Changes

So if you had told me 6 months ago that by the end of December I would be a home owner, be in a relationship with an AMAZING guy, and have found a NEW JOB, I would have told you you were on Crack.

But here I am, I became a home owner at the end of August, Started dating Matt in October, had the DTR talk in November, and put my two weeks notice in Yesterday Morning.

The new place has been such a blessing, I am so happy there. It was definitely a project to get it ready to move in, a project that cost me a lot more than I expected, but it was all worth it.

Matt is amazing, but that's all I'll say, I don't want to jinx it :-)

I love the people I work with and I will miss the office very much, but I am SO excited about this new opportunity! I'm excited and nervous and sad and happy and all sorts of emotions all at once...and on top of all of them I keep thinking, I'm going to have to wear suits now! I only own one suit! I've worked in uniforms or an Advertising agency my whole adult career, I need to go shopping again!

What is this new job you ask? Well stay tuned...

Speaking Frankly...My thoughts on Spain...

Artsy picture of the Church
The Sky
Bobby (the international cornhole association president) teaching David how to play
David at the top of Montserrat
Cibele waiting for Lunch
Michael getting ready to do some work
Pretty Cross
David teaching the boys to make paper airplanes
Noa was probably my favorite child
Although this guy was pretty awesome too!


I've honestly been avoiding writing this post and the thank you letter to all my contributers for quite some time now for a couple of reasons. 1) I'm still not sure how I feel about the whole Trip and 2) Maybe I am sure but I don't like what I have to say.

I would like to preface everything I'm about to say with this statement: The Director of the church in Spain said we did a great job, that we accomplished everything and more that we came to do, and we did exactly what they wanted from us.

That being said...

I don't think I'll go back. I fell in love with the people over there, the church is full of people with such great hearts and such love for the lord and I would love to go back to visit. I just don't think I could go back on another mission trip.

I just don't think it's my place to serve. There were a lot of parts to this mission trip that I was uncomfortable with. Yes the Bible says to lead people to Christ, to become Fishers of Men, but I've never been one to force that on someone. I've always sort of lead by example. I don't think there was any part of this trip where we were physically making people go to church, or not leading by example. I guess it's just a different kind of mission trip.

We spent a lot of the week going on Prayer Walks through the different Cities. While no one, including myself, will argue that the power of prayer is anything but massively strong, I just feel like prayer walks are one step away from that guy standing on the corner of Andrew Young and Peachtree in his purple pimp suit screaming about how we need to find the Lord Jesus or we'll all go to Hell. We aren't screaming out, but we're walking around the City, praying out load and asking God to change the hearts of the people in that city so that they can come to know him. Sounds great, feels a bit like a polyester pimp suit.

We spent a lot of the week discussing the Catholic Religion, a lot of the conversation was centered around the fact that the Catholic faith has a disconnect from God and his people. However I felt like we were missing the big picture. Yes, these people choose to worship God, our god just as much as it is theirs, in a different way, but isn't the important thing that they are worshiping? That they believe that Christ is their savior and that he died on the cross for us? I guess I just feel like I don't really care how you choose to worship God as long as you are doing it.

I can't wrap my head around a God that would choose to have millions of souls go to Hell just because they don't have the opportunity to know him, so I choose to not believe that. I choose to believe that all our religions worship the same lord, if you look back in history you can see how they all stem out from each other. The difference is that I also believe that God sent his son to die on a cross and save me from my sins. That does not make me better than anyone, that does not make me a perfect or sinless person. I still make mistakes, I still falter, but I have someone that I can run to and lean on when that happens.

I just feel like I might have been better used going to Africa to dig wells, or going to Mexico to build houses.

In the end you live and you learn and I'll know for my next trip.

Again, much was accomplished, and the church saw their biggest turn out ever the Sunday after we left, I just guess I would love to be able to show a before and after picture to everyone. We went over there to run a workshop on small groups, we did that and it went really well. We cleaned up the area surrounding the new church and cleaned inside the old church. Those were great accomplishments. The trip went REALLY well. If you gave please don't think your money didn't go to great wonderful use, I'm just still trying to sort out my thoughts on all of it.

LSB

More Sports?

What else did you do this weekend Laura?

WELL In case I didn't get enough sports on Friday night, I was up at 6:30 on a Saturday (my sister better love me) to go to the Auburn/GA game. I think my friends might kill me but...I rooted for Auburn

We had a great time and it was an awesome game, right up until the very last second, literally.


