Home Alone

So, Elizabeth took off a few days for Virginia, and my other roommate Becky, just took off tonight for Europe. Which means... I have the house all to myself. Normally I would be scared, because I hate staying by myself... I get freaked out really, really easily. Wind at night, totally scary. People talking outside, creepy. And, if you knew my neighbors... you would be very afraid, I have some major weirdo's that live around me. But, not this time! This time I am going to be brave and over come my fears. And, I am very excited that I'm home alone. I'm not excited that Becky and Elizabeth are gone, I love living with them... but I feel like being all by myself will finally give me some time to get some things done that I normally wouldn't have time for. When Becky and Elizabeth are here I don't want to be responsible and do certain things; I would rather be hanging out with them watching a movie or talking... not doing chores. Because really, who likes chores anyway? NOT ME. But, what I hate even more is an unorganized house, so while they are gone I am planning to do lots of organizing and also some fun things, like:
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- Read a magazine that I have been so excited to look through (The new Blueprint one)
- Do all of my laundry at one time and put it all away at the same time. I have a bad habit of doing one load at a time and never finishing all of my laundry at once, so I always have a pile that needs to get washed. But, not this time... I will have no dirty clothes sitting in my basket by the end of Monday!
- Wash and bleach our couch covers
- Paint the bench in our backyard, and my dresser (it's green now, but I really want to paint it pink-of course)
- Organize our bookshelves
- Clean out our pantry and fridge
- Hang some picture frames and find the perfect pictures to put in them
- Re-line shelves in the kitchen with crisp white paper

I have about 10 days to do all this.... i really hope that I can get it all done. I would feel SO accomplished!

The Mystery Spots...

The past two days my roommate becky and I have been finidng these mystery spots all over the sleves of our clothes, and other things. It didn't make much sence to us becasue we have nothing sitting out in our house that would leave little black marks on our clothing, but the marks looked like we had wipped our clothes on an ink pad or something (which, obvisouly, we did not).

Anyways... tonight on our way home from seeing Ratatouille, we got inside of our house and Becky realized that I have this black stuff on my fore heard between my eyes.... What? So, we played detective and back tracked from my car to the front door looking at everything and touching everything to see if it would leave black stuff on our fingers... and, we figured it out. There are two giant bushes that sit along side of the path to our front door that have this gross gross stuff on it... ew. Since when did bushes start bleeding black grossness?

Well, mystery solved... thank goodness for Clorox Bleach! And, watch out for those weirdo bushes... I'm not sure if they stain yet, but if they do, it's a sad day.


... now if you'll excuse me, I have a couple things to go wash.

Worst song ever

Tonight on my way home from the mall with Becky, I heard the WORST song I have ever heard. This is a huge statement, considering that I have been alive for 21 years and have heard my fair share of horrible songs. This tops all....

- The bum bum song by Tom Green... Stupid.
- What's up by 4 Non Blonde's... Irrelevant.

- I Would Do Anything for Love by Meatloaf... Disturbing.

- Sussudio by Phil Collins... Lame.

- Butterfly by Crazytown... Not Impressed.
- Lipgloss- Lil Mama... WORST SONG EVER.

learn about it.

Dear Lil Mama,

I think that you have some problems if the only thing that you can think to sing about is your lipgloss. You're song is dumb. I don't care about your lipgloss. I don't think that it is "cool" or "poppin'" nor do I believe you that "the boys chase you at schoo". It's lip gloss. Not love potion number 9. In your song you say, "What you know 'bout me" well, this is what I know about you...

1. you buy "Mac and L'Oreal, yup 'cause you're worf it", you also "put's it on so purfet"

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2. You need to go back to school. I am not an English major but, your words are definitely not grammatically correct... nor are they even words... (purfet?... not a word)

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3. I don't know of any lipgloss that can "make the boys keep stoppin'"

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4. No matter how many L'Oreal watermelon crushes, that is not the reason that "all these boys got crushes"

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5.Your song is not great... and neither is your lip gloss.

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6. You wasted 3 minutes of my life tonight because your song is on the radio.

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7. I will NOT be buying your CD.

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I can think of better lyrics than you,

Annie Summers

This might sound crazy, but...

I have been going to the same hair place and having the same lady do my hair since my sophomore year of High School. Except, the past 2 times I have gotten my hair done, I have gone to another lady...

I kind of feel like I am cheating on my old hair girl... am I crazy? Do I have a loyalty to her? Or would it be OK for me to continue to keep going to the girl that I am going to now... I just feel a little bit bad. Like I abandoned her...

thoughts...?

Feelin' hot, Hot, HOT!!

Palm Springs was a blast. Sleeping in every day, laying out by the pool, hanging out with fun people, and, getting to know new people!

To make a long story short, staff retreat was amazing! And, I am VERY thankful that the hotel we stayed in had a swimming pool. It was SO hot a of couple days that the thermometer in the car that we drove to grab lunch one day read 113 degrees. Now, I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that even spa's don't get that hot...

Here are some fun pics from the trip...

Stacey, me, Bethany, and Allison. We didn't share a hotel room, but we were pretty much connected at the hip the whole trip...

The best bowling crew around. I love that Stacey is showing off the awesome shoes we all got to wear.

The car ride to the most delicious Mexican food place ever. We got in spirit and gave ourselves some bigote's (mustache's in Spanish).

