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Name: carissa
Birthday: 1/29/1990
Gender: Female
Interests: music, guitar, my [totally awesome] boyfriend austin, God, office supplies (staples, glue, paper clips, safetypins), music videos, phantom of the opera, nightmare before christmas, anything shiney on the ground, and why people are so stupid sometimes.
Expertise: music videos
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  krazipunkgrl90
AIM:  Xradiantcurls15X
Member Since:
1/31/2004
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| - Eulogy R.I.P. carissa lea's xanga, age: 540 days old. birthday: January 31, 2004 death day: July 24, 2005
yes, that's right, folks. this is my last xanga entry, most likely ever. however, i won't be deleting my xanga, for there are too many precious memories to delete. (ex. Fioni, that stinkin' bird!!!!!! and the truth or dare at ash's old house in red oak. oh, and that whole entry about a certain part of my body.... hah, good times, goooooood times.)
i feel like i should leave with something profound....... ah, i got nothin'. if any of you want to reach me, e-mail me, and for those of you where my e-mail is blocked, try xnancyxdrewx@hotmail.com. also, i will keep my myspace up (www.myspace.com/dyingXtolive) and alive. if any of you care to check out my loverly pictures, please do so.
"Good-bye, sianara, they are tired, write the eulogy..."
live in Christ, remember to be humble, be excellent, and PARTY ON, DUDES!!!
peace 'n teeth,
©arissa Lea | | |
| - A New Hope Jennifer and I took a walk to the cemetery down the road from her house this morning. We took some very cool pictures, but alas, I am unable to show them to you, since I am on her computer right now, the one that does not have the pictures saved on them. Despite the fact that I can't share the pictures with you, I still have something else that I'd like to share:
"It is better to have respect than good perfume. The day of death is better than the day of birth. It is better to go to a funeral than a party. We all must die, and everyone living should think about this. Sorrow is better than laughter, and sadness has a good influence on you. A wise person thinks about death, but a fool only thinks about having a good time." --Ecclesiastes 7:1-4
"Some of you say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to some city. We will stay there a year, do business, and make money.' But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away." --James 4:13-14
"People have only a few useless days of life on the earth; their short life passes like a shadow. Who knows what is best for them while they live? Who can tell them what the future will bring?" --Ecclesiastes 6:12
"The living know they will die, but the dead know nothing. Dead people have no more reward, and people forget them. After people are dead, they can no longer love or hate or envy. They will never again share in what happens here on earth." --Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
but...
"So you should say, 'If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that.'" James 4:15
"But God's mercy is very great, and he loved us very much. Though we were spiritually dead because of the things we did against God, he gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God's grave." --Ephesians 2:4-5
and finally....
"Praise be to the God and Father of ou Lord Jesus Christ. In God's great mercy he has caused us to be born again into a living hope, because Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Now we hope for the blessings God has for his children. These blessings, which cannot be destroyed or be spoiled or lose their beauty, are kept in heaven for you." --1 Peter 1:3-4
The End is near, my frineds....
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| <--- YEah, check o/ that gorgeous pic of jen and i!  aren't we just irresistable? lol. TFK's new CD is awesome. definitely worth buying. oh, and i got a myspace. 'tis www.myspace.com/dyingXtolive so if u love me, go check it o/. there are lots of beautiful pix.
just a heads up, this will probably be my last week of blogging. you see, i can get online all i want here at jen's, but at my house, my mom doesn't know i have a xanga (or a myspace for that matter). and i know she wouldn't want me having one, so.... also, not to mention, once school starts again, i won't have that much time to blog here. last year, i really didn't have enough time to blog here, but i did it anyway and that's why i cheated on a lot of my school work.  i don't want to cheat anymore, and i didn't want to cheat all the previous times, but this time is different. this time, it isn't because i'm afraid of getting caught, or i feel like a complete lamewad because i'm being so lazy and i COULD study, but i make time for xanga and worthless things like that instead. this time, 'tis because i want to be made excellent in Christ's presence. i want to be conformed by Him. (i always used to hate the word "conform" and the mear mention of it made me run away screaming. i didn't want to be conformed by ANYBODY. but now... well, if anyone's going to conform me, Christ's would be an awesome image to be changed into.) and i'm exhausted of having meaningless things---everything from cheating, to my music, to xanga---get in the way of that excellence.
