I'm searching for a new couch. I'm ready to give up.
I thought I found one today, but I didn't. Grabbed a guy friend to go check it out with me (for safety purposes... who knows who owns these things on craigslist) and the freakin people lied about the condition it was in. My mom even came to help me get it home in her utility trailer, but no dice. She came all that way for nothin.
Oh well... I went to dinner with my mom and my guy friend and that was fun. We found some lil Mexican food joint nearby and it was so fun experiencing my mom talking to random strangers and my friend speaking fluent spanish. The cooks rolled their eyes when my mom spoke and then beamed from ear to ear when my friend rattled off something to them about what he wanted in their own language.
I love the many cultures in America!
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Day 26: Happy
I love my church.
I love my family.
I'm thankful for men who step in and take charge when there is a need.
I'm thankful for women who are temperate and self-controlled, filled with love and purity.
I'm thankful that I have happiness and so much, when I am aware that I could've had a very different life.
I love my family.
I'm thankful for men who step in and take charge when there is a need.
I'm thankful for women who are temperate and self-controlled, filled with love and purity.
I'm thankful that I have happiness and so much, when I am aware that I could've had a very different life.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Day 25: Leadership
Going through my day today I've had a few thoughts about leadership.
This sums it up nicely:
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
This sums it up nicely:
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Day 24: Home Church
I went to bed at 4am and woke up at 11. Good thing I had a pot of french press at the ready.
Every Sunday my roommates and I host our Home Church at our house and we love it. I love watching my friends and family grow and change as we all wrestle with God over different things and draw closer to one another.
I hung out with my youngest sister tonight. I am obsessed with her. Everything about her.
It's so wonderful to grow up and realize God gave me some of the best girlfriends I'll ever have, right in my sisters that I grew up with.
As life changed, so did we... all differently, similarly and compatibly. We have an understanding of each other's history and struggles that no one else does and we have the ability to comfort and encourage one another as well.
I love my sisters. I love my youngest sister. I am thankful for the blessing of family.
Every Sunday my roommates and I host our Home Church at our house and we love it. I love watching my friends and family grow and change as we all wrestle with God over different things and draw closer to one another.
I hung out with my youngest sister tonight. I am obsessed with her. Everything about her.
It's so wonderful to grow up and realize God gave me some of the best girlfriends I'll ever have, right in my sisters that I grew up with.
As life changed, so did we... all differently, similarly and compatibly. We have an understanding of each other's history and struggles that no one else does and we have the ability to comfort and encourage one another as well.
I love my sisters. I love my youngest sister. I am thankful for the blessing of family.
Day 23: Coming out of a Slump
Sometimes you gotta step back from everything that is normal in your life and see what you want to do now, not just what you've always done.
For years I've spent multiple days of my week investing in the men and women in my life, going to coffee dates and loving every bit of it. A few months ago I decided to remove myself from the normal way I do things and see what stuff I've always done by habit is actually what I want to do by choice at this point in my life.
I stopped going on coffee dates and investing so much of myself in others. It was a good break to relax and recharge my batteries, but a couple weeks ago I felt the desire to start investing and connecting with the people in my life again.
Today was a record quality time day in the scope of the last few months. I loved every second. I had breakfast with a friend, stopped by a coffee shop, met another friend for lunch, did another friend's hair, hung out with my sisters, made dinner and watched a movie with my old roommates, headed to a movie with a bunch of friends late at night and went back to my sister's house to smoke hookah and sip tea until 4am.
I went home and realized I didn't have a "peopled out" feeling like I would've a few months ago after a long day like this.
My break was good. Now I'm looking forward to getting connected again.
For everything there is a time and a season...
For years I've spent multiple days of my week investing in the men and women in my life, going to coffee dates and loving every bit of it. A few months ago I decided to remove myself from the normal way I do things and see what stuff I've always done by habit is actually what I want to do by choice at this point in my life.
I stopped going on coffee dates and investing so much of myself in others. It was a good break to relax and recharge my batteries, but a couple weeks ago I felt the desire to start investing and connecting with the people in my life again.
Today was a record quality time day in the scope of the last few months. I loved every second. I had breakfast with a friend, stopped by a coffee shop, met another friend for lunch, did another friend's hair, hung out with my sisters, made dinner and watched a movie with my old roommates, headed to a movie with a bunch of friends late at night and went back to my sister's house to smoke hookah and sip tea until 4am.
I went home and realized I didn't have a "peopled out" feeling like I would've a few months ago after a long day like this.
My break was good. Now I'm looking forward to getting connected again.
For everything there is a time and a season...
Friday, October 26, 2012
Day 22: Nevada Day
I found out yesterday that I had today off work.
I'm absent minded sometimes with holidays, so my coworkers make sure I know I don't have to come into work when they happen now and then.
Today I spent my morning sleeping in and my afternoon with a lovely friend. She and I went to lunch, chatted and caught up after not seeing each other for a few months and then visited World Market for some much needed shop therapy. I walked out with only one thing, but man did I want to buy everything in that store.
I headed home after World Market and decided to buy some groceries and cook my roommates dinner. What a lovely night it ended up being. We laughed and talked and caught up on our weeks and how we were doing.
I'm so grateful for such wonderful women to share life with.
I'm absent minded sometimes with holidays, so my coworkers make sure I know I don't have to come into work when they happen now and then.
Today I spent my morning sleeping in and my afternoon with a lovely friend. She and I went to lunch, chatted and caught up after not seeing each other for a few months and then visited World Market for some much needed shop therapy. I walked out with only one thing, but man did I want to buy everything in that store.
I headed home after World Market and decided to buy some groceries and cook my roommates dinner. What a lovely night it ended up being. We laughed and talked and caught up on our weeks and how we were doing.
I'm so grateful for such wonderful women to share life with.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Day 21: Masquerade Ball
Tonight I went to a masquerade ball.
First I got off work, had a coworker help jump my car battery, went to Savers and found a dress to wear and then had my roommate come rescue me from the parking lot where my car died again (boxed in by other cars so I couldn't even jump it).
Eventually I made it home and changed and got gussied up and then headed to Mambo's nightclub which is a pretty large latin nightclub.
The night was so fun. Six girlfriends and I went and learned some latin dances, danced with some hispanic men and I particularly had a blast learning the "real deal" from an older, mildly creepy, man who knew how to teach most of the dances.
What a fun night with my girlfriends! Happy Halloween to us.
First I got off work, had a coworker help jump my car battery, went to Savers and found a dress to wear and then had my roommate come rescue me from the parking lot where my car died again (boxed in by other cars so I couldn't even jump it).
Eventually I made it home and changed and got gussied up and then headed to Mambo's nightclub which is a pretty large latin nightclub.
The night was so fun. Six girlfriends and I went and learned some latin dances, danced with some hispanic men and I particularly had a blast learning the "real deal" from an older, mildly creepy, man who knew how to teach most of the dances.
What a fun night with my girlfriends! Happy Halloween to us.
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