What an awesome image.. David Crowder on keytar.. :o) How wonderful.

This concert was simply amazing. It was fun just going with all my friends and having a good time. Shane and Shane were awesome.. as always.. David Crowder just rocked my socks off.. again... There's no way to even start telling you about the concert. It's just one of those things you have to experience.

The trip home was QUITE the experience... I was so tired and I only made it home by the grace of God and Menges talking to me the whole way. We did however, meet up with another group of our friends who were on the side of the road ... You can't really see what's happening.. but there are two police officers there.. and Laura's booty is kind of blocking the reason they're out. It's a flat tire.. big time flatness.. Menges and I stopped to take photos and check up on them. They were good to go - no major problems other than being stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire and no idea how to get it off of the vehicle. :o) (I directed them in that part..kind of)

Overall it was a fun, fun night! It made the rest of the week seem very long, but if I had to do it all over again... I would!!

I know I haven't posted in a week, but I am waiting to get my pictures from the DCB Concert off my dad's digital camera. So be patient.. an update is coming soon!!

Yay! Today was Astroworld! Got up this morning, running late of course and headed to Houston. Had to sit in traffic for almost an hour just to make a u-turn and then get parked. We walked to the front of the park, got in and headed immediately for Dungeon Drop. We had to wait in line for probably 50 minutes, maybe a little less, but it was fun! Then we walked around to XLR8 and I rode that backwards for the first time ever. I gotta say, I don't really like going backwards.. That line was close to an hour wait as well. Then we went to Greased Lightnin' and waited for .. yup, you guessed it, an hour. Headed for Batman's escape and waited in line there for an hour and a half! Insane, I tell you ... On our way to the other side of the park, we stopped and grabbed a funnel cake with powdered sugar only and ate it in front of the next ride, Serial Thriller. Our wait on this ride was close to an hour and 15 minutes. At this point, it was 6:30pm and we were trying to make a dinner date with Steph, but it didn't happen unfortunately. We were just too far away from her and wouldn't have made it to her house before she had to leave for a par-tay. So we drove home and then I got to play with Jackie's cousins for a little while.

I think the lines were so long because of 2 reasons. #1: It's the second to last weekend that Astroworld will be open, so people were taking advantage of that fact (myself included) #2: There was a company picnic being held today, so that's just even more people. I also remembered what I love and hate about amusement parks... a couple of things I love are the social time and the thrill of the rides. A couple of things I hate... waiting in line for one hour only to be on the ride itself for no more than 1 minute, 30 sec... also.. a vast majority of people who go to amusement parks are really trashy and rude and have no care or concern for your personal space or your hearing. Example.. as we were waiting in line for Serial Thriller, there were a few girls, roughly 13 yrs old, who were behind us. Granted, they are 13.. but they did not know how to stand still and stop bumping into us and were screaming a good portion of the time we were in line. Oh well.. it's not a big deal - not worth worrying about. Overall it was a fun day and I enjoyed getting to hang out with Jackie since we never see each other anymore.
I am/was somewhat bummed because there were a few rides we didn't get to go on becuase we simply didn't have time. We didn't get to ride the Viper, our favorite ride, or the Cyclone, which is really not scary, but it's just one of those that you have to go on every time. We also didn't get to ride the Looping Starship because it was closed or the Ultra Twister. Um.. I almost always ride the Serpent, (which is a kiddie ride, but it's fun anyway) but we didn't have time. It was really almost sad to walk around and see stuff shut down. There were lots of concession stands not open, and a few rides that were not being operated. Yeah, sad is a good word to use. But.. I'm sure some company will open up a new amusement park in the Houston area. It just is a good money maker.
Tomorrow I am going to watch A&M soccer beat the hell out of Texas Tech. And I've also got to clean my area of the house since we are having company next weekend (yay Whitney!). Monday is the David Crowder Band, Shane & Shane concert and I am so pumped about this!! I can't wait! David Crowder in concert is just .. energizing and awesome. I'm so ready Freddie.. :o)

Stolen from Kaylie's info .. "Love without rules."

