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I probably need to post here more. I have been absent from it for 4 months. This has been 4 months of struggle and change. I realize however that I need to draw back to God. I have not attended a church service in 3 months. I am confused about where God fits into my life. I have been living with my parents in Sebastopol for the last 4 months and during this time, I have made many new friends. These friends however do not know God. They pursue to party and have a good time. And I actually have discovered that I love this life too. I have laughed more and had more fun than I have had at home in a long time. My favorite things are karaoke at a local bar on Tuesday nights and Wednesday night poker at friends house in Petaluma. I still feel like something is missing. Is it God? I also have ended a two year 9 month relationship with Brett. We were going off in different directions and I felt like I was being pulled. I was beginning to struggle with staying faithful to him. I felt like a failure. I wanted to be with him in certain aspects, but in other aspects I felt as if our relationship was more of a friendship. long distance can be hard but I realized that this was not the only reason that we were drifting so I told him that I need a break from him and time to clear my head. So I still sit here. Clearing my head and trying to find what is missing. I also have the stress of not having a place to live in Redding. I thought that I had a place locked down but it also failed. So I have to start all over again and school starts in 2 weeks.
:(
Darla

Promotions of a few different things.

I decided not write a blog about myself, but rather promote some projects that are going on around and this cool band that I like.
Well one really cool thing that I personally have been doing is helping out with the Parkview Project in Redding for my Multicultural class, this includes tutoring about once a week afterschool. Even tho they can get on my nerves sometimes, I totally love it and am gonna miss working with them dearly. If you ever get the chance to tutor, you should totally do it.

Also I have been helping with the Stirring Kids since January and I am totally going to miss that too. If you are reading this and you live in Redding and don't go the Stirring. here is the website www.theStirring.org. And if you go to the Stirring, and are gonna be around for the summer, help out with the kids cuz it is way fun. I mean who doesn't love crafts and worshiping God with the kids.

Another thing that I wanna bring up is a project that my friend Will has decided to head up. It is called Help Super-Bat-Spiderman. I know that you are probably wondering who is Super-Bat-Spiderman. Well, his name is Nicolas Eaken and he is 4 years old and has Burkitt's lymphoma and has other physical and mental problems including Autism. His mom is a single mom of 4 boys and they lost their home in Healdsburg, CA (Sonoma County) to toxic mold last year. Nicolas and his mom are at the Ronald McDonald House in Sacramento, but are trying to transition back to Sonoma County. If you wanna help contact my friend, Will Southall, at his myspace http://www.myspace.com/noizemaker or email help_super_bat_spiderman@yahoo.com or call (707) 280-5427 or go to their myspace www.myspace.com/superbatspiderman_batmom.

Well another thing that is not a project at all is my boyfriend's band. They rock! I really think that they do and I am not just saying that cuz I am dating the drummer. They just recorded two tracks with John Miller a few weeks ago and they sound amazing. Go to www.myspace.com/tornkashmere to check them out.
Ok that is all for now folks. Bye Bye.
Darla

