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Sunday, August 22, 2004

Hello all! I've decided to end my time here on Blogger. But don't you fear! You can now find me at Xanga. Yes, I've joined the Xanga crew. I'm sorry Blogger...please forgive me. It's not you, it's me. You give me all my basic needs, but I want more. I want more features, more fun things to do with my site. Please don't cry. There are still plenty of users here to keep you occupied. I'm sorry if I've hurt you. It's just time for me to move on. You can keep in touch. You can now find me at http://xanga.com/qpdoll50. I've enjoyed my time here on Blogger, but it's just time to move on to bigger and better things. Blogger, I will always love you, for you were my first blog...goodbye...


(Wow, I'm the biggest dork in the entire world...)

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Hello faithful and loyal readers! It's been a while since an acutal "update" update, not a Venezuela update. So, I will now tell you what's been going on in my life over the past few weeks. :)

Got back from Venezuela just in time for Mike's wedding. It was amazing, absolutely amazing! It was so simple, yet so romanic. Andrea was absolutely beautiful!! Mike cried when she walked downe the aisle! It was so cute. So, yeah the wedding was amazing. The reception was a lot of fun, too. The whole weekend was just great. We had the rehersal Friday night and then had a big cook-out over at our house afterwards for everyone. It was a lot of fun. This wedding was just absolutely perfect. The decorations all turned out beautiful. The ceremony was just awesome. It's still kinda weird to think that my brother is married now. It hasn't really hit yet. Mike and Andrea came and visited us on Friday on their way home from Gatlinburg. They had a great time. I'm just so happy for the two of them. They're so perfect together and I just absolutely love Andrea! By the way, you can look at all the awesome pictures from the wedding here:

http://http://photos.yahoo.com/michaelandandreabrewerwedding

Ok, so what's been going on in Kim's life....

My birthday was last Thursday and I kinda had a four day long celebration of it. I went to B-Town on Thursday and got to spend the day with Cory which was awesome. We hung out all day and then went to Connexion that night and then just hung out some more. Nothing like some great QT. :)

Friday, I got my haircut after work and then came home and got ready for the family b-day party. Cory came down and Mike and Andrea stopped by one their way home. Stacey, Madi, adn Grandma came over too and we ordered pizza and had yellow cake with chocolate icing. YUMMY!!

Saturday I took a break from my birthday activities and just worked all day.

Sunday, I had a little get together after church. Dad grilled hamburgers and Cory showed off his grilling skills and made some delicious chicken. Had a pretty good turn out. Josh surprised me by showing up. It was really great to get to see him and catch up. Sarah Blair and I had some much needed talking time. It was just a great day. I got to spend it will all my Sullivan friends who I won't see much of anymore after this next week. : ( This summer has gone by soooo fast. I can't believe it already over. I'm really excited about going back to school, but I am going to miss everyone a lot. This summer was just so busy for everyone. If it wasn't for church, I don't think I would have hardly seen any of my friends. Oh well, I guess that's just a part of growing up...

Souls Harbour had it's first real practice last night. We have a new addition to our band...the one..the only...Chris Parrish! YAY! Last night was awesome. We busted out some awesome tunes. Harmonies were awesome, bass lines were really awesome. This is seriously a dream come true for me. For those of you who may not know, I'm in a band now. It's awesome. Our first gig is Friday, Septemeber 17 at 8 p.m. at Comfortzone Coffeehouse in Plainfield, Indiana. It's going to be awesome! The band consists of me, my amazing boyfriend Cory, my amazingly talented friend Dusty (aka 'D'), and my other amazing talented friend who busts out awesome bass lines like no other, Chris. It seriously is just so much fun. I can't even describe how excited I am about this. I get to sing and play with some of the most talented people I know. It's awesome. We also have a band blog:
http://http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=CountryEmonaut
You can go there to read about any news about the band and what not. It's pretty cool. So yeah, I'll keep you updated on here as much as I can about the band.

Well, I guess I should wrap this up. I need to start getting some stuff organized and packed. I move back to B-Town in 5 days!!! YAY!!! This year is going to rock! I could list all the reasons why this year is going to rock, but I'll leave that for the next post!

Until then, I send my love to you all!!!





Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Well, I'm a few days late, but here's part two of my trip to Venezuela:

Wednesday we got up muy temprano (very early) to meet to go to camp. We ended up sitting around for at least an hour or so. (BTW, Venezuelans are never on time. Time is just not an important issue to them. In a way, this is cool, but it isn't when you are starving and everyone is running an hour late picking you up for dinner. Anyway...) We finally all loaded on to the bus and headed to camp. The bus ride was long and hot, but fun. It gave us time to sit and chit chat with some of the youth. We got to camp around noon or so. Upon our arrival, we were informed that the camp had lost all electricity. This was a very bad thing. Especially when you've got about 30 hungry kids around. We ended up being without power for about the first few hours. Johnny and Paul had driven up separately and were running late so by the time they got to the camp with all of the food, the electricity was back on. We mainly just hung out most of the afternoon. Some people played futbolito which is just soccer played on a basketball court. Others swam in the big green pool which Jenny was completely grossed out by. She cringed every time she walked past it. I found it amusing. :) We had dinner and then had our first main session. It was really good. The drama team did skits every night and they were funny even though I had no idea what they were saying! Once again, the worship was amazing. And I'm sure the sermons were good too, but that stupid language barrier thing got in the way again. ;)


Every day at camp was pretty much the same. We had a morning devotion at 7:30. Actually, by the time everyone got there, it was more like 8:30. The CSF gang was in charge of the devos. Jenny gave hers Thursday, I gave mine Friday, and Daniela gave hers Saturday. Then we had breakfast. After breakfast, we had two sessions. During the first session, we could choose between two electives to go to. On Thursday, I went to the one that was going to be taught in English. Luke, a missionary in training if you will, taught it. It was about the world and not being consumed by it. It was really good. He focused on 1st Corinthians and compared the Corinthian Church to the church today. For the second session, we divided up, girls and boys. This was the sex talk, hence why guys went to one and girls went to another. It was really good. All I have to say is that Julie, another missionary in training, is amazing. She is definitely one of those girls that you just love to be around. Her talk was amazing and she was just amazing the entire time at camp. On Friday, I skipped the first elective because we all had to help Julie orgainze a skit for her session that day. Friday was the dating talk. Some of the girls put on a hilarious version of "The Dating Game." All I have to say is that Daniela plays the best geek ever! That session was definitely my favorite. Julie taught it as well and she was awesome.

We had a lot of free time during the day between lunch and dinner. This was spent in various ways. Futbolito, swimming, the climbing wall, the zip line, and playing hide and seek were the most popular activities. This was a fun time of the day because it gave us time to just kidna hang out with the youth. I love futbolito! It was so much fun playing with everyone!

Both main sessions Thursday and Friday were just as good as Wednesday's. Thursday, the CSF group sat in the back and prayed throughout the entire evening main session. It was an awesome experience. There were a couple specific things that we were asked to pray for, but mainly we just prayed that God would break these kids. The theme for camp was "Transformation" so we prayed that God would touch the hearts of everyone there and that he would transform them into what he wanted them to be. I don't really know exactly how to describe that night. It was definitely one of the most spiritual experience I've ever had. It was also awesome to see some of our prayers answered by the end of the week.

Friday's main session was really really good. At the beginning of worship, Johnny asked everyone to just get into a comfortable and humbling position, whether that meant laying down on the ground, standing up, falling to your knees, whatever. A lot of the kids were just bowing down before God. It was awesome to see them worship and humble themselves before God. After the main session, we built a bonfire and a few people shared their testimonies. Daniela gave hers and then a guy named Hannibal gave his. His testimony was very emotional and moving. His mother was Catholic but wasn't very involved in the church and his father was an atheist. He grew up as an atheist and believed in science. He had a rough couple years. He had a nasty break up with a girl and his life kinda went downhill. He was depressed and was diagnosed with some kind of depression, but I'm not really sure what. He tried to kill himself and he got mixed up with just a lot of bad stuff. He started hanging out with the youth group a few years back and finally gave his life to Christ about a year or so ago. His testimony was very emotional and moving. I definitely shed a few tears throughout that one. He is such an amazing guy. He has such a strong faith and you can see that in everything that he does. He is only one of the amazing people I met while in Venezuela. Anyway, after the testimonies, the CSF crew got the opportunity to share an amazing American tradition with the Venezuelans...making s'mores! It was so much fun! Some of these kids had never had a s'more before! One kid, Gabo, ate 10 s'mores! TEN!! And he never got sick! It was hilarious! I asked him how he felt and he just got this huge smile on his face, patted his belly, and said "I feel good"! It was great! He was such a fun guy! Anyway, despite the stress of melted chocolate bars and broken graham crackers, it was a lot of fun to make s'mores for everyone. I think I had one too many. I was insanely hyper that night. If you know me well, you know how I can get when I have a lot of sugar and I get into one of those hyper, annoying, slap-happy Kim moods. Yeah, I was totally in one of those that night, but it was fun. We all ended up hanging out till 1 am that night. It was a lot of fun, but getting up for the 7:30 devotion the next morning was not very fun...

