"Today is a great day for the race!... The human race!.. Okay, okay.."

I'm having a good Sunday..

I woke up earlier than normal, walked into the laundry room/kitchen... found some Mango Green Tea free for the taking, sat down with my blanket before getting ready to go to church and was able to spend a little time with my friend, Jesus.  There are just a handful of people that didn't go home for the long Presidents Day weekend or aren't on Women's Chorale choir tour so it's really quiet. I went to church by myself and sat by semi-strangers, listened to a challenging sermon, came back to the dorms and have been able to play on Photoshop and read my book...

Sometimes it's nice to just have a quiet day by yourself.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,  even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:  that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:  for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory.
Ephesians 2:4-9

Some could say that I'm writing in this because it's long overdue, some could say that I'm writing in this because I was asked to, some could say that I'm writing in this blog because I miss it... but I know the real reason... I'm bored.

You see, yesterday I came back home for a long weekend. This morning, I visitied the clinic and... got my wisdom teeth pullled!! Woohoo! It was really not as scary as I was imagining it. What made me the most calm is that I knew I wouldn't have to do anything for it. I just had to trust them, and they looked like they knew what they were doing. After finishing up finals for the J-term, it was a nice change not to have to worry about doing something right, or remembering anything. I just had to lie there. .. and sleep. Which I didn't mind because I was tired. Anyway

I got to see my X-ray... and I had all four of my wisdom teeth. The top two weren't a huge problem, but the bottom two were almost completely horizontal. It was crazy looking!

Oh yeah, this is me with my chipmunk face. I purposely didn't post a picture of how I look with two ice packs wrapped to my head with an ace bandage. Even you, dear Xanga friends, don't need to see that!! I've been told the ice packs look like huge batteries.. So that must mean that I'm kin to the Energizer Bunny. You may call me the Energetic Chipmunk. I wouldn't recommend using that as a new brand of batteries though... because if my ice packs are like the batteries.. you're going to need to change them often.


My first three thoughts when I woke up were:

1. That was a great nap! I feel so rested!
2. Am I done? (Then I felt the gauze with my tongue and knew that I was)
3. It's coold

I asked the nurse if I had said anything crazy, stupid, or otherwise and she told me I hadn't. I was disappointed because that means no cool stories. I was told by a couple friends (you know who you are!) to count down from 10 and see if I could make it all the way to 1 before I was knocked out. I made it down from 10 twice and started on the third before I decided I was done counting and wanted to just close my eyes and go to sleep. I will admit however that I was counting faster than the normal second to be able to make it all the way to 1. *wry smile*

So now I'm strictly on liquids until supper where I'll feast on Jello, scrambled eggs and hot cereal. Excuse me.. I'm need to go refill my beverage... oh yeah, I forgot. That's what younger siblings are for... *evil laugh*

Yes. For me, the Xanganite who hasn't posted forever and a day... has really missed it. I've tried keeping up with others' posts and have even left comments from time to time. But my voice has been lost for too long now, and I am determined to reclaim it.

I shall now hitherto forget the sentimentality of the previous paragraph and resume my normal intelligent ( )lingo.

Hey Everyone!



Much has happened since the last post.

Most exciting at the moment is the final preparations before heading to AFLBS in September. I've been doing a lot of job searching and applying recently. I might even be taking a trip to the cities here in the near future to get more options than the world wide web can offer me. Also, trying to do a lot of strategic budgeting has taken up lots of my time.

I started making a list a couple of days ago of the things that I needed to remember to bring and/or GET and bring. I got my registration packet in the mail about a week ago, so now I can register for all my classes! It's feeling pretty real now. Instead of 'I'm going to be studying the Bible!!' it's now 'I'm going to be studying, Genesis and Bible Doctrine, etc.!'

I thought I'd be finding out in the mail today which room I was in and who I was rooming with, but it didn't come. So.. tomorrow I'm hopin' it'll come. Yay! It's such an exciting time for me!

I found I have an addiction. Yes. Cutting my hair. It is altogether too much fun. Rachel, my talented cohort, is way too obliging. Love ya Rach!! Thanks!