A change...

So I have recently read a book named Flabbergasted by Ray Blacksoton. Well technically I listened to it on one of my trips back home to Mississippi.

 A good book worth reading!!

It is the first book in a short series. 

This book was a very relatable Christian book about finding yourself in the world and at the same time finding Christianity. There is also a lot that can relate to "older" Christians. This book reminded me a lot of my current journey. This is why there was a change in the name. I have recently been trying to figure out what I wanted from this blog. I feel like I am constantly flabbergasted at life in general and I am constantly trying to figure out life and balancing my Christian walk with the outside world. This is what I have decided to use this blog for. I want to document my Christian life in the world. Hopefully I can help or encourage someone else with their life. I also am going to try to be more diligent about writing on my blog. I have a lot of stuff to share with the world and I want to help other people. :D It's a nice place to vent and share my frustrations and share how I overcome them at times. I would also like some help from others who may start following.

Getting ready for Spring/Summer

I had a great day sitting around the house today. I planted some seeds for our spring/summer garden! I'm very excited. I planted some herbs and a ton of veggies! I'll be putting pictures up as there is some progress on how my little garden is doing. I'm hoping to be able to grow enough veggies for our family for this summer and some for this winter. Now I'm winding down watching some TV before bed.

Last night was a great time at a benefit concert. There was a lot of good music (and some tasty cupcakes... mmmm... Pink lemonade!) I heard a new Christian band, The Refuge, and bought a new CD.

www.facebook.com/therefugemusic

It was a good night with friends and for a great cause!
This week is going to be AMAZING (and probably feel like one of the longest of my life)... I pick Dave up Thursday (YAY), then Friday is game night, and hopefully yoga on Saturday morning. I also finish a class Monday and start a new one on Tuesday. Oh and tomorrow is Pigpalooza at church (A special day at church where we will eat pork-YUM-and someone will kiss a pig...) I <3 pork! I am looking forward to this week (honestly, I'm mostly looking forward to Thursday! :D)

Root canal and cat puke..

This pretty much sums up my day. I had a dentist appointment at 1 discovered that instead of a crown I was getting a root canal. I left the dentist around 5:30... That's right, 4 and a half hours of dental work... and I was not in pain when I went, I am however (well, when my meds wear off) in pain now. I have to go back on Thursday (yes in two days) to get two teeth pulled... then a LOT more that I am wondering if I am really up to it.... Then I come in here to lay down after all of the dental crap and my cat pukes on my bed next to me... I  feel as if she is trying to sympathize with me, but it is really making everything crazy. I had some soup when I got home, it took me about an hour to eat a bowl of soup, and I'm thinking I might be hungry again, but I only have one can left and can't really drive (due to the meds that are keeping me from lashing out in pain)... Ugh how terrible. I might try running to the store in the morning when I first wake up... I am just about to fall asleep... I'm hoping tomorrow brings better things.

Night time rambling thoughts...

"Nice to a fault." I have heard this description of me many times before. Not always positive, but not always negatively either. I find myself thinking of this tonight as I lay here trying to get some sleep... Over the past few months I have found my feelings in a raw, and unusual state. I have always listened to what people have to throw at me, and hardly ever is it anything I wanted to hear. But certain circumstances going on in my personal life has made me a little more touchy than usual. I find myself wanting to scream and cry and throw the adult version of a tantrum. The latest incident has been about the dentist. Those who know me knows that I hate the dentist. I mean truly HATE it, venturing on fear. I have a temporary insurance policy that will cover most of my dental work though to be honest I do not wish to use it (but alas being an adult I have to). So spring break is this week and I will start the daunting task of fixing as many of my teeth as I can until the end of April. I keep getting reminded that I have to make this appointment thought I keep forgetting and getting busy (I am a full time  substitute teacher, a full time masters student and a bit forgetful!). But I feel at the age of 27 (well technically 26 for another month) I can be entrusted to make my appointments or suffer the consequences.... I am also at the breaking point with my pets! My two dogs have now (after almost 3 years in the house with cats) decided that they no longer wish to have cats in the house, and have taken to barking every time one walks by no matter the time. This leads to  rude 2am wake ups that last for 5 minutes and is only interrupted by my screaming through the door that they need to stop or suffer (not that I would actually do anything... but it does make me feel better). So for their safety and my sleep they have been allowed back in my bed, which I have quickly remembered why I had removed them in the first place! They are not easy animals to sleep with! They roll around and lick my blankets giving a weird cloth-dog-breath-smell to them! Sigh...
On a more positive note it is spring break for the school system I work at, and it couldn't come at a better time! Sure, I have to start dental work, but I am also thinking about seizing the opportunity to pick WoW back up...

