Wal-Mart

So there's not much to do here in Lincoln. But there is a Wal-Mart. And I found these things to do while being in the Wal-Mart besides shopping of course...
15 Thangs to do while in Wal-Mart
1. Get 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they aren't looking.

2. Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.

3. Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the rest rooms.

4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone, 'Code 3' in housewares.... and see what happens.

5. Go the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away.

6. Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.

7. Set up a tent in the camping department and tell other shoppers you'll invite them in if they'll bring pillows from the bedding department.

8. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?'

9. Look right into the security camera; use it as a mirror, and pick your nose.

10. While handling guns in the hunting department, ask the clerk if he knows where the anti- depressants are.

11. Dart around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme.

12. In the auto department, practice your "Madonna look" using different size funnels.

13. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through, say "PICK ME!" "PICK ME!"

14. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the fetal position and scream "NO! NO! It's those voices again!!!!"

15. Go into a fitting room and shut the door and wait a while; and, then, yell, very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here! '

If you plan to do any for these things I would like to know what your expereince was like.

Hoe-down

My dream was completed last night as I dressed in flannel and did an allaman left.

Yes that's right I attended my first hoe-down. Now I know most of you are very skeptical as I was but when I walked in I heard the famous words I heard in highschool. Line up against the wall. These words marked my freshman year with anguish and fear, becuase I was a intimated girl in an akward time but this time instead of ending up with someone gross with clammy hands I took control of the situation and ended up with one of my good friends.

When we started dancing we kept messing up which is just a funny thing but all in all I had a good time. Then we line danced. For those of you who don't know what this term means it is where many people stand in a line and follow the instructor to do certain steps. Also a good ole time.

But last but certainley not least was the circle dance. Now that is not the real name for this dance but we definitley were in a circle so I have renamed it. We all stood in a circle and was with our partner and then we moved. We switched partners. Now if you don't know what this means its this... I got to dance with every boy there. Actually it was a great way to meet new people. Plus I love to dance.

So all in all it was a great night full of flannels, lemonades, mess ups, and get downs.

Who are you?

Are you a church or a synagouge?

My neigbors

So here is who I live near and their descriptions.

There is my roommate. Who's name is Chatterson. She is a crazy old Quaker but that is not why her name is Chatterson. Her uncle is the Quaker oatmeal man and she is honest and dependable. She has a love relationship with Aim. They are married. She also has a funny laugh like that of a lion.

Then there are my two neighbors; Betty Crocker aka the Croc, and the Swan. The "Croc" is a aggresive, demanding individual who likes to get angry and flip things over. She bakes brownies and puts poison in her brownies and served them to some crazy homeless. Then there is the Swan. She squaks excitledly like a Swan and is very fun. She carries a recording device around and loves to laugh. Sometimes she comes into my room and does a funny little dance.

And last but not least there is the Highness. No one listens to her. She is very angry all the time and she refuses hugs. She grew up in bush and eats berrys and multigrains. She also plays with basket balls and is from the eighties arobics and she is friends with Richard Simmons, who is also her secreat lover.

Here are the brillant people I am around and love immensley, these are the people I call friends.

Carni Bandits

So we lost the chamionship game...disappointing...yes.

But in other news my laptop broke. Which sucks becuase now I actually have to buy something that works. Big pain in the butt. See I am a cheapskate. I don't buy much for myself becuase I can live off very little.

But now I have to eventually buy a computer. So here's how Im gonna do it.

I am going to find a group of bandits to rope into my sceme. These bandits of course will be rodeo carnis, they may have small hands, but they have slinty eyes and they are good disguisers.

So these carnies and I are going to start a traveling pants band. Which involves wearing pants on your head and playing the bango while dancing around in circles. While my carni bandits do this incestous act I will be flying from the ceiling and spreading the smell of cinnomin around. It's proven that if you spread cinnomin around your selling pitch your audience will stick around longer and eventually spend money.

So they will give my bandit group money enough to provide for their needs, such as food and pants. They will not need shelter becuase they all live in that little carni car.

If this does not succeed I will probabley get a part time job to cover my expenses...but that's always the last resort.

Facing the wall

As we lined up on the field I stared into the face of death...

Yes it was Lincoln's annual powderpuff football games. It was our first game and I had been playing center for offense and defense(I know there is another name for the defense but I forgot it.)

But lets take a flashback to a half an hour before the game. We gathered with our team and we were discussing a certain football player on the other team. I felt confident enough becuase I was center I wouldn't have to face her...

