God blessed me when he gave me Aaron :-)
Wow......
as I laid in bed last night, I told myself not to expect anything today, because then if anything did happen, I'd be surprised and grateful. However, I got my hopes high and they crashed and burned today. My mom called at 6:30 to wish me a happy birthday before I headed to my 7 a.m. lab. The lab went pretty well. We got everything done with time to spare, which is crazy for my lab partner and I to do. Usually we're sprinting to chapel so we're not counted late. Today, we had a few minutes to work on some post-lab questions. I decided to use my second chapel skip and come back to nap. However, the roomie decided to skip as well, and do some homework. :-P So I worked on chemistry and took a nap closer to her class time. I ended up sleeping until about.... 11:30 when the phone rang. I'm glad I didn't answer it. My psycho brother decided to give my dad my phone number.... and most of you know that story so I'm not going to touch it tonight. Anyway, it was my dad calling, so I'm glad I just let my voicemail kick in.
Anyway, I got up because it was almost lunch time and I wanted to be productive today and get some stuff done, so I got up and headed to the Red Room for lunch. By the way, their hot ham and cheese crossant was excellent today. Man alive. I ate that puppy right on up! I checked my mail. There was a new devotional guide for the next 3 months from my youth group. That was cool, but there was a PINK CARD! We all know what that means! Autumn had a package to pick up! It was actually a present from my Elisa Jay, whom I love so very much. Awwwww she is stinking adorable! She got me this cute journal and an adorable little wind up frog that dances sideways. Seriously, that made my morning like no other. What a dollface! I'm going to miss her so badly next semester. Who else can I stare at "hair" with. Haha.
I worked on some homework after that..... slowly but surely. I actually only had about 15 questions to answer on my chemistry lab write up, and it took me all day because I'd do one and my ADHD would kick in, and I'd find something else to do. Plus the phone was ringing like mad. Well, I like to pretend anyway. I got a phone call from Kevin, which rocked my socks off. Awwwww. That kid is a trooper. It was nice to hear from him. :-) My crazyhead.
I didn't really do a whole lot today. Rachel and I spent the day in the room, just being dumb. I have this entertaining voice that I like to use and I was "booty" dancing to "Sing to the King" and "Blessed Be Your Name". I was just trying to have a little fun. I wasn't even booty dancing, I was bumpin', and Rachel thought I was booty dancing.
I went to the floor party at 5. They made pizza tonight. Kind of random that my birthday fell on our floor party day. They all sang to me. We played forks, psychologist and "I'm going to the moon". Man alive, it took me forever to figure out all three of those games. I was feeling pretty tarded. It was fun though. Lots of laughs.
After that, I did more chemistry, my brother Nate called. We talked for a few minutes. My mom called. Ummm, yeah.... I basically just sat there watching Everybody Loves Raymond over and over. It was great! They had like 4 episodes on today! Beautiful thing!
I got tired of waiting for my brother to call about going to dinner with him. I knew he had a basketball game tonight, so I decided I was just going to shower and call it a night. So, when I got out of the shower, he called and was like "I'm on my way!" I was like "Ummm how about we hang out sometime this week. I just showered and I don't feel like doing much." He was like, "Autumn, I wanted to hang out with you tonight! Just call me when you get around!" So I called him when I got done. We went to Kmart. He bought me the new Simple Plan CD. (YAY! Now I don't have to buy it Thursday!) We also got some candy for my secret sister, got some ice cream and went to taco bell. We went back to his apartment, because they had open apartments tonight til 11. We didn't get there til 10:30 though. When I walked in the door, I was surprised..... there were streamers up like none of your business and balloons everywhere. I was waiting for like 40 people to pop out and yell at me...... but aparently since it's snowing so bad tonight, nobody wanted to come celebrate my birthday, like they had called everyone. So it was just Jon, Julie, Aaron and I. It was awesome though, that my brother put so much work into stuff! And my roommate..... she had been asking me who my friends were here that I hung out with, and she tried calling them earlier. Awwwww. Seriously though, I was successful at holding in the tears while I was sitting in the apartment. My brother is the best. He put so much work into that! He bought a Kroger cake (yummy frosting!), ice cream, plates, hats, noisemakers.... and he was pretty bummed that nobody came out because it was snowing. I think we're going to reschedule the party for tomorrow, but yeah..... awwwwww. I love him so stinking much! It was nice to sit around and talk to him, Jon and Julie. Those two make me so happy. :-) My brother has awesome friends!