A brief catch up...

So I have the house to myself for the next 2 1/2 weeks! Dave is off doing army stuff for the next couple of weeks and I have work and someone has to take care of our precious little pets.
So much has been going on, I am swamped with school work, work is started, I'm still trying to get my Mary Kay business going (my second job), and I am starting a job with a Christian Home soon (yes, that's 3 jobs... sigh). But for right now I'm just tyring to get myself through this class I'm in (one more week! WOOT WOOT!) Which means one more big project (sigh I have to start that one like tomorrow or the next day-probably Wednesday because I'm taking tomorrow off). For now I'm going to finish my postings tonight and then off to bed... I'm going to try to catch up on here in the next couple of days.

Life back to normal.

So I found my livejournal account from 2008 and the only thing I can say is how thankful I am that life has evened out for me. Life from 4 years ago was so different from my life now. I was in such a random place in my life then. I knew what I wanted but it was like nobody else was on board! LOL. And let's just not start on the relationship front from then! It's crazy that only one year after those sad and frustrating posts I met the love of my life. Since then everything in my life has fallen into place. Truth be told within a month of starting to talk to Dave life shifted, everything fell into place and my life was in order for the first time in almost forever.  Dave and I may argue from time to time, but I really am lucky to have him in my life and I have never looked back. We may have only been married for a year and a half, but it really feels like we have been together forever. As sappy as it may sound but we just fit together. Everything fits together with us and my past is drowned out and replaced with the new memories of us! (yeah I know... sad, sappy, and all of that, but I at times just feel as if I need something to remind me of the depressed dark girl I once was and how far life has taken me.)

Dave and me. Finishing up a wonderful fun day at the zoo

 by watching our nieces playing at the park!

Family has gone home, and I am left here trying to figure out what to do with my days. It's crazy! We were go go go for a week and a half, and now everyone is gone and I'm left trying to find something to do. On top of that my car is broken! Soemthing about a belt or whatever! I'm so sick of car problems! We have had so many issues with cars I'm just done with it!  I can't wait until we both get reliable cars! School should be starting soon, and I'm ready to go back to work.....

 Dave and me. Just hanging out with the family!

My Brother and Sister-in-law! I couldn't ask for better in-laws! 

We all get along so well! I love when they visit! Hope to 

get to see them more often! 

We are getting ready to work on getting our fall garden started. I'm very excited to get it going! Growing the few tomato plants I did this summer really has shown me how fun a SMALL garden can be! I'm not going to go crazy or anything just enough to supliment some of our  food expense and to get the good taste of home grown food! I haven't realized how much I miss home grown veggies until having them again (but isn't that the way it always seems to be).

My current tomato plants! Looking forward to starting 

my new garden!

So I know I haven't been very good with this whole blogging thing, and I'm trying to decide where to go with it.... I'm not sure if I should keep it completely random or decide on a theme to go with. The thing is my life is so random... I like growing a garden, reading, cooking, crafts, sewing, pets, education and the list goes on... I might just have to keep it random to keep up with my life. I know this was a lot spit out all at once, but I think that starts catching everything up from my last few weeks or so! (Eventually I will figure out how to be better at this thing...)

Crazy week...

I plan on writing more tomorrow, but a quick update before bed. We have had a fun week with family. I have missed them so much since Christmas.  We have kept busy filling our days with all of the things We want to get accomplished this week! We spent yesterday in the city and today was closer to home just spending much enjoyed time together!!!  Pictures to come soon!

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