for using me in spite of me. Wow. I'm so glad my friend sees God in me, and I didn't even have to say a word.

"Preach the Gospel always. If necessary, use words." -St. Assasi

I wasn't too happy about the cold weather returning until I saw all the pretty snow today...

In other news, one of my tests that I was supposed to have this past week was moved to next week. Yay! So now it's on Tuesday... I probably ought to study for that this weekend...

Pray for a friend thaht I am trying to reach out to...

Satan did a number on me this morning... I don't like him at all...

Valentine's Day chocolate, Girl Scout cookies, and new clothes from the Gap make me happy inside. And snow!

Well happy Valentine's Day/ Single Awareness Day, depending on your relationship status.

I wanted to share with each of you a Valentine story you can appreciate regardless of whether or not you're in a relationship. It's about the best Valentine's Day I had before I moved to TN.

A tradition some of my friends and I formed back in TX was to announce ourselves as Valentine Rejects when Valentine's Day rolled around. You see, most all of my friends were single most all the time (we didn't have many guys to choose from at our small private school, and what guys we did have weren't all that special). Yet still there would be some older couples or someone who received a singing telegram from a secret admirer, just so that the whole thing would get rubbed into our face that we were in fact, single. Even if we were ok with it the other 364 days of the year, none of us liked to be a Valentine Reject.

So February 14, 2001, rolled around. And once again, I was a Valentine Reject. Granted, I had chosen at that point in my life to not date and wasn't interested in anyone anways but still... a girl loves love.

So after calling myself a reject all day long, I went to church that night. Yes, Valentine's Day fell on a Wednesday. Now I had all the couples in the youth group to remind me what a reject I was. And what the whole situation worse was that they were selling carnations to raise money for a mission trip! How horrible! Sell flowers to encourage couples that probably shouldn't be dating anyways so that we can go spread the love of God... or at least that was my thought.

Well what a bummer. And then I was surprised. A friend of mine walked up to me that night with a carnation and said, "Here Amy, I bought this for you. Happy Valentine's Day!"

My heart lept with joy! Granted, this was just one of my gal friends, and not some cute, godly man with a glowing auroa that made the angels sing and say, "This is the one!" but someone took the time to think about me!

Wow. And then I realized that night that God always thought about me, loved me, cared about me. He wants to be my Valentine each and every day. He loves me and pursues me and is the only One who can complete me.

Both this year and last year I had a special valentine to share this day with, and I thank God so much for Him. Yet this one thing I still cling to: God is my first love. If no one else loved me He would. And He has blessed me with Garrett and with all my other friends (you guys!) and y'all show me love in another way. Love is an awesome thing, especially when it comes from God and is centered on God. So my friends, whether you're sad about S.A.D. (Single Awareness Day) and so excited about celebrating with your Valentine, know that you are loved by God.

So much going on... I hate not leaving remarks for y'all but I am still reading (or at least scanning) your entries.

Three tests next week. One I expect to be 100 questions. Another one will consist of some questions and then an in-depth essay that accounts for 50% of the test grade. Good thing I can write. Now I just need to know more history to write about.

Valentine's banquet tonight- and I'm so glad Warren pretty much took over for me. He is an excellent director and I am just a stressed out college student.

Prayer for tests and the play are appreciated.

You should be proud, Nathan...

Amy Bonin typed her name into Google yesterday, and one of my Phusebox entries was the third search result! Crazy...

Why did I worry? Why will I worry again? God just keeps placing everything at the perfect place and the perfect time. He knows me better than I do. He has control over the universe. When will I finally learn to completely and totally trust Him no matter what?

I had a cancelled class today and yesterday. That's pretty awesome.

I haven't taken very many pictures since I started college. What's the world coming to? I feel so sad because I don't have enough pictures! Agh! I need to start carrying my camera around everywhere like I used to. Too bad my purse is small...

Deep question of the day: If humans were ever cloned, would they have souls?

So MTSU does not offer any musical theatre classes, but they do, in fact, offer Japanese Landscaping.

Wow.

Oh the joy of knowing that I do not have to be good enough, because Christ covers all my imperfections, and works through me in spite of me. As long as I remain in His Will, I can never be a failure.

