| luke 15:9 ish |
[Aug. 24th, 2006|09:18 pm] |
"And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost [car].'"
okay, so it's bad exegesis to use that verse, but i have a strange sense of humor. anyhow, i did find my lost car, er...the newark police department did. the thieves were definitely not the brightest, since they took some stuff, but left a bunch of new stuff. i no longer some books, cassette tapes, and a couple of journals, in addition to my registration & license plates, but i now have a phone charger, a leash, a bottle of water, and had someone else's license plate before the police took it back. the funniest part to me was that they washed my car. i thought it was very considerate of them, since it really needed a bath. there wasn't any damage that i could find, other than the broken windshield. my insurace will take care of that, but in the meantime i'm driving a rental car. thanks to matt's brother's solid advice about renting cars in general, i didn't get screwed by the rental company! yay andrew!
it is a weird experience to have something so big stolen. i've been in accidents and without my car and i've had my car broken into, but i've never had it completely gone. my mom bought us both clubs to make our cars harder to steal, but i still feel a little like "why bother?" one of my coworkers says that locked doors only keep honest people out, since the dishonest ones will find a way in no matter what precautions you take. i kind of agree now. i don't want to live in fear of someone taking my car, since it is just a car. of course, having to pay the stupid deductible SUCKS! maybe i just need to get rid of my deductible all together and then i absolutely will have no worries about accidents/theft.
on a related note, matt rocks. he's been nothing but helpful since my mom's purse was stolen. even though i know him well, i was surprised at how he just shined the past few days. he was very protective and supportive pretty much around the clock, even to the point of going without his car so that i could have one while i waited for my rental car to be approved. i knew i liked him, but this is just icing on the cake! ;-) |
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| icky |
[Aug. 22nd, 2006|04:18 am] |
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my car was stolen tonight. my mom called me about 8:30 to tell me that her car was broken into and her purse was stolen. matt and i were having dinner with friends in san jose, so it took me a while to get back home. matt offered to spend the night, since my mom's house keys were in her purse and someone could potentially break in to the house easily. so we were all settling in for the night when my mom heard a car start outside. she thought someone may have been trying to start her car so she looked outside. she asked if i had parked my car behind hers and when i said, "yes" she informed me that my car had just been stolen. i called 911 and reported it and they dispatched cars to look, but nothing has turned up yet. anyhow, i'm really tired and really feeling like nothing is safe. i'm trying to make a plan in my head of what i can do next, but there's nothing really to do. it's weird and scary. |
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| i'm getting married |
[Jun. 14th, 2006|12:23 am] |
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| | david crowder band | ] |
i've been dying to tell everyone that i was going to get married for the past couple of weeks, since matt on memorial day declared his intention to propose. he had picked out the date and the place to propose, but still needed the ring.
we have been looking at rings and olivia hooked us up with someone who got us a great deal on the ring, but it was going to take longer than expected to get it...past the date when matt intended to propose. he told me his plan (to propose at hume lake this weekend) and that the ring wouldn't be ready in time, so we came up with the idea to buy a really gaudy fake ring for me to wear for the next couple of weeks while the ring was being made. i HAD to try it on when we left the store and i didn't want to take it off even after our date was coming to a close.
i jokingly said, "i don't have to take it off if you propose right now" and he said "i'm thinking about it." i thought he was joking, since he is not the type to change his plans...ever. :-)
we got back to my office and were sitting in the car listening to billy joe mcguffrey, clapping along. when the song was over, i took off the ring and started to get out to go in to my office and gather my stuff and matt told me to wait.
he plucked most of the sweatshirt fuzz off of this monstrous ring and stared at it for a while then he said...crap, shouldn't i remember what just happened?!? that's not what he said, that's me wondering what he said.
anyhow, he said something about how he'd had a fantastic evening and how he was looking forward to a wonderful life with me. he said a couple of other sweet things and then he looked me in the eyes, aplogized for not being able to get down on one knee in the car and said "frances will you marry me?"
i said, "duh. yes." not quite as poetic as i'd like to remember. oh yeah, it's history, so i can make it up and no one will ever know what really happened. i said, "yes, what a lovely proposition. i would be honored to spend the rest of my life with you, sir." that's what really happened.
anyhow, we hugged and he kissed me and put the bennifer ring on my finger and sang "there is no one like you" along with the radio. something about that moment just made me want to praise God. i'm a happy girl and i'm even more happy that i get to marry a great guy.
oh, the date i've had to keep secret is September 8, 2007.