We line up to defend our turf and who is the center on the other side. The wall. Everytime I blocked her for the first couple times I would fly back two feet. Then she got mean. I would block her the first two times and then I would turn around, she would continue to block my back. If you don't know much about girls, they can play mean and nasty. I'll take a 300 pound man over a girl any day.

Iv'e played football since sixth grade with boys even and I have never felt the fear I felt that day. Everytime we bent down I prayed that God would forgive me of my sins becuase I never knew if this would be the last time. I survived barely and we won our first game.

We started our second game against another wing, I was shaking. The hits had taken a toll on my muscles...

Were playing in the championship today.
We'll see if any one breaks anything...

I got up this morning...actually I held on to my buck and pulled myself up. My whole right arm is completley bruised. I have never felt like that after a game.
Any close to death experiences?

2005

You know you're living in 2005 when.. ... ...... ............

1) you accidentally enter your password on a microwave




2) you haven't played solitaire with real cards in years





3) thE reaL reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they don't have a screen name





4) you'd rather look all over the house for the remote instead of just pushing to button on the tv.




6) your boss doesn't even have the ability to do your job.







7) you read this list, & keep nodding and smiling















8) as you read this list, you think about sending it to all your friends













9) and.. you were to busy to notice number 5.









10) you actually scrolled back up to check that there was no 5











11) & now you're laughing at your stupidity

one of those days

Today was one of those days...

I realized I am poor...

I realized I am going to be poor for a long time...

I realized that I can contain a lot of information(thank you intro to bible test)...

I realized that trust comes through hard times...

I realized that you should do your work becuase there will usually be a suprise at the end of your day...

Today was one of those days that you want to crawl into the fetal postion, turn the lights off, and cry yourself to sleep...

To forget everything that surrounds you...all your work...all your relationships...all the good things...all the bad... and sleep the night away so the next day you can have a clear head about the decisions you need to make. You can be wise in situations and not impulsivley rush.

Today was one of those days...

Eating my words

Isn't a mess when you declare somthing and God declates something else.

Like say you won't ever work some where and God sends you there.

Or you won't date and you date(just an example).

Or you won't do the major that God just is calling you to do.

I have learned that I'm very bold when it comes to declaring things and a lot of the times I have to eat my words take my foot out of my mouth and do what God tells me.

Im just thankful that I do it a lot so that I can get over my shame quickley.

Past Pains

So I have discovered pain never really goes away.
I knew that before but today has pushed that fact again.

The death of loves, the relational strains, the unknowable answers of "what could of happened", the uncomforties of tragedy, the many consequences of bad decisions made in rushed moments, the understanding that past pain will lessen day by day but will always be there.

Greif is to big to diminish and sorrow is to great to overcome in a mortal and finite body.

What to do with these pains when they scab over and then are ripped open again?

Weep for the moment and then get up and start all over again.

That is how you understand and deal with the past.

Then approach everyone else in love so the past will never have to repeat itself in the same context.

Finished

So I finished my book. It was good and only took me two days.
All in all it's been a good week. Im totally Acing my principles of bible study. Pretty exciting.
I love you all
thats all I have to say.

New Book

So I went home this last weekend for my best friend's wedding which was Awesome. I was her maid of honor and it was just really cool.
But Sunday I hung out with Nick and Lisa and they took me out to lunch becuase they are Awesome and then we went to the Sam's Club of Christian book stores, Berean.
Nick bought me the newest hippest book on the market.
Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis. If you have not heard it your out of the system becuase apparantly its really big.

And some of you may be shocked to read that I am already in the middle of the second chapter. I love it.

So Rob Bell states in his first chapter that the springs in a trampoline are like our christian doctrines. Their not the main point but they help get us in the air. Very simple but very in depth.

Let's face it... only Rob Bell can use a trampoline to compare to the Christian faith.

Anyways Thanks.

Death Stands above me

Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not what into my ear:
Of this strange language all I know
Is, there is not a word of fear.

Walter Savage Landar
(1775-1864)

Roman baths

Yesterday I learned something about Roman baths.
The way they cleaned themselves was they pust oil on along blade and they had someone scrape it across their back. Not only did the dirt come off but also parts of the skin. Fun huh? The reason for this is becuase soap wasn't invented until centuries later.

I probabley wouln't ever be clean.

would you?

A Day in Lincoln

So today was very exciting!
In Lincoln there was a art fair, a whine expedition and a flea market. Two of those three are things that I love to do.