Hey hey

So I am not sure if anyone reads these due to the lack of comments in return... so the most recent cool fun stuff was the Myriad concert which was March 15th and Spring Break which was March 20th-30th. So the Myriad concert was freaking amazing!!! It is the best that I have ever heard them play. This is the 3rd concert of theirs that I have been too. And the first on was like almost 3 years ago or at the Stirring. Like way back in the day. HA. Anyways it seems like they are more famous now too considering that I was squished in line to get pictures/ autographs for awhile. Oh and the funniest part was when Brett got stuck under the stage at the concert. So I dropped my purse under the stage and I told Brett to go under the stage and get it and he got stuck and then an usher lady comes up right then... in trouble "uh Oh"... well he got out like 1 minute later but it was still pretty funny. And he didn't get my purse so I had to wait til after. Yay for the Myriad!! WOOT!
So Spring Break was pretty awesome.. my first night, we had a skate night fundraiser in Rohnert Park at Cal Skate for Nicholas who is a 4 year old boy with Burkitt's lymphoma :(. My friend Will knows him. Ben came to the skate night with me and we had fun skating in circles and watching him play DDR. I hope that we raised some money for Nicholas. :/ I am not sure cuz it was a small turn out. After the skate night, Jax and I went to Ben's house to play Rock Band... which was uber fun. I love Rock Band. The only part that I can do is the singing part, but oh well. I still love it.
Friday was church at Hope Chapel for Good Friday... it was pretty cool what Dan had to say about Jesus and stuff. I know I am being vague. But i did like the message. After, I talked some to Jeni C. who I haven't seen in forever. It was good to see her. Then I went to swing dancing! It was really boring at first and then Kevin F. came with friends and we danced and hung out... They invigorated me with energy that I didn't have earlier. Afterwards, we went to Carrow's until 1 am :). I miss times like that with people. It was good to have one again. It was funny Kevin brought up something about interrogating me or something because I am a Christian and then he just dropped it and didn't say anything. I was glad cuz I wasn't looking forward to a theological debate at such a late hour.
Saturday, I hung out with my family. Sunday, was Easter and we went to Chevy's for Easter lunch... my family is random with holidays some times... it wasn't a big deal this year.
Monday was College Group with the cool peoples from Sebastopol Christian Church. It was amazing cuz Brandon gave his testimony. He is so on fire for God now it was great to see and good to talk to him. He is such a different person than he was a few years ago. :)
I also got a new laptop on Monday cuz my dad broke my other one. :(.... Lame I know. ha.
Anywho Tuesday was nothing important... my bro came to visit on Wednesday. I am so proud of him. He is working so hard for the Oakland PD. Also my parents left for Vegas on Wednesday night.... well at midnight on March 27th :P.... On Wednesday, i also hung out with Ben again and we watched some Simpsons and played more Rock Band.
Thursday, I was woken up at 6:30 am by my cat... after going to bed at 1 or 2. :P So I had a major lack of sleep. I went to sushi that morning with Ben after playing some more Rock Band... then after the super good sushi at Tex Wasabi's, we went to the mall.
I was supposed to hang out with Bryce, but I never did. It was disappointing. But I am over it now. :P. I left on Friday for Orland and I hung with Brett. We also went and hung out in Chico on Saturday with Brett's bro and got some new/old stuff from the Pick N Pull for Brett's car. And only half of the stuff worked... then we went and got dinner at Olive Garden... :). And then we hung out at a "concert" that sucked with Justin... hmmm. Sunday was church and then off back to Redding... and this week I have been in Redding... I am getting shorter and shorter... ummm that doesn't make sense. I know. ok. bye. now.

Year of the Rat

I just realized that this blogspot thing informs me that I was born in the Zodiac- "Year of the Rat". I almost forgot. My brother called me 'rat' for about 10 years of my life because of that little fact. I am really glad that he doesn't call me that anymore. It really bothered me when I was little tho. I felt like he was saying that I look like a rat or act like one or am a rat. :( it wasn't fun. So I haven't been very good on keep up on this blog thing. I guess twice a week is better than very rarely like I did on myspace. But by the lack of comments on my last blog... I am assuming that no one is reading my blogs. I really am gonna have to post a bulletin on myspace.
A few things have gone on this week but I don't feel like explaining much. I gave an A+ team teaching presentation in Psych App. in Ed. and I went to Life Group last night and because of Sunday's message, we encouraged people. They didn't get around to Brett and I so we will be next week. Ok well thanks for reading my short ramblings...
later
Darla

