Guitar Class

I had my first guitar class tonight. It went OK. There's only 2 other people besides myself in the class. One guy already knew the cords we learned today - and the other one was a 1st timer like me. BUT he seemed to catch on fairly quick, UNlike me! I'm really going to have to practice!

One More Round

I heard a song today that reminded me of being a GLADIATOR, Baby!

Round one wasn't what I thought it'd be
Round two I'm struggling to breath
3, 4, 5, 6, 7 times I wondered why I stepped inside this ring

I may be knocked down and so bruised
But I'm here to tell you
I may be knocked down but not for the count
1,2,3,4
So take me one more round
I'll just keep fighting
One more round
You're messing me up but I'm still here
One more round
I'll come out swinging
One more round
I'm telling you now I'm not gonna lose it here

It's so hard to get above the floor again
But I know that victory is when
I'm pushing through the pain that tries
to feed me lies that I won't reach the end

I may be bloodied and so bruised
But I'm here to tell you
I may be knocked down but not for the count
1,2,3,4
So take me one more round
I'll just keep fighting
One more round
You're messing me up but I'm still here
One more round
I'll come out swinging
One more round
I'm telling you now I'm not gonna lose it

I am not defeated though you cannot see it
I have never won a battle on my own
I find strength in weakness
I find hope believing
God is for me. Who can bring me down?

So take me one more round
I'll just keep fighting
One more round
You're messing me up, oh, but I'm still here
One more round
I'll come out swinging
One more round
I'm telling you now I'm not gunna lose it here

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Church was awesome today!
You know how sometimes you can just sing a song and it never really sinks in? Today was just the opposite! As we were singing “Here I Am to Worship” today, it really struck me – I seriously will NEVER know how much it cost to see my sin upon that cross! I really don’t think it could have been said any better than that!
I’m beginning to think that I didn’t listen at all in SS when I was younger or my memory is worse than I thought – I don’t remember Moses being married OR having children! Is that bad?
These last two Sundays have really made me examine my giving. You hear all the Pastors talk about tithing and think “oh they are not talking about me, I tithe” But then last week, it (well I guess I should say He) hit me, I really don’t truly give 10% of my income. Since I’ve started consistently tithing, I have only been tithing on my net income. And my excuse has always been, “there’s no way I can tithe on my gross income, because of taxes and all the other stuff that comes out, my net income is just a little above half of my gross” But then this week it (He) hit me again – and I quote “Most people are getting half of what God has to offer because they are only giving half of what they have to offer”. After hearing that, I’m sure I just sat there with my mouth open, like “Oh wow” So; guess what I’m going to start doing next week?

My Aunt and her blog troubles

I love my aunt! She's a very smart woman but sometimes has a little trouble with my blog! She had been telling me that she wanted to comment on a blog that I wrote but there wasn't a place to comment. I kept telling her that there was. I checked my blog this morning an noticed that she commented but it was the wrong one. I called her and after talking a little we figured out that she thought that the place to comment was above the blog title instead of after the blog body! I laughed at her and told her that now I would have to write about her! So from now on when you see comments from my aunt they should make sense, unless she forgets what we talked about, which is likely cause her memory ain't so good either! LOVE YOU AUNTIE JEN!

Random Stuff v 1.2.1.1

I had coffee on Monday with some amazing women and I found my new favorite coffee at, as some say, St. Arbucks.

After weeks of not having practice, Choir was back in session! I missed it!

On the way to work this morning I looked over at a car and noticed this guy picking digging in his nose! I couldn't help but laugh! He had a good system, using all fingers!

Tonight we're having a concert in Ground Zero. I'm really excited about it - I love me a rockin concert!

Duh, Samson!

Church was awesome yesterday! I found out that Pastor Cha has some really good taste in clothing!

I learned something from yesterday's message that I didn't know. I know it's hard to believe, but when I was younger, sometimes I didn't listen in Sunday School! So in Pastor's message, he was talking about Samson and Delilah – I did not know she asked him THREE times where his strength came from. I am seriously thinking now that Samson was not very intelligent! Stupid even. Well either that or extremely horny!

Introduction to.....

