too far facebook...way too far

WOW! Really? REALLY?!

another ad from fb

If we wouldn't trust "this guy," why would would we trust you?

Also another enticing offer...surround yourself with thugs, thieves, crooks, and bad guys...let me think...PERF!

The semester is coming to an end! Which is so exciting, but it is such a busy time. With all of the semester's work due and Christmas quickly approaching, there is so much to be done. yet I am feeling so lazy and tired. I just want to rest, be with my husband, go on a long walk, and forget about the rest of the world!

Soon enough...just 3 more weeks!

another wonderful ad from facebook

HA! show how fabulous you are?

ooo i can play a game...i'm so fab!

Pathetic!

mark's wisdom

From Mark Dodd's blog...AWESOME!

"This is the way we ought to deal with sin. We should hate it. We should not tolerate it because it is death, and we don’t want death in the lives of our friends. We must call people out of it because of our compassion for them, and our fervent hate for sin.

It is my prayer that we would rebuke and disown the work of Satan, which is death, and call one another into the true life by the faith and authority given to us by the grace of God."

why am i doing this?

i'm so frustrated with myself right now.

why do i care so much about things that distract me from focusing on my priorities.

i've put off my homework until the last minute and i'm feeling the heaviness of that right now...and it is making me not want to do anything....

DANG IT!

what i need

craziness. my life has be one crazy whirlwind lately.

i've been struggling to find balance and i've been struggling to prioritize.

but God is so good and he is so faithful.

i am so fortunate to be married to such a wise Godly man who points me to God first and foremost. once i turned to God and gave him priority, i was able to feel peace. God is the only one who can give me what i need.

really?

Because getting drunk inside is so last year!

Facebook PLEASE!

Prayer

I've been learning so much about prayer lately.

1) That it is totally underrated.

-we think that we should pray before we eat...(dinner and not other meals?.. and not in a restaurant) and when something really bad is happening

2) We don't use it properly

-we are told to pray without ceasing...can we honestly say we are even close to doing this?

3) We don't believe in the power of prayer

-we don't expect God to do what we ask

So here's my conclusion on this mess we have decided to call our prayers. We need to be praying for everything, not just when we eat, have a test, someone is deathly ill, or there is a major tragedy, but for all things. We need to believe that our God is capable. We limit God when we don't believe. We need to be expectant in prayer. God can do everything we ask for and what's even more-he can do more than that and what is even more than that is He wants to do more.

Why do we expect God to answer our prayers when we don't believe that they will be answered or we think this situation is hopeless, but we have the attitude that I'm a Christian and so I should pray-that is what we do. What do we think is going to happen as the result to this? Sometimes I think the answer to that question is nothing, but we can then say..It is in God's hands. Well it was in God's hands before you prayed.

Also if we only pray when we need something or when we are about to eat, we aren't using prayer as it was meant to be used. Why would God suddenly grant us our selfish prayer when we live without him in all other situations? If we don't know God, why would he bless us?

We need to be praying constantly and we need to come to God whole-heartedly. Not doubting or thinking that it can't really be done, but with all that we come to him with we need to have the attitude that we can do nothing without him-we are nothing without him. This is what James means when he talks about praying in belief and not in doubt. This is how Paul prayed. He got results. When Paul prayed, things happened.

This is how I want to pray. This is how we ought to pray.

kitties!

So about a year ago Josh and I were looking for an e-card to send Dustin for his birthday because he was in Italy. So we came across this awesome card! Please check it out!

http://www.americangreetings.com/ecards/display.pd?N=374446&prodnum=3121626

So I happened to bookmark it and I was just trying to clean up my bookmarked sites and I came across this once again. So naturally I played it.

Dr. Tobias (our baby kitty) came running in from the other room. He looked so confused and worried. He was looking around to see if there was another cat here and he was so scarred. He walked over towards me and looked up at my computer in confusion. All of his hair on his back was standing up. So I picked him up and played it again so he could watch...he started to paw at the computer and try to get inside...smelling it to see if they were real.

It was really funny so I thought I'd share!

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Eagles and the Fly

So Thursday was my second day of school and I was so excited to go to lunch with my girl Jenn Bunny.

All was good until she left the table to go say hi to a friend while I sat alone in Eagles at the table drinking my tea. Suddenly I felt something on my tongue...disturbed by this I pulled it out of my mouth. At first glance it looked like some parsley all bunched up, but at further examination, I discovered that it was half of a dead fly. YES half of a dead fly was on my tongue and on my lip. NASTY!!! Its beady little eye looked at me and the combination of the eye, the wing, and the fact that this was just in my mouth and came from this "restaurant" grossed me out big time!

