A Good 'Ol Friday night

So I'm staying up late writing this post because other than the fact that I have nothing to do...wait. I have no reason to write this.
I just feel like this year is just going to be terrible and I just want to get outta here.
Everything that happens, especially bad, I remind myself: Just 1.more.year. Then i'm out. I just want to get on with my life and yeah I guess I should become a senior earlier, but i'd miss all my true friends and not have the senior year thats worth the fun.
I don't try to be all complainy about me wanting to leave but I find myself envisioning going to college, having a good career helping someone, and moving on. I know I should enjoy my high school years because you have like zero responsiblity and you'll never get to relive those years, but heck, I have alot of responsibilities and work is just a measely cherry to the top of it.
Work is becoming such a burden because its not like I don't enjoy it, but its like everytime I actually plan to do something, I get scheduled to work. I'd rather work Sundays or even weeknights than that lovely day called Saturday. They schedule me to work there. every.freakin.saturday. I HAVE A LIFE- im a teenager but yet oh hey...im the only teenager actually working on saturday. yeah i know sometimes garrett and taylor and even the amanda's and ashley work it, but i get the dreaded 6 1/2 hrs. They get like 5 hrs or even 4. Yeah its good to have money but i feel like i just spend it wayyy to much.
I dont know what to do.
Maybe go to a shopaholic's anonyomous meeting.

I've vented my measurement for the past week or so, so I'm headed off to bed before I have my best friend yell at me for typing so loudly, even though she does...hahaha

GOODNIGHT! (:


song(s?) of the night:
1. Stronger by Mandisa- favorite part of the song "When the waves are taking you under, hold on just a little be stronger, He knows that this will make you STRONGER." (no link...im too lazy)
2. Clueless by Rocky loves Emily- I dont know why, but i love just jamming to this song.
3. THE GLEE PROJECT- Under Pressure/ Ice Ice Baby- 2 awesome songs mashed up with 6 awesome singers. And one is IRISH. <3
heres the link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq908dPC-zU
andd lucky number 4: Leaving you Lonely- Eric Dill. I like this song! CHECK IT OUTT!

peace out!
and yes, i just said that.

The Rescue- Tyler Ward

"Sometimes we all just need to be recued." - written
"I’m running backwards in the rain
Got my hand up for a taxi
I finally got her name
Then we slipped into the backseat

I whisper, “are you okay?”
she nods her head with feeling
I could see the pain
and I can not explain how

[Chorus]
I am captivated by
the way you look tonight
and I’ve seen what you’ve been into

So I will never cross the line
I won’t tell you any lies
I was sent here for the rescue

[Verse 2]
She couldn’t see past his stare, when desire took them over
With a quick and simple prayer she cried, “God bring this to closure”
“I can not take this anymore and I know that what I’m waiting for
is so much bigger, so much better, get me out, please deliver”

So I’m here breaking down your door
Calling out your name
I want to take away the pain
You know I’m here like I was before
Screaming out your name
Waiting for the change

[Chorus]
I am captivated by
The way you look tonight
And I’ve seen what you’ve been into

So I will never cross the line
I won’t tell you any lies
I was sent here for the rescue

[Choir]
Leave your burden, weak and weary, I will lead you home
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound

School blues.

I'm sick.Not of an infection (well right now i am)
Not because of people.
But.
Because of SCHOOL.

I just can't deal with the overload on homework, figuring out what to do on the weekend, (balancing fun and homework) , and oh yeah, i work.
I feel like everything just goes completely wrong. I haven't had a week that has been good. that's a whole month. And I'm the person who just goes even though I'm tired. People are wondering how I survive on so little hours is that i DONT. but I just have to get through the day til its time to go to sleep. Even then I have to stay up doing homework or I have to crunch it in during homeroom, and sometimes I can't deal with it.
I also found out I have a huge Vitamin D deficiency so I have to eat other foods, and they are not helping with my stomach.
People call me lazy but I usually have to do stuff like watch my brother, which involves playing with the poor kid, I have homework and then do chores around the house cause I'm never home on the weekends and I have to make it up.

Also,
I went to Awakening Musical Fest this year and it was awesome! I went with my friends Ashley, Kayla, and Stephanie and we had a great time jamming to people such as Hawk Nelson, Family Force 5, and tobyMac! <- we also heard Jamie Grace sing her song "Hold Me".
That song is so my life.
LYRICS: I’ve had a long day I just wanna relax/Don’t have time for my friends, no time to chit-chat Problems at my job, wonderin’ what to do I know I should be working but I’m thinking of You and Just when I feel this crazy world is gonna bring me down That’s when Your smile comes around Ooh, I love the way You hold me By my side You’ll always be.

I feel like people don't understand that Christians AREN'T PERFECT. We screw up, mess up, slip up, just like EVERYONE IN THE WORLD. The only thing that is different is that we, have a God and His Son to "hold us" while we are feeling this way. One way to put it is that God holds on to your arm, and even if you mess up, he's still going to be holding you.
You may think what you are doing now is so terrible and you can't go back, or even what would people think? "Christians are "supposed" to be GOOD KIDS. PERFECT KIDS." HA. i laugh at that. Christians don't strive to be PERFECT. but we strive to be what God wants us to be.

