high school...

okay so today at school we got our scheduling stuff for the high school! wow it is quite overwhelming and i have decided that i am absolutely not under any circumstances going to coordinate schedules with any of my friends. i am going to schedule according to how i can have a year with as minimal amount of stress as possible! just looking at the classes and knowing that we are in each one for a freaking 83 minutes is mind boggling. right now i have trouble with an hour per class. yeah i'm pretty nervous but i am handling it and taking scheduling one step at a ime. it is quite stressful. it is kind of wierd to wake up in the morning and think, "wow, its finally here the time of my life i have been waiting for all these years, i'm almost a high schooler" while i grew up i would watch my older cousins go through their high school careers and graduate and i would dream of the day that i could call myself a freshman. and now may of eighth grade its almost here. i am just now realizing how fast life goes by and how one minute a special moment is here and the next its not. wow crazy stuff to think about. my best friends and i will soon embark on a four year journey that will hopefully be so much better than middle school. well i am excited for this fall when i can call myself a freshman at THS and proudly take classes day in and day out on a school with (hopefully) matching floor tiles! haha just kidding about most of that last sentence its really not that exciting but i do get to get out of the dump called TMS!
♥ Brittany

ahhh sweet sleepyness

okay so in light of my recent thrill of emotions and tiredness from the retreat that i just led i have come to the realization that with all the emotions that fill me up i have been able to ask God to fill me with peace and optimism and He will! because He did! i am amazed, after the retreat i am definately full of emotions for the kids that were there and otherthings that had happened and i am thankful that God is there for me to comfort me when i feel low! well sorry i have to cut it short but i have to go sleep!

riddle..

have you ever passed by a forrest of paper? comment!

Iam Crazy.. enough said!

well these last few days were pretty boring but not as deathly boring as I had expected. After looking back I realized that this sort of mini vacation was just what I had needed. I did not end up going to my grandparents' house last night, I stayed here and just sort of chilled out all day, I did end up going out for a run on Wednesday and yesterday, but today was a rainy day and I didn't feel like running. Well tonight at the all daughters banquet I had lots of fun! Ha Becky and I got way too much amusement from a little change purse, that's really pathetic, she's 20 and I'm almost 15... Wow! We named the change purse "Iam Crazy" ha again, that should not have been that funny! I think my mom got something out of coming tonight. She looked bitter during the part in the church, but then again she also mentioned that she was cold. I haven't really got much of a reaction out of her as to how she liked the service because every time I mentioned it she would change the subject to my cousin Drew.
Drew was at baseball practice and the ball got hit right into his side, I guess it ruptured his spleen and he was in great pain, they took him to the hospital and they couldn't stop the bleeding, so he was life flighted to another hospital somewhere in PA and while he was there they got the bleeding stopped and I don't think he had to go through surgery. All I know was that while I heard of his injury I was praying just as hard as I was during the banquet. Drew will have to spend like 3 days in the hospital but at least I know now that he is pretty much better.

when we got home I talked with my dad and he asked how mom responded to the service, I said that she didn't really. He agreed that she needs God a lot because she really doesn't have him, I am praying for her, that God draws her to Him, after hearing part of the Gospel tonight I pray that she will be drawn to God and that she would find him and accept Christ into her life, and get saved. Please be praying for my mom.

on an ending note:
Brittany Rhodes
Becky Gohlke
+ a rubber change purse
Iam Crazy and a whole lot of laughs during the "concert"


♥ Brittany

"DONT YOU FORGET ABOUT ME"

so, tomorrow many of my fellow eigth graders at Tallmadge Middle will embark on a three day long trip to the one and the only Washington D.C. i however, will be staying home. my parents had decided early on this year that they would not feel safe letting me go to Washington DC so for the next three days i can look forward to basicallygoing to school and completeing worthless worksheets and assignments specially designed and ceated for the people who stay back from big school trips. now these papers are made with great care and they make them super long and super pointless. so i am definately not looking forward to attending school tomorrow, thursday and friday.

see my parents are those of consideration and also of the profession of teaching, so therefore they have taken mercy on me and are not making me go to school the next three days. that is a big relief to me! so tonight as i sit home and wonder what i will do with myself for the next three days i have decided to watch the movie from the 1980's called... THE BREAKFAST CLUB. see despite the fact that this movie has numerous innuendos and also a few quite frequent swear words it is still pretty much a good movie.

haha i find this movie to be quite ammusing, it has a popular girl, a "nerd" from the chess club, a wierd girl who is basically a thief, a drug addict and a jock! it makes me laugh!
"... if he gets up, we'll all get up, it'll be anarchy"--- hahaha funniest line in the entire movie, well almost.

i am afraid that for the next three days i will be bored, but apparently on thursday i will be going to my grandma's house and spending the night with her! that makes me incredibly excited!

whoa! seeing as how the first/last time is aw this movie, i guess i didnt catch all the innuendo and drug use! wow thats terrible yet sickeningly funny. haha
over the weekend i was incredibly excited to return to camp patmos with the BSBC youth group! Emily, Ty, Kristen and I had a ton of fun making a mulch path with a piece of mulch that was incredibly huge!!!!!!!!!!! the pool was cool to see progress throughout the day, it smelled basically like human waste which made me so grateful that i ddnt have to do the pool. i enjoyed playing in cement, haha just ask Kristen K about that one! and if you had seen my pants on saturday you would probably be nothing less than shocked to know that somehow all that cement came off my pants!

well i think i'll finish watching the movie because i am afraid that this "post" is basically a novel.
hahaha "can you hear this? do you want me to turn it up" ohh man that was an awful part but again it somehow made me laugh, sickeningly.

basically i ♥ audio adrenaline... haha i dont even know where that came from.
much ♥ until my next post.
-Brittany Nicole

shooooooo whats up?

okay so, today during school we were in the library and we had to have a book to read and i didnt have a book to read, the only thing i had at school was The Message Remix in my locker. so i ended up reading the bible during language arts instead of some book about a princess... (my other option). I was flipping through the pages and i saw a blue high lighted area. That surprised me because i dont have a blue high lighter and i didnt recognize the passage, i figured that it must have been something my dad had high lighted while reading. so i opened the bible, while some people were seriously staring at me, holding that thick Pink bible in my hands. the passage was in the book of Job.

Still, if you set your heart on God
and reach out to Him,
If you scrub your hands of sin
and refuse to entertain evil in your home,
You'll be able to face the world unashamed
and keep a firn grip on life, guiltless and fearless.
You'll forget your troubles;
they'll be like old, faded photographs.
Your world will be washed in sunshine,
every shadow dispersed by dayspring.
Full of hope, you'll relax, confident again;
you'll look around, sit back, and take it easy.
Expansive, without a care in the world,
you'll be hunted out by many for your blessing.
But the wicked will see none of this.
They're headed down a dead end road
with nothing to look forward to- nothing.

--Job 11:13-20

when i read that passage it really just kind of weighed down on me that with the grace of God i will be able to live in this world guiltless of sin. GUILTLESS i can barely even imagine me without guilt. my guilt weighs me down. to forget my troubles and just sink back into the peace brought through Christ would be amazing. it is amazing what our Lord can do! but i have to cut it short this time, Lord willing i will add on to this post later.

♥ Brittany Nicole