day 6 and 7

Sorry I missed out on yesterday's blog. I know you faithful followers were soooooo disappointed but today I am doing both. I was just home for Thanksgiving and it was so great to spend time with my family. I love how far I have come in appreciating them and loving spending time with them.  I love my time with my sister and how close we have become, she really is my best friend.  I am glad to be back at Taylor but only 2 and a half weeks of college to go. It is crazy!

On another note, day 6: a picture that makes me happy

There are tons of pictures that make me happy, but I think it is important for the world to see this picture!!!  It is my new favorite band.

can you get much better than that??

oh heyyyyy there trumpet solo!

And now for today's post. Drumrollllll please. day 7: favorite movie

I'm not much of a movie watcher but I do have a few favorites... I love funny light-hearted movies because I get sad easily and don't like to be.  I also don't like a lot of romantic type movies because I think they portray love poorly or have someone cheating on someone or weird drama like that.  I LOVE HOLIDAY MOVIES THOUGH SO MY FAVORITE, ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER IS HOME ALONE!

Plus look at that movie cover, I just changed my mind and Home Alone movie cover is the picture that makes me the happiest!! 

recipes

day 5:

Today's topic is our favorite recipe. I most definitely don't have a favorite recipe that I can make, YET. I am hoping that one day I can be a good little chef but until then I love microwave things and Kraft Mac & Cheese.  I am not much one for baking either. If I could get my hands on Mrs. Roelker's (our neighbor) secret Christmas cookie recipe I would sure be one for baking. I LOVE her cookies and every year when she brings them over my whole family goes wild.  Our other neighbor asked her for the recipe one year and she wouldn't share it.  It makes me love the cookies even more. I love when people have secret recipes and won't share them, I think it is the funniest thing ever.  I aspire to have that one day... my own secret recipe. But not like Bush's baked beans. That guy and his dog are annoying and I don't like baked beans.

Last Easter, my sister and I were having a pie baking contest. I love any sort of competition so we were both psyched to make the best pie. Mine was lemon meringue and hers was coconut cream.  We went to the grocery and were picking out everything and Elizabeth said that we should use shortening instead of corn starch.  Since she is a wife I trusted her... For those of you that don't know shortening is the baking term for "lard". Well both of our pies turned out inedible so neither of us won. But to this day I think she did it on purpose and would've preferred us to all be pie-less than me take home the gold.

my parents

day 4: my parents. me and my sister have the same parents so instead of writing this section just read hers.

just kiddin! I wouldn't want to rob you guys of my thoughts on any issue in this 30 day challenge!

I am so blessed to have two parents who I enjoy spending time with.  I have loved growing older and being able to spend time with them.  They really are two of my favorite people in the world to be around. 

My dad is so great.  He leaves me the funniest voicemails ever! His are the only ones I have saved on my phone because they are too funny to delete.  I love that he calls me Coochie, I think it is so special.  He is such a great sibling to his brothers and sisters and a leader to our family.  I love the way he has stuck up for my mom over the years and never let my sister (never me) talk back to her.  I am so proud to call him my dad. As a little girl I always wanted him to know how much I loved him so I would send my blankey and little notes with him on business trips.  If anyone has seen my blankey this would seem to be an unflattering gift but I know he slept with it every night!!  :) Whenever he would get home from his  trips I would love to run and hug him.  He is such a good dad and husband to my mom. I am so grateful for him!


My mom is fun to be around too. She visited me at school just a couple weekends ago and it was so fun for me to have her there and meet my friends.  She is always up for doing something fun but also loves to veg out, which I love about her. I have so many fond memories of my mom and when I was little she would sometimes sing us the Lord's Prayer before bed and I remember thinking that she had the most beautiful voice in the world.  I love my mom's intuition. She has so much wisdom about life just through her "gut feel" and it is something that I always have to remind myself to listen to and ask her insight on situations.  I always roll my eyes when people say that mothers know best, but in her case it really is true.

I love the way my parents have supported me and allowed me to pursue whatever dreams I have. I've always felt so loved and special by them.  Thanks for loving meee mom and dad.

my first love

I haven't fallen in love yet, other than with the Lord, which is good enough for me!  I do see Jesus as my first love and am so glad that He is the only thing that can satisfy me.  Learning that no man or relationship can satisfy me to the extent that the Lord does has been so beneficial in the way I view love and the way I desire a relationship.  I hope to fall in love with a dude one day, but I know that even then it will still be God who satisfies me.

I have dated a couple guys in my 21 years of life and the relationships have all been ok, but to put it politely I am thankful to not be in any of them anymore!!  What I hope for my first love is to start out with a good time of dating. I want the next guy I date to be someone who I really respect and really enjoy being around.  I want us to know each other well before we date, and not just jump into it.  That I can be myself around and that he challenges me to a higher standard of living.  I also want my relationship to be really pure physically.  It seems that in many relationships people are always wishing for the next stage.  That when people are dating they just want to engaged, and then when they are engaged they just want to be married. I pray I will enjoy each stage of my next relationship and really embrace the place I am in.  So boysss, come and get me! Just kidding!! Although I am excited to be with some lucky mister one day.

Just for kicks, here are pictures of all the guys I have dated. It is so funny for me to think about it and how far I have come since these. Thank you Jesus!

Michael Morrison c. 2006-2007 cause of breakup: his infidelity

Levi Stuckey c. a short time in 2007 cause of breakup: more like why did we ever date???

Shane Stuttle c. 2009 cause of breakup: a picture is worth 1000 words (see above) this is the only picture we have together

I hope none of them see this. That would be funny

day 2

Today's blog topic for the "30 day challenge" is: the meaning behind your blog name... I hope these topics get a bit more exciting as we go, if not this month could be a real doosy for my blogees.

I am not sure which is my blog name.  If it is No Creeps Please or Why Isn't Everyone in the World Reading This?

Either way the meanings of both of them are pretty self explanatory.  Although, I do have something to say about it.  I think that the word creep has developed a really negative and embarrassing connotation in recent times.  For example, I don't like when boys give girls attention and then girls call them creeps.  I think that is rude and embarrassing.  To me a creep is more a peeping tom than anything.  Really, everyone is welcome to read my blog, after all I am the one posting this stuff on the internet.  I mean I write in hopes that people will read it. But, if I say I'm going to the market tomorrow, I am expecting that no one will be stealthily following me to the market, a.k.a no creeps please.

Speaking of creeps... last night some of my friends were asking me about my 15 interesting facts list and everyone was asking me to belly dance, should've kept that fact to myself!!

I just read on my sister's blog that tomorrow's topic is my first love.  Hope you aren't too excited that you can get some sleep tonight!

it's your lucky 30 days...

my sister asked me if I wanted to do a 30 Day Blogging Challenge with her and her sister-in-law, Courtney.  Naturally, I said I would do it because I love a challenge. I was also motivated because in the same conversation my sister said, "we will see if you are cut out to be a blogger."  

So for the next 30 days you can read my blog because I'll be writing all about myself everyday!! We can say it is my Christmas gift to the world.

Day 1: Introduction and 15 Interesting Facts and Recent Picture

Introduction:

I have two weeks left of college at Taylor University and then I am moving to Chicago to go to Cosmetology school. I am excited to cut hair and can't wait to pray for the women I meet through this.  I am a brunette and love to play racquetball but I'm not that good. I love listening to music (especially worship) and dancing. Not clubbing dancing but in my room, being goofy, dancing.  I have loved learning more about my role in the kingdom of Jesus and how God loves me for being who I am.  I honestly have no clue what to say in an introduction about myself because everyone who reads this knows me, but the challenge calls for it so I'm doing it!!

15 interesting facts:  Instead of telling 15 facts I am saying 13 truths and two lies...

1. I love the card-game Egyptian Ratscrew and I RARELY lose at it (maybe that is why I love it)...

2. I love karaoke-ing especially this place in Jonesboro, Indiana. Everyone should check it out, the Friday's after thanksgiving are dedicated to Christmas music!

3. I am the slowest swimmer you will ever meet. 

4. I always can and want to eat three donuts no matter what I am doing that day or how much I have eaten.

5. Road trips are soo fun to me, and I don't care at all where it is to!!

6. I rarely shower.

7. I can belly dance.

8. I would rather watch TV than movies but I would rather play a game than both.

9. I'm really skilled at making up riddles.

10. I made girl's skirts out of men's dress shirts and sold them locally and made a killing.

11. I have really fond memories of being a little girl.

12. Cinnamon is my favorite flavor gum.

13. When I first meet people I picture what kind of haircut I would like them to have.

14. I am never embarrassed to have a laughing fit because I think it is so fun even if it is inappropriate timing.

15. I am a man.

Here is my most recent picture....

 It is from this past weekend when me and my roommate julie went to visit our friend Morgan for her birthday.  It is of me and Morgan after church. 

This picture is from when Morgan went to the beach with my family this summer. We are pretending to be naked behind our boogie boards. I love the old man in the background of this.  

I never go out...

People are blogging machines these days... I think its fun and I really enjoy reading what people I love have to say about life and things that are going on with them, so I'm sure there are lots of peeps out there dying to get in my head! haa. And as cheesy as it is I really do love that I have a voice and can be heard, that I live in a land where I am allowed to speak out and write what I want.  I would bust out in America the Beautiful except my roommate is sleeping.

I contemplated naming this blog "I Don't Go Out".  Mostly because I think it's a funny title, but I do love spending time with people and not always trying to go places and do things.  I love deep conversation and think there is certainly something to be said about just spending time chilling out instead of always having to entertain ourselves.  Who am I kidding though? Who doesn't love a fun adventure or something really fun to look forward to?  But sometimes I'm a little disappointed when plans work out.  Like, man, I could've sat here quietly by myself a bit longer.  What reminded me about this and why I am this way, is because of nights like tonight. I didn't have plans for tonight but me and two of my friends ended up going to the prayer chapel.  We were worshipping and the likes (I napped  on accident for the first hour) and before we left I really wanted us to pray for each other. I love calling out life in people through prayer and how the Spirit uses that. So anyways, we were praying for my one friend and it was insane how the Lord had so much to say about her and His love for her.  When the prayer  came to a close she was crying and said multiple times, "No one has ever prayed for me like that before."  I love that Jesus is interceding for her always, but  it just blew my mind that she had never experienced prayer like that before and that no one had ever done that for her.  I love though that it isn't the Lord holding out on her by any means but it just broke my heart that it seemed as though life had never really been spoken over her.  Thank you Jesus, that I never go out :)

It made me so excited for hair school and moving to Chicago because of how many people need to be prayed over.  I love that there is nothing I would've rather done with the night than prayed with her!  If we value the power of prayer and really believe that it is moving the Kingdom of God, than it seems to be such an injustice that some people have no one to pray for them.  I wonder if that is true or makes sense?  I would love your (probably just my mom reads this!! love ya mama) input or thoughts on this question!!