I need to read for school... but here I am posting...

Ok, so yesterday at work I found out that a woman that comes in to work in the business office once a week fell and had a hemophobia. Things weren't looking good for her. But now things have turned around and she's doing great and talking and remembering so that's awesome! Praise God!

Oh darn it... I so had something else to talk about... *thinks*

I have to say that my history teacher is so awesome. Regardless though, I'm kinda anxious to get out of these general ed classes and move on to something more interesting. In the business office I see a lot of schedules, and sometimes I'm surprised to see freshman taking a lot of classes related to their major. And then I see sophomores and juniors that may be (or may not be) taking classes in their major, but are still taking general ed classes. It's tempting to wait until later to take some of them, but man, I would hate being a junior stuck in a class full of freshmen. Though it would be significantly easier other than my other classes... ha ha.

Ah yes, now I remember what I really wanted to talk about. Sunday, after a long weekend doing 3 for the Son, I was forced to partake of the class known an New Member Orientation. And I've been a member of Belle Aire for over two years! That's procastination for you, folks. But Lindsey, Adam, and Nate were there, and Nate and Lindsey and I totally cut up and wrote notes the whole time. Then afterwards, Nate took Lindsey and me (and Wes) to the roof! It was so awesome! Everybody should hang out on a roof somepoint in their life. It was a cool experience...

Ok... guess I oughta do that schoolwork now... bleh...

This weekend was awesome. I feel so blessed to be a part of it as a Bible study leader. I definitely hope to do it again. Here are some pictures...


This is Marshmellow, the Hornsby's adorable puppy!


This is Amy Bonin and me with Seth, our speaker for the weekend! He's an awesome guy!


Michael and Rob, two very cool guys that lead the seventh grade boys (aren't they brave).


Me with one of the girls, Hannah. She was so sweet and always attentive!


Here are all the girls Amy and I got to spend the weekend with! They're so awesome!

Do you have those days when everything is frustrating and you don't know why? That's how I feel right now...

Quote of the week (from Wednesday, I believe):
Vivian: "We've been dating since my freshman year of high school. Well, on and off. Mostly off."
Ben Williams: "Is that the way your marriage is going to be?"

Quote of the weekend (from this morning):
Brother Dean: "Everyone who comes to church this morning will be either sprinkled or immersed."

It's really great to know that God's in control and I'm not.

After being pretty darn stressed and pretty darn tired with new changes and following through on commitments, it's been great to feel God's peace today as things fall oh so perfectly into place.

Yeah... I totally dropped my acting class to add a communications class... and I know it was from God because they were all closed. And yet there was a spot right there for me, right there after I checked for it because I felt prompted and compelled to do it.

He stirred my heart and whispered that I was only meant to stay in my acting class for a short time, enough time to befriend a girl that I will still see in two of my other classes.

Next weekend I'm helping out with 3 for the Son and there's one more thing in my life I've got to let go of before then... something I will struggle with the whole weekend... but I'm going to give this to God and ask Him to work through it, because His strength is made perfect in my weakness.

And now that I've sounded way more spiritual than I really feel...

You can leave some comments and tell me about your day. :)

Anna, feel free to correct my title... ha ha...

So today was the second day back to class and my first day to experience Computer Science Orientation, Psychology, and Intro to EMC (or as Anna calls it, "intro to major").

Computer Science Orientation looks like it will be kinda boring, but probably pretty easy. At least  it's only a 55 min. class and I can leave early when we're in the computer lab (which is on Wednesdays and Fridays).

Psychology will be interesting, but does the class have to be so huge? Actually, I don't think the number of students in there bothers me too much, because I think I have just as many in my history class and I feel pretty good in there. But the room just seems to swallow everyone whole, because it's too big, so there are a lot of open seats in this overwhelming room.

And then there's EMC. It was great to be reunited with Jolene and pretty much a third of my Understanding Mass Media class from last semester. Or maybe a fourth. But the point is, there were quite a few familiar faces in there. And while I'm still not into all the exciting stuff yet, apparently our teacher is going to make sure we get some hands-on experience, so I think that's going to be pretty cool.