This weekend

I still don't know if anyone is reading this blog. I will have to post on myspace again to remind people that I will not blog on myspace anymore unless it is poetry. Kinda nice to have things separate like that. Anyways so this weekend was pretty crazy. On Friday night, we hung out with some people. That was a lot of fun. Well first Jesse, Brett, and I hung out in Brett's room for open dorms and played Risk on Brett's comp. Brett totally won too. But I hung in there til the end. Then we went to Karissa's piano recital and she played beautifully on the piano. So after the recital, we were in H-3 hanging out and I was hanging with Jesse, Brett, Marissa, Katrina, and Melissa (the last 3 are new friends). So we came up with a song that has Jesse's full name cuz his last name is Duda u can probably imagine which song it is. Jesse Alexander Kumar Duda, Duda. Camp town ladies sing this song duda, duda. LOL. We had to wait like 20 minutes after we thought up the song to sing it tho cuz Jesse was blabbering to Mrs. Nichols (the piano professor). Then after the after recital party, Jesse, Brett, and I went back to Brett's room and we were gonna go to the lobby in his dorm, but some guys were playing "My Heart Will Go On" on the recorder and violin. It was very strange. so around 9:30 we went to the student lounge and met with Melissa and Katrina to play Canasta. Which is hard to learn... it took awhile. and then we were losing on the second round so we played king, queen, peon instead which was way more fun. and we joked with Jesse and Melissa about them and PDA which they weren't even touching each other. and Melissa insisted that Jesse had coodies. I haven't seen someone like freak out about a guy touching her since high school. I mean in a normal non-sheltered world-- people have relationships *gasp*... I guess most of the time she was joking but still come on.. it is college here not 3rd grade. so after that we played Scum and Katrina won... They got me out first and then the guys... and then Melissa.
On Saturday, we had the 80's prom in Brett's dorm. The same people I hung out with on Friday were there so that was cool. We rocked it 80's style. And had much fun dancing... oh ya and earlier that day it took me hours to find a $7 dress at a thrift store. lol. Jesse is a really crazy dancer.. like he goes and goes... I dance one song and then I am sitting down. So my hair was crazy crimped and I had these 80's sun glasses and a black dress with poofy sleeves and a bow on the waist. I looked hot. And then Brett wore my clothing. My 80's style Relient K shirt, my pants (that actually fit him), my belt, my studded wristbands, and my silver ball necklace. and then I made his hair all poofed on his head. It looked pretty sweet. Fun fun fun night... It was so funny to see everyone dressed 80's. Some of the guys had on really short shorts... that was really scary... so WRONG! I should post pics on here too... they are already up on myspace and facebook tho. YES! he he.
So today was Sunday... I started feeling kinda sick around 2. But then I had to go to the Stirring Kids at 4. So I went and it was fun being around the kids and I ended up feeling better by the time the Stirring started. I found the message encouraging considering that it was about encouragement. Really tho... Nate called people that are discouraging/negative "adders" and he used his hand like a viper thing with his hand to display this. I was laughing kinda loud, but it was so funny. I am glad that I don't have negative people in my life anymore. I like being around people who like to have fun and/or love God. I like to smile and positive people make me smile. :) yay! ok bye bye.

Darla

ok so today

today, was kind of a typical Thursday were I woke up late and then watched TV and randomly looked at stuff online. I didn't really feel like doing in school work. even tho i probably should. Tomorrow. I guess. So I tried to make steps in the job pursuit by calling Walmart and IHSS, but both of them aren't hiring until later. So I think I need to look elsewhere. Any suggestions on where to look? I reapplied for Hollywood Video too. I am not sure if I wanna stay in Redding all summer. it gets really hot and it will kinda suck. I need to be on my own tho. I am 23 years old and living with my parents this summer-- is not the ideal situation. I am excited to go home for Easter that will be fun. I haven't been home since January 5th. I think it is the longest that I have gone without going home. And last time I saw my parents was at graduation on Jan. 12th. so it has been awhile. I am looking forward to it. Ok later. I hope people actually read this.

blogspot has issues

so i guess blogspot decided to do something with Google and I can't log on to my old blogspot blog. which very few people read anyways. so I made a new account and transferred over my old blogs. my old account was http://darlageiger.blogspot.com and my new one is here http://darlamaygeiger.blogspot.com. so you can read my blogs here. I am thinking of doing kinda what I did on Xanga back in the day and writing everyday. I will post occassionally on myspace too. so please please read my blogspot blogs too. I am gonna try and do different blogs on each one. Like not about the same things. At some point myspace turned into just me posting poetry and writing so I will probably keep it that way and have updates about blogspot blogs. And you don't have to have a blogspot to leave comments on it either.