It's me, Charity

I get *WAY* too excited when I see that I have a new Blog Follower. It makes me feel so popular!! I am still overwhelmed trying to find a place to live come July. I find something I think I like and then in some way it just doesn't work, or falls through. Getting discouraged. And then thinking of the ones I know who have sold houses and have nowhere to live, then I feel guilty for stressing so much. I made my Monday night  Piano Student raise her right hand and pledge to always follow Pink Wednesday, every Wednesday, No matter what. And yes, I even had her say "I Do Solemnly swear" I may have also taught her how to play Happy Birthday, just so she could play it for me on my Birthday. I may be celebrating my birthday all week long. Why not? I'm struggling with the blogging lately. With my new schedule of teaching three nights a week and Bible Study on the other night, I'm only home on Friday nights and by then I'm exhausted. I could blog ...

 Monday was my 30'th Birthday and it was a day long event! Ok week long if we're really going to be honest! The festivites started with sweet Bradley bringing me my Favorite Starbucks drink in the morning at work! That definitely woke me up! At lunch, Audra and I headed to Firehouse subs, one of my FAVES! They give you a free Sandwich on your Birthday! Sweet!  Audie and I take our best pictures in the car :)  Audie brought her present for me and I was pretty excited to open it! Yes, that is a "Birthday Princess" pin that you see on my shirt.  My Gift! It's soooo neat! Audie made this for my Piano Studio, It is well with my soul is my favorite hymn! If you can't tell, the words are cut out of sheet music! WAY COOL!! They were sooo nice to me at Firehouse Subs! Everyone wished me a happy birthday and then they gave me this stunning hat and proceeded to sing to me! So sweet!!  Before I left work I got a flower and chocolate delivery...

 I went home this weekend to spend my 30'th Birthday weekend at the Farm with my family! It was a very relaxing time! Sadly, my Mom is sick with a bad cold so she was feeling pretty miserable. So we didn't get to hang out as much as I'd hoped, but It was still great to be home!  Even though she was sick, Mom still made me my Birthday cake! she made matching flip flops, as pictured above. I laughed because I thought the top looked like bacon. It wasn't. But it sure looked like it! I was SOOOOOO excited to get a Cruz Android! Now I feel like I have finally caught up to the techies of the world! I spent alot of time over the weekend playing with this bad boy. LOVE.IT!! And the first picture of me as a 30 year old Woman! Still can't believe I'm 30!!! Looking forward to a fun day, and dinner with friends.  Dog N Suds pretty much made my day by not only opening on my birthday but Publicly  wishing me a Happy Birthday on Twitter AND Facebook! I lov...

I may or may not *sometimes* wait to do my dishes until I have 1. No cups left or 2. no bowls left. This may or may not have happened over the past week as well. I also think of confessions to write all week long, and then when it comes time to write them I totally forget each and every one of them. Old age sucks. I *stupidly* bought a tanning package at a local tanning company and went tanning twice over the weekend. Until I realized that my back was flame read, and i felt like I had pin pricks all over my entire body.  Again, Stupidly, I had not looked at the medicine I take before, Stupidly, buying this package. Yeah, on a medicine where I'm not supposed to be in excessive sun or tanning beds. Fabulous. Again. STUPID! All because I wanted to be tan for my birthday. sighs. Last week I went downtown to have my Violin re-strung. I get lost everywhere I go and have no directional sensibility. I was driving around trying to find the building (which had a sign on it smal...

 Friday Night Ms Bryna came over and colored my hair! I wanted something alittle feisty for my upcoming Birthday Bonanza, so she gave me some blonde and red streaks! I LOVE the red! Seriously thinking of doing red all over next time!  The above picture should also be entitled "Why I was late to church on Sunday" I don't know why I try to straighten my hair. It never ends up well and never looks good. :(  This was taken without the flash by accident but I thought it looked kinda cool! My hair in it's natural state, Curly. Amen and Amen. Please ignore my really messy sink and counter. I don't have enough space. Big thanks to Bryna for once again hitting it out of the ballpark with my super awesome hair!

For Valentine's Day my Beethovans sent me my fave flower-TULIPS! in my fave color-PINK! to work! I was SO surprised! The last time I got flowers I was 21 and at PCC. It was unexpected and so, SO sweet! Valentine's day evening I had a date with myself and rented a DVD, and lit my new teeny candle. Lilac Blossom from Bath and Body Works. I LOVE LILACS!! My Grandma had some at her house growing up and I just love the smell of them. Brings me right back home. I was beyond excited to see Paczki's at the grocery store this week! So OF COURSE I had to get one! Friday I re-decorated our Year Long Office tree and made it spring like. I was rather pleased with the results!