As Stacy and I were on our way out to lay on our rafts and talk our last night at the hotel- we realized that our tank tops matched the colors of our rafts and had to take a picture! We had so much fun because we had the pool all to ourselves. All we did was lay on our rafts, talk and look up at the stars... it was great! I love the desert because the stars are so much easier to see!

Catching up...

These are the first 15 songs that popped up on my ipod when I pushed shuffle...

1. Bend and Break- Keane
2. Back to you- John Mayer
3. Walking Man- James Taylor
4. I Can't Wait- White Stripes
5. Creepin' In- Norah Jones
6. Winding Road- Bonnie Somerville
7. Drive Away- All American Rejects
8. Grace- Phil Wickham
9. Come Back Down- Lifehouse
10. Stay With You- Goo Goo Dolls
11. Meet Me, Midnight- Renee Olstead
12. Undignified- David Crowder
13. Take On Me- Ha
14. Welcome to Paradise- Green Day
15. I've Got You Under My Skin- Michael Buble

I tag E-Money and Brian

And, THIS is a picture of my workspace. I made it a little fancy to show off how much pink I have:

I have been gone...

I have been gone for a few days and I know that I have a few things to catch up on... like blogging "pictures of my workspace" (thanks for tagging me Brian) and what "the first 15 songs are on my ipod when I push shuffle" are (thanks for tagging me Brent)...

I also have some fun pictures that I took in Palm Springs-which is where I have been the past couple days…

I know that I have some catch up to do... so, I will blog tonight! Right now I am about to take off to one of my c-group girls dance performances... I'm so proud of her!

Time Flies...

It's crazy how fast two years just flies by. Before I knew it (or was even prepared for it) the little seventh graders that were in my C-Group two years ago are now graduated and going into High School. I'm sure that they would say that they are totally excited and have been ready for a while now- like they have told me so many times before... but I am not ready for them to go just yet.

In ministry, so far I have learned that it is the little things that make a big impact on my girl’s lives and the lives of other students in our ministry. It's the postcard that they get in the middle of the week saying that I'm thinking about them that makes their week and not the huge production that we put on during the weekends (even though those are awesome and totally fun). I think that the more personal ministry can be made, the more of a real ministry it really is and the more lives you touch that way. Like, remembering names of students and asking them about their pet that had to get shots that week, that kind of thing...

It's crazy to me because I felt like 2 years was not nearly enough time to make an impact in these girls lives and help prepare them for the next 4 years of their life, that is bound to be full of drama and lots of messy situations. Yet, as hard as it is for me to come to terms with it, I think that they really are ready. What's wild about them being so prepared is that I felt like half of the time (maybe more than that) I felt like they didn't want to even be at c-group because I constantly felt like I was saying things like, "stop texting your boyfriend", "put your phone away", "stop talking", "come back in the room, we're not finished yet" and, "How many of you does it take to go to the bathroom?"....

BUT....

It made me rethink all of that when I got to be in the baptism with one of my girls when she decided to make a public decision to follow Christ. And when I saw them get their diplomas, and when they told me that they love me and that they don't know what they are going to do without me since I am not moving up to High School with them.

Those are the moments that make everything worth it. Those are the times that make me stand in awe of God and see how he can transform anyone from any situation using the most unlikely person (be it a friend for life made in c-group or another girl's mom who became everyone’s mom... or me- I never thought I would end up in ministry). And those are the times when I feel so small compared to Him because I know that he is capable of doing anything. I am so blessed to be where I am.

People say that working in Jr. High is hard because you get attached to the students and then they are gone in 2 years. And, I'm not going to lie there were definitely some tears at our last c-group meeting and at their graduations. But, I think that working in Jr. High we are the lucky ones. We get to form relationships with the students and make them solid over two years, and then we get them for four more years. Maybe they aren't in the same ministry, but that doesn't matter. The fact is they still come to us and share what is going on in their lives... and that is why I am lucky to be working with Jr. High.

Pet names that make me sick...

I hate the term "pet name", it is annoying all by itself. But, the actual pet names that people come up with are MUCH worse...

Disclaimer: If you are offended by reading this blog because you call your significant other by any of these pet names... I'm sorry. I'm not sorry that I offended you, I'm sorry that it is impossible for you to think of a less cheesy, unoriginal, and lame nickname. - Boo

- Pookie (or any form of Pookie: Pooks, Pookums, etc.)

- Mr. Kitty Pants (good one Elizabeth... that’s in my top 3 worst nickname’s.)

- Sugar Bear

- Lovey or Lovey Dovey

- Shmookie

- Baby doll, or baby face, or baby cakes, or baby girl, or baby boy…or baby.

- Princess

- Lover or Lova (SICK.)

- Pooh Bear

- Angel

- Sugar Momma or Sugar Daddy

- Hottie or Hot Stuff

- Sweet cheeks

- Cuddle bug

- Girl

- Muffin

- Teddy Bear

- Sweet Thang

- Sugar Lips

- Puddin'

- Snuggles

- Smoochie

- Stud muffin

- Cutie Patootie

- Honeybunch, or Honey buns, or honey bunny. Honey by itself is acceptable, but not when paired with another ridiculous word.

- Chicka

- My lil Dumplin’

- Toots

- Main Squeeze

Did I miss any?

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