Itsleapday

I realized if you say that really fast it sounds like my kind of day! It's cool to have an extra day this year but it would be really great if it was an extra day dedicated to sleeping! Too bad my professors didn't think so too. I almost declared it sleep day in history class, but due to my prof.'s threat of throwing the dvd remote at anyone sleeping during the boring movie I managed to keep my head up and eyes open. Well, there's always Shabbat for a good day full of rest and studying scripture! I'm so ready there's several things I want to really study out tomorrow. Watch out fellow debators!

Serving

Tonight I am full of restless feelings. I want to go somewhere, I want to be serving others, I want to be living a life of selflessness. I see others around me dedicating their lives to helping those that don't have the bare necessities of life. My friends are leaving the comfort of their American homes and their families to give their time and energy to those less well off. Tonight I've been reading people's blogs and this theme keeps coming up. Though I know I'm where God wants me to be right now it makes me think and pray and ask God what I'm supposed to be doing while here. Who am I supposed to help? How am I supposed to help others? I want to dedicate every single moment of every single day to God's plan for my life. That may not include gloriously obvious servant opportunities. It may be sitting in the lobby at school and listening to a complete stranger pour out their life story to me. It could be smiling and telling the cashier at the grocery store thank you. Or it might be going to the local orphans and reading them a story or playing with them. Everyday it may be something different but I know that He has something planned for me and I need to walk it out rather I understand it or ever know why I need to follow and not be the leader. No matter how great an idea I have sounds unless it's what I'm supposed to do it's not a great idea.

Well, enough rambling for the night. . .

I'm thankful for friends!

Today was a super rough day for me. It seemed so many things kept going wrong and I was super overwhealmed. To start the day off I found out that a refinery near where my mom's dad lives had blown up. I found this out just as class was beginning so I couldn't check on him for a while. He was fine thankfully! My parents had been gone for the weekend visiting family and friends. . . and so it was me and g-pa here at the casa. I went to Esh's house to grab some lunch real fast but because I was being a goofy and trying to beat Esh into her house I inadvertantly locked my keys in my running car. DUMB!!!!! So, Esh and I run over to my house to search out a spare key. I was greeted at the door by mom's friend who was here to fix grandpa some lunch. She said he had fallen down and she had come and found him several hours later. I didn't know what to do really, someone was on their way to help him up and I had a class to get to. I made it to class a bit late but it worked out because they were still cleaning my lab room. When I got home from lab g-pa had fallen again and decided he didn't want to get up. We coaxed him to sit up on the floor and eat some food. I called Carl and asked if he would mind coming and helping me move g-pa to the couch. So, in a few moments Esh and Carl arrived and helped me move him. At this point I was emotionally drained and had a paper to write and all I wanted to do was cry and sleep and have no responsibilities. Esh calmed me down while Carl helped g-pa get settled. The rest of the afternoon I sat and wrote my paper and watched g-pa sleep. Carl and Esh came again to keep me company and help move g-pa back to his bed. By this time he was so confused it wasn't even funny. He wouldn't even eat a hamburger from his favorite restraunt.

For the rest of the evening Esh and I studied biology and Carl watched his Bourne movie on his lap top. My family got home about 12:30 am and I'm so glad not to be in charge anymore! Whew, relief! Now I just need to study for my biology paper.

I hope and pray I wake up to a better day tomorrow. Now I'm off to bed to catch a little shut-eye.

Last night/early this morning

Last night Esh and I hosted several friends at my house. We watched The Guardian and played bumper pool and of course chatted and hung out. It was a blast! The last guests left about 3:30am but we were still having fun but knew this morning would come early.
Here are some pics of the adventures of the night. I got good pics of everyone except Mark(sorry!)but he was there as well.

"NOOOOO!!" A very typical face of Esh's near the bumper pool table!

Ask Ainslee. I don' t know!

Katie, Ainslee, and Keith watching the movie.

Me, Carl, and Carl's popcorn

Thomas catching popcorn.

Carlos playing pool

Thomas and Ainslee dancing.
Carl and his deuces
The popcorn making queen.
All the girls: Esh, Ainslee, Mel, Katie.
The popcorn queen's mess.
More of the mess.

Ainslee's art work.

Thomas with his head upside down.

So many changes in so little time!

Well, life keeps me on my toes! So many unexpected and yet great things have come my way in the last 3 weeks.

This week I went to the chiropractor to get adjusted mainly due to hauling school books around! go figure. Well, the chiro asked me what I was doing these days which led to asking if I wanted a job! I've been kinda looking but also working for my dad so I haven't been real serious. The chiro then proceeded to describe exactly what I was looking for! The right number of hours, the right amount of pay, and the right job description! I was so excited. In a few minutes I head out to fill out paperwork and I believe I'll begin working next week. So, if you guys need to be adjusted give me a ring and I can help you out!

Also this week I had 5 tests! Some were blow off tests or pretests. . . I think I did well on 3 of them (really easy!), the biggest test (biology) I know I did well on, and the History pretest, well I think I bombed it but who cares? It doesn't count toward my grade so I didn't study for it since I had the others.

Life's been great but so busy I haven't taken pictures. I'll try to squeeze some in soon!