leckerli party madness

i asked what a certain item was - it was a pawpaw - but my family got into all the information of the fruit, like its scientific name and what family it was in and all sorts of other stuff. it's a "michigan banana," too, by the way...

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

on life

Sometimes I crack myself up. This afternoon I called a couple about their small group and got the husband, so I talked to him a bit and he said his wife would call me later. She did, but I didn't realize it.

My ringtone is "Awesome God" and I was walking around my house cleaning a bit when I started singing along, "our God is an awesome God, He reigns..." and totally didn't realize that 1) I started singing because my phone was ringing and 2) that music just started playing. My life has a soundtrack! Man, I love Jesus.

Today I saw a cute black kitty (well, cat) traipsing about our parking lot. I decided tot try to lure the kitty with some Chick-fil-a chicken (went there for lunch today with my friend, who is awesome, and I think I'm going to adopt him as my brother, but he doesn't know it yet), but it didn't work. Eventually one of my neighbors came out and he offered to give me a box. I tried to call animal control but they aren't open... so the poor kitty will wander around outside. :(

There is a pet store down the street from school. It is a crazy seafoam green and pink building so I've wanted to go there. They have all sorts of things, like a barracuda, and HUGE parrots, and tarantulas and scorpions and all sorts of lizards and snakes. And then I turned around and realized that the huge thing behind me was a cage, for a yellow (albino) burmese python that is at least fifteen or twenty feet long and probably close to a foot wide... it was awesome. They feed it rabbits, and breed with it. Next time I go in I'm going to ask how they do that. Apparently they sell her babies. And then people let them go usually when they are too big. I would be so scared if I randomly saw a 20 foot python in the wild.. then I'd prolly try to pet it. :P

I want a snake. If I move outside of school housing it will be to a place that will let me have a ball python or something...

i'm baking brownies

But not for me. :)

I lift my hands, I'm so desperate to feel Him
So let's be honest, without Him life just passes by

Slow down, we're slowly dying
But we can live again
Be lifted up in Him

- from "Let's be honest" by This Beautiful Republic, a group I really dig lately

Today I opened my beloved macbook to find that it was being weird. When I restarted I got a flashing question mark... not good! I searched around online (on my desktop... yay, the internet is working on it today!) for some fixes, and finally tried to repair the disc from a boot disc or whatever... but it won't work. Apparently the closest Apple store is 30 minutes away, so I will have to call them first and see if they will be able to do something about it before I go there. If this laptop is dead... I guess I will buy another, because it is so much easier to take notes on a laptop than write them. But I don't know if I will buy an apple. :'(

Then I went to wal-mart and goodwill... the candle sticks I have wanted since I've been here were still there and now I am the proud owner of them! But when I went to the dollar store after that to get a Sunday paper (they were sold out already, again... I should go earlier I reckon), I found that I didn't have my wallet... so I drove back to goodwill, and right when I got there, a woman and her family saw it and picked it up and I was so relieved that it was there. It's amazing cause it was right in the middle of a few empty spots, and when I left goodwill the first time there were four different cars with people in them and they could have taken my wallet. None of my money was taken either! Which is excellent because it had all my tips from waitressing this week in it =O

I might get a couch tonight. Now I should do reading. I have a lot.

I hate when people call me a "young 'un" and I'm barely 4 years younger than them. I feel so belittled and disrespected. I don't know if I should say something to the person, or if this is my problem and I shouldn't have a problem with it, or if I should just take it. After this happens I go home and read Psalms for hours because I get depressed.

I'm lonely and want friends and someone to hug :(

AND!

Yesterday, I met someone that eats raw ground beef, and I officially graduated from OSU! (Whenever I mention OSU people either 1) have to be told the whole name, 2) are shocked I went to a pagan institution, or 3) remark how big it is. No OSU football fans here, I guess. (Everybody likes Duke or NC State basketball. Lame.)