AO tonight! Yay!

Rain on the first day back to school = uncool. But it was a fairly good day regardless.

My acting class seems pretty cool. It's small and I always like that. We played an icebreaker game and I already know everyone's name and guess what? There's another Amy! Ah! Figures! Most of them aren't theatre majors either, so I don't have to feel inferior... ha ha. We have to read eight contemporary (1960s to present) plays (of our choice) so if you have any suggestions please let me know.

My history teacher is waaaay cool. His class is going to be a little challenging, but I think I'm up for it. 75% of my grade is three tests... EEK! The other 25% is a research project. I think I'll learn a lot in his class though. Sarah B.'s in that class with me.

And God's up to something. There is a girl I met in my acting class and it turns out that she is in THREE of my classes! Yeah... three! And I know she's not a Christian. She cusses a lot and such... but she seemed to take to me pretty quickly (after she discovered we have the same major). So yeah... pray for her... and pray that I can be a witness to her. Because this is just too insane..

And I have to say... I love the library, and having adventures there with my friends.

MW: I have a break from 11:15 to 12:40. I think at this time I'll eat with whoever is avaliable and probably work on homework and such. I think the library and I will advance our relationship this year. It just seems like too much to rush back to work somewhere in this time period.

TR: I am avaliable after 12:45, and I'll probably take an hour (or less) break before I go back to work.

F: I'm avaliable after 11:15 and I'll probably take an hour (or less) break before I go back to work.

Let me know if you're avaliable at these times...

I wish I had something more interesting to post. I guess it's a good thing I'm not in an English class this semester considering that I have had severe writer's block: on here, in my novel, and even in my journal. How sad...

When do y'all have a break for lunch? I don't have my schedule with me at the moment so I don't remember... but I will get back to y'all on it...

Also, on MW I have a pretty darn long break between two classes (like two hours). I'm not sure if I should go back to work, eat lunch there in the break room, work, and then go to class or seize the moment as a time of rest, or maybe go to the Rec Center and do something like cycle for a while, eat, and then go to class. Of course, some of this depends on what y'all are going to be up to at the time. Let me know por favor.

So Amy Bonin, Sarah Branscom, and I had a great adventure today after work. I'll let them get into all the juicy details of our exciting time if they want to, but we totally saved a squirrel that we named Woody. He had a broken leg and we took him to a vet and they're going to take care of him. I think we deserve merit badges...

I don't like contacts. They are evil. They fold over, end up on my eyelashes, and do all sorts of other crazy things other than end up in my eye where they belong.

So where do y'all go to buy sunglasses? I need some (that aren't perscription) now that I am supposedly wearing contacts.

Today at work I discovered that there's a guy at MTSU named Michael W. Smith. How ironic...

And today is the Phantom's special day...

Phantom of the Opera will soon be the longest running Broadway musical in history, beating out Cats. I've been to NY three times and still haven't seen it... or any Broadway show for that matter. So who wants to take me to go see it? It'd be fun. I'm sure Nathan wouldn't mind us staying with him... ha ha...

I also want to see Beauty and the Beast and Little Women. I'm such a girl...

The Phantom of theOpera is here
Inside your mind...

Remember Doug?

The HTML results aren't working, but I took a Doug character and it said I was Judy:

"Judy is Doug's older sister, a self-absorbed, melodramatic, wannabe actress who never steps out of the spotlight. Although she makes life difficult and embarrassing for her brother at times, she loves him, and he digs her, too. Alas, to Judy, Doug will always be a part of the supporting cast."

I try not to be self-absorbed... but melodramatic and wannabe actress work... ha ha...

But right now I can relate to Doug's dad in that one episode when he kept crying out, "Oh my writer's block!"

*Sigh*

So guess what's cool/weird/freaky? My third grade teacher randomly e-mailed my mom this morning and said she that one of her friends, whose mom used to work with my mom, was talking about us going to the wedding and meeting MWS, and she was like, "Hey I used to teach Amy!" Totally weird... but cool. I think it's awesome that she remembers me. I think that's one perk of private school...