09.20.12- Tribute to Ollie

You'll notice that today's post has a title other than the date. Today's post is especially for Ollie, my beloved hamster, who peacefully passed away today in her sleep after almost a week of suffering. For today's post, I have decided to write a letter to Ollie as a tribute to her, so here goes.

Dear Ollie,

You hold a very special place in my heart. Though you weren't my first hamster, you were definitely the best hamster I'll ever have. You were a friend, a companion, a comforter, a listener; you were everything to me. Waking up everyday to see you greet me during breakfast at the front door of your cage always made me so happy. Sometimes, you'd even be hanging upside down from your cage bars like a little koala. That was the cutest. Whatever you did, you'd be that little spark that would help brighten my day.

I particularly remember that day when I decided to build you a lego fort. I remember you loved it so much, and became so busy trying to climb over all the colourful blocks. It was such a mission to keep you in that fort! And of course, I took lots of pictures for you that day too, one of which I used for my post today. You were only nine months old back then, and look at you now, it's been more than two years. A dwarf hamster's only supposed to live a year, or two years max, but you defied the odds and almost lived three! You celebrated two birthdays with me, and watched me the moment I got into high school right until grade 12. You were always there when I needed someone to talk to late at night.

You were such a fighter too. I remember the time when you got sick, and I was so scared you would pass away. But you fought and fought, and turned from weak to strong and conquered all odds. I had never seen a hamster do that ever in my life. And you even ended up living another 1.5 years. Talk about being a warrior!

I know that your time has come to leave this earth and that God has chosen you to be his special little angel in heaven. In fact, you'll be God's little hamster angel, isn't that cute? At least I know that one day, I'll see you again in heaven and that we'll be together again. That's something to look forward to isn't it?

To be honest, I don't think I've ever cried over the death of a pet before, so the fact that I'm crying over losing you Ollie, definitely means you have a special place in my heart. You were a great friend to me, more than I could ever ask more, and I wish that I took better care of you back then. I'll miss you a lot. <3 All the best Ollie, God Bless!

Love your beloved owner and friend,
Ange <3

R.I.P Ollie; September 20, 2012. <3

09.14.12.

Gorgeous eh? It's from my dance photoshoot today at the park. Basically, the photography students partnered up with the dancers and we had a field trip to a park downtown to do a photoshoot. It was a lot of fun posing and all, and a great experience too. And of course, each time you get a chance to do a photoshoot, you get better at posing too. Some of the girls in my class are so photogenic because they've had so much experience with it. The above is just a sampler of the rest of the shots we took today, but I'll have to wait for the rest to come out before I get to order them and then upload them onto social media sites and such. This one was taken for me on my own camera, so I'm okay.

Aside from that, this week has been pretty good, despite my lack of time to do devos and such. I should really get on that, because as I have been telling others, if you want to spend time with God, you will find time and make time for Him.

I'm excited for fellowship tonight, because it's Team Games night! I need to remember to get my waiver forms signed for tonight too. Don't want to be stuck inside when all the other groups are going out for cell group night! I hope the retreat centres reply soon...it's been a few days since I've sent them an email. Fingers crossed for that, as we need to start planning for retreat soon even though it's only September.

Sunday looks like it's going to be a good day. I have all my arts class (dance, piano) that day, and I also have to teach a dance class as well. That'll be fun, because although I've taught those kids before, this is the first year I'm making them do an acro dance, and more than one dance as well. We're going to a senior's home to perform in November, so I'm really excited! Hopefully things will all go well during practice and turn out right.

Migraines have been on and off for the past few days, but I think it's been better today. Maybe it's Friday and my mentality's different, maybe not, I'm not sure. But feeling better is always a good thing, because it means I can get more done after school and be more productive.

Today's post is so long, ahhh. I think I'll stop typing now. Toodles!

09.11.12

I realize today's 9/11. If you're reading this post, please stop and take a moment to pray for the people impacted by the 9/11 incident twelve years ago. Pray for those who are survivors but broken inside still, and for those who have lost family or friends in the incident.So, go pray now.

Thanks, I really do appreciate it, and I'm sure the people you just prayed for did too.

Updates. My new laptop finally came, and everything's all nice and set up now. It feels so good to be typing on this keyboard...feels almost like I'm typing on a Mac, even though I'm not. I like how it has built in webcam too, so that I don't have to go through the hassle of connecting one to the USB port in my computer anymore.

The migraines have been coming back lately. It's been...my 3rd day of migraine-ing now? It sucks because it's a kind of throbbing pain, which hurts but still allows me to do my daily tasks (e.g. homework, practice piano, dance), to an extent. Please pray for me, because the meds haven't really been working either. The thing is too, that the migraines come on and off...and so usually I get a few hours a day where my head doesn't hurt at all. Strange eh? I'm gonna go for a nap now too after this post, and see if that helps.

God has been giving me opportunities to talk about Him at school too. Just today, during lunch, I was sitting with a new girl at my church, along with another Christian girl, and a Muslim one. The Muslim girl didn't really believe in what her religion/culture made her believe though, which was strange, so we kind of talked about that for a bit, and also suggested the idea of coming to fellowship on Friday night just to check it out and see how it's different and stuff. She said she'll get back to us after asking her parents, but I have hope, and I'll be praying too! Fingers crossed!

Alright, I think this post is as long as it needs to be for today. Post again soon!

09.06.12

Oh hello September, I didn't know you came that quickly.

Well, school is okay for now. I mean, homework is moderate, so it's manageable and all. Schedule is iffy, so hopefully I'll get a trip to guidance tomorrow. Praying for a good guidance counsellor too. Really need it, because I want to add a course and whether I get that course or not really matters right now. At least my teachers are nice this semester, which is good. Too bad good teachers doesn't necessarily mean good schedule. Sigh.

Tomorrow is Niner Night at felly! I'm so excited, but again, I think we overdid it a bit. Hope we won't scare the nines away, oh dear. Looking forward to my Menchies date tomorrow after school, as well as my DG meeting, which we've now named ourselves GAG (Girls after God) ! Talk about a weird name, don't you think?

Preliminary retreat planning has already started. I can't believe everything's coming at me so quickly, this is crazy! But I do feel like this is in God's plan and so He I should be glorifying him while doing all this. I'm actually really excited for this year's retreat too, because we have a campsite established rather early this year so hopefully we'll be able to plan more things and just hype up the place even more! Hyping together with the Holy Spirit of course though, because ultimately, that's what breaks and changes people.

Another headache is on its way. It seems to be a typical occurrence every night now. I guess that means I should stop writing and go to bed soon. Alright, better listen to my body then, goodnight!