Running.

As many people would think this is crazy, but I LOVE running! I just love the wind through your hair, the intensity going up hills, and especially running to crazy music for inspiration!
Not many people can say they love it, but I surely do. Now, I must say I do not run fast, nor with intentions of being faster than people. When I run, I run for myself.
Thats one of the things of what I love about God, how he picks the most random people to be bless with the likeness for certain things or have big places in this world. But not everyone can do what other people do. No one is going to look the same, feel the same emotions, and want to do the same things. That's what makes us special. 
You may not see why or what God has specifically thrusted upon you, but you'll see. You may not be like other people, heck, you DON'T want to be like other people, you should want to be different.
Shine your light on! Cause no one else is like you.
Like how I love running and say what I say, it makes me ME. Only God has the power to make me who I am.
So try to love yourself the rest of this week, and remember, God make you who you are. LOVE IT (:

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be"(Psalm 139:13-16).

peace,
casey

Love this song! Never Change by Chase Coy; so if your ever feel gloomy, listen (:
"I will always carry you in my heart
You'll always be my shooting star
Autumn days will fade away
But memories will always stay the same
I'm hoping you will never change
Don't ever change"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGIpLpTWDs8 <--CLICK IT! *WARNING* SLOW MUSIC! 

Old Blog #2 JANUARY!!

1.12.11

Today we had a 2 hour delay. What a marvelous delay it was! Sleeping till 9 was very blissful!  I felt like I did nothing productive today but oh well! I finished Karen Kingsbury’s book, The Red Gloves Collection. Christmastime this year I want to go to a senior center and figure out which ones have little or no visits and learn something from them.  That’s my goal next year as a junior and hope to do that! Well I must go to sleep because I have a history and math test tomorrow. YAY! Last day of interior design also L That was the best class and teacher ever. But I’m sure we (Ashley and I) are going to say hi to Mrs. Taylor A LOT! HAHAHA J

1.17.11

Snow days are lazy days. You get up late, thank the Lord that you have another day to do your homework and watch TV all day. Well atleast that’s what I did. I watched Nanny McPhee returns, and The Country Bears, then went upstairs to play Just Dance 2 then came back down to watch some random TV shows. I studied last night for my driver’s ed test and I think I’ll do well, with the Lord’s help. Tomorrow is going to be super easy due to driver’s ed then study hall. (where I will start my English essay…) I’m hoping we get regular school just because I want exams over with because I’m going to snow camp in PA this weekend and then will come back to take my interior design and biology exams. Barf! Well now I need to go to sleep, waking up at 7:10 won’t be the easiest since I slept till 10. Gave myself a heart attack almost when I looked at the clock because if it was a 2 hour delay, I would have to leave my house at 10:15, no way would I be ready in time.

Goodnight <3

~Casey

3.8.11

WOW. I haven’t blogged in what seems like forever! Big news since January: My friend has accepted God and Jesus back into her life,(PRAISE THE LORD) & I’m GETTING MY LICENSE IN 9 DAYS, I got a haircut, and am now in gourmet foods! Hahaha not the biggest news but pretty new!

-Caseyyy

Old Blog #1

So I was looking though my documents and found some oldish blog kind of things on a microsoft word document! Haha!

1.1.11

Today I found out that airports are one of the most exciting and saddest places. If you are meeting someone who flew in after not seeing them for a long time, it’s exciting. But, if you are saying your goodbyes and not certain when you’ll see the person again, it’s bittersweet. On Christmas, my best friend’s parent flew in my best friend Caroline Hinkle from Illinois to Virginia. I hadn’t seen her in 3 years and it was a complete shock. After spending a week with her and Ashley Tucker, we had to say our goodbyes today, at the airport. We rang in the New Year with her and Ashley and Janey White and Mandy Wine. It was a blast but the inevitable thing was that she was leaving and I don’t know when I’ll see her again. Hopefully in the summer, but I don’t know. I’m writing this to start blogging about my day so when I look back on it, I’ll remember the most of the year 2011. It’s 12:20 so technically it’s the 2^nd but I’m writing it as of the 1^st. 