I'M GETTING MARRIED! |
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| satc musings and weekend update. |
[Jan. 22nd, 2006|11:42 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | the white stripes: instinct blues | ] |
ever since my valentine's day present from matt came in the mail, i have been thoroughly enjoying it. he got me the 20-disc collector's edition of sex and the city. i convinced him to watch my 2 favorite episodes at first and since then we've ended up watching most of season 6. we've discussed the whole big and carrie situation a time or two. i told him that women don't usually like big and that men all love him and think he's a great guy. tonight, after watching another disc's worth, he had the most interesting insight about big and carrie. he said that he thinks that men like big because carrie is an "everywoman". women are supposed to watch the show and identify with her feelings. men watch that show and see big's behavior as something they would do, but they are seeing it from inside of "everywoman"'s head. men know what big was thinking (or not thinking) and seeing how it has hurt carrie and they are hoping that she will forgive him. they cheer for the relationship not because they think it's particularly good, but because they are hoping that he (and ultimately themselves) will be forgiven when they screw up. hmmm...interesting insight. the whole idea that big's name is john in the end simply underscores that whole idea that he represents "everyman".
i took matt to see underworld evolution today. i didn't have a lot of hope for it, since i didn't like the first one too much (at all!). matt was a huge fan of the first movie and wasn't into this one as much. i had the oppostie reaction. i liked this one better. not that i think people should run out and see the film, but if you have money to burn, this might be a good way to do so. :-)
today was a good day for finishing. i finished painting the journeyland office. i painted blue waves all around the walls, since it feels like a fishbowl with the big window to the main lobby. i really like it, since i know that it's cute and goofy, like a children't ministry office should be. i'm going to put up a clear shower curtain in the winndow to make it look even more fishy. the final step is to have the kids from journeyland draw fishes to hang on the walls. it's going to be the cutest office ever.
now i have real work to finish. |
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| uh oh |
[Dec. 22nd, 2005|05:55 pm] |
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| | john mayer: something's missing | ] |
so last night at liz's birthday dinner, i realized that matt and i have become the obnoxiously cute couple that is always holding hands or sweet talking one another. of course, from this side of the situation it seems perfectly rational. i apologize to the friends who have to put up with it in the mean time. :-)
this is an interesting week. things are all turned around because of christmas and i'm stuck between hurrying up to get some loose ends tied and waiting until next year to get started with other stuff. i'm leaving in a couple of days to go back to fresno. pauvre matt has to hang out with my family saturday night. not that my family is any weirder than anyone else's, i just sympathize with the guy for having to hang out with a bunch of people that he doesn't know for a few hours. naturally, he's not nervous about it at all. he said, "you'll be there." (i warned you about the sappy comments!) after that, we're going to the journey's christmas eve service and driving to fresno late christmas eve.
this is probably my last post until sometime next year, so merry christmas and happy new year all! |
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[Dec. 12th, 2005|11:14 am] |
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| |  sick | ] |
| [ | music |
| | some cheesy elevator music my mom likes | ] |
yay! i finished my first quarter of graduate school. tomorrow it will be 3 years to the date that i graduated from apu. time really flies. technically, i have to finish my reading before i can say that i'm completely done, since i can't tell matt's dad, "hey, i didn't read". he'll just look at me and tell me to get it done. rats, it's hard having a bf's dad as a teacher. :-) the church planter, joel, told me that at his seminary they banned having teachers ask students how much of the reading they did since it cause such a moral dilemma. i think that's stupid, people should just be honest if they didn't read or read.
i missed the cr christmas banquet last night. i'm a bit bummed, since i really would like to see everyone, but we had a fundraiser dinner for 2 young women who are going on missions trips. (is it mission or missions i wonder?) i got to play the role of auctioneer. someone bid $850 on a clambake for 6! i told the cook, "no pressure to make the best dinner of that person's life." matt bid lots of money for the item i wanted, but lost to joel. :-( it was still super sweet. i wonder how much money we made in all for the girls.
