Best Thursday Ever!

So you ask yourself, why is thursday so awesome?? It's the day before friday of course!!!

Well yesterday I was not excited about thursday and going to classes. After lunch, things turned around. I check my college postal box, CPO for short, and found a letter. The letter was from my Marine buddy Wiley Adams. I was so excited to hear from him. He's going through basic now and appears to be enjoying himself. I immediately wrote him back and that helped my day out some.

The other great thing that happened was a sweet concert I went to. Kellie Pickler (just hot that's about it), Rodney Atkins (great artist), and Brad Freakin Paisley. Ohhh man it was awesome. He has so many good songs that it made the night awesome. The only part that sucked about the concert was that my 8 friends bought their tickets together and i was not going to pay for someone else's ticket to go with me because they were $60. So I was sitting by myself. I eventually wandered down to talk with another girl. Things started out ok, and eventually i got the hint that she didn't really want to talk anymore. That's all for now.

Georgia (and other things) on my mind

So I watched Ray over Thanksgiving break and loved it. The music was great ,Jamie Fox was amazing and it was an overall good movie.

I had a great break and wish that it was not going to be over in mere few hours. I really did enjoy this break and can't believe that there are only 3 weeks left in this semester for me. Wow...unbelievable. I was supposed to practice piano all this time and catch up some low weeks that I had previously...interesting I didn't practice even the normal 6 I was supposed to for the week.

I have so many things that I want and even feel that I need to get done, but just waste my time on the internet or sitting. I usually get the social human to human contact events taken care of but as far as reading a book, working out, practicing piano or other self things, I just do not have the motivation to do. This is strange because these are all things that I did enjoy about a month ago. I need to rekindle the fire, to my motivation. Sorry I haven't written in a while, but this is all I have for now. The motivation to write even here is fading.

New Friends

So this weekend I thought things were going to be dull as usual, but instead I talked with a friend, David Michaud and told him I wanted to make things happen this weekend. Wow, things happened. I attended a jazz concert, Kresge cafe, hung out with people playing capture the flag, then finally went to Taco Bell and an old bridge. Along the way I talked with soooo many people. I loved it. I got to interact with people that I knew of, but didn't really know. I also want to start hanging out with a guy named Abraham Parker. He is amazing at music. Seriously all kinds of music. Today we mixed a beat and it is sooooo fresh. I just want to say how much it propelled my motivation to keep music prevalent in my life. That's all.

New Job

Alright so I saw an ad from an email from the Career counseling center. Whenever new jobs around pop up, they send out emails with info on the jobs. Well I saw one that did not have much information except for $8 an hour and light assembly required. The company was called Brass Reminders. Not knowing what to expect, I showed up to this place.
Sketchy, that pretty much sums it up. It is basically side by side apartments that have been turned into a makeshift business. Here are some pics of the inside. It's interesting.
< This one says "Cheryl's Mailbox..."

This is just a random shot of what I saw when I first walked in. >
Brent Durham showed me around and basically showed me what I would be doing. My job is to extract the decals from the sheets. There are cut out on each sheet and I take the excess outline from the sticker. It's tedious, but pays well. I think then I have to cut them into squares and package them up. It's funny they mainly produce Christian Decals and South Carolina decals. lol. They run a lot of the Palmetto Tree and Moon decals. There were a few Clemson stickers, and just random ones. Anyway I start Monday. I work from 5-11. He said I could work like 10 or more hours a week. So we'll see how long this lasts. I have a feeling it's going to get boring really fast.

Bye for now.

Letting People Find Their Own

I've discovered that many of my blogs are thoughts that run through my mind. Thoughts that are insightful and things that I have learned and want to put down on digital paper to remember.

There is a mega church here called Southland. I attended there one sunday and felt like I was at a concert. The main preacher, Jon Weece, I think that's how you spell his name, was excellent and was really easy to understand. I did not go back to this church because I was so skeptical of whether it was legitimate. Well I went to the night service, 608 that starts at 6:08 and is directed towards college students. Tonight was different, I did still feel like I was at a concert for times, but less so this time. At the end of the service, he offered the invitation to become baptized. There were sooooo many people that went down.