Toodles,

Casey 

HAPPY EASTER/ Biology...Oh how I loathe you.

Well hello there! Happy Easter! Christ has Risen! 


There are some things you just absolutely ADORE, some things you are IFFY on, and some things you LOATHE.
Biology fits in the last category for me.
I hate it.
I don't mind the whole figuring out how cells make more cells and how we make energy, but I seriously could live without knowing it. When I'm 25, I highly doubt I'll even know what the heck a mitochondria is, or even to remember how the heck you spell it.
Right now I'm "learning" evolution. Since I could grasp the concept, I know what it is. How over time things change and evolve due to changes around the species (and how their adaptations alter the functions of parts), but its not talking about a matter of a couple thousand years, its talking about million of years. I see how the researchers (in a science and secular viewpoint) would arrive to that conclusion. But seeing that I don't believe in that, I feel like its a waste of time knowing this because I won't apply most of the terms I'm learning for my benefit except for adaptation and some others. But thats just my little soap box (:
Overall, I feel like biology is a waste of time, I wish you can just skip it like you can do in earth science if you don't really like learning about rocks. (THATS GNEISS<--thanks to Mr. Sheehan, the ONLY teacher who would make rocks a fun subject)


I SHOULD be writing a conclusion on Darwin's findings about birds. Blah. I'm sorry, but I do not like birds. They fall in the loathe category as well. Birds to me are either: 1. FREAKY. 2. CUTE or 3. MEAN.
Freaky by the means of a bird swooping towards you 
Cute by the colors and how chubby those feathery things are
& Mean by the way they like to POOP on you.. NOT THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD.
So I'm just venting my feelings towards biology and can't wait for chemistry next year, where I use math. I'll admit it, I'm a math geek. BOY DO I LOVE NUMBERS. (thats a turn on for boys...) I'm just not so keen on the whole science ordeal, especially from 8th grade on....


All and All,
I LOATHE BIOLOGY. (and my biology teacher...don't get me started on her....)


peace.
~casey


ps. i picked the color purple because i also do not like it. Lame, I know. :)

Chasing Pavements/ Get Back Up

So my friend is sorta in love with Adele's songs, so I looked back to the song that I first heard Adele sang. 

Its called Chasing Pavements. 

One part of the song goes, "Should I give up? Or should I just keep chasing pavements/even it it leads no where?" <- BY FAR THE BEST SONG OUT THERE, for your information

Any who, even though this is more or less a rhetorical question, she shouldn't give up. No one should even give up, especially if you don't even know the results, you just gotta keep going through them.

If you fall down, you should just get back up. Its that simple. But hey, i'm not saying its going to be easy.

I watched a movie yesterday called "What if..." and the angel that God sent to this man who was going to be a pastor, then left his girlfriend and everything for a chance in the big time, and with that made the man look at his life if he hadn't left his girlfriend, family, and God for what he had, which was essentially nothing.

The man had so many questions and difficultly figuring out what to do. The angel simply replied, "Just get back up." Of course you'd be like, Pfft, it's impossible, or no. but afterwards, the angel said, Im not saying that its easy, just simple.

If you're anything like me, you think simple and easy go hand in hand. Well apparently they do not. Simple is putting a shirt on, well it can be difficult if you don't: a.) know what on earth you are going to wear, or b.) if its even clean or dirty, but the act of putting a shirt on is fairly easy. 

Whether you're putting on a shirt, or having difficulty trying not to give up, remember, especially that Easter is only a few days away, that God has and will never give up on you. You may not see what he's doing in your life, but oh when you see it, it'll be amazing. 

peace,

casey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DjMT-qR9g <- Chasing Pavements-Adele

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAA0ASlh1HU <- Get Back Up- tobyMac

Life.

FDJKLTA;SHFKATJK;DEFJKASL;THSDLJFKSDFJKS.
^ this is the times when i feel like life is just plain annoying.

Then again I have those days where I'm like, "Life is good".

Yeah....today is the first example...

