3.31.2006

 

Rainy Mornings

Early mornings are beautiful. Especially when it's raining. I love sitting in the community room of 4th floor Southview in the mornings with a cup of steaming hot caffinated liquid, my Bible, my journal, my Tom, and just taking in the view of the soccer field. Today Tom saw a bunny rabbit taking cover from the wind and rain under the pine trees. It's great to be able to watch the storm and hear the rain and the thunder...although there wasn't any thunder this morning. And then, as I was heading to class and about to enter the classroom building, Heather Kooiman comes out with a beautiful chorus of words, "Super! Class is cancelled! Check your email for the details!" Dr. Christians apparently had plumbing problems at home...bummer. I always have mixed responses when I get emails about having classes cancelled because of problems the profs are having. In one way, I'm usually happy for the unexpected hour of freedom, but I feel bad for the prof having to deal with whatever problem they have, you know?

As much as I love the rain, I really hope that it stops and dries up by tomorrow. Tomorrow, hopefully Derek, Darren, and I are going rock climbing in the Palisades. I've never been there, and I've heard that it's beautiful. I haven't been climbing since this fall. I'm excited to get back out again. And apparently Scheels is clearing out a lot of their climbing gear...so who knows? Maybe I'll get some basic climbing stuff for myself...

Then tonight at 6 I'm going to the senior art show to see Catherine and Matt K (and some other seniors) talk about their art and whatever else they decide to talk about. They've got a lot of good stuff in the show! After that is Bible Study at the Hjelle's and relaxing over there the rest of the night. YAY for the weekend!

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3.26.2006

 

Football and Food

Today's been a good day. Went to church this morning, and followed that up by going to Ty and Mel's place in Orange City with the youth group and having a grill-out. It was good to see the youth group again after being gone for two weeks on Spring Break. We watched Bruce Almighty, ate burgers and brauts and baked beans, played two-hand touch football, and sat around and talked. I realized that I am not very proficient at catching a football when the pressure's on. I caught a couple, but the important ones slipped through my hands multiple times. I blame the mud and snow that is now a permanent part of my jeans (at least until I wash them again). But we had a good time. I got home and slept on the couch for a couple hours -- that football really wore me out! I guess I should exercise more, eh?

We have some really awesome kids in our youth group. It's a group of much variety in attitudes and personalities, but they seem to get along really well together, and that's a blessing to watch. I am so privileged and blessed to be a part of this group. God is good. And I got my proposal written for my research paper, so I'm done with homework for the night! Oh, and I just realized that GIFT started a little bit ago. So I'm gonna go to that now.


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3.25.2006

 

I'm really a blogger now!

So I'm finally here. Blogspot. I've read so many people's stuff, and I thought...hmm...I like reading about people's lives. It's great to see how everyone is doing and what they're thinking. Then I thought...maybe some people would like to know what I'm up to as well. So here I am. I don't have time to be more detailed at this point because I have to go tape a counseling session with my training triad in about 5 minutes. So I'll try to do a more detailed one later. Til then...

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