25 Things.

Here is another old post (originally wrote on 2/1/09 - posted 1/31/10). I posted this on facebook, but wanted to share on here. It's fun. :)

1. I always push down all the bubble things on my lids.

2. I have a big fear of becoming obese because I know I tend to be lazy & will not be able to lose it.

3. I truly wish I could go to school forever because I love learning.

4. As much as it might not seem like it, I really don't enjoy having a cell phone. If I didn't feel like I needed it with me for safety, I wouldn't have one.

5. I could listen to live worship music everyday.

6. I would love to have someone buy my clothes for me because I know nothing about style. But everything would have to be comfortable.

7. I do not like when people touch my face. I can just feel the germs being transferred. Ew.

8. When I can start seeing my fingernails above my fingers, it's about time to cut them (it messes up my bowling game).

9. I hate everything about mornings - the feeling, the sun rising, the birds chirping, eating when I'm not even awake (and I love eating!). Night time is when I am most alert & happy. :)

10. 409 Marion may have been a dirty, smelly old house, but I loooved living with those 2 boys - even when they accidentally texted me saying I was a bi*ch or let the dishes pile up for weeks ;)

11. I never want to admit it, but I am turning into my dad in that I'm always late for things! It seems I always get caught up in talking to my parents, or doing laundry (haha).

12. I am obsessed with being organized. I love it. But my room always seems to be a mess.

13. I want to get married in April, just like my parents and my grandparents.

14. I'm still not sick of Taylor Swift's "Love Story" - or sick of singing it at the top of my lungs with Ricky in the car. Haha.

15. I still don't feel like I actually graduated college & earned a bachelors degree.

16. I have always wished I went to Notre Dame - because of my grandpa's love for the school & because in 7th grade we got to visit the campus and I thought it was beautiful.

17. I feel like every time I order food I have to say "no tomato, no onion please".

18. I will have a fountain Mountain Dew in my house when I am older. That will guarantee my dad will come visit me ;)

19. My parents took my brother & I on the best family vacations every year when we were younger. We experienced a lot & I didn't truly appreciate that till I got older.

20. I always get teary eyed anytime I hear about a military person serving overseas.

21. I think Super Mario Bros 3 on original Nintendo is the greatest game ever invented.

22. I have never tried a drug or smoked a cigarette in my life and am quite proud of that. But I have puffed on a Black N' Mild back in the day - but didn't inhale! ;) They just smell soo good!! Haha.

23. My mother is my best friend. :) I tell her everything & call her a million times a day.

24. My pretty Saturn Aura is named Jack.

25. I think I have played every sport at one time or another - soccer, baseball (only girl on the team ha), basketball, cheerleading, ice skating, gymnastics, bowling, tennis, volleyball

I am in love with this video.


With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on Earth, God's work must truly be our own.
-John F. Kennedy

Appreciating Life.

My 29 year old professor told us she just found out that an old friend of hers was killed in Afghanistan this past week. It was a voluntary, third tour in a noncombat situation. They were only a couple weeks apart in age. 29 years old. My prof said how it was one of those friends where they lost touch over the years, but she had always meant to try to get in contact with but just never found the time. It's crazy how you truly never know when you might never talk to someone again, or when your own life can be cut so short.

I really try to remember that fact every day, but it's easy to lose sight of it. We get in petty arguments, hold grudges, get angry, don't appreciate the good & instead focus on the bad. A lot of energy is wasted with the negative, and I'm making it a goal of mine to stop doing that.

I don't think God created this earth and us as human beings to stop talking to a friend because they didn't call you back or curse out a driver who just cut you off on the freeway (ha).
We are here as followers of Christ.

What is the greatest commandment?
"Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Matthew 22:37-39)