Time to celebrate!

Today is "National Stress Awareness Day" or "National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day". Pretty exciting, huh?

How do I know this? Well my music teacher told us. Why? Who knows. I feel really sorry for him because he is so into what he is teaching and I'm pretty sure no one listens to him. Nothing I learn in that class is going to change my life. At least I don't think so. I have a friend that every time she tells a story she wants to tell it to where you will feel like you were there. Like you were involved and you will feel the exact feelings she had at the time. I think that's really cool. Until you have a teacher who does the exact thing except you don't want to know the feelings he had when he read about Giacomo Puccini or Peter Tchaikovsky. Not that I don't like music. Actually today I was thinking that it would be fun to go to a symphony or a ballet and without a lot of composers, we wouldn't have either of those things. But I guess I'm just tired of school. Just to clarify that doesn't mean I'm not going to keep going to school. Don't tell me step dad I said I'm tired. Ha ha. I really just laughed way too hard and you are probably confused. Either way, I love life. Really.

Today I was listening to this girl and guys conversation behind me and I jumped in because I thought I had something that might help. They just looked at me like I was stupid. If you are Chuck then you probably are laughing or not. I do that too much. Nah. Not enough.

Just a question. On stress awareness day are you supposed to just be aware that you are stressed? Because they didn't say anything about helping you not be stressed. Oh well.

I love you guys!

You know those days...

you sit around and ask yourself I wonder what Virginia and Hannah Steinbach's relationship consists of. Fear no longer. I'm going to tell you. There are three important things that keep us together.
1) Eating
2) Watching movies
3) Sleeping
Yes. It is a pretty complicated friendship. I'm telling you this because I want to share an amazing picture. Today Hannah came over and we tried to decide what movie to watch but we have already seen the 4 I own way too many times. So the next thought would be to go to moms house and try to find a movie to watch On Demand. We arrive at mothers and Dennis is sitting on the couch watching Locked Up Abroad or something just as interesting. I thought he was going to work but he would not leave. (Not that I wanted him to...) So we decide we will cook dinner for mom. We are obviously great cooks. So we look online for a new recipe to try. No luck. We default to our normal meal of making a pizza. Just a side note here, Hannah and I make some AMAZING pizza. Back to the story. After all our hard work of preparing the meal we are exhausted. I lay down on my bed and Hannah lays down...on my desk.


She is just precious!
Love you all!

Make up your mind already!

I don't like this weather. At all. The warm one day, cold the next kind. Boo. It is lame. Just pick one side of the fence and stay there. Preferably the warm one.

This is what I'm reading at the moment and I like it. So I thought I would share.

Romans:
9 Love must be sincere (genuine, without hypocrisy). Hate (abhor, loathe) what is evil (wicked, bad). Cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful (rejoice, be glad, delighted) in hope (expectation), patient (to stand firm, endure, persevere) in affliction (trouble, distress, oppression), faithful (to join, adhere to, to be ready, to give attention to) in prayer.

I don't believe in sleeping anymore.

Well I finally "fireproofed" my marriage. I don't know about you but that really is a good movie. The part that I love is that Caleb was totally totally way messed up. It was all about him and how his wife couldn't respect him. And even after he did so much for her, it was still about him and how she wasn't thankful for anything he did. Finally Caleb and his Dad are talking when he is half way through his love dare and Caleb is ready to give up and says, "How am I supposed to show love to somebody over and over and over who constantly rejects me?" Wow. He ends up getting it. He completely surrenders his life to God and it changes everything. I've heard people say it before that love changes everything. How true is that?

I'm going to allocate my request

I don't know why but recently I have been pretty crazy about big words. I don't use them very often and on the occasion that I do use them it is probably in the wrong context. Anyway, if we just capitulate to Jesus then everything will be great. Ha ha. That was for Chuck and Sarah and whoever knows what I'm talking about.

Sorry I'm the worst blogger ever. I could have predicted that I would be a slacker with updating. But I do check every ones all the time.

The point of this post is to ask you guys to pray. I have two friends that are most likely coming to church on Wednesday. I'm more nervous about one than the other but either way I know it will be awesome if they can come. I know both of them from when I went to Bearden. I have more of a past with one of them. Janelle and I got involved with a lot of the same stuff together and just did some stupid stuff. I get freaked out when I know that we are going to have to talk about the past and how she can throw it in my face all the things we have done but I was reminded that the cool thing is that Jesus changed me. It is because of Jesus that I'm not into those things anymore. And all the forgiveness stuff, well Jesus is the reason for that too.

Recently I have been able to talk to some people and just be honest and in doing that God opened doors to things that I have never imagined. In being honest with these people it has helped me to start fixing my relationships that are just messed up with other people. Quick example. The other day me and mom were driving down to Chattanooga and we talked about some hard stuff but its helped to start the fixing process. And its just really exciting.

I wish I had a funny story. But I don't. I love all of you guys though!!!

Note to self.

Learn how to change a flat tire.

Yesterday I had big plans of washing my car and hanging out at the church. I woke up and got ready and drove out of my driveway only to have to turn around. I had a flat tire and I was home alone. I called dad and he said he could be home in about two hours. Oh joy. So I decided I would clean my half of the house.

I have cleaning ADD. It happens every time I try to clean. I will start with hanging up all my clothes and then I will notice that my dresser is really messy. About half way through fixing that problem I walk into another room and realize that there is dust an inch thick on my bed side table but in this same room there are papers that I just need to throw away. So I have to walk to the kitchen to get a trash bag. Then I see the vacuum cleaner. This is my favorite part of cleaning. I can actually finish this job. But this means I have to pick everything up off the floor.

While cleaning I found this box I made when I think I was 10 or 11. Somewhere around there. On it was written "DON'T OPEN UNTIL AGE 21." So of course I opened it. I remember putting things in there that were important to me at the time. Well I start looking through it and the first thing I pull out are pieces of cloth. Hmm...that's important. There are some pictures and beads and ribbon. I'm so glad that those were saved. Finally I found some papers that had names written on them. They were the names I had picked out for my kids. My future kids. They were weird. For one of the guys I had Jimmy. I'm sorry. If I ever name my kid Jimmy please don't let me. Anyway, it was fun seeing how things that were so important to me at that age don't really mean anything at all anymore. I wonder what I have right now that I hold on to that won't mean much in a couple years.

Pretend this is a comment.

Okay. I was going to comment Chuck's blog but my computer is retarded but I know I need to apologize about being a leader and follower of what he is talking about. I'm good at making fun of other people to make myself feel better or comfortable or whatever. So thanks Chuck for stepping up.

Heather: You are not a loser. You are beautiful.
Dave: I will turn the other cheek.