my right eye hurts

how strange.

i had a most fabulous sunday; i went to church at 9 AM (crazy, right, i know... i've been going to the 10:45, but for a reason i had to go earlier. i'm a night church owl), and at 10:45 was the new member class. it's seven weeks long, and i might be baptized (again... again). i'm not sure if i need to be... i think i will talk to one of the pastors about it. last time we had a baptism service at newlife i had been wondering about it but wasn't sure. but having contemplated the matter, i think that i only believed with my head that Jesus was Savior in march, 2007, and that it wasn't until june, 2007 that i believed with my everything.

after membership class, i found my small group people, and most of us went to moe's for some food. i don't like that place. i've tried two different things there... chipotle is just too good! but i like the people, so it's good. then we went to good neighbor sunday, a music/free food & t-shirt/family event in a park by the seminary. it was fun and i chilled with the sg and joanna came! annemarie also stopped by right before i left.

then joanna and i, and some of her friends went to open door baptist church's baptism service at falls lake. it was awesome, and fun. then joanna and i talked and watched a movie ("scoop" with wolverine and scarlett johanson).

it was a long day but full of fun and people that i love...

at work the other day when i came, i looked in the dining room and seriously thought i saw joel osteen. understandably it scared me and made me want to share jesus with him... then somebody told me that one of my sg people was there and had asked if i was there. it was duncan, and he was sitting with the not-joel osteen! i went and talked to them and told the guy i thought he looked like joel. apparently it wasn't the first time... and duncan told me today that that guy shaved his head to not look like joel (joking or not, who knows...!). haha.

savior king by hillsong = awesome

oh deliciousness

those of you in WF reading my blog (not many...): go to Shish Kabob! It's in the shopping center with food lion and rite aid, next to subway. it's delicious. it seems like there are daily specials... today was $4.99 for a kefta gyro (lebanese meatballs of deliciousness), fries, and a drink. i also got a side of falafel. they make them! they are a bit spicy but full of tastiness. i'm going to go back ASAP...

God is so good

He really is, and I am amazed every single day of the ways that He works.

Just a quick post, because I have a lot of reading to do:

Tonight I went to the International Justice Mission (IJM) meeting. I've been planning on going but then was about not to because of the forementioned homework, but I felt led by the Holy Spirit to go so I went and wow. It was a beautiful thing to see people be so honest and heartfelt and full of love for so many people that just are not being loved. Honestly I thought that the people there were going to be making idols of their causes, but first and foremost they exist as a organization to glorify the Lord. I think I nearly broke down in tears about five times, and was convicted of a great need and urgency, for my complete obedience and total surrender, and so many other things... it is really hard to process and I need to go do reading and then pray and pray and pray and probably cry.

Yeah. Hope all you people have had a good day and are rejoicing in the Lord.

ahahahaha

I definitely got a new air mattress today and it's so fabulous; I'm going to sleep like a baby tonight. My hip bones have been hurtin' real bad cause I sleep on my side and they've just been getting ground into the floor! Yessss.

I'll update about my church culture shock later. Sims now.

ADVENTURE

Yesterday instead of doing Russian homework (which I really need to do considering there are only a few days left for me to get all the tests done...) Sarah and I decided to venture down High Street. We walked to three different Asian markets. There we saw this:



It's coconut jelly. Looks pretty innocent, right? Think again. The main ingredient is "shredded gelatinous mutant coconut". I don't think I want to eat that. :(

On the way back we decided to get ice cream. We went to a place called Denise's. They had a million flavors and they all sounded sooo delicious, unlike Jeni's, which is really great, but has so many funky flavors that I have to try 5 or 15 before I find one I like. I tried salty caramel, cucumber, and carrot cake. Eventually I decided on getting a half scoop of thin mint oreo and a half scoop of carrot cake.



The carrot cake ice cream was really great. It had that fabulous spice flavor that I love so much.

Sarah had a lychee ice cream float in blackberry syrup flavored italian soda. It was really awesome. I tried to get some blackberry syrup at World Market today but they didn't have any. Sad face :(

Today I woke up at 7:30 AM to get my sister from golf a bit later... Then I unsuccessfully tried to nap at my parents house (I fell asleep after 3 AM) before going to Cap City Diner with my grandparents. I love them. And the food was good.

Now I'm bumming around because I am super tired. Maybe I should nap. But, I hate naps. But I really need to get Russian done. I have only the days and months to memorize and then a BUNCH of review to do before I can do the tests. Hopefully I pass...! WOO HOO.

After church on Sunday was great fun. Our waiter at Applebee's was a cool dude named Sean. He is actually a minister at the Catholic church that I could basically fall out my window onto (well... it's across the street). A bunch of us went to another place after Applebee's and hung out, and Sean came.

Now... NAPPY NAPPY TIME. Or maybe I will avoid napping and studying by cleaning and packing. I like that idea.

what a day!

I woke up this morning at 7, my usual time. Then I took a shower, my usual thing. in the shower I nearly fell over because I felt so faint and strange! I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn't, so I just stayed home and relaxed. Then I went to my English class. I loved that class! Today we had pizza and did two informal workshops; it was a great time.

I bought my The Dark Knight advance ticket tonight. I was talking to the guy who was selling the tickets and he said he saw half of it (before the IMAX broke...) and that it was "the best movie [he has] seen all summer!" Now I'm excited.

Then I got my parmesan salad with no broccoli from Zuppa (I always get it - I'm a one-sided salad eater) and then I went to Walgreens. This week Walgreens has a store promotion for Loreal Vive shampoo/condition that is buy one get one free (BOGO/B1G1). There was a manufacturer's coupon in last Sunday's paper for the same product, also BOGO. So, I paid $.34 for this:



Isn't that fabulous?! :D

For more information on getting stuff from Walgreens/CVS see here.

I have to do homework now. Bye.