Meh

So I just realized I haven't blogged in over a month. And I really don't have much to say anyway. Let's see......

Camp Good News was a lot of fun :)

Still working at Applebees about 35 hours a week.

I go back to Hesston in 15 days. Super excited!

and that's about it.

Maybe I'll feel more talkative later.

Crazy Love

"A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief." - A.W. Tozer

"Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?"
- Francis Chan, Crazy Love

The CYIA curse

(Larcyn was annoying Ruth)

Ruth: Sticky notes upon you!!

krow

So, in case any of you are not up to speed on my life, I started at Applebees in Salina on Monday. So far it's going pretty good. I think I can make it through a couple months there at least! :) The people are cool. Right now all the stuff I need to learn is pretty overwhelming. I lie in my bed at night and it takes me awhile to go to sleep because all the knowledge they tried to cram into my head that day is still swirling around in there. So pray for me please that I'll learn everything I need to know and that I won't make any huge mistakes and not very many small ones along the way. :)

Tim (last year): "There are times I think CYIA is a tiny foretaste of what heaven will be like."

Erin (my partner last year at CYIA): Are you coming to CYIA this year, Rachel?
Me: Afraid not. I had to join the real world and get a job to pay for college. :(
Bekah: *in mock shock* Are you saying CYIA isn't the real world?
Erin: I think CYIA is a taste of the real real world.
:)

Back from Oklahoma....

(quotes from my crazy but awesome family)

Me: Hey Mom, is okay if me, Sarah and the Hannahs go to the mall?
Mom: Well, what are you planning to do there?
Me: I don't know, just hang out.
Mom: Define "hang out."
Me *getting slightly exasperated with my mother's questioning*: We're planning to go find some drug dealers and buy stuff to get high on.
Uncle Lance: Well, how much money were you planning to spend?
:)

Sarah, walking through the mall, starts singing the beginning of "Disturbia"
Sarah: Sorry, every time my brain isn't occupied, that's the song that comes on.
Me: So it's kinda like your brain's elevator music....

Me and Sarah: Unicorns!! (private joke)

Uncle Dave (aka Silly Bomya): lomph!
(don't ask)

Life gave me lemonade and I can't imagine why.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while....not much to say I guess.
I'm still not doing much, just looking for a job with not much luck.
I drove my grandparents out to Colorado for the first part of this week, then went with my whole family to Oklahoma. Both trips were for the high school graduations of various cousins.
One of these days I'll think of something to write about.
Right now though, I'm just a little bored and a lot happy.

Home.....

Hesston's graduation was Sunday, so I'm home now. I miss my college family. So this post is the year, summed up in inside jokes.

My group has so many little things we do or say.... I'm going to go home and do all these things without even realizing it and nobody will get it. So here's a heads up for y'all....if I say or do any of these things just ignore me.

"Heck no, yayno!"
"Friction....."
"Ah, sheba!"
"Thet ther's funny raght ther, Ah don't ker who you air"
".....and then I found 5 dollars."
"Sticky buns!"
"Toolbag"
"Punk"
"Son"

if I talk and end random words with the -er sound, just ignore me

when watching a movie:
if I finish a bottled drink of some kind I might very well throw the empty plastic bottle at the TV
I will probably tell you the movie was made in Oregon
I might very well make random sniper noises

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Happy birthday to my favorite twin cousins! It's not technically your birthday here, but it is there.

One More Thing :)

I was made to love You
I was made to find You
I was made just for You
Made to adore You
I was made to love and be loved by You
-Made to Love, by tobyMac

Bittersweet

Finals week: This week is stressful, exciting, sad, wonderful, hard work, fun, and exhausting all rolled up into one. It's a bittersweet feeling.....so nice to have classes over with, but so sad to have to say goodbye to everyone.

Let's recap the past few days:
Last Friday (not technically a part of finals week, but whatever): First part of the Cell Biology Final Exam: the Essay *ominous music*. We just had to sit down and write about the Central Dogma of Molecular Genetics (if you really care to know what that is, ask me about it sometime. I'll tell you waaaaay more than anyone should know). I wrote for nearly 3 hours on this thing. But it was a relief to have it over.

Saturday: Collapse, hang out with friends, etc.

