living rightly

(October 2009)


Number 1 - I've been running for just about three months. I've lost 12ish pounds, and that's with about two weeks of break (thank you finals and foot injury), and the total amount of weight loss is shy of 30 pounds. When I say that it feels like I'm robbing people of some false hope - like the weight just melts away, when in reality I feel just the same as I did a year and some months ago.

I needed to end this, I went on a hunt and I compared pictures.
(April/May 2011)
You probably can't notice it, but I can. It feels good, but I'm only far from done.

It's kindof like that saying about still running in the forest or something crazy like that.

Number 2 - The reality that this is the last summer I hold until I am done with my undergrad it scary. I'm looking at grad schools all over the nation, I'm not afraid to go anywhere, but the more I think about it the more I am. I would love to study in New England, or the West Coast, and it would be so much fun, but how would I feel okay? I wouldn't have any friends or family around me, and I would not know what to do with myself. But - life is full of opportunities and there is a world out there that is yet to be discovered. What will I do to make money? Where will I study? What will I study? How will I pay for it?! so.many.questions, and so much time to answer them. Sometimes, it's just that effort to go forth and make it happen.

The Idea of Waiting For Something Makes it More Exciting

I'm making it happen.

lala la la light

My loan went through today. On a Saturday! I jumped in my seat and said, oh hold mom I have to do financial check-in. Asap!

So I did, and it's official. PTL

My running shoes still HAVEN'T come in. I'm giving that e-bayer a negative feedback, so hard she's going to feel it all the way in New Jersey.

I'm sick of not running, so I'm going out in my beat up shoes here in a second.

I need to stop thinking about it because it makes me so mad, that I feel my skin starts to boil

here's to praying that my loan will go through in the next ten days

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle..

2008 - the year our economy took a sharp fall. The stock market significantly fell, jobs were lost and families became frightened. My family was one of them, if not at first, definitely now. Not only my mom, but my aunts, grandmothers and everyone in between. I've been earnestly praying and today my mom got a job interview to be a property manager in Newark! If she gets it, then we'll be okay

Displaying generosity in this time is not the easiest thing to do, but God's generosity to me could never be easy in any circumstance.

Proverbs 11:24-25

Boscov's Tea Party

Boscov's is such an old lady store, and I went today.

But more importantly I went to a tea party for a three year old. We didn't get the memo but everyone else was dressed in floral dresses and big sun hats. It was cute and I ate a cucumber sandwich...

step

- What do you worry about and obsess over?

- What do you use to comfort yourself with?

- What preoccupies you?

-What do you think about throughout the day?

- From where do you draw self-worth?

-What is your identity?

- What is the first thing you want people to know about you?

- What is the greatest thing you want out of life?

- What things in life would you not be willing to give up if God asked you?

This was asked at the church I freshly attend at school. ANSWER TRUTHFULLY, and in your heart.

I hope you have found a friend.

Trips to DC, 10 Ks, photoshoots, Some best friends, and exclusiveness. This all equals one of the best school years. Ever.

And now I get to go back, thank you sweet Jesus! :* Thank you friends for all of the memories. You are all amazing and am so grateful for you.