This is the point when I questioned myself.
I asked, do these people really understand or do they just want an easy way out that is going to feel good? Will they continue their old ways or will they sincerely begin to change? Then another thought popped in my head. Who was I to judge or worry about their lives. Am I doing things that God approves of or was I one of the closet Christians, only coming out when it was convenient. It just really hit me that even if they are doing it because it feels right for the moment so what? Even if they didn't change and really try to do better, then when times got tough down the road, at least they would have this memory to look back upon and remember how good it felt to be loved by God. I guess that's pretty much all I wanted to say, I wanted to challenge people (or the person haha) that reads this to try not to judge whether people are doing right in their lives. Who cares, God is going to work in all different ways and it's not our place to come out and tell them when they are and aren't doing God's will. Only they know that and we should just let it be.

Learnin

enjoy. IT was kind of like our fall talent show.

Just another day at Asbury

Typically on Friday afternoons, college students are unwinding and getting ready for weekend football. In Wilmore, people are puffing up their foam swords and preparing for all out warfare. This is the Unofficial Asbury Extreme Sword Fighting Group. I just saw these guys and girls out there and decided to share the experience.

Old Friend

First, last night I said I was going to write another blog right after, but I luckily got to talk to a friend that I haven't talked to in a long time. His story is interesting. He started out as a troubled guy, rough home life, and then he was married and had one little girl with his wife. After a while they began to come to our church. Well as it turned out, Brian, my friend decided that he was going to go back to college. He started back at school and also discovered that he was called to the ministry.
After a while, school got tough and a lot of things started sparking up in his home. His wife left him, I'm really not sure what all happened but things got bad. Then later probably a year or two ago, I found out that they had gotten a divorce and she remarried. He ran from God and he tried to commit suicide. The police came and he wound up in an insane asylum. He wasn't truly crazy or anything, but he was definitely unstable.
Anyway, I was talking to him last night, he randomly logged onto msn messenger. We began talking about his life things in my life also. We each talked about our relationships with God and how they were lacking right now for sure. He also expressed a lot of embarrassment from his previous experiences with suicide and being locked up. I tried to help him out and tell him that people still cared about him and that he should just start interacting with people again. Any advice you think I should give him???

The Motivation to Be Motivated

It is strange to me how strong my feelings can be at times. Some days I want to do nothing but achieve the goals in my life. Then others I only want to do absolutely nothing. I understand that we as humans need rest, but I just wish there was a way for it to not feel so useless.

When I take these "days off" from my goals, all other things just sort of lose their value that they once had. I want to always be on the HIGH and never on the LOW does that make sense? If not then I'm sorry. The great thing is that every time I get into one of these, do nothing moods, I always bounce back from them. I go back to doing the things I know I have to do in order to keep my life going in the right direction. That's all I have for now, I may right another blog after this one just because I feel like writing tonight. peace.

Blog video numero dos!

Let me start off this blog by combining another story i wanted to share. I have been looking at getting another car for a while now. Well thanks to the great Facebook Marketplace, I have a local place to look while I'm sitting in Old Testament. I found a yellow ford ranger the other day and in the listed, the seller noted he wanted to trade. I messaged him and he responded back. We talked a little about what each of us wanted and what do you know, tomorrow we are switching trucks to test them out. Both vehicles are from the great year of 1995, but his has 175,000 miles and mine only has 100,100. So we'll see how this works out. Mine is also valued at a higher price, but i'm pretty sure his is in better condition. Anyway enjoy the rain blog.

Joey suggested that with my new web cam that I start doing some video blogs. This is my first. Pretty much i just wanted to do a video blog so I apologize if it's not interesting or stupid. Enjoy.

Money and Tennis

I was thinking today that I need to make some money. My spending lifestyle is definitely out weighing my working lifestyle. Next semester I would like to work somewhere just to get some extra money. That way I won't feel so bad about spending money.

...by the way i'm in Old Testament writing this and someone was reading and I was typing really loud....Awkward...


Anyway, I also am taking 16 hours next semester. I'm in class on mwf just in chapel (10-11), SPN 102 (12-1), and Philosophy from 1-2. TR (that means TUESDAY and Thursday haha), I have Persuasion from 9:25 -10:40, Western Classics from 12:45-2:00 and Intro to Leadership from 2:00-3:25. Then I will also have piano lessons sometime in there too.

The Here and Now

So this week I have 4 tests. The two following weeks I have two more tests. Today I realized, man things are not going to slow down or wait for me to catch up. I better get on the bus and get going with my schoolwork.

So here I am studying about themes, irony, point of view, and drama and realizing that I should be thankful for the hard work that I am given. Even though it's tough, it's a good kind of tough. Something I should look back on and be proud of. So, this is kind of like an inspiration for me to
DO WORK!