The rest of the weekend was filled with Housewarming parties, church, seeing Joe and Alicia, and hanging out with Matt. It was a good weekend, but I can't wait until next weekend too! Leo's getting Married!

Thrashers

I went to my first Hockey game since I was Six (or 8...I was young, it was the Atlanta Knights) this weekend! SO much fun! We were sitting at the very top (no really, like 2 rows from the back) but even those seats were pretty awesome! Then for the 3rd period we went down and sat closer. They have these little thrasher birds that hang from the ceiling and when we score a goal the spit fire!

Matt and I took a picture after everyone cleared out. We're a little shiny in it but there it is, then I played around on Picnik...(that's a whole nother blog on how excited I am about that) and came up with this...

It's been a while again

I'm sorry, I'm falling down on my blogging duties but it's been a very crazy life lately

Well I got back from the mission trip and jumped right back into life here. I spent the week catching up on all my duties and finishing my Halloween Costume. (See Below)
I was Christie Cream, the donut lady and Matt was Axel Rose. I had a little pink box of donuts with me too, but they ended up in a trash can about 5 minutes after we got downtown. It was either keep up with everyone or keep the donuts. It was a really fun night and apparently I got the friend's approval so I'm a "cool girlfriend" I don't know what I did...but I guess it was good.

I don't really have any huge news right now. No thoughts to ponder on...I'll try to think about it and get back later. If I could just find my Camera cord to upload Spain pictures...

Teaser

Spain has been incredible, I've had so much fun and learned so much, not only about the area but from the people here as well. I can't tell you how my life and my faith has changed because of this trip, I don't think I know it all yet.

All I can say for now is that our final rap up meeting on the beach tonight was so perfect, there was so much fellowship and so much love in that circle tonight. We're all tired, we're all ready to get home and after a very hectic schedule and many LONG days we are probably all holding on by very thin threads, but tonight, you would have thought we just got here! It was nothing but smiles and joy as we went around the circle talking about our favorite parts of each other and of the week.

I'll be back later to tell more, but for now here's a picture from tonight...

Off to Spain!

So I'm off to Spain in two days! I'm very excited and very nervous all at the same time...

I CAN'T wait to get over there and start helping!

However, a little part of me can't help but feel a bit horrible about the fact that I've only raised $700 for a $2700 trip. I will be coming back and needing to still raise more money to cover these costs which makes me nervous because:
1) I don't have the money to cover it
2) I would think it would be much harder to raise this money after the fact than before hand

I'm not going to let the money stand in my way though! Now if I could just find the time to pack between my date tonight :-), and small group tomorrow night...Hmmmmm.

It'll get done I'm sure!

Back in 1 1/2 weeks to tell you all about it!

What about teaching?

For the past 8-10 months I've been doing quite a bit of soul searching, trying to figure out what it is that I want to do with my life...(BIG QUESTION)

A lot of ideas have been thrown around in my head and the only thing I'm completely sure on is that I would like to work Monday-Friday, daytime hours. I have a love for children, event planning, using creativity while at work, and having each day be different. However beyond that I don't really know what I want...or how to incorporate all these things into my daily job.

For a long time I feel it's been weighing on my heart to work for the church, or to do something where I feel I am getting fulfilled every day by my job, making a difference everyday...I just don't feel that being an admin asst. for an Ad Firm is accomplishing this. I love my job here, and the people I work with are great, but I just feel like I could be doing more, making a bigger impact. However in these economic times it's not really the time to be switching jobs.

For the past few months teaching has been a constant idea I keep coming back to. I could use my creativity every day, I'd have some excellent vacation time (that's not a big seller as I already do have more vacation time than I know what to do with), and I feel like I would really feel fulfilled everyday...or if not everyday at least every week.

This is one of those decisions that is going to wrack my brain for at least the next 6 months while I pray about it and think about it constantly, and there are so many obstacles standing in my way, for starters, I don't have a degree in education...I have a degree in Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management...however, in GA you don't need a education degree to teach. But to make any money at it you need to get a masters, which I don't have, nor do I have the money to go back to school right now. And I still won't make a whole lot of money, but as long as I can pay my bills and live comfortably I'm not too concerned about it...these are the things that fly around in my head every day! And this is only one of the many jobs I'm thinking about in my very confused head....

Just thought I would share, and see if anyone has any insights.

