what what

In my own life, I've been thinking a lot about joy and how cool it is to have. Because so much of life just happens to you in a way you absolutely can't control. Having joy makes it all something you can handle. Not that I actually do that most of the time, because it's hard to do.  So uh, you keep on truckin and I will too. And we'll all make it out of here alive.

Not really we will all die someday.

But in the meantime! Dave and Paige and I bought delicious grocieries tonight and I forced them to have pictures taken of themselves.


contemplate the food.
 

eat the food?
 


But seriously. Bad things happen but they eventually pass. And having joy makes them way easier to handle.


Also, I think I want to marry the eiffel tower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STCOo9Hh5lE&feature=related

of course Tim Tebow is on tv

fake people

 
I'm super in love with God.
P-lus, some awesome stuff is coming up in life. Stuff like, rave, PP, fall break, Halloween, a visit to UGA, and cabin weekend!
Also, those things will be accompanied by copious amounts of homework.
Life is a double edged sword. 
This entry doesn't make sense.


Get out of my life Tim Tebow!

darlin

Today's post is dedicated to my recently deceased friend: spider in my shower this morning.  The previous sentence may have sounded humorous, but humor is the furthest from what I feel about spider in my shower this morning. Initinally, the sight of him upset me. He was a little bigger than spiders I normally encounter, and so I attempted to drown him by turning on the faucet. He managed to escape the onslaught, but the sides of the tub were far too steep for him to climb. So, with genius unheard of for a spider, my new friend was able to avoid all contact with water and find a dry spot in the shower, which by this time was turned completely on. I accidently splashed him when stepping into the shower, and he curled up his legs in a way that I thought meant for sure he was dead. But no! He was only resting. Soon he uncurled all eight of his legs and again found a dry spot to stand. At this point I thought, ok, as soon as I get out the shower I will save this spider's life. But to wait was my fatal error, for this particular spider could not and would not wait with me. In a final act of astounding bravery, my spider friend attempted to run and swim across the river of water rolling down from one side of the shower to the other by crawling along  our bath mat. And he almost made it. But his fate was sealed; the water was too strong. And after a few final struggles, I watched my spider friend curl up one final time and wash toward the drain. This happened well over 12 hours ago, and I still can't erase the memory of my momentary friend from my mind. And if you read this whole thing, than you are a true friend of mine.

and in the morning hope that we're all the same!

Ok so recently in my own living, thinking time I have been consider the intense amount of vices I have. Not all "bad" vices by any stretch of the imagination. I love going to starbucks and cop shows. In no way are those things bad, but they are both vices of mine, and they do get in the way of me accomplishing things. For instance watching hours of criminal minds...right at this moment. And via reading about the fruits of the spirt in Galatians (at the suggestion of my dear friend and roommate Paige) I have come to the conclusion that self control is just about the most important thing anyone can learn. Like, if you have the ability to control yourself and your actions, then you're basically set to accomplish what you want to in life. So umm, I'm guessing I'm saying that I also want to learn self control in the highest extent.

 
 
 
 


woooooooooooooooooooo



hoo

gnarly

here are some pictures

 kelsey is a funny girl
 
 lookin fertile


these next two dudes are who I spend my weekdays with
liam & soran

 
 he is ticklish :)

I'm a baby person. ugh


now I have to focus all my hatred on cats

right wing, left wing, chicken wing

If you really want to know about me, this picture will tell you all you could ever ask

I am in the process of skipping class
Plus, I'm watching that 70's show
being in college is seriously the easiest life. we've tricked everyone.

and none for Gretchen Weiners bye

I've been sneakingly manipulating all my friends into getting blogs they don't want.

My summer got planned out today, which is pretty exciting.  For one, I get to go on the England/Scotland Lee trip...assuming that sleeping outside the Humanities building the night before deposits are due gets me a spot. And then I'm going to go back to Yellowstone, my favorite place in the whole world. I am so lucky I get to go on all these adventures.

On a different note, all my friends have really been on my heart the past few days. And not just because I'm forcing them to get blogs. I feel like lots of people I know are all going through important stuff. Not necessarily that something very terrible has happened in their life, even though there is that, but more internal stuff is what I'm talking about. I don't even know what to say about it really, just that I love all my friends and they really have been on my mind. And that I feel like awesome things are about to start happening in a lot of people I know's lives. I feel it coming. You know, just around the river bend, beyond the shore.


inspiration.


