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Name: KD
Country: United States
State: Texas
Birthday: 7/26/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Christ, family, friends, music, and good fun.
Expertise: I can touch the tip of my nose with my tounge. I don't know many people who can do that, so I guess that counts as expertise.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  katfish8201
Yahoo:  katfish8201
Member Since:
3/1/2004
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| It's been a whole year. I don't even know if any of you guys even remember who I am, much less even read this anymore. If you do care about how my life has changed, read on. The reason I have been gone for a whole year is that Uncle Sam owned me. Yes, OWNED! But even though it has been an extremely tough year, God has taught me many valuable lessons that I would have never learned otherwise. The first lesson was quiet, simple prayer. When things got hard physically, mentally or spiritually, I just shot-up a heart-felt, "Lord, please help me." Everytime, sometimes almost instantaneously, my prayer was answered. The second lesson was living your life through actions is a more powerful witness than any words that come from the mouth. I tried my best to be quiet and blend-in with the crowd while I was in training. Aparently, I don't blend-in with others that well. I really don't know what I did that drew other soldiers to ask me about being a Christian, but they did nonetheless. Grown men and women would open-up like love-starved children. Tears, truth, and prayer were all I could give to them, but Christ gave them so much more. 19 soldiers accepted the Lord as their savior while I was at Basic Training! I was even given the opportunity to witness to one of my Drill Sergeants! It was a blessing to see the Lord work. The third lesson I learned was the people you love will remain close no matter what distance is between you. No internet or cell phone made communication with my loved ones harder than most of us in the 20th century are used to. I hardly even got to use a pay phone to talk to my parents or my fiance. Handwritten letters and memories kept them close to my heart. This is getting long, so I am going to wrap-up today and write a little more tomorrow. I hope all is well with you guys, and I would live to hear from you. Peace, KD | | |
| OK folks, I know that I have become the worst at updating this thing. Here's a rundown of the events of this semester:
-Got an internship
-Internship fell-through
-Didn't know what to do with myself because I had already made plans to attend the internship, which means I got out of the Corps and Aggie Band and moved out of my dorm.
-Got an apartment
-Got a job
-Started to take classes via internet
-Internship wanted me again
-Adopted a German Shepherd/Black Lab mutt--named him Duece
-Learned that 1/2 the population of Texas has a dog named Duece
-Took the internship
-Kept the job
-Internet classes started kicking my butt because I didn't have enough time to devote to classes between a job and an internship
-Dropped 3 out of 4 internet courses
-Mom got really sick
-Mom needed heart surgery
-Docs went in for a bypass surgery and didn't find anything to bypass
-Docs did find that the left side of Mom's heart was damaged
-Family runs out of money bewteen Mom's surgery and my tuition bills
-I go to the Army recruiter to ask for money
-National Guard wants me
-National Guard takes me
-The most wonderful man I know proposes to me in front of all of our friends and his parents. He even called one of my friends that I have known since fifth grade and invited her to join in all of the festivities. He and fifty other people kept the proposal plans on the DL for almost a month! Closest thing to a conspiracy against me that I have experienced.
-I get my orders from the National Guard that I get to go to Basic Training three days after the last day of Finals.
-The reasons why I am 'going guard'...MONEY and a chance to serve my country. $1200 a month training pay, $20,000 signing bonus, and all tuition and fees covered until I graduate. All I have to do after training is "one weekend a month, two weeks a year." I can deal with that.
So that's the quick and dirty of my life this semester. I still have a couple of projects due for my internship and one final, but nothing to it. I would love to hear if anyone has specific prayer requests for this summer. No TV, no radio (or equivalent), and a whole bunch of people yelling at me this summer. It would be great if I could spend some energy praying for others when the quiet of the night comes rather than counting the sore muscles in my body.
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| Yep, its official! I am engaged!
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| I broke down and finally bought a pair of Chacos. I have wanted a pair since I first worked at FC...but not being able to wear sandals much and no money kept me from making the BIG purchase. Anyway, I love them. They are the only pair of shoes that I actually want to put on where ever I go.
Still don't know what I am going to do with myself this summer. I will find-out officially in a few weeks I guess. Any suggestions?
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| OK, so my life has not been my own for the past umm...three months. Here's a rundown...
1. Yeah, that "guy that I happen to know" is now my
boyfriend. He's amazing. It's pretty serious. Ms. J.
Howell...you might be right.
2. I am not loving my senior year in the Corps as much as I
anticipated. I feel as if I am wasting what time and talents I might
accidentally have on people who don't really care about anything.
3. To add to number two (heheh...number two...heheh) I am
going to take only 1 hour at A&M next semester. The other
ump-teen hours are going to be internet classes from a community
college.
4. I am going to have either an internship or about three jobs
next semester. The powers that be haven't decided yet.
5. I am going to get an apartment and a dog of my very own.
Hopefully before finals end this semester, so I can move-in before
Christmas...I want to have my very own Christmas tree too. I am
also going to finally have all of my guitars, amps, and my keyboard in
my apartment. Maybe I can use some of the musical talent I don't
have on songs that I wrote four years ago. Maybe I'll write some
new ones. Maybe I'll start living life rather than letting others
live it for me. Won't that be nice...me, my dog, my guitar, and
my life.
6. I am not buying any of my Christmas presents from Wal-Mart
this year. I am really teed-off about the whole "we are not going
to say Merry Christmas" or "we are not even going to mention Christmas"
thing. It's wrong, and I am surprised an American intitution like
Wal-Mart would do something like that.
7. Just to explain to the world one final time why I never will
wear one of those cheep plastic bracelets: The whole thing was
started by Lance Armstrong's LiveStrong campaign. Mr. Armstrong
left his wife and kids who helped him through his trial with cancer for
Cheryl Crow. If you understand not going to Abercrombie and
Fitch stores because of their campaign strategies, you might understand
that I cannot help endorse a man and his organization due to his
marital choices. There are other ways for me to support cancer
research, I don't need a cheep plastic bracelet.
8. I am REALLY EXCITED about The Lion, the Witch, and The
Wardrobe coming out next week. I remember reading those books
when I was in the third and fourth grade. I was on Amazon.com and
I found out that there is an adult version of the Chronicles of
Narnia. Yeah, I bought it. I am reading when I have time,
and loving every second of it.
OK, that's more than enough ranting and raving. See, you guys
don't want me to post all the time. One dose of this stuff every
now and then should be enough.
Here's a new pic to look at. Luv ya'll.
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