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Name: Katie
Birthday: 5/20/1988
Gender: Female
Interests: Jesus, Star Wars, England, Photography, Pirates, Reading, Eating, Playing, Loving, Pirates, Harry Potter, Friends, C.S. Lewis, Reading, Sleeping, Eating, Reading, Music, Reading, Music, Reading, Music, & Reading.
Expertise: Star Wars. & now Pirates.
Occupation: Consulting
Industry: Textiles
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  SilverK88
MSN: Superchickchick520
Member Since:
10/1/2004
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| I'm So Very Sorry, Dear FriendDear Xanga,
You have been a kind friend. You have held much of the last 4 years of my life. For this I am thankful. I will never get rid of you completely but...
...let's face it. It's time we broke up. Let's not think of this as the end of the story, but the beginning of a new chapter. You will still hold the thoughts/dreams/hopes/brainlessness of many, many teenage girls. But, alas, is is time for me to move on.
You can visit me at MY NEW HOME whenever you like. The door (well, browser window) is always open to you.
Sincerely,
Kentucky Ducky
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| On Why I Don't Vote LiberalSome verses I read today that reminded (not that I necessarily needed to be reminded...) me why I'm most definitely NOT voting for someone who allows murder (abortion) & theft ("sharing the wealth").
Isaiah 59:4
No one calls for justice;
no one pleads his case with integrity.
They rely on empty arguments and
speak lies;
they conceive trouble & give birth
to evil.
59:7-8
Their feet rush into sin;
they are swift to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are evil thoughts;
ruin and destruction mark their ways.
The way of peace they do not know;
there is no justice in their pathes.
They have turned them into crooked
roads;
no one who walks in them will know
peace.
59:15-16
Truth is nowhere to be found,
and whoever shuns evil becomes a
prey.
The LORD looked and was displeased
that there was no justice.
He saw that there was no one,
He was appalled that there was no
one to intervene;
so His own arm worked salvation for
Him,
and His own righteousness
sustained Him.
He put on righteousness as His
breastplate,
and the helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on the garments of vengeance
and wrapped Himself in zeal as in a cloak.
59:19
From the west, men will fear the name
of the LORD,
and from the rising of the sun, they
will revere His glory.
For He will come like a pent-up flood
that the breath of the LORD drives
along.
Hebrews 13:11-14
The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore. Fo here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
And COMFORT:
13:8
Jesus Christ is the same YESTERDAY and TODAY and FOREVER.
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| Determined to have a Good Week!I am praying for a good week this week. I feel like I have been kind of a slug lately. A busy slug, but a slug none-the-less. I've been very disorganized &, well, sluggish. Lazy. Sloth-like.
My hope for this week is to act like an adult.
Some specific things I'm determined to do:
1) Clean my room2) Get my finances organized3) Eat 3 healthy meals a day - not only that, but at the appropriate times (you know, like morning, noon, & 5ish. Not a chocolate muffin at 10, snacking on anything in site from noon-5, & then nibbling on something for dinner at 5 because I was snacking all day, then having another full meal at 9 because I'm hungry again...)4) Help clean my house5) Write my second blog about my Dream Dinner Party 6) Take care of my skin (Use my full skin care system in the morning & evening!)7) Sell 15 lbs of AMY's BLEND!8) Have a quality quiet time every day!9) Take the next step towards Capernwray10) Last, but NOT least, get at least 7 solid hours of sleep each night. This means going to bed at 11pm Sunday night, 9:15pm Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday, & 10:30 on Thursday. (Yes, I was a little specific there, but that was mainly for me.  )
For some reason I am really pumped for this to be a good week. So I need to pray pray pray! And I would definitely appreciate it if you would send up a little prayer for me as well :o)
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| The England Post
England.
I have dreamed of it for...I don't even kn ow how long. A long time.
So many people who have been have told me,
"Go. Go now! Go before it's too late. Go before it's too late for you (or too late for England). GO!"
