Ok, so this weekend I went to Dare 2 Share w/ my friends' youth group from Grace Brethren. This thing was INCREDIBLE!!! I don't think I've ever come home from a conference or retreat feeling so challenged and feeling as though God had really opened up and shown me some things that I had never seen before. God is so incredibly amazing. I realized that I need to "lose" myself in God and totally turn my whole entire life over to Him so He can lead me and show me where I need to be headed in my life. I've become a "loser" and totally committed myself to God. I want to "lose" myself and get "lost" in Him and all the wonder and awe. God really opened my eyes this weekend to a lot of opportunities of things that I hadn't seen before. I once was blind, but now I see!!! And that's a totally awesome and incredible feeling!!! Thank you Jesus!!! You're amazing!:) And I even got the opportunity this morning to start on my target for my 48-hour challenge!!! It was amazing as well... I mean, this kid usually isn't even at church and he was there today, so I couldn't help but witness!!! Wow!... And for all the grace people reading this, "Santa stops here, and so does Jesus"... ps- the rest of you just WON'T get it!!!:) haha... All I have to say is that I'm proud to be a LOSER!!! How about you?  

why?

why do i care so much?
why do i let the littlest things bother me so much?
why do i want this to happen and all work out both ways when i know it can't already?
why can't people believe me when i talk about the wavaire issue?
why can't i act stupid and be crazy if i want to?
why do I have to have everyone's opinion when i don't ask for it?
why is it NOT accecptable for me to put my faith in God in front of wavaires/choir?
why am i going to be denied the opportunity to do something i love and have a passion for?

And last:
Why did God put this plain and dry this morning during church when I was half-asleep, but yet i was still able to hear THAT part??
b/c I've finally been given an answer...and I WILL follow through with this!!! It's going to be tough and it's going to be one, if not THE, hardest thing that I've ever had to do....but I'm going to deal with it, through the good, the bad, and the ugly...
why?
b/c this has completely come from God and when I call out to Him for help, and He answers...I better as well follow His lead..even if it seems crazy, and not fun at all(like it does now).
I just have to keep this verse in mind throughout all of this:
Jer. 29:11- "I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future."

So, for all of you who don't believe me, stop questioning me on this issue and trying to talk me out of something that God has told me to do...instead, Pray for Me!!! It's going to be a long haul and tough to get through...now THAT'S what I'd appreciate!:)

Sometimes God works in mysterious ways, and this, well, this is going to be quite an adventure!

trusting Him fully....

First off, don't these suckers make your mouth water?
(which brings me to this amazing story)

Due to the boredom of yesterday's snow day, my brother, Tyler, and I decided that we were going to treat ourselves to an amazing breakfast. After contemplating about what we should get, we decided on some amazing donuts. Onyl problem being, amazing donuts only exist at Danny's Bakery in a little shop in downtown St Louis. Problem being, the roads were very bad.
Solution to the problem: DUH!!!! Tyler and I decided to run to Wal-Mart and buy some incredible pogo sticks!! I mean, these things had a vertical leap of over 18 feet and a horizontal leap (i guess that's what you'd call it) of over 65 feet. So, basically...these things were incredible! Anyway..we began our 347.23 mile "pogo" run and made it to Danny's in less than 3 hours, which is also fantabulous(which is also not a REAL word by the way, but it SHOULD be!).
Once we arrived, we rushed in and got these amazing donuts(see photo above). They were the best donuts I had ever had in my entire life. I mean the nuts on the top, they had to be Perisian nuts, b/c American nuts just don't taste that amazing! The only downfall to the trip: we had to "pogo" back home to good 'ol greenville, which was difficult due to the fact that we both gorged(i have no idea if that's spelled right?) our sorry little tushies off!
That's ok though...we still made it home in time for dinner!:)

Ok, so...my weekend was FANTABULOUS(i know it's not a word!) thanks to the incredible friend in the pic above with me... for those of you who don't know, this is a picture of me and Matt Huber.. He lives in Columbus and is totally awesome! So, basically...the way we "re-met" was through homecoming, and all of you know that story, so I won't go into details with that!
Anyway...I went to good 'ol Cbus to hang out with him, meet some of his friends...etc...so it was pretty much a rocking time! The day included some shopping at Easton, hanging out for a bit as his house, giving Matt a haircut(that was prolly the highlight of the day!! haha...just kidding...), going to this amazing young adult worship service for his church, and then some good food w/ the families...
hmm...so, funny conversation while in express:
gay express guy worker person: Does he drag you around as your shopping partner?
me: nope, i'm willing i guess.
gay express guy worker person: So, is he your boyfriend then?
me: nope, just a really good friend.
gay express guy worker person: hmm...very interresting...thanks! ...
(later on)
gay express guy worker person: can i help you with anything else?
matt: welp, actually(and then matt asks a bunches of questions)
(gay guy walks away and i tell matt about the earlier conversation)
me: matt, you really shouldn't lead a gay guy on like that!..
matt: oh, it happens a lot..
me: so, gay guys hit on you a lot then?
matt: yep, I guess you could say that!