It actually all started out with my next door neighbor, wanting to go to a forest perserve. She researched where the park was located and we were going to start off on our adventure into the world of Lincoln. So we all piled into our friend's van and started off to the park. We made a quick detour to the train station and then ended up at the art fair instead. I bought a swiss army knife(for camping purposes) and then we went to the McDonalds in town to get some ice cream.

All in all it was a very eveantful day for us because we rarely ever get off campus. Tomorrow I'm trying out a new church. I'm very excited!!!!!

That's all to say here. Good by and good luck. Did you do anything eveantful today?

Bible college

Things Iv'e learned from Bible college:
1.) Expect everyone to be a christian the first week.
2.)Every girl is either in these three catagories, dating, engaged, or desperatley wanting to date(except for a chosen few, including myself, who would not care if we dated or not).
3.)No one thinks for themselves, this is a very important lesson to learn.
4.)Don't off-handedley suggest that you arn't sure what the heaven and hell themes are.
5.)THere is nothing to do in Lincoln.

I have a hard time hearing God in this place. Everything is soooo.... Christian. The talk, the music, the reading. Everything but the life right now. I would like to see this place full of humanity isteand of just full of divinity. It's much easier to talk about God rather than to know his presence and walk with him on a daily basis. It's much eaiser to see him in a place of stagnant growth than it is to see him in a place that is supposed to be known for abundantly growing.

Have you ever wondered why girls are so fascinated with getting hitched. Come to a bible college and you will find the answers. But that is for another blogging date.

1.)Tuition: 10,000 dollars
2.)gas money: 50 dollars
3.) laundery: 1.75$
The chance to see the Christian world at it's best: Priceless

False words

Iv'e developed a new pet peeve.

When someone either precieves what I'm saying or just makes a whole conversation up in their head and have decided to tag my name onto the whole situation. I just found out that I had a conversation that I never had and I said something detremential to someone that I never said. Instead of this person coming to me and fixing the situation this person is going around and telling different people about these things that I didn't say and things that I didn't do.

It's so frustrating to here someone using my words, or lack of to say things that are not right and are not truth.

I guesse that will happen occasionally in a community of sin. A power struggle, unfortunetley.

Like Sheep

Iv'e discovered that there are certain people that will be followers and leaders. It sounds simple and already discovered but, I have a problem, I have a prideful demeniar that makes me sound like I know what I'm talking about. It also may aquire that we were just talking about Sheperding in small group and a lot of people are like sheep.

It really has everything to do with the fact that I'm opininated. It gets me in trouble sometimes though. But really why do people listen to me. I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about. I'm declaring that I really don't know anything yet people come back for advice.
For example Iv'e been serving in my recent student ministry for the past couple of years and people think that I know much more about ministry than I do.
It astounds me the conversations I have with people who don't realize I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm all opinion.
I think it also has something to do with my confidence level. I'm out spoken about things even though in my mind I really am saying "STOP Talking!" I seem to be knowledgable about things and sound smart becuase I have a semi-decent vocabulary that people just nod their heads and agree like I have some sort of right to say what I say.

Poposterous. Sometimes I just want to say something completley out of character so maybe someone will get the clue that I know just as much as anybody else.

Conflict

It's amazing what conflict does to a period of time and a relationship. It astouds me the emotional and physical torments and unsolved conflict can have on a person. It amazes me becuase junior high students are surrounded/surrounds themselves with conflict.
It's almost like they are attracted to conflict and as a leader its tiring. It's so tiring to deal with dramatic things that you know as a leader arn't that big of a deal but to my junior high grils it's the end of the World. Not the end of thier world the end of THE world.
But that's also what makes them fun and unique becuase after all the conflict they become who they are. They know a little bit about there world and about others worlds. They develop a skin, maybe a thick one, maybe too thick. They see the world either in a naive way of thinking or in a fighting mentality.

Junior High camp has been interesting this year and full of emotion.

Acquainted with the Night

I have been one acquainted with the Night
I have walked out in rain- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
and droped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
when far away an interrupted cry
came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
and further still at an unearthly height,

One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

I have been one acquainted with the Night.

--Robert Frost(1874-1963)

I found an uneasy rythem to this poem when I read it. I'm not much of a poem reader but this caught my eye. I soothed my soul and sent a rush up my spine. To be one acquainted with the night is to be one acquainted with the morning as well. I pray for the dawn.