Archive for December 2008

This is My Prayer in the Desert.

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I feel like I am in a dry time of my life. I hate these blah moments. I hate living day by day feeling purposeless and without a mission. But I trust God will make something of it.

Lord, please visit me in the desert. Use me. Show me my mission for 2009. 



"Desert Song" - Hillsong

This is my prayer in the desert
When all that's within me feels dry
This is my prayer in the hunger in me
My God is the God who provides

And this is my prayer in the fire
In weakness or trial or pain
There is a faith proved
Of more worth than gold
So refine me Lord through the flames

And I will bring praise
I will bring praise
No weapon formed against me shall remain
I will rejoice
I will declare
God is my victory and He is here

And this is my prayer in the battle
When triumph is still on it's way
I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ
So firm on His promise I'll stand

All of my life
In every season
You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship

This is my prayer in the harvest
When favor and providence flow
I know I'm filled to be empited again
The seed I've recieved I will sow

Today's Nugget

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"A diamond is just a piece of coal that has become good under pressure." -Brian Houston

Arboretum Photoshoot!

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My loves and I went on our LA Arboretum photoshoot yesterday and we had SO much fun!! We took a grand total of 539 pictures. I don't know how we managed that!!

Here are a few of my favorites!


hanging around...

tossing leaves!

our boy band pose.

A Practical Bit of Knowledge

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Never leave a lotion bottle in the car for a long period of time.

My Chant.

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If I do not talk about it, I will not think about it.
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Christmas is almost here!

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6 more days!



(Isn't Chubby the cutest snowman you have ever seen?)

Boot Hunt.

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I have a tendency to do this--going from one mall to another in search my size of something I want.


I did it this summer with a skirt. I seriously tried like 4 or 5 malls before I found my size. And when I finally tracked it down, it was way cheaper than I was planning to pay for it! Yay!

This week, I fell in love with a pair of boots. These boots: 
(but I wanted them in gray.)

Anyways, since I didn't buy them the day I spotted them, I thought I would go back to the mall the next day to get them. When I got there, they were out of my size! I was so bummed! The lady checked for me and found that they were pretty much running out of my size in like all the nearby malls.

I checked a few other stores to see if they had similar ones, but they didn't...so I was disappointed. 

When I got back to Riverside today, I decided I'd try the mall here. Ashley and Kylee came with me (yay for shopping company!) and I walked to the shoe section very frantically. I spotted it on the display. I picked it up and looked at the bottom. "Only size 5 and 6," read the sticker. Oh no! But I wear a size 7! Or a 6 1/2 at the smallest! I walked up to one of the workers and before I even say anything, he says, "That [size 5] pair that you are holding is the only one left." NO! "But the sticker says you have a size 5 and a size 6," I tell him. "Oh, let me have someone check for you." 

The guy he sent to check comes back with a box. YES!! The excitement starts building. He found a size 6! I pull off my shoes and pull on the boot. It fits!! Yay! Ashley notices the tie thingy on the back is missing. I ask the lady at the register and she tells me that they'll give me 10% off cuz of it. Oh well, that's easily replaced. She fidgets with the computer for a while and keeps accidentally putting the discount twice. She gives up and lets me have it. On top of that, I have a 15% off coupon!! YAY! So I got my boots for a grand total of $27. 

Today is a wondrous day!

So that is my incredibly long, dramatic boot hunt story for ya. =]

Product Recall.

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Hahahaha! One of the funniest things I have seen lately!


Read here.

Dumpster Diving

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we've been up and down this road
we put a knife in the fork
we've seen the sun we've seen the storm
baby what are we running from
the lighting struck and left a glow
it's hard to let some things go
we know what's false but don't know what's true
baby where are we running to?

(lyrics from "dumpster diving" by castledoor)



Seriously, this is like my new favorite song.

Platform Flipflops.

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They used to be totally hip. And i owned like a zillion pairs. I am clearing out my closet today. Hello salvation army!

Just a little something.

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Some people are open, some people are not. And can I just say, it is extreeeeemely difficult for me to hold things in! 


K. That's all. Just had to let SOMETHING out. 




I bet you all are dying of curiosity now!

Power-Picking!

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Most people go to the orange groves to pick oranges...

Yvonne and I, we dare to be different.

We were driving back from Alicia's bridal shower and we were driving through the woods (hahaha, Michelle). We pass by all these orange trees that are very tempting. So I stop my car right in the middle of the street and Yvonne dashes out! You should have seen her! She was power-picking!! 

Here's a shot of her in action!

It was pretty intense! Then all of a sudden, I see a car in my rear-view mirror. It's still a distance back, but I started to get nervous. Luckily, Yvonne noticed too and she dashed back.

We came back with two handfuls of freshly picked oranges. Mmm Mmm!

My printer doesn't like long papers.

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My printer is bipolar.


First of all, it's strange. It prints backwards, starting with the last page and ending with the first. I started printing my long exegetical paper...it printed pages 13 to 5...and then it got stuck. poop!

it kept printing weird looking pages as if the ink was out. but i was way too lazy to go to the library.

i went to the kitchen for our stocking decorating party. i was there for like an hour. apparently, a miracle bug landed on my printer within that hour.

i came back to my room and attempted printing once more. and it worked! YAY! and it even let me print the other random things i had to attach to my paper! yay for 17-page papers! lol.

i guess my printer just doesn't like long papers.

Facebook Stranger.

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He requested me on facebook. I didn't recognize his picture. But we had fifteen mutual friends from my church so I figured there'd be no harm in adding him.


All of a sudden, he sent me an IM on facebook chat asking me if I knew this one guy from cbu...which I didn't. Then he starts chatting. He goes to a couple of services at my church that I go to so I guess I have probably seen him before.

I don't know why this guy keeps talking to me.

All of a sudden, he says, "You know what the enemy uses the most to get us away from God? Especially when ur single."

Awkward. I don't know you. Why are you asking me this?

He goes on to say, "Well for my single friends and I ...i noticed that we talk about our future wives all the time. and for the past 2 weeks now that verse mathew 6:33 has been very true. All we need is to seek the Lord."

Hmm, ok. Maybe God is trying to tell me something through a stranger. Maybe? Umm, still a little awkward though.

He keeps talking. I don't know why I just didn't sign off. I probably should have. 

More chatting. Small talk.

All of a sudden...THE question...."Hey when you come back from break you wanna get a cup of coffee sometime?"

Oh dear. A stranger just asked me to coffee. Awkward.

Somehow, I blow off the question. More small talk. Finally, I tell him I need to get going because I have to get to class. It's one of those long, repetitive goodbyes. He tells me to say hi to him if I ever see him at church. I have to be the one to say hi because he claims, "I am bad with faces..."

But it was the rest of that sentence that added more awkwardness to the already awkward situation.

"...maybe not with u."

Ahh! This facebook stranger who wants to go to coffee with me is gonna remember my face even though he is bad with faces! Awkward!!!

If Humans Hibernated.

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Happy December!


Today's December 2nd and is finally starting to get cold! It was freezing this morning and the fog was craaaazy! But it was a nice way to welcome in the season (finally!)

Winter leaves one question in my mind. What would life be like if humans hibernated? Sometimes, I just wanna escape. Not from problems or stress necessarily, but from everything! Wouldn't it be great if we could just take a two year nap?! Clocking in and out of reality...ahh that'd be amazing!

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