Merry Christmas!

(pretend we sent out a

christmas card)

I like this picture. It's from Fisherman's Warf last month. . .I think I want to live in a big city :-) 

My impression of making out :-)

Memorizing for AWANA: 3 hours/week
Memorizing for Bible Quizzing: 14 hours/week
Reading boring articles: 2 hours/month
Listening to apologetics speakers: 68 hours/year
Studying my bible: 2 hours/week
Being able to share Jesus with your best friend: Priceless

Sleepovers can be amazing. Lately God's chosen to work through me a bit in my friends’ lives. When somebody asks you a question, and you realize, Hey, I actually know what I'm talking about! it can be quite the high. Don't get me wrong; I take no credit for anything I say right—when that happens it's totally a 'God thing'. (When I screw it up though, then yeah, that's yours truly.)

Ok, at this point I figure only a couple people will bother reading this, and those people I trust. So I’m just gonna be honest. Lately I've not been working very hard at reading my Bible, and just making time to learn about God. Let’s face it, its so much easier to spend that half hour before bed messing around online, or listening to music. But when something like this happens, I really feel the need to study, to push myself. I know that I'm neither smart nor persuasive nor eloquent, but I also know that my God invented those words, and that if He needs me He'll use me. And if and when he decides to, I want to be as prepared as I can be.

In the meantime, I think I need to go review ;-)

(IM conversation December 6, 2006; 1:39 PM)
Nicole Dossey says: who is that boy ?
Nicole Dossey says: :)
Nicole Dossey says:Hi. how are you doing?
Lyd says:Thats pretty much the coolest guy in the whole world
Lyd says:He's smart, athletic, and I love him!
Nicole Dossey says:really??!!
Nicole Dossey says:sorry, it takes a picture with you and a boy to get my attention
Lyd says:(That boy is my brother John!)
Nicole Dossey says:no the one with you in the picture before the whip cream
Lyd says:ummmm
Lyd says:oh, THAT one
Lyd says:lol
Nicole Dossey says:you don't have to answer
Nicole Dossey says:i'm being nosey
Lyd says:it's all good, nah, that boys not quite as cool as John, he's a friend of ours
Lyd says:and NEVER that kind of friend, trust me
Nicole Dossey says:lol
Nicole Dossey says:phew
Lyd says:hehe, he just wanted to use my IM, so i said he could if he could find a picture of himself. . .
Nicole Dossey says:tell him he caused quite a stir with your friend nicole
Nicole Dossey says:lol
Lyd says:No worries, I'm totally not interested in him (or any guy, thank goodness) right now. . .

Dang straight I'm not interested. Sheesh you people. The picture that had my friend all riled up was this one, from Regionals last year. The kid is John's best friend and a total dork most of the time. Especially when he and his dad--the immature jerk!-- hacked into my computer and started talking to all my buddies on IM. (Actually, it was pretty funny, but don't tell them.) But now I should clear it up to everyone who asked: we are just friends--and hardly that most of the time.


The other picture is of the coolest guy in the whole world. It just doesn't get any better than John Albert. And for all of you who asked . . . HE'S MY BROTHER.





So I think that unless it's this guy, I've learned something: only use pictures with girlfriends as your display picture!!!