Okay, this post is for the 3 people that might actually care about my profile picture…(Mom, you’d better vote!)  So my mom e-mailed me a few weeks ago and said that she’d read my blog that day.  She said that it was a nice thing that I wrote about, but then in an "ahem" sort of way said that I really needed to change my picture.  First of all, she likes me better without glasses (who doesn’t?) and she likes it better when I smile…the scary picture really threw her off, I guess:)  Therefore, I am changing my profile picture.  You’ll be happy to know that I keep forgetting to ask people to take a few pictures of me to try out, so I came home from church today, set my camera up and set the timer.  Here are a few to choose from.  If you want, you can vote.  I only expect a few people to do this, so go for it:)

                                                                                 

                                                                                          

                                                                                  

A couple days early:)

…sorry, I don’t always get to read the comics, and today they’re extra funny to me.

Can’t you see it?

 

   

 

 

     

 

Sometimes I just need to be able to laugh out loud…here’s something that helped with that today.  I needed a good laugh:)

My roommate, Jen, sent me an email today.  This is what it said…

i had a funny dream about you last
night.   you were secretly dating a guy and you wouldn’t tell me who
he was or anything about him-and i was so upset cause you wouldn’t tell
me.  in the dream, i was hanging out with a couple of other people and they
knew all about him.  his name was ben and he was a state trooper.  so,
if you meet any state troopers named ben, watch out!  🙂

You heard it here, folks! 🙂

Punxatawney Phil did not see his shadow this morning so that means we’re supposed to have an early spring…yeah, right:)

(This started as a "comment" to Leah and Anne Marie’s comments below, but it got kind of long to just be "a comment")

I wonder what 10,000 letters would look like…Hmmm…tempting.  I may have just spoken way more than 10,000 words to my oldest, and dearest, best friend in the whole world, Jen (Gowell), on the phone. (even though she doesn’t read my blog, I still love her a whole lot:)   1 hour and 42 minutes…let’s see 102 minutes times 60=oh, that’s only 6,120 seconds.  not quite enough.

Anne Marie, I just may celebrate my 20,000th day, we’ll have to see!  If God blesses me to live to see my 20,000th day, I’ll be 54!  Hopefully I’ll be married by then (hah!:), have had some kids and hopefully some grandkids.  So on my 20,000th day I want to celebrate with my grandkids.:)  How’s that for planning?

For the past year I’ve looked forward to this day.  I’ve thought about what I would do to celebrate.  So here I am and what I am doing?  No, I’m not at Caribou, but I am about to grade papers.  🙂 

I actually kind of forgot about it today, until I was at Curves getting measured (of all things).  All of a sudden I bursted out to the lady there, "I’m 10,000 days old today!!"  She said, "Oh, well Happy Birthday!"  I told her it wasn’t my birthday, and that I was just 10,000 days old.  She just laughed.

This morning I got to pray with some friends, and that was a great thing to do on such a special day.  After that…nothin’ special.  Maybe if I get my work done I can do something to celebrate.  I’ve gotta admit that I’m a little disappointed in myself…

"So, self, I’m sorry for not doing much to celebrate this landmark day."

I guess if I could do something to salvage this moment I could simply express 10,000 THANK YOU’S to the people in my life who mean so much in my life.  And even more THANK YOU’S to Jesus for saving me by His amazing grace…and everthing else He’s done in my life.:)

I think that people are under the impression that kids are the only people that pray for snow days…but they’re wrong!  Teachers pray for snow days even harder than the kids do!  After driving for an hour to get to church tonight because of the snow, I’m really prayin’ for a snow day tomorrow.  🙂