Sunday: 3 fire alarms (false alarms) in about a 17 hour period: 2 a.m., 4 p.m., and approximately 4:30 p.m. The two afternoon ones involved standing outside in the pouring rain. Also, tornado warning! Definitely an interesting day, weather-wise. Unfortunately, it was never bad enough that we Kansans felt the need to go down to the basement (i.e. we never saw a tornado on the ground heading our way)

Monday: Reading Day - Rachel spends a good portion of the day sleeping.

Tuesday: (today) 2nd part of Cell Bio final- multiple choice. Also, Receiving-of-the-Final-Grade-for-Cell-Bio, because Hugo is very prompt in his grading. I got 58 points out of 60 on that huge essay (super exciting!) and an A overall in the class! YEESSS!

Looking ahead:
Wednesday: No finals for Rachel. Relax, finish up chemistry lab reports, and study.
Thursday: Chemistry and Speech final. Speech is pud, hopefully I'll do well enough on the chem final to keep my grade at the borderline A it is now.... :/
Friday: No finals for Rachel!!! Woot woot! Hanging out and packing up.... :(
Saturday: Back to Salina for SVHE graduation. Then back to Hesston for last night with my family here :( :( :(
Sunday: Hesston's graduation. Saying goodbye to everyone, some just for the summer, some til who knows when....maybe forever. Sunday is going to be the first time I've seriously cried since my last basketball game, which was over a year ago. :'(

lyrics

Give me Your eyes for just one second
Give me Your eyes so I can see
everything that I keep missing
Give me Your love for humanity
Give me Your arms for the broken hearted
ones that are far beyond my reach
Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me Your eyes so I can see
-Give Me Your Eyes, by Brandon Heath

Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom....

Indescribable, Uncontainable
You placed the stars in the sky and you know them by name
You are amazing God
All-powerful, Untamable
awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God!
-Indescribable, by Chris Tomlin

I will dance, I will sing
To be mad/ for my King
Nothing, Lord, is hindering
This passion in my soul

But I'll become/ even more undignified than this
Though some may say it's foolishness
And I'll become/ even more undignified than this
Leave my pride by my side
-Undignified, by Chris Tomlin

I've been spending way too long checking my life in the mirror
and bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
but my breath fogged up the glass
so I drew in a face and I laughed
-I'm Yours, by Jason Mraz

And I'm acting as if
this blue sky's never gonna rain down on me
And I'm telling myself
this true love's never gonna leave me lonely
Unless there's something I've missed
I'm acting as if
-As If, by Sara Evans

So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
You can stand through the pain
You won't drown
And someday what's lost will be found
if you stand in the rain
-Stand in the Rain, by Superchic(k)

While cleaning out old files on my computer, I found an old random writing by me and Sarah. So I thought I'd stick it up here...

THE INSANITY SHOW

RACHEL: Welcome to 'The Insanity Show! I'm one of your hosts, Rachel, and this is your other host, Sarah.

SARAH: Hello everyone! Today we will be interviewing some of the characters from Star Trek. Say 'hi' to the camera, everyone!

SPOCK: *raises eyebrow*

KIRK:*combing hair* What? Are we on? *looks up* Hello!

DATA: 'Hi'

PICARD: Hello.

SARAH: So...hi. What's up?

SPOCK: The sky, the clouds, the ceiling, the s-

SARAH: Maybe I should rephrase that. How are things going for all of you?

DATA: What things?

RACHEL: *slaps forehead* I told you we should have stuck to humans...Anyway, on to the first topic. Ahem. *pulls out script, reads* 'How Kirk Is Pathetic Without Spock.' Interesting.....

KIRK: WHAT!?!?!

SARAH: That's what it says.

KIRK: I'm not pathetic!

RACHEL: The polls disagree.

DATA: Based on the fact that I do not know either of the two, may I be excused from the discussion?

SARAH: Certainly. The lobby is down the hall and to the left. *Data leaves* You too, Picard?

PICARD: I'll stay.

KIRK: Yes, stay and join me in the glorious battle against offensive blond sadists!

PICARD: *to Sarah* Where did you say the lobby was?

SARAH: *repeats directions* Back to the discussion.

KIRK: I am NOT pathetic!

RACHEL: Oh yeah?

KIRK: Yeah!

SARAH: Then how come in The Search for Spock, when, I might point out, he is not around to correct your mistakes, you blow up your ship?

KIRK: Um....

RACHEL: And, in the one movie he is entirely not in, you die! Twice!

SPOCK: *looking interested* Is that medically possible?

KIRK: Shut up, pointy ears!

SARAH: Actually, I like the ears.

