If you have not heard...

If you have not heard... Chris got a job!!! Hooray! He is now a NCAA Div 1 head tennis coach!

If you have not heard... It's in Texas. University of Texas Pan American, to be exact. The UT university system is exactly like the UC system here - schools spread out over the state, some bigger than others, some better than others. Pan American is one of the little ones.

If you have not heard... Chris loaded up his truck and left this morning. He should be in Texas tomorrow night.

If you have not heard... I will be joining Chris in Texas in December, after the semester ends at Vanguard. We will be apart for 5 weeks and 4 days, until he comes back for Thanksgiving. After that, it will be a little over 2 weeks until I join him in Texas permanently.

If you have not heard... I am a slow processor. Don't ask me how I am feeling about him being gone. I don't really know yet. Ask me in a week.

If you have not heard... It is an exciting, sad, adventuresome, heartbreaking, blessing, and disappointing thing all at once. I rarely feel these emotions seperately. Most of the time, I feel all of these all at once... Example: In my head, I know that moving to Texas is a very good and practical move; in my heart, I am devastated that I have to leave my family and friends. In my heart, I also feel love and support and excitement for my husband's job and fulfillment, and it fulfills me to support him; in my head, I worry about what job I will get and if I will be as good at it or enjoy it as much as the one I currently have.

If you have not heard... Well, now you have.

No Sweeter Name

Last night, while riding in the car with my RA's, one of them started softly singing this song. This particular song means a lot to me. I've actually written about it before on this blog. You can too, here.

Four years ago, I heard this song over and over again, during a summer that changed my life. Before that that summer, I had never heard it. There was a traveling worship band that I encountered three different times that summer, at three different camps, and every week, they would sing this song. There seemed to be a special annointing on this song. It was so powerful. I have searched and searched and have never found a recorded version of this song that even comes close to making me feel the way it did that summer. Apparently, they sang it in chapel yesterday. I really wish I was there. This song is called "No Sweeter Name" and it only has two verses. Really simple lyrics. You can search for it and try to find it, but I promise that you will never find a version as good as the one I heard in the summer of 2005.


No sweeter name than the name of Jesus
No sweeter name have I ever known
No sweeter name than the name of Jesus


You are the life to my heart and my soul
You are the light to the darkness around me
You are the hope to the hopeless, the broken
You are the only truth and the way

Lost

I'm addicted.

Zestfully Absent

Sorry for my absence... I have lost my zest for blogging. I am all about Twitter, though. Twitter rocks. My thoughts are not creative enough or impressive enough for my blog just now. My thoughts lately are even less than 140 characters. I will keep trying, though. I promise. No hiatus anncounced here. I will still try.

Grey's Anatomy Season Finale

DID YOU SEE THAT????????????? MY JAW IS ON THE FLOOR.

iFly part 2

A breakdown of the adventure:

We all arrive at DW's house at 8am. We jump into his car and drive for like an hour and a half. He is not telling us where we are going. We are all watching his GPS and trying to guess. (I am secretly hoping it's not Six Flags because I would vomit everywhere.) We finally pull into Universal Studios parking and he informs the parking attendant that we're not going to the theme park, we're going to City Walk. We are still confused. We get out of the car and walk around a bit. He says we're still early, so we all grab coffee. Then, when the time is right, we keep walking and stop in front of iFly. It's an indoor skydiving simulator - basically, a giant vertical wind tunnel. We freak out - so awesome!

We took a little training class, then suited up - suit, helmet, eyegear, earplugs. Each of us got two 1-minute flights. The first time, we each really just learn how to do it. The instructor is in there the whole time and makes small adjustments to your arms and legs and you just relax and float and feel your cheeks vibrate. The second time, we each felt way more at ease, the time went by too fast, and at the end of each of our minutes the instructor grabbed hold and took each of us higher up in the tunnel. It was such a blast! We'll have to go back.

iFly

Mystery solved. Totally did it. More details to come.