On this day...

1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror."
1848 - Greenwich Mean Time was adopted by Scotland.
1861 - In America, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
1924 - R. Taylor patented the ice cream cone rolling machine.
1972 - Smokey Robinson left The Miracles.
1975 - I was born
1982 - Prince and the Revolution appeared on TV's "Solid Gold."
1989 - Billy Joel sang the U.S. national anthem at Super Bowl XXIII.
1999 - The U.S. Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two presidential advisers for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial.

Looks like I'm the best thing to happen on this day.... :)

Home Sweet Home

Well I'm home from OK! Should have been home last night but my flight was delayed in OK because of de-icing in TN so I missed my connecting flight in Mephis to Looavul. I was pretty upset about that but soon realized there was nothing I could do about it. The airline (which will remain nameless but it's initials are NWA and I will never use again) was "nice" enough to put me up in a hotel in Memphis with dinner and breakfast vouchers. But the best part of that was that when I got to my room I found out that the hotel had TBN! Now normally I don't watch TBN but last night was the night they were showing Pastors Curtis and Charmaine singing with Jason Crabb and I thought I was going to miss it, but I didn't! I even saw some fellow NVMCers in the audience so that was pretty cool!
That aside, I had a pretty good trip. I got to see some pretty cool stuff in OK. I still wish I would've had someone with me but oh well.... Now for those that don't know me, when I go on a trip anywhere, I like to see the weird stuff, I'm talking about the off beat stuff you don't hear about all the time and that's exactly what I did in OK. So with that said, in OK I saw an Oil Driller, a Big Blue Whale, the World's Largest Totem pole, and the World's Largest Praying Hands. You'll have to check my pics out on MySpace! I tried my best to find the Center of the Universe but couldn't. I figured that wasn't too much of a loss since I am the center of mine! :)

Ok in OK

well I'm OK in OK. it's cold just like home. They freak out with ice on the road just like home. Downtown Tulsa is all one way streets, just like home. Get the picture?!
You would think in a $140 a night hotel they'd give you free high speed Internet and at least a Continental breakfast!? You'd think!

Pants

So I just read a comment that my aunt left on a blog I wrote - She did leave it on the wrong one. (:D) But I knew which blog she was responding to and I was like wow,let me read that again - so I was reading the blog again and something struck me as being pretty funny! In my blog I wrote "I was the girl that didn't wear pants" It's funny to me because apparently when I was writing, I was assuming my audience was all COG people! They would understand the reference - anyone else would probably think that when I was a little girl, I ran around with no pants on, which actually might be quite possible!

Started packing last night for my big trip - Hopefully I'll learn all I never wanted to learn about Fuel Accounting software!

Wake the Day

So tonight we ROCKED OUT!!! Besides seeing all the new changes to Ground Zero and seeing probably more than 130 students, we heard an awesome message from Pastor AND heard an awesome band called Wake the Day! They did our Praise and Worship and rocked out after service! I'm getting ready to sound really old here but here goes - It was so cool to hear them and I know the lead singer, well I know his parents! (here comes the old part) I remember when he was born! Oh no did I just say that!? Oh well, it happens! I may sound old but I don't feel it! LOVED the music can't wait to hear the CD, might even go hear them play at Headliners! They ROCK, check them out!
Wake the Day

To IPhone or not to IPhone

I found out that I will not get my UPS discount on my phone plan if I activate the IPhone. For me that would double my cell phone bill. Is it worth it? Seriously, I want to know. Tell me your your iPhone stories good and bad. Details people - I know you can get on the Internet, listen to music, watch videos, sync to outlook, send email - tell me something I don't know....

Embracing My Diversity

Church was awesome today! The message really hit home! When I was a little girl, I was different - I was the girl that didn't wear pants, I was the girl that didn't have her ears pierced, I was the girl that always went to church. So when I got older, I didn't want to be different. I wanted to be just like everyone else so I made sure that I was and you know what - I almost lost who I was! I almost lost the very thing that made me different! Today's message really made me realize that I am different and no matter what I can't change that, it's who I am, it's the "tribe" that I come from. So I need to embrace it. I need to not care what non Christian people think about me. I need to not worry about what they think when I tell them what I believe. I just need to be me!
Thank you Lord for making me different.
Shabach, Halleluja! Blessed be the rock, shabach!