Than GOD and Thank Mom!!

I wrote this post yesterday, the long version, I lost it, so now you get the short version. I went to church yesterday at fellowship - awesome service! Amazin gmusic, it was the group called the Newsboys - they totally rock! Anyway left that church to go the boys home, and my mom was riding with me. We get about half way there and I get pulled over by a friendly neighborhood police officer, um....well see, I was going 73 in a 55, I had no seatbelt on, no drivers licens on me, and my inspection sticker was out. Mom and I prayed, and I'm told Dad and Joseph prayed as they passed by us. The officer was very nice. He took my date of birth and my name. My mom told him "I'm her mother and I work for the Denton PD, if I'd have known she was speeding I would have told her stop" then in her sweet innocent voice she adds "she didn't mean to do it..." The officer starts talking to her at this point, I think he must have thought I still had my learners permit and that he needed to deal with my mommy, just kidding, it wasn't like that. He just asked her what she did for the Denton PD, they chit chatted. He went back to his car, came back to mine and asked for mom's police ID. She did not have it with her, but showed her pay stub. The officer looked at me and said "young lady, I'm gonna let you go with a waring, you have several serious violations here...consider this your lucky day, I'm gonna let you go thanks to her" and he points at my mom. He then said "and when you get where your going you give her a big hug and a big thank you" I said, "yes sir" and hugged my momma right then and there.

So - Thank God for the favor, and thank you mom for being mom!!

Awe Man

I wrote a big long post and it's gone....I'm too tired to re-writeit, I will do tomorrow mom. Don't be mad(hee hee).

The music stopped...

and the auctioneer said, in a voice that was quiet and low, who's got a bid on this old violin and he held it up with the bow. He said one give me one thousand who'll make it two, only two thousand, who'll make it three, three thousand twice, now that's a nice price, now who's got a bid for me. The people called out what made the change, we don't understand, and the auctioneer stopped and he said with a smile...It was the touch of the master's hand.

I love that song....I'd cite it, but I don't know who sings, guess I could stop being lazy and look it up. I did have a point though. I was driving down the road today, and looked outside, it was beautiful, the sky was so blue and the clouds so white, just gorgeous. The grass and trees were so green, and the sun was shining, you couldn't ask for a more beautiful day....and what popped into my mind, was "the touch of the master's hand"...and of course, if you know me at all, you have to know that just about everything reminds me of a song, and of course, I started singing it...out loud in the car. As I was singing it and looking out the window noticing all the beauty, I thought about how often it is that we don't look around us at what God has made, that we don't take time to appreciate his perfect gifts, that we take so many little things for granted. I had to ask for forgiveness....I did. I'm so glad God loves me.

Tu-Pac has been resurrected!

Introducing Thedore "Tu-Pac" Ruxpin

yadi yadi ya....

Couldn't think of a good title, and since I'm just gonna ramble anyway I thought yadi yadi ya was good enough. I got my grade from my class I made a C - WOO HOO! No more Statics and Dynamics!!! This replaced my F, and brought my GPA back up where it needed to be and all is well. I found out this week my work is going to pay for my school, and that's a relief. I gota new little doggie - I've had him now for 3 days, he is the most adorable little thing. His name is Theodore Tu-Pac Ruxpin, thing is, I'm not gonna keep him. He is too sweet and too little to leave home alone all day, so he is going this weekend to live with my wonderful Aunt Jan in Oklahoma City. His sister lives there already and I think he misses her. I'll miss him - I've started getting attached already even though I told myself not to. What else? let's see, I've decided to take classes at both a junior college (Tarrant County Community College) and UTA this next semester, it will be cheaper and I'm hoping a little easier on me. I start back to school on Monday and I am so NOT looking forward to it, but it is what it is. I bought a battery a couple of weeks ago and it was in the back of my car - it leaked, and ruined the carpet in my bling, I was not very happy, but I bought the battery at Walmart - and they are supposed to assume responsibility and fix it! Say a prayer that works out! I went to lunch with one of my really good friends yesterday, we had such a good time, and she bought my lunch! I'm still having a bit of lunch luck lately! how cool is that? I am at work right now on hold with our ISP because my e-mail will not work, it says I have an invalid username or password! I didn't change it though - we'll see what's up with that....that's all my rambling for now....yadi yad ya!!

Sunday Evening

It's Sunday evening and I'm sittin around, playin my guitar. I don't really have much to say, but my momma's always getting on me for not posting, so I'm posting, I'm posting!!

This morning I went to church at fellowshipchurch.com in Grapevine, it was a totally awesome service - I hadn't been in a little while (to this church) and almost didn't go this morning - when I laid back down to try to sleep some more I knew I would regret it, so I got my lazy butt out of bed, took a shower, and rushed off to church. I got there right at starting time, and my wonderful parents and friend were all there, and they saved me a seat. How nice is that? The music was great, the message was about "authority issues' which is always something good for me to hear - I'm not sayin I got a problem with authority, but a little reminder here and there is good for me on occassion.

