Hotty Totty!

This is a delayed post, but how bout those Rebs?? I mean wow. I'm such a proud Rebel.

Woot!

I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty proud of myself right now. I mowed the grass at my house all by myself this morning. And I know that this is not a great feat of excellence, but you should have seen the grass. It was like a jungle out there...it was literally up to my knees, or mid calf. Needless to say it needed to be cut. If I had been coherent when I woke up this morning I would have taken before and after shots, but most of my efforts were focused on getting the lawn mower started. But with a short call to my dad who talked me through it, it started and the grass was cut. So, yay!! I'm such grown up now. Cutting grass, paying bills, giving out advice to unsuspecting people, calling the cops on suspicious teenagers standing in the middle of the road. Where did my youth go? Crazy.

Sick

This is how I feel about me being sick. I'm not happy about it. It's possible I have allergies...a totally new thing for me. I always thought of myself as very fortunate for not having to deal with allergies every year, but I guess it all changes when you live in a different part of the country. I might just be sick though. Who knows. My voice is mostly gone...exciting for most, but somewhat painful for me. I like to talk. I'm trying to be as silent as possible so maybe it'll work when I actually need it too. I'm sure I'll be better soon. At least I hope this whole congestedness and headachey and lack of voice thing goes away soon. I'll make it.

Peaces.

Ultimate Banana

Over the past four years I have noticed the increasing popularity of Ultimate Frisbee. Many of my friends played in college and I attempted to participate on the Girls' team at Ole Miss, but decided they were way to dedicated to the game than I could ever be. And my lack of athletic ability...mainly running, blocking, catching and throwing, made it not as fun. I was good at showing up on time, that's about it. Through my constant facebook researching (or some might say stalking) I have found Ultimate to be among the top activities for guys and girls. Though I don't know how many actually partake in this feat of athleticism, I will agree that it is a pretty amazing sport and I commend their interest in it. Fun to play and fun to watch.

This weekend, however, OURUF took Ultimate to a new level. Eliminate the disc and substitute bananas. It has become somewhat of a tradition around here. I know what you are thinking, won't the bananas break? And won't that be messy? Can Ultimate be played legitimately with fruit? The answer my friends to all of the questions is a resounding yes! What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than through bananas are your closest friends? Needless to say, Ultimate Banana was a ton of fun. There were also games of Ultimate Squash, Ultimate, Cantalope, Ultimate Tomato, Ultimate Pineapple (slightly more painful to be hit with), and Ultimate Pumpkin (not a good idea, but still fun). I think after the word gets out and the teams form, Ultimate Banana will quickly rise to the competive sport level and eventually land itself as an Olympic sport. It's pretty exciting. I guess that's all I have to say.

Peaces.

Hymn Snob

Over the past four years of being involved with RUF, I have become a hymn snob. I admit it and am unashamed. I know that hymns were sung early in my life, but during the 7 years of middle school and high school, I feel like we sang songs that only had one line and was repeated 30 or 40 times throughout the song. To me, these songs do God an injustice. There is so much more to be said than to "sing of His love forever." I remember being introduced to RUF hymns and other types of music when I first came to college and thinking, "Whoa, these songs have a LOT of words." But after I learned them, the words began to mean something and they are beautiful. I love hymns. Today in church, I think I added a new favorite to my list. "Be Still, My Soul" It's been a while since I had heard it sung and I could argue that I had never actually thought about the lyrics and the poetry of what was being said about Christ and the grace that we are shown and the glory of God. It was exciting. Here are the lyrics, read them, sing them, listen to them.

Be still, my soul: the Lord is on thy side.
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain.
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In every change, He faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul: thy best, thy heavenly Friend
Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

Be still, my soul: thy God doth undertake
To guide the future, as He has the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know
His voice Who ruled them while He dwelt below

Be still, my soul: when dearest friends depart,
And all is darkened in the vale of tears,
Then shalt thou better know His love, His heart,
Who comes to soothe they sorrow and thy fears.
Be still, my soul: they Jesus can repay
From His own fullness all He take away

Be still, my soul: the hour is hastening on
When we shall be forever with the Lord.
When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone,
Sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored.
Be still, my soul: when change and tears are past,
All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.

Be still, my soul: begin the song of praise
On earth, believing, to thy Lord on high;
Acknowledge Him in all thy works and ways,
So shall He view thee with a well pleased eye.
Be still, my soul: the Sun of life divine
Through passing clouds shall but more brightly shine.