matt and i saw chronicles of narnia last night after the dinner. i thought it was quite good, but wasn't blown away. i guess the hype surrounding it gave me inflated expectations, so i was expecting the best movie to every touch my senses or something. i could have been simply too tired to fully enjoy it, as i got up at 5 am to set up for church and the movie didn't get out until 11:45ish. it was interesting, since matt read an article to me about the movie and the books before we left that highlighted a lot of the themes and more subtle christian stuff. i think it would be interesting to read the books now, since i never did that in school or as a child. i can make that a christmas fresno activity. :-)
for old times sake, vanessa, matt, and i went to subway and debated about spiritual gifts after church. (that was what we did the first time matt and i met) it was totally fun even though we still don't know the exact nature of spiritual gifts. matt and i like to argue that music is not a spiritual gift and vanessa says that she heard anything you use for God's glory is a spiritual gift. it just now occurs to me that i know a christian who did drugs before he was converted. he went over to visit friends shortly after he became a chrsitian and ended up doing cocaine with them and talked all night about jesus and the friends converted to christianity. by v's line of thinking, his spiritual gift could be doing cocaine. :-) fun stuff to debate.
12 days until i return to fresno for more time with matt's fam. fun fun fun. i don't mean that sarcastically. really, it is fun. :-) |
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| always a good time |
[Dec. 8th, 2005|05:22 pm] |
 Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
Last Friday I gave ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dwr8 a kidney (1000 points). Last Wednesday I donated bone marrow to rudedude in a life-saving procedure (300 points). In February I signed my organ donor card (28 points). Last month I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). In July I gave sweetpunkchik a Dutch Oven (-10 points).
Overall, I've been nice (1319 points). For Christmas I deserve a new bike!
Sincerely,
francess |
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| $561 |
[Nov. 30th, 2005|08:38 am] |
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| [ | music |
| | kanye west: gold digger | ] |
holiday shopping is in full swing for not only me, but apparently for someone who tried to use my amex card for $561 online. they tried to buy a bunch of designer clothes. that is so not me, so it won't go through. however, this does mean i can't download any more songs from itunes until i get my new amex card. :-( |
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| 4ish days away |
[Nov. 28th, 2005|08:43 am] |
so i just got back from fresno yesterday mid afternoon. it's been so long since i've gone away for that long, but it was nice. the lowdown:
wednesday:
i arrived in the early PM, 1:30 or 2 and met matt's grandad, alvis. we had tortilla soup for lunch. (the food thing will be a theme here!) after i got all my bags inside, everyone went over to matt's uncle and aunt's house. jim and sharon were taking care of their grandchildren, jacob, hunter, and hannah, so i met them, too. after a while, i met his cousin, jeff, who came to pick up his kids. we ended up going out for pizza to me n ed's with jim and sharon and matt's parents. it was a lot of fun getting to know his aunt and uncle better. when we got back to jim and sharon's we watched an old movie called, sleuth. it's very intense, just two actors for the whole movie. it's worth a watch. oh, and we had the world's best popcorn. :-) when we got back to alvis' house, everyone went to bed except matt and i. we watched another movie: batman and the mask of the phantasm. that was really interesting, too. for being a cartoon, it certainly was darker than one would expect. lots of heavy ideas. i crawled into bed about one.
thursday:
i was too keyed up to sleep well, so i woke up at 6 am and couldn't really go back to sleep. i messed around on my laptop for a while and emerged from my room a couple hours later. gary and alvis were having breakfast with andrew, matt's brother, who had arrived shortly after i got to bed the night before. we took our time in getting dressed and went to visit at about 11. i met matt's other cousin, dave, and his wife and young son. i also met kelly, jeff's wife and she told me that the kids asked if i could babysit them. ;-) for thanksgiving dinner, we ate outside on the porch, since the weather was perfect. it was warm and clear. there was a kids table, a medium table, and a grown up table. the cousins all sat at the medium table. :-) we hung out and talked for a bit, ate way too much. then i played a settler's game with matt's cousins, which was something like risk. i rather enjoyed it, since it goes a lot faster than risk or other strategy type games. when we finished the game, a bunch of us went and watched strong bad e-mails on the computer. :-) funny stuff. i laugh every time! andrew decided that he wanted coffee, so matt's parents, jeff, and i joined him. we piled into andrew's rented neon and drove around fresno looking for a place that was open. we couldn't find one, but we had fun driving and talking. we went back to alvis' house to go to sleep, since lynne and i were going to wake up early to go SHOPPING! andrew commented that it was a normal thanksgiving, but that it was good. i thought so, too, though i don't know about the normal part or not.
