~My Anyway Friend ~

I heard last week of something I have never thought of: An anyway friend. What is that you may ask? Well allow me to share with you,

Anyway Friend:
Is the one person in your life, whom
No matter what you say or do
No matter what they've been through with you
Will love you anyway.

Seriously the cutest thing I have ever heard of! This little thing gave me a lot to think about this weekend. I first thought of relationships and how one day I want an anway friend. Then it became something more then just my "regular" relationships.

I realized I already had one, I have an anway friend and I've had this one for many years. The problem was I didn't realize that I had my anyway friend, I was too busy thinking that I needed some other person to be my anyway friend. Someone new and exciting. When I realized that I had an anway friend already I felt silly and bad that I forgot that I had one. I mean really what girl forgets someone who had been there for them not because they had to but because they wanted to?

My anyway friend is God, He has ALWAYS been there for me and will continue to do so no matter what!!! How awesome is that, I don't have to ask Him to listen or even explain the situation He knows and He cares. He doesn't fake his sadness at the sight of my pain and He doesn't fake His joy at the sight of my joy all of it is truely genuine. It truely is cast your cares upon Him for He cares for you!!
WOW- that's all I have to say WOW.

I mean I knew all of this, I knew that He did/does care for me but it seems like along the way I get reminded because like a goldfish I forget.
I tend to morph between the forgetful goldfish and the dumb little sheep who gets stuck in the corner everyday.

Today I have decided to take joy in, find contentment in, delight in and rest in my anyway friend. The ONE who has ALWAYS been there for me.

S-A-D

It's valentines day weekend and what am I going to do???.....

1. Watch Dear John (check)

2. Cry my eyes out (check/ happened while watching movie)

3. Eat Chocolate (naturally) *Note not just a valentines day occurance*

4. Have a girls only weekend (just two days then check)

5. Enjoy my Single Awareness Day (sure thing)

Yes Ma'am that pretty much sums up my weekend.

I have to say that I love going out with the girls, we talk, laugh, cry and that's just in the first ten minutes. I'm finding out the guys are like Rubik's cube .. multi-colored, confusing and confusing (just in case I didn't share that part)
But we women are Rubik's cubes ourselves we on the other hand are one solid color, not confusing just everything flowing and meshing together.
Men must have their boxes and compartments, we on the other hand enjoy our mush pots, our casseroles if you will.

Wow, I have the weirdest thoughts sometimes (aren't you glad I share them with you!) I bet you are now asking yourself why in the world you're reading this and why do I write this down? Some thoughts are better left in the head and not said.. right?? Well I'm a walking twitter ... it's all coming out (Insert laugh here) :)


Well that's all I have to say for now ...

One last thing :) Go see Dear John and bring some tissue because you'll need it, oh' the chocolate don't forget that ....

The never ending paper process

So I'm suppose to be finishing my paper for my nutrition homework..... I'm doing everything but that. I have organized my music on all three programs of my laptop, caught up with friends, text a few people, checked the facebook and now I'm blogging.

Homework status - unfinished.

I have to write a paper on the lower colon, I mean really there is no hurry to get to that! I'm so grossed out I never want to eat again! That won't last long :)

What teacher thinks to themselves "Hey, I have an idea, I'll have all the students right a two page paper on the lower colon." (YUCK)

Let me tell you it does not make for ineresting reading.


Apparently I have left somethings out.... well let me fix that.
Your lower intestine is 10 feet long about the length of a tennis court.
Your lower intestine looks like velvet with hair on it, the villi move like a sea anemone... now doen't that just sound like fun!

My paper is on a specific disease known as IBS (not inductive bible study)
I will not list the symptoms because I'm having a hard enough time reading about it.


*Note to self - don't eat while reading.

that's all I'm going to share :) ..... THE END


Okay ..... homework time...

