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So hard to describe yesterday, I was torn between the title I picked (props if you can name the band without cheating) and Manic Monday (name the band = props again, still no cheating). Overall it was a good day, thus the title I went with. First of all, I got a comment from Joe (the brother-in-law) so I feel very special about that since he either rarely enters the blogverse or he is a lurker extraordinaire. I'm very amused about awnkeum and shall and it to my vernacular, you know in case I ever have the need to talk about the noise a duck makes right before flying into a wind farm. Which uhh, what is a wind farm? Onto other events of the day, we have a friend staying with us right now and she had gone down to the garage to get something out of Nicole's car but when she tried to get back into the building the key broke off in the door. Thankfully it broke in the unlock position. I was asleep at the time, but later in the day when I found out I offered to get new keys made whi...

Tonight I went to the women's Bible study at my church for the first time. I loved it! I already can't wait for next Wednesday. This is very exciting for me! Our table leader is wonderful. I have friends my age there. A girl I went to college with in Iowa was there. And an amazing woman leads the whole thing. I'm so stoked about this I can hardly contain myself! :) I called my mom on the way home from it tonight because I just had to tell someone how great it was. She was very happy for me. It's great to be at the place where I can talk to my mom as a fellow adult. That's one of the very cool things about growing up. :) So very strange dream last night, there were all these people who had superpowers and I was part of some government agency and we were trying to discern who were the heroes of the group and who were the villains. I started dating a guy named Adam who it turned out had these powers and I was fairly certain he was good, but then he was s...

Sorry for the lack of updating, between being sick & a million things going on in life & in my head it's been a bit crazy over here. The subject of dating has been in the air quite a bit lately, as it tends to be among the single twentysomethings crowd, so I've decided to start what we'll call a supplemental blog to post about and discuss that topic. It should be filled with all the humor & wonder you've come to love here, the topics will just be slightly less random. If it's not a subject that interests you, feel free to stick to the good ole blog here. You won't hurt my feelings. Really. Have a wonderful week! I promise to grace you more frequently with my presence in the near days. :)

Tonight was remarkably fun. I went to a rockin' bbq for my friend Jon Mark's birthday. And I got to ride in my friend Nate's Porsche on the way to the party! It was very cool. I think every weekend should be a 3 day weekend. Such good times. :) as I recall it ended much too soon

God whispers in our pleasure and shouts in our pain. God whispers in our pleasure and shouts in our pain. God whispers in our pleasure and shouts in our pain. Church was amazing yesterday. I was mad at a friend and angry/frustrated with God. And we sang one of my favorite songs & a song I definitely needed to hear- words below. And then the sermon was great. And through it all I just heard God saying, hey I'm here & I haven't forgotten about you & I love you so much. And oh how I felt it. And then the cafe last night was great, I laughed a lot. Break through, break through all my doubt Break through, break though all my fear Break though that I may worship you Break through, break through all my pain Break though all my guilt & my shame Break though like only you can do You are brighter than my darkest night Stronger than my toughest fight Just one touch from you my king my friend And I'll never be the same again God is amazing. :)

I am still waiting for the day when I am surprised by life in an intensely good way. Okay, well that's not completely true, I have had many wonderful blessings that have taken me completely off guard, but there is one that I am still waiting for. And every time I hope that this time might be different . . . well it's just not. Anyway onto a completely different subject that's happy & not annoying, I just found out tonight that there is a canal in Venice, CA! I have been to Venice a hundred times, how did I not know this?!? Go here to see how cute. It's not as beautiful as the real Venice of course, but it's still pretty cool to know that such a thing exists in my city. Sometimes LA is fun because there are still things to discover about it after 2 years.

I meant to write about my airport adventures last week as I was returning to LA from the holidays, but I apparently forgot to. Two of the things I like the least in this world are flying and talking to people I don't know. They're right up there after needles and spiders. {cringes} So when my plans necessitate hopping aboard an airplane the last thing you'll see me doing is striking up conversation with the person seated next to me. Just doesn't happen. And generally the other people keep to themselves as well. Not so this time around. Four people talked to me. Four! That's completely unheard of in my world. And that's okay, they were all very nice, but it definitely shoved me out of the realm of comfortable silence. The odd thing is I wonder how all those people are doing now. Did the one lady enjoy her trip to Las Vegas where she was meeting up with her sisters? Did the couple from Oklahoma enjoy their time in northern LA county? Has the girl bound for a missi...

Many a day hast waned since I last bestowed upon my fair readers the gaiety of the middle of the week, so without further dawdling I wish you a very happy hump day! I've been thinking recently about how soon I will be turning 24. I will have lived a year for every hour that is in the day. It's quite a strange notion. And as I've been reflecting on this I thought back on the post I wrote last year about how soon I would be turning 23. It turns out that post was written last January 11th. I can say with such joy and confidence that I have come so far in the year since I wrote that. A friend asked me this weekend what I am looking forward to out of 2006. Even though there are specific things I am hoping for and expecting out of this year, I didn't really answer him. Instead I told him that I got everything I needed to out of 2005. This year I am excited to see where God will lead me next. I plan to do more in my church- to volunteer to help out with kid's church and m...

seems so long since Christmas waved its goodbyes the sun here betrays any proper sense of season yet I still can't help but imagine if I could go to sleep and wake up to this city embraced in white anything can happen when the world looks new all the dreams that dance about my thoughts awaken uncertainty and ambiguity replaced by brilliant hope it may sound silly but I believe it can happen here who knows? maybe we'll see snow this weekend

Tonight marks the happy return of Taco Tuesday, a new episode of Gilmore Girls, and 2 new episodes of Scrubs! That's right kids, Tuesday has gotten even better. Scrubs is back! (It was actually back last week, but I forgot to write about that in a timely manner.) And next week Tuesday could get even better. I know it's hard to imagine, but Love Monkey premieres next week & with a title like that & Tom Cavanagh in the lead, Tuesday could reach new heights of awesomeness previously unimagined. Yes, sometimes it's just the little things. :)

sometimes the only way is jumping I hope you're not afraid of heights . . . Sometimes I wonder what would happen if you could hear what's behind my words. What if you could read into my eyes and see what I really want you to know? Would I find the same thing in the depths of your soul? God knows that for which I am praying. He will answer me in time. I'm hoping you will too . . .

soon it will be time to undecorate the twinkling will be stored away and somehow the wonder seems to get boxed up with it I'd like to say this year will be different maybe it will be I have a lot of hope for this new year determination that life has so much in store I cannot picture the upcoming days without imagining all kinds of growth and dreams finally fulfilled will it all happen? will any of it? I really can't say but I'm going to do my best not to lose sight I'll try to stretch out the wonder a bit longer if I'm careful and extra passionate I think it can last the whole year

2006. 2006. It doesn't feel like it fits yet. so this is the new year and I don't feel any different The New Year - Death Cab for Cutie It's been a really good time here in Omaha, but in some ways I am so ready to be back in LA. It is only the impending goodbyes that make me wish for the remaining days here to take their time in passing. Sadly Ravi had to go back to school tonight, so one goodbye was already said. I didn't like it. But that aside this trip has done something very good for me, it sort of closed the one remaining door here that I still felt my heart clinging to. I sat in church this morning and realized that even though there are still some things that have not changed in the 19 years since I started going to that church, there are many things that have, such important ones that I know I don't belong there any more. It's a strange realization, but mostly not a sad one. I really think of my church in LA fully as my home church now. That's actua...