I have converted to the dark side and while I will still be posting on here, theses blogs will lean more to the side of silly anecdotes, little blurbs about my thoughts, etc. I've started a blog at www.blogspot.com and will be updating it about things that God does through GO TELL and in Honduras this summer. Please check it out sometime! It's called Living Loudly in the Light of the Truth. Well, that's all I've got for now. Talk to you soon!

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've updated. I keep waiting for blog topics to come to mind, but my creative/passionate juices seem to be dammed up somewhere upstream. I've got a few ideas of stufff to blog about, but it's stuff I need to be sure I know about and have done a little research on before I go mouthing off and making myself sound like an idiot.

Since I don't have anything super interesting to talk about, I'm just going to ask for those of you who read this to pray for me. I'm trying to raise about $4800 in the next 8 weeks. YIKES! I know God is totally in control, but sometimes my puny little mind gets worried when it stops focusing on God's power and love and starts focusing on, "$4800 is ALOT of money.... how am I ever going to get that much in such a short amount of time???"

Anyway, that's all for now. Sorry it's so short and unexciting. I hope you have a wonderful day!

My brain is a little backlogged. It's been almost 2 weeks since my last blog and that was just a rant.  So I've pulled up Xanga to share my thoughts with the world. I stared at the title line, waiting for brilliance to strike... waiting more... nothing. Fine, I'll skip the title line. But under the dauntingly blank title lies something even more scary and discouraging: the empty white space of the "Main Entry". YIKES! What on earth am I going to fill this space with?? I sit and think through my thoughts, discarding most of them as inappropriate or uninteresting blog topics. It's been almost 10 minutes and I still have nothing. Hmm... I need a kickstart, something to get the creative juices flowing. So I click on the radio. An Elton John song I've never heard before. Lovely. This is doing nothing for my brain. NEXT After about 4 skips, I come across a song I know. Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson. I remember a time when this song was kind of my anthem. Not so much in action as in theory. This was a song that I sang as loud as I could when was alone in the car, waiting for the time to come when I could finally move out of my house for good, that kind of thing. I'm glad to be at a point now where I'm getting ready to go. Bummer, it's over. Replaced by a classic Stevie Wonder song that really doesn't have any significance to me, but for some reason is making me miss my dad. "I just called to say I love you/ I just called to say how much I care/ I just called to say I love you/ and I mean it from the bottom of my heart." It's funny how special those words are. Often we don't miss them and knowing that they're true until we don't hear them anymore. This is making me sad. NEXT Shania Twain, "Still The One." This one makes me sad too. Well, maybe not sad, just a bit nostalgic. I sit back as feelings and memories flood my mind. The only other things that trigger such strong recalls of memories are smells. Sometimes that can be really inconvenient. Like when I need to be really happy and I hear a song from a sad moment in my life or smell my ex's cologne... Moving on as the song changes to a slow number by Enya and I'm transported to the summer after I graduated. I worked at a daycare center that summer and during naptime we played the CD that this song is on to calm the kids down. I remember The kids in my class, they were such sweethearts. Mikayla had such a cute smile, Tyler always behaved, poor Braylen had exema... it was a good summer. And as the song changes, so do the memories. Lol, Cyndi Lauper puts me back to February 14, 2005. That year my class was in charge of singing valograms and this was mine. I dressed up in a semi-eighties get up and lip-synched with Trevor Crawford. Such fun. That day was also stressful, trying to get balloons and flowers to all the people who had ordered them, but I remember having such a good time. Senior year was so much fun! I think that's how it's supposed to be. Song change... "Easy" by the Commodores. Very mellow, and makes me think of rainy Saturdays. Restful, boring and disappointing. This is making me want to fall asleep at my desk! NEXT (internet radio is so great) "Dance With Me" by Orleans.  No special memories here, just the reminder that dancing with a boy is still on my to-do list. NEXT "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton.Familar tune, but nothing that I'm attached to. NEXT "True" by Ryan Cabrera. The music catches my attention before he starts to sing. I like this song. Makes me excited to see who God will bring into my life and what he will be like. Not impatient, mind you, just excited.... Alright, I think I'm done with this. I've probably bored those of you who've stuck with me this long to tears. Thanks for hanging in with me though. I love you! Have a great Easter, and take a minute to remember why we celebrate this day.