What I’m Listening To: "Two Is Better Than One" by Boys Like Girls (ft. Taylor Swift)
What I’m Watching: Our high school ministry’s worship band created a hilarious lip-sync video to Miley Cyrus’ "Party in the USA."
What I’m Reading:The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I’m reading this book for my senior seminar class. I want to give Dawkins a fair shake, but his writing is fairly polemic. He sets up a stereotype of Christians and knocks those stereotypes out of the park (strawman arguments). If he’s ever going to be taken seriously by anyone other than staunch atheists, he’s going to have to get rid of the polemic writing style… it also doesn’t help that he comes across as a complete and pompous ass. Now don’t get me wrong, there are Christians that comes across as asses too, and we don’t like to listen to them either. So I’m still reading and hoping his arguments get stronger.
Highlight of the Past Week: Valentine’s Day with my best of friends. Chad and Andrew turned their house into a ghetto putt-putt course, I cooked dinner for the guys and gals, and we all watched a movie. We gave the girls flowers, they gave each of us a plate of cookies. Overall, not too shabby of a day!
What I’m Looking Forward To This Next Week: I’m just trying to make it through this week.
Quote of the Day: "I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare." – C.S. Lewis
Highlight of the Weekend: Well, considering I was planning on working all weekend, I guess the highlight was going to Howl at the Moon on Friday night. Also enjoyed spending time with my Mom, Grandma, and GrandDad yesterday.
Accomplishment of the Weekend: Finally got the apartment cleaned!
What I’m Looking Forward To: Honestly? I’m not quite sure I’m looking forward to a whole lot this week. Going to Symphony on the Prairie on Friday night and The Jazz Kitchen on Saturday night. It should be good times!
Quote of the Day: “The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said” – C.S. Lewis
What I’m Listening To: "Little Man, You’ve Had a Busy Day" by Art Tatum. It’s the perfect music for a rainy day.
Accomplishment of the Week: I’ve been working on conquering a lot of stuff at home that I’ve been procrastinating on. I finally got my financial aid paperwork done for school, went into school and found out how many credit hours I have left (15) and what classes I have to take to finish my degree. I’ve been keeping up with diet and exercise, weighed in at 198 pounds this morning, woo hoo!
What made me smile yesterday: For work yesterday, we drove down to Shepherd Community and helped out around the center and in the surrounding neighborhood (Shepherd is really passionate about their surrounding neighborhood).
Well, I got done a little early, so I was able to go home and enjoy a nice bike ride on the Monon Trail. On my way home, I usually stop by my Dad’s house to see his dog, Einstein. This dog is adorable and it was so hard to leave him when he stands up against the fence and looks at me with his tongue hanging out. Einstein has been a great joy and blessing.
Sometimes I get tired of him jumping on me and I really enjoy having him around when he settles down, but he is a great dog! Einstein is a yellow lab.
What I’m Looking Forward To: I’m looking forward to Faith and Betsy coming home! Faith comes home first and then Betsy (being the popular person she is) has a few other places she has to go before she comes home.
Picture of the Day: I have some new neighbors in my neighborhood. Yup, they installed another statue. This one is just south of Main Street on Rangeline Road. It’s called "Elements".
Quote of the Day: “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” – C.S. Lewis
What made me smile yesterday: For work yesterday, we drove down to Shepherd Community and helped out around the center and in the surrounding neighborhood (Shepherd is really passionate about their surrounding neighborhood).