1. I am So so SO Excited because tonight I am getting my hair done by the one, the only BRYNA! not only do I miss my sweet friend, but I'm excited to get my birthday highlights put in!! 2. I am in love with my pink tulips that are on my desk. in.love. so beautiful! I love fresh flowers! 3. Next week I start two new Piano Students! Brings me up to 5 total! 4. A week from now I will be fixin to head home to the farm for my birthday weekend. I really miss home and my family so I am uber excited for this as well. 5. I have been thinking about tanning for my bday, you know to have some color other than pilsbury dough boy white, but I'm afraid of burning! The only thing worse than a pasty white birthday is a bright red birthday! 6. My teeth and jaw have really hurt lately. I think I am clenching/grinding them all day and night. 7. I still have not found a place to live come July. This could be the reason for #6!!

In the predawn hours of New Years Day 2004 I was faced with a choice. After spending New Year's Eve at a local bar with a friend, I came home and through the events that transpired, I saw clearly a vision of my future. What would happen to me if I continued on the path I had been taking. I had a choice to make and within a split second I knew what my answer was going to be. I grew up in a Christian home. I was saved at an early age. When I was 13/14 on my Birthday Sunday, Pastor Martin preached a sermon about those of us who had been saved at an early age and knowing if your salvation was real or not. I spent the rest of the day and my party tormented because I could not remember what was in my heart when I was younger. That night I gave my life to Christ and knew without a shadow of a doubt that I was his, and going to Heaven. In the years that followed I continued to be very active in church. I played the Piano and was in charge of Sunday night offertory, I was t...

1. I am pretty happy with my little blog design re-do. I know it's not super fancy, but after a year of Jordy's FAB design, I was ready for a change! 2. I may even like it so much that I have went to look at my blog, just to look at it, several times now. Sad, I know. 3. After being gone 4 nights this week I crashed tonight and didn't go to the Cafe at church. Truth be told around 7 pm I almost fell asleep.  4. I painted my toes a bright pink tonight, hoping that it will spur Spring to come. Unfortunately it's still snowing outside and we have a forecast of 7 degrees for tomorrow. fab. 5. I am excited for Spring but I am not excited to see everyone's feet again. See, I have a love hate relationship with feet. Mostly hate. I can't stand to see people with gross long toenails. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD! Your toenails are supposed to be shorter than your toes. Gross.  Cut them and keep them trimmed, so I do not have to see such nastiness. Blech. 6. I...

 Thursday I had a Dr apt with my Specialist 40 mins from Lafayette, so my Mom went with me to keep me company and be an extra set of ears. Turns out it was a pretty boring apt, just checking in on me and my new meds, so her ears weren't needed, but I did really enjoy the company! She picked me up from work and we drove to the Dr's office and had a really nice time chatting! She showed me her fancy new electornic but alas there was no wi-fi in the office. So we spent most of our time in the waiting room discussing new furniture that I'm hoping to get for my new home in July! So that was alot of fun! Dr was running behind but I didn't mind at all! It was nice to spend some time with my Momma just chatting. I had to laugh because she was wearing what I call her "Hooker Boots". I told her that unless she is a Kardashian, over the knee boots only mean one thing! She did not agree with me. It was pretty funny to see the difference in our footwear. I ...

 It's been a little while since we've had my precious Snugglemuffin on the blog. My bro and sil are pretty private people, so in order to keep receiving emails with videos and pictures from them, I behave myself. :) BUT I just had to post these pics of his first haircut. Above is before and below is after. We all know my obsession with his schmoopy cheeks and these pictures just about did me in!! I want to go and kiss and munch all over that little face!!! And yes, I know, I have the most adorably cute and precious nephew of all time. It's ok to be jealous! :)

 I can't look at this picture and not laugh. She looks so evil and devious here. One can only wonder what she was plotting! Well, she was plotting how to get her Momma's knife but she was shut down on that one several times.  I love her sweet little smile! She has this CHEESE face, squishy face, that is seriously the cutest thing evah, but my stupid camera was too slow so I didn't capture it. Boo.  Emboz got to open her (late) Birthday presents. Two of which involved crackle nail polish which I will state for the record that I am still against! :)  Me and my sweet girl. We were both having rough days so this is the best and only that we got. Love that little stinker!  To entertain her/keep her busy while we had the not greatest waitress ever, we played peek a boo with the tissue paper. She loved it! She was just giggling away! I love her giggles they are so funny! Flirting with the big boys at the table behind us. This little girl is a fan...

