This post will probably a slight waste of your life so you can't say I didn't warn you.


1. I looove this song! It's one of those I feel was written exactly for me... 
A Little Bit Stronger- Sara Evans


2. Birthday week was a complete blast! Pictures on Facebook... But just one little glimpse

3 cakes

3 trips to Sweet

Multiple dinners and lunches with sweet, sweet friends

A fun little trip to Cowboys 

Lots of thoughtful gifts (which means lots of Thank You cards)

And the Super Bowl capped off an exceptional week

3. Started new classes this week... Super excited about my Community Counseling class, super nervous about New Testament

4. I got my Orange County Library card today... I'm pretty stoked (and I know that makes me lame.)

Can you tell that I'll only be using it for educational purposes?

5. It's tax time, and I am stressed... I hate all the little forms and numbers and percentages and deadlines.  I really just want to live in a world without anything financial or cars. 

6. You should read the Beattitudes in the Message... so I'm going to write them here for you.  Seriously speaking to my heart and challenging me big time!

 ³"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

 ⁴"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
 ⁵"You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.
 ⁶"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.
 ⁷"You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'care-full,' you find yourselves cared for.
 ⁸"You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.
 ⁹"You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family.
 ¹⁰"You're blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God's kingdom.
 ^11-12"Not only that—count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable. You can be glad when that happens—give a cheer, even!—for though they don't like it, I do! And all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble."