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Name: Annie
Country: Canada
Birthday: 4/11/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: working hard, playing hard, living life to the fullest, eating to the fullest, smiling as wide as possible, cats, dogs, ALIAS, sociology, people, listening to music, enjoying other ppl's talents, getting to kno YOU better, talking til my head hurts, being challenged, working through insecurities, becoming more internationally experianced, learning about different cultures, dancing, and always having a good time ^-^
Expertise: eating, looking (but not being) athletic, 2nd basemen, being aggressive on the court, harmonica ownage, throwing my head back while laughing, BEING LATE, loving food, loving animals, CANADIAN EXPERTISE, being goofy, being overbearingly overenthusiastic, working on my xanga while I should be doing hw....
Occupation: Student
Industry: Business
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Member Since:
3/17/2003
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| Not worrying can be worrisome...Yesterday I was having "one of those days".
Now that there's only three weeks of my "senior year" left (I'm actually not graduating until December, but I'm going to vicariously live through other seniors to experience the end-of-year hype), I've decided that I'm going to try to have as much fun as possible, which involves worrying as little as possible. Yesterday I thought a day of eating and shopping would be fun, so after class in the morning, a quick nap, Tiff and I walk to our favorite restaurant on the drag, Madam Maam's. When I try to pay for my meal, my card gets denied, twice. You know those moments on TV where someone's card gets denied and everyone in the restaurant gasps and the main character is really embarrassed? Well... that did NOT happen, but it was a little weird. I thought maybe my parents were punishing me for something that I didn't do and decided to take away access to my bank account. But they can't be that cruel right? Cause then that would mean no food, no shopping, no gas, no 6th, aka no fun. I call my mom and upon investigation into the matter finds that I'm at -$22 in my account!  I've never been under before...
Anyways we get into this heated conversation about how much money I've been spending and the reason for my insufficient funds, but I remind her that I had to pay for the NY missions trip and that took a large chunk of that month's budget, and I ended the conversation by exclaiming, "it's the end of year and I"m just trying to have some fun!" I think I must have shocked her a little with the brattiness of my answer and after a moment of silence said "okay...". I got off the phone and smiled at Tiff, "I'm glad my mom sees my point of view". 
Weird morning right? Well THEN when we get in the car to go shopping, my car's gearshift gets stuck! Sometimes it does this, but usually with a couple pumps to the brake it eventually gives away to my persuasion and the gearshift will move. Rhis time it was exceptionally stubborn and I was stuck in Kimmy's parking lot for while. Is this a sign that I shouldn't go shopping? Hmm.. probably not. In the midst of my frustrations, Tiffany reminds me that I'm having "one of those days", the days I used to have where I'd lose my wallet, phone, and ID at different times throughout the day. Soon after some awesome guy showed me that there was a keyhole next to my gear that allowed to me "unlock" my gearshift and we're off!
My mom adds another $200 in my account and true to my word, I go shopping and I end up spending $173, which only leaves $27 in my account. She calls me later that evening to yell a little more. But I assure her that I can live on $27 until the end of this month. It's only 2 more days.. the 29th and then the 30th, no worries. But then this morning, she calls me again because the bank took out an additional $25 for insufficient funds from before. Awesome, so now I only have $2 to live on for two days.
This makes me think of the last passage we did in our small group:
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:34
And my latest phrase of the moment:
"small potatoes".
While we're at it, I'm going to list some other things I'm NOT going to worry about:
- Canadian passport renewal for Kenya trip
- 3 tests next week
- Rockets
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