life is crazy

For mom! *grin* So far she's done all of the hard work... and made lots of phone calls... and sent lots of emails. Anyway, Bob and I are getting married on April 26. Mom and Shelly and I went over to El Paso last night and got dresses figured out, which is good, and mom has tons of other stuff lined up already. Yeah, she's pretty much amazing.

I'm leaving tonight to go skiing up in Wisconsin with some girls... I haven't packed yet. Nor do I know how to get to our hotel. O well. :)

And I forgot that I should probably provide some kind of a snack tonight at the yg thing. Oops. Guess I'll be stopping at the grocery store on the way home.

One thing I did remember to do- my taxes are done!!! yay!!! I hate doing taxes and they used to reduce me to tears, but since I've discovered TurboTax they only make me slightly annoyed. And it takes half as much time. Which I love.

Blessings.

stuff

• we don't have a date yet, wait for it....
• I don't want to plan a wedding.
• I like being engaged.
• This morning the lady in the next lane was swerving all over traffic... yikes... it wasn't even icy.
• We went and sang for Ted last night, it was... sobering.
• We're going to T-town tonight...
• I'm going skiing Friday night/ Saturday with some girls and I'm excited!

Blessings.

Looking back at the road so far

The journey's left its share of scars

Mostly from leaving the narrow and straight

Looking back it is clear to me

That a man is more than the sum of his deeds

And how You've made good of this mess I've made

Is a profound mystery

Looking back You know You had to bring me through

All that I was so afraid of

Though I questioned the sky, now I see why

Had to walk the rocks to see the mountain view

Looking back I see the lead of love

Looking back I can finally see

How failures bring humility

Brings me to my knees

Helps me see my need for Thee

Looking back You know You had to bring me through
All that I was so afraid of
Though I questioned the sky, now I see why
Had to walk the rocks to see the mountain view
Looking back I see the lead of love

So this is Bob... he's pretty cool... we're both pretty excited.... hopefully eventually there'll be some pictures when we're not both super tired...

It's so cold in Minnesota...

Actually it was warmer than here at home. Such a good weekend. Matt and I met up with Sarah, Kristin, Hannah, Leah, Sydney, Aaron, and Loren after work friday and headed up to Minneapolis. We stopped to pick up Natalie too... haven't seen her in ages, it was great! I caught up on sleep on the way up, but contrary to popular opinion I didn't sleep the whole way up. (I just wasn't taking part in the hospital talk up front) haha. A bunch of Purdue people came too, and it was good to get to know them.

Saturday morning we got to go snow tubing- so much fun. Very fun to watch other people do crazy stunts on their tubes. And dislocate their shoulders.... actually that looked pretty painful, but it was kind of his own fault, as was the cut and bleeding head one of the other guys got jumping in Dill's basement. Which led to Sarah's and my favorite quote of the weekend, "did you see his sweet gash? guess how we got it stopped- we had to tie his hair together!"

During the afternoon I skipped going to the Mall of America and went ice skating instead, which I love. Dewayne and LaRae went to a ton of work on supper- it was a mystery dinner- which was really cool. Then we sang and played games and then I was tired and went to bed. :)

We left Sunday after nursing home singing and driving around lost looking for some shoes... The roads were ok, but they were covered in salt slush. I was driving Hannah's van and it ran out of washer fluid.... and the salt was building up on the windshield so bad we couldn't see out. There were a few terrifying moments until we found a gas station and bought more washer fluid. I let Matt drive after that. We made it home around midnight.

I didn't have to work yesterday so I slept in and then spent the afternoon being amused by my grandparents hanging a curtain rod, and then I met amber for supper. It was a good day.
Blessings.

Snow Days

Today is the second day in a row that I've made it in to work only to find out that they closed the building and I didn't have to be there. Which is great! But kind of annoying that I could have slept in...

O well. Since I was in town already I spent some of my Christmas gift cards. :)

Yesterday Tate and I played king of the snow pile and king of the pile that I hope was just cornstalks. haha... you really never know on the farm. And we had a snowball fight, but wet skin in that cold wind was a little much... so we quit that and went 'exploring.' Fun times. And then I decided I was too cold and went inside. I didn't even try to go out today.

I'm meeting Liz for supper tonight before she leaves to go back to the Philippines. I'm excited!

Blessings.

case of the mondays

I had a pretty good weekend. Spent Saturday evening in princeville and it was really enjoyable. Our house was hot and I couldn't sleep Saturday night- so frustrating, and it wasn't even because of caffeine! I wanted to stop for Dr. Pepper on the way back from p-ville and my passengers wouldn't let me. So I was only half awake all day Sunday. :)

I don't really have anything to blog about...

My boss told me I had to make some New Year's Resolutions, here's what I came up with:
1. Exercise at least 3 times a week.
2. Eat better. (I know, I know, the first two are on everyone's lists)
3. Drink less pop.
4. Use my passport somewhere other than Mexico or Canada.
5. Be more spontaneous.

Blessings.

knots

Last night was night two of comforter making up at church... I skipped the first night to go out to eat with people, so I didn't really have a choice about going the second night. :) It was fun, although I get really tired of tying knots. (the literal one's not the figurative ones) So I ended up quilting with Grandma for a while. I'm not very good, but it's better than mindlessly tying knots for hours. I think they got 25 or so comforters done for Magdalena and Zambia, which is cool.

I'm busy tonight and tomorrow night and I just really want to sit at home and be lazy. *sigh* O well, it's good for me right?

"It is a truth universally acknowledged,

that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ~Pride and Prejudice

Happy New Year...

I still haven't quite recovered from the old one yet. Ok, not really. I still haven't recovered from last weekend...so tired. I spent Friday evening in Gridley at K's new house with some cool people. Got in some human bowling (my friends are crazy-which I love), played flux, and argued into the wee hours. Argue is actually a pretty fun game. Although, having to argue in favor of mail order brides was, um, interesting. *grin*

Amber and I were going to go to champaign that night... but... since it was 3am-ish we decided to just stay at K's. We still didn't get to sleep until 4:30. Kind of late. O well, totally worth it.

So Saturday morning/ early afternoon Amber, Sarah, Kaleigh and I ended up at hessel house... we played some fun games like scrabble and Kosherland. And started a Jane Austen marathon. Sense and Sensibility, ate supper at Noodles, Pride and Prejudice with a skillet cookie break... so good. And by then it was 2am... I'm getting too old for this. *sigh*

Church was good, BDY and J-nell served lunch. I did not get there early enough to help. I helped with dishes though... We rounded out the weekend with Emma after church. *grin*

Good times. So now it's back to work. And no holidays until MLK Jr. day. *sigh*
Blessings.