So yeah, my night turned out good, even though nobody showed up to my party. It's the thought that mattered. Then, when I expected the night to draw to an end, Skylan calls me. I knew it was because Kevin called to remind him. Haha. I saw that coming from a mile away. I joked around about it being my birthday like every day for the last 2 weeks so I'm pretty sure he was super confused as to when it was. Still, my two fellas both called me today. :-D That makes me happy. Sky is such a trooper. I'm so glad that we can relate so much right now. It's nice having him there to talk to. I really appreciate you and your friendship more than you know! I'm sorry you're going through this right now bub. :-( I wish you didnt' have to. I really do. And I'm sorry that I don't have words of wisdom. It's weird- I always put you in this position for like the last almost 2 months. And now here I am, dumbfounded on what to say. I'm praying for you! :-) Know that and rest assured because God has huge plans for you. I know you don't want to hear that, but I trust that He does. I'm excited to see how things will unfold!
Anyway, I think I'm calling it a night. It's been a long stinkin' day and this lady is pooped. I'm going to go read my Bible and call it good. The Bible is indeed good. I need to start reading more. I think that's why I've been just sloshing around through everything. I've been praying SO much more than I ever have, but I need to back my prayers up with the Word. We're told to bring Christ's words to him in prayer. So, by golly, that is my goal. That is not my goal, I lie. That is my desire! I want to be a strong woman of God. Brock's blog actually encouraged me last night..... if Jesus was to fill my shoes for a day, and His heart of gold dwelled in my body, would people see a huge difference in the way I treated them? Would I be a little kinder to the old people in front of me in the grocery line, knowing that this is probably their last winter to shop together, because she has cancer and isn't going to make it another year? Would I not give a lady a look of disgust when she's driving slow, knowing that she's just trying to keep her children safe, and she just picked them up from day care, not seeing them all day long.... as she goes home to fulfill her full time job of being a mother? Seriously, how much different would Jesus act in my situations than I do? That hit me like my can of shaving gel that fell on my foot last night (Which left a beatiful ciruclar bruise). Needless to say, it hurt. I want to be Jesus. I want to live a legacy, that people will remember me. I want to be known as the girl that made the old man's day by picking up the change he accidentally dropped. Or the girl that held the door for the guy who was almost late to class. I'm looking forward to God's plans in my life. It's going to be amazing!
And with that, goodnight everyone! I love you all so much. Thank you for your notes and cheer today. Sorry I was so cruddy. :-( I'm just working my way out of this hole. I do love all of you and appreciate everything though. Especially your time. For those of you that called- man, your phone calls meant so much to me. I am so blessed to have you in my life. God bless all of you! Night.
PLEASE KEEP PRAYING FOR MARK
as I laid in bed last night, I told myself not to expect anything today, because then if anything did happen, I'd be surprised and grateful. However, I got my hopes high and they crashed and burned today. My mom called at 6:30 to wish me a happy birthday before I headed to my 7 a.m. lab. The lab went pretty well. We got everything done with time to spare, which is crazy for my lab partner and I to do. Usually we're sprinting to chapel so we're not counted late. Today, we had a few minutes to work on some post-lab questions. I decided to use my second chapel skip and come back to nap. However, the roomie decided to skip as well, and do some homework. :-P So I worked on chemistry and took a nap closer to her class time. I ended up sleeping until about.... 11:30 when the phone rang. I'm glad I didn't answer it. My psycho brother decided to give my dad my phone number.... and most of you know that story so I'm not going to touch it tonight. Anyway, it was my dad calling, so I'm glad I just let my voicemail kick in.
Anyway, I got up because it was almost lunch time and I wanted to be productive today and get some stuff done, so I got up and headed to the Red Room for lunch. By the way, their hot ham and cheese crossant was excellent today. Man alive. I ate that puppy right on up! I checked my mail. There was a new devotional guide for the next 3 months from my youth group. That was cool, but there was a PINK CARD! We all know what that means! Autumn had a package to pick up! It was actually a present from my Elisa Jay, whom I love so very much. Awwwww she is stinking adorable! She got me this cute journal and an adorable little wind up frog that dances sideways. Seriously, that made my morning like no other. What a dollface! I'm going to miss her so badly next semester. Who else can I stare at "hair" with. Haha.
I worked on some homework after that..... slowly but surely. I actually only had about 15 questions to answer on my chemistry lab write up, and it took me all day because I'd do one and my ADHD would kick in, and I'd find something else to do. Plus the phone was ringing like mad. Well, I like to pretend anyway. I got a phone call from Kevin, which rocked my socks off. Awwwww. That kid is a trooper. It was nice to hear from him. :-) My crazyhead.
I didn't really do a whole lot today. Rachel and I spent the day in the room, just being dumb. I have this entertaining voice that I like to use and I was "booty" dancing to "Sing to the King" and "Blessed Be Your Name". I was just trying to have a little fun. I wasn't even booty dancing, I was bumpin', and Rachel thought I was booty dancing.