Saturday, we just had one main session after breakfast. Paul gave the sermon. It was awesome. He hates to preach, but when he does, he does an awesome job! After the main session we had lunch and then just started cleaning up and packing to head home. We got back to Caracas later on that evening and just went home to get showered and do some laundry. We were supposed to go to dinner at 8, but that turned into about 9 or 9:30, but it was definitely worth the wait! We (being Me, Jenny, Daniela, Joel, Paul, Johnny, and his wife, Zandra) went to Outback for dinner (yes, they have an Outback Steakhouse in Caracas, as well as a TGIFriday's and a Hooter's!). It was a blast. We were all so exhausted and slap happy, it was great! If you don't know any better, you would have thought we were all drunk. Between Paul's Chocolate Thunder from Down Under and hearing him and Johnny talk about the big ass they saw earlier that day, it was hilarious! (Ass referring to a donkey, mind you) :) It was hilarious! Anyway...

Sunday, was the same as the last Sunday except more fun because we actually knew everyone. We went to Wendy's for lunch again after church and got to hang out with everone. Youth group was awesome! I gave my testimony which was nerve racking but everyone said I did good and that they enjoyed it. Then we all talked about our favorite parts of camp and what not. The end was the saddest part. :( I had to say goodbye to everyone. It was soooo sad. It was so hard to say goodbye. I mean, these people were amazing. I can't even describe how amazing they were! They were just the most loving, friendly, and God filled people I've ever met. We were supposed to go to there to help encourage this kids, but I honestly think I got encouraged more than I encouraged. Everyone shed a few tears while saying our goodbyes. Ok, everyone shed a lot of tears while saying goodbye, especially me.

Well, there you have it. My trip in a nutshell. I'm not the best at telling stories and I apologize if you were bored throughout any of this. If you want to know any more about my trip or have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment or drop me an email. It's just really hard to put into words all the amazing things I experienced while in Venezuela. I'll leave you now with some memorable quotes from the trip:

Kim: "Mi casa duele! Wait, I mean mi cabeza duele!"

Jenny: "Anyone want any chicle? Did you like that, I said it in Espanol!"

Francisco: "It's an internal joke between the two of us."

Daniela: "The butt's open!" (referring to the back of the Explorer)

Paul: "That's the biggest ass I've ever seen!"

Jenny: "I cannot do the work on God in this condition!"

Everyone: "Da Moose, Da Moose..."

Linda: "Why you do that?"

Johnny: "But it's my birthday cake..."

*Sigh* Good times! I just wanna send a big thank you out to everyone who supported me throughout this trip. Whether it be financially or through prayer or thoughts. I really appreciate it and I love you all!!!!

Oh yeah, one last thing....here's the link to all my pics! http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/qpdoll50/my_photos

Check 'em out...they're fun!

Well, goodnight all, I hope you all are well!!

BTW, Tomorrow's my 19th Birthday!!!!! YAY!!! :)

Monday, August 09, 2004


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Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Hola Amigos! So, the time has come for me to tell you about my trip to Venezuela! YAY! First off, if you are wanting the short "how was it" version, it was absolutely AMAZING!! By far the best trip ever!! I got to meet some of the coolest people in the world and I experienced God in a way I never had before. It was AWESOME! Now for the little longer, more in detail version of my trip. Be prepared, I hope you aren't in a hurry........:)