RACHEL: So do I.

SPOCK: This could be the first time that someone has.

KIRK: No, there was that giant bug-thing from Devil in the Dark.

RACHEL: Do you have a point?

KIRK: *nods head* That only freaky bugs and geeks like the ears.

SARAH: Watch it, fat boy!

KIRK: I'm not fat!

RACHEL: For fear of losing one or more of our guest stars, I think it's time to end this discussion.

--------COMMERCIAL BREAK------

RACHEL: Well, we're back, and after 10 minutes of assuring Kirk that he is neither pathetic nor fat, we will be resuming the discussions. So....next topic: 'What Was Your Least Favorite Episode?' Kirk?

KIRK: Probably A Private Little War.

RACHEL: And why is that?

KIRK: My hair got messed up!

SARAH: You also get attacked by a giant poisonous monkey-thing, if I remember correctly.

KIRK: Yes! That was how my hair got messed up!

SARAH: *cough* egotistical *cough* And your least favorite episode, Spock?

SPOCK: Same here.

RACHEL: *sarcastically* What, did something happen to your hair, too?

SPOCK: No, I was shot.

SARAH: That sucks.

SPOCK: Every time I beam down, there's always something lurking around down there that says, ' I'll aim for the Vulcan.' Everything always seems to happen to me.

RACHEL: That's probably because things can happen to you that would kill humans.

SPOCK: So, basically, I'm a reusable target.

SARAH: With cool ears. At least you're not an extra.

SPOCK: A what?

RACHEL: An expendable crewman.

SPOCK: Huh?

RACHEL: You know, a redshirt. One of those guys that you beam down that never beams back up.

SPOCK: Oh, them.

SARAH: By the way, you've survived about twenty things that would have killed some of them.

KIRK: What about me? Am I invulnerable, too?

SARAH: No idea. Spock is always around to save you.

KIRK: WHAT!!!!

SARAH: Er...I appear to have offended you again.

KIRK: Have you forgotten the episode where he tries to KILL me?

RACHEL: You're right, McCoy probably saves you in that one......

KIRK: WHAT!!!!!!!!!

RACHEL: Your ego is very easily bruised, I see. End of discussion! *sigh* And will someone please get Data and Picard back in here?

-------COMMERCIAL BREAK-------

SARAH: And we're back, and by now it seems that Data and Picard have decided to show up. *glares at them*

PICARD: What?

DATA: That mechanism in the lobby refered to as a 'vending machine' is most interesting.

RACHEL: What a coincidence, our next topic will discuss an interesting machine as well. Ahem. 'Did The Enterprise Look Better In The Old Movies Or The New Movies?

KIRK: Old.

PICARD: New.

KIRK: No, old.

PICARD: New.

KIRK: Old!

PICARD: NEW!

SARAH: STOP IT!

(Kirk and Picard cease fighting to look at her)

RACHEL: Can either of you give us a reason why it looked better either way?

KIRK: The old one is a classic. The new one is all .... weird.

PICARD: Just 'cause yours doesn't work doesn't make mine weird.

KIRK: What do you mean, doesn't work?

PICARD: It can't go three episodes without a transporter malfunction, or a major power loss, or something blowing up! Now, it could just be that you have a horrible chief engineer-

KIRK: My chief engineer is better than yours, thank you very much!

PICARD: Your chief engineer goes home and gets drunk!

KIRK: Oh yeah? Well, your chief engineer goes home and reads kiddie books for a children's program!

PICARD: *stands up* Say that again, you miserable little-!

KIRK: Come and get it, Baldy!

(They lunge for each other)

RACHEL: Picard, Kirk! Calm down! There's no shame in kiddie pro-aaaagh! *she ducks a flying chair* Spock! Data! Please control your, um, emotional friends!

(Spock and Data sigh, get up. Relative chaos ensues)

SARAH: Commercial break! Commercial break!!

---------COMMERCIAL BREAK---------

(Sarah and Rachel are back in their chairs, looking very disheveled. Data and Spock are sitting calmly. Kirk is unconcious, complements of a Vulcan neck pinch, and Picard has been duct-taped to the wall.)

SARAH: That was..... exciting. *nods to Spock and Data* Thanks, guys. Spock, are you sure humans can't learn to do that neck- pinch thing?

SPOCK: Positive.

SARAH: Darn, it'd come in handy if we ever do something like this again.

DATA: Now what?