Today started off good, I woke up at a decent time, got ready for school, and had a good half of the day. But then lunch came. My throat started itching. Now it just burns. I just got a headache, it was a rainy day, and I have homework to still be touched.
One thing good came out of this day: I gotta hang with my friend Kayla, and where I found out something shocking but adorable! Oh and she whooped my butt in Just Dance 2. No big deal.

Days like these I just want to crawl in a ball with covers, have a peaceful movie or sleepy kind of songs, and fall asleep. Everyone has that, I just happen to have one today. Yay me... I'm also freezing while I'm typing on my warm laptop, I wouldn't even know...

I don't have anything else to say, this is one of those day to day blogs saying whats going on in your life.
I feel like this blog should be a combo of this, offering advice to those who need it, and if they want to talk about there day when no one seems to care, I'll listen.

thanks for reading this pretty boring blog post today, i commend you.
~casey

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I've never been such an emotional person, when I fall down, I just get back up, clean the wound and let it heal. I don't usually hug people (never liked that even when I was little) and I almost never cry. There's only a few accounts where I have actually bawled my eyes out.
1. My grandfather dying. <- he had Alzheimer and didn't remember me, also the LAST day I saw him, he said something to ME. but I didn't understand it. To this day I always think about him on that hospital bed saying that.
2. My best friend and her issues. Now, I understand WHY people want to do the stuff she did, but I just couldn't believe it was happening, I don't blame her for doing it only because its not her fault that she did it, its Satan's freaking voice leading up to the things. And I couldn't control it, if you didn't know, I like some control.
3. My parents as a child. I'd hear them all the time yelling and arguing and I just wanted it to stop. Sometimes my dad said he would leave us, and just pack his bags, and I remembering writing down that he was always angry, no matter who bugged him. Thankfully, he has gotten better, no more arguing to my mom (except what to do about some things,) and not blaming us for everything. 
4. Getting rid of my first cat, Penny. I loved that cat to death. But the thing was that she was practically anorexic and couldn't survive with us. My parents told me that I had to put her in the shelter to get better. I screamed and went upstairs in my room and threw EVERYTHING off my desk (i had one connected to my bunk bed) and just got a blanket and cried my eyes out. I think I didn't get out of my room for a couple hours.  




Other than that, I don't usually cry. Until I read someone else's blog. I feel like I should just snatch up my friend and get her out of the environment people like her don't deserve to have that dumped on their plate especially as a teen. And again, I feel like a fairy godmother should come pick her up on the way to the ball and have a magical life, not the life she was given with. Then again, living up that way makes you stronger, a whole lot stronger. 


God is the rock to go to when you're sad, back then (other than my friend) I didn't really get the concept of God. Its this supernatural dude in the sky who created everything and had a son on Earth? I didn't get the big picture how he is THE one to go to in time of need. After him, you ask Godly friends, and then your parents, if they are understanding. Just remember, God is always with you.


love,
caseyy

Friendships.

Friendships. or Freakships in the ones of mine,

they are foundation of having someone to talk to and spill out what you are feeling without your parents. Friends can be brother, sister, cousins, people you meet in school, people you meet everywhere, you get my drift.

The hardest thing about friendships is that you have to keep it going. You can't just drop the person off the face of your world just because of some things.

But if you feel like your world is crashing, and all your friends seem distant, not really friends anymore, then I have news for you!

I know its a cliché, but I'm with you no matter what you're facing. And if its self-harm, (from cutting to eating disorders to drug abuse) or anything else, I'll be your friend. Nothing else to it.

Proverbs 12:26, "The godly give good advice to their friends; the wicked lead them astray" (NLT)

This basically says that hang out with good godly friends,  don't let friends pressure you into bad things, especially if they are "cool" or "everyone is doing it" Pftt. SOMEONE isn't doing it, so that isn't even plausible.