Sickened as I sat there by myself not knowing what to do...i walked up to Jenn informed her of the tragedy and disturbing news of my recent experience and proceeded to freak out.

My meal was ruined and I really never want to eat a quesadilla or drink tea at Eagles' Nest again.

It was a disgusting day!

This concerns me

Today I was served a burrito by a girl who graduated in May from my major...does this concern anyone else?

I'm so glad that there is such a need for teachers that this girl is working at the cafeteria at my school...yay for a college education

Bubbles

So everyone knows what the second best part about getting a package is (and sometimes the best part)...

... PACKING BUBBLES

and what is even better than regular packing bubbles?

These ...

Giant...and I do mean giant packing bubbles!

Everybody knows that I love abnormally large objects...so this brought me a little happiness tonight!

My new adventure!

So Miss Jane Tabor has been talking to me about this Cookie Lee thing for quite some time now and I've always been like giiirl that is crazy!  But apparently God had something different for in mind.  As the summer went on, it became clear to me that I know longer should work at World Elite.  The hours weren't really working for me and it would definitely be too much with school this next year.  So I prayed about quitting for sometime and God just gave me the confirmation that it was time for me to part with World Elite and he gave me such a peace about it.  So as my last day of work approached, I started to worry about money because suddenly Josh and I had some unexpected expenses.  The week before, up at Centrifuge, God had just been teaching me the importance of prayer and turning to him in everything and so I started to pray like crazy about my soon to be unemployment.

Wednesday was my last day of work at the gym and that night Jane had messaged me about Cookie Lee.  So Thursday night I checked my email and read her message about joining Cookie Lee and the current promotion they had for new recruits.  At first I was like no, I just quit my job and for the purpose of focusing on God, school, and my ministry.  But then the current promotion (which was $1000 of free jewelry) was so enticing to me that I had to consider it.  So I called Jane and planned to meet with her the following day.  Josh and I prayed about it and were constantly trying to figure out if we were trying to take control of our financial situation or if God was providing this for us.  So as we prayed and sought out wise council and considered ever single possible pro/con-we decided that this was God's provision and that I had to do it.  

As soon as I made the decision and shared it with my family and friends I had a peace and I am now SO VERY EXCITED!!!

I bought all of my jewelry and love it ALL!  It is all so much fun!  I get to wear all of the jewelry and share it with my friends.  I'm really excited for my new business and can't wait to get it off the ground!

I do shows--Home Shows, Office Shows, and Fundraisers!  Its going to be so much fun and I can't wait to share this with everyone!

So if you are interested or would like to see the jewelry or would like to sell Cookie Lee yourself and make some money on the side, let me know!!

I feel so good about this and can't wait to share it!

in the summertime...

School is starting back up in four short days, so here is my awesome summer recap:

-I started a kindergarten readiness program at the gym-writing curriculum and teaching the class and I loved it

-Josh and I dog sat several times to make some extra money

-I had my 21st birthday and had a great time celebrating for weeks (literally weeks)

-Josh and I went to Chicago with my family (where the birthday celebration continued)

-We then had VBS where I taught the 4 and 5 year olds

-We got our baby kitten Dr. Tobias Funke 

-I went to Lake Tahoe with Reenie and Oran to spend some good time with Nana and Papa

-Then less than 12 hours after I got home from Tahoe, we left for Centrifuge

-Camp was so much fun and God did SO many amazing things.  It was a great week and I really grew to love our group even more

-I finished up working at the gym which ended 3 and 1/2 years of a great job

-Josh and I went to the Anderson's beach house for the weekend and had a great time at the beach

-We dog sat for our girl Roxy (muffin!)

-I started up my new business with Cookie Lee

It has been an incredible summer and went by SO very quickly!  I'm getting ready for my last year of college and I just hope it goes by as quickly as this summer did!

been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely, lonely, lonely tiiiime

So it has been quite awhile since i've blogged.  But the past couple of days have been reminding me of blogging.  

1.  I am house sitting at Roxy's (Muffin's) who inspired one of my longest blog post over a year ago

2.  I saw Cami Poblete who is an awesome blogger and who I used to follow

so...I'm Baack!

I feel so productive!

Yesterday I cleaned my house, did all of the laundry, bought cleaning supplies, bought a planner, unpacked for both Josh and me, celebrated being married for 6 months with my wonderful husband.

Today I finished the rest of the laundry (there was a lot!), had breakfast, bought some tea to make sun tea, worked out P90X style, went swimming, went to the bank, went grocery shopping and bought a ton of healthy food, reorganized the fridge, freezer, and pantry, had a protein shake, walked to the lake, around it and back, worked on my lesson plan, had dinner, cleaned up, and its only 9:00pm.

