We made it! Today Stacie and I are off our “diet”! And what better day
could it be than the day we are greeted with grits and cheese for
breakfast! Sorry, I get excited about grits. It’s been a month since we
ate any dairy, starch or carbohydrate (except for ice cream once a week
) The reason we started this
diet was sort of a group thing with the nutrition class (ah! peer
pressure!) and I just wanted to see exactly what it would do to my
body, being in a generally healthy state to begin with – praise God!
Well it totally sapped my energy for the first two weeks, then when I
started adding rice and oats things picked up a little and jogging
wasn’t so hard. My soccer game has suffered with the lowered energy 
so
I’m looking forward to gaining that back, and I feel like I’ve been in
my room more – though amount of schoolwork might have had more to do
with that.
On the up side I lost a few pounds, felt pretty good (though not
abounding with energy) and found some new foods and ways to eat them
that I would never have come up with outside of desperation 
We’ll
give the comeback a few days to see what kind of difference there will
be, but for the mot part I’m glad to be back to normal!
10-Oct-2005
9-Oct-2005
Yay! Right now we’re conferenced on the phone with my dad in his car,
my family at the house and Lori in Chicago, isn’t that cool?
Dad – “what is your opinion on LCD screens, how well they work and how they last?
Amy – “what”?
Stacie – “we don’t know what that is”
Brian (the techno brother) “snicker”
Dad – “it’s a skinny screen for your computer”
Brian then proceeds to explain the various aspects and workings of LCD.
Why does dad even bother asking us?
7-Oct-2005
Guess what, I got down to lunch and Dr. Castilino comes up and tells me that
the tests are in. So I took them both this afternoon. It took me about
three hours total.
Being Dantes I don’t know how I did, but God be praised, my brain
didn’t fuzz out on the second test and my speech topic was one that I
had some prior knowledge on. God gave me a nice little outline
complete with an example that touched all three points. I didn’t give
it as well as I wanted, I think I sounded pretty nervous, but at least
I had an idea of what I wanted to say. I feel very relieved now that
it’s all over, and provided I pass, I’ll never have to go back into the
testing center again!
7-Oct-2005
Well my tests haven’t come in yet, so I still haven’t taken them. It’s kind of nerve-wracking 
just waiting and not knowing when I’ll be called up to take them. I did
get to talk to mom on the phone last night as I was going over speech
topics and she helped me with lots of info and ideas, she’s so smart
and keeps herself informed with current events!
Also a wave of homesickness has come over me. 
I don’t know why except maybe because I’ve only been home for two weeks
since Feb. Rather than flounder in the surf, I need God’s grace to get
up on my “board” and ride this wave out, all the way to the end.
5-Oct-2005
Would you all please pray, I have a test tomorrow, and then another on Friday. I’m worried about Friday’s test – public speaking – please pray that the topic I get will be one that I know ssomething about and that I will be able to honor God’s precepts. I’ve also got a lot of other work to complete so I’m a wee bit stressed.