I went to the floor party at 5. They made pizza tonight. Kind of random that my birthday fell on our floor party day. They all sang to me. We played forks, psychologist and "I'm going to the moon". Man alive, it took me forever to figure out all three of those games. I was feeling pretty tarded. It was fun though. Lots of laughs.
After that, I did more chemistry, my brother Nate called. We talked for a few minutes. My mom called. Ummm, yeah.... I basically just sat there watching Everybody Loves Raymond over and over. It was great! They had like 4 episodes on today! Beautiful thing!
I got tired of waiting for my brother to call about going to dinner with him. I knew he had a basketball game tonight, so I decided I was just going to shower and call it a night. So, when I got out of the shower, he called and was like "I'm on my way!" I was like "Ummm how about we hang out sometime this week. I just showered and I don't feel like doing much." He was like, "Autumn, I wanted to hang out with you tonight! Just call me when you get around!" So I called him when I got done. We went to Kmart. He bought me the new Simple Plan CD. (YAY! Now I don't have to buy it Thursday!) We also got some candy for my secret sister, got some ice cream and went to taco bell. We went back to his apartment, because they had open apartments tonight til 11. We didn't get there til 10:30 though. When I walked in the door, I was surprised..... there were streamers up like none of your business and balloons everywhere. I was waiting for like 40 people to pop out and yell at me...... but aparently since it's snowing so bad tonight, nobody wanted to come celebrate my birthday, like they had called everyone. So it was just Jon, Julie, Aaron and I. It was awesome though, that my brother put so much work into stuff! And my roommate..... she had been asking me who my friends were here that I hung out with, and she tried calling them earlier. Awwwww. Seriously though, I was successful at holding in the tears while I was sitting in the apartment. My brother is the best. He put so much work into that! He bought a Kroger cake (yummy frosting!), ice cream, plates, hats, noisemakers.... and he was pretty bummed that nobody came out because it was snowing. I think we're going to reschedule the party for tomorrow, but yeah..... awwwwww. I love him so stinking much! It was nice to sit around and talk to him, Jon and Julie. Those two make me so happy. :-) My brother has awesome friends!
So yeah, my night turned out good, even though nobody showed up to my party. It's the thought that mattered. Then, when I expected the night to draw to an end, Skylan calls me. I knew it was because Kevin called to remind him. Haha. I saw that coming from a mile away. I joked around about it being my birthday like every day for the last 2 weeks so I'm pretty sure he was super confused as to when it was. Still, my two fellas both called me today. :-D That makes me happy. Sky is such a trooper. I'm so glad that we can relate so much right now. It's nice having him there to talk to. I really appreciate you and your friendship more than you know! I'm sorry you're going through this right now bub. :-( I wish you didnt' have to. I really do. And I'm sorry that I don't have words of wisdom. It's weird- I always put you in this position for like the last almost 2 months. And now here I am, dumbfounded on what to say. I'm praying for you! :-) Know that and rest assured because God has huge plans for you. I know you don't want to hear that, but I trust that He does. I'm excited to see how things will unfold!
Anyway, I think I'm calling it a night. It's been a long stinkin' day and this lady is pooped. I'm going to go read my Bible and call it good. The Bible is indeed good. I need to start reading more. I think that's why I've been just sloshing around through everything. I've been praying SO much more than I ever have, but I need to back my prayers up with the Word. We're told to bring Christ's words to him in prayer. So, by golly, that is my goal. That is not my goal, I lie. That is my desire! I want to be a strong woman of God. Brock's blog actually encouraged me last night..... if Jesus was to fill my shoes for a day, and His heart of gold dwelled in my body, would people see a huge difference in the way I treated them? Would I be a little kinder to the old people in front of me in the grocery line, knowing that this is probably their last winter to shop together, because she has cancer and isn't going to make it another year? Would I not give a lady a look of disgust when she's driving slow, knowing that she's just trying to keep her children safe, and she just picked them up from day care, not seeing them all day long.... as she goes home to fulfill her full time job of being a mother? Seriously, how much different would Jesus act in my situations than I do? That hit me like my can of shaving gel that fell on my foot last night (Which left a beatiful ciruclar bruise). Needless to say, it hurt. I want to be Jesus. I want to live a legacy, that people will remember me. I want to be known as the girl that made the old man's day by picking up the change he accidentally dropped. Or the girl that held the door for the guy who was almost late to class. I'm looking forward to God's plans in my life. It's going to be amazing!
And with that, goodnight everyone! I love you all so much. Thank you for your notes and cheer today. Sorry I was so cruddy. :-( I'm just working my way out of this hole. I do love all of you and appreciate everything though. Especially your time. For those of you that called- man, your phone calls meant so much to me. I am so blessed to have you in my life. God bless all of you! Night.
PLEASE KEEP PRAYING FOR MARK