I challenge you as a reader to figure out what God wants you to be. And how you find that out is to read HIS book, the Bible. You'll figure out that even the most prestigious people in the Bible screwed up. Like Paul.
Paul was originally named Saul. He was hated by everyone. He killed alot of people. He's the poster child of what not to do.  And yet God had a plan for him.
Crazy. No other words to describe it.

songs to digest :)
1. Hold Me by Jamie Grace. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISgr8SgCYbY
2. Your Love is A Mystery by Hawk Nelson. (this song is how even when we screw up, God still loves us.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4eRLiTvKps
3. Wobble by Family Force 5. (who says you can't have fun?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQEH_n7Anx8
4. Broken by Lindsey Haun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoWQunKQElE
&& 5. Pennybags by Tyler Ward. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXdo6YUXWbI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL2E934138A75C94F6

<3 casey.

New York Snapshots

 Morgan Freedman. Waddup.
















Madame President in the future? YEAH!

My best friend being a crazy taxi driver...she even drives with the doors open :D

Lady Liberty's head is a little small dont-cha think?










Time Square baby! :)

 What a classic NYC photo....

August.

Sigh.
I've been gone all this summer practically and school seems like its almost here...why? BECAUSE ITS LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AWAY!
This is maddness.
Just came back from New York City with Ashley (we stayed at my Aunt and Uncle's house), and it was a BLAST. Though, I do want to come during Christmas time to see all the Christmas-y things like the ice skating rink, sleigh rides through the snow falling, etc, etc.
I recently forgot about my blog and I saw my friend's post about some jerk.
I want to her read this: FORGET HIM!!!!! the kid is a no-good-son-of-a-gun-bum-who-just-got-a-girlfriend.
I've known this kid for quite some time, and all he's done to her is what a guy shouldn't do! he's late, doesn't text her back, makes up lame excuses, and she has EVERY RIGHT TO BE PISSED AT HIM. and yet he just got a girlfriend. blahhhhh (sorry girl, i had to say it)
He just makes me mad of what I hear about him! AFRJDKLFJKDLFJ: = my frustration towards him.

Anyways,
I gotta do some chores. (even though i just got back today) BLAH.

some jams to jam...or dance...if you CAN dance...unlike me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceIxXz46_uI <- Sweet Sweet Summertime by Aria Wallace (Mandy from iCarly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WJbFqe09IA&list=FL1QLIA7Zx-_c&index=11 <- Just Friends by Shane Harper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaasByt5QoA <- On My Mind by Cody Simpson ft. Tyler Ward (acoustic-ish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxA0j7N0SWo <- This Girl by Laza (from Step Up 3D)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSYNk0WKcsk <- Falling (in love with you) by Tyler Ward
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M6ZvNmwGxs <- About a Girl by The Academy Is...

&&
STEPHEN JERZAK'S VIDEO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulqqXTPEpYs <- Party Like You're Single


enjoy!
pics from NYC coming soon :)
<3
casey

July, what a wonderful month

This past week I went to The Master's Inn, in Virginia, and its a completely life-changing camp. The things you do there reflect what you should do EVERY DAY, like doing morning devotionals (devos), praying before eating, and glorifying God through whatever actions you do.
God spoke to me and SO MANY people and specifically for me, its how i act.










Another thing that happened, was that I went to Eagle Butte, South Dakota and helped out a VBS for the Lakota kids. Going there makes you realize that even though you thought you had it bad, they have it 10 times worse. 
80 % of the kids I met have been abused in some way shape or form. The kids I had were 7 years old. You could see the love and attention these kids NEED and STRIVE for. I went the first day to pick up kids for a block party and one gets on the bus and sits on my lap. I've never seen the kid before, but as soon as she saw the van that had the church's name on it, she felt SAFE. Most kids there never feel that and that's why its such a bad place. I met so many drunks outside the gates of the church, and whats even sadder is driving through the town seeing these places where these adorable, lovable kids live and you wonder how they do it. How can this 5 year old or 9 year old live in a house with 15 people and have no drawers? One girl spent the night at a very good friend's house (a couple who are pretty rich and live 45 away) and she slept in the dark for the FIRST TIME. The poor girl is 8 or 10! She's so used to cockroaches while she sleeps that it freaked her out to sleep in the dark.
But these kids need God in their life and they will end up as the stereotypical Indian: drunk.
The Lakota Sioux need Satan out of their town, and I pray that Little white church will impact them more than anything.

Also, right now I'm at the beach, ooh man I got a TERRIBLE burn, (everyone says its because I'm a ginger...) BOO THEM! I love the saltwater breeze, sand, and sound of waves crashing! Its the good life.
God has blessed me soo much its unbelievable! 

thats my update.
loves


<3

Sorry this is late...

HAPPY 4th! 
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE.....
REMEMBERING SOLDIERS....
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! (: