A Very Good Day
This past week hasn't been the best ever in my life. A lot of personal things have happened that pretty much sucked. However today was a day that definitely lifted my spirits a bit. First of all I got to go shopping! And what girl doesn't love to shop?? There is this massive sale going on at Express and my mom had a bunch of stuff to return so we went there. Because her returns were past 60 days, we got an in store credit. And so we spent part of it. I got a new shirt, (it's very cute and I'm probably going to wear it tomorrow!! Yay for me!) a new purse, (I'm so sure some of you are shaking your heads since you know how many purses I have) and a bracelet. Each item was under ten dollars so I was rather proud of that! Especially since the last purse I got was around 50. So that was extremely fun. Then my mom and I went to Panera Bread for lunch. And other then the scary guy (Erika you know who I mean...SNAP) taking our order it was a very pleasant lunch. I came home and had to clean...the one bad part of my day. Then Josh and I went and ran some errands around town. That was by far the best part of my day. I usually don't get so excited about doing something like that...but Josh is leaving tomorrow for three weeks...sniff...so it was good to beable to hang with him some today. We went to Barnes and Noble to get my mom a book. She's on a Dean Koontz hype lately and needed another one to read. Josh also got one which is surprising since he isn't a reader. He's good at it...he just doesn't do it. But Monday we were chatting about reading (don't ask me why) and he said that it might be cool to read one of Koontz's books. Apparently I'm inspiring him to read! lol Then we got gas, and went to WalMart to get him a phone card and camera. None of that sounds overly exciting but I was happy to get to see him again before he leaves. Tomorrow is this youth bash and then a surprise going away party for Ryan so that should be fun. I'm hoping...wishing...no will die if you refuse...wait...cough...sorry I was having a Jane Austen moment there....anyway I'm hoping that the rest of the week is better then the days preceding today. I'm sure it will be fine. Oh and there's a good chance I've found a job so that's really happy too. So I will stop raving about my day...I will be really surprised if any of you got through reading this without majorly rolling your eyes...and let you all get on with your life!!

Oh The Problems That I Have
Sometimes I think my life is very trivial. Or rather the things that I think are huge issues are in fact not so huge at all. I'm not talking the occasional fashion crisis that I get ( which actually are rather irritating especially when they are before youth or something of that sort.). I'm talking about the things that happen in my life that end up making my day the total pits. I certain "situation" happened to me today. It had me all worked up and pissed off and in an extremely bad mood. I was venting to my mom about it...to which she replied that next time she saw the person she'd just smack him and say he was being stupid...when I realized that I was giving this person way too much control in my life. I think I might have a tendency to do that because I did the same thing with Rick. I was really mad at him, and I would get all worked up and he never even knew. He was ruining my days without even being aware of it and that's just lame. When someone pisses me off the last thing I want to do is give them power over my life, but by staying so mad about it I'm doing just that. So after getting good advice from my mom I decided to just forget about it. That person and I spoke our peace to each other and now I should just move on. That way it won't ruin the rest of my day. And that way I hopefully won't go into it while Erika and I are makeup shopping later this afternoon. If I'm gonna get upset about something there are definatly better things to get worked up about. So yeah I guess you can learn something from everything that happens in life. And one thing I'm learning from this, is to not let these kind of situations ruin your day.

Frustration
Alright so I'm starting to get really frustrated with Blogger. Every time I try to sign in it says that my password is wrong so I change it, sign in, and the next time I try it's says that it's wrong again! GRRRR!!! Other then that life is going pretty good. Obviously yesterday was the fourth of July, and I had a really good one. I had a BBQ with my family, and Josh and Michael. It was pretty fun. We played basketball after lunch...well the boys played and I watched. I did play one on one with Josh...which of course he won. I'm not much of a sporty girl. Then we went to a party thing at this guy named Taylor's house. That was really fun too. All the boys went and played basketball and Erika and I watched. It's really cute to see the guys getting all competitive. Then later we went up to this ridge thing to watch the fireworks. We couldn't really see much, but it was cool getting to hang out with everyone. It's always nice to do things like that with youth people. Kinda reuniting everyone since all the crap happened in May. I really think that the youth group is gonna be ok. I was kinda worried about it for a while, but I think everyone is really starting to make it their own again. Plus I've noticed that a lot of people are getting over...or at least working on getting over...everything and that's the first step. Once people move on, then I think God is really gonna be able to make us grow. Like Erika said to me today " you can't grow in God until you forgive." OK that's probably not the exact quote but it's pretty close. So all of that is really exciting. God's also really been working with me on getting relationships right in my life. I hate when God does that...but I always love the results. Like it's never fun going through the actual process but once it's over I'm glad for it. It's cool how faithful God is in bringing friends that you need into your life. Like there's a certain person who I've been really getting close to lately. And I think it's a God thing. I mean we're starting to really be there for each other. Like today for example I was in this really downer mood and I wasn't sure why. Well they called and we started talking and laughing and they totally cheered me up. It wasn't like we were talking about anything really deep either. But they were making me laugh and it just really cheered me up. I love relationships like that. Recently I kinda "lost" a friend who use to do that for me. And it's just really cool that God brought me someone who doesn't take the place of this other friend...but really helps fill that spot. I'm really learning that God is faithful. Not just in my personal life, but just in general. If you just wake up and listen to Him and what He's telling you to do...even if it hurts...He's not gonna let you down. He's gonna be there to help you through everything. So even though I'm sad that it seems like I've lost one friend...and no one will be able to take their place...God's already helping me by bringing in someone else. I just love that about my God. Alright, I seriously didn't mean to get into all that on my blog! I suppose this is one of those times when I'm processing things on the internet!