Whewww.... What a crazy couple of weeks!!! Life is pretty great.
May 9 - Kevin and I celebrated our One year anniversary (over the phone!). Yep, I can't believe it was only a year ago that I got those wonderful pictures developed at wal-mart that showed Kevin asking me out. I'm a very lucky girl to get such a romantic prince charming. I'll get to see him again in a little over a week. Thank goodness he's coming down for memorial weekend. I go a little nutzy without him here.
*bang* - I shot my first gun!!! Thanks to Dale and his friends for taking me out shooting. As a Texas girl, I can now proudly say that I have shot off a gun. I didn't know it could be so much fun. He handgun was a little frightening, but shooting pigeons with the shotgun was a blast. I only actually hit 2 of them, but that's not horrible for a first time. To bad Erica has an amazing shot. She even shot better than some of the boys there. Good luck, Dale!
BLING~BLING - As a 20 year old woman, I got my ears pierced for the first time on Sunday! I know most girls get this done way before they even hit puberty, but I refused as a young girl. I found it to be a barbaric ritual to put holes in your body simply as a decoration (truthfully, a part of me still feels that way), but I got bit by the piercing bug. I decided to get it done in time to show of some banging new earrings for my 21st coming up. Thanks so much to my support group of girl friends who laughed, took pictures, and held my hand as I sat in the chair at Claire's in the mall. It wasn't as bad as I had thought, and I love the look of my new sparkling ears.
Adios, Sentury Park - I moved out of the ghetto-ist place on earth!!! The move was exhausting and ridiculous, but all worth it in the end. I L-O-V-E the new apartment. It's just perfect (with a few flaws!). Right now it's just me and Erica (my common law wife, as I like to call her since we've lived together so long), but soon Elizabeth will be joining our crazy family. Feel free to come by and check it out. We're hoping to have a house-warming party later to where everyone can bring us potted plants and other wired things you bring to a house-warming party.
So it's been a great few weeks... After the anniversary, shooting a gun, getting my ears pierced and living in a real apartment, I feel like a real woman!!!
May 19, 2005
May 7, 2005
Party like it's Formal 2005
Okay... so technically Formal was a whole week ago, but I've been too busy with finals to get a chance to write about it!
The great weekend started out with Stacie Appreciation day.... What? you don't know what that is? that's okay, this year is it inaugural debut! Don't believe me, just ask Stacie for the certificate (it's very official). The night was great! Erica, Elizabeth, Stacie, and I proceeded to "appreciate" Stacie with dinner, massages, pedicures, s'more over a candle, chick flich, manicure and the ever appropriate Enya music. The night was a smash hit, and a lot of fun for us girls to get together again!!!
The next afternoon was busy with decorating for formal, eating McD's, and getting my hair done (for only $8, what a steal!). I properly got all gussied up for Brain to come pick me up. I felt really bad that he was taking me to formal, when he had just starting dating Cristie. I tried to talk him out of taking me, but he insisted that it was fine. I opened the door to a brimming Brian. As I lean over to give him a hug, I see a figure in the corner holding a red rose. Kevin flew up from Austin without me knowing to surprise me for Formal. I was so shocked that I feel back on the screen door and said the "s" word (trust me, that's a big deal for me to say!). I was so shocked and happy, I kind of just walked down the stairs numb. The red rose was very appropriate since last formal we were not dating yet, and he brought me a yellow (friendship) rose.
The night was a blast. It meant so much to me just to be held by him while we swirled around the dance floor. The whole world could have dropped away, and it wouldn't have mattered because he was there with me. It was the greatest year anniversary gift that I could have ever asked for. Thanks babe!
Everyone was so beautiful that night, and everything just glimmered. With the Crazy Catholic Cutie picture, I started thinking about how much has changed since my Freshman year! It hit me on the dance floor. Stacie, Erica, Elizabeth, and I were doing the Macarana, and I realized how much these girls have meant to me over the years. We've had so many laughs and tears. They've seen me through my entire college career! I can't wait for another year of memories to accumulate before I graduate.
It was a great evening with the love of my life, and my best friends around me. Thanks to everyone who made the evening just perfect!!!!
The great weekend started out with Stacie Appreciation day.... What? you don't know what that is? that's okay, this year is it inaugural debut! Don't believe me, just ask Stacie for the certificate (it's very official). The night was great! Erica, Elizabeth, Stacie, and I proceeded to "appreciate" Stacie with dinner, massages, pedicures, s'more over a candle, chick flich, manicure and the ever appropriate Enya music. The night was a smash hit, and a lot of fun for us girls to get together again!!!
