Air Con

So, this afternoon my air conditioning came on for the first time in like a week and a half... It makes me sad, for I have been absolutely loving the cold weather! I dread a full-fledged Riverside summer... So, here's to hoping summer never gets here!

NAIA Tennis National Championships

All...week...long...

We get to go home today.

Will be very happy if I don't watch anymore tennis for a long time. My marriage will be very happy too.

Already sort of dreading next Spring...

I Get It Now

I heard someone say once that it takes two years to get fully comfortable in a new job. I didn't really believe it or understand it when I heard it... Now I get it.

I just started a new job and there is so much to learn, so much training, so many people I will be working with and whose jobs I have to learn so that I know how they can help me do my job better... So many new things... I am a little intimidated but excited to be doing something that I feel could actually be a career for me.

But the whole two years thing...I get it now.

Freakin' HILLARious

Do you feel as strongly about cookies as I do?

P.S. These kids are adorable.

No Sweeter Name

The summer that I was on Entourage, we traveled for ten weeks, visiting and serving at several different summer camps in the western US. While at these camps, sometimes we worked with other camp teams from other universities. Our specialty was comedy sketches, some other teams were drama teams or comedy teams or worship teams or there for just plain recruiting. We worked three of these different camps (Colorado, Oregon, and Montana) with a worship team from Northwest University. One of the songs in their arsenal was one of the best and most powerful worship songs I've ever heard. It was called "No Sweeter Name" and they probably sang it at least once a day... And it was always incredible and just ushered God right into our services. To this day, I have not been able to find a version of this song that is even satisfactory in comparison to the original. And this makes me sad. I wish to hear a version that will act as a time machine for me, take me back to that time and place, if only for a short four minutes. But, for now, I am stuck in the present, thoroughly displeased with any of the current alternatives.

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 and broken
You are the only truth and the way

Did anyone else scream?

Or was it just me?

Please ring, please please please ring...

I have discovered something about myself in the recent days... I am not a patient person. Shocking, I know... What brought about this revelation? My search for a new job. For the first time in a year, I am THIS close, or more like THIS close, to actually having a permanent, dependable, and fulfilling job that actually excites me... If my phone would just freakin' ring!!!!!!!!

Please pray. Pray that I don't drive myself crazy. Pray that I get the call that I've been waiting for for 2 weeks now... I really almost regret all those prayers for patience that everyone warns you not to pray...