Small Things

As mentioned before life is a roller coaster and is full with highs and lows. We get distracted by change, busyness, the big things in life and over look the small things in life.....at least I do. I have a few small things this past week that have brighten my days! We ordered Wrestlemania 27 and I cannot wait for it! Throughout the country all week there have been press conferences, events, and news. I have been following it all closely wishing I was there for some of the events. On Sunday, Braden and I will be watching it, sporting our wrestling t-shirts and cheering for our favorites. Speaking of t-shirt, I ordered an Undertaker shirt this week and it is being delivered tomorrow! Tonight I watched my first live episode of Grey's Anatomy and it was tokened as Grey's Anatomy: The Music Event. It was pretty amazing! There were about 6-7 songs and they were all [except one] featured on the show in previous seasons during important moments of the storyline. I really liked how they linked the current episode [which featured a main character who was pregnant, in a bad accident] to previous songs, and to what was going on in the episode. I think it was a little rushed as it was only an hour, and it could off been extended to two hours. The episode also featured multiple actors/actresses singing which was pretty neat. The actress who plays the character who was in the accident, has gotten a Tony Award for singing on broadway! Oh the small things....

Roller Coaster Ride

Life is like a roller coaster! So much that a Christian band wrote a song called Ride of Life:

Stats

Over the past week or so I have had a lot of free time, so I started to explore this whole blogger thing. Tonight I was looking at the statistics tab and some interesting stuff. It breaks down what devices people have used to look at your blog, what internet software that has been used, and the pageviews based on the country that person is in. Here are my stats: Pageviews by Countries:

• US - 905


• Japan - 20


• Denmark - 14


• Russia - 13


• China - 10


• Canada - 7


• Poland - 5


• Netherlands - 3


• Sweden - 3


• Singapore - 3

Pageviews by Browsers:

• Internet Explorer - 675 (67%)


• Firefox - 157 (15%)


• Chrome - 80 (8%)


• Safari - 50 (5%)


• Opera - 13 (1%)


• Mobile - 11 (1%)


• Java - 4 (<1%)

Pageviews by Operating Systems

• Windows - 918 (92%)


• Macintosh - 40 (4%)


• iPhone - 13 (1%)


• Other Unix - 7 (<1%)


• BlackBerry - 6 (<1%)


• Linux - 4 (<1%)


• iPod - 2 (<1%)


• iPad - 1 (<1%)

Pretty interesting....

Good times...

I haven't really talked about the funny moments from the DC trip, and believe me when I say that there are tons of them, but I would like to mention just one....my favorite one from the whole trip.

The train ride took roughly 19 hours one way to complete. On the way up there we were not prepared at all! The ride back though we decided to try something. Erin, Savannah, and me thought it would be a good idea to get some Tylenol PM to help us fall asleep. We got some at Union Station and boarded the train at around 6:30 PM. At around 8:30 PM Ainsley asked for some and then everybody started to ask for some. We had 13 people go with us and out of those 13, 7 of us took some of the drugs. Few of us didn't take ours until later but Erin, Ainsley, Morgan, and Zeb took it then. Erin decided she would try to fight it and Ainsley and her were hilarious.

Ainsley suggested that I take video of them, and anybody who knows me, knows that I jumped on that opportunity immediately. So I give you the two videos of them on Tylenol PM...

NOTE: This is raw, unedited video. What you see if the real thing.

Good times....

Nasty Cruddy Junk!

Pollen - yellow stuff that comes around every spring and messes with people's health and makes cars all look yellow!

Well folks [I have been around Dr. B too much] its that time of the year, when the pollen, like a legion of roman soldiers, attack humanity and make us all miserable! I was going strong against the attack but due to lack of sleep my defenses fell and it has taken over! I woke up this morning with a soar throat and it got worse as the day progressed. I took a two hour nap and now fixing me some soup.

After I eat and do a few things I'm going to take some Tylenol PM and go back to bed!

Stupid pollen!

Suspicious

Do you ever get that feeling that something is going on and it is clear that something is going on, but you don't know whats going on? [Wow..........could that been any more confusing????]

The point is that I have that feeling right now! I know of things happening and I believe they are related but I'm not sure how and no one is talking.

Yea.....just needed to express this.

Work

I'm not sure if I have posted anything about this on the blog before....so if I did, my bad...

About four weeks ago I put in my two week notice at the bookstore. There were several reasons on why I did this and there is no reason to mention those but they were pretty legit excuses! Overall it was time for a change. Well the two weeks passed and I came to my last day at work and I ended up working the whole day which is cool with me, one last big pay check before I leave. However my boss brought up a proposition that I couldn't pass. She offered that I still be an employee with the store but only work outside events [athletic events, USA day, etc]. I said yes!

So I am still employed with the bookstore but I pretty much choose the events I want to work, which is very nice. I have so much more free time than before and more time to work on school work [hence why I have been blogging so much]. If you look at it a certain way this was a promotion. In the store we get paid $7.25 but for outside events we get paid $7.74.....so I only work for $7.74 now :D I love loops holes!

I haven't worked in the past two weeks due to spring break and such but this week I am/have working the baseball, softball, and spring football games.

Yep, I must say that the work life is good...

New Show

One year ago my favorite TV show, Heroes ended after 4 seasons. Since then I have been searching for a new TV show to get into. I have watched a few episodes of The Cape, NCIS: Los Angeles, and others but nothing stuck with me. Not until a few weeks ago when I was looking for something to watch while working on case studies....