Here is the Church, Here is the steeple...

Open it up and see all the people (sorry I had to finish it)

I had a very sad night last night. 7/22 came to a close last night after 13 years of service in Atlanta. I wasn't blessed to have been a part of it that long, but I've been participating for about a year now and I cannot begin to express how my life has RADICALLY changed in that last year. I'm very sad to see it go, but I have realized two things from last night.

1) Praising God should be something you do everyday and you don't need a particular place to do it. I had started to depend on 7/22 to move me every Tuesday night, I thank God every day for the gifts in my life but I had started to depend on Tuesday nights to be spiritually filled each week.

That shouldn't happen! I should be spiritually filled before even walking in those doors on Tuesday nights!

2) A church is not a building. It's the people inside the building. It is up to us to find a way to let God shine through our daily lives. I sort of already new this but the argument was renewed inside of me. You don't have to bring people to church for them to see the way God can move you. Let them see it in your everyday life. Live a life that is always giving the glory to God and people will see how amazing he is through your trust and dependence in/on him.

Those are my thoughts...Really don't know what else to say.

Updates

So I'm off to see the Condo tonight, I'm hoping to walk in and see a fully painted condo since the painters were supposed to be done yesterday! I'm so Excited, and so relieved to not being doing it myself anymore. I spent a total of 4 days and at least 30 hours just trying to prime the place and it still wasn't close to being done. This is also after spending 3 days in the smallest bathroom and only getting half the wallpaper off. So I decided to start looking for painting quotes. As soon as I got one that was in my price range I dropped the brushes and handed over the task!

Now I've just got to get packed up before next Saturday! and hopefully get the furniture I have in there assembled by then so I can start to put things together!

I'm so excited! I'll post pictures as soon as I get my camera back, it decided to stay behind in Washington DC after my Labor Day Weekend Visit. I called and told Katie to inform it to quit hiding from me, it has work to do!

I GOT MY BRACES OFF!!!!
I'm so incredibly excited! I can't wait to show off my new smile! too bad I'm working on the Condo all weekend :-( Oh yeah! I also closed on the condo! Now the projects begin!

My Support Letter for My Mission Trip to Spain.

Hi Everyone!

I hope this letter finds you well and in good spirits. So much has happened in the last year I don’t really know where to start. So I’ll just dive in…

Last fall I decided to find a new church and a new job all at once. Amazingly enough it all happened at once too! I found a great job working for an advertising agency in Downtown Atlanta called GREY Atlanta. I’m the Administrative Assistant to the Senior Vice President, the office manager, the front desk reception, and anything else they need. I love the people in my office and love working downtown. While it’s not my dream job, it’s perfect for me while I figure out what that dream job might be. Check us out! www.greyatlanta.com

I also found a church that has opened up a whole new world of worship for me, and have had some great opportunities through it to grow spiritually and as a person. I’ve become a small group leader where I lead a group of women through a Bible study each Wednesday night, I’ve started volunteering for the church and outside the church, I’m in the process now of volunteering to lead another small group of children each Sunday through a Bible study, and I’ve got a great opportunity to go on a mission trip (to be described later).

I finally had my jaw surgery on April 29^th. The surgery went perfectly and I’m recovering well. No one ever warns you that 4 months after it’s over you’ll still have a little residual swelling and eating will still be an interesting process. Each day is getting better though and soon enough the surgery will be nothing but a memory (in the meantime any prayers that I can get back to normal faster would be much appreciated). I should get the braces off by Halloween so that’s exciting too!

This August seems to be the craziest month I’ve ever experienced in my very short life. I’m buying a Condo! And as Dad jokes, I’m getting the full experience of real estate with this one. The woman who owns it wants to close REALLY early, so about 30 days after I first laid eyes on the place, I’ll have keys in my hand and will own it. This is so exciting for me, and of course I’m learning a lot through the process. It’s in an awesome location and is such a cute place; I’ll post pictures online once I get in there and paint/decorate.

So what’s in store for the future? (Besides a few painting parties and housewarming soirees) I’m going on my first mission trip in October. This opportunity presented itself just a few short weeks ago and I’m really excited about it. Our group of seven will be flying out to Villanova/Stiges, Spain to lend support and do anything we can for a new church out there.

