I'm on Vay-Cay!
I'm in the great state of Pennsylvania right now enjoying time with 22 of my friends from all over the country who I spent my summer in Cali with! Lots of pics and I'll update when I get back! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Love, A
All I want for Christmas is.....
Christmas 1987~ Notice the Cabbage Patch Night gown, it was one of my Faves :-)
Merry Christmas to All! Luke 2:1-40
Must Love Dogs....amongst other things
Typical holiday tradition for our family is raiding blockbuster and renting all sorts of movies and games for my brothers, and this year would be no different. Lucky for me last Summer's Romantic Comedy Hit,
" Must Love Dogs" staring Diane Lane and the Wonderfully Brilliant and Charming John Cusack, was my first choice. I never got to see it, but Kari Kennedy assured me that it was my kind of movie and that I would love it; and of course she was right. :-)
The basis is a newly divorced woman who seeks to find love again and does this through an online dating service. One of her criteria in her profile is , must love Dogs, and ironically she meets john cusack at the park and they both show up with their dogs......i'm sure you can all guess how the rest of the movie went from there. So I began pondering what some "Must's" are for me; besides the obvious of Love Jesus......loving dogs is a much more siplistic love, but for Diane Lane in the movie, was an important one needless to say. You should know that I am aware of the shallowness of these things, and that I shouldnt put limits or such strict criteria and what the person I could marry someday "must" be like, but this is merely just for fun and b/c I just watched the movie, these are just the random thoughts going through my head.
So I might say if that was me, Must love kids.....Must love Basketball or at least love taking me to games and watching it,and loving my beloved Mavericks wouldnt hurt.......or Must have a passionate love for music, playing it, listening to it, watching live music, all of the above........a Must love of laughing.....a love of traveling......a love for knowledge and for people......As for animals, i dont so much care, definitely not a cat person though thats for sure, but Dogs are great...This whole idea is probably making most of you gag right now, I'm sure, but thats ok, because if you know me at all, I'm sure you are not a bit surprised that I would think about such things. ;-)Christmas is almost here I cant believe it! We start the non stop festivities here starting tomm night through the day after christmas; and so the craziness begins :-)
you better watch out, you better not cry :-)
Back in Dallas with the Fam and I'm so happy to be here with all of the family for the holidays. My mom is thrilled to have all 4 of her kids home and together for Christmas. I've decided not to let myself get stressed this time around. While having a split family and lots of extended family to see in such a crunched amount of time is undeniably a stressful situation always, I am going to try and just enjoy it more rather than trying to please everyone. I saw one side of the family for a christmas party the other night. I took my litte brother and sister shopping in all of the crazy maddness yesterday, I'm a very brave soul it was aweful out there at the stores! We've already watched a handful of classic christmas movies, and my brother and I got to watch my MAVS play and win last night! Its the first game I've got to actually watch on tv all season!
Things I love most about being home: Being able to hug my mom a lot!, our Christmas Tree, my mom cooking for me, the cold nights and looking at all of the stars out here at my parents house in the country, being close to lots of family, getting to see Kim,Katie, and Abby in a few days!, all the familiar hwys and roads, Having long talks with my mom about nothing an everything.
Things I miss about San Marcos already: my bed, my roomates, the Garcias, the christmas lights at night where sights and sounds was, all the trees around the windows of my apartment, kim, linds, nik; Mochas and Javas, which I recently reunited with close to the end of the semester after taking some time away ;-)
Blessings to you and yours, A
Simplistic Reminders
I love how the Lord uses such unique, intimate simple reminders of his goodness and love. Rather in a song, or in the wind blowing, or just being reminded of the whole reason why we celebrate this holiday season in the first place. The Christmas story seems so ritual and we forget how precious and true it is to our own lives. Last night there was a beautifully done christmas concert at the church and even just some of the lyrics in the songs were ringing such truth to my heart. There are so many things to get caught up in during this season and last night all I could think about was not the gifts that I hope to recieve or the gifts I still have yet to buy....but Jesus. I hope I can continue to remind myself of these truths as the season progresses; I feel like in going home its only going to become harder to not get wrapped up in all the Hoopla that comes along with this time of year.