This has always been something that I have strived (striven?) for in my life. It's not easy, by any means, but we are called by Jesus to "love without rules." He tells us in the gospel to love our enemies; obviously we cannot have rules or guidelines to our love if we are told to love our enemies. This is just a thought from my mind at midnight ... It's a cool statement and since the author is unknown, I'll be using it frequently. :o)

Be sure to look for me on Friday at school .. I'll be the stud with the super cool jersey .. thank you Kat Stock!

I know I haven't posted in well over a week, but I just haven't had the energy or the time and there really hasn't been a whole heck of a lot to tell you about. Just keep me in your prayers as I try to get a glimpse of the future - like the summer and the spring. :o) Love ya!

It's been a long week for some reason. So today's verse of the day according to BibleGateway.com is "O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water." Psalm 63:1 I've been so tired lately and I can't tell what the deal is. It's a mixture of new allergies (because of the cold front) and of medicine and of crazy days at school. The past two days have been different schedules because of circumstances so that makes the day hard too. So please continue to keep me in your prayers as I am adjusting to day to day living. I'm looking forward to the weekend because of Shella's wedding and seeing Kappa Phi girls! Also I get to see Kat Farr from UMArmy because she has a soccer game this weekend in town. So it's gonna be a good, but busy, weekend!

REQUEST(S) !!


I am going to Breakaway on Tuesday and I'd love to have anybody join me! Holler back.

AND.. I really really really want to go to Astroworld on October 22nd!!!!! It's the weekend before it closes and I WANNA GO!! So if you want to come with me that'd be awesome because I don't want to go alone!! Holler back on this as well :)


I had a great weekend in Midland, wish I wasn't so darn quiet around my family, but oh well. Got the cousin married and now I have a new cousin(in-law)!!! She's a fun one! However, I did drive all the way home (without trading drivers, thank you) and I have to be at the school tomorrow morning at 7:45 because I have a job and I have to go to work tomorrow. haha.
Softball game tomorrow night :o)

Peace!

Some Aggie funny ..

Some thoughts before we start a new day ...

This is actually what I was thinking about during Jerry's somewhat good sermon (actually preached solely on scripture!!) last Sunday...
Here's part of the scripture: "So they called to the blind man, "Cheer up! On your feet! He's calling you." Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus." Mark 10:49b-50
In the version I read, it said take heart. But either way, this kept repeating through me head all throughout his sermon ... take heart, get up! He is calling you. He's calling ME. He's calling YOU. How awesome and how great is it to know that we are being called by CHRIST.. we're being called. This is not some junk spam email that we're getting, nothing impersonal. This is not a telemarkter just doing their job, wanting to entice you to sign up for a credit card or donate money. This is CHRIST .. calling YOU and ME. These are intimate, planned, personal phone calls. These are the calls that last a lifetime, when you talk about everything and nothing for hours and hours. This is the call that you don't ever want to end early or screen with your caller id. Pick up the phone! It's worth more than a missed tv program, it's worth more than an instant message conversation, it's worth more ... so much more.


Tonight as I was finishing up my bible study in preparation for tomorrow, the last question I had to answer was "What are you living for?" At first, I didn't want to even think about it - our questions in this study tend to get us to focus on the negative in our lives. I chose to go for the positive tonight. This is a "personal response" question, so consider yourself blessed to be reading this...
I live to glorify Christ! I live to survive in this world. I live to bring joy to others. I live to be a good friend, listening ear and helping hand. I live to love, to give to recieve an everlasting life.

What are YOU living for?

Totally random thought ...

Does Delaware still exist?? Seriously! All through grade school you have to know that the capital of Delaware is Dover and that George Washington crossed the Delaware in Battle of Valley Forge.. but then, after all the history classes are over and real life takes over most of your life, we never hear about Delaware. Does anyone know a person who currently lives in Delaware? I am wondering if the government took over this state way back when as a place to test their secret weapons or maybe it broke off and is floating in the Atlantic somewhere....

Looking for feedback..

