Tomlin Mania

Chris Tomlin has a new CD out titled "Arriving," and if I must say....It is completely fabulous. Drop everything, run out right now and buy it. You will not regret it.
And to top it off...Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman, and Casting Crowns are playing in Sacramento, CA in two weeks. I am so there...

Dream maker

Darlene Zschech has a new song out called "Kiss of Heaven" that I love. The chorus of the song goes a little something like this:
My Jesus, dream maker;
My Jesus, life giver.
I'm livin' under the kiss of heaven ,
and I'll never, ever be the same again.
Those words mean a lot to me in this moment. Jesus is the maker of my dreams...all these secret longings I keep locked away in my heart have an Author. Perhaps this relevation will give me the courage to act on some of them. Thanks, Darlene.

the end...

I am sitting here at my desk at MCC for the last time today. I have a box for my computer waiting to be filled, and a camera to capture some last memories on film. It went too fast, and I wish I didn't have to go. sigh.

A day in the port.

So today Lindy, Stephanie and I went to Portsmouth to have some lunch and walk around the downtown area. It was in all respects, a good time. The weather was fantastic, the food was good. The only problem was I was extremely tired. More than usual. I was at that tired point where talking is too much of a task so you just think things in your head and wish that people could hear your thoughts so you didn't have to speak. Anyway, this guy approaches us on the street with a discman and tells us that he wants a moment of our time to promote his band. I was yelling at him in my head saying, "No I don't want to listen to your garage band and put those dirty headphones on my ears! GROSS." But instead, all i did was stare dumbly. Unfortunately at the time, it was about all I could manage. Stephanie finally said that we were in a hurry and couldn't listen to his discman. After we got into the car I promptly fell into one of those tortured sleeps where you have all these crazy dreams where weird things happen to you. So except for the crazy band member and the tortured sleep, I call the afternoon in Portsmouth a success.

ugh

so i have been avoiding something all semester: finishing speech class. I never took speech, and I found myself a senior and in desperate need of those credit hours. so what do i do? I take the proficiency test. I pass the proficiency test.However, you also have to write 2 five minutes speeches and video tape yourself delivering them. Oh joy of all joys. Well, guess what. I haven't done that yet. And I find myself sitting here at my computer thinking: "I don't want to do this, I don't want to do this." I hate writing speeches...why do you think I avoided taking the class? At any rate, I want to graduate in twenty five days more than I abhore writing these ridiculous speeches. So alas, here I go.

Family Fun

Ok, it's been a long while since I have had anything to say. Actually, I check my blog and others often, it is just usually by the time I am done reading everyone else's blogs I have lost the motivation to update my own. Ah well....
Anyway, this last week my Dad was here to visit me in Manchester. I was really thankful that he got to come visit and be here for Easter, and get the opportunity to see where I have been living and working for the last three months. We traveled all around the central Vermont area visiting old family friends and relatives (i'm originally from Vermont). It was a good chance to visit people that I only get to see every few years.
Speaking of my Dad: He's is a gifted engineer and mechanic. He's a real "meat and potatos" kind of guy. He can fix anything, take anything apart and put it back together, he loves to build things. Well, last week I took him to Pickety Place for lunch. Pickety Place is a quaint restaraunt in NH that serves five course gourmet lunches. They grow all their own herbs, everything is made from scratch and is very tastey. So the waitress comes out with our entree and starts to explain what the different herbs on the plate are (they give you several sprigs of different kinds of herbs to season your food to your liking). The waitress leaves and my dad promptly removes all the herbs and says, "I don't eat shrubs." Now despite the fact that my dad is at home knee deep in grease and car oil he also possess a lot of class. So to hear him mumble, "I don't eat shrubs" was a bit of shock. Although a funny one. Only my Dad would associate "shrubs" with gourmet food. Ah, I love my Dad! (by the way, he really did like the food!)

Video Rental Mayhem

Why, why, why do people ever think that going to the video store with a large group of people will ever result in something good? I am here to tell you right now, that it absolutely cannot. Inevitalbly this is what happens: We wander around for a good twenty minutes picking up every video case, reading the back, and saying to one of our many friends in attendance, "hey, how about this one?" When the person says "no, i happen not to like that movie", then the process is repeated with another title from the shelf. This is a vicious cycle...and I beg all of you to help stop it! It is impossible to get in and get out of the video store in less than twenty minutes. Almost no one leaves completely satisfied....and it is just more than I can handle some days. Please people, when you are driving past the video store with a group of people and feel the urge to stop...Just say NO!

Signs of Spring!

It has been a long winter, and I am definately ready for some different weather. Thankfully, today there were some signs of spring! Prepare yourself...I am actually wearing my flip flops and I haven't gotten frostbite on my toes. I hate wearing socks and tennis shoes and only do so when I absolutely have to. So, I must say that my spirits were lifted simply because I could cast away my socks and wear some summer footwear. Sometimes the simple things in life bring the most pleasure.

Bessie

My car's name is Bessie. She is a blue 1989 Subaru GL and has served me faithfully for nearly seven years now. Recently, Bessie and I were in an accident together. It was snowing and I drove through some slush, starting spinning and careened off the road nose down into a ravine/creek. It was not a good day. Thankfully, both Bessie and I escaped with our lives. Needless to say, I now have some serious apprehensions about driving in the snow. Call it fear, call it post-tramautic stress syndrome, call it being a chicken...whatever. Point is, whenever it snows and I know there is a remote possibility that I am going to have to drive somewhere I break out into a cold sweat, my heart pounds and i near the hyperventilating stage. And being as I am now living in New Hampshire it is something I seriously need to get over. Case in point: Last tuesday we got a mini-snow storm. Not really much snow to speak of, but it was snowing fairly heavily on tuesday night. Well, Lindy and Kelly decided it would be great to go sledding. I whole-hearted agree with sledding. There is nothing more American than a bunch of youn'ins outdoors in the snow all decked out in hats and mittens and scarfs. It screams Kodak moment. However, on this particular evening i was going to be required to drive myself to Kelly's house. Cue heart pounding and hyperventilation. However, I was persuaded (more like guilt-tripped) into agreeing to drive over if I took my roommate stephanie along with me. I figured if I was gonna carreen off the road and die, I was absolutely taking someone with me. So, I drove 25 miles an hour on the interstate, white knuckled and tense the whole way...But alas...I made it! Score one for Bessie. So what is the moral of my story? Don't spin off the road and almost kill yourself and you won't be scared to drive in the snow later.

My first blog!

I would like to start by giving a big shout out to Lindy, who finally gave me the shove I needed to enter into the mighty world of blogging. I have been saying for weeks now, "gee i should really start a blog site..." However, it was lindy who finally surprised me by starting the site for me! Thanks lindy!

Just the Beginning

We can change anything you don't like about your new blog. Or, we can have Lucas change anything you don't like about your new blog.

~Lindy