Days till completely done with this semester: 1
Days till Kim's birthday: 1
Days till Bri Graduates: 4
Days till heading home:5
Days till my brother is here: 8
Days till Christmas:12
Days till PA/New York Project Reunion: 14
All Out of Wack
" Everything's Changing, when I turn around i'm out of my control, i'm a Mobile.........Spinning around with mixed feelings crazy and wild, sometimes I wanna scream out loud....everything's changing, all out of my control, out of what I know...."~Avril Lavigne, MobileThe last few days have seemed like this. It has seemed like everything that I know to be consistent has been changing. There are a lot of goodbyes; Bri, DJ, Michael........Those are never fun, especially with people you have been incredibly close to and are just used to always being there. Other things have just felt abnormal.....last night I shared with Grace that I'm so used to my plan, never lining up with God's plan....and not just his plans for me, but for my friends as well. While I know His plans are ALWAYS good, and ALWAYS better than anything I can see or think up....this transitioning stage is never fun. All you can really say is, " ok, well....so now what?" Change is hard, and I dont like it. On another note, Finals , for the first time ever have been so good for me. I love my major during times like these, I had to study my brains out for three years of finals,and now I am getting a little break in being pretty much done very early. Also, Our Texas State Bobcats have a Semi-finals Playoff Game here tonight!!!!!!! This has been so exciting for our school and we are actually having school spirit!!! It's gonna be so fun. And my highlight of the last few days...ITS BEEN SO COLD HERE!!!!! That is truly an answered prayer of mine, silly as it may be. I Love that it has actually felt like Christmas time here the last few days, Praise God! Eat Em Up Cats! :-)
Sure,why not?!
Michael and Kimberly both used this little game on their blogs a while ago, but I liked it so here it goes.
Five things I like and should:
1. California and the Beach, esspecially at Sunset
2. Stars
3. Coffee, Mint Mochas esspecially
4. Candles, and nice scented things in general
5. The Dallas Mavericks
Five things I like and shouldn't:
1.Desperate HouseWives
2.Nsync, still, and also I'll admit Hanson too
2.Sex and the City Dvd's
3.Driving Fast
4. wrapping houses, amongst other immature things I did in the 7th grade, hahaha
Five things I don't like, but should:
1. reading for educational purposes
2. Being thrifty with Money
3. the Dallas Cowboys, dont hate them just not in love with them
4. Frisbee
5. Anchorman, I dont understand the big deal
Five things I don't like, and shouldn't:
1. Decaf Coffee
2. People who dont say what they mean, and mean what they say
3. Commons Dining Hall
4. bad hair days
5. when good songs get over played on the radio and you get sick of them
An ode to the ladies in my life...
Grace...my girl...we've been here together through lots of things....She loves to have dates with me....we love to have the girliest chats, because she knows i live for that stuff, and by that I mean Boys ;-) She is sticking around here another year with me...I'm pretty sure she planned it that way b/c we just werent ready to part yet! She's so beautiful and classy and always has matching eye-shadows, and will go to austin to magnolia cafe' almost anytime, and loves nerdy red-heads, and also, Joaquix Pheonix!
This is me and my roomate Bri our freshman year here at Texas State at the annual Cru Christmas Party that is coming up for my fourth time this weekend.....Bri is graduating in 2 weeks and moving out and to Houston where she has a job and an apartment waiting for her...this pic makes me a little sad b/c i know its the end of an era of Amanda and Bri, the Rockwall girls who took on Texas State together....I will miss her lots
Nikki, Kim, Linds.....Seriously I have laughed more with these girls than ever before.....the night before my birthday was one of my all time favorites.....Kim , linds and roomie together at winter conference last year...all I have to say is Babs! hahahaha =-)
This was at Marisa's 21st birthday din din...I love getting dressed up and going out to dinner with my girls!
Fall retreat traveling is always fun and linds and our new friend Vic made it super fun! Vic got to see us in the raw.....no holding back anything! she loved it! :-)
Corrie, my roomate, we are very different indeed, we are perhaps the most unlikely friends of all of my friends, but I dont know what I would do without her. We have an honesty with each other that can be brutle, but also very loving at times. We love watching Felicity together and seeing how situations in our lives parallel the show...or at least we wish they did! hahaha
This one needs no Introduction..Marisa, Always has Joy, always makes me smile...borderline Giddy at times when I see her! She still has that bright-eyed, child-like faith and spirit about her and makes everyone fall in love with her instantly! :-) I love this Asian Girl!
These are just a few of my best girls here at Texas State, I just felt compelled to show them a little love! :-)
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This one needs no Introduction..Marisa, Always has Joy, always makes me smile...borderline Giddy at times when I see her! She still has that bright-eyed, child-like faith and spirit about her and makes everyone fall in love with her instantly! :-) I love this Asian Girl!
These are just a few of my best girls here at Texas State, I just felt compelled to show them a little love! :-)