The church just started about 3 years ago and because it’s the only church in that area that is not Catholic, they’re often looked at as a cult. From what I’m told, people in that area often think of church as something you only do once you’re older and closer to “the end.” It’s an after thought for most of the younger generation. Iglesia Cristiana del Garraf gives an opportunity for the younger generation to get excited about God; it gives the people of the area another choice for worshiping.

There’s still a lot left for them to do though, their building is not finished, they’re still putting programs in place for Bible Study and childcare, and there’s a lot of encouragement needed for them, they’re doing something that seems so great, and so simple to us, but from where they’re standing this is HUGE, and there is no support coming from the area around them.

The cost of this trip is $2700 dollars per person and there are 7 of us going. That being said, we can use ALL the help we can get! Please don’t feel like you need to donate, prayer and support is just as appreciated, but if you feel so inclined you have many options as to how you can do this.

1) Write a check to me, I’ll cash it and put the money in our account

2) Write a check to North Point Ministries and put “Villanova Connections 2” in the Memo line

3) Go online to www.buckheadchurch.org and donate there, once to the site follow these instructions:

a. Click on “Welcome Back”

b. Find “Online Giving” in the menu on the right of the screen

c. Find “GlobalX online giving” on the right side of the screen again

d. Fill out all the information

i. Country: Sevilla/Spain

ii. Trip: Choose the trip with correct dates (October 17-26^th)

e. Fill out how much you want to give and what Credit Card you’re using.

f. You’re done!

g. Thank you!!!!!!!

Thank you so much for your support, please check out my blog for updates on what’s going on in my life and pictures of the trip once it’s over. http://timingiseverything52.blogspot.com

Peace in Christ

God at the Bars?

This is pretty cool, I'm interested to see how it turns out. Just in case you don't know...this is the church I regularly attend and they're going to take the music that we use in worship as well as other music by the same artists out into the city and play it in venues all over town. Trying to reach the unreached!

Oh my Purple!

Calling all Painters!!!!

The offer has been accepted and I'll be closing on my very own Condo on August 28th (Yes I know that's very fast) !

Problem is the paint colors are all sorts of ugly and the woman won't re-paint. SO. I'm throwing a painting party, We'll have a super fun time and then head to Rio Grande after for some margarita's while we watch the USC/UGA game. If you wanna come just let me know! I'll send you the e-vite.

Problem is I need to get started the weekend before, priming the walls, doors, door frames...everything and getting all the wall paper off and so far I've got no help...Anyone? Do I need to throw another party?

I'm ever so excited and can't wait to get started...I want to fast forward the next two weeks and get in there, but I also want to put them in slow motion...two weeks from now I'll have more debt than I've ever seen!

To just give you an Idea of the paint job I'm up against take a look at these pictures!

PS...the doors and the door frames are the same color as the walls in each room...yeah I typed that right!

Condo...

So, I'm putting an offer down on a Condo today or tomorrow. Problem is that I love the darn thing, so I'm hoping she doesn't reject my offer, or she counters with something close to it. It's SUPER cute, right in Buckhead, it's old but I'll be able to turn the thing into something great and I'm super excited! I'll have a room mate that will pay my mortgage so I'll just pay the taxes and HOA fee, if it all works out correctly it should be cheaper than renting!

That's my only news for today! Back tomorrow with fun updates!

Sick of Bad Dates!

Look Familiar Anyone?

I've started to give my bad dates nicknames...

Like the guy who thought America deserved to fall apart and wanted to pack up all his stuff and move to Russia (the Russian)

The Boy Scout: He turned out to have a live in girlfriend

The Cat Man: Owns two cats and can't hold a conversation to save his life

The New Yorker: Moved down here from NY and promptly latched on after one date...I can't handle the cling fest!

The Accountant: OOO He got so drunk on our first date I wasn't sure he should be driving home!

And many more...



I don't really ask for much, just an attractive, tall, man who's got a good head on his shoulders and is going somewhere with his life who I share some values and interests with. Is that too much to ask?

I think not! My Prince is out there somewhere....

In the meantime I've got some very interesting stories to tell about all the frogs!

Mission Trip?

Well I was super bummed at the beginning of last week because I had this great opportunity to go to Estonia for a mission trip but I needed 7 Vacation days and only had 6...the good news,

This opened me up to be able to go to Spain on a mission trip! I'm super pumped we had our first informational meeting last night and I cannot wait to get started! Expect some fund raising letters in the mail soon!

On a side note,

We played Bocce Ball after the meeting was over last night and I must say Michael Frank and I make a pretty darn good team...We won 10-9...

