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Memory Lane…I-94West

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Since yesterday around 11.30am, I've traveled approximately 700 miles down memory lane…a little road I like to call Interstate 94 West.  

I'm currently at my BFF's house in Minnesota, typing my post, not only on a mac for the first time ever, but looking at a screen that's wider than my living room tv and more than half the height of it. 🙂 Hilarious.  Plus, I'm sitting next to their basement recording studio-thing.  Wow…it's a cool setup!  

But that's neither here, nor there.  I'm staying at my friend's house (whom I've missed dearly) and we just got to hang out for a couple hours…which was so, so great.  She's got a cute little prego belly on her, which is also so, so great!  

To get here, I did have to travel on 94 West for 700 miles though, and when I entered the Twins Cities, my heart started to beat quite quickly.  I certainly don't wish that I was back in college-life right now is amazing!  Oh, but stepping back into my past this evening was sort of unreal to me. 

I drove over to North Central to see my good friend, Ginger (picture to come), her husband, Juice, and to meet their daughter Kallie.  Wow…just driving down Elliot Avenue almost made my cry.  Memories just started flooding my heart and I felt overwhelmed.  Then seeing Ginger, and reminiscing, made me laugh hard and recall how God blessed my college years in countless ways.  I remember thinking that life just couldn't get any better.  

Somehow it did and I get to live life with amazing people, minister with amazing people, and serve amazing people in Metro Detroit.  My college years were the best…for then…and my life right now is the best…for now.  And someday (someday) when I'm married and have a kid or two of my own, life will be the best…for then all over again.

My trip down memory lane has only begun, and I'm ecstatic to continue tomorrow…but how fun that God has been creating new memories for my lane to continue, and He'll continue that journey throughout the rest of my life.  

Life certainly didn't end after high school.  It certainly didn't end after college, It's not going to end when I turn thirty…it's not even going to end when I get married!  =)  But neither did it begin at any of those ventures.  Life is happening NOW.  I need to remember to live the life that God has me in NOW.  

Geeksquad Anyone?

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The first time I saw someone with a Geeksquad shirt on, it was one of my best guy friends-Josh.  He wasn't
really a geek, but I liked to call him a nerd, so I thought the shirt fit so well!  It took me a couple years to actually catch on that Geeksquad was a real thing.  And it's this week that I'm coming to full terms with this squad…my computer has been (for lack of a better way of saying it) acting funky.  It's been sad and it's kept me on the edge of my seat…praying over this portable know-it-all machine that offers convenience any time I want.  (Hmmm…I could actually add this to my last post's list right now.)

My sad little computer needs to go into the Geeksquad computer hospital, so I bought a portable hard drive to backup my major files and although it took awhile, I think I'm almost done.  Needless to say…this has taken quite awhile:)

So, Geeksquad, here I come!

Breaking the Silence

Okay, enough with the "not-really-blogging" posts…and the 3 1/2 week silence. 

I once read on someone’s blog that if she didn’t blog about it, it was like it never happened!  I have to admit that sometimes I kinda feel like that.  The past few weeks have left me pretty sick.  Like, I’m okay now, but I had this cough that wouldn’t quit and it wore me out.  But I couldn’t really gather my thoughts into an organize fashion enough to post anything halfway decent. 

Some things that I may blog on soon:  Career Day (from a few weeks ago…hilarious), bittersweet Sixers/Pistons game and my brother’s accusations about my part in it, Teacher Appreciation Week, to use plastics in the kitchen, or not…an interview with Emily Gocke, our field trip to Earthworks, my love affair with asparagus…cooked by none other than my awesome roommate, Jen, my pastor’s modeling shoot.

Stay tuned!

Slowing Down

Well, the stress of the beginning of the school has begun to slow…just begun though:) 

It’s crazy how different the beginning of the year can be from the rest of the year!  Honestly, I’m a little anxious about progress reports that go out next week.  And I’ll leave you wondering about why, but if you think of me (or perhaps, right now) would you please pray for me?  I’m desperate for His help this next week.  I need incredible favor with parents during this time of transition from tradition teaching and grading, to do what I’m doing right now.  I need others to be patient with, as I grow, and as I often feel sorta clueless…blindly walking forward. 

When I have too many things going on, I don’t prioritize well, and I go numb about everything.  People are always like, "well, there’s still going to be work tomorrow, so you’ll have to prioritize," and it seems to me like those people have no clue what I’m dealing with here.  I’m thinking I just don’t handle stress too well.  How’s that for honesty?  I really think that I just plain stink at it.  (God, help my future husband!)  I guess I’m not horrible at it, but I’m definitely not great at it.

So, my prayer verse for the night…which is not simply a cliche or a "positive thinking" tool…God’s Word is real and His promises are real and He’s proven that to me in the past, so He won’t let me down.  (Thanks, God, for caring so much about me!)

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:7

My First Birthday Present!

I got my first birthday present this morning!!!  Katie gave me a few books, including Skippyjon Jones, and it is theSkippyjon_jones
funniest kids book ever.  It looks kinda boring, if you only look at the cover.  Please, a dumb cat?  But once you open the pages to read about the siamese cat who lives his life pretending to be a chihuahua…you will fall in love and cry with laughter…especially if you try to do the Mexican voices of the characters.  Perhaps I will videotape myself reading the story aloud.  That would be fun.  Would you watch it? 🙂

Really About Monday

"Most of the time when we think of church, we think of Sunday. But Sunday is really about Monday. If our job as Christians was simply to get together and worship God, we could do that in Heaven. But our job is more than that: that’s why God has us strategically placed right where we are." – John Ortberg, “The Church on Monday Morning” (sermon at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church 3/12/06)