So, I got to Paul's house around 9:15 Friday morning, the 23rd, and we headed to the airport. At the airport, we met up with the rest of our group, Joel and Jenny (my future roommate!). Friday was kinda boring, we just flew the whole day. The flights were good. We flew from Indy to Atlanta to Caracas. The plane rides gave plenty of time for some much needed bonding and filling in of each other's lives. It was nice. We got to Caracas around 8 or 9. Johnny, the missionary we worked with, and his family were all there to pick us up as well as Daniela who is a girl from CSF who is Venezuelan and came down a week early to visit family. When we got into the city, we were greeted my thousands of beautiful lights. The mountains looked like Christmas trees. We were later informed that those beautiful lights were coming from the "barrios" which are houses that are pretty much just stacked on top of each other. The poorer people live in the barrios, and during the day, it is not pretty at all. Anyway, we were all then taken to where we would be making our homes for the next 10 days. We three girls stayed with Senora Aura. Her house is amazing! When I walked in, I thought I walked into a castle. First off, she has tons of paintings hanging everywhere. They were gorgeous! Her furniture is kinda victorianish, if that's a word. Either way, the house was amazing! It made a nice home for 10 days.

Saturday, we got up and headed to the park where all the youth hang out. Now, I will refer to the people we hung out with as the "youth" or "kids" but most of them are older than me. We worked with kids from 17- mid 20's. We met a few of them at the park. They all go there to play soccer. It was fun. We then sat down with Johnny and had kinda an orientation type thing. He just let us know exactly what we would be doing and what not. Then we went to a Venezuelan restaurant for lunch. It was amazing! Arepas and Cachapas are delicious! We spent the rest of the day getting all of our souvenir shopping out of the way. Then just kinda hung out.

Sunday was a long, but great day. All we did all day was go to church and eat! Their church doesn't start until 12:30 or 1, something I definitely think we should do here in the states! That morning, Senora Aura made us an amazing breakfast. We went to church and were there till about 2:30 or 3. Then we went to Wendy's for lunch and just hung out until it was time for youth group. Youth group was a lot of fun. Jenny and I got up with Paul and taught a few English praise songs to the youth group. That's another thing...Worship was awesome! It was so cool because even though we weren't exactly sure what we were singing, we could still feel the spirit. We knew most of the songs because they were songs we sing here, they were just in Spanish. It was just really cool to be able to worship in another language. Jenny also gave her testimony that night at youth group. It was really good. Then we just hung out with the youth some more. It was a lot of fun. I got to practice my Spanish on some of them. They are so encouraging! Even if you totally mess up and say something really stupid, they just kinda laugh it off and correct you. They love it when you try to talk to them in Spanish. After youth group, we went to grab some dinner and then headed home for the night.

Monday we got up met some of the youth and we climbed up the mountain to Avila. I'm not sure if Avila is the name of the mountain or the name of the peak that we went to. Not sure...either way it was gorgeous. It was definitely a workout hiking up it, but it was definitely worth it. We could see the entire city and it was beautiful. The way down the mountain was a lot of fun because we were able to talk a little more since we weren't so out of breath. We were able to chit chat. It was fun. After the mountain, we just hung out for a little bit and showered and went to the mall that night. This mall is outrageous! It is the biggest mall in South America. It is HUGE! The girl that we hung out with most of the time, Linda (pronounced Leendah), said that she hasn't even seen the entire mall, and she's lived there her whole life! It was insane! But it was really nice because stuff was really cheap, at least for us. After the mall, we went back to Linda's place and watched "13 Going on 30." Great chick flick! After the movie, it was bed time and we all headed home.

Tuesday was kinda a blah day. We didn't really do much. We slept in and got some stuff ready for camp and then went to the mall again and went to dinner with a bunch of people. Other than that, not much happened.

Well, I think I'm going to leave it at that for now. Wednesday we headed to camp so I'll post more tomorrow or Friday and let you know how all of that went. I'll give you a hint...it was AWESOME! Hopefully you enjoyed the first half of my trip to Venezuela. If you did, great! And it gets even better!!! If you didn't and were totally bored out of your mind while reading this, don't worry, it gets better!!!

Until then... Adios! Necesito acostarme. Estoy muy cansada. Te quiero!



Saturday, July 17, 2004

Currently Playing:  Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
 
Greetings to all!  Figured it was time for another post. :)  I just got off work.  Actually I got off almost an hour ago, but I finally got to sit down.  Work was pretty good tonight.  We were super busy the whole time, which was good because it made the night go by fast.  The highlight of my night was definitely my break, for mulitiple reasons.  Well, here goes the random thoughts of today...
 
