greasy hair

I'm sure you all want to know that my hair is pretty greasy right now. It happens quite often since me taking a shower doesn't happen really often.
That's not really what this post is about, though. I just want to tell you about today. It wasn't anythign fantastic but good enough to write about.
1. Woke up and went to work. did work for the first little bit. had about 15 customers all day. I crocheted a hat at work. I also finished the book Jesus Wants to Save Christians (something like that) by Rob Bell. I played some guitar, read the Bible and did some homework type of stuff also. fairly productive work day.
2. Came home and ate and jammed with Matt Martin, Chris Cadogan, Tim Novak. talked to Aaron Klenke for a while...good talk about God and life.
3. Hot dogs. For those who don't know, we give out free hot dogs and sometimes, such as tonight, free hot chocolate at our house on Saturday nights. tonight was the last Hot Dogs night of the season due to the weather and such. we also usually have lightening going on during hot dogs. tonight I ended up playing about 3 hours of lightening, from 10 when hot dogs started until about 1 after we ran out of hot dogs. It was a good night and I met some sweet people. A few might be coming over for dinner in the near future.
Well, that's about it. I am pretty exhausted. I am about to go to sleep. church tomorrow. sweet. adios.

School Work?

Tonight I am realizing how little work I have put into school this semester. I have a project due tomorrow and I am having a hard time finishing it. I just spent about 2 hours on it and expect to have about 1 or 2 more hours of work to be done, but I am feeling like I have worked all day on it or something. Just because I haven't really worked on anything this semester.
One thing i have worked on is spanish homework, but I always put that off until the day before all of the chapter assignments are due. So that does take quite a bit of time, but I guess this is just different. It is the first real paper I have had to write. I have written a couple of spanish compositions but they were short and in spanish so they weren't too bad.
Anyway, I am kind of taking a break/procrastinating on the last part of this project. The project really isn't too bad. I just have a couple more pages of writing.
Now, I am going to visit Kassie. In my defense, I will not really able to see her this weekend because she is busy tomorrow after His House and then is leaving for the weekend.
Anyway, I will get the project done and it won't be too bad, but also not fun and I really ready tobe done with school. I hope my classes next semester don't require much work.

Crazy Day

I don't normally work on Mondays, but I worked today because nobody else could or something, and I had time from 11 30 to 6, so that is when I worked. I had class from 10-11, work, cook, eat, clean, devos, ... (I'll get to that later).
So, I am pretty sure Mondays are the days for everybody to ask for April (my boss) or ask hard questions that need to be referred to April or somebody who knows, or to ask questions that would be difficult for anybody to asnwer.
One of the questions was a lady asking if we had a book about miracles with a dog in sunglasses on the front cover. I asked her about the title or author and she said she didn't really know but maybe the title has the word Angel in it. Well, I tried the best I could to make it seem like that was a perfectly fine request, when really, unless I would have known what book she was talking about, there wasn't much of a way to find it. Then after I told her I don't think we have it, she started reminiscing about a dog she had that she believes saved her life, and I didn't really know how to respond to this unexpected monologue. Needless to say, work was interesting and somewhat frustrating.
Then I came home after picking up sour cream for dinner and Joe V.(my cooking partner) had all the cooking stuff under control and it went smoothly and we had a good dinner. After dinner, Grant helped wash dishes, which was very nice, and then we had devos.
Devos was a good time. We did an inductive Bible study on 1 Thess and split up into groups of three to discuss. We had some good discussion about love and encouragement and living a Godly life and such and after praying and ending devos we all beseiged the women's house with our marshmallow guns.
All was going well with good times being had on both sides until Katie Bennett stole my bag of ammo (marshmallows). I was chasing her to get them back and she tripped or something and I basically ended up tackling her into the island in her kitchen. She hit her head and went down. Needless to say I felt really bad, but she seemed to be doing fine after a few minutes. Then, after the battle had wound down and we were cleaning up, she started having problems. I don't know exactly what happened but it got pretty scary for a while and she was taken to the hospital. She is doing fine now and is staying at the hospital overnight just to make sure. Praise God for his healing and also for his comfort and goodness in our time of need. I can't say I am glad this happened, but I am glad God was able to use it to teach me things and bring me closer to him. Anyway, it was really scary, but God was definitely present through it all, as he will always be.
On a completely different note, Kassie and I are "dating". It basically happened Wednesday when I told her how I felt about her and she reciprocated. She was gone for the weekend, and we talked again tonight and made it more official or something (not referring to putting it on facebook).
God is awesome! Life is crazy, but God is there at every turn.

It is in the master plan...

The title of this post comes from Derek Collard. He was talking to Stephen about something they are planning on doing for this weekend and Stephen said something about what if it isn't in the master plan. Derek authoritatively stated, "It IS in the master plan."
Anyway, one thing I am learning about the master plan is that my mind has alot to get rid of. I mean, I know God has everything under control and I don't need to worry about anything and I just need to seek him and he will guide me and all of that good stuff, but when the rubber meets the road, I don't usually remember to live like that.
It's like when you prepare for a speech and know it all but then you go in front of everybody and don't recall anything.
For some reason, that reminded me of a video on Youtube called 8 reasons I don't share my faith, or something like that. It is pretty funny and we are going to be watching it as part of house devos tonight.
Anyway, God is teaching me some things and reminding me of some things, but I am a slow learner. HE is patient. I just need to be patient, too. It's some good stuff.
Life is pretty good. Trying not to be "busy".
In fact, I think I am going to take some time to rest now before I need to get dinner started.

Reboot

My computer is slow. It was especially slow earlier today because I had it running for several days without shutting it down and with how full it is to begin with it can't handle being on for too long. What I really need to do to make it go faster is to get a bunch of junk off of it. Alot of it is good and necessary junk. I have stuff for classes, many photos, music, etc. But it is all slowing my computer down. So I need an external hard drive or something.
This is what I feel like God is doing in my life. I feel like I haven't been running at the speed God wants me to. I haven't been chasing him and living for him the way he wants me to because I have filled my life with all of these other things. These other things are good in some cases but they are taking focus off of him or just not allowing me to go through what I need to go through with him. The good things that seem to be Godly are at this point distracting me from what God really wants for me. I think the thing that started this was the band thing. That was kind of the first straw, when God made me give up something great to make me realize that he is so much better. Anyway, I don't know exactly what this looks like and I don't think I will completely understand it for a while. I don't really want to understand it. I just want God to take over. I am excited about what is happening and I am hoping to go on a honeymoon with God over Christmas break. I don't know where or for how long but I just need to get away with him.
I would appreciate your prayers. Also, expect some changes. It might not happen fast but change is coming.

Explanations

What does licorice have to do with woodenness? Well, as Kelsey pointed out in her comment, wooden licorice is also wooden. Licorice, also as kelsey pointed out and i was thinking when I wrote the title, is a weird word. in short, I am not sure why I titled the post licorice. I am not really sure I why I wrote the post in general.
second of all, I quit the band today. sad day. possibly overall happy, but i am not really feeling it. what i mean by that is I really thought it was God wanted and that made me happy for a very short period of time and now I am kind of frustrated and stuff. maybe I will explain more sometime when it is explained to me.

licorice

What do a wooden guitar and a wooden banjo guitar have in common?


They are both made of wood. So are wooden rocking chairs.