Wednesday, January 13, 2010

I'm using a different blog now!!

Just so you know, I'm now using a blog on Wordpress.com

here's the link

http://leannalovesbetter.wordpress.com/

so you can continue to keep up with me there!

love you guys!

:)

Friday, January 1, 2010

This year...

So let's recap some awesome things that have happened this year.

IN THE WORLD:
1. Obama became President
2. Sarah Palin showed us how to ROCK a business skirt suit!
3. The Gosselins broke up... and I didn't really care.. sorry, guys.
4. the Octomom
5. couple of crappy parents stuffed their kid in the roof of their garage and told the news he got carried away in a balloon. ?????
6. swine flu. whatever..
7. Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze, and Brittany Murphy died
8. Tiger Woods got caught grabby handed.
9. Kanye West dissed Taylor Swift at the VMA's
10. NEW MOON!!!!!
11. In Indonesia, there was a NINETEEN POUND baby born!! That poor mother!!!!!!!
12. Hudson River plane crash
13. Several Car companies had to file for bankruptcy

IN MY WORLD:
1. Started a siezure medicine that made me crazy, had to move out of dad's house to save our relationship haha, moved into my sister's house
2. Ended my relationship with Brandon
3. Started working at the daycare at the church this summer along with my job at the hospital doing xrays on the weekends.
4. lost my job at the hospital because my license expired haha. (blessing in disguise i hated that job)
5. Stef moved to Tennessee :(
6. my mom started her first year of seminary
7. my brother left for iraq
8. started an internship at my church
9. my dad started dating for the first time since his divorce 2 years ago
10. my sister got pregnant with baby number three
11. dad got engaged!
12. I finished (in a matter of speaking hrr hrr) the internship
13. Jesse got engaged!


PLANS FOR 2010
no, these aren't resolutions. those don't work.
1. I'm going to start working part time for my dad helping him in the financial end of his business- making sure all of the bills get paid and that HE gets paid and that he's making enough money to pay his workers, and to try to raise productivity. I think i can do it. don't you? good little followers. :)
2. STEF'S MOVING BACK TOMORROW!! So I plan on bugging her as much as possible.
3. and my brother's in town for holiday leave for 2 weeks!!!! So I will be in attendance at his welcome back party tomorrow night in Mobile. If any of you cool cats are in the area, then I probably won't pay any attention to you because I'll be obsessed with my brother, in a non weird way.

In 2009, I have seen lots of greats, lots of hurts, lots of ups, lots of downs. What's important is that I feel like a million bucks. I feel stronger... better, faster haha great song. Really is true, though. Th-th-that-that-that-that don't kill me, can only make me stronger. I am strong because of everything, not just in this year, but in my whole life that's gone crazy and made me who I am. And I'm so thankful for it. Keep it rollin, 2010. I'm ready!

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Thank you David for setting me straight :)

I had a wonderful christmas this year. It wasn't as much of a hastle as i thought it would be. (as terrible as I know that sounds) I thought it was going to resemble the movie Four Christmases, but I only had 2. Christmas morning, I woke up at my dad's house and watched my two beautiful nieces tear into their presents and missed my brother terribly. My present to my niece Bella was a hit because it was the most annoying. I got her a recorder. What are aunts for? Har har har.. We then sat down and enjoyed a yummy breakfast together and then the girls started turning into mini godzillas because they were getting tired so they went home and i just chilled out and did my own thing for a while until it was time to get ready to go to Mee Maw's (dad's mom's)

I thought, "Maybe I should curl my hair. It is a holiday, after all." I consulted Dad.
"Dad, should i straighten my hair or curl it?"
"Ehh, go for the curls."
...big mistake.
He and Mikki left without me and TWO HOURS LATER, I emerged from the house and finally made it to Mee Maw's house. Granted my hair looked amazing. I'm not bragging. After two hours, I have a RIGHT to say that my hair looked great, okay?!

Everybody was already eating, so I jumped right in on cue and joined in on the fun and sweet baby J, IT WAS grrrrrrrrrrrrreat. I was pretty proud of myself. i didn't stuff myself. at first.

After we all get done eating, it's tradition for each immediate family to undergo good clean humiliation and do some sort of a talent. Thank God Dad brought Mikki and made her yodel to represent our family. The Flemings had David with his guitar and he had written a song called The Reason. Calm down it wasn't a knockoff from Hoobastank. He introduced it by explaining what the song was about. He said that Jesus is more than just the "reason for the season". He's the reason you get up in the morning. He's the reason you have air in your lungs. (I'm going to start paraphrasing because I can't remember what all he said Hehe) He's the reason I get to have a clean slate every day. He's the reason I get to call myself Beloved. He's the reason I get the chance to talk to God. He's the reason that I dance. He's the reason that I look into the stars and know that there's more. He's not just a man who "was". He's a man and God who IS. Who still moves and lives and loves. Who loves US.