So over the past 24-36 hrs, I have been in close to constant communication with Wendy. She's been pretty worried (and rightfully so) about her town and her home. And she's made me worried too... But that's okay because it helps me realize how important she and her family are to me. So we've been talking a lot about pictures we've seen and trading web links and stuff. Finally I found this radio website that has been streaming information about the Golden Triangle and the damage there. People can call in with inquiries about their neighborhood's damage and also with information they have received. So I gave this link to Wendy and we were talking about it. Here are just some of her comments about one of her hometown radio stations.. They're pretty funny if you know anything about the area..

wendy: man you've got to love the way people talk

wendy: now there is a news report about vidor
wendy: i can honestly say that no one cares if vidor is still there or not


Ah. Them southeast texas folks is funnyier than 'coons in a kiddie pool .... whoa, yeah i made that up. scary huh?

Well, she's comin. Rita is on her way, and they are predicting that she's headed straight for Matagorda Bay, which is south of Houston, North of Corpus Christi. They've set a mandatory evacuation for Galveston and they have suggested evacuation from Houston, and surrounding low-lying areas. Here in CS, the Aggies and Tigers have moved up their games to Thursday night, both at 7:30pm. School is still on for now, hopefully we won't have a need to cancel it. Mom made me go out and buy some water holders and I bought some Gatorade and juice. I've never been through a hurricane, so I don't really know what to expect, but I'm not super worried.. yet. I think it will all depend on how hard and how close it hits Houston, but CS is in the crappy part of the storm, the northwest quadrant. So even if the eye doesn't go over us, it might still seem like it.
We'll see what this storm brings. We just have to remember that no matter the size of the storm, our God is so much bigger!! Please be praying for those who are evacuating and those who can't or won't.

okay so i was thinkin ... you know, there's been horrible devastation with Hurricane Katrina, and all these statistics and it all just boggles my mind. 6 major hurricanes in 13 months? Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne (all in 2004), Dennis, and Katrina (in 2005). And recently Ophelia (which I'm not sure was "major") and, coming soon to an evacuation route near you, Rita. What is going on?! Seriously! I dunno.. It's so weird. Rita is headed straight for the Texas coast, where so many New Orleans residents are currently living. It seems that this storm is headed right for the area that has been giving so much relief and so much care to those displaced peoples. I have heard some comments about how God used Katrina to "cleanse" New Orleans, when funnily enough, the French Quarter which is a pretty dirty place seems to be the least affected by the storm. It's open and partially functioning while some homes are still under water and are uninhabitable. So I've kind of blown that assumption or excuse off. And you know, some people say that this is God's wrath being poured out on these people because of their lifestyles and I'm not so sure I agree with that either. I believe that God is love and that He has sent His Son to pay for our sins and that He has given us free will. I believe that God's wrath and anger ended with the new covenant. I don't know if any of that has biblical base, but it's what I think.

So now, with Rita headed our way, I think this is partially Satan, wanting to get to us. Because we've poured so much caring and love into these people, Satan is wanting us to feel down and kind of .. punish us? for helping out. I dunno.. these are just thoughts.

Also, there have been all these benefits and concerts to help out the relief efforts in the wake of Katrina. And I'm all for that don't get me wrong. If I had the financial ability to give money then I'd do it. But what, not irks, but .. challenges me to think is that all these benefits have names that include the word hope. And I don't really know why. I mean, yeah, it's because they want to let the people of New Orleans and Louisiana that there is hope after the chaos. But I wish that they would use the word love.

SCORE !

Wayne is singin' !!

Love, Love HEY!!










Well, I got one on here... my internet connection is still being wacky ... but! I'm still pumped that I got this up for all of you who live far(ther) away. IT'S WAYNE KERR!!!!!! :o)

I'm gonna try and get the others put up, but no promises!!

OKAY!

So here's what happened on Sunday SUNDAY SUNDAY .. Sunday was CRASH (into me..) Haha.. sorry for all this weirdness, I'm a little tired at the moment. Anywhos -- We started setting up for CRASH around 2:30pm and B Smith asked me at one point if I was staying the whole night. And I said, yeah of course. And he replied with, "Good, cause you're going to want to be there through the end." So that kind of got me thinking....

So CRASH started and everyone was having a good ol time. I was waving cars into the parking lot, being a greeter and whatnot. Then I went over and grabbed a pizza roll and a drink, socialized for maybe 3 minutes tops, and started walking around to the games. I got to the boxing ring and got pulled over to take over for Mark Hollis. I think he was just tired of standing there. And for good reason too! I stood there for the rest of the evening and I was a little tired from just standing on this big bouncy thing, having to constantly regain my balance and use my entire body as a shock absorber. But it was all good because then we went inside for the Wayne Kerr concert.

