Hello

Hey there, blog. So, I haven't written in a while. Sorry about that. I guess I've just been going through a bit of a crazy time personally, and haven't really felt like writing on here, so yeah. How's life? I swear I will post something longer than this and a lot more interesting soon... Have a lovely day and a beautiful life :-) And a less emotional month than I've been having. Adieu, xx.
Abbey

Spainnn

Sooooo here I am! Sorry I haven't been keeping up very well on here. Spain is loverly. It has suddenl;y warmed up to a ridiculous extend. I am boiling over. we have been having a pretty intense outreach, especially spiritually. Yesterday we spent the day praying and worshipping etc. in Alburquerque, about an hour and 15 minutes from Caceres, where we are staying. We found out after getting there that every year the have a Rennaissance fair, at which they make sacrifices to Satan... The last one was just last August. Wow. Heavy. Me and a few others on the team really felt the spirits of the area intensly. I was grumpy and frustrated with everything, even though the topwn was sooo beautiful, even though my team is great and I am blessed beyond my imagination. Seriously, I am in Spain, in the beautiful sun, with people that I adore, hanging out in castle ruins that overlook several miles of the gorgeous Spanish countryside. What right do I have to be grumpy or frustrated? So on the way home in the evening I prayed for a team mate and I, that the spirits of Alburquerque would leave us, and stay behind because they have no rights to us. We are protected by the creator of the earth, and the devil and his spirits have no hold whatsoever on us. It was a quick prayer, but suddenly the crushing headache that I had had all afternoon was just gone, and my friend who had previously been really upset and frustrated suddenly felt happy. I LOVE JESUS. Seriously, being a Christian is the best. It is soooo wonderful. My God is soo faithful to all of his children. If only we could recognize this more often... I wish that I was better at seeing Him in my every day life. I am definitely going to be working on that. *sigh* God is soo good. Seriously, if anyone wants to ask me about my beliefs or whatever, I would love to chat. Time to go I am afraid. Later :-)

Abibi

In Spain!

I am in Spain! Yeah! It's beautiful, and warm. Well, right now it is. Yesterday morning was FREEZING. I almost died. I am at the cafe right now :-) I like very much. What I don't like, is my mind right now. It won't stop working, and it's really annoying. I am seriously confused about some stuff at the moment, and I just can't stop thinking about them! I need to make some decisions about stuff and I just can't do it. My mind isn't working the right way, it's working, just not well. RAH! I don't know what to do with myself. I wish I just understood everything perfectly. That would be wonderful. I would like that a lot. So yeah, much confusion happening and stuff. Oh life. I love it and can't stand it at the same time. But God will help me :-) He's cool like that. Yeah. Time to go. See ya! Have a good life without me! Or with me, depending on where you live. Yeah. -Abbey

Exuberant Euphoria

My friend Nathan found THE MOST amazing gummy candy ON The planet. They are shaped like mushrooms! You can imagine my feverish excitement when he handed them over, and I realised what they were. I freaked out. And I haven't really stopped. Seriously??? Mushroom shaped sweets??? Who thought of this?! I love them. Whoever they are. I am seriously overjoyed that ASDA makes them. These are some pictures of my rapturous joy.


AND, in other news, I made a very colorful pair of earrings today! How exciting. I know, I'll bet you are keeling over in your fit of glee. I'm pretty happy with them though :-) Next time!

Impulse buy!

Does it really count as an "impulse buy" if it cost less than 5 pounds? Anyhow, I absolutely fell in love with these socks at Accessorize, and couldn't stop myself! if fact, I kinda want to go back and buy ten more pairs and wear them every day.

Lovelovelove.

Book Review! Sort of...

