take some time today and in the future to just pray that God would bless them whenever they come to mind (and if you don’t know them, then whenever/if ever I come to mind), I’d really appreciate it. Thanks :)
Sunshine and Brett were my adoptive parents all graduation weekend when my family couldn't make it.
Over spring break they opened their house up to 8 of us college students. They truely have the gift of hospitality and made all of us feel so welcomed. Tatiana is the one sitting bottom row middle. She rocks.
so for those of you who dont already know, i'm semi-famous for reinacting a certain mad tv skit called "can i have your number?". it is from this infamy that i named this blog. i found it on youtube, but it won't let me embed it here, so here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTFZyl7hfBw
well, a little bit before we went on our spring geology trip, we decided to order hoodies with nicknames on the back, and i couldnt resist. so here's a picture from our trip:
This past week was a double class week with Pastor Don teaching apologetics and Dr. Lisle teaching both apologetics and astronomy. So needless to say, my brain did quite a bit of stretching this week. I learned so much. The apologetics part was fantastic, but the astronomy part was rather difficult. After the first astronomy session, my brain was swimming. So i drew a picture that perfectly depicted how i felt and then bounced a sparkly ball against the floor until my mind was again capable of logical thought. Here's the picture:
Like a fish swimming under a US Navy battleship, so is astronomy in relation to me. It is above me. I can grasp a small portion of it's simplest part. But the vast majority of its simplicity is beyond me, and the many complexities of it will never enter even my wildest imaginations.
But even though astronomy astronomy and my brain are not friends, i am very thankful that God has made people who actually can comprehend things like that. I've been thinking about intelligence lately and I have decided that there are many different kinds of intelligence. There's the factual kind that has to do with remembering facts and usually results in good grades in school. Then there's the personal kind of intelligence that has to do with understanding people and being able to read them and knowing who they really are and what they need. The third general kind i see is a practical kind of intelligence. This kind is where someone is really good at figuring out how something works and/or how to build or fix it. This kind usually comes with the ability to think 3-dimensionally really well. I'm sure there are other types of intelligence other than this and that there are specialized types within each of these generalized types, but for the moment, these are the only ones that i'm gunna list.
so ya, this is what i've been thinking about lately and i must say that i am so thankful to have people with each of these gifts in my life. i am so thankful that i have someone like my friend Tat, who is a genius in personal intelligence. i am so thankful for my dad, who is incredible with practical intelligence. and i'm really thankful that God has given me teachers throughout my life who are so incredibly gifted in the area of factual intelligence. Praise be to God for making our world so diverse and interesting. To Him be the glory, honor, and praise in all things :) Hallelujah, Amen.
last sunday i made fabric flowers with several of my friends here at school. it was really fun, and i'm pretty proud of the flower i made, so i figured i'd put a picture on here.
it was the first time i'd ever made one, and i didnt even have a pattern :)
Sometimes i think it'd be really cool if i were a phoenix. I mean, not the whole immortal thing, but all the other characteristics. I may not know too much about them, but i still think it'd be cool to be one for a bit. Think of it. If i were a phoenix, i could fly, i'd have awesome colorfull feathers, i'd be the kind of thing that myths and legends are written about, and i could randomly burst into flames! Can you imagine talking to someone and then have them spontaneously combust right in front of your eyes? I would love to watch that person's face. one minute i'd be talking to them, and then (insert whatever sound spontaneous combustion makes), i'm on fire! Then I'd get reconfigured from the ashes and just pick up the conversation right where i left off, as if nothing had happened :)
the look on their face would be priceless.
And that is why i think it'd be cool to be a phoenix.
Last week was a pretty tiring week for me, and one morning I reaped the unintended consequences of me being so sleepy. I was in line, getting food and talking to Cally, when i tried to put my food on my plate. What i did not realize, however, was that i had subconsciously flipped my plate upside down in my hand. After everyone around me (including myself) had a good laugh at it, i sat down and began to eat off of the bottom of my plate. since an upside down plate isnt something you expect to see at breakfast, the conversation at my table soon turned to my plate.
After a few more laughs and smiles, we decided that i had stumbled across a new diet fad that would soon be sweeping the nation: the UDP (upside down plate) diet. You see, the bottom of a plate is always as big or smaller than the top of the plate. So if you flip your plate upside down, you have less space for your food. This will help you to take smaller portions by giving you a smaller plate. Yet you won't look weird for having a smaller plate, because it looks like it's the same size as everyone else's plate (only slightly different).
So now you have heard the latest and greatest new diet plan. Go, and spread the word! Even if no one actually uses this as a diet, the mere story of it might cause a small cheek or ab workout :)
So on the long drive back to school from spring break, I learned several really cool things about the octopus and the giant squid. For example:
octopi are very intelligent
- you can train one to unscrew a jar
-you can train one to open a lock with a key
-you can put a lock in the tank, give the octopus a key in a closed jar and have it open the jar, take the key and unlock the lock.
unfortunately, i couldn't find any lock videos.
also, concerning giant squid:
scientists know very little about giant squids because once they catch them, no matter how similar to its original environment it's kept in, the squid will die almost immediately. so they dont know if/where they congregate, where their breeding grounds are, what their habits are, etc. they're not even positive why they die once captured.