friday:
lynne and i woke up early to get ready to hit a few stores. we got to kohl's around 7:30, so not too early, and separated. i bought a present for cindy, a present for liz's birthday, and a card for matt. yeah, i'm goofy like that. after kohl's we hit gottschalk's and lynne snagged the last king size down blanket for $20. by that time, we needed to get to jim and sharon's to have a big family breakfast. we stopped at starbuck's so i could have an eggnog latte, since i never did get one the night before, and had a really good conversation about matt, of course. :-) we had a big breakfast at jim and sharon's (mmmm...bacon) and the guys settled in to watch football or something. i was itching to go shop some more, so matt took me to target. i got a present for his dad and a present for matt. we didn't have a long time, since we needed to go and meet matt's mom's family. yay! more people to meet. :-) so we went over to his aunt and uncle's house from his mom's side and i met his mom's cousins. i laughed, since lynne gave a list of all the people i would probably meet, their ages, and their relationships to each other and her cousins weren't on the list. i said, "uh-oh! you're not on the list!" it was very casual at their house. they had a KARAOKE set up! woohoo. matt sang a couple of songs and then it was time to eat so we had another thanksgiving spread and rushed to go see harry potter. i love that movie. it was so well done. sure, there was a lot left out, since it was such a long book, but it was good. that's my favorite of the books and i think they did it well. after the movie, we met with matt's cousins jeff and kelly for a double date. we went to elephant bar and cold stone and talked for a long time. they are so much fun! matt and i ended up going back to his granddad's house. his parents arrived shortly after us, since they were babysitting so jeff and kelly could come out with us. everyone went to bed, but i stayed up and read and matt stayed up and played on his computer for a while in the living room.
saturday
i got to sleep in a bit more on saturday, but not much. matt's parents, matt, and i piled into the car to go car shopping for matt. we looked at cars for a while and matt test drove a few. he pretty much settled on a grand prix. after we finished with that, we went to SONIC. i had a toaster sandwich (yum!) with onion rings (yum!) and a pineapple coke (yum!). it was fun to share all the different foods we tried. we stopped at a longs so lynne could pick something up and matt, gary, and i ended up staying in the car. gary and i had a long talk. it was good, since we never really have serious conversations. we hung out for a bit at jim and sharon's again and had clam chowder soup. then it was off to matt's other aunt and uncle's again. i met a lot more people this time a couple who were on the list and a bunch who weren't! we sang karaoke for a long time. i convinced matt's parents to sing "i got you, babe"! :-) we hung out and then took pictures.
sunday
we got up early to go to church at the church that gary went and lynne went to while they lived in fresno. i had fun dressing up for church, since i haven't had to do that in forever. ;-) i was very different, but i appreciated the choir, since it was such a full sound. after church, matt and i went and packed up my car and met gary's whole family for lunch at their favorite italian restaurant. it was so delicious. it was fun to hang out with them one last time before we left. so we gave everyone big hugs and headed home. just before i got into the car, lynne talked about going to disneyland for christmas. woohoo! i bought this book with a bunch of questions in it for fun, so matt and i spent the car ride asking each other questions from the book. it was a really interesting, revealing time for both of us, but it was good. i got a new insight into him and i think he got a new insight into me as well. we weren't quite sick of each other when we got to san jose, so we packed up his car and went to target. then we had dinner with ted (my coworker) and watched the quick and the dead. i went home for an hour or so and now i'm staying with sparky while bart and grace are gone for a few days.
