I whistle a happy tune/so no one will suspect/I'm afraid

YES!!!!! I'm VERY EXTREMELY hyper and random right now! If I calm down I'll type in that part about joy. But first I thought I'd share something funny that happened at Creation.
Ok, so we saw Hawk Nelson on Thursday the 27th at Creation. (!!!!!!!) I was very excited because I LOVE Hawk Nelson. Long story short, they rocked, were awesome, and then we got to go into this tent and get their autographs! Anyway, you wait in this loooooong line for a while that goes around the back of the tent, and when we got up towards the front and came around the corner...
Ok, I forgot to mention that the lead singer (Jason) was wearing a suit. Yes, a full suit with the coat on a 100+ degree day. So he explained that the bass player had offered him $5 American money (they're from Canada so it's worth more) to wear the suit for the whole show. He took off the jacket during the middle and was like "I don't feel like dying today." He really looked like he was gonna faint or get heatstroke or something.
...So, we come around the corner of the tent and go into the entrance where they have these tables lined up where they are signing, and I saw him as we were coming in, still looking overheated. So I remark, "He still looks really hot."
And my dad's like WHAT?!? 'cause we don't really use that word to describe boys. I, of course being my blond self didn't get what I had said, so I said "He looks really hot!" Then I got it and started blushing and I felt so stupid! Thank goodness he didn't hear it!
Then this morning we went to church. You know when you're playing true or false and you get asked what's the most embarassing thing that's ever happened to you? Ok, I'm not very daring, so nothing extremely embarassing has ever happened to me. The occasional thing like my parents showing my baby bath pics to friends (esp. male family friends - I hate that!), but nothing serious.
So I have lots of odd jobs during the week/month, and every week my tithe turns out to not be a nice round number, but something with lots of change. Always. And it's not normally a problem.
So I put it in the outside pocket (non-zipping) of my Bible cover so I'm not hauling around a bunch of change in my hand or anything. Seems to make sense, right? Except...my pocket isn't a zip-up thing. So today I'm flipping to the page while my pastor is reading through Luke up on stage, and all of a sudden my Bible cover tilts downward and ALL the change falls out. And our chairs are those hook-together kind with the metal in between, and of course most of the change falls on the metal and on each other and makes this huge sound in our very small church.

And I turn, as my mother so eloquently put it, "vermillion red."

Yes, I can laugh about it now (though not without blushing a little :P ), but at the time it was certainly the most embarassing moment of my life! So the pastor looks up, and (he's really funny, he makes jokes, and he's young too, so don't think like 'old grumpy pastor' thing 'fun, joking pastor') he's like, "That was money!"

*deeper blush*

And then he's like, "That was only change...was that for the offering?" And of course my parents and everyone else is cracking up. And my mom decides to help things along by saying -between laughs- "yes it was for the offering!"

Since I couldn't blush any deeper, I thanked God that I was wearing my Indian outfit with a scarf that you wear over your head while you're in church, which I found can be very convenient for hiding behind.

Long story short (or it was actually long wasn't it?) I will no longer not have an embarassing story to share in truth or dare! It wouldn't have been so bad if I wasn't so good at blushing at even the tiniest embarassing things! But oh well, let me know how to thank God for that!

What on earth am I missing/what is it that I don't see?
All of Heaven is falling all around me/And I am drowning in the mystery of your love/All the universe can't contain your beauty/You come alive in me, you come alive...

Saw the King and I at a theater near us last night! It was soooo awesome! Esp. considering the really really really cute guy that played Tuptim's lover Lun Tha. *gets dreamy look and can't help that helpless giggle girls get over cute guys* :) * * (that's supposed to be a starry-eyed smily, but I can't get a smily so it's more of a line, sorry.)
Anyway, I also had a GREAT view of the pianist! And his tremolas....they were absolutely inspiring! I need to put some of that into my music...
So the guy who played the King, he's played it in two other productions at different theatres before, and it showed. He was so good! And the voices! The singing was incredible!
All-in-all, it was great. I really enjoyed it. Plus we went with my grandparents, and beforehand we got to go to dinner at this Indian restaurant, and I got my chicken tikka that I've been craving for two weeks now, and chai that was to DIE FOR!!! And really good papadum (just skim over this part and finish it knowing that it was all really good!) and naan! And the allu samosa! Not to mention the ghosh (lamb) biryani my dad got and the chicken biryani my mom got... *in heaven*
And we topped it all off with gulab jamun, which is a hot dessert that is like a dumpling sort of thing in a really sweet syrup...flavored with spices. I'm not sure how they make it, but it's really good!
And if you were actually interested in the other foods I'd be happy to describe them to all y'all. :)
Soooo, I'm really tired of hitting the backspace button every three words, and I think I'll save that joy bit until tomorrow. Just remeber, Be Joyful!!!!!!!!
*finishes up with a random song lyric that she can't decide on just yet*
So, another long post. I hope you all make it!
~Verya