cotton ball + tape

i wrote quite a while back a blog about one way you know you aren't a kid anymore is when you go to the doctor and get a shot, they no longer give you a sparkly bandaid...instead, they give you a plane old tan extra sticky bandaid, that rips off your skin when you take it off...unless, of course, you decided to "wear it off", which could take up to a year. well, sadly enough, it has gotten worse. i have had to get some blood taken twice in the last week, and, can you believe, they didn't even give me a bandaid. no...they ripped off a piece of cotton ball, then tore off some medical tape and stuck it onto my poor arm. so, so sad....

God's timing...

it's so funny and unexpected sometimes!

grande vs tall

every now and then my dear husband lets me go to starbucks on the mornings that i have to work early. it makes the getting up a little bit easier. ;) my most favoritest drink in the world at starbucks is a caramel macchiato. i really just like it for the caramel-one of my favorite things! anyway, i like it so much that, for some reason, i always have to have a grande, even though i never ever drink all of it. after realizing that i was doing this every time i went, i told ryan a few weeks ago that he should insist i only get a tall. so, he jokingly did. but it hasn't helped. i get to starbucks and as i stand in line i think to myself "tall tall tall-only get a tall." but then when i actually order it, the words come out, almost as if i have no control over them, "i'd like a grande non-fat caramel macchiato." i think, "well it just sounds so good... i'm sure i can drink all of it this time!" but, i never can. what am i so greedy about such a silly thing?!?

i have a great husband..

when i decide i'm too tired to make it through the movie he's into, he just turns the volume off and watches it-insisting it's just as good that way!

a new discovery

i have, for quite a while now, been a fan of john piper! i enjoy reading/listening to his sermons, and when i recently shared one with a friend, he told me about the narrative poems piper has written. so, today, i took some time to look through some of them and decided to listen to one he wrote about ruth. i picked it because ryan is translating through ruth in hebrew right now...so it comes up in conversation from time to time. anyway, i enjoyed the poem very much. this part really stood out to me: 

And tears

cannot conceal that generations yet

to come through us, will not forget

to praise the bitter providence

of God that wrought for us immense

and precious mercies in this place

and lavished me with painful grace.

a rod of famine was the price

for me, that opened paradise.

(You can read or listen to the rest of the poem here) 

until next time...

date night

the other night we went downtown and had a nice little date... can you guess where?!?

make-overs

it seems like every other post is about some television show i've recently come to enjoy. i apologize for that, especially for all of you who think television is a waste of time-i'm probably offending you with all my talk of it. deep down, i agree that it's usually a waste of time...there are other things i could be doing, but honestly, sometimes it's nice to chill in front of the tv and enjoy a good show! for years, we didn't have television to watch (i mean, like the past 8 years or so!), so maybe that's why i'm eating it up right now...
anywho, on to the good stuff, one of the shows i love to watch is TLC's "what not to wear." people vote in their friends, family members and co-workers who seem to have no fashion sense, and in the course of an hour, they are completely made-over...transformed...metamorphisized... and i love to see this change. i think about the verse in matthew where Jesus says, "don't worry about your life...about what you will eat or drink or what you will wear...for isn't life more than these things?" (paraphrased)...and as much as i love to see the change in what these fashion-challenged people wear, i like to see the transformation that takes place inside. so many of these people start the show with a very low self-esteem. they don't feel very good about their bodies, which is displayed outwardly by tacky clothing, oversized clothing, overly-revealing clothing, or just plain ugly clothing...the heart of the problem, though, is much much deeper than the wearing of what should not be worn. and oddly enough, i think that has been touched on in every episode i've seen. and the people come out, at the end of the week, with their sweet new clothes, great hair-cuts and perfect make-up (used to "enhance the beauty that's already there") not only looking better, but feeling a whole lot more confident about who they are. and really, i think this is a very good thing.
i think, too, this is a good image of all problems in life...a lot of times they masquerade themselves as shallower issues, when really they are deep down parts of who us, and deep down parts of the person we see at work each day, or that we share a bed with at night. maybe we just need to take a little time to look a little deeper..
just a thought...