Tomorrow is Andrea's bridal shower.  It should be a lot of fun.  I gotta get up early to clean and run some errands.  I don't think we're going to have a big turnout.  It'll probably just be her family and ours, but it's still going to be fun.  You just put her mom and my mom together and you know there's going to be fun. :)  I still just can't explain how happy I am for her and Mike.  She's just so awesome!  Tomorrow is going to be great!
 
I shouldn't listen to awesome music while I blog...it distracts me.  I end up singing and rocking out instead of typing.  Focus, Kim, focus...
 
This weekend should be fun.  I have the shower tomorrow and then a concert tomorrow night.  Sunday I'm having a party and you are invited!!!!  Yes, you!  I don't care who you are.  If you are reading this, then most likely you know me and are my friend.  So, get your booty down to Sullivan on Sunday around 1 or so.  Bring your swimsuit and an empty tummy.  Bring the swimsuit so that you can swim (duh) and bring an empty tummy so that you can fill it with Dave Brewer's legendary hamburgers!  It should be a great time, so come!
 
I leave for Venezuela in 6 days.  A week from this very moment, I will be in Caracas.  That is hard to believe.  I think I'm getting more and more nervous everday, but still excited.  Speaking of which, guess what I got at Wal-Mart the other day???  Seriously, guess............................(giving you time to guess)....................  Nope, that's not it, but close!  I got a Spanish Bible for only $1.47!!  Isn't that awesome!  The whole Bible in Spanish for $1.47!  I was excited!
 
I somehow misplaced the packaging slip that came with my computer so I couldn't send in and get the $100 mail-in-rebate.  That sucks.  But, in a way it's my fault.  Nothing like waiting until the last minute to send the rebate form in.  Oh well, it's just 100 bucks, no big deal.......;)
 
I've forgotten how awesome this album is....
 
I was looking through some of my music the other day and I realized that I have about 5 or 6 completed songs of my own.  Now, I know for some of you more experienced musicians, this may not seem like a big deal, but it is for me!  Heck, that's half of an album!  This makes me very happy. :)
 
So far, I haven't changed my mind about my major.  Still going with Elementary Ed.  This is a good thing.
 
I love the 90's rocks!!!!!!!
 
Andrea introduced me to something wonderful the other day...myspace.com.  It's kinda like another blog website, but it's kinda cooler.  It's more musically oriented.  You can look up bands and what not on there.  It's pretty fun. 
 
Well, I guess that's enough rambling for tonight.  Wait!  No it's not!  I haven't talked about my amazing worship experience that I had the other night...
 
So, I went to the Michael W. Smith, MercyMe, and David Crowder band concert the other night and it was awesome!!!  Brooke called Tuesday night and decided not to go, which bummed me out, but I understood.  But, I had no problem finding someone else to go with me since my mom is a die-hard MWS fan.  BTW, big BIG THANKS goes out to Brooke for the tickets!  You are awesome and I love you!!!!  Anyway, the concert was amazing, that's all I can say.  It was seriously just a three hour long worship service.  Something Mom and I both really needed.  We've both been kinda stressed lately and it was great to just go and worship and forget about work and all the other craziness of life.  Dave Crowder was awesome, but the crowd wasn't really getting into him too much for some reason.  I loved him, though.  Although he only played for like 20 or 30 minutes which kinda stunk.  Then MWS came out and was later joined by MercyMe and they played a few songs together.  Eventually MWS left and it was just MercyMe.  They were awesome!  I could have just listened to them the whole time.  Then the opposite think kinda happened.  MWS came out and joined MM and eventually MM left and it was just MWS.  He was as good as I expected him to be.  The end of the concert was the best.  MWS, MM and Dave Crowder all came out and led a few songs.  It was awesome.  Then, we ended by singing "Awesome God."  The instruments faded out so it was just our voices and then everyone started to clap to the beat.  I can't really describe it, but it was beautiful and amazing.
Then it was kinda abruptly stopped by the Verizon people raising the house lights.  All in all, it was a great time.  There's just something about having a really stressful week and then just being able to go and sing your heart out and really worship God for a few hours that is just amazing.  I can't really describe it.  It's a great stress reliever. :)  Also, besides the amazing concert, it was nice to have some mother-daughter time.  I really love my Mom for everything she is to me and I love being able to hang out with her and listen to my music and look over and see her kinda bobbing her head along to the music.  She's so cute!
 