however, the week's not over yet, and i do have several more days for blogging. so for those of you who wish to bid my xanga sianara, then do so. pay your final respects.  and most of you know where to reach me anyways.
peace 'n teeth,
carissa | | |
| hello from Snapple... or, Missouri, where ever. so, who's psyched o/ beyond belief about TFK's new CD coming o/ tomorrow?!?!?!?! *raises hand* ooh ooh, meee meee!!!!!!
anyways, like i said earlier, i'm in misery w/ jennifer right now, which is where i'll be until sunday. jen's house is very nice, ich liebe es. and her family always does a good job at making me feel welcome. i know this sounds mean, but.... i'm kind of glad to be away from my family. not like my family's so horrible and i don't like them. quite the contrary, i love 'em to pieces. 'twas just... kind of exhausting for me to be around them. i can't explain it any other way, other than that i'm discovering that while i am called to love everyone, i have several "I love you, but..." situations in my life. "I love you, but you're not too bright," "I love you, but you scare me," "I love you, but i'm really upset with you right now," "I love you, but i just don't want to be around you." and so on. i don't know... i just know that while God wants me to love everyone, He doesn't hold it against me if i don't exactly like someone.
does that make sense? i'm sure i sound like snob. oh well. i guess that's all i have to say.
carissa
ps-ooh, my xanga is 534 days old, WHAT NOW?!?!?!  | | |
| gutentag. I am in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the moment, where I'll be until Sunday. Sunday, i am going to Jennifer's house in Misery (Missouri). so... if i don't show up anywhere where i'm supposed to for a while, that's why. i'll be back the 24th.
if y'all would pray for me and my family, that would be much appreciated. andy's said before that the best place you can be a witness is in your own home and family. 'tis so true. not to mention, since i'm kind of sleepish from traveling, my soul is weak and my flesh seems to dominate my mind. some of you may know what i'm talking about, and some of you may not. regardless, would you plz just pray for me? thank you.
in other news (breaking, i might add [LOVE YOU, JEN, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU!!!]), austin got back from camp today. i always hate saying that i miss him, because then i think about ladies' husbands that are off fighting in Iraq and how they won't be able to see them in a loooong time, and here i am being a pansey and complaining that i won't get to see my boyfriend for a few more weeks. but i can't lie: i miss him like crazy. i can go w/o seeing him for quite some time, but not talking to him is what drives me nuts. anyways... so if y'all could pray about that too... *thumbs up* thanks.
ooh, yesterday WAS SO AWESOME!!! shannon took me to marble slab in hachie, the new one. mmm! we talked and laughed and prayed there for a while, and then she asked me where else we could go. and, i swear, that girl needs to get out of my head, she asked if we could go to the square. i love the square. old downtown hachie is my favorite place. (more specifically, the library is my favorite place in hachie.) so we went there and found this awesome coffee shop/art cafe called Insomnia. i have to take austin there sometime. (altho "taking" him there might be kind of hard, since how neither of us can drive.) ich liebe es. and then we went to the bead barn. jeezaloo, i never thought there would be so many beads in the world, lol.  but 'twas still a very gnarly place. after that, we went across the street (a very dangerous business) to the mosaic madness store. we didn't make anything since how we were kinda pressed for time, but there so many cool things there. and then she took me home. shannon is awesome, i miss her so much already.
you know, 'tis fooney. when i left for camp, i didn't really know the people in my youth group very well, and to be honest, i didn't have much of a desire to. no offense to anybody, i was just a snotty twit like that before Christ began conforming me. and then when we came home, there was this guy at the church (for those of you who were there sunday night, he was the guy who got married) and he said something along the lines of, "...The individuals are starting to fade and the group is starting to form." i was like, "EXACTLY!!! dude, did u spy on us at camp or something?" lol. but i miss everyone from camp.  another cool thing about this week was that i've gotten to know some of the kids in the junior high better.
one last reflection, and i'll be done, i promise: 'tis a lot easier to love people when you realize that they can be put in two groups. those groups are, brothers and sisters in Christ, and those who need Christ.
THERE'S CLING-ONS ON THE STARBOARD BOW!!! 
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