These are all of the things (sorta) that David was saying about Jesus and as he was talking, I wanted to cry. And not in a sentimental way. In the sense that... I could feel how genuinely in love with Jesus David was. And not just to sound holy. Not just to sound better than everyone else. Because he's more passionate about Jesus than anything/one else in the world. I wanted that.

So. I made a decision to get my butt into gear. Once I quit the internship, I kind of quit on God too, and that's stupid. Because God didn't hurt me, people did. And people will continue to hurt me, but I can't let that be an excuse to keep running away from God. And I won't. :)So, thank you, David.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

growing pains

sometimes, well, all the time, i think, growing hurts. it's worth it in the end. but in the process, it's quite uncomfortable.



i know that everything i'm doing is going to be worth it, but i sure am hurting quite a bit in the meantime.



but god never promised that it wouldn't hurt. he only promised he'd never leave me.

I don't understand your ways
Oh but i will give you my song
Give you all of my praise.
You hold on to all my pain.
And with it, you are pulling me closer.
And pulling me into your ways.

Now around every corner
And up every mountain,
I'm not looking for crowns
Or the water from fountains.
I'm desperate in seeking,
Frantic believing
That the sight of your face
Is all that I need.
I will say to you

It's gonna be worth it
It's gonna be worth it.
It's gonna be worth it all.
I believe this.
It's gonna be worth it.
It's gonna be worth it.
It's gonna be worth it all.
I believe this.

You're gonna be worth it.
You're gonna be worth it.
You're gonna be worth it all.
I believe this.
You're gonna be worth it.
You're gonna be worth it.
You're gonna be worth it all
I believe this.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloweenie!

So tonight after church service, everyone was trying to find something "halloweenie" (hehehe) to do. tiffany and aimee said they were going to jc penny's so slaus and i tagged along. i did not feel like my night of halloween was fulfilled by shopping, but i DID however get some cool eyeliner from Sephora. and i am going to put in an application there because they said they're looking for help on the holidays and how cool would THAT be?! everybody needs a hook up with some cool make up!!
so anyway, after we went with them, a buncha folks were talking about going out to bear creek swamp. which is just a really creepy road in the middle of a swamp in the middle of NO.WHERE. so we decided to go for that. i couldn't end halloween with shopping at Belk's! so we're ridin dirty with about 9 folks jammed into a tahoe down this freeeeeaky road and of COURSE it's super foggy. and we go pretty far down the road, and then we see another car parked with their headlights on. so we decide we'd park a little ways away from them so it wouldn't be too lit up from their headlights. we wanted it to be dark and scaryyyy! cuz we're idiots.
well one minute, i'm looking up admiring how the trees are actually quite pretty, and then the next, someone screams, "GET IN THE CAR! APRIL JUST GOT A TEXT!!" .........and then everybody starts running for the car!! ???????????
after i got in barely making it in with all my limbs still attached before they slammed the door on me as we're flying down the road trying to get outta there, i asked, "what the CRAP?! what just happened?!"
apparently, april had texted someone and told them where we were, and they replied, "there's someone out there who'll do more than just freak you out." and then that parked car that was sort of near us, turned their headlights off and started slowly driving towards us and everyone FLIPPED.
including me. hehe
i'm sure the person on the phone was just trying to scare us, and it definitely worked. everybody wanted to turn around and go back and i was like ARE YA KIDDING? i really would like to not get cut tonight. so me and 2 other girls almost cried like big wimps because we had to go back. we finally convinced them to leave and just go to the house of crosses, which if you're not from here, is a house that belonged to a man who lost all of his family in a car crash, and after that, he kinda started goin a lil over the edge. there are huuundreds of crosses, different sizes, in his yard and random rusted signs and old appliances with messages such as, "HELL IS HOT. JESUS SAVES. SEX USED WRONG SENDS YOU TO HELL. NO WATER IN HELL. HOT HOT HOT. READ YOUR BIBLE. REPENT." i noticed there were a lot of rusted air conditioners and stoves out there. maybe having to do with the whole hell is hot thing? creative. and then there were a buncha mail boxes with messages on them. and slaus and i were trying to figure all of this out and she said, "maybe you won't get mail when you're in hell??" haha
oh and there was another group of teenagers there. at one point, i saw them making out and i was like .. seriously?? THIS turns you on?? amazing. so i said, (very loudly) "hmm! these signs that say SEX WILL SEND ME TO HELL sure does make me wanna make out!!" haha
one of the guys with us made a good point though. he said it's kind of sad that this man is just extremely passionate about jesus and doesn't want people to go to hell, and now, people use it as a circus side show. they come on halloween and laugh. he said, "when really, we're all supposed to be like this. maybe not to this extreme.." haha
something to think about...

