SHE GOT ABDUCTED BY ALIENS!!!!!!.....Ok maybe not...Anywho this is and and don't worry we have permission to be here this is a special request by Okami.

She wants everyone to know she is leaving Deviantart, sadly for good, she is leaving for some personal reason she requested us not to say, but then again she has had a good, what? three years on this site. Anyway Kiku's mouse sux...umm yeah I'm writing this journal and mine hasn't been updated for about a month We'll miss you Ooky.

...I'll beat you up"

Quote courtesy ala ~Kitsune-Klepto from our phone conversation last night while I was packing.

So today's the day. Have to be at the church by 6:30 am to get ready for our big 10.5 hour trip. Ooh, this is going to be interesting...I WILL BE GONE TODAY THROUGH THE TWENTY-FIRST!
Sunday we're going to see the mountains, one of the most magnificent and humbling things of all God's creation, in my opinion. I, myself, have never seen mountains up close, so this is something amazing for me to be doing first-handedly.
Then on Monday we're going white river rafting. That too will be a new experience.

Christ in Youth is very life changing! When I went to CIY'05 I came to faith there and got baptised a week later (7/31/05) And we as a youth group have been praying over this for many weeks now. That we will become one as a group, that whatever crap we might have had between us before would break away as we worship God together in body and spirit.
The theme this year is "ONES". Ever since I heard of it some time ago I got riled up! Now it's here, and it's going to be amazing. I've got my new Bible and a notebook (the one ~Kiku-Okassu gave me for my 15 birthday, that I was going to use at CIY'06, bfore I broke my foot, that is) So I saved it for now! It's coming with me and prayers and encounters and notes will be jotted in it

For the trip down I am bringing my iPod, I had to delete some things on there (mainly anime songs) because it has to be strictly Christian music, which is 98% of what I listen to anyways. There's no way I'm going ten hours without music while driving. You'd have to seriously be joking or something. Plus I'll have my iBible if I want to do my daily study on the way down ~

Speaking of which, here, you guys can have what I'll be studying in my time to myself over the next week:

7/14: Mark 6:1-13
7/15: Matthew 10:16-42
7/16: Mark 6:14-29
7/17: Matthew 14:13-36
7/18: John 6:22-40
7/19: John 6:41-71
7/20: Mark 7:1-37
7/21: Matthew 15:32-16:12

I know, pretty big lessons for each day, huh? But let me tell you, this DRP (Daily Reading Plan) really gets you connected to the Bible, and helps you to gain a regular habit of reading God's Word I would love to hear from you if you actually take the time to do each lesson every day! It would make me happy!

I'm bringing two books for recreation. .hack//Another Birth vol. 4//QUARANTINE_ (Seriously, why did they split the original 3 novels and make it into four? I understand the whole "to make it go along with the games" but half of the first freakin' novel was the beginning of Mutation! It just doesn't make sense. At all.) And I bought alongside that, Thr3e by Tod Dekker. Christian Horror/Mystery/Suspense FTW! "Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your greatest enemy." Ooh man!

In other news, [SQUAREDANCING!!!!] the Seventeenth is ~Kitsune-Klepto's SIXTEENTH Birthday!!!! Go give her lots of love and Birthday Spam on her page for me! (it's a yearly tradition ) YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION, NOW GO! *pushes you over to her page* Come back when you're done so you can finish reading!

I hope everyone has a safe week. God bless you, everyone, be safe!



[PS] A little birdie *coughMothercough* told me that a certain other birdie *coughYouthMinisterNathancough* told her that Tennessee CIY has no Air Conditioning...so uhhh...something to keep in your prayers for the next week, 'cause it'll be all 80s and 90s next week down there. You don't want to be getting news that Okami-chan has been made a french fry, do you? LOL. No, Seriously. 8D

Books. Oh the wonderful love that is our local Walden Books.

I Bought:
New Living Translation Life Application Study Bible [Personal Size, Hardcover]
Dragon Drive vol. 1
MAR vols. 12-14

Yep, I have some reading to do.

That Bible has so much information in it, more than anything any of my other study Bibles have given me. Key verse, key places, key people, timelines, dates, maps, data on people and a whole lot more. It's amazing!

Okay, so I'm sitting in the manga section (Yes, I sit when I'm looking for specific manga) And here I am, la-de-da, looking for MAR...which actually isn't hard to find anymore, given it's become more than 5 manga XD To the left of MAR, "a yaoi novel", on the shelf above, "a yaoi novel", and to the shelf next to me, which I also looked at while finding the series, "A yaoi novel". (keep in mind they completely revamped the manga section since the last time I was in there, thus the reason why I had to search for the series in the first place)
WHEN DID ALL THESE YAOI SERIES SUDDENLY POP UP?! They weren't there before...and I was quite amazed that they didn't have them bagged. [most maturer manga they put a bag-like cover on to shield from children and younger viewers; I mean, c'mon, Naruto is right there!] It just...bothers me some. Children don't need to see that sort of thing.

THE KIDS, THINK OF THE KIDS!!! Stupid society


I almost got volume 10 of DeathNote; but as I was carrying my stack of books to the register, I passed by a small side-rack with manga that said "Buy 3 VIZ manga, get the 4th free!" It uh...it distracted me. I sideglanced at it as I passed. But then I stopped, turned, and went back. I had seen what looked like two familiar faces, faces I'd seen in an anime but never as a manga, but to top it all off, I'd caught a glimpse of what had appeared to read "Dragon" as I was in passing. So I had to look. Was it what I thought it was? Yes! Volume one of Dragon Drive, and to top it off the last one there.
Just days ago I was talking to a good online friend of mine and she had mentioned that her D.D. mangas had just arrived in the mail. I had no idea there was a manga! So then to see it in stores...ah, love.
I ran over to the first area of manga. (We have two areas seperated by a bookself, and then a third area on the back of the bookself where "N/M/O/P"(or so) manga are) I had to see if they had any other copies of vol. 1 because the one that I had found had a sticker on it promoting the VIZ manga sale that was going on. To no avail. All there was were copies of volume two.
Okay, I was okay with that. I put the volume of DeathNote I was about to buy back in place where I found it. [they had some DeathNote 1-12 placed in a shelf of it's own next to the first area]
And thus, I had in my hands a stack of books that would soon be mine, and are now; and those are that shown in the list above

Next to buy Manga-wise is volume 1-4, 10-12 of Deathnote. After them, volume 15 of MAR. Then I'll have more completed series, yay!

I saw Sim City for the DS! Oh my gosh, I MUST HAVE IT! XDDD We have Sim City 2000 for the computer and that rocked. Must have, must have, must have!

I've got a new orange kitten, Junior. He's adorable, and I'm sure you will soon see pictures of him!

7/7/07 tomorrow! I'll be uploading then

Until then ~
God bless and have an awesome day.
This has been ~Okami-Youkai, over and out