Minnesota Nice

ok..i'm super busy..but i had to stop for a second to tell you what i saw today at the drug store...i was on my way to work from a meeting..and i stopped at the drug store to grab some last minute stuff before i fly out tomorrow....

ok..so mother's day is approaching and all over the store they had these little tags on everything that said something like "remember mom this mother's day"....you know, just little reminders on certain products in case you need help shopping....
so i'm walking down the aisle, and i see one on a "beard & mustache trimmer".....UMMMM...what? I guess nothing says happy mothers day like, "hey mom, shave your beard...."

off to IL for 4 days.....

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JAMIE!!!

this blog is dedicated to jamie..and things i love about her...

1. when i first saw her at LCC..i noticed hair and i said..."that girl will be my friend."....so one day i just wandered into her room..and the rest is history..
2. we used to stay up late making infomercials in our dorm..all the while my roomie heather snoozed away
3. i love it when jamie falls...she acts like she didn't and like it's no big deal.....ie..the mail room at lcc
4. i love that jamie's family pretty much took me in as their own
5. jamie's hometown is like summer camp
6. jamie is the most cultured/artsy/wise person i know
7. jamie and i could laugh about nothing and everything.....ie..the word demin....only said as "zenum"....
8. jamie is my human dictionary..and i never get embarrassed to ask her how to spell words or what words mean
9. jamie loves people deeply and would do anything for her friends and fams
10. jamie likes to dance with old men at receptions and bars..just because...and it always makes me laugh
11. jamie is a modern day barnabas.....a "daughter" of encouragement
12. She is one of the coolest married people i know
13. She's my favorite camp co-dean
14. Jamie cares enough about people to be honest with them, to love unconditionally
15. Jamie is a great dancer
16. jamie is a great aunt
17. a great friend
18. a great wife
19. a great daughter
20. a precious child of God and friend to many

I love you j.....Happy 26th..

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Dear Blog Readers,

Please accept my deepest apologies for not blogging enough. I'm recieving a lot of hate emails and comments and quite frankly am fearing for my life. So without further ado...here we go...

i'm currently trying to waste time while i wait to go pick up scott from the aiport...his flight was supposed to be in at 11pm..but at this point won't be in till around 2 am...i'm about to fall out....

it's been so hot here...record heat for april i guess...but i love it..i love the sun...but will probably one day have wrinkley old leather skin....so that always sucks....

updates:

the ball is still missing that holds up the weights in the fitness center...so my old lady friend can't work out

i got a new eyebrow ring ball to replace the one i lost in the aformentioned fitness center...but every time i go run..i still glance around on the floor, like i'm actually going to find this tiny little silver ball after of week of vacuuming by the cleaners....

I miss eating yogurt....darn you atkins :)

3 more days till i see Tony.

13 more days till i meet his family.

Not soon enough till Tony lives here.

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4.20..need i say more...

i will anyway...

sorry for such "serious" posts lately...but you will have to change with my moods....

ok..so some random funniness...

today i was working out and after i got done running...i noticed my eyebrow piercing was missing a little ball on it...so i have this big sharp metal spike looking thing just sticking out of my eye.....ok...so not funny yet i know...the funny part comes when i crawled on the floor, never explaining to the girl runing on the treadmill next to me what i was doing, looking for this tiny ball that screws onto the end of my bar......i was so mad..i think i lost it at some point when i take my shirt and wipe my sweaty face with it.......the ball must have dropped and was propelled by the moving treadmill..i even considered doing some experiementing with dropping object on the t-mill and studying it's trajectory.......but after 10 min of looking for the ball..i realized the $10 purchase wasnt worth all that amount of time.....

yesterday i was walking past a table in a restaraunt when all i heard was a snippet of an old couples' convo..this is what i heard.....eldery woman saying.."well are you going to get more viagra?".......

i also forgot to mention that earlier when i was looking for the said ball.....i hit my head on the weight machine...

in a totally unrelated topic....as much as i like to lose weight..it sucks cause i have no clothes to wear......

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...save me because of your unfailing love...
I am worn out from sobbing.
Every night tears drench my bed;
my pillow is wet from weeping...
Psalm 6:4,6

I'll let David, the psalmist, say what my heart feels...

Is there anything better than unfailing love? will we ever be able to even comprehend that in our humanness? unfailing love...unconditional love....
Will we ever really be able to understand why someone could love us so much?