After that service, my mom got in the car with me, and we rode to the boys' home together. I love my mom, and I loved getting to spend that time with her today - just talkin...oh - and of course I was speeding cuz by the tie we got out of the parking lot, we only had 15 minutes to make the 30 minute drive, we made it in 20. Mom never even said anything about my driving - of course she knew I was under convictio, being that the preacher had just talked about authority and even included traffic laws in his sermon....sometimes I'm hard headed. I remember one time our preacher talked about how terrible it was to have christian bumper stickers on your car, then be speeding and breaking the laws of the land....I decided to take the bumper stickers off. Not Really! I didn't have any.....but it was my first thought. Isn't that terrible? You would think I would have been convicted to obey the laws - I tell ya - I truly do have a sinful nature - thank God I am covered in the blood of Jesus, (and yes I will do my best to start obeying, now that I have said this all outloud...I mean written it in my blog...I'm feeling a little convicted) So - I'll let you know how it goes - tomorrow will be the test, I'm going to Oklahoma with mo, I bet she'll let me drive - and she's got a hemi! Arr...Arrr!!

On another note, I talked to both my brother and my sister today, what a wonderful thing that is, I love them both, and it's very rare I get to see or talk to them, so that was extra specially nice!

I hung out some with one of my friends, cleaned my apartment, figured out what I'm gonna wear tomorrow, sent a few e-mails, talked to a really good friend on the phone, read all of your blogs, and now I'm posting this, that's about it in a nutshell- ok - maybe that was more like an egg shell (size wise I mean)........goin to bed now- G'Night!

Ya know what makes me sick?

When I was 15 I started working at this packaging company, each day of the week we listened to a different radio station - well on Mondays it was always the same country station, on Tuesdays it was the oldies staion and so on - you get the point. Well - I remember Mondays - early in the morning - there was this bit they did on the radio - where this guy really country cowboy would come on and say "Ya know what makes me sick?" - then he would proceed to tell some outrageous tale - mostly about...oh, how to put it politely.....um.....well - red neck stories (hope I don't offend). Anyway - whenever I want tell a story of something someone did that bothered me or just something that bothers me in general - that always comes to mind.."Ya know what makes me sick?" and if I say it out loud I say it in that country tone and people look at me like I've got toes on my forehead.....anyway...Ya know what makes me sick?....waiting for grades at the end of the semester, I hate that I never know what I made on my finals, I just have to wait for grades to be posted. Everythig is online, and some instructors get the grades posted early, so you can check online, but the thig about my school's site is that it is only available from 8:00 a.m to 10:00 p.m. - now that sounds like a reasonable anount of time, but it never fails that when I think about checking to see if my grade is posted that it is always before 8:00 a.m. or after 10:00 p.m. - for instance right now - I just checked - that's what got me started. Anyway, I'll let ya know how it went when I find out....Thanks for listening!

tagged? me?

1. What were three of the stupidest things you have done in your life?

-Ran away from home - I rode my bike, and took a change of clothes and a box of cereal in my backpack. I was planning to sleep under a bridge. I thought my mama didn't love me no more - she did though, I was being a total brat. Of course I came home the same day, but I scared my parents to death and I felt really bad for a really really long time. I still do when I think about it.

-One time I was driving down the highway (a long time ago) and I there were tons of trucks (you know, big 18 wheelers) going down the road, i decided to count them - so I was counting not paying attention to my driving, I hit the curb, and my car went spinning across the median and across the other side of the highway, I almost died of "freak out" since I didn't get hit or anything. I don't count things while driving anymore.

-swam in a creek/junkyard. When I was kid, my brother, sister and I used to go down to this creek like drainage area that had old cars and other junk people had dumped there, we woud dive off he junk into this nasty shallow water - we should all be dead.

2. At the current moment, who has the most influence in your life?

This is hard to answer. Christ has impacted me most, but if you want to know what Person has, let's see - I would have to say my mom - she's most amazing. Some friends too......

3. If you were given a time machine that functioned, and you were allowed to only pick up five people to dine with, who would you pick?

I would go back in time and get my grandpa (papa), my friend Tommy (he died a couple of years ago - he was so dear to me), Rosa Parks (I'd love to meet her), Ella Fitzgerald, so she could play me a tune on her saxophone, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

4. If you had three wishes that were not supernatural, what would they be?

- to have children (have, adopt, kidnap - whatever) JK on the kidnapping part!
- health and happiness for all of my family and friends
- to be done with school, and be working as an engineer

5. Someone is visiting your hometown/place where you live at the moment.

Name two things you regret your city not having, and two things people should avoid.

I can't think of anything my city doesn't have, except some of my friends and family, if they all moved closer - it'd be perfect

If you came to visit - you should avoid my apartment - it is a mess! and avoid IH-35 during rush hour!!! traffic is horrific!!

6. Name one event that has changed your life.

Having Brain Surgery

7. Tag 3 people.

Mom
Eddo
My third choice was Julie but msthang already tagged her - I have to think about the third - isn't that sad?