Ok, now I think I'm done rambling.  I hope everyone is doing well.  And don't forget...Sunday, 12:30 or 1ish, my house in Sullivan, pool party!!!  Be there or be square!!!...(man, I'm a dork)
 
Goodnight, all! :)

 


Thursday, July 08, 2004

I probably shouldn't be posting on here, but I just can't help it. I need to blog!

Even though I don't want to feel like a copy cat, I kinda like this random thoughts blogging idea. I have a bunch of random stuff going on in my head right now, and it would be nice to get it all out. So, here it goes...

Went shopping for wedding decorations with Andrea (future sis-in-law) and Stacey (big sis) today. We had a blast. We got everything we needed and stayed within our budget. I'm sooo looking forward to this wedding, but I don't really know why. First off, the ceremony itself is going to be amazing. It is so perfectly Andrea and Mike. From the simple decorations, to the music that they're playing, it is going to be awesome! For all you Further Seems Forever fans, she is walking down the aisle to "New Year's Project"! How awesome is that!! Plus, I've gotten to know Andrea really well over the last month or so and I just love her so much! I'm so excited about having her as my new sis! And the reception is going to be sooo much fun!! It is just all around going to be a great, romantic, perfect wedding!

I've decided to change my major from Religious Studies to Elementary Education. I have been debating auditioning for the School of Music, but decided against it. I've been working in Children's Church over the last month, and I've forgotten how much I love kids. I actually think I may want to be a Children's Minister someday. I dunno. I do know that I love kids and I really think that Elementary Ed is what I want to do. So, this is a good thing in a way. At least I have an idea as to what I want to do. I'm probably going to have to go to school an extra year or so, but I guess it's worth it in the end. I just hope this is the last time I change my mind about my major. It probably won't be...

Over the past few weeks, I've been expanding my musical horizons, if you will. I've been listening to a ton of new stuff and I love it! I've fallen in love with music in a way I've always wanted to. I could just sit and listen to music all day long! I've discovered so many new bands that I never knew existed, and I love them! It seems like I'm able to find a song for every mood that I'm in. I just can't really describe it...I just love music!Here's a list of the bands that I have discovered are absolutely amazing:

Matchbook Romance - totally my new favorite band. They are amazing!
Autopilot Off
Copeland - yes, they are totally and completely the most emo band I have ever heard, but I love them!
Jack Johnson
Josh Kelley - be still my heart... ;)
Motion City Soundtrack
Yellowcard - amazing
Over the Rhine - one word..WOW...big thanks goes out to Andrea for first introducing me to the wonderful music of Over the Rhine :)
Ryan Adams
Story of the Year
Sugarcult
The Killers
Graham Colton

Those are the ones that stick out in my mind as my new favorites, but I still have many more to listen to...

BBQ sandwiches from DQ rock!!! Mmmmmm....

I've decided that this summer is the last summer working in the fast food business. Four years is long enough, almost too long...

Excited about the Michael W. Smith, MercyMe, and Dave Crowder Band concert I'm going to next week. Should be tons of fun.

I need to make an appointment to get my oil changed in my car.

I have one week to plan a bridal shower. This should be fun...

I need to start exercising again.

My little brother Dusty got a job at DQ and should be starting in the next week or so. I hope I get to train him. I hope we don't end up hating each other after working together. Not quite sure how this will go...

I love my friends...

Sometimes I wonder why I do some of the things I do. I do some things that I know I shouldn't do, and I don't do the things I know I should do enough. This needs to change...

Am I selfish?...

Just a little over two weeks till my mission trip to Venezuela. I'm getting a little nervous, but still excited. I have a lot to get ready over the next two weeks. Please keep me and the five other people going with me in your prayers from July 23 to August 2. :)

I love metrosexuals...

I love the fact that no matter how crappy things get in my life, I have the hope and assurance that God already has it all worked out. He's going to take all this stuff and work it all out. I just need to put my faith and trust in him. I actually taught this in Children's Church the other week and I ended up kinda preaching to myself. If I had things my way, I would change a lot of things in my life. But, God's in control, and I'm cool with that. His way isn't necessarily they way that I would like things to go, but I guess He knows better than I. ;) But seriously, God has a plan for me, a plan to prosper, not to harm me, a plan to give me a hope and a future. And I like knowing that.:)

This has turned out to be a really long post of random thoughts...Well, I guess it's time to go. Leave a comment if you're feeling saucy. ;)