Saturday, February 28, 2009

summer, please. thanks!

i REALLY want summer.


REALLY REALLY.





so all of my life i have been consistent. i have gotten things done, been clean, been organized, been on time, had things planned out.


since i've started college, i have become consistently inconsistent. ha. does that even make sense? i leave things until the last minute (i hate it!!), my floor now collects clothes during the week and it is now like a tradition to clean it up every saturday after work, i am still organized (whew, i at least have one thing going for me!!), i now get to work like RIGHT on time...ha...i used to be early, and the planned out thing....well....i'm working on it.





God's will is not a career or a school, it is a lifestyle.


yesss.


and hey, look:





i want to go to school there!!
and i probably will!!

byee.
have a good weekend, my lovely friends whom i am SOOO thankful for.
:)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

love endures all things.


we're all pretty special on our own....





....but we can get through anything together.


just because i'm wandering,

....that doesn't mean that i am lost!

i feel like everyone knows what to do, except for me. ha. no, seriously, they do! but it is okay because i've learned a lot from my year at century and i wouldn't trade it, my boring job at the bank, living at home when i'm nineteen, going to the gym on a regular basis (i'll explain), and all of the other countless blessings.

i would not trade:

1) my year at century, because i got my gpa up where it should be, was able to see how the world is and lives (because yes, i am sheltered...infact, just this morning at like seven-thirty when my dad and i were goofing off before i had to leave for work he started singing tina turner's "what's love got to do with it?" and then the next line, "...but a second hand emotion"...and it was then that i realized what she was actually saying/what she meant by it. ha. thanks, dad!!), and i also wouldn't trade my year at century because of the lovely little samantha, whom i love so much and learned SO much from her...i cannot put into words how much of a blessing she was/is, mythology was a blessing. can you believe it? one, i had to work my butt off and i ended up going from a strong D to an A+, so that alone taught me the value of honest hard work (if that makes sense), and so much of mythology alludes (or illudes? i always mess that up..i think it is alludes because it has the prefix "a" which means "to") to Scripture and i got to speak up in class and give the Gospel and tell of Grace (which was something that used to terrify me, because i'm quite possibly the most insecure person you know...but i'm secure in Christ and it's His work not mine, so i don't have to be worried about that one), and my composition one teacher made me a better writer and now my composition two teacher makes me argue my point and is making me stretch farther than i have ever before (which is SUCH a good thing...even though i probably complain saying: "hey, i have to write this stupid paper..it is six pages long...ughh!" stop me and remind me that i love it and enjoy it and it is further developing whatever i have going on there. so yeah, tell me to shut up when i complain, okay?!?!), and i met lots of boys and realized how thankful i am for having not dated in high school.

2) my boring job at the bank, because of the AMAZING people that i have met, the slower-paced working environment which sometimes i hate but really it is a huge blessing and i have to remind myself to see the good in it (for example, i'm at the drive up right now and i basically spend every saturday morning in the Word and doing homework and drinking coffee...i like that), and working here has shown me money...and the good and bad of it and it has reminded and reinforced the fact that i need to be a good steward of what has been given to me. and it will be sad to move on from the job in the coming months, but i will take away so so so much from it.

3) living at home when i'm nineteen, because my parents are simply amazing and i want to be like my mom and marry someone like my dad. and my dad starts my car every single morning and washes and apple for me every single day and my mom, she makes me a healthy fruit smoothie in the morning, irons my clothes so they look nice and gives me space. and they have never once pushed me to do anything...example: go to college right away, get a degree in this, move out if you're an adult now, you're on your own, pay for insurance and this and that. nope. not them. they respect me and just want me to serve Christ. and in some funny way, living at home and staying with my parents (my mother especially), was exactly what/where God wanted me. their love is selfless. i want that someday. and i don't have to pay for rent or eat icky college cafeteria food...ha. so staying at home was not all that bad.

4) going to the gym on a regular basis, because of how much i have grown. they best things that have happened to me there are not physical. strange, huh? well, i guess instead of one mile, i can now run ten, and i can actually do push-ups now. but that does not matter. what matters is emily. she is one of the nicest, prettiest, loveliest, and most honest people you'll ever meet (i realize that sentence sounds funny but i can think of how else to say it with those words), and i respect and admire her so much. sometimes i forget she's like 34, and married and has four kids. ha. she is such a blessing. i love working out with her. and let us not forget zach...

oh zach.
biggest mistake everrrr. except not really.
and i'm so glad i had a random act of not thinking and giving some random guy my number. because, let's face it...i don't do that. i'm shy. anyways, i'm never, no never, dating again. no, seriously, i am not. i'm just going to marry my best friend and he can be the first guy i kiss and so on. that would be nice. or maybe i will never get married, and honestly, that is okay, too.

so there.
random saturday morning blabbing.

to every single person in my life.
aka-alyssa, carrie, andrea, and leah>>>because they are the only people reading this...

i love you.
i love you.
i love you.
i love you.
i love you.

here or there?
i'd like to go there.

