Well, It's been a while hasn't it?

Hello fellow blog readers!

Well, it's been so long since I last posted.....I blame it on my science exam i studies like the end of the world for. Which, by the way, I got 99.6% on! Beat that! Actually, my teacher rounded it to 100%! I was hoping for an A, but expected like and A-, which is the hoghest i've gotten. Didn't see that coming...what lovely surprises. But now science class is over, but I have school at home but that required less studying so I'll have more tome to blog! Summer here we come!

To start on the right attitude, the huge issue of purity had lately hit home for me. It is such a neglected topic and much ignored in churches that it breaks my heart to see how poeple can read such clear words in scripture and just completely ignor them. Mostly this issue is seen in teen+ aged girls. I wanted to share some verses i've read while studying 1 Timothy.

Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, ^[g]modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, ¹⁰ but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. ¹¹ A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. ¹¹ A woman^[a] should learn in quietness and full submission.
1 Timothy 2:9-11

Here's a quote that i really love that concerns a womans heart:

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
 ― Max Lucado

Oh man, that is so great....especially when girls are at that age of being interested in guys in a whole new way....

Here is a random and awesome song I literaly just discovered (as I waas typing all that other stuff).

A great band!

Well, it' been so long that I can't remember anything that i've done lately.....

thinking......

thinking......

more thinking.......

less thinking.......

Bingo!

I'm almost done w/ piano until summer break (last lesson on Friday! This mean doughnuts! Mwahaha!!!) and as i'm really into music, i want to take guitar or singing lesson from either the voice teacher of my sister or guitar teacher of my brother. I still need to mention this to my parents....oops..... ;) But anyway, I practice both alot already, I just need some professional instruction.

OK, now the science stuff begins. I've been doing research (yeas, you heard me right, science research FOR FUN) on left/right-braindness, and it is really quite interesting. Before you continue, take this simple quiz: http://www.intelliscript.net/test_area/questionnaire/questionnaire.cgi
After You finnished that and fouind out wah tyour "are" (predominately), here are some facts that you didn't know about yourself (that's supposed to be funny in more ways then one....but don't think about it too hard....unless you're an intelligent left-brainer).

If you are Left-Brained you:
Are rational

1. Respond to verbal instructions
2. Problem solve by logically and sequentially looking at the parts of things
3. Look at differences
4. You are planned and structured
5. Prefer established, certain information
6. Prefer talking and writing
7. Prefer multiple choice tests
8. Control feelings
9. Prefer ranked authority structures

Are sequential

   10.  Are a splitter: distinction important
   11.  Are logical, sees cause and effect
   12.  Draw on previously accumulated, organized information

 If you are Righ-Brained you:

Are intuitive

1. Respond to demonstrated instructions
2. Problem solve with hunches, looking for patterns and configurations
3. Look at similarities
4. Are fluid and spontaneous
5. Prefer elusive, uncertain information
6. Prefer drawing and manipulating objects
7. Prefer open ended questions
8. Free with feelings
9. Prefer collegial authority structures

Simultaneous

   10.  Are a lumper: connectedness important
   11.  Are analogic, sees correspondences, resemblances

   12.  Draws on unbounded qualitative patterns that are not organized into sequences, but that cluster around images.

(Note-I think a really smart left-brained person wrote this....I had to look up almost every word in a dictionary :P)

 I believe it is more common for gals to be right-brained and guys to be left-brained, but this is just in general. Guirs tend to be more showing of their emotions/more emotional (not just due to hormones) and better at learning languages, which is a right side dominance. Guys are usually the opposite and are better at problem solving and math/science despite the brainecells dead due to video games.

And for my results....according to the qui, I am very left-brained (i'm totally not surprised). My score was 12 for left and 5 for right. And the numbers that apply to me for left-brained characteristics are: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (except not "talking" but yeas to "writting"), 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12. So most of them is a yes. For right-brained: 6, and 11. Not so much :) I do have musical ability (sort of) but it is classical piano, which classical music is a more of a left-brained thing. Music is usually a right-brained thing, but classical is more left-brained. I've always taken more after my dad in many ways, and he is very left-brained so i'm not surprised I am. It's funny, we got nout the old video tapes of us as little kids and just watchingme, I was always a thinker, analyzer, perfectionist, information freak, and just a plain left-brained kid. Don't get me wrong, I liked ballet and such, but onhe thinkg that strucj me was many tapes where my mom comments on my being into building blocks, duplos, legos, that sort of thing whic his really a left-brained thing. I would throw down the doll to blocks. And another tape that made me chuckle is one when I was 2 (and sooooo adorable!) and we were at the pool and while my dad was blowing up my mini pool (I asn't old enough to go in the big one) i was very interested in the water, examining my squirt bottle and just looking at the water, putting my hand in it, when my dad comments saying "she's going to be a water chemist!". Science! How very prophetic....but really, i'm going to become an orthopaedist, specializing in sports medicine. And i'm so very excited to go to college and pursue my dream!

Ah yes, I remmeber something else. I went to a Down Here, Aaron Shust, Jason Gray concert w/ my dad in Portland and it was AWESOME! They are such amazing bands with an amazing truth to share! I love going on concert daddy dates :) We plan to do it again.....This was actually the weekend after we had gone to Portland for Ben's bday! Portland 2 weeks in a row. I am loving this! Some may no know, but I LOVE Portland and want to live there (actually, I'm thinking Vancouver for the exact location but that's in the area). Not sure wh yor when I strated liking ti so much. But it is is hime to my absolute favorite place on Earth: OMSI. Well, it's tied with Magic Mountain. It's so great....all that science stuff! PLus great summer camps too.

OK, enough talk. Good Night! Until next time.....

Emma

P.S. If this is super sloppy typing, it's bcuz it's really late and i'm super tired...i'll edit later :) And feel free to comment! I love comments!