wow

it is amazing to me how God has provided! strength. peace. comfort. and more strength.

There is bittersweet change. God gives peace. There is large empty space. God gives smaller, less-expensive dwelling. There are alone moments. God gives new friends. He is so Amazing and Awesome!!

Then... WHAM!!! there is another burden. God, please give me wisdom!

Pain is deep. Doubly so when carrying others' burdens. I am glad that others can trust me. I want to be there for friends, even at 4a.m. And at the same time I feel so far removed; I'm not sure how to get close so that I can make a difference.

Sorry for the ramblings. Please pray for me when you think of it and for my friend(s) as well!

(More to come later about the new apartment! Happiness!)

Change...

... is painful. exciting. sad. exhausting. interesting. and all around life-changing. Funny how that works.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how that everything I do, everything that anyone does, will always affect others too. No one is a lone non-affecting soul. There is someone who will experience side-effects along with you. Sometimes it can be a very special, happy time and sometimes it is bittersweet and very tough!

Changes take place every day and are just a part of life. Every once in awhile there is a really big change that will take place that isn't a daily expected event.

I'm on the receiving end of one of those big changes this summer.

'the' Wall

Here are some pictures of the wall in our library's meeting room. A year or two ago (before I worked here) a group of teens had painted the wall like this:

Please excuse the random body-less people :P lol

We were all ready for a new view with less chaos and so with the help of a few teens I 'primed' it and managed to finally cover all the colors. The black was tough!!


For one of my teen programs this summer I had kids come in and paint their own spot.

Now it looks like this! :D

There are real frames hanging on the wall around where they painted on the wall. I like how it adds a 3-d effect. I think it is a great improvement from the original look.

The summer reading program has been super busy but a lot of fun! It is starting to slow down a bit now. I need to do another blog about life in general.

I know my blogging has been lackingly sporadic :) I am here. (Wherever that may be lol) and I am doing well. Work has been extra busy with a lot of Summer Read Program stuff going on! I still like my job. It is just sad that I rarely get internet time aside from work. Right now I am on my lunch break and have about 5 minutes left.

So in that short time, I wanted to share a bit exciting piece of news. I have my own wheels! And cute ones at that! It is amazing how God provides our needs and occasionally our wants as well! I feel very fortunate and blessed and will probably have lots of other mixed feelings when I get the payment book in the mail. LOL But it is exciting. I am having fun driving and still can't believe I finally have my own car. This pic I took with my cell phone before it was officially mine. Maybe I will take some more of the front and inside and post them. (big maybe, I get tired of making promises on my blog then getting too busy and forgetting! haha) I am still mulling over names, so if you have a suggestion let me know ;)

Well, I must go back to work. :D

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oh, for the few interested in details about cars.... it is a 2001 VW new beetle turbo automatic, hmm, etc etc. I don't even know! haha

Here comes the Bride

I was in Cincinnati 3 times this month. Once for Grad and the other two times for this dear friend of mine, Megan.

I drove over for her bridal shower and bachelorette party at the beginning of the month. Then this past weekend was her wedding. Since I was in the wedding (and my camera batteries are dead) I did not get any pictures. It was beautiful though! Here is a pic of Megan, her bridesmaids, and some other girls (relatives of the groom) who came to the party.

Graduation

Wow after ... a really long time ... I finally finished. Such a happy feeling!! It was fun to travel back to cincy and see friends and march with them down the aisle. I took tons of pictures; here are a few. (I'm putting more on facebook)

I'm so glad these special people came to see me!

This has got to be my most favorite picture!! Anna caught it on camera just at the right second. It was very windy all day and my hat finally gave up!

Graduation is nigh!

Wow time just keeps passing on! I want to do a long blog post about my 5+ years of college but I don't have all the pix I wanna use. I plan to work on it next week. Here are a couple oldies. Funny stuff!

Pre-K. Graduate ~ Class of 1989

H.S. Graduate ~ Class of 2002

College Graduate ~ Class of 2009
(well I will graduate on Saturday! whoo hoo!! just took this pic with my cell last night for the fun of it)

numbers

do you ever think about numbers? do they ever drive you crazy?

I do. They do.

It is fairly easy for me to memorize numbers. I can remember phone numbers from when I was much younger and addresses too. I'm not sure why I need to have speed dials on my cell when they are all already memorized anyway. (well yeah it is faster than typing it out but still.) If I stop to think about all the different numbers I know and what they are for it is a little overwhelming. Talk about driving me crazy! lol

I notice numbers on boards along the road, on ads, and other signs. Businesses choose the wackiest words to make their phone numbers stick in people's heads. I am more likely to know the number though than the word.

Sometimes it bugs me that my birthdate is 05/25/84. Wouldn't it look better if it were 05/25/85. I like my age fine and have accepted the dear number 4, but still.

Well, I have 7 precious minutes until my lunch break is over. Gonna end this random post before it...

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oh yeah. you can ignore this just more numbers driving me crazy:

90 to 0 in 4 weeks

take a few

I have just a few minutes left till my 'lunch' break is over.

So here are a few random things of late:

butterfly on my face.... Culver's fundraiser

kids holding my hand.... St. Louis Zoo outing

nomination for motherhood.... God's Bible School next Dean of Women
(someone want to fill in the details there for me??)

contentment in life.... even through foggy days

wistful thoughts.... I can't have it all

glitch communication

close i quickly draw.

much i expect often.

too much apparently.

disappointment results.