My prayer is that each of you will get a glimpse of that love in someone here on earth...someone that loves you.....faults, past, mistakes..and all...it's the most indescribable feeling in the world...unfailing love...a love that seems easier to give than to receive...because receiving it requires vulnerability, it requires humility, it requires a lack of control...

thank you God for Tony

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everyone...stop yelling at me for not blogging..i can't handle the pressure....cause when you tell me to blog..i feel like it's gotta be all good and funny and i cant handle the pressure.......so here you go....

i love reading everyone else's blogs.....they make me smile....help me to catch up on my friends' lives......make me feel close to all of you even though i am thousands of miles away :( my new fav blog is heather's....who just moved to cali as a nurse.....so good to have an old friend around..and judging by her stories on her blog..she hasnt changed one bit..... www.nurseheatha.blogspot.com

Easter....good church...good food...good friends...and fams.....that's what it's all about....o..t.hat, and Jesus bustin out of the tomb.....

scott and i are awaiting a package from my mom for easter.....or i should say....Scott is awaiting a package...cause i'm sure it's just full of candy like our v-day one was.....and as many times as i tell my mom i'm atkins and dont eat sugar...she still sends packages full of all sorts of good candy that i have to hand over to scott......not that scott minds.....dont' get me wrong mom..i'm thankful....i like giving joy to scott in the form of peeps.....

so, there's a crazy fitness center robber on the loose.....let me explain....
last week i went to my fitness cent. to work out and the little metal pin was missing on the weight machine...you know, the one that holds the 80 lb weight in place while i work out......did i say 80..i meant 30......anyway it was gone.....and then the next day..it was miraculously back....
so sat....i go back again..and find it missing......once again......so i just did cardio and went on my way....
so today i go work out..and it's still missing...so i'm running away on the treadmill...and this 70ish old lady comes in and starts working our too.....after my run.....i lifted some free weights and was staring ahead at the tv...watching sportscenter of course......i hear this huge noise....and look back..and the old lady had just stumbled a bit on her treadmill and it made a huge noise....she smiled and said "sorry"...i was like.....why is she sorry.....like she disturbed my intense work-out, i was just concerned she broke a hip or something....(anyway..this side story about the old lady..is going to get back to the story about the missing pin...i promise)....so long story, even longer.......the old lady says..."that pin is missing again..i. told the office." she said. "o, did you", was my huge response. "yeah...it was missing last week, and my husband said he saw some kid bring it back. they filled out a report at the office......" and then she adds in a hostile voice, like it was my fault. "I gotta work out...it's for my osteoperosis"
so...some kid somewhere in our complex stole the stupid pin and is in effect killing an old woman...so i say....forget robbery..this kid is a murderer

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so...heather is in cali for one day..and made it on TV....

Last night, heather and I walked to the Marketplace and sat down at some tables, while she enjoyed some chinese food after her long road trip to Cali.....a local news woman was filming "spring breakers" who stayed in Bakersfield.....(and by that i mean...all the annoying high school kids who were at Cold Stone getting ice cream) She filmed 6 h.s. guys that were at the table in front of us....so we were in the background......we actually watched the news that night and you could see us....

Heather and I were a bit offended though that the news lady walked right past us to ask a couple of h.s. girls about their spring break.....what...we don't look like we were on spring break...what, are we old looking to you, miss newslady? just cause we are 25...doesn't mean we aren't enjoying the exciting Monday night of spring break.

Then heather and I were saying how old we are getting cause every h.s. kid has a cell phone these days......we were like..."we didn't even have cell phones in college"...and my favorite thing heath said....(which only LCC folk will appreciate)...was ..."yah, yo-dan didnt even have a cell phone."

aww...it's good to have heath in cali representing......and as always...oct 27th babies are the best....right heath?

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opening day for major league baseball.......

makes me mad i live in cali and am a cubs fan......i'm stuck watching the pitch by pitch on ESPN.com.....i miss my wgn....i gotta get cable soon...i will not survive the baseball season....

the crazy weekends in ministry...everything builds up to them..and then on monday you crash.....take a deep breath and get ready for the next one. big shocker..i lost my voice again this weekend....too much singing..too little sleep....and my first spring with allergies in cali.....and for those of you about to say "go the doctor"..i am...i have an appt on wednesday...thought you'd be proud...

is it bad to think that you aren't cut out for full-time ministry? when i find myself dreaming about what i really want to do....it's not this....is that bad? (i trust all my readers as great friends...and hope you don't freak out at this....i just want to spill what's on my mind/heart.) dont' get me wrong..i'm completely blessed to have this job....and sometimes i feel like it's successful...but most of the time..i feel like i'm not the right person for the job.......and yes, i know that's Satan's whispers..and that's exactly what he wants me to think........
i know i was called here to be right here right now...but sometimes i wonder how long that will last....or when God will call me somewhere else....i think about the high expectation of leadership..and i don't know that i even live up to that.....or even aspire to that some days.....(monday ministry thoughts are dangerous i know).....so anyway that is what's on my brain today......

thanks jamie for your reminding words about a month ago that go over in my head all the time about what we learned in a class i obvioulsy wasn't paying attention in.......you said that "sometimes that only thing that keeps us in ministry is our calling"

so for today..i stay...cause i do know i was called......

God,
i pray you would continue to guide my life...my ministry...my relationships. I pray you that i would be so close to You that i could hear you whisper the answers in my ear...
Amen

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