Exposing my thoughts to the world...

Yikes! :-P An-y-ways... I just have random things to say tonight.

1. I was gonna write a post after vacation talking about life and wondering what everyone will be doing in a year from now and blah blah blah... but I didn't, so that doesn't interest me as much anymore. :-P Except to say this, you are in control of your destiny and if you're unsatisfied with where you are in life...I believe you can change it if you try. I certainly am!


B. On vacation I got to go to the Hudsonville fair a lot! If you're unaware, I did 4-H for a few years in highschool with my goaty goat Aud and it was so much fun. Staying there all week to get ready for the show and hanging out with friends and going to the other livestock shows... good times! I got to go pretty much twice a day for 3 days... a couple chore runs with Mrs. N and Marie, the two days of goat show, and catching the end of Supershowmanship and hanging out the last night. It was kind of weird going back... there were a lot of new people I didn't know and most of my crowd has been long gone... but there were a few people around I recognized. With them it was like I'd never been gone haha... "Oh hey you're here, how's it going?" It was really great spending time there, everything was basically the same as when I used to show (except for the 2 day goat show... I liked it all in one day better). But I'm kinda glad I didn't have to be there... I think I've moved on from that phase of life... but Laura and I talked about starting a 4-H club in many years if I move back up there and have a family. :-D

3. I love the beach! Drew and I went one afternoon and it was so nice. The sun and sand was hot and the water was refreshingly cool. However I seem to have gotten no color from the sun whatsoever, and we laid out there for about an hour. Oh well! At least I didn't get too much sun! I can't really remember the last time I really got sunburn though. Weird.


D. WAKE UP LISA, I'M TYPING THIS FOR YOU. Drew, if you're reading this you might want to skip over the next part. Or not, but you've been warned. :-P


5. Last night I was watching Say Yes to the Dress and on the commercials I was flipping to this show on BBC America entitled My Small Breasts and I. The title is a bit self-explanatory and it highlighted three women (in England) and their struggles with their bodies. One was afraid to even leave the house. At the end though only one of the women tried to change the way she looked (... you probably don't want to know how). Another did this phototherapy session (which actually sounds like a really cool technique for women with body image issues) and gained the confidence she lacked. The other considered implant surgery but after she openly talked about the way she looked with people she didn't feel the need anymore. Anyways it just struck me the lengths women would go to to make themselves more attractive to men and how it affects their self-images since I've never really had that particular issue *ahem*.

F. Drew, you can keep reading now. :-P

7. I've started reading this series by Lynn Austin called The Chronicles of the Kings. It's fiction based on King Hezekiah's reign (2 Chron. 29, among other places). Now... I'm wary of fiction based on the Bible but I really like these books. They're well written and as far as I can tell, pretty Biblically accurate. It's really cool because it really gives a new perspective and personalizes the things that happened during that time. It's one thing to read in the Bible about the cleansing of the temple and ridding the country of idolatry and preparing for invasions and everything... but sometimes it doesn't really sink in that these were people with struggles and doubts and lives and really the magnitude of what they had to accomplish. It also puts some of the prophesies of Isaiah and Hosea into a context (not sure if it's the exact contexts...) that really makes them real and really shows that they were people to listen to, because what they (well, really God) said was gonna happen!

H. Sometimes I just need to stop talking and trying to fix things and just give it all up to God! He's the only one who can change our hearts if we let Him.

9. Also, I'm halfway through the first season of Alias and I like it so far... it's interesting especially because she's a double agent along with her father... and crazy things just happen!

I. This has just been the weekend of weird eye-imagery... Elizabeth texted me a sentence in her book... "His eyes were the shade of blue on the Windows 95 screen." (Somehow I missed that when I read that book! haha...) and then today in my book I read "He slammed his eyes shut." I don't even wanna know how that works. :-P

I think that's everything of interest I had to say. You can go to bed now Lisa. :-D