Good Week

The past week has been pretty great and definitely still busy. The cookout for Labor Day went very well and we had a bigger turn out than I expected. There were about 30 people that showed up with all sorts burger/hotdogesque stuff. It was fun! I met with about different girls throughout the week and it was so great to get to know some of the already existing RUFers as well as some of the new ones that are just starting out either as a freshman or just found out about RUF and came to check it out. I love listening to people's stories and how they have gotten to where they are so far in life, spiritually, geographically, mentally, all of it. Everyone is so different, but also so much alike. It's great!! I so looking forward to getting to know them better and understanding where they are coming from and where they are going.

This week was the second RUF. I think it went very well. I had to make an announcement about Girls' Movie Night we had on Friday...public speaking is not where I am gifted and I don't like it either.

Girls' Movie Night also went very well. 20 girls came to my house, where we made cookies and watched a movie. There were older students and new students and some students that had never even been to RUF. It was so exciting to have them all over to hang out. YAY!!!

To end the week, a couple of girls and I hit up the "art festival" on Saturday. It was not the best art festival I've ever been to, there were about 7 tables of random art. Mainly, not that cool looking of stuff. That's just my opinion though. There was also a porcupine, some kind of lizard, and a sugar glider. It was more or less on the lame side, but we had fun and we got a free print of native americanish style painting or colored pencils, which are all still sitting in the back of my car. All we had to do is right our email address down. I'm not sure why we did that, but we did get free stuff for it. I love free and apparently, we love the prints. It was a good week.

No need to read the previous post

Well, I no longer need a new TV. People here are awesome. That took like 3 minutes. woot.

Soundless

Well, what normally would be a very small issue in my eyes has just turned somewhat into a big deal. The TV at my house is broken. Poor TV, it has no sound. I would typically just go on with life not caring that the TV was broken and that I can't hear the people talking on it, which to me is what make whatever you are watching great...or in some cases not so great, but... I'm having a bunch of RUFers over for a girls' movie night TOMORROW and I have been told that those go over better if there is a TV to watch whatever it is we decide to watch. So, I went to some stores that sell televisions and a variety of other things I don't need but could be talked into buying if I didn't spend the majority of the time I was there on the phone (that's how I keeps salespeople away and catch up with friends). I am looking for a relatively cheap non-terrible quality TV. Apparently, those don't exist...unfortunately. They would be a big help right now. So, if you know of one or have one within a 20 mile radius of Norman, Oklahoma. I would be happy, more than happy to come check it out. Poor TV. Nobody wants to be replaced.

But hey, if you are a girl and are in Norman or want to come to Norman tomorrow night, come to my house and watch a movie with some peeps. It'll be awesome. 7:30pm. There will be cookie making as well. So, get excited!!

Invalid

Well, I have my dumb moments or I prefer to say my not as brilliant moments. Because let's be honest, 99% of my moments I am thinking of or doing something brilliant. I should tell you that I had to retype out brilliant three times before I actually spelled it right. I'm in a dumb rut right now. It's kind of like asking how to spell genius and being told that I wasn't one instead of getting the actual spelling of the word. But all this leads to yesterday. Two friends and I went to a pretty cool little coffee shop that might could fail at successfully filling bottletree's place in my heart called Cafe Plaid. Well, we had a series of events happen to us.

Number One: I ordered a coffee and a scone the lady told me the price and I handed her my card. We waited and she came back and said that my card was invalid. Well, in my mind, I knew there was NO way I was out of money already and I started to panic that maybe my bank had shut down my account, due to unusual activity, such as not using it and it being in Oklahoma. So, naturally I looked at the card for answers. And it gave me the answer. The lady at Cafe Plaid was very generous to tell me my card was invalid rather than calling me a complete idiot because I had in fact given her my walmart gift card, which I am sure is zeroed out. It was funny at the time.

Number Two: I should admit that I have always been less than average in the whole smart thing. When I was younger I seriously believed that I was born premature. My mom told me that I was supposed to be born on February 2nd, but I was not. I was born on February 1st. So, as you can see, to a little kid, I was obviously one day premature. And I definitely went around telling people that for a year or so of my life, convinced that I had battled great things as an infant and had overcome so much. I had not. Though I do think that one day might could have developed my brain a little more.

The point of that was that I told them I used to think that, probably trying to justify my previous stupidity with the walmart card.

There is more but I'm tired of blogging. Peace yo.

Church Membership

Tonight I have my interview to become a member at Christ the King in Norman. It's been a long time since I've joined a church...actually eight years. I don't really remember the whole process of that because I was fourteen. But, I have been reading through some stuff and as a fourteen year old I didn't quite understand the importance of the church and our membership in a local church as believers. It is definitely a good thing. I'm pretty excited about it, a little nervous. Interviews aren't my best way to shine. I do better in non interviews, but I don't get a choice between interview or non interview so, interview it will be. Please pray for me.