wednesday...you will not get the best of me.

my desire to do things other than school work and procrastinate is never so strong 'til i absolutely have to finish things...
which is why i'm here...
blogging...
when i need to be at the library.
ah well.
maybe someday i'll learn my lesson?

i'm so glad tomorrow is thursday.
for a number of reasons.

• the main one being that thursday is my favorite day of the week.
• house church is on thursday!!!
• i only have 2 classes...and they're both relatively laid back.
• i usually get to hang out with beth (unfortunately this won't be able to happen tomorrow...on account of my own procrastination)
• david gets back from seattle and i can't wait to hear about his trip!
• i never have to work on thursdays!
• i'm going to make a point to take some time to be creative tomorrow...would you like to join me?
• i get to make pumpkin chocolate chip cookies for house church!!! (nothing makes me as happy as baking for people does)

so much to look forward to...
and with that in mind, i cannot and will not have a bad attitude about the work i must get done.
are you with me?

LOVE!

the smell of the falling leaves....

today has been a collection of wonderful things.
and this blog is becoming a collection of lists...
sorry about that, but something you should know about me is that i truly enjoy making lists..
so...

wonderful things about this tuesday

• wearing a flannel...a wonderful way to kick off fall
• waking up and feeling oh so comfortable under my covers
• finding out that one of my classes tomorrow is cancelled
• seeing so many people today that i haven't seen in much too long
• seeing my bff unexpectedly in the bookstore...way to be a creeper, freddie.
• receiving a letter from my wonderful penpal...the one and only eric webb.
• baking some bread..making my house smell delightful
• the tea and coffee that have been warming me all day, silly biting wind.

what about you?
has this tuesday to beat all tuesdays been wonderful for you as well?

LOVE!

i have a clumsy attention span.

oh my.
i'm mildly distracted today...
and by mildly i mean...i'm always distracted...to a ridiculous degree.
i'm actually skipping class right now...look at me go.
and i was about to rationalize that decision to you, as if i needed to explain my lack of motivation... but oh well. i just wasn't feeling it today.
and it's just one class...right?
see, there i go...rationalizing.

so i'm sitting in the library, multi-tasking... which is what i've decided to call this a.d.d. that keeps me flipping from one tab to the next.
i think i need some technology detox.
either way...
so my best friend...she's a volleyball player..a pretty fantastic volleyball player...and she just recently tore her acl...and found out yesterday that she also tore her miniscus...
that is part of my distraction right now. i'm hurting for her, and it's no fun because i'm completely helpless in this situation.
anybody got the spiritual gift of healing? that'd be real useful right now...
(p.s. that's kind of a serious, ridiculously hopeful question)

i've been trying this new thing where every day at the end of the day i write down 10 things that made me smile in the past 24 hours...
it's been sooo great.
it's kept my spirits up...and makes me giggle when i look back on it.
you should try it, if even just for a week.
i think it may just grow on you...ehhh?

this silly smile of mine...

thursdays are officially my favorite day of the week.
yesterday....oh yesterday.
it was so much more than i deserved, i am completely blown away by God's portion for me.
i did absolutely nothing to deserve this...i LOVE the way HE pursues me.
he filled me with giddiness yesterday.
God, you are so faithful...teach me to be faithful.
i don't know what it was exactly it was about yesterday...it was just perfect...
so here's a list...some things that made me smile yesterday...

• pancake dinner with friends
• breakfast for every meal
• how wonderfully my kitchen worked together in 220. (not lying... i cried a little bit i was so happy)
• riding my bike
• hanging out with my friend beth
• tea party with bekah
• my whistling tea kettle
• being awkward with sally
• shane's flannel and his rendition of hootie & the blowfish
• hugs
• bonfires
• s'mores
• neil leading worship
• having the greatest friends on the planet
• thinking about fall retreat
• ridiculous house church ice breakers...

i could go on and on...but i think you get the point.
my heart is so giddy....i'm dancing on my tiptoes...
what made you smile this week?