Today I signed up for a class at UL Shelby Campus. The class is Introduction to Playing the Guitar! I'm very excited about it too! I know I should probably finish my "real" degree before taking fun classes but I just couldn't resist! I actually tried to teach myself how to play a while back but it was harder than I thought so maybe in a class setting, I will be better. I figure since I already know how to read music a LITTLE, I will be able to catch on fairly quick. I'm so excited...and I just can't hide it....I'm about to loose - ok ok I'll stop!

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I hope you all can snuggle up to the one you love sometime today! I even wore pink today for the occasion! For some time now, every Valentine’s Day I usually act all like “oh Valentine’s Day is too commercialized and you should let the one you love know every day how much you love them, blah, blah, blah” BUT for some reason this year, even though you should let the one you love know every day how much you love them, I just don’t have the same feelings as other years. I’m really not sure why because I have yet to find that “someone special”. The optimist inside me says today is about love, the love I have for God, the love I have for my friends and family and the also the anticipation I have for the love to come. The pessimist inside me says that the optimist is just saying that so that I don’t feel bitter about the fact that I haven’t found that “someone” just yet. As of right now, I think the optimist will win today! I’ll just keeping looking around my cube all day at happy pictures of friends and family that I love (optimist) instead of all the roses in everyone else’s cubes (pessimist)!

I sold the iPhone! From my list the cons won! And plus Dave Ramsey told me to!

Why?

Last night at the Grammy's, Amy Winehouse cleaned up! I know she at least won 3 while I was watching. Now what I want to know is...Why? She had one song, right? This one song won all these awards? What's so great about this one song? I mean I guess it does stick in your head, that one little phrase of the song, but other than that, why? I just don't understand, she's like all you hear about lately. Someone please enlighten me!
Ironically, I heard she just got out of rehab...

What?

What? You forgot to get your ticket to Little Italy Part Due? Say it ain't so! Well you're in luck! We'll be selling at the door!
See you tomorrow! Starts @ 7:00 PM!

I'm a Dork

A coworker comes and sits down in my cube today. I notice that she has this black dirt mark on her forehead. I think, “What is that? Is that mascara? Dirt? I need to tell her! No I’m not telling her; I don’t know her that well. No I’ll tell her, I don’t want her to look in the mirror and wonder why I didn’t tell her!” So I tell her. She says “oh no it’s…” and then it hits me! I immediately say “Ashes! Oh I’m sorry! I so forgot it was Ash Wednesday!” She laughed, I laughed. She understood. I’m a dork!

Peace and Pictures

The Lord is good! I did not hear one tornado siren last night! It may have been because I was sound asleep in my bed when there were all going off! I am so thankful for peace!

This morning I went in late to work because I have to stay late so I decided I would go get tags and license renewed. Got the tags for the car then walked over to the court house to get my license renewed. I walk up to the counter, paid and the girl takes my picture and while I’m waiting she says “wow, you’re hair is much cuter now than your last picture!” uh, ok…Thanks? and here I thought my last license picture was pretty good! :D

Super Sunday Recap & Monday Morning woes

So yesterday was "super"! Not only did the NYG win the Super Bowl, church was even more awesome than that! I'm not actually a true blue Giants fan but I'm just glad to see the underdog win. For some reason I usually pull for the underdog.
Our newest member of our Pastoral Care Team, Pastor Craig ministered yesterday. I guess it was his inaugural message and I must say it was a very good one! As I was listening to his message, I kept thinking of 2 of my close friends and some people that I work with and just wished they were there to hear it! It seems funny to me that back in the day the COG was the first to tell you denomination mattered, but so many things have changed since then and now, we FINALLY mean it when we say "come as you are and let God do the rest"! I guess I'll just have to keep telling them that it doesn't matter what church you were raised in! But now I think I'll add to the end of that - "just give the man what he wants!"
So this morning I'm getting ready to leave for work and I think "I should check my other purse to make sure i get my desk keys." then quickly dismiss that thought because I KNOW I didn't take them home Friday. I leave, drive the 18.6 miles to work, get to my desk and notice that my desk keys are not where I THOUGHT I left them! Where could they be? Oh yeah, now I remember, I took them home Friday! so I walk back down to the car, leave, drive the 18.6 miles back home and find the keys in the purse that I had on Friday, that I thought about checking but didn't before I left this morning! Moral of the story: Not only is the Holy Spirit a comforter, he's a put a thought in your head that you should heed to, assistant!