RACHEL: Now, we either get two magic markers and some lipstick, or we lock them in a room full of overenthusiastic Trekkies.

PICARD: *with his mouth duct-taped shut* MMMMMMMM! MMMPH!

RACHEL: Fine, I'll relent. I need a knife....or better yet, a phaser! Fun! *steals Kirk's phaser and points it at Picard* How do you aim this thing?

PICARD: MMMMMMMMMPH!!

RACHEL: Oh, here's the button. *phasers off duct tape* Cool!

PICARD: *falls on floor* Mmmmph!

SARAH: Can we be a little more mature from now on?

PICARD: Mmmm-hmm.

SARAH: *removes remaining duct tape* That'd better be a yes, 'cause we still might use the Trekkie idea.

PICARD: Mercy!

RACHEL: Get back in your chair, Captain. No, ex that. Go get me some ice water.

(Picard goes into lobby, comes back with a bottle of water)

PICARD: Will this do?

RACHEL: *takes bottle* Perfect, thanks. *pours water on the still unconcious Kirk*

KIRK: *wakes up* Gahhh! *pats his head* YOU KILLED MY HAIR! Do you have any idea how long I worked to make it perfect?!?

SPOCK: Two hours, eleven minutes, and seventeen-

SARAH: Spock, have you ever heard the expression T.M.I., meaning Too Much Information?

SPOCK: I am not familiar with that phrase.

SARAH: I didn't think so. Anyway, end of discussion!

-----------COMMERCIAL BREAK---------

RACHEL: Now, this is almost over, and we're just going to ask a few more questions. As a precaution, we've duct-taped Picard and Kirk to their chairs.

KIRK: This is so undignified.

SARAH: Tough luck. Okay, the first question is: What is the most annoying thing that has ever happened to you?

KIRK: This interview.

PICARD: Same here.

RACHEL: Wimps. Data?

DATA: Coping with emotions for the first time was 'annoying'.

SARAH: I'd call that traumatic, but, hey, whatever works for you. Spock?

SPOCK: I am incapable of experiencing emotion.

RACHEL: Fine. If, God forbid, you were human, what would annoy you?

SPOCK: Out of curiousity, what makes you think I'll tell you?

RACHEL: I still have Kirk's phaser.

SPOCK: !!?!!?!!?!! Are you an interviewer or a villian?

RACHEL: I'm an interviewer who's tired of not having her questions answered.

SPOCK: So you're a villian.

SARAH: Well, if you're too chicken to answer the question...*grabs Kirk's communicator and opens it* Hello, Enterprise?

SULU: *from communicator* Sulu, in temporary command of the Enterprise, here.

SARAH: Send Dr. McCoy down .... with a HAPPINESS SYRINGE!

SPOCK: No! I'll answer!

SARAH: You just did.

SPOCK: Not fair.

RACHEL: Okay.... next question. What is one thing, like a belief, concept, or theory, that is always true and relatively universal?

KIRK: My good looks.

SPOCK: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

RACHEL: Psh, clearly neither of you have watched Star Trek III. Both wrong.

DATA: E=mc2.

SARAH: Wow, that was original. Picard?

PICARD: Interviewers are annoying.

SARAH AND RACHEL: We try.

SARAH: And here is the final question: If you could have one wish, what would it be?

KIRK: To get out of this #&$%#@&#! chair!!!

RACHEL: Language, language! What wishes would everyone else pick?

DATA: To be a real human.

SARAH: Thanks, Pinocchio. Picard?

PICARD: I would wish for....HAIR! *sobs*

SARAH: Jeez, and I thought Kirk was bad.

RACHEL: You, Spock, would no doubt wish for something logical?

SPOCK: Indeed.....

SARAH: Well, what?

SPOCK: I wish the interview was over. Who knows what trouble the ship's gotten into while we were down here!

RACHEL: Wish granted!

SARAH: See you next time, folks, on 'The Insanity Show!'

KIRK: And somebody get rid of the tape!

A Facebook Conversation between Bekah and Rachel

Bekah's status said : Bekah Loewen and Mandy would be very good at reforming heretics....if we had any heretics to reform.

Rachel: you can reform me

Bekah: are you a heretic?

Rachel: for you I could be.... ;)
I'm a member of the church of the Deity-ness of Facebook
I constantly spend time with Facebook and I don't believe
anything is true unless Facebook tells me it is

Bekah: that sounds pretty serious

Rachel: I could go on a holy war and kill MySpace users if you want....