Vacation was a good.  I'm now ready to do life (every mundane part of it)

Love Your Husband?

Yes

Why is that the next logical step?

I think I'm missing a  couple of the steps in between the premise and the conclusion.

me, me, me, me! la, la, la, la!

(^that is me singing)

i feel happy because of the sun.

the horrible gnat

so after dinner, josh and i decided to go on a walk around the RSM lake.  It was dusk and the gnats where out.  i was constantly shewing them away and they were continually hitting me in the face.  josh and i were commenting on how annoying it was when i inhaled and sucked a gnat in to the back of my throat.  It felt like someone threw an m&m straight to the back of my throat.  i started coughing and eventually chocking.  I hate it when you keep coughing and coughing and you know that you are about to throw up, but you try to keep it from happening.   i was there.  i could feel the little gnats body stuck on my dry throat and as i continued to cough and cough, eventually it came, and i threw up all over the grass 

so the moral of the story: watch out for gnats with a death wish who want to make you throw up

here comes the sun...off in the distance...far away

i can't wait for a little break.  i see it coming soon...next week.  next week, work is closed and so i just have to go to class and THEN the next week is spring break and that means lake tahoe!  

but in the mean time, i'll be running with my head cut off. 

-studying for my test

-finishing my report/starting it...

-reading a million chapters of pride and prejudice

-writing a lesson plan

-observation hours

-teaching the lesson i plan...while my teacher is observing (nerve-racking!) 

-doing a lot of reading for history and development

-a bunch of pointless literature assignments that are added at the last second

-bonfiring at CDM with the high schoolers and jr. highers

-working (Mon., Wed., Fri.)

-being a wife (A GOOD ONE!)

-trying to have friends

-MAKING it THROUGH!

soon it will be my favorite!  EASTER

so here's to the distant future of happy break time

my man loves me.

honesty

sometimes i just feel ugly.

i tend to not buy into the whole image deal shmeal.  but still at times it gets to me.

whenever i go to school and i don't do my hair or make up (which is 99.9% of the time) i look at the other girls who did their hair and their make up and wear cute clothes and it makes me feel like crap.  why do they have to care so much and why don't i?  

i struggle with this from time to time and it makes me mad.  

i'm a pretty self confident girl--why do i let satan get to me and make me feel bad.  so what if i don't look good.  why are we all trying to sell our looks?  why do we buy into the magazine's lies?

so here's the deal...i may feel bad, but i got me a hubby how loves me AND the way i look

AND i got an extra hour of sleep!

BO YA!

Insanity

lately i've been going 110 mph and never stopping.  i've been jumping from work to school to youth group to work to school to work and so on NON STOP!

i feel so overwhelmed ALL the time.  

i miss having the peace and relaxation of not having anything to do.  i can't wait for the quietness of life to settle in ... will it?

So good

Look at what I found in the church's office...

My obsession with abnormally sized things continues!

Yay for big scissors 

pet peeve

So i've always hated it when people play "getting to know you" games and they ask you the question what is your biggest pet peeve?  

so although i have not discovered my biggest pet peeve yet I discovered one in class yesterday which does drive me nuts.

teacher asks, "Are there any questions?"

so person raises hand.

teacher calls on them.

person proceeds to say, "I have a question" (long pause) (big breath) ...(continues by asking the alleged question)

obviously you have a question.  that is why you raised your hand when your teacher asked..."Are there any questions"

It has been way too long since I have blogged.  Sorry.  

So today's update: I'm sick and sick of always doing homework.  

A New Perspective

So it has been ages since I've blogged and to be quite honest I don't miss it.

I've loved being disconnected and living life the way we used to (before the technology overload).  It is so much simpler and its really nice not having to think throughout the day...oh I should blog on this.  I've had no phone, no computer for quite sometime and it really brought some good perspective.  I don't think I'm done, but I'm not dying to blog either.

So here's to a new year and a new mindset.  A new pace of life.  I'm done being super busy 24/7.  I'm done with letting everyone know details about my life when they haven't even spoken to me.  I'm done worrying about every little detail.  By not being connected digitally, I can better be connected to people: face to face or even over the phone.  The easy to hide behind computer screen is not the way I want to have relationships.  

God made us to be relational beings and if we can't do that without a computer, I think that is extremely sad.

But like I said I'm not done, I'm just no longer letting it be on my radar constantly.

just 1

I am getting married in a day!

ahh!  I'm soo very excited!

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