Lap Desk

I ended up buying this at Target the other day.  I thought it might be good to have if I want to sit on my bed and study or whatever.  I have been using it here at home, and I really like it!  I think it was a great purchase!

My sister is the best.

This is what my sweet sister got me yesterday.  She said it was the rest of my graduation present.  I love it! I tried out the cup today, it is super cute! She told me the rest of it I had to save until college! She bought my favorite coffee creamer, favorite k kups for the Keurig, and favorite iced coffee from Starbucks, along with the adorable cup!

Thanks Kathleen, I'm all set for college, at least in the coffee department. Love you!!

-Churning-

Don't you love it when your stomach churns like a washing machine?

For the last hour or so my stomach has been churning.  The kids I babysit for haven't been feeling that well today, one even throwing up.  I was there yesterday, and I will be there in a few short hours.  The little girl wasn't feeling good yesterday while I was there, and was really clingy.  I am thinking I got a tad bit close to her.  For the past hour I have been cold, then hot.  And have been laying in front of the fan in my parents room too.  Anything to take my mind off of feeling so icky.  I thought I'd give blogging a shot!

Today Kathleen and I went to Super Target to pick up a few things for college.  I got an under the bed storage thing, along with a neat little lap desk.  I have to be at SNU in 22 or 23 days- something like that.  Not exactly counting down the hours like some people are. 

I am starting to get a little excited, but still nervous too.  It's a lot of change, and I don't like change.  I have really been praying about it though.  I think that it will be a great thing- even if it is 6 hours from home :)  Really though, I am excited to see all that God has in store for me.  I am just having a hard time believing that I am actually old enough to be a freshman in college.  I remember going through Walmart last year around this time, and watching people shop for their dorm rooms.  I can remember thinking, "Wow, they are going to be college students."  Now it is me shopping for my dorm, and making lists of things to get done and so on! Crazy.

Tonight we ordered books for me.  I ended up buying them used on Amazon.com.  My dad was joking (after we bought them) that they may not be the right books!  haha..  That would be horrible!  I am glad we decided to look around and compare prices, since we saved $130!  See now folks, don't always pay list price! :)

Whew! I think the feeling of puking my guts out of sickness has passed.  I sure hope it has!  Watch- I'll post this and then be up all night sick.  Uhhh!!  Well, I need to try to get a little sleep.  I know tomorrow will be a very busy day babysitting! Morning Night all!

Mini Fridge

Here it is! My first major purchase for college. Besides my laptop. This is actually the second one I bought. The first one had a tiny freezer and after 24 hours of being plugged in, the ice cube trays were only cold water. So, we went on a fridge hunt. Target had this one on sale this week so we picked it up. I really really love it. It has a separate freezer and it works great. I put the ice cube trays in at 10 this morning, and by 3:30 they were frozen - along with a water bottle.

My mom was right, I was wrong. I am happier with this one. Thanks momma!

A drive in the country...

My cousin and aunt left today.  We had such a great visit, and it doesn't feel like a whole week has gone by.  I was really blessed and only had to work one of the days that they were here.  We didn't really do much sightseeing, but did go to San Antonio one day.  And the rest of the days we took drives to the country to take pictures.  It was a blast and we got so many good shots!  I was sad to see them go, as I won't see them until Christmas.  But so glad that we could spend this week together because Rachel and I are both headed to college soon.

Me:

Rachel:

 If you don't believe in God after seeing something this beautiful, I'm not sure what will convince you.

We took so many other fun pictures too. Another post though... Laundry is waiting to be folded!

Im here, Im here...

I'm home from San Francisco. It was amazing and we had a blast. It was 60 degrees every day, and I even had to wear a sweatshirt. I miss that.

We came home to find our carpet was finished, and it looks great!

My cousin and great aunt fly in tomorrow for a week.

I went dorm room shopping today and bought a cute bedspread, bath caddy, and hangers.

In a little over a month, I will officially be at college, and a college student. Crazy.

Hello! Long time, no talk!

Whew! It has been a while... Here is my reason for being MIA:

We are in the process of tearing up all of the carpet in our house...

Packing up all of our things, so we can move the furniture.

Getting everything off the floor,

Here is what our game room up stairs looks like tonight.  We are moving the three bedroom sets out there, and then will move it back in when the new carpet is installed.

My dresser is out there, so I have to get dressed in the game room.. haha.. just kidding

The purple room/scrapbook room.

Here is how I am updating my blog! Sitting on the floor-

It's a mess. I'm running out of places to put things.

We leave for San Fran next Wednesday. Carpet is being installed next Tuesday and Wednesday. I worked every day last week, with just enough time to sleep. I got my new camera in the mail last week, and so far no problems with it! We are meeting some friends for coffee tomorrow morning. I have to go get my car registered. And pack up some more.

Be Different.

Last night, while reading my Bible verses for the day, I stumbled across these verses. This is the Message translation. I think that sometimes the Message is easier to understand, but I still love to compare a few versions.

Romans 12:1-2

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

This is my desire. I do want to be different. And I believe I am. It is so important to keep our focus on the true reason we are here on this earth. It is very easy to get caught up in drama, and what feels good to us. What we want out of life, the car we want to drive, the bigger, better house, the perfect body- but at the end of the day, is this what matters? If you read this verse, what does it say?

Fix your attention on God. You will be changed from the inside out.

Um, excuse me, did you read that? Not just some of your attention, All. Of. It.

This is my goal. To not get caught up in the world, but to fix my eyes on Jesus, and him alone. I'd like to challange you to look at this verse that way too!

Roses

Karen surprised me with roses for my graduation. I wanted to save them, so we read online that you should just hang them in a dry, hot place for two weeks. Well, the attic is beyond hot and it's dry, so I just hitched up some yarn on some wire and tied them two of them up there. Since some of the roses were already bad, I just tore the petals off thinking I'd dry those too. I think it worked? The actual roses are a little squishy yet, so I think that means I need to let them go a little longer. I'm not quite sure though! haha... But anyways, Thanks for the roses FAK! I love you.

(you might be a redneck if... :D)

 

Good bye Camera

After being dropped (on accident) while it was in Malaysia, my camera has never recovered. I kept it this long, only because I wanted to have it on display on my memory table at graduation.
I finally ordered a new camera, just the newest model of my old camera. I received it last Saturday, turned it on, charged the battery and the next morning it froze. Like black screen, the lens was stuck out and it wouldn't turn on. So we sent it back, and now I'm waiting for a new one to arrive. But they have to receive the one I sent back first, so it could take up to two weeks. I hope I can get it in time for San Francisco. I need to order new batteries (rechargeable) too, for this camera that I don't have yet. Whew! Did you get all that?

So, dear old camera: You have been very good to me. I took you to Israel and you took 2,700 pictures over there. And hundreds maybe thousands more too in your 2.5 year life. The end.