The next afternoon was busy with decorating for formal, eating McD's, and getting my hair done (for only $8, what a steal!). I properly got all gussied up for Brain to come pick me up. I felt really bad that he was taking me to formal, when he had just starting dating Cristie. I tried to talk him out of taking me, but he insisted that it was fine. I opened the door to a brimming Brian. As I lean over to give him a hug, I see a figure in the corner holding a red rose. Kevin flew up from Austin without me knowing to surprise me for Formal. I was so shocked that I feel back on the screen door and said the "s" word (trust me, that's a big deal for me to say!). I was so shocked and happy, I kind of just walked down the stairs numb. The red rose was very appropriate since last formal we were not dating yet, and he brought me a yellow (friendship) rose.
The night was a blast. It meant so much to me just to be held by him while we swirled around the dance floor. The whole world could have dropped away, and it wouldn't have mattered because he was there with me. It was the greatest year anniversary gift that I could have ever asked for. Thanks babe!
Everyone was so beautiful that night, and everything just glimmered. With the Crazy Catholic Cutie picture, I started thinking about how much has changed since my Freshman year! It hit me on the dance floor. Stacie, Erica, Elizabeth, and I were doing the Macarana, and I realized how much these girls have meant to me over the years. We've had so many laughs and tears. They've seen me through my entire college career! I can't wait for another year of memories to accumulate before I graduate.
It was a great evening with the love of my life, and my best friends around me. Thanks to everyone who made the evening just perfect!!!!
April 27, 2005
Amen Brother Paul
~~~I stumbled upon this the other day, and a rush of memories came back.
I grew up in a catholic home, went to a catholic school, went to church every Sunday, and I still had no clue what my faith was. I never felt like my religion was a part of me or had any clue of who I was. Then God gave me this:
When I first started going to adoration, I had no clue how to pass the time. I would try and stretch my rosary out for 30 min. Just to swallow some of the un-ending hour. I was about to graduate from high school, and the gifts from "family friends" that I have never known were pouring in. In one of the packets, there was a small red book called "My daily Life". It was deep reading for back then. ... Well, let's not kid anyone, it's still really deep for me. But I tried to at least get through the first few pages.
~St. Paul gives a good description of this human situation in his letter to the Romans. He writes : "I cannot understand my own behavior. I fail to carry out the things I want to do, and I find myself doing the very things I hate... for though to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful things I do not want... In fact this seems to be the rule, the every single time I want to do good, it is something evil that comes to hand. In my inmost self I dearly love God's law, but I can see that my body follows a different law that battles the law which my reason dictates."
....WHAT!... back that soul train up... did I read that correctly?... This is SAINT Paul writing here, and it sounds like something I would say (but in a Texas accent). This is not some perfect person telling me about a perfect life, but a sinner who strives for a perfect life with Christ. For the first time, I realized that the bible could relate to me. The bible can still be relevant in 2002 (the year at the time) and is not out of date with our society!
With this new realization, I found the bible and catechism full of relevant info. From marriage, to prayer, to love, to homosexual relations, to masturbation, to how a wife should behave, to how I can be a vessel for Christ, to how I should love my God. And most importantly, it showed me how much he loves me in return. I'm sure St. Paul didn't realize that those words he wrote would lead a girl hundreds of year later closer to Christ, but I'm sure glad he wrote it anyway. Now I see the bible as a personal letter to me, rather than a book written by dead saints.
"So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. " Romans 7
I grew up in a catholic home, went to a catholic school, went to church every Sunday, and I still had no clue what my faith was. I never felt like my religion was a part of me or had any clue of who I was. Then God gave me this:
When I first started going to adoration, I had no clue how to pass the time. I would try and stretch my rosary out for 30 min. Just to swallow some of the un-ending hour. I was about to graduate from high school, and the gifts from "family friends" that I have never known were pouring in. In one of the packets, there was a small red book called "My daily Life". It was deep reading for back then. ... Well, let's not kid anyone, it's still really deep for me. But I tried to at least get through the first few pages.
~St. Paul gives a good description of this human situation in his letter to the Romans. He writes : "I cannot understand my own behavior. I fail to carry out the things I want to do, and I find myself doing the very things I hate... for though to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful things I do not want... In fact this seems to be the rule, the every single time I want to do good, it is something evil that comes to hand. In my inmost self I dearly love God's law, but I can see that my body follows a different law that battles the law which my reason dictates."
....WHAT!... back that soul train up... did I read that correctly?... This is SAINT Paul writing here, and it sounds like something I would say (but in a Texas accent). This is not some perfect person telling me about a perfect life, but a sinner who strives for a perfect life with Christ. For the first time, I realized that the bible could relate to me. The bible can still be relevant in 2002 (the year at the time) and is not out of date with our society!
With this new realization, I found the bible and catechism full of relevant info. From marriage, to prayer, to love, to homosexual relations, to masturbation, to how a wife should behave, to how I can be a vessel for Christ, to how I should love my God. And most importantly, it showed me how much he loves me in return. I'm sure St. Paul didn't realize that those words he wrote would lead a girl hundreds of year later closer to Christ, but I'm sure glad he wrote it anyway. Now I see the bible as a personal letter to me, rather than a book written by dead saints.
"So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. " Romans 7
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