I'm really not that funny

mistress of hell

I made cookies today. I am woman. Some of these pictures are sideways but I feel it will be too much work for me to turn them around.
this is a picture of Dave eating cookie dough


being domesticated


failure. I mean...successful attempt at making a cookie person


chowin down


look at how much these people love each other


Danya: "I take credit for this." Good, because I don't want it.


here are all the things I did today. In order. Condensed version.

8-10 a.m. babysit Liam
10-1 p.m. be in class
1-1:25 p.m. return blockbuster movie, go to walgreens
1:25-4 p.m. read cosmo with dave and generally fart around
4- 5:15 p.m. class again
5:15- 6 pm. work out with my good friend kyle
6- 8 p.m. eat soup, do homework, make horrible cookies
8- 9 p.m. watch house season premiere with neil, dave, danya, and kelsey
9- 10 ish p.m. watch intramural (sp?) softball game. david's team dominates
10-12 a.m. walk around Lee's campus with danya and kelsey and talk about awesome things
current a.m. listen to my friends talk about knitting. i cannot knit. or crochet. or bake.

Danya: "some guy died outside where I used to work today"
All: "oh man, that sucks, etc."
Danya: "yah, he ran a read light and drove under a semi."
Kelsey: "aw man. under a semi. (2 second lapse) I'm kinda hungry."

sometimes there are fish, sometimes there are seven fish.

some pics from the road
from this weekend






using this blog makes me feel computer savvy. It really does.



"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." -Foucauld

This is going to sound super lame but, this quote was on the beginning of criminal minds and I think it describes things perfectly. I have faults in my brain for sure. And I know they're not going to go away. But I am going to try to heal them up anyways. What else can you do? And that isn't even a sad thing to say. It's just a life thing to say. And I have a very good life.

p.s. the title of this entry is from the ever-thinking mind of neil cooney.

kill

I do not have a picture today. Simply because of my own forgetfullness; I forgot to bring my camera anywhere. Anyhow, the best thing is happening right now. And that thing is this: I have been a christian since I was 14, but I think this recent time period in my life is the first where being a christian and being myself are the same thing. What I'm saying is that I've always been a christian, but I've also always felt as though I needed to be someone better than who I was in order to truly be close to God. Or basically to be a "real" Christian at all. And it isn't like I am a better person now, actually the opposite is true. The point is that I have finally realized that I do not have to be something other than myself. Being a christian is not a facet of my life; I don't think Christianity is supposed to be like that. God isn't like that. Those past few sentences did not come off as positive as I feel about this new development, but if read with a positive vocal inflection, I think they describe things farily well.


I typed in "cool pictures" on google, and this was the fourth thing to appear

now that's the stuff

starbucks. studying. all day, everyday

this ^ happened today. probably one of the funniest pictures of Paige I've ever seen. I posted a few on facebook but this is a blog only exclusive. I can do this because, for me, making something a blog only exclusive means no one will actually ever see it.

Next up: top 5 hottest presidents 1=hottest

1) JFK: obviously a shoe in.

2) Ulysses S. Grant: rugged

3) Abraham Lincoln: I don't even have to say anything

4) Ronald Reagan: used to be an actor

5)Rutherford B. Hayes: really just an afterthought. judge for yourself. the beard maybe?

goodnight :)

you're never visible on the weekdays

That's my grandmother. I'm not sure why I look like a giantess in that picture but anyways she came to visit me today. I love when my grandparents care about me enough to come see me wherever I am. My other grandparents came all the way to Yellowstone to see me this summer. And I like my grandmother in particular because I think we are very similar. And it is good to see that she, being like me, has made it to old age alive and well. So maybe, just maybe, I will too.


This up here is what is happening right next to me right now. It is kelsey's 21st birthday. She is very happy, and they are all full of tacos. They are my friends and they make me feel good to be aliveeeeeeee.

number uno

So I've decided to try out the blog thing. Why? I couldn't tell you. My head is really full, and at this time pretty unorganized. So perhaps I can try to figure all that out. This is my life.