what is my "bloggone" problem?

i know this is not something you're supposed to admit, but...

don't you just love those times when you're calling someone and you are just hoping, hoping, hopppiiiinnng that it will go to voice mail...and it does?

8 ) my new favorite smiley.

in other news i am going to take a couple of classes part time this semester at Durham Tech...whoop whoop... i was so excited because today i made a 95/100 on my reading placement test and a 99/100 on my writing placement test! my math score will remain undisclosed ;)

this week will be semi busy as i am preparing to leave for the Dominican Republic on August 1st. i've been planning a trip for about 25 people for the last few months now. i am so surprised at where the Lord has taken my life. are you where you thought you would be a year ago? 5 years ago? 10 years ago? i know i'm not. no, i'm not disappointed...my life is in the Lord's hands, i am His handmaiden, He can take me where he wants to take me. 5 years ago i was convinced that i'd be in some 3rd world foreign nation as a missionary. my heart still longs for that, although i'm not sure that's where God will send me long-term anywhere in the next couple of years. my heart still longs for it though. oh, just to be with the poorest or the poor, the brokenest of the broken. so what if i have only a couple of outfits to wear? so what if they're ordinary? so what if i only eat rice everyday? so what if i'm hot? so what if i'm cold? so what if i have no bed? so what if no one knows about it? Lord, please help me to give my life away even now. to the poorest of the poor here. to the brokenest of the broken here. the orphaned teenagers...left to let society and MTV raise them. God, help me to love my own fatherless generation. help me to give my life for my own fatherless generation. wherever you will have me be, i'll be, i'll give my life for the glory of Christ.

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well that got a little more emotional than intended. but, i'll keep it. it's raw. and yes i realized my grammatical error in "brokenest". that will stay too.

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PS- I LOVE WAFFLE HOUSE AND I'M NOT ASHAMED TO SAY IT :)

PPS-have you read The Shack? what did you think? i actually liked it for what it was. it definitely ministered to me in some ways. i would have to say one of my favorite quotes is, "I am especially fond of you," said by Papa. i could cry thinking about it. God says to us... "I am especially fond of you." wow

blogging for dummies!!!

Sooooooooo....one of my good friends got me this fantastic book for my birthday. I am pumped! Believe it or not, I seriously love blogging and [sometimes] reading other people's blogs. Yes, I did say [sometimes]. Mainly because some people's posts are just way too long. At the same time though, I will say that there are some people who I enjoy reading lengthy posts from and wish would write more. Not too many of them though. Most of my blogging friends do a great job at making an entertaining post. Unfortunately, I don't have as many friends who blog as I would like. Maybe I can change that. Especially with my new book. ;)

In other news, I am apparently a night owl. It is 4am and I am going strong. Is this normal? Maybe for a New Yorker with a booming social life. I live in North Carolina and I don't know how to describe my social life...

I'll let you know how the book goes...hopefully it'll transform me into the blogger of all bloggers...hopefully. Until then...