a little extra somethin under the tree...

Look out St. Louis...I'm commin home!

that is right boys and girls...im heading home tomorrow...wednesday that is...so get ready y'all who are in the lou...cause trouble is headed your way. (and so's my bunny!)
:D

still face down

yeah that's right at this point im breathing in carpet fibers because i have been so face down on my knees lately by gods great wonder. i cannot tell you how wonderful it is to be on break because i can actually take the time to listen for god and then hear what he has to say. i am going to be so sad when this season is over...because i think its just going to be one of those super sweet, packed-full of frying pans (common frying pans...you know those lessons that just hit you hard enough that they almost actually hurt and leave you dazed and confused in the process...yeah frying pans). not only do i love my god but i LOVE christmas...i love everything its supposed to stand for i love family and friends and good food and being wrapped up cozy-warm with a soft fuzzy blanket (or at least supposed to...the weather lately...um yeah...) i just LOVE this time of year. maybe its still cause im a kid at heart but just the idea of christmas gets me so excited i just cant even sit still! and when i think of linus' speech in A Charlie Brown Christmas...i think im gonna explode of joy and happiness. did i mention i love this time of year?
ok so to summarize, god is great and god is good, my nose is full of carpet fibers because i keep falling facedown in amazement and i get just plain giddy about christmas and all that it entails. love to you all!

oh yeah and happy jesus to you!

and i fall face down

i had a moment tonight...er...this morning? i dunno its still night to me cause i havent been to sleep yet...anyhoo i had a moment in which god tore about a ten foot wall i had buildt up down to rubble tonight. and it was amazing. and it was glorious. i cannot tell you all how distant ive been feeling from god, a combination i think of me unconciously pulling away and being super busy with work and school and trying to keep up with everything and it just took its toll...and now that im done with school till january all of the lies i deal with on a day to day basis are quieter and i can finally hear god again...and its the most wonderous gift i could think of. and the immense peace i feel in my soul and in my heart when i know for certain that its gods voice im hearing...yes i heard him loud and clear tonight (actually most of the day) and it was SO what i needed!

darota thank you for your wonderous heart and your knowledgeable spirit...i love ya and miss ya terribly. becky thank you more than i think i can express...lately ive been needing to remind myself what a gift it is to be able to get up and go dance...thanks! and thanks to all of my other friends who have stood by me and supported me this last year...it means the world to me. i am just truly feeling awestruck and blessed...god shook me to my core tonight with how much he loves and cares for all of us, not just me. not to mention how amazing his plans for us are. mmmm.
:)

one day more...

if anyone is reading this mindless stream of conciousness that i would dare to call a blog and is curious as to what to pray for me for...well here you can pray along with me as i call on god for some much needed help:

i just want tomorrow to be over so i can get on with my life! dear lord please just let this semester die already! let it be done! i want to be able to focus on you and not feel guilty because of all the studying or paper writing that i should be doing or should be done when i choose to seek you. please let me find the strength to just focus on school for one more day (cause at this point i am just not sure im gonna make it!) please god light a fire up under me to motivate me to study for my last final! i need all the help i can get cause ive just gotta pass this class...if i dont...im gonna be stuck with an additional semester and i dont think i can handle that. please please please let me pass my final and more so my class!
-amen!

love and peace to you all! may your finals go smoothly and may we all make it through this semester unscathed and triumphant!
-m

all in a day's work?

ok so today was one of those days where i felt like i was constantly on the move and felt more like three days rolled into one...here is my day in a nutshell

it all started at 3:30AM when i got an idea and started choreographing my solo...by 4AM i was done with about a minute but had trouble sleeping after that...

6:30 i get up to my alarm and start to get ready for school

i get out the door at about 7:35 (a bit late for me) and start to warm up my car while cleaning it off...it took FOREVER for my car to warm up thereby making me 20!!!! (yes TWENTY) minutes late to my 8 am class...NEVER a good way to start the day!

when i got to school its easy to say i was just a tad miffed at the fact that only about a 1/5 of the school showed up mainly due to the fact that no one wanted to come into school today and i think most of us felt we deserved a snow day (especially since hte rest of the school around here got one!) so my classes were unreasonably small and my teachers were frustrated that there were so few of us.

i had a showing today of my choreography which didnt go all that well...i didnt crash and burn but it sure wasnt smooth sailing. it also didnt help to have at least two different people continually saying in my ear how bad they were going to do and how awful the whole thing was...gotta love how dern catchy negativity is...i managed to not be affected by it but not by much.

once the showing was over i stopped by work to pick up my pay check and wait for a pizza to take home. (felt like the pizza took forever but it was mainly due to the fact that i was starving...you see in my rush to get to school i didnt get breakfast)

finally got home and then once done eating left to go pay a visit to a birthday boy...happy birthday Sam! and then stopped at the grocery store for hot chocolate before heading to the annual Elf party. watched the movie Elf and enjoyed getting to see so many friends. i actually got a backrub and then someone played with my hair and literally almost put me to sleep...thanks caley! (i SOOOO needed that relaxation!)

while socializing after the movie was over a friend who had just left came back bearing a little dog who was cute as can be but had obviously been outside for quite sometime...the poor thing was soooo matted! it was matted so much so that my friends and i ended up shearing the little thing...yes that is right we sheared a dog with scissors and while it looked so much better it was definatley a butcher job and the fur is all kinds of lengths...we were just happy to get rid of its matted shell...quite simply the dog's coat was like thick heavy lambswool...it was just horriffic especially since once it had its new hair cut not only did the pup bounce around and do leaps of joy that it could feel the warm air again but it also lost like a good inch at least around from the shell it had created...oh yeah and i forgot to mention how stinky the dog was as well as the fact that its coat was so icky it was making everyone sneeze and or have allergy problems because of it. so yeah at 1AM the dog was finally getting shampooed in order to smell better and us weary make-shift dog groomers were heading home.

yeah im tired and weary and on top of all of this action i had a fun day full of me with plenty of random times to sit and think about some things...so yeah it was a full full day but all in all it was a good one spent with many many friends...such an insane blessing! love you all but ive gotta get to bed!
-michelle
:)