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Laugh in the Moment

My second semester of community college has started and let me tell you it's going to be a unique term!
Today I got to stand out in the rain for a whole 20 + minutes because the poor teacher (really poor guy!) didn't have his keys. Apparently last term he didn't get it until the 5th week and this being his first year he feels this could be the likely story of this semester. Great more standing in the rain! I figure if we are at least going to be out there could they put some benches and maybe some starbucks because that would make the wait way more delightful.

When public safety did come to unlock the class room they didn't believe he was the teacher because he didn't have his id card and the campus saftey guy had to clear him first. It was a great start to the day. Really?!?!?! This guy is a teacher here, I mean at least that's what he says I hope and pray it's true because that would just be weird and a bit creepy not going to lie.


I was thinking to myself that this would be a funny story for later today, not so much at the moment but later, it would make great dinner conversation. When I thought that I just couldn't help but laugh at how sad we looked and how the poor teacher with his purple and yellow shoes is pacing the pavement apologizing. I like to find hummor in the little things but sometimes I find it when no one else does and then they look at me like I'm weird. At that point there is a lot of explaining to do and it's just not funny anymore. That's when the real weird glances begin.

This term will be a funny one that is for sure, I know I will enjoy it.
Oh' what will the end of this week bring? What will next week bring? Will we make into our class room right when we are suppose to? We will be standing in the rain?? Will there be benches and starbucks? Will he finally get a set of keys and an id card? Will campus safety at this week finally know who he is? Will the teacher wear those purple shoes again?
So many question ... let's hope there will be answers ... till next time.

Every Good Gift

So it's pretty much exciting when you wait on the Lord and He blesses you! The Lord has been showing me the importance of faith, the true meaning of going somewhere and not knowing. The point being I have faith that He will lead me in the right direction. It's not easy to wait on the Lord or to let go of situations but He is faithful to bring us through. He will not lead you into a situation that He does not know the outcome to. Nothing catches Him by surprise.

God takes my hand and guides my steps.

He will give us the strength to face each and every new day. He will give us what we need each moment of each day. We just have to walk in that faith, trusting and believing He will. I know that sometimes I put restraints on Him, thinking something is too small or too big, but He can handle it all and that needs to be enough for me. Though I may want to do it myself, thinking I can get it done faster and better, it's He that does in such a way that' s better then my sweetest dreams. I couldn't plan things better or make things happen quite like He does.

He makes everything beautiful in HIS TIME. That's something to remember His time not our time.



"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the begining to the end." Ecclesiastes 3:11



"So faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of Christ." Romans 10:17

- Trust and Obey -

There is a quote from a movie I watched once it said, "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." ....... just something to keep in mind as we face our day to day.


Sometimes I lose focus, sometimes I lose sight of what's really important. I think I get so caught up in life and what I'm doing that I leave something important behind. What you may ask, let me tell you... HIM. If you're wondering who HIM is well it's Jesus. I lose sight that He can handle all my fears and doubts. That He can handle all my anxious thought, that nothing is too big or too small. He just wants me to come to Him, to cry out to Him, He waits ever so patiently for me.
Yet it seems often that even thought I know this it takes me a while to get there. I tend to cry out to friends and family before turning to the ONE who can hold my hand, the ONE who can truly do something about what I'm going through. The ONE who knows my thoughts before I think them and still wants to hear them. With Someone like that in my life why is it that I turn to those who will fail me , hurt me and let me down? (Not that they do, it's just they are human and make mistakes, HE however never makes mistakes, He is faithful in ALL HIS promises!)
Please don't get me wrong I love having my girl time and calling them up when my world goes pear shaped. I'm just saying that before I turn to them I should go to the ONE who made the world, then to my friends and family whom I know love me and care so much about me.
I'm going to leave you with the verse of the day ....
"May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy." Colossians 1:11

I like to remember something, it's not how you fall it's how quickly you get back up when you do. Don't let life get you down, not even if it's raining and you're praying for sun. Because without the rain we wouldn't have flowers.