This came up into my mind today because about less than a year ago, one of my other best friends stopped talking to me and my other best friend. Nothing. I didn't even know she was alive unless she posted on facebook (which is quite sad when I have her cell phone number!) She tried to talk to me and my best friend, but it was just awkward. Then she went to another school, so we never saw her. But the real thing is that she got mad at me and my friend wanting to hang out with her! She wanted to hang out with HER family, ALL the time. I'm not saying that hanging out with your family is necessarily a bad thing, but we had to schedule a time, then she blew us off. Just recently she talked to us and wants to hang out. Funny how things completely do a 180...and I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty mixed feelings about this, cause I do consider her as a friend, but ever since those times we didn't talk, however, we do get to catch up on the year! (:

but ANYWHO,
Geez, I get off topic super easily.


So friendship.
Its like being on a ship, and you have to stick together through those storms and major winds that may come your way, and one friend that will always be there is God. You can talk to him like you're talking to your best friend, even if its about something giddy and not that important. He WANTS to hear you. He WANTS to answers your problems and questions, just like he answers my prayers.
One prayer I will never forget was when I was 6. I had my first wart, I WAS FREAKING OUT, (no big deal) and I wanted that dang thing off of me! My mom told me to pray to God to get rid of that wart, so I did, and miraculously, the next day, IT WAS GONE! <-- Its amazing how God answers prayers.
And if you say, "but I've prayed and never got an answer", God answers in 3 ways: Yes. No. Wait.


So if there are problems with friends, or just yourself, God can give you strength to work these out, and if you don't see your answer as immediate as my wart, just wait, He will never ignore you.


loves,
casey

Perfect.

Ah, what a word. Perfect.
The word "perfect" implies without flaws, or having the perfect life: having a great job & pay, great spouse, awesome kids, healthy family, gorgeous looks, but everyone knows you can't have ALL of that and them some.
If you have ever listened to the song "Perfect" by Simple Plan, or if you haven't (you should), you hear the kid's saying to his dad,

"I'm never gonna be good enough for youI can't pretend thatI'm alrightAnd you can't change me'Cuz we lost it all Nothing lasts foreverI'm sorry I can't be perfect"

Or if you have heard P!nk's new song, F**kin` Perfect,  she wants to make sure, that NO ONE out there feels less that perfect, because they are perfect to her.


These songs are just a few of how people aren't perfect, but there is one person who is. Jesus Christ.
He was like us, human, being tempted to do what others said, but he resisted and followed the plans of his Father, God.
God cares about you, and despite your flaws, he loves you, more than anyone can. During hard times you kinda feel hopeless, depressed, and especially if you feel you cannot change what is going on.
This is what I felt during my friend's issues, not that I didn't love her, I mean shes my BEST FRIEND, but the feeling of hopelessness overwhelmed me, and sometimes I just wanted to run away and forget all that is happening. Too bad I couldn't, because she is my best friend, and best friends just don't 'bug' out on best friends. And I'm so happy to say that my friend came back to her faith, and she's like a whole new person!


Okay back to the word PERFECT.

Romans 3:23: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (ESV)

This verse means that everyone, even the people who are the sweetest, most caring people out there fall short of God's glory, but with God's mercy you have a chance to live with him for eternity.
You may not be perfect, but in God's eyes you are.
Thats finding strength when you feel less than perfect, God sees you as perfectly made, and nothing can change that.


loves,
casey

The Reason of This....

Okay. So I started this blog because I was inspired by my best friend who has struggled with many problems throughout her life. In the midst of her struggle, I had to have strength that she'd be okay, and I could only look to God for help. 
Of course, I thought if I didn't think about it, it wouldn't actually happen. But turns out it was still going on even if I couldn't make myself believe it. I looked at her as she was doing everything, saying to myself, she'll be fine in a couple of weeks, then months, but that didn't happen. 
So I had to look up to God for help and I'm so glad I did, cause during all of that I would be a wreck. 

Psalms 46:1 is a great verse to live by. "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble."

Its wonderful to hear that even if things are going bad in your life, whether be you parents fighting all the time, your friend is having issues, you're doing terrible in school, or even if you break up with your boyfriend/girlfriend, you have something rather SOMEONE to hold your hand through all of this


All in all, this blog is to find strength in God, no matter what circumstances may come your way, and I hope you will read this, and have a great day!