it's good to be home and not eating every 10 seconds, but i had a fantastic time and i adore matt's family. it was a lot of fun to meet them and hang out with matt a lot for a few days. matt already invited me back for christmas, but i don't think i'll be able to go. :-( i hope i see them again soon! |
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| what a difference a year makes |
[Nov. 22nd, 2005|12:19 am] |
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| |  contemplative | ] |
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| | weezer: surf wax america | ] |
it's been just under a year since i first set foot inside of the journey. what a strange feeling to think that a year's passed already! i've had the inclination to think that nothing in my life has truly changed lately, but that's just silliness.
a year ago, i had just come back from touring with the continentals and wanted to start working in ministry. january, i started at cr and almost immedaitely after that the journey started courting me to work there. i began working at the journey in july and gave up cleaning houses, except for cheryl once a month, for good.
six months ago, (today actually), vanessa introduced me to skippy after church when we'd finished tear down. i'd heard his name all over, but never put the nickname with the "matthew" nametag. in true church staff fashion, she invited him come to subway with us for lunch. we talked about western seminary and debated with vanessa about whether music was a spiritual gift. i noticed he had blue eyes and swooned. i never would have guessed that the funny, smart, and adorable matthew would be my boyfriend now. sometimes i can't believe it's only been six months. sometimes i can't believe it's already been six months.
just over two months ago, i started seminary. i can't believe that i'm working on my master's! i'm already looking ahead to next quarter and finishing up my work for this semester.
in trite thanksgiving fashion, i want to say that i'm thankful for the increduble blessings in my life. i'm thankful that i work in a great church and that they have believed in me enough to entrust me with some huge responsibilities. i'm thankful for the new friends that i'm going to spend thanksgiving with and for the chance to get to know matt's extended family. i'm thankful that i'm in seminary and that i am learning and growing in a ton of ways as a result. i can complain since there's a lot i wish were different, but i shouldn't. the stuff i thought would stretch on forever, being out of school, singleness, housecleaning is over. yay! it really is a new season in my life. i hope i have the good sense to enjoy it while it lasts. |
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| busy week |
[Nov. 9th, 2005|04:36 pm] |
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| |  blah | ] |
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| | audioslave: like a stone | ] |
it's amazing. my whole week is crazy because of this wedding on saturday. no, it's not my wedding, peanut gallery. but i'm doing the keynote for sunday's worship experiences, finishing up the class on romans on sunday, and missing class on saturday, so i need to finish up all the stuff i'd normally do on saturday morning/friday night by friday afternoon at the latest. i'm excited, though, since i get to wear my new, super cute shoes to the wedding. Cheryl may end up doing my hair, too, depending on when we need to leave to get to Rocklin on time. i met the matron of honor and her husband on sunday at deeper, plus i found out another couple from the journey is going, so i'll know at least 5 people at the wedding. yay! i'm really looking forward to it, since i haven't been to a wedding since last new year's and i love going to weddings! next year, i know of 3 weddings so far: olivia (in vegas), stefani (in arizona), and jesse and melissa (in newark). i feel like i may be missing one. hmmm...
i have my thanksgiving plans almost finalized. i'm going to fresno, did i mention that?, to meet matt's extended family. it's a bit nerve-wracking, but i think it will be fun overall. i'm staying from wed until sun, so it'll be major time to be scrutinized and to grill them about matt. i like matt's parents a lot, so i'm sure i'll like his extended family, too.
it's been a creative couple of weeks. i wrote a poem. i haven't done that in forever. mostly because i hate reading other people's poetry. i secretly hate poetry that rhymes, so it only figures that i wrote a poem that rhymes. i made a postsecret, too. i want to make more. it's fun. :-) i like stretching my creative muscles on occasion. |
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| for nate.. |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|12:17 pm] |
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eh-hem...rant begins now...
nate, you are 100% completely correct to voice your opinion on this matter.
one of the ways i joke about seminary ruining me is that i see how wrong we are in our teaching during our worship experiences. the bible isn't a users manual to arbitrarily open and find a solution to a happy marriage, though it's in there, but that's what seeker sensitive churches do. instead of saying, let's read the Bible in context and look at what the author was trying to convey about God and his kingdom, we've reduced the bible to a self-help book for our felt needs. something to help us with our lives. news flash, the bible isn't about our freakin lives, it's about God. it is about who he is and his power and his dominion and his work. the individual lessons pale in comparison to the main message and we're just wasting our sundays by talking about felt needs instead of the main point. all of creation points to god and we're too chickenshit to talk about him in church because people want to be served for what they think they need. it's not seeker-sensitive enough to talk about God.