Thursday, October 29, 2009

god's heart

This was from my prayer time today:

(this was actually part of a song)

Let the fragrance of my praise, FILL this holy place.
Let the fragrance of my worship STEAL YOUR HEART!

Lord, let me catch your eye. Lord, let me be the one that you look down upon and you hush your angels while they are singing so that you can hear my voice singing out to you. Let me be worth talking about. Let me take your breath away.


isn't it amazing to know that we actually have a real and true romance and God? that no matter what we've done or said or thought about, He still calls us His beloved? He still calls us His children. He still sets us apart to be used for something amazing. oh, to live a life that would be worthy of a thief of God's heart. but that's the thing. there's nothing i'll ever be able to do to be worthy of it. all He asks is that i just love Him. just include Him in my day. and love others like He loves me.

signed,
the thief

Saturday, October 10, 2009

man, imma smoooooooooooth criminal

i was too tired to write about my adventures yesterday so, here we go.



i FINALLY got my stinkin car back!!!!!!! for probably going on 3 weeks, maybe a month, she has been causing all kinds of mischief. when i say "she", of course, i mean my car, Lady Marmalade, or Lady M for short. it has taken so long just to figure out what the crap was wrong with her! eventually we figured out that it was the security system and only the dealership can fix that. greeeeeeeeeat. lucky for me i have the best daddy in the world who took care of it for me. :) so yea i got it back yesterday around 5pm. and then alyssa (she's the 14 year old in the family i'm mstaying with) rode with me to winn dixie to get drinks and dessert for angie (host mom)'s sound meeting for church. she gave us ten bucks and when we got there, we had all kinds of chaos with the self checkout. i will NEVER. EVER. go to a self check out there again. so some lady rung us up and apparently charged us too much so i thought we could only get 2 2-liter cokes. i prob should've thought it was a little fishy that 2 drinks cost 7 bucks??? but when you're stuck in leannaworld, its hard to get out and notice anything. i do good to put one foot in front of the other. so i ended up going to winn dixie 3 times before we got everything settled and everything we needed. WHEW. i know everyone's name in there now, so that's convenient at least.

and then i decided to head to my dad's house in wetumpka to get my laptop that my brother in law had so lovingly fixed for me. he removed all the std's that were on it and put anti virus protection on it. so alyssa decided to ride with me there, too. we were jammin out to some black gospel on the radio and said, "how funny would it be to get pulled over and we've got this awesome music blarin out the radio?!" ... you know that scripture that says to be careful what you say because your tongue holds the power of life and death?? yea....
about 5 minutes later, i saw blue lights behind me. crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrap.
i pulled over, very bemused. i had my seatbelt on, i wasn't speeding... at that time. i was a little ways back, so i figured he must've been followin me for a hot minute and jsut now decided to pull me over. he walked up, asked for my license. i don't have it. i don't know where the crap it is. he was like, "well, ya KNOW you have to have that, to drive!!"
"yes, sir.. i don't have my whole entire purse! (not a lie) it's at my friend's house!"
"*sighhhhhhhhhh*........ do you know your license number?"
"yes,sir it's blahblahblah and i think i have an insurance card in here!"
"you look for it while i go run this number. by the way, do you know why i pulled you over?"
"no, sir."
"because your lights were off when i passed you on the road."
.....i look at my dash, and the button is lit up that tells me my headlights are ON. and i was pretty sure they had been since i got into the car and pushed that button...
he said, "yea, i know. they're on now. it's weird but when i passed you, they were off."
..hmmm...
i pull out the card out of the glove box. it's 8 days expired. awesome. especially since i already knew what he was about to say...
"maam!! how LONG has your license been EXPIRED?!"
"i'm sorry! i've just been tryin to get the money to do it!"
"it costs 25 dollars to get a new license! you spend that ridin around in a week on gas!"
"I ONLY WORK ONE DAY A WEEK!.. here's my insurance card..."
"THIS IS EXPIRED TOO!!!!!"
"i know!! i'm sorry!!!!!"
".......get a new license and keep your headlights on!"
THEN HE TURNED AROUND AND WALKED AWAY!!

i started yellin my thank yous to god!! i mean, he could've got me for 1. no headlights (which was baloney- yes, i knwo i spelled that wrong, but i like to spell it the way i say it. get off me) 2. no license 3. expired license 4. expired insurance card.

and i got off with a verbal warning. now that's favor from god right there!!!!!!!!!!!! ah cha cha