anointing

Hearing a sermon on Sunday that mentioned oil anointing reminded me of the last time I was anointed.... by none other than that awful basketball coach I mentioned before. She thought if we were anointed we would play better. I mean... maybe.... or maybe we just needed a coach.

ouch.


ok now I'm working on getting over this... pray for me! :)

Radical

I just started a new book- Radical by David Platt. I asked for it for Christmas because I read a quote once from it and I really liked the quote. It reminds me of the Bible Study my dad's friend/business partner just finished up called Crazy Love by Francis Chan.
 It talks about how we live our lives as American Christians. We have a distorted view of who God is because we shape him in our minds to fit our comforts and culture. 
 I have only finished the first 2 chapters but it's already a book that makes you think.... and hopefully will make me change. I hope and pray that I will learn to obey God completely- to take up my cross and follow him. Either that or I'm going to feel guilty afterwards because now it's been brought to my attention. eeek!
 I recommend the book- you can borrow it from me once I finish it. :)


Blessings
-b

Basketball Memories... eeek!

So first of all, I decided I do indeed want to blog more. Every time I blog I feel like I have to catch the blog up to what's happened in my life but now I decided I'm just going to blog whenever I feel like it about anything i feel like. I think that's the point of these things anyway. Well actually.... for me the point of blogging is simply to follow other people's blogs and use their crafty tutes. :) (tutorials)

Anyways.... do you ever have random thoughts or memories of how someone treated you poorly and relive those feelings? I was driving home today and I, for some reason, thought back to my freshman and sophomore year of high school playing basketball. I had a terrible coach. (I feel safe saying that because I'm sure she'll never read this.) She treated me and my teammates like we were the worst sinners in the world. She would say things like that too. I remember one away game we were warming up and I don't even know what we were doing- probably just laughing while shooting... anyways she SCREAMS at us to come over and YELLS at us for ALL to hear... saying things like we must not be Christians because of what we're doing.... honestly... we were so confused. And angry. Who wants to play for a coach after a stunt like that?!
Anyways that's not actually what I was thinking of while driving. No, this was MUCH less awful. Much more petty. and much more personal.
We had JV games and Varsity games. I was a starter for the varsity team. Now don't go thinking that I was a good bball player just because I'm tall. I was not very good at all - definitely not the 5th best player on the team. You probably wouldn't believe me if I stopped there because come on... I was a Varsity Starter! In normal schools I'd probably get a letter right??? WELL...... She started me on Varsity so therefore I was ineligible to play in the JV game... which was more my level. I started Varsity and played a whopping TWO minutes... if I was lucky. Then she would sub me out with someone much more skilled and I sat the bench the rest of the game. The reason why??? So that my teammate - who was very good- would be allowed to play in the JV game  and Varsity. Isn't that rotten? I still got mad about that when I thought of it, and that happened like 8 years ago!! I really need to get over it. ha!

Now back to making Christmas presents!

Ciao

Finally, what else I did...

My parents have been home for a number of weeks now, but I never finished my series on what I did when they were away... so here's the ending! :)

I ate the other half of the pack of steak and grilled me some tators! yum!

I made a hot chocolate milkshake, which was pretty much a vanilla malt. more yum!

Remember how I said I went to Ohio? Well, on the way home my friend and I stopped at the Steelers training camp.

Unfortunately it was the day before the first preseason game so there was no public practice. boo

I went shopping and got all kinds of goodies!!

I made an earring holder...

here it is! not the best picture since the background is the same color, but you get the idea.

I started cutting patches for my next project: a blanket! :)

And that's about it... I picked some flowers and welcomed them home. It's been fun....

Parents Gone, Part 2

Some more things that occupied my time "alone".......

I finally fixed a dress. I had ripped some of the threads in the ruching before I got to wear it out:

I also went shopping and got a new dress! :)

After working a nearly 12 hour day cleaning teeth, I thought I deserved to grill myself a steak.

I didn't think to take a picture 'til after it was gone!


I went to Ohio, but alas! did not take any pictures! :(




short post.... more to come soon!

big picture

sorry that my picture is HUGE! i'm not trying to be vain, i just don't know how to make it smaller. help!

Things I've Done While the Parents are Away....

To catch you up on where I'm at these days.... I found a boards patient. That whole situation was quite an ordeal... one where I was forced to trust God, and one that he rewarded me for.

I aced my boards, graduated from HACC's dental hygiene program, passed my next 2 boards, and got my license. I found a job 4 miles up the road from my parents house, which is where I am currently residing.

I LOVE the working life. It is just as magical as I hoped it would be. I am not just speaking of the joys of cleaning teeth, but the most wonderful part.... Going to work, coming home and doing whatever I please. I have no other obligations! It's so wonderful to not have to bring your work home and work on it some more to be ready for the next day. All I have to do is make sure I have a clean pair of scrubs! :) I still haven't gotten my first paycheck yet though, so... I still feel like a student in that area.

Moving on...

My parents went on a cycle vacation to Colorado for 10 days. That means I rule the roost! I decided to blog about what I'm doing while they are away and don't force me to make them supper. (my least favorite duty). So here we go...

First, I of course had to make a list of things to do:

I picked some flowers for some indoor nature-beauty:

I decided to try to highlight my hair from a box:

I kind of felt like Medusa, though the thought of snakes coming out of my head makes me queezy

The end result in my typical hairstyle. I'm not a huge fan of it, but the box was cheap.

I thought maybe Greta would want some highlights too... You know, for some added dimension.

I removed the last of the wallpaper in my bedroom:

Some parts are really gross.

I discovered that my dad's grill is really easy to use:

He told me to stay away from the steaks.

I really hate dragging the photos to the bottom of this post in increments so I think we'll make this a multi-part post. :)

More adventures to come.....