Say won't you Say

Bliss

My best friend is engaged! It was so happy, as my lovely Kimmy Hooper repeated throughout the evening. I haven't felt that giddy in a very long time. Abby and Kim drove in from Dallas yesterday, myself, along with Katie and Travis's ( the newly engaged) families who also came into Austin from Dallas. Several of their UT friends and church friends were there as well. It was a celebration indeed. The story was precious, the ring fit her hand as if it had always been there, she has never looked happier than she did last night, it was wonderful. The 4 of us Rockwall girls along with Katie's roommate Jennifer stayed the night and woke up this morning to coffee and breakfast, just catching up and laughing a lot. It's crazy how much life happens when we are apart for so long! But we now know that Katie's pre-weddingness will force all of us to be getting together MUCH more often over the next 7 or 8 months! :-)

Abounding in Joy,
A

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 11:40 PM 0 comments

slick, wet, glorious

I woke up to the sweet sounds of raindrops against my window this morning. It makes it hard to get out of bed and motivated to go to campus. I would stay in my pj's, drink my coffee, and go watch one of my many perfect rainy day movies, Pride and Prejudice, or perhaps You've Got Mail , its a toss up. My roomie freaks out when its raining because she is very attatched to the idea of riding her bike to school everday, rain throws her whole day off. It brings me great joy though.

It's 9:55am, I have class at 11:00 so my dreams of staying in on this dark, wet day are unfortunately quickly being shattered.

be blessed,
A

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 7:57 AM 0 comments

missing out

I congregated downstairs with the girls when they got home from Fall Retreat today, which I could not attend because I sadly had to work. They were filling me in on the events of the weekend, funny things I missed that they knew I would still laugh about with them later, and of course my favorite...Women's Time. Every year for the past 3 years at fall retreat we always anticipate what women's time will consist of.

The guys always tell us that Men's Time is just about the same every year..."don't touch yourself and don't touch others..." hahhaha. With women's time though, each year has been quite different, but always insightful and we usually get a good laugh out of a good portion of it. Kim actually brought me back the sheet of notes that she filled out during this years talk and at the top of the page left hand side was the title of the session: "Holy Sex". I instantly knew that I had missed something good.

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 7:58 PM 0 comments

the holidays... pottery barn style

As I was working today at Pottery Barn I decided to work/shop and make my way over to the holiday section where we have lots of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and just fall in general merchandise. Of course these items include an array of leaves in many colors, none of which we actually see in Texas; the leaves go from green to on the ground and that's basically it.

Some of the Halloween items are super cute and some are just disturbing. We have these frosted sugar cookies in the shapes of ghosts, witches and pumpkins that are probably as hard as the cement outside the front door of our store; I strongly advise customers away from these cookies, they just aren't right and they are 5.99 a piece. I am a fan of the pumpkin string lights and a ghost candle that has the sweetest smile on the front of it.

I think I am bitter towards the Thanksgiving merchandise, because its also my birthday this year. This happens to me about every 4 years; as if my birthday wasn't close enough to the holidays and now I have to share it with turkey and stuffing and ewww dare I say it......pumpkin pie, sick.

I think I am going to enjoy working at Pottery Barn over the holidays this year. I can't wait for all the Christmas stuff to come out, I plan on fully decorating our apartment again this year beginning the day after Halloween. My roommates think I'm ridiculous, but love me inspite of my rather extreme love for the Christmas holidays. I fully intend on having the decorations up from the beginning of November- New years at least :-). happy early holidays.

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 10:15 PM 0 comments

and now...

Tonight at bible study we did a character study on Solomon in Ecclesiastes (tricky word to say multiple times in an hour in a half span). That time with my girls made the awfulness of the last two days seem very minimal indeed. I just kept thinking about 30 minutes before I headed over to LBJ this afternoon to have discipleship with one of my girls and then to attempt to facilitate this amazing group of women...How am I going to do this today? I spoke with Him for that 30 minute window of free time, my only free time since 8:00am this morning....I pleaded for energy, and wisdom, and a spirit of caring and encouragement. He was faithful to supply more than enough. Afterwards, I had to seriously reflect on the last couple of days and regroup.

I now see that, wishing for May to come when I am done with classes, or for the time to come when I am finally an art teacher, rather than a student, or when I just get married, then I'll be satisfied....Those things will bring new longings and a whole new set of struggles and issues to work through. I haven't got it all figured out by any means, but my goal is to rejoice in the now, to look to Him more and stronger when I feel burned out and overwhelmed.

Solomon, oh so wise:

" What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has set eternity in the hearts of man; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end." Ecclesiastes 3:9-11

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 10:00 PM 3 comments

hurry!

It's days like these that I wish May would get here faster.

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 3:23 PM 0 comments