I pulled up netflix and looked at the TV shows that were available to play instantly and there it was.....Grey's Anatomy. I have heard so much about this show but never actually watched it. So I pulled it up and started to watch it. I am now half way through season 3.....lol.

I am not sure what it is about the show that attracts me. I like most of the characters but can't stand some of them [including the one that show is named after]. I don't like how it is predictable sometimes but then they throw a big twist which I do like. So yeah....this is my new show for now.

Will I buy all of the seasons? No. Will I continue to watch it until the end? Probably. Does it beat Heroes? No.

Wrestlemania 27

As so many have found out over recent weeks, I watch wrestling every week and I am not ashamed! I grew up with and I find it entertaining!

For 27 years the WWE has put on a pay-per-view called Wrestlemania. I have never watched this huge event [lasts about 3 hours] but that all changes this year! Braden and me are going to watch Wrestlemania 27 and I am very excited! There are some great matches lined up thus far.

To start off, the event being hosted by the Rock who returned after a 7 year break from the WWE. Here is the current list of matches:

The Miz vs John Cena - WWE Championship [kind of looking forward to this]

Alberto De Rio vs Edge - World Heavyweight Championship [I can't stand Rio.....Edge I like]

HHH vs The Undertaker - Streak [This is the match I'm looking forward to the most!!!!]

Jerry "The King" Lawler vs Michael Cole - Singles Match w/ Stone Cold as guest referee [I'm going to watch this only because of Stone Cold]

Randy Orton vs CM Punk - Singles Match [I love Orton and can't stand Punk]

Rey Mysterio vs Cody Rhodes - Singles Match [who cares about this match???]

Wrestlemania 27 takes place on April 3rd and I am couting down the days!!!

Spring Break 2011: Washington, DC

This past week was Spring Break for South and I spent the week in Washington, DC on a mission trip with the BCM. It was a unique experience and very different mission trip...

We left last Friday (3/11) and headed up to Tuscaloosa, AL and spent the night there and then caught the Amtrak train to DC. The train ride was interesting and my first train ride. It took roughly 18 hours to get to DC and we were all ready to get off of the train. We stayed in Georgetown [which is a fancy place and part of DC] at Georgetown Baptist Church. Saturday night we just chilled and picked our prayer partners for the week by random drawing.

Sunday we started out by prayer walking around the church for the community to seek God through a church and to let people know that Georgetown Baptist was there for them. We also handed out magnets for the church when we got a chance. We then went to George Washington University and prayer walked around the campus. The university is close to the National Mall so we went there and saw some monuments: Lincoln, Washington, Vietnam Memorials.

Monday through Thursday we did more prayer walking around Georgetown and Georgetown University. We also worked with the Georgetown Homeless organization and made sandwiches for the homeless and helped pass them out. In Montgomery, MD we went to an organization called "Manna" which is a food bank for the needy. Braden and me helped distribute the food while the others went through canned goods and organized them. It was estimated that we all moved around 1,000 lbs. of food. The people at the organization were blown away by how much food we moved. We also cleaned up the church we were staying at.

Throughout the week we also visited the Capitol, Supreme Court, Library of Congress, and saw the White House.

This was a different mission trip because it focused on prayer and not really service. We spent hours praying for the community, the church, and the DC area. Our goal was to help build up the community and to let the community know that the church was there or them. We tried to be effective in building relationships with people and to show that the church cares for them. We did do the two service projects but that was it service wise.

I enjoyed this mission trip and I am glad that Jerrod opened our eyes to the different types of missions. Thanks Jerrod!

Spring Break 2011

As of right now (Thursday Night 3/10/2011 @ 11:09 PM) I am semi-on spring break! However by the time most of you read this I will be fully on Spring Break! I have finished all projects, papers, and tests! All I have left is my 8 AM [yea....8 am....] class Hydrology and then I'm free for a whole week! My mind is already on spring break and is not doing/thinking about anything school related until I come back!

Where am I going you ask? Well...

I am going to Washington DC on a mission trip with 14 other people from the BCM here at South! We leave tomorrow [Friday] to drive up to Birmingham area to get on a train on Saturday and ride 19 hrs to DC. We return Sunday March 20th!

Please be in prayer for this mission trip as we go and do community service with a church up there and around DC.

Also please be in prayer or another group from the BCM going on a mission trip to Ireland!

Thanks!

Another post will come later about the trip!

Until next time...

Friends

The past few weeks have been very interesting. I have had SeCAPS, three tests, a briefing, paper to write, and case studies to do all at the same time. Yes....very interesting and very busy.


It is beginning to slow down a little bit but not really. On top of all the school work and craziness with SeCAPS [which will get its own blog post eventually], my friends have had some tough past few weeks. Obviously I'm not going to go into details because that is gossip.

Friendships are a great things and I believe that we couldn't live day to day without friends. I love my friends to death and it brings me great joy that they can come to me and talk things out with.


I hate to see my friends hurt in any way as it breaks my heart! However when we are hurt by a friend we most of the time jump to hatred.....its human nature. I have learned one thing though that we as Christians are supposed to love even when our friends have hurt us.


I am reminded so many times of this verse:


Proverbs 17:17 "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."

So let's love our friends no matter what they have done to us. We are called to do that.