Oh my gosh.  I haven't written in this thing since foever and a half ago.  Okay, maybe since, like, a little more than a week, but still.  *wipes cobwebs from corner and resumes typing*

I'm going down to Cedarville for a leadership conference a week from Friday (yay!).  Then I go back down to Cedarville the week after so I can visit my brother during "Li'l Sibs Weekend."  That's gonna be so much fun.  I love going to Cedarville.  I wish I could go there for college but Mom wants me to stay home so I can take care of Courtney, Wrangler, Rodeo, and chickens.  I'll probably end up going to Malone.

Thursday was "Student Switch with Staff Member Day."  That was such an awesome day.  The teachers were being immature and bratty (Mr. Podis got 8 detentions, lol) and the kids that won the bidding on being staff members were being perfect replicas of the teachers they were supposed to be (Ned even gave us a half hour speech at the end of the day that we're just so loud and he'd threaten to keep us over 10 minutes if we were that loud again.  Jordan was laughing so hard that his Gatorade almost came out his nose, haha).  So yeah, that was fun. 

Oh, and some guy at the bank thought I was a boy.  I had my hair up in a ponytail and I had my hat on, so I guess I kinda looked like a guy.  We were sitting in the drive-through teller (which probably made it even harder for him to see that I am, in fact, a woman . . . yes, that was a slight reference to Captain Jack's line in PotC), and he said to my mom, "Would the young man sitting next to you like a sucker?"  Mom almost said, "No, but I'm sure the young woman sitting next to me would love one!"  But I didn't want to make him feel bad for calling me a boy, so there's some confused man out there in Ohio somewhere, thinking that I am a boy.

Saturday I went shopping with Mom ALL DAY.  That was majorly boring, except for when we went to Border's.  I picked up Jesus Freaks Volume II (it's a sad book, but it's absolutely amazing.  It makes me want to live for Christ more than anything in the world.  No other book has ever had that affect on me) and this thriller/sci-fi/fantasy called Idlewild.  I've never heard of it, but it sounded cool so I bought it.  I actually got a really cool cashier!  None of 'em are, usually.  They're just like, "Alright, here's your crap, now get out of the store and come back when you have coupons."  This guy was really happy and social and he convinced me to buy some chocolate, lol!  He's like, "We're selling these chocolates, 4 for $1, limited time only!  Come on, you're a girl, it's chocolate.  It'll make ya feel good."  I was thinkin about it, and he could tell.  "They've got goo inside . . . "  I was like, "Yeah?  What kind of goo?"  As soon as he got to the ones with peanut butter in them, I picked up a handful and threw it on the counter.  I was like, "Okay, ya sold me."  And they were GOOD!  I'd go back just to buy out all their chocolates.

Monday I went sledding with a few kids from my youth group up at Mr. V's house.  He's got this really huge steep hill that makes up most of his backyard.  It's a pain in the butt to mow in the summer (Mrs. V rolled the mower down the hill at one point last year), but it's a fantabulous sledding hill in the winter!  Me and Kristen were racing down the hill and Paul was sitting at the bottom with his hands out.  Whoever hit his hand first won.  Well, my saucer flipped backwards, so I couldn't see where I was going.  All of the sudden, I hear Paul going "AHHHHHH!" in this girly little voice and I was like, "Ah crap, I'm gonna take out my youth pastor."  Sure enough, I crashed into him.  We laughed about it for like, 10 minutes.  Going sledding that day was probably the most fun I've had in a long time.  Except for . . . they didn't tell me there was a ramp on the steepest part of the hill, and you could only see it when you were almost on top of it.  So I felt like I broke my butt, haha.  After we were all too cold to keep going we went inside, drank some hot chocolate, and watched the Travel Channel.  It was fun.

Oh, and Mr. Proudfoot's planning a ski trip.  I might go . . .

The Varsity Guys won their game tonight!  And it was a league game, so I'm pretty thrilled.  And Chris dunked for the first time ever in a game!  I wanted to run out onto the court and give him a big hug, but something tells me I would have gotten a technical for that

Ummm . . . that's all I can think of.  Other than I left my book at school so progress on it tonight is pretty much paralyzed.  OH!  Civil War class starts tomorrow.  *laughs nervously and wrings hands*  And we go on a field trip Thursday (Great Lakes Science Center, whoopee!  It's not like we went there SIX TIMES last year!  Ah well).  And other than something else involving this kid named Scott, lol!  I finally found a guy that's crazy about me that likes horses!  In fact, he likes 'em so much, he owns THREE of 'em!  Yay for me!  Wow, I can't believe I'm actually excited about a boyfriend, lol  I've known him for about five years now, so yeah . . . weird things you'd never expect to hear about from Marianne for today—I have a boyfriend.  Why?  I don't know.  It's not like I have the time for one, but oh well.

Peace, love, and happiness,

Marianne