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Amanda K!

If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done

About Me

Fear is the only thing that hurts

My Interests

Books:

Currently reading:
The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
A Whole New Mind
Daniel Pink
Free Agent Nation
Daniel Pink
The Naked Brain
Richard Restak
The Difference Maker
John Maxwell
Today Matters
John Maxwell
How Full Is Your Bucket?
Tom Rath & Donald Clifton
My Utmost For His Highest
Oswald Chambers
The Bible

Freakonomics, How to Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blue Like Jazz, A Tale of Two Cities, Velvet Elvis, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, Ender's Game

My Blog

The most important things in the world.

|| Honesty ||In my mind, when someone is honest with me, they're saying, "Hey, I think you're worth the truth. I care about you enough to not lie. Your value to me is beyond being fake." Being transpa...
Posted by Amanda K! on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:49:00 PST

Missed

I miss so many things. Writing, for one. I haven't utilized this creative outlet in a while, outside of scholarship essays and AP English analysis things. I love words and I love trying to create a fi...
Posted by Amanda K! on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:56:00 PST

Who

I've been thinking more lately about being accepted. Few people are truly honest & completely real because they think if they act like their true selves, people won't accept them as much, and they...
Posted by Amanda K! on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:04:00 PST

New.

I want to wipe the slate clean. Nah, I wanna do more than that. I want to completely trash the slate, I want a shiny new one. I want everything I am to change, nothing to be kept the same. I want to b...
Posted by Amanda K! on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:10:00 PST

Soulmates

You ever wonder about them? About what they're doing at this moment, about who they are, about if you'll ever really meet them or if you'll just know people that come close, about why they're yours, a...
Posted by Amanda K! on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:49:00 PST

Tomato soup

Tomato soup [with noodles] is the epitome of the phrase "comfort food" when it pertains to me. I've grown up on it, it's one of the few things I really love about my family, it's a little quirk. Tomat...
Posted by Amanda K! on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:23:00 PST

Elk River, MN

So for the first time ever, I was lucky enough to go somewhere for Spring Break. Instead of Cancun or the Bahamas however, I ended up in Elk River, Minnesota, population 16,000. Go figure. at the airp...
Posted by Amanda K! on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:39:00 PST

LET GO

After having a friend pray for me the other night, I wrote down some words on my wrist. The words are things I want from God right now, things I'm working towards getting from Him, things to pray for,...
Posted by Amanda K! on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:08:00 PST

pretty sure

Pretty sure I serve and love the BEST FLIPPIN GOD!!! There is no other. Any other religion or belief is false. This God.. My God.. A love like that, that He has for me, such a pathetic little traitor...
Posted by Amanda K! on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:39:00 PST

people are funny

They just are sometimes. You know? The way they do things, the reasons why, how they think others won't see the reasons but of course they almost always do.. All of it. It's just interesting, watching...
Posted by Amanda K! on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:53:00 PST