So...hmm....that was very interresting....I guess though when you write it out it really isn't as funny as it was in person, I guess you had to be there....oh well though...

Welp...I need to split b/c my brother has to get on and he's chompin at the bit...so anyway..with that... I had a great weekend...and I hope that yours was FANTABULOUS(i know it's not a word!) as well! tootle-loo:)

What do you get when you put 3 very attractive teenage girls, 1 venezuelan "stud" and a crawl space together? I'll tell ya...it's one crazy party!:)
So, it's exam week!!! Yeppers....but you know what that means? We get out of school early a lot. So today Susie, Marissa, Eduardo and I went to El Camino for some lunch after exams. Then, we decided to come back to my house and hang out. Somehow, we ended up in my crawl space, where Eduardo turned off the flashlights and blew the candles out. Then, Susie is deathly afraid of spiders, so we kept playing with her hair and telling her there were spiders everywhere. After playing in the crawl space, and Eduardo trying to scare us, although it only worked for Susie, Marissa then proceeded to chasing Susie around my house with an invisible spider. Susie pretty much screamed her head off...and marissa didn't even have anything in her hands. Eduardo just stared in awe and amazement at how stupid all of us girls looked! He's quite the trooper, I would have to say!
All in all, it was a pretty hopping time...who knew that you could have so much fun in a crawl space!:)

So, I would like to say that life is totally FaNtAbULoUs!!(yes I know it's not a word) So, allow the picture above and the story below explain.
(can someone write this down in a book somewhere so it is never forgotten, because I don't think that it will ever happen again in my life..thank you!)

So, this is a picture on me holding my SAR. (aka- my semester grade report)..so, this is why it's so important:
I, Chelsea Lynne Martin, a Junior at Greenville Senior High School, here on this day, the Tenth day of the month of January, of the year two thousand and six, have recieved a "B" on my Chapter 8 and Unit D Chemistry Test.
(ok...so now that you are all in shock b/c you can NOT believe what you just read.....)

Yes...and not only was this a good grade for a single test, but yesterday I had a 79.9% C+ in the class overall. And after today's test, I am now sitting at an 83.7% B. that's right folks, not even a little "-" sign attached to that "B" either...so basically...I'm awesome like that!! (for those of you who don't know- I do get straight "A's" in all my other classes, but for some reason I just really don't understand science, and i never have.) I'm just so excited that I could almost, welp...I dunno...but w/e it is, I'd do that!!!:)

so, now i will depart from you for the day with a word of wisdom:
STUDY!!! (it really helps some of the time)

I'm SO confused!!! i just wish that i could figure this blog thing out b/c it's really starting to stump the crap out of me!!! All I can say is....
I'm just so CONFUSED!!! sigh***

Ok...so I will start off by saying that there will be NO pictures to this post b/c for some reason this thing won't let me post pictures today, so anyway...that being said...moving on....

One thing that I have forgot to tell you since I started this blog (which is prolly sorta relevant b/c it's like my WHOLE life) is the fact that I belong (yes, i said "belong") to a High School show choir called Wavaires. I say this b/c I spend 110% of my time w/ these pple and we have bunches of shows, practices, etc...you get the picture... Anyway... these kids are like my second family.
Why am I telling you this? B/c this is why I have no social life whatsoever!! Yes, really.. when you consider a social event a choir contest...wow...it's just pretty pathetic... take this story from today, for instance...just to see how pathetic my social life is:
So, I got threatened to be grounded today, but my mom dropped it and let my off this time.(praise the Lord!) Out of curiosity, I wanted to see exactly what it was that I was going to be grounded from, so I asked...and she was like, "the only things I could really ground you from would be the computer and your cell phone, b/c other than that, you really never can do anything b/c those are your only 2 forms of socialization w/ ppl outside of wavaires."
Point being made, my mother even realizes the fact that I have no social life, so wow...I am pathetic...stamp it on my forehead why don't ya!...

gosh...i am really not that intersting of a person...hmmm....

we look so awesome and hott in our camo... no one can mess with us!!! that's for sure!!!! we're too cool for school... or I guess, since we dressed to the theme of the basketball game, that would make us, "too cool for the game.".. i dunno...w/e.. point being made... we're just flippin' awesome!:) 

haha 

So, this is my first post!!! And i'm really not too sure how this thing works b/c I am, as most of you know, I huge xanga addict, so this is a bit different, but I can adapt, don't you worry!