Walmart To-do List

This post is rather pointless.
I laughed at this list though. Hope someone else will too :-)

• Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.
• Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone," 'Code 3' in housewares".... and see what happens.
  
• Go the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away.
• Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
• When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask,
• "Why can't you people just leave me alone?"
• Look right into the security camera; & use it as a mirror, and pick your nose.
• While handling guns in the hunting department, ask the clerk if he knows where the anti - depressants are.
• Dart around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme.
• Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through, say "PICK ME!" "PICK ME!"

It's done.

I cannot express how many times I have written a to-do list over the past months that included "work on research paper." I now get to scratch if off every single list I can get my hands on.

My paper is done, kaput, finished!

I crashed at approximately 2pm this afternoon. I was fried; my brain function was approaching the E. Mum prayed for me. I drank some water. And sat back down to come up with an intro and conclusion--the wonderful paragraphs that transported me over the minimum word mark.

I know it's not my best work. I know that in places the sentence structure could use work. I know that a few of the points could use a little more beef (explanation) behind them. But I have 2640 words typed and that fulfills what I need to get my English credit. This, my dear, dear friends...is a good feeling.

Whoo Hoo

I'm officially Spaced Out.
YC '07 countdown: 7 days

I Like Lists.

The following is a list of what I've consumed [other than spiritual nutrition ;-] today thus far.

• Pasta salad
• Caesar-ish salad
• KFC drumstick -yay! Another church tradition!
• 2 meatballs
• BBQ Pork
• 1 pickle
• 1 piece of apple pie
• 1/2 a M&M cookie
• granola bar
• water
• Fresca
• a frozen banana which tasted a little like a popsicle at times
• a small fudge brownie -a package made its way home with us somehow

Life is full of first experiences -aka doing things for the first time.
Today was the first church picnic I've ever been too; it won't be the last!
Yummy, yummy food as described above. Good & simple convo- I like things that are uncomplicated. Ultimate frisbee- I was catching pretty well towards the end of the game, but my throwing was way off. Throwing was better for me earlier in the game ;-P I know we have a frisbee somewhere around the house...I need to find it...

I like little kids. Watching them play in the water was the bestest! Bestest is a very girly word. I'd be scared if I heard a guy say "well, ya, like, that was just the bestest evER!" My camera was in hand for the last hour we were at the park. I took some very cute shots of Abigail, Timothy, Hannah & Aaron and Lydia & Abigail. After I download them I'll edit this post or post another post so ya'll can enjoy em :-]

That's pretty much the summary of the day for now. I could include notes fro Mr. R's message, or samplings of conversations I had or other such fun things; but that would be slightly complicated to do at the moment, and as I said before, I'm currently a fan of uncomplicated things.

Looking forward too:

• EVALUATION. I wonder how many times I said that word today...
• Should I include my SAT prep class on this list?
• swimming
• last softball game of season this week
• Wednesday "prayer and pizza"

and a little farther down the road...YOUTH CAMP!

Want a Good Laugh?

Hmm. I think I wanna post.

...But am not quite sure what to post about yet.

You know that feeling when you're sitting somewhere, watching something, and you feel warm? Maybe it's a summer night. Somehow What a Night come to mind. Maybe you're wrapped in a cozy blanket. God has been showing me how to become more fully His, that He's got me in His arms, and that He is as faithful to me as He was to Jacob.
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Realizing and describing where I am in seasons isn't quite easy for me; I'm learning how. For a few months I've been wrestling with trusting God and accepting where He's placed me once again- on a threshold. That threshold leads to a whole new and foreign part of His plan for me. God has been faithful to meet me everyday. Everyday He's used someone or something to show me that He's with me, that He cares, and that He's continuing to prepare me for whatever I need prepared for. He's placed me in where I'm supposed to be throughout my life, and He'll continue to do so. I'm not on my own.

It's been at times similar to jumping over an abyss. The abyss sits between personal will and desires and Christ's plan which is known to be everything best. One minute you look at the great gap and you're terrified. You turn away because your flesh doesnt want to jump over it! You're content to stay completely on your own terms. Christ knows the depths of your heart. He sees that beneath the fear and whatever else there is that the true desire of your heart is to be closer to Him. He brings it out of the darkness and to the light. Because of Christ's work on the cross, you are united with the Father. He wraps both arms around you and guides your pitiful and incapable feet smoothly. The inches become feet which become great lengths. The abyss is no doubt large, but how much bigger is our God?

Picture the way a child's hand grasps on to things- hair, toys, clothes. My heart has been like a child's hand. It has had a firm grip. I've had to come to the Lord and allow Him to pry open the fingers of my heart and let the object being grasped be removed so that my heart can fully be filled with Him.

Maybe reading Hinds Feet on High Places is affecting my mind- causing me to think in allegory form ;-)

Oh, and just so the topic doesnt remain anonymous- it's our family moving. Years of seeing this season of life in the distance- well- now it's sneaking up to the position of being smack in front of my face. I'm "sensitive," a "pack rat," and "sentimental." More importantly however, I am God's child and He is sovereign. We'll see how the story unfolds, eh?

Surely goodness and love shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6