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...
Saturday, October 31, 2009
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
(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.
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
Thursday, October 1, 2009
i like pepperoni
not on pizza. by itself. but that's beside the point.
so thur was cambria's technical last day of her first year as an intern. she started later than the first class last year, so when we started, she still had another month of the first year rules. and there's this guy that has been waiting for her the whole 9 months. pretty rare in the male race, right? :) so now they're together and they're really REALLY cute together. it was awesome. she got to go get a massage and a facial and then she thought brooks (her new man) had to work that night at the fire station, but he actually took the night off so he would be able to surprise her and take her out that night. he sent her roses that day, and i must admit. i was a wittle bit jealous. but its ok. one day, i'm gonna have a man that loves me and wants to treat me like a spoiled princess. sorry, mr. dreamboat. but my daddy did a great job of spoiling me. you have some pretty big shoes to fill. :) also, i had an awesome prayer time thur. i was asking god to help me to realize what my passions/gifts are. what tugs my heartstrings? what do i love most? because pastor joey says once you know that, you can tell where you're supposed to go in life/ministry/etc. so i was kinda just talkin to god about it. and then i said, "help me to love those who feel they don't deserve to be loved." and after i said it, i was like... wait. that wasn't me. i mean, i said it but i just knew it wasn't REALLY me. and then god just started showin me stuff like troubled teens who are in institutions because they're socially unaccepted, battered women, children with horrible homelives, people with addictions who have ruined their life... now. i don't know which one of those areas i'm supposed to focus on, but it's a hint!! and i'm excited to have a direction now!!! god is so awesome!!!!!!!!
we spent the rest of the day thur getting ready to decorate the stage for our new sermon series "socialitis". it's all about facebook. since everybody (or most people) are addicted to it, it's easy to relate facebook terms to real life situations. this weekend, it's all about "friend requests". on all the different people that you may have to deal with and HOW to deal with them. pretty nea-toe.
then fri, i worked at the daycare, and after voicing that it would be nice if i didn't have to work with the 2 year olds EVERYtime i work, i got a break and actually got a semi well behaved class!! i know!! i almost passed out. it was a pretty awesome day. we had a staff meeting while the kids napped, which meant FREE LUNCH!! and that night, some of the girls were going to the homecoming dance so slaus and i went to their house to help them get purrty. slaus on hair, myself on makeup. we're quite a team. :) and then sarah corley came into town!!! so she came along to join in the fun. we got all dolled up and took pictures. and i must say. i looked pretty dang good.
now. for today, since we spent most of the week doing randomness and setting up for the stage stuff, we had no time to do our weekly cleaning. so we had to be there at 11 to finish everything up. BUT they bought us pizza from the new place marco's in prattville. and it was THE BEST pizza i've ever had in my life. even better than tomatino's!
during the service, me and the other 2 interns did a skit that's pretty hilarious. me and slaus knock on clifford's door and we pretty much only know how to interact in facebook lingo so that's how we talk to him and he's totally freaked out. at one point, sarah pretends she's writing all over the side of his house and he says "what're you doing??!!!" she says "I'm writing on your wall! duh!!" haha. it was great except for there's a point where i'm supposed to yell "STATUS UPDATE!" but not until slaus finishes her line. i kept thinking she was done, and she wasn't so i ended up sounding like i had an extremely loud stuttering problem... "STA- ST-S- STATUS UPDATE!!" ugh. it was awful... i wanted to crawl up under a chair and disappear. luckily, we were summoned to the gym right after the skit to go and set up chairs and tables for pastor's luncheon tomorrow. thank ya cheezus.
after service, i spent some time with my new fam and we ate angie's santa fe soup. i was in absolute heaven. that junks is gewd!! then i went over to trey and amber barden(a cool young couple in our church who loves us interns for some reason)'s house to watch the auburn game. WARRRRRRRR EAGLE!!!!!!!!!!!! HEY!!!!!!!!!!!
overall, an awesome weekend.
so thur was cambria's technical last day of her first year as an intern. she started later than the first class last year, so when we started, she still had another month of the first year rules. and there's this guy that has been waiting for her the whole 9 months. pretty rare in the male race, right? :) so now they're together and they're really REALLY cute together. it was awesome. she got to go get a massage and a facial and then she thought brooks (her new man) had to work that night at the fire station, but he actually took the night off so he would be able to surprise her and take her out that night. he sent her roses that day, and i must admit. i was a wittle bit jealous. but its ok. one day, i'm gonna have a man that loves me and wants to treat me like a spoiled princess. sorry, mr. dreamboat. but my daddy did a great job of spoiling me. you have some pretty big shoes to fill. :) also, i had an awesome prayer time thur. i was asking god to help me to realize what my passions/gifts are. what tugs my heartstrings? what do i love most? because pastor joey says once you know that, you can tell where you're supposed to go in life/ministry/etc. so i was kinda just talkin to god about it. and then i said, "help me to love those who feel they don't deserve to be loved." and after i said it, i was like... wait. that wasn't me. i mean, i said it but i just knew it wasn't REALLY me. and then god just started showin me stuff like troubled teens who are in institutions because they're socially unaccepted, battered women, children with horrible homelives, people with addictions who have ruined their life... now. i don't know which one of those areas i'm supposed to focus on, but it's a hint!! and i'm excited to have a direction now!!! god is so awesome!!!!!!!!
we spent the rest of the day thur getting ready to decorate the stage for our new sermon series "socialitis". it's all about facebook. since everybody (or most people) are addicted to it, it's easy to relate facebook terms to real life situations. this weekend, it's all about "friend requests". on all the different people that you may have to deal with and HOW to deal with them. pretty nea-toe.
then fri, i worked at the daycare, and after voicing that it would be nice if i didn't have to work with the 2 year olds EVERYtime i work, i got a break and actually got a semi well behaved class!! i know!! i almost passed out. it was a pretty awesome day. we had a staff meeting while the kids napped, which meant FREE LUNCH!! and that night, some of the girls were going to the homecoming dance so slaus and i went to their house to help them get purrty. slaus on hair, myself on makeup. we're quite a team. :) and then sarah corley came into town!!! so she came along to join in the fun. we got all dolled up and took pictures. and i must say. i looked pretty dang good.
now. for today, since we spent most of the week doing randomness and setting up for the stage stuff, we had no time to do our weekly cleaning. so we had to be there at 11 to finish everything up. BUT they bought us pizza from the new place marco's in prattville. and it was THE BEST pizza i've ever had in my life. even better than tomatino's!
during the service, me and the other 2 interns did a skit that's pretty hilarious. me and slaus knock on clifford's door and we pretty much only know how to interact in facebook lingo so that's how we talk to him and he's totally freaked out. at one point, sarah pretends she's writing all over the side of his house and he says "what're you doing??!!!" she says "I'm writing on your wall! duh!!" haha. it was great except for there's a point where i'm supposed to yell "STATUS UPDATE!" but not until slaus finishes her line. i kept thinking she was done, and she wasn't so i ended up sounding like i had an extremely loud stuttering problem... "STA- ST-S- STATUS UPDATE!!" ugh. it was awful... i wanted to crawl up under a chair and disappear. luckily, we were summoned to the gym right after the skit to go and set up chairs and tables for pastor's luncheon tomorrow. thank ya cheezus.
after service, i spent some time with my new fam and we ate angie's santa fe soup. i was in absolute heaven. that junks is gewd!! then i went over to trey and amber barden(a cool young couple in our church who loves us interns for some reason)'s house to watch the auburn game. WARRRRRRRR EAGLE!!!!!!!!!!!! HEY!!!!!!!!!!!
overall, an awesome weekend.
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