Good day

Today has been a pretty good day so far. I mean yeah, it's day 2 of school, why wouldn't everything be good? I went to Statistics today, and I think I'll enjoy the class. A girl from my small group, Brooke, is in the class too. It was very comforting to see a familiar face.

Speaking of small group, I REALLY miss those girls! I haven't seen most of them since the end of November! That's a really long time. Too long! I can't wait until we start meeting up again so we can catch up on everyone's break. Seeing those girls for an 1 and a half once a week makes my day and my week so much better. They all have their own story and it's so great to be able to get together and talk about Jesus and how he's been in each of our lives lately. I am definitely looking forward to starting back up our small group next week!

Well...after Stat I had an awkward break. I'll probably use that term a lot, because I just do. An awkward break is when it's too short/not long enough to go back to the dorm for a reasonable amount of time before heading to the next class. So basically my stat class gets out at 9:25, but my chem class does start til 11:10. By the time I would get back to my dorm I'd only have a little over an hour before I'd have to walk an even further distance. So I just went ahead and went to Buehler, which is the building my chem class was in this semester and last semester, and calculus and biology last semester too. Basically, I love Buehler. I've spent many hours just sitting in the hall playing on my computer, or reading a book, or cramming right before a test. I secretly love it. It's never really busy, and it's always very quiet. I always seem to get a lot done. So after stat I got myself some Starbucks and read a book in Buehler for about an hour until a girl in my small group, Maelena, otherwise known as Mel, showed up and we chatted. I started reading Safe Haven, a book by Nicholas Sparks, whom I'm obsessed with, (more deets later) yesterday. Well, I'm already like 200 pages in. It's so great. So Mel showed up and we got to chat, and the more we were taking, the more we kept talking about how we're kind of pumped for chemistry again. It's just so familiar. Same room, same teacher, same building, same friends. It was so great. AND I even payed attention in class today. Sometimes I would definitely consider myself a chemistry nerd. Today was one of those days, for sure. By the way, I'm really sorry I'm boring y'all with my not so exciting life. Jesus and school are my life, so that's probably all I'll ever talk about. Well, I'm done for a while....until 6:30. Yes, I have a class at 6:30. And to be honest, I'm a little bit nervous. It's going to be dark and cold and scary! Yikes! Pray for me.

Okay so I think now might be a good time to talk about my obsession with Nick Sparks. I guess I discovered him my senior year, maybe junior, but I'm almost positive I was a senior. I realized that he wrote The Notebook and A Walk to Remember so I was like maybe I should check this guy out. I told my mom I was interested in reading his books and she was like hey, I think I have a book by him. Of course, I was like there is no way you have a book by him so don't even look. Well she did. Of course. Duh. So she handed me A Bend in the Road. It was SO great! I finished it in like 2 days. Which I basically do that with all his other books too. So after reading that book I had to read more. And I've been in love ever since. It kind of surprised me that I liked them so much because they are love stories, but they're usually intense love stories with a little mystery behind them. It's so great. I've read them all but 3 I think. I kind of got off track and started reading other books for a change. But I'm back! Safe Haven is great so far. Y'all should read it.

Well sorry for being a chatty Cathy today. But one last thing....Today Jesus Calling, you know, the day my day devotional I mentioned in my last post...today it was so great again. I mean every day is great, but them keep pertaining to my life. So I like to share. Today it basically said that we should be attentive to the days ahead. Instead of just looking at is as another lame old day, look at is as WOW! Jesus gave me yet another day, that is totally different from any other day I've ever life. Each day is precious and unrepeatable. Do we ever think of is as precious? I sure don't. And it's unrepeatable. How stinkin' cool. No two days will EVER be a like. It's crazy. If you live each day close to Jesus it will never be dull. It will always be full of surprises. This part stood out to me the most...RESIST YOUR TENDENCY TO SEARCH FOR THE EASIEST ROUTE THROUG THE DAY. We have to be WILLING to follow Him where ever he so chooses to lead us. I think that's the scariest part. Follow someone else? Seriously?  Eh, I don't know about all that. But we have to. We think we are most knowledgable and that we are best in our own care, but we aren't. We are the safest when we make the choice when we are by His side. I just thought that was so great. Obviously I think I make the best decisions for myself and that I'm safe from harm. But I'm not unless I have Him by my side. It's definitely a comforting thought.

If you really knew me you would know that it really ticks me off when girls think leggings are pants. They aren't. And I know you are not warm outside right now.

If you really knew me you would know that I love onions.