Happy Love Day!!!! or something!!!

Friday, February 13, 2009

but honey, we have to start somewhere.

i think that i am growing up.
or something.

it is weird.

but i like it.

this year has been so hard. i so many ways. but i keep growing, more than i did the year before. which is awesome. and in every circumstance God has been there. in every high and every low. and He has used everything. what's that song we always sang in chapel? something like: "and when i am tried and purified, we shall come forth as gold." i love that. that is awesome. and i make mistakes. i sin. i screw up. i think things that i should not...and i do all of this on a daily basis. but God's mercies are new every morning! they are! and i'm sorry if i don' always live how i should. i'm sorry if i've ever said one thing and done another. please, forgive me.

and the exciting thing about growing up and becoming more confident in Christ, is that my desire for what this world offers is less and less. and not everyone i work with, am friends with, come into contact with, am related to and so on...not everyone has come to know Christ. and i have to be a light. i have to. if i lose friendships, relationships and whatnot, it is still worth it. God is enough for me. i know that. i am sure of it.

i like christina rossetti.
a lot.

"then whose shall those things be?"

oh, what is earth that we should build,
our houses here, and seek concealed
poor treasure, and add field to feld,
and heap to heap, and strore to store,
still grasping more and seeking more,
while step by step Death nears the door?

"the lowest place"

give me the lowest place: not that i dare
ask for that lowest place, but Thou hast died
that i might live and share
Thy glory by Thy side.

give me the lowest place: or if for me
that lowest place too high, make one more low
where i may sit and see
my God and love Thee so.

"consider"

consider
the lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-
we are as they;
like them we fade away,
as doth a leaf.

consider
the sparrows of the air of small account:
our God doth view
whether they fall or mount,-
He guards us too.

consider
the lilies that do neither spin nor toil,
yet are most fair:-
what profits all this care
and all this coil?

consider
the birds that have no barn nor harvest-weeks;
God gives them food:-
much more our Father seeks
to do us good.



Romans 8:28

Sunday, February 8, 2009

that was fun.

i liked graduating!!

so young, having NO idea what to do.

but it's okay.

oh wait....i still don't know what to do!!
"I'm not gonna fight You anymore; I'm not gonna try to lock the door. You took Your life and gave me Yours, there is no reason why I shouldn't trust You with mine."
amen.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

funfun.

lyssiepants-we took some picture for you. of mrs. butcher's shower!! (that's weird)
anyways, it was a lot of fun and she loooked really good and we got her a cute gift, don't worry. and we are stoked to see you next weekend!
peace out, girl scout.
love,
meggiepants


we like to make the desserts the morning of the shower!!!

crafty!!
anna'a a model.
sisters. or something. cute!!



barb and penny are too much........



hey lookie, it is clicketyclacktiggieflatmat!! he hasn't kicked the can yet!! can you believe it?

PEACE.LOVE.FOREST RANGER.FLIRT.CATS.LETITSNOW.


















Friday, February 6, 2009

heyhey, remember senior year??



remember grant? and how i loved him? and how i thought we were meant to be together. because, why else would he come into starbucks all of the time? but think of how much God taught me through grant! and think of how many seeds were planted in grant's life because of our meeting. and he was everything and he was perfect and we would have been boring together. but, as carrie always says: "you can't help who your heart loves." and i don't love him anymore and i've gotten hurt since then, but it is okay. it really is. andrea dear, we're in a group!! the "hey, we're really sad and our hearts just hurt" club. but baby babe, let's not stay in it long. okay? i love you all. every single one of you. (yes, all four of ya!). and remember all of the pain? there wasn't one step we took on our own.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

best plan to date:




i would run through those trees! with white dresses???
charleston '10. orsomething like that!
okayy, off to step aerobics!

i used to wear your shirt to bed...

...but now it's in the trash instead!!!!

lately i have been:





bugging my dad>>
and going to WILD games!! (missed you Carrie, DANGschool)!




sharing my snuggie (but only sometimes)!!








baking and cooking things!!
umbutiburntthat!


AND MISSING THE PPTS!!!


Tuesday, February 3, 2009

southern belles...

...just looking for southern gents...

...and good food...

...and a lot of carbs...
...and sunny days and nights...
...AND SUMMER LOVE....BUT ALL YEAR LONG.

my dearest southern belle (and alyssa, too),
can we move to the southhhhh? please? and it will be great. i'm loving charleston, south carolina as of right now.

love,
meagan linn