We were all really pumped up. I knew it was gonna rock, so I headed to the front to claim a spot for the concert. It was honestly one of the better Wayne Kerr concerts I had been to in the past few years. I was just in a really good mood or something. So we sang for a good long time and then at the end, I started getting this nervous feeling because I knew the end of CRASH was coming.

So Brian got up on stage and started saying something and then called me up on stage!! (For those of you who have not been around me when I'm at a Wayne Kerr concert, I always request that Wayne play one of his first songs, "Love Love Hey" simply because it's fun and it's one of the first songs I ever heard him play way back when in 7th grade.) So I go up there and Brian says some more things and about how Wayne was going to play a special song for me. And then I didn't hear anything else Brian said. I honestly don't remember! So Wayne gets to the microphone and starts playing a little .. and then he was telling the audience that he really never plays this song, but that it was an old song and that he was gonna play it just for me. By this time, I KNEW that he was doin Love Love Hey. Unfortunately, he honestly doesn't remember the song and so he only sang the chorus, but it was so much fun!

(I was going to put some pictures up, but the internet is so jacked up here at the house, so that will be in my next post.)

Sunday was my last official night as a youth counselor. I think I am going to miss it, but this very second, I'm okay with not being there anymore. I still talk to all the kids and I still hang out with most of the counselors, so not a lot has changed other than I won't be going on Sunday nights to the church anymore. We'll see how I really feel once Sunday comes around. For now, I'm good to go. God's opening a lot of doors and windows right now for me and I'm excited about what God's got in the future for me.

And for right now, I'm goin to bed. Tomorrow's Friday!! YAY! Weekend sleep in, here I come!!

One short entry cuz it's late ... more to come about today, I swear it.

The night at Taco C w/ Menges and Kat at about oh, 11:30ish..

Laura: Okay so I have this stat professor who is the devil.. His name is Dr. Wang and...(he's this little Chinese man) (Kat and Randi laugh, not hearing the little Chinese man part) .. how old are you Randi? Okay, and so he is always bragging about himself.. (more loud racous laughter from Kat and Randi) And he's only like, 4 feet tall ..(large burst of laughter from Kat and Randi)

Kat: Thank you Randi, for joining me in the gutter..

Laura finishes her story which is still somewhat funny, but the set up was the best part.




Oh, and happy birthday, the Don. :o) (Sept 12)

Happy Birthday Steph Stock!! :) You're a quarter of a century today! Wowsas!

Happy Birthday Brian Smith! I'll leave your age to the imaginations of many...

I have been a blogging maniac the past few days, no? Here's the latest ...

Reed To Remain Open To Evacuees For At Least Another Week

Texas A&M University’s Reed Arena will remain available to Hurricane Katrina evacuees there for at least another week or so beyond the originally planned Friday (Sept. 9) closing, University President Robert M. Gates announced today (Thursday, Sept. 8). In light of the extension, students, faculty, staff and community volunteers are encouraged to continue to donate their time, “with which they have been so generous ever since Reed Arena opened to provide additional assistance to those in need,” Gates said. Hundreds of students have assisted in the effort to house and otherwise assist the evacuees, along with scores of faculty and staff, most notably Lt. Gen. John Van Alstyne and his staff in the Office of the Commandant of Corps of Cadets, the staff of Reed Arena and the University Police Department. “I continue to marvel at the outpouring of compassion and support that is allowing our evacuees to transition to some sense of normalcy, both in our community and the state,” Gates added. “In fact, we have enrolled children in College Station schools, and many people have found jobs and others have been reunited with family in other areas.” More than 200 evacuees were accommodated at Reed Arena earlier in the week, but the number has now dropped below 150.

Attention! Due to unwanted junk comments, I've turned on this word verification thing. Sorry to those of you who like leaving messages, but I get tired of having to erase stupid comments about Canada immigration and other such stupid trash.

Have a wonderful day. :o)

Happy 26th Birthday Ginger!! I love you !!!