And I thought, I'll go someday. Someday I will go. Someday when I'm grown up but still don't have a family to take care of.
Then it hit me, the window for doing that could be very small. I'm twenty - that's sort of grown up...some people my age are already married or going to get married soon or will be married in 5-10 years. That's a small window (to me, right now, anyway).
So I prayed. Should I go? Could I go? Is it OK? Will I fair well there? What will I do there? Would it be too much money for me? Am I mature enough? Will it mature me? Will I go alone?
And all I heard back from God was what everyone else told me. But it was simple. It was one word.
"Go."
And included in that one word was the assurance that all of the details will be worked out. He will be before them, they will come fast, but not in a way that I can't handle when I have Him with me.
So I am going. I will be attending a Bible school in England called the Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers:
One of my closest friends will be going as well. We both decided this separately, only finding out the other was pondering this (England) through a mutual friend. This was part of that "Go" I was talking about.
It's not for another 212 days & some hours (April 18th is the day), & it only goes to June 12th. For some people that may be nothing, but for me it is something. It is a big something for me to leave home for longer than, oh, a weekend. It's a big deal for me to change my "routine" so drastically.
But it's time.
Go.
I will.
"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village she must seek them abroad." - Northanger Abbey
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| Here Come the Quotes! "Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution." - Sanditon
"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village she must seek them abroad." - Northanger Abbey
"I do not want people to be very agreable [sic], as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." - a letter to her sister Cassandra
"And now may I dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion; to a pillow strewed with thorns & wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three monthes." - Northanger Abbey
"Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how." - Pride & Prejudice
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." - Mr Darcy, Pride & Prejudice
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Pride & Prejudice
"I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love." - Emma
"The unpleasantness of appearing fickle is certainly great--but if you think you want Punishment for past Illusions, there it is--and nothing can compare to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another. That is a Punishment which you do not deserve." - letter to her niece Fanny Knight
"I am at present more impressed with the possible Evil that may arise to You from engaging yourself to him--in word or mind--than with anything else. When I consider how few young Men you have yet seen much of--how capable you are (yes, I do still think you very capable) of being really in love--and how full of temptation the next 6 or 7 years of your Life will probably be--(it is the very period of Life for the strongest attachments to be formed)--I cannot wish you with your present very cool feelings to devote yourself in honour to him." - letter to her niece Fanny Knight
"Wisdom is better than Wit, & in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side." - letter to her niece, Fanny Knight
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - Pride & Prejudice
"There was not one lord in the neighborhood; no -- not even a baronet. There was not one family among their acquaintance who had reared and supported a boy accidentally found at their door -- not one young man whose origin was unknown. Her father had no ward, and the squire of the parish no children.
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way." - Of Catherine Morland, our would-be heroine
Northanger Abbey
"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." - Catherine to Henry, Northanger Abbey
"You should never fret about trifles." - Catherine's mother, Northanger Abbey
" . . . if it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is known to have dreamt of her." - Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes?" - Captain Wentworth, Persuasion
"'I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.'" - Darcy, answering Lizzy's question about how he ever began to fall in love with her in the first place, Pride & Prejudice
"'Those who do not complain are never pitied.'" - Mrs. Bennet, Pride & Prejudice
"I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, & how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know." - letter to Cassandra, on Pride & Prejudice's Elizabeth Bennet
“'Brandon is just the kind of man,’ said Willoughby one day when they were talking of him together, 'whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.’” - HORRID Mr Willoughby, Sense & Sensibility
"I am never too busy to think of S&S. I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her suckling child..." - Jane on Sense & Sensibility
" . . . I am almost afraid to tell you how my Irish friend and I behaved. Imagine to yourself everything most profligate and shocking in the way of dancing and sitting down together." - Jane to her sister Cassandra, in a letter of January 9, 1796, about flirting with Tom Lefroy at the ball the night before
And, finally, a quote about Miss Jane Austen:
"She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a thought concealed from her, & it is as if I had lost a part of myself." - Cassandra, after Jane's death
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