Friday Night.. or Saturday.. whichever!

I don't have to work Saturday so I want to do something tomorrow night. I don't care what, I just want to! We haven't seen Amber and Bryan since they moved back to Central, so we definately needa have them come. Please post ideas for stuff to do and if you'll be able to come. Even if we just play games.. I'm up for another game of Scrabble, or maybe even Trivial Pursuit (BJ has the 90's version). And Taboo is fun, as long as I pay attention to whose turn it is.... Scattergories would be fun with Jamie. Hahaha.. it makes me laugh just thinking of it.

Or we could go play pool at the Union. We haven't done that in more than a year.

Lemme know what ya'll think!!

In appreciation

Most of you should know that I have 4 older sisters. The next one older being 27 - there's a 10 year gap. The only ones I talk to on a regular basis (about once every two weeks or so) are the two oldest - Joy (the oldest, my mothers daughter) and Sarah (my dad's oldest daughter). Both of them have a kid.. I don't know if that has anything to do with them actually wanting to associate themselves with us. But I was thinking about them today, and the way that they've influenced me.

They were both out of the house by the time I was 6 or 7, so I have very few young memories of them except when they came to visit. They moved away quickly.. as in, to other states. I wouldn't talk to them or see them for months. It's only been much more recently that I've begun to pursue a relationship with them. Sarah comes to stay with us for about 2 weeks out of each year, or vice-versa. She's just bundles of fun. She has inspired our love for old movies and my love for good old music. She loves art and foreign languages. She's studied Arabic and is currently studying Russian, just for fun. I love hanging out with her. I wish I could just drop everything and go stay with her for a week.

Then there's Joy. Joy lives about 3 hours away in Mobile.. She's got a very boisterous laugh. And she laughs very easily. It's fun to sit there and exchange stupid stories about momma and Poppy... She's very smart too. I love calling her to ask for a recipe or what-not. She always has great ideas! She's very easy to talk with. When you tell her something, she always has a response, so phone conversations are never awkward. One of the things I love about Joy, have always loved, is her femininity. She almost always looks gorgeous. She's always wearing skirts and pretty shoes, and I can't recall a recent time I've seen her in a t-shirt. I love that!! Even when she's just goin' to the store she's in a casual skirt and shirt. Actually, casual for Joy is most peoples' "dressed up". She inspired me to go out and buy a skirt and blouse today. I love feeling girly!

I really do love my sisters very much. I wish they didn't live so far away. If it were up to me, I'd drop everything and drive over to Mobile this weekend and stay with Joy just to give her and Charles a night away from the baby. But It'll have to wait. That's okay.. she'll be here in a couple weeks for Momma's birthday! And everyone might come for Thanksgiving. I'm excited just thinking about it!

Harangued

Everyone keeps buggin' me about posting. So here is my honest effort. Since I'm the only one who, up to this point, felt it necessary to post something supremely meaningful every time... I'm just going to tell you the miscellaneous events of the past few days. Beginning with Saturday. Or really... sometime last week... just because it's funny.

At work: one day last week we had this lady come in and ask if her little girl could meet "the muffin man".. She'd been listening to the song; you know how it says "Do you know the muffin man??". Well the little girl told her mommy "I don't know the muffin man!!" So a very reluctant James gave a little girl and muffin and a smile.

Have you ever had super fresh sour gummi worms??? OH MY goodness! It makes such a difference! They were all soft and extra stretchy... mmmmm... One of my co-workers picked some of the red stuff out of all the different kinds of candy we got in and made her own personal little bag of it. We also got some "rum balls".. before I even knew what they were I was dared to try them. They looked exactly like the truffles Jordan made. But YUCK! I can't even describe how nasty it was.

Saturday while driving home from work in traffic I realized how disgustingly dirty my mouth was, I didn't have any water, and it was driving me nuts.. so I'm sitting there wiping my teeth with a napkin, when I realize the problem is that my toungue is just.. gross... (I have one of those tounge cleaning toothbrushes. I'm spoiled. And I'm about to humiliate myself.) So the only thing I could find to clean it was the lid to a pringles can... I'm sitting there scraping my tounge when I look to my left and see that I have a very attentive audience who are staring and laughing... I couldn't help it.. I laughed too. I could only imagine what I looked like.

I need to go get some new blue jeans. I only have one pair and they're too big. Oh yeah, BJ wore new pants Sunday.. I forgot to tell him we noticed. They were cool. Jacob tried to get someone to give him $40.. hahaha.. We played Scattergories and Jordan and I beat everybody!!

So anyway... that's all I have to say for now!

“My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him." John 7:16-18

"If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”John 10:37-38

These two scriptures have been reverberating through my spirit and mind the past few days. I'm lazy right now and didn't feel like writing them down, so I copied and pasted them here. I would comment on it.. but I'm not sure I fully get it yet. So be patient.

El Senor me ayuda a creer

I've sort of avoided the blog for the past few days. It could be because I'm a lousy updater.. or just that I haven't known what to write!... well that's not really the truth. I've been afraid of what I might write. If you know me, you know that the written word is the way that all the depths of me come crashing out. Is there a way to make this so only a few people can read it? If there is, I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to do anything on Blogger... I couldn't figure out how to get my photo to show up, so Beege did it for me. Thank you very much, by the way!

I could drag up the revelation God's been giving me over the past week and a half... It's really just a lot of little stuff that's made me go "Whoa, What a way to look at it!" I've really examinined myself and my doctrine and where I stand. It's been confusing. I've spent some time hashing these things out with the people close to me.. some of the time that settles the issues, and sometimes it raises more questions. More questions isn't a bad thing though. It gives me something to do! Right now the biggest question isn't where I stand... (I think most of you know what I mean by that)

You know what frustrates me? I haven't really put anything of substance on this blog. It's purely ramblings. One of these days I'm going to get the hang of this.

just trying something

Be Right Back

You didn't even know I was gone, did you? I'm brushing my teeth here.. I have to be up for work in 6 hours. Just thought I'd drop in and show ya'll what we did this weekend!

See this lovely cake to your left? I made that... see how lumpy the sides are? Yeah.. the filling leaked out. Completely. I was annoyed. But it tasted good, so that's what counts!


See this lovely young lady? That is my 3 year old niece opening a present.. I love her tiara! She was adorable! Even if she did decide that Jordan's her favorite. We spent all day Saturday working on the birthday party, then we took naps.. then we watched dumb movies (Benchwarmers, and Just My Luck) until 2AM.. Sunday morning we went to the huge Mobile flea market where I bought 2 scarves, some bottle top earrings, sunglasses, and a chinese parasol. I'm very satisfied with my purchases..

Sunday night we were at Bob's 'til 2AM... I laughed when he finally told us "Get outa my house!" like he's been threatening to do for months. It was a historic moment in that household. Monday rolled around and everyone was outa town. Jordan and I were bored out of our minds. We really wanted to go horseback riding but the FREAKS at Wanetiri Lakes charge $35 for 1- 1 1/2 hours. Fortunately it only costs $5.45 to go hiking for as long as ya want. It's really very gorgeous out there. We've determined that we all need to go one afternoon. We're planning another trip to Tunica Hills in a few weeks. But the pre-requisit will be trekking at Wanetiri without complaining.. if you can't do Wanetiri for a couple hours then there's no way you can do Tunica for a whole day! We already know BJ can do it.. And we know Jordan is a lone-hiker. But what about Holly? And Lauren? And Jacob? Lesley? Micah, Kandi, Darrin, and Dalton maybe?? Amber and Bryan? Consider this your official invitation to an afternoon at Wanetiri... from there we determine your willingness to conquer Tunica!