beyond that, i think that churches get hung up on the marriage issue because it is indeed a good thing. but it's not the main thing! we don't bother to teach people discretion so many people, even christians, marry people who are not good for them just to be married. people are literally starving to hear about God in our churches because we've moved to focusing on other issues.
i spent time with married people closely for a year and a half of my life, but only because they paid me to clean their house. that is so not the way it should be. married people should welcome those who are single into their lives for more than just what they can provide (babysitting, housecleaning, etc) and they don't. married people have a responsibility to walk alongside other people, not just for the benefit of the single people, but for their own benefit as well.
i am going to write a book on this subject, not about good marriages or singleness, but about the main point. human love isn't the thing, but the divine, perfect love from God. my book will be aimed at single people, but not about marriage, but about learning to discern real love so that we're not satisfied with a counterfeit version, since the church doesn't seem all that concerned with that message.
oh, and the other thing that pisses me off, the underlying church culture. it's not about sermons from the pulpit only, but about the attitude you get at church from the leaders and other members. when you're single, it's like, "who can we hook you up with?" *wink wink* *nudge nudge* when you're dating, it's like "when are you getting married?" *wink wink* *nudge nudge* it conveys an attitude that we 1) don't recognize how wonderful and challenging the different seasons of your life can be and 2) value a single person until they are married. i know that's not the heart of the issue, but it's the message that comes across. case in point, matt coming with me to the anniversary dinner. no one really looked at him with a critical eye because they were overjoyed with the idea of him. matt is a fantastic man, but no one really asked him questions that would reveal anything about his character. they were relying on my opinion, which is bound to be rose-tinted. that is not the role of a church family. a church family needs to protect and support its members, which means asking the hard questions.
end rant.
nate, you are deeply loved and valued by God, beyond what you could ever imagine. i know it's easy to forget in the church when you're not valued deeply because you're not easy to fit into a programming box, but God made you and hears your deepest groanings and longings. God has neither abandoned you nor forgotten you. your church family does love you, but they're only people. they're going to be selfish and short-sighted; don't you be. fix your eyes on things above and be more satisfied than you could ever be fulfilled by a singles' activity or even a good relationship. i know you'll probably take it as a platitude, but it's simply the truth. i'm not minimizing your anger; i feel the same way, but don't take people's mistakes out on God. |
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| next week or so |
[Oct. 21st, 2005|12:42 pm] |
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| | yellowcard: inside out | ] |
i start housesitting tonight for berta and al. that's always a good time. i love having my own space and being with raja. :-) matt and my mom are coming over for dinner on sunday night. i'm excited and going to make salmon steaks with fruit salsa over rice and those chocolate chip peanut butter cookies i never did make before. it's going to be fun.
last night, when matt came over to my office to work on our romans class, he had a box with him and in it was:
yay! i love my kick the cheat. my cat hates it, though. i brought the cheat to work with me again today and randomly he would make noise. it was kind of creepy. it was worse when i started talking back to him. i heart my the cheat. and my boyfriend is good, too. :-) |
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| d'oh |
[Oct. 12th, 2005|09:21 am] |
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| | unwritten law: underground | ] |
i was so excited that green day was going to have a show at the warfield this week and that you had to get will-call tickets so that ticket brokers and scalpers couldn't buy them and jack up the price. i was even more excited that matt, who has a distaste for green day, agreed to go. of course, monday at 4 pm rolled around and my head was completely not where it needed to be, so i forgot about getting tickets until 35 minutes later. needless to say, i didn't get tickets. poo!
i had a long talk with my boss yesterday. it was very good. i think that it was a good connecting time for us, where he could see me more and i could see him more. working in a church is a bizarre thing at times, since it's not just your job, but you work with people you know socially. seriously, where else would my boss get away with asking "did you kiss skippy?" regularly? but it's not just people that you know socially, you have to do work and stuff, too. kind of weird lines.
there was something on here that i wanted to post for marla, but it evades me at the moment...hmmm, must think of that later. oh, mar, we need to talk and when we do, ask me about the cafe.