Don't know what Bocce Ball is? You must learn now! as David said last night, "It's the lazy man's golf"

Wikipedia's Bocce Ball Instructions...trust me it's far more fun that it sounds here!

Bocce is traditionally played on an oyster shell court, but has also been played on decomposed granite, soil, or asphalt courts approximately 20 to 27 metres in length and 2.5 to 4 metres wide, sometimes with wooden boards of approximately 15 centimetres in height surrounding the court. Bocce balls can be made of metal^[6], wood, or various kinds of plastic. Unlike lawn bowls, bocce balls are spherical and have no inbuilt bias.

Red scores 2 points

A game can be contested between two players, or two teams of two, three, or four. A court match is started by a randomly chosen side being given the opportunity to throw a smaller ball, the jack (called a pallino, a pill, a bolus, or a boccino in some areas), from one end of the court into a zone about 5 metres in length, ending 2 metres from the far end of the court. If they miss twice, the other team is awarded the opportunity to place the jack anywhere they choose within the prescribed zone. At this time the team that attempted to put the jack into play first gets to roll the first ball.

The side that places the jack is given the opportunity to bowl first. Once the first bowl has taken place, the other side has the opportunity to bowl. From then on, the side which does not have the ball closest to the jack has a chance to bowl, up until one side or the other has used their four balls. At that point, the other side bowls its remaining bocce balls. The team with the closest bocce ball to the jack is the only team that can score points in any frame. The scoring team receives one point for each of their balls that is closer to the jack than the closest ball of the other team. The length of a game varies by region, but is typically played to 11, 12, or 13 points.

Players are permitted to throw the ball in the air using an underarm action. This is generally used to knock either the jack or another ball away to attain a more favourable position. Tactics can get quite complex when players have sufficient control over the bocce ball to throw or roll it accurately.

Today, today today, t-o-d-a-y...I am bored. What do you do when you're bored? I research stuff no one cares about on the internet, or eat, or re-organize something I've already organized 10 times, or I find a new excuse to throw a party or have a get-together...basically anything that's off the task of what I should be doing.

For example, if I'm bored at home maybe I should go out and exercise, or clean my room, or go through the PILES of magazines I have, or firgure out where the heck I'm going to live in 4 months.

If I'm at work I should take it upon myself to find new projects to do or get all the odds and ends no one ever thinks about done, or something other than blog and play around on facebook.

Usually I can do this. Yet I must admit, ever since Jaw Surgery I've had NO motivation to do anything. I'm better now and should be kicking my tail into the gym, but instead I'd prefer to...I don't know, anything but! I know that once I start going back to the gym all of this will change, I'll have more energy, I'll feel better about myself, I'll have my drive back...

So my question for you is, what do you do to MAKE yourself work out, even when you think you don't have anytime?

...That is all

Two Things...

1) Effing MARTA sucks at life sometimes, there's just so much frustration when you leave your house on time, get to the train on time, and get on the train just for it to stop moving a little while later. Usually I'm all for MARTA, I love riding to work in the morning, I get so much done and it's so much faster! However, when it makes me late to work I get very frustrated, there's nothing you can do at that point, you aren't at your car, you can't just hop off and go a different way...and the Chairman doesn't know you're late because of MARTA, he just knows you're late. (PS I do know MARTA can't actually suck at life since it's not a living breathing thing)

2) I absolutely love my new morning drink! I've been drinking these XS drinks, they're 8 Calories, and they taste REALLY good, plus they're energy drinks. But the energy comes from Vitamin B instead of Sugar so you don't crash and burn later...Delicious Root Beer today, and it really tastes like root beer!!!!

Well maybe three things...

3) I've decided recently that I'm determined to like Sushi, and Coffee. I like latte's but I'm becoming determined to like the real stuff. And as far a sushi goes as soon as I can open my mouth wide enough I'm going to need to inundate myself in sushi until I find something I like...who's eating with me? It's very much the whole cook every type of egg until you figure out which one you like, only with sushi instead.

It's been too long!

So it's been almost 2 weeks now since I've written anything. I thought for sure my life was interesting enough to write a blog...apparently I was wrong :-( or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough!

What's happened in the past 2 weeks?