Hello blog! So, as you will know if you have ever talked to me, I am an obsessive, intrinsic reader. Books are my adoration. They are half the reason to be alive. Okay, maybe that's a little over dramatic. But nearly true :-)

A few years back, on the Facebook app Visual Bookshelf they were advertising this book that you could read online, City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare. I looked at it a bunch of times, but it didn't really look that interesting. One day, however, I, being very bored, was browsing Visual Bookshelf once again, when the ad came up. I thought, "what the heck, I'm super bored and I can always stop reading if it's lame." BUT, to my great surprise, it turned out to be one of the most fantastic books I had read in a very long time. After City of Bones are City of Ashes and City of Glass, but unfortunately those were not online. I slowly forgot about them (since I had no money to buy them, and our libraries here are fairly intolerable), until this summer. When I was home I found them at my home library, and was overjoyed! Unfortunate

ly I only made it halfway through the second book by the time I had to come back here, and so returned them

to their rightful owner. But, this time I got back, and DID have a bit of money. So I finally bought them! I am so very excited. I finished up the second book very fast, and am now about halfway through the third. I could have finished it long since, but I'm trying to drag it out as long as I possibly can, since the next book in the series doesn't come out until April.

Anyhow, all those details were probably fairly unneeded! All you really needed to know is, hey! I found a great book series! Onto the books themselves.

16 year old Clary Fray of New York finds out that she is by birth the daughter of the most fiendish and powerful villain of the unseen world of the Nephilim. She is thrown into the deep end of a world she never knew existed right in her own city, when her mother is suddenly abducted by her malicious father, Valentine. Clary is stunned and disoriented as she's thrust into the world that should have been her home.

Since, of course, there is always some mysterious and gorgeous boy involved, Jace Wayland is a (deservedly) overconfident, multi-talented and yes, breathtaking 17 year old Shadowhunter (the more common word for Nephilim. They are demon hunters by trade). With crazy surprises, mad twists and amazingly 3D characters, I find this series very hard to put down. I would highly recommend the Mortal Instruments series. It is definitely written for young adults, but I think that some older crowds would enjoy them as well.

(*By the way, these books are not at all biblically accurate in the way of the Nephilim and Angels, etc, so in order to read them you have to make sure to step back and look at it as strictly fiction, not any kind of commentary on Angels or whatever. It is pedantically entertainment)

SO yes! Sorry if this was a boring blog post, I, at least, had fun writing it :-) Hope you are having an amazing New Year!! Adieu, adieu adieu.

2010. MMX. deux-mille dix. Adieu! (Part 2)

Part 2 : highlights of 2010
(part one is down below↴)



Crashing a wedding in a cave church ;

Seeing Morte d'Arthur by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford;

Going to Egypt! Highlight for 2010? Really?... ehh... YEAH! ;

Halleckts's 20th birthday party - Catan theme ;

Seeing good friends I met in England, and haven't seen for years!;

Dying my hair blond. And taking crazy pictures while it was still setting. ;

And being in Spain with these amazing people! ;

Wow, 2010 really was a crazy year. In 2010 alone, I was in Spain, Portugal, Belgium, England, Egypt, the USA, and Canada. That's madness! I seriously don't even know how that all happened in one year! Overall, it has been a wonderful year. This last year I have made some of the best friends ever, learned more than ever about myself, visited home and seen people I only dream of visiting the rest of the year, four-wheeled across an Egyptian desert, stood in the middle of the Grand Place of Brussels watching the pale snow settling on the lacy shells of the breathtaking buildings, witnessed an awe-inspiring Portuguese sunset, swam in the Red Sea, climbed a pyramid, ridden a camel, and had the time of my life. My biggest regret for the year is that I couldn't have more of the people that I love around me through it all. I still thoroughly miss all of my extra family at home, and wish they could all be here with me. Every experience is multiplied a thousand-fold when shared with someone you love. That isn't to say that I didn't have ANYONE I loved with me, I did have plenty of loved ones with me all year. I just wish I could be selfish and keep all of my loves with me. Ah me, words for the last year;

Exciting

Scary

Wonderful

Dramatic

Liberating

Tempestuous

Artistic

Entertaining

Adventurous

Sorrowful

Marvelous

Literary

Transforming