oh! i'm learning how to quilt. must back up a step...so i went to run errands with liz last thursday for the women's retreat, including a trip to the fabric store. while we were there, this really cute spiderman material caught my eye and i thought, "that would make a cute quilt if i used this material and this material and ooh! this one, too." soon i had a pile of material that i was going to purchase until i remembered that i don't know how to quilt, so i put it back. while i was at the women's retreat, i stayed in a room with 3 other ladies that i had met before, but didn't know at all. it was really cool, since i love all of them! it turns out that one of them knows how to quilt and said she'd teach me. so i designed this really cool quilt that i'm going to hammer out by christmas, i hope.
the retreat was nice. it was at a hotel in monterey, so during out 5 hours of free time on saturday, we took a walk down by the beach, really close to the sea lions, and poked around in the seafood and music festival that was happening. fun stuff. i got to know lots of people better, which wa fun. i also got lots of squeals and hugs when people found out that matt and i were dating. heehee. it's so much fun hanging out with all women, we just get each other. thanks for the cool graphic, mar! |
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| i love mix cds. |
[Oct. 5th, 2005|01:47 am] |
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| | faith hill: breathe | ] |
reason #101 that my bf is fantastic: he made me a mix cd entitled "pretty music for a pretty girl" with the following songs on it...
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend Pete Yorn
For You The Calling
Wonderful Stone Temple Pilots
If I Had it All Dave Matthews Band
Sunshower Chris Cornell
...Baby One More Time Ahmet and Dweezil Zappa
Letting the Cables Sleep Bush
Building a Mystery Sarah McLachlan
What Would Happen Meredith Brooks
Foxey Lady Jimi Hendrix
If You Could Only See Tonic
Love Letters Diana Krall
Open to Me Dillon Dixon
Somewhere Out There Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram
You're a Girl Strong Bad
Two Steps Behind Def Leppard
You'll Be In My Heart Phil Collins
reason #102, he agreed to see green day & the network with me (which is the equivalent of seeing green day opening for green day) even though green day was the source of our first difference of opinion. it's cool, since the concert is one that's targeted at stopping people from scalping. you have to buy the tickets 3 days before the show and the only option is will call, so you have to have a photo id and enter the venue immediately after you get your tickets. i really hope i get tickets, since i've still never seen green day and this is a fairly small venue, certainly smaller than a stadium, so i think it'll be loads of fun.
i love school. matt and i started teaching our class on the book of romans on sunday. it's an interesting group and i'm really looking forward to the discussions we'll have about various topics. coincidentally, i'm taking a class in seminary that's going through the book of romans in a completely different light, more touchy-feely than the class matt and i are teaching, so i'm sure that will come to the table as well.
i'll be interviewing for a job as a photography assistant in los gatos. if i get this job, i can move out and pay for school out of pocket. yay! |
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| a chuckle for y'all |
[Sep. 29th, 2005|12:06 am] |
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| | smashing pumpkins: geek usa | ] |
tonight, i was in the new walmart picking up my pictures from sunday's dinner and i stopped to grab a couple of other things. i was standing in the hair product aisle when a lady walked up to me and said, in broken english, "which conditioner is the most aromatic?" i was a bit confused and figured out that she was asking what i thought smelled the best. so we smelled conditioners for a while together. (as if that's not weird enough) i showed her one last conditioner before i left. with each jar, we'd open it and squeeze it a bit, so the air would come out of the jar and we could smell the product inside. well, i'm sure you see where this is going, but i did that with the last jar and squirted conditioner all over my face and shirt! we both started cracking up and the lady took the conditioner from my shirt and wiped in her hair. it was so random and goofy. |
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| it's official |
[Sep. 27th, 2005|11:04 pm] |
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| | passion: you are my king | ] |
i have the coolest boyfriend ever. i say that because 1) we're now officially together and 2) he's amazing. all the stuff people told me when i first met him about him being brilliant, funny, a talented musician, godly, and kind are 100% true, but there's so much more than i ever expected. even jeff (my boss) was happy to hear the news, and he's never happy about couples getting together. my new favorite word: *sigh*
on another note, seminary is hard. i need to manage my time better. |
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