Well, three weeks ago I was finally told I could eat Pasta, and Chicken and basically any soft foods, which you all know. This is the greatest excitement since the surgery and I've been having a ball eating pretty much ever since. With this new food ability I've also been able to drink again, there is nothing better to me than a glass of wine with dinner after a long day! So Yay! I get that back! I also went out for the first time in a month and a half two weeks ago, nothing exciting, just some Dunwoody Tavern Action followed by Cocktail Cove...which let me tell you, the name may have changed but it's still American Pie, the decorations and every thing are the same right down to the gross 50 year old men leering at you from the corner. (ugh! not my fav spot). It was nice to be out but I still didn't feel like I looked normal enough for buckhead or midtown.

Fathers day was AWESOME! My sister came to church and it was so cool to finally get her to see what my Dad and I are so Excited about each week! Then we went to the High Museum, Had lunch and walked around in the old days for a while seeing the Louvre Exhibit. It was super cool too because it was Target Family fun day. So Target was taking care of all admission and we got to have ice cream outside once we were done. It was such a great day with my dad and I know nothing made him happier than having both his girls at church with him!

Lets see, then there was Friday, Christina and I went out to finally celebrate her Birthday, She wanted me to be able to eat dinner before I bought her dinner...wise Idea I do believe. We were all set to go when we heard the first restaurant we picked was like eating in the middle of a club, you had to yell to talk to each other, so I picked out another, and then we couldn't find the darn place. I was pretty disappointed because I'd been to it's sister restaurant in Dunwoody and loved it. So we finally settled on Twist, Shout's sister. It was good, but Shout is better when it comes to sushi for sure. Then Cafe Intermezzo for dessert was awesome, again I had been to the dunwoody location but not midtown, Midtown has a great outdoor area!

I have to say though, I never felt like such a suburb girl as I did last weekend! I got lost on the way to dinner friday night, then Saturday I get lost twice trying to find my co-worker's house! I'm usually so good with directions I don't know what happened...except that google sucks! Map quest is worse though so what are you going to do?

Saturday night was spent at a cook-out with my Dad, Sister, and Friends. Well I had a lovely time and tasted some homemade wine that I'm now dying to go make! Can't wait! Sunday was spent at church, and then the trouble started... dun dun dun!

I spent Sunday afternoon in bed with an upset stomach followed by Monday with a headache all day, and then Tuesday I started the day throwing up and spent the whole day queezy and just in a yuck! By last night I was really nervous! I'm in Cameron's Wedding on Saturday and I can't spend the weekend weak and looking yellow!!! Luckily though I woke up today feeling great and refreshed and am raring to go, now if I could just find the time today to clean my apartment, pack, and go to small group...

Tomorrow should be interesting too! My Head Honcho Boss (the Chairman of the Company) will be in my apartment along with some other co-workers and the "talent" or as normal people call it, the paid actor, to shoot a commercial. It's all still in the idea stages, who knows if it will make it to TV or not, but it's exciting and also, OH MY GOSH! My Chairman will be walking around my little humble apartment... I gotta start scrubbing!!!!

Well that's all for now, I'll try to be more diligent so I don't write a novel every time!

I Ate Food!

Hello Blogging world!

I realize that I started this fun blog and then promptly forgot about it. I apologize, I'm sorry but my life has been a little hectic lately.

That being said we can get on to the more exciting things at hand. I went to a lovely wedding this weekend, one of my best friends from High school got married. She looked GORGEOUS and absolutely happy. I am so incredibly happy for her! I must admit though, I haven't seen her in so long (she moved to Florida a few years ago and I left right after high school not to see much of her again) I found myself looking at this grown woman in front of me and seeing the young carefree teenager who used to steal all my cigarettes because she said if she never bought a pack then she was never really a smoker. (I've quit sense then...quit your judging!) I feel I missed a lot of the in-between in there somewhere which makes me a little sad, but really such is life, people grow up, move away and inevitably you're going to loose touch with some of them. Well anyway what I'm trying to say is that it was her big day, she looked amazing and you could tell she was truly happy which is really what's most important.

Now the big news for me in all this (wow, that sounded selfish...what I mean is that during her wonderful amazing event that I would never try to take away from, I also accomplished a milestone) I ate wedding cake! granted I had to first mush it with my fork and the very carefully place it into my mouth where I would mush it some more on the roof of my mouth before swallowing. but I ATE IT! It wasn't liquid and I ate it!

