January 2011
5 posts
Small
Recently, I heard a lesson from a speaker who’d recently experienced a disappointing setback in his career plans.  He talked about how we often doubt rather than trust God’s goodness and plan when times get tough.  We question and ask why and blame God for the bad in our lives.  His point was that we’re all guilty at some point in our lives of forgetting Jesus’ Sermon on...
Jan 26th
Getting My Mojo On
After 6 years of using the same equiptment, at least 5 hours of internet shopping and forum browsing, agonizing over prices and a poor college student’s budget, and two monologues to friends who were nice enough to pretend that they cared about things like string patterns and Anti Torsion, I have finally purchased a new tennis racquet. Introducing… the Head MicroGel Mojo Racquet in...
Jan 23rd
First Day
It’s well past noon on the first day of class, but I haven’t yet had a class. This whole only having classes in the afternoon and not getting out until 4:00 or 5:30 thing is going to get old pretty quickly. I woke up at 9:00 this morning, and now, 3+ hours later, I’ve yet to do anything productive. Maybe I’ll start exercising in the morning.  Or reading.  Or writing....
Jan 19th
Tragically Misled
So after 20+ years of mistakenly believing I was a Cancer, the Minnesota Planetarium Society has informed me that I am actually a Gemini.  And guess what?  There’s actually 13 Zodiac signs.  Yep, all you lucky people born November 29 - December 17 can know proudly exclaim, “I’m an Ophiuchus!”  (Anyone else think this sounds like the name of a Transformer?  Ophiuchus...
Jan 14th
Crazy Old Cat Lady
Sasha and I have resigned ourselves to the fact that we’re going to be crazy old cat ladies.  Okay, well Sasha’s still not so sold on the cats, but she’ll get there. Here’s evidence of the creeping old lady-ness:  I’m a cross-stitch addict. When I was a baby, my mother hand-stitched this stocking for me (with my name instead of “Sarah,” these are all...
Jan 5th