I need to start updating this blog more often. I know I'll appreciate it when I look back on this and see all the things that have happened. To update some, I'll take an excerpt out of a recent post I made to the SwimSite:

I confess I've been trying to figure out for days the words to use to let yall know about some stuff thats goin on w/ me. Me and Mom haven't been getting along for some months now, and our relationship has gone from awesome to BAD. Mom sat me down about 2 weeks ago and told me to go to TBI (Texas Bible Institute) or move out. TBI is less than an hour and a half away, but it's not like a regular school. I'm there all week, and I have to be there on weekends becuz they host youth retreats every weekend. So I'm not gonna be able to come home often. It would be a miracle if I got to come home once a month. I just got an awesome job, that I love, and it was about to move to full time. But Mom said she's tired of me, and she doesn't like me much anymore and so she wants me out. Yes, she did actually say that. I have no where to go, so this is what I'm doing. I dunno if this is exactly God's will for my life to be there, but I have no choice, and I know that while I'm there I'm gonna learn ALOT, Im going to grow a lot, and Im gonna get a lot of hands on ministry experience. And thats gonna be a great thing for me! :) I'm just having a hard time w/ the financial part. My Mom is gonna pay for some of it, but she wants me to work while I'm there. There is absolutely nothing in Columbus, Tx. It is an extremely small city, if you can even call it that. So I'm not exactly sure how all these finances are gonna pull together. I mean, insurance, gas, some food, plus to help with some of the tuition. That's alot. I'm excited about the growing and the experience, but Im just not sure if this is Gods will, and Im not sure how Im gonna pay for it, and I know this isnt gonna help mine and my Moms relationshhip, except that we wont be fighting, since we wont be around eachother. The whole thing is, she doesnt like that I am not in agreement w/ her and her bf/. Some of yall might remember that episode one night about a year ago, where he was stalking her and sitting outside the house and all that. This is the same guy she was scared to death of after they broke up. The same guy who mooched off of her and used her. He is so consistently rude to me, and Mom couldn't care less. He is a major jerk in ways I just wont say right now, cuz I'm taking up enuf space as it is. So, sorry for me not agreeing w/ the whole thing. It's just a real tough situation to be in. Just pray you guys that the finances come through if this is what is supposed to be done, becuz Im all up for Gods will and also pray that somehow God would just reveal Himself to my Mom. She's starting to cuss and stuff, and it's rubbing off on my little sisters. Thanx guys.

So that's basically that. I've decided to put forth every effort to get to TBI, but I told God that if He didnt want me to go there, then to make it to where nothing is gonna work out, and the finances won't come through, but if it is His will, then make everything come together. Cuz all I wanna do is what he wants me to do. Ever since Mom decided that I was leaving, she gets along with me better. I guess she's happier than I thought. Whatever.