I first tried to mush a baby quiche (can you tell I was hungry?) with a fork but it was a little awkward trying to swallow that, but I was determined with the cake! :-)

Then we went to the lake Sunday and stopped at O'charley's on the way home where I ate not only soup but Bread and Key lime Pie as well! Yes, I know that bread and cake might as well be liquid since they'll eventually dissolve in your mouth and that key lime pie might as well be yogurt which is basically a liquid. However, up until Saturday afternoon I had not eaten anything that could not basically just fall from my mouth down my throat with very little effort since April 28th. That's basically six weeks of milkshakes and smoothies.

So if you can't tell, I'm a little excited!

Now if I could just get my cheeks to both be the same size that would be great! (One is much more swollen than the other because my jaw was widened on that side)

Trials and Tribulations following Jaw Surgery

Tomorrow is a very exciting day in the life of me! I will get the splint out of my mouth! It has been 5 weeks today since my surgery and since people have been able to easily understand what I'm saying. The splint is holding my upper jaw in place as it heals from being widened. But as of 4:30 tomorrow it will be gone! I'll be able to speak clearly, and hopefully be able to close my lips for the first time in FIVE WEEKS!

I'm very excited if you can't tell. For the past 5 weeks I have been carrying around a wash cloth everywhere I go to make sure and catch any drool that might fall out of my mouth. I still can't feel my bottom lip which is problematic since I have no warning until drool hits my chest that it is even falling out of my mouth. My hands are pealing (most likely from a vitamin deficiency), I can't blow my nose (and have never had so much milk in my life, which means I have plenty of mucous), I have a splint in my mouth that is in the way of my tongue so my speech sounds like a deaf person talking, and did I mention I can't close me lips?

The good news is my nails have never been so strong, and I think I've lost weight, I don't own a scale though (that falls under the trials and tribulations of house breaking a puppy) so I can't be sure. Hopefully once the splint is out and I can close my lips again I can get back to a regular work out schedule and that will help boost my energy. Hopefully after tomorrow it will also be easier to drink out of a cup and then I can incorporate soup and other things besides smoothies into my diet.

It's been a very long roller coaster ride since this process has started, I have days where I'm deep in the dark place and don't even want to look in the mirror, then I have other days where I'm pretty happy and will brave the outdoors and seeing people. But I will be very excited when this is all over and I can stop hiding from the camera, that's for sure!

I think that's all for today. Hopefully I'll have a very happy post for later this week!

Sex and the City

Well I packed up my bag last night and made sure my dress was clean and am all ready to check into the Georgian Terrace Hotel tonight for a fun girls night. We'll be, well they will be, drinking martinis and having some appetizers then we will head over to Atlantic Station where we will watch the movie in style as we've all picked out a pretty dress and fancy shoes for the event. then we'll head back to the hotel for some girls night fun.

I am very excited for the event but I must say that I find myself wishing again for my recovery to be over and for my face to look normal again. If it were we would probably be going out in midtown after the movie or at the very least I'd be drinking martini's with the girls, but it's jut not the same drinking a martini out of a sippy cup. Oh well, we will have a very fun night anyway and being me, owning every season of Sex in the City and watching them well, constantly I can't wait to see what the movie has in store!

Check out our shoes! The Movie was AWESOME!

Can You Just Go Ahead and Take Care of That...Thanks!

Hello Blogging world!



Well I must say this is not my first attempt at a blog, but my last one was back in high school sometime and really didn't work out too well. However, with all that's happening in my life I've decided to give it another go.



I feel like I should do a little re-cap of the past few months so you can know where I am as I start this blogging journey. However I don't really know where to start and have therefore just written 3 pages worth a re-cap of the past year. I'll spare you the details and we'll just let you learn as we go.



You might be wondering what the title of my Blog means. I find myself in a period of life right now where I am giving a lot of things to God and letting him take care of them. However, what happens when you give things to God is you tend to find yourself in a a period of waiting. I was talking about this with one of my lovely small group ladies about a month ago and she said (I'm paraphrasing) "Don't you just want to tell him I'm going to need you to go ahead and take care of that now, Thanks God." We get very impatient with our lives at times and we tend to forget that there is usually a reason we're still waiting. What Mary said has stuck in my head ever since and I just thought it would be fitting as a Blog title since most of what my daily thoughts will be about are things that I am in a period of waiting about. So Thanks Mary! You inspired my Title!



That's all for now, stay tuned for the trials and tribulations of recovering from Jaw Surgery!

PS. I am HORRIBLE with spelling so please excuse me!