Where did my youth go?

Baffled. That's the feeling. Pure confusion. Wasn't it just yesterday I was learning the hula for my Senior Project at RHS? Has it really been 12 years since I've owned my own horse (I still miss that painted pony)? Wasn't it just last year I myself was only 15 years old???

How did I become 25? That's an entire quarter of a Century!!! When did kids start asking ME questions in order finish their Senior Papers.....Am I really so old that I can talk about my transition from "youth group kid" to adult and how my faith weathered the transition...? 

I know. I know. I'd better get with the program. Of course I realize I'm a youth sponsor now and I'm working with parents in order to insure that their kids see God and don't lose their ever-loving minds (like I did) when they go to college. I get it. I know it. I'm not just realizing it or anything. But today it all seems so surreal.

OMG. I'm old.

Harry Potter. Finally.

I can't remember the specifics of it all, but I do know that around the age of 13 (when Harry Potter was becoming all the rage) I was programmed to believe magic was evil and Harry Potter was the devil. I know my parents meant well, and perhaps I wasn't mentally sound enough to read of such adventure without becoming an all out silly wizard-dressing, potion-making, quidditch-playing fanatic. So, maybe they did me a favor.......

(Argument: Why was the magic in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings different? Narnia? Beats me.)

At any rate, I've done it now! I've read the first book. I'm hooked. My dreams are full of invisibility cloaks and jelly beans of every flavor. I find myself fascinated with the world that J.K. Rowling has created and I'm so excited to learn all that happens there! I feel like a little kid discovering magic for the very first time and I just can't get enough! And.........I'll admit, part of me wants to dress in robes, mix funny colored liquids, and ride on a broomstick dodging temperamental flying iron balls ("bludgers"). Luckily for everyone, I'm an adult now...so I can't do any of that. In public. 

Until I can tear myself away from The Chamber of Secrets..............................................

On The Hunger Games

Okay, so yes, it is most obvious that the author leans to the anti-war side of things. But ideally, don't we all? All the politics aside, however...............

CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW INCREDIBLE THESE BOOKS ARE???????? I for one am a fan, and am so excited to see what the cast and crew for the movie will bring forth to entertain myself and many others in exactly 24 hours!!

Also, if you don't have the soundtrack, it is MIND-BLOWING. Get it.

To Blog or Not To Blog

So I haven't blogged since 2005. Do people really even do this anymore? I mean, other than networking professionals and Christian ministers? 


All I know is, I feel like it'll be fun! Blogging attempt  número dos , commence!