15 things

today i'm feeling a little under the weather.

i'm distracted and frustrated (with myself, with situations and with others)

i'm determined to shake this funk.

so here goes...15 things that make me terribly happy on this bright september day.

1. these chocolate marshmallow mateys that i'm nibbling on out of my favorite "wake up and smell the muscles mug"....thank you goodwill

2. these jeans i'm wearing, which are much too big but oh so comfortable.

3. still laughing about gregg's arrest story he told us last night.

4. knowing that after work tonight i can curl up on my couch and watch a movie with my sweatpants and some hot tea...it's been a long time.

5. the random text messages my best friend sends me.

6. this camera. i'm struggling to not buy it...it's an instant film...it's brown and adorable...but i will resist...uggggg

7. having my windows open and "muncie-fresh" air blowing through the house.

8. late night ihop runs and laughing about neil's monocle with liz..uncontrollably.

9. laughing 'til i cried so many times yesterday...it was a wonderful feeling.

10. friends that tell me they love me, and are sincere.

11. having time to be crafty tomorrow and getting to help layne paint her room.

12. this fall-like weather...so lovely. a great excuse to bust out my cardigans.

13. pumpkin-spice anything (especially lattes)....yummm...

14. learning from my friends.

15. awkward conversations.

before they turn the summer into dust...

this weekend couldn't have been any better if i would've planned it myself.

friday:

• ice cream with beautiful friends
• climbing my favorite tree to eat doughnuts with the same lovely people
• getting to see 'up' for the third time, and still falling in love with it.

saturday:

• walk to the farmer's market in hopes of finding the perfect bouquet of flowers
• flower success! - they're now in root beer bottles on the dining room table...hmmmm.
• ventured home for the night.
• laughter shared with my family. - they make my heart feel so light

sunday:

• discussing God's ridiculous sense of humor and giggling about His love with jenny
• roughly 3 cups of hot tea
• more time with my family
• sharing "freaks and geeks" with friends
• coming down with a cold (gross.)

monday:

• my concerned friends made me jell-o because they knew my mom used to do just that for me when i was sick as a kid
• more hot tea
• got to be creative all day
• baked cupcakes with liz (p.s. she asked me to make a cake for her wedding. eeek!)
• promises of a trip to cincy for some ikea and a reds game.

this weekend was beautiful.
now onto a short week of classes!!!
get excited!

and we...are getting dizzy...

it's saturday.
oh how i love saturday mornings, especially ones like this.
i woke up (semi-early...that's just how my body does).
ate some cereal out of my favorite coffee mug.
cleaned up the kitchen a bit.
ventured off to the farmer's market to say hello to a good friend and buy some flowers.
strolled back to my house in anticipation of putting my flowers in their makeshift root beer bottle vases.
now i'm sitting here soaking up ideas for new, creative things to do this weekend.
i have a tendency to want to make people things, all the time.
i love giving people gifts.
for no specific reason.
so all these new ideas i'm stumbling across are making my heart beat quickly.
get excited...you may just receive a simple little surprise from me in the near future.
LOVE!

the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

i have a problem.
it seems that recently i've had a terrible habit of wasting time.
time that i could be spending working or catching up on school.
i've been thinking about this concept of "wasting time" a lot recently.
and i feel like this is way too subjective of a topic to be the same for everyone.
i've been comparing myself for much too long to people who are leading a much more demanding life than i.
i'm a student.
with at least 2 more years of this short part of my life to live out.
so, yes, thank you very much.
i will waste my time.
or at least to you it may seem that i am.
but this time that is being "wasted" is being spent doing things that you would never know about if you didn't ask.
i feel like my brain never rests.
there are constantly ideas popping into my head.
things i want to create.
things i want to write down and embroider later.
ideas of gifts i want to give people.
so i'm going to keep "wasting" my time.
would you like to waste some time with me?
who knows what kind of radiant nonsense we could be a part of.