I am completely entertained and mesmerized by a 5 minute video of my Nephew Benjamin picking up blocks. I love seeing him in action and his little funny personality, and yes, I can't help it, I laugh when he falls. He walks like a drunken little man! On the same vein, all of his pictures are my screensaver on my laptop, and sometimes, while reading or even watching tv, I will get distracted looking at all of his pictures popping up on the screensaver. I can't believe how much he has grown in 14 short months! I'm going to be such a sappy Mom! Emboz and I had lunch at O'Charley's this month and got a less than stellar waitress. To the point where she was sitting at the both behind us chatting with some random person. I may or may not have had Emboz tap her on the shoulder so we could get our drinks refilled and get more rolls. I love Makeup. Well let me clarify. I love makeup if I can put all of it on in 5 minutes or less. High Maintenance I am not. May...

I have a temper. And I just realized this last night.  After writing that I have been sitting here staring at my screen at a loss for words.  God has really been working in my heart lately to show me things that I need to change in order to grow closer to him. I feel like this has been something I've been struggling with for a long time. We all know about Twanda but yet here I am, still fighting this. My Pastor preached a sermon on 1-29-12 called "Lord, Love My enemies through Me" I highly recommend clicking on the link and listening to the sermon.  I'm going to copy some of his sermon text into this blog. Think of the impact on your obedient faith and commitment to love others that is felt when you intersect with an angry spouse, a rebellious child, a difficult neighbor, an uncaring family member or an obnoxious co-worker. You may not be beaten, bloodied or bound, but your independent preoccupation with your life and your self infatuation lead y...

 So I decided to hop on the weekly phone dump post, since I take alot of random pics during the week but never really have a post for all of them.  Since we're hosting the Superbowl TODAY!! Lot's of Superbowl'ish things are going on around town. My work hosted one of the Indy Cars that were made for the NFL. So I took a pic for my NASCAR obsessed bff.  I would really like to know how they got the car inside though. I'm going to have to investigate that on Monday!!  Here are the verses I am working on for February. The bottom one is becoming somewhat of a life verse for me with my health issues. SPEAKING of health issues... I was sick, still am, and had no voice until Thursday. Wednesday I had to make this sign to hang at my desk because everyone was confused as to why i was whispering to them. It definitely made for a difficult day at work when 75% of your job is talking to people in person or on the phone. Not being able to speak was hard.

1. I promise I will start blogging more actual posts than Mid Week Confessions and 7 Quick takes. Life has been very busy and very sickly lately! 2. I am loving that I haven't had to wear a coat for the past week and a half. Ok well maybe I should be wearing a coat, but seriously, I'm a hoosier, it gets above 34 degrees and I find it warm. And I hate coats! 3. Plans are starting to come together for my 30'th Birthday and I'm starting to get excited!! Still not thrilled about the number, but I'm looking forward to getting to spend some time with my friends! 4. I got one of those fancy new waterbottles where you press the lever at the back of it and it slides open the drinking hole. Yeah you should really be careful when you release the lever and it closes. I got sprayed on my face with ice cold water. It did however wake me up so that was a bonus. 5. I've looked at two potential homes this week, and I really liked the second one! The first had mo...

So I confessed last week about leaving my laundry in the clothes dryer all week long. You will be happy to know that is not the case this week! Oh no! You see, I needed to dry blankets for girls nite Saturday night so I got my load of laundry OUT of the dryer. And threw it on my bedroom floor. Since I've been sick and one step away from seeing Jesus all week, the laundry is STILL laying on the floor. I am not a clothes on the floor person so this is driving me nuts. But apparently not nuts enough to put it away.. When I'm sick I still drink Coke. At times it's the only thing I can stomach. The only other thing I can stomach when sick is usually a McFlurry from McDonald's. Something about the soft serve vanilla I can do. Other ice cream, not so much. But the light texture of the McFlurry I can handle. While being sick this week, I showered and then didn't dry or do my hair and slept on it. This resulted in a hair do that is only rivaled by Bruno Mars and ...