Testimony night at 1302

Last night John, Rob and I gave our testimonies at college bible study. I was nervous, but I actually think it went really well. I wasn't super satisfied with mine. It wasn't bad or anything, I just think I could've done better. I feel like I got all the background knowledge out there, but didn't really get the good points across as strongly as I wanted to. Rob and John were both incredible. They completely blew me away with their open honesty and passion. Plus they both closed with super amazing bible verses. I closed with "So... I guess that's it!" Thanks for the memo guys! :[

I felt kind of disatisfied the rest of the night. I felt like my story had been so shallow compared to the other guys and compared to how I know it really is. When I was doing my prayer time before bed I just kept praying that somehow I had honored God and touched someone with my story. My phone went off while I was praying and when I checked it before I got in bed it was a facebook message from one of my fellow college students. They told me that my testimony had blown them away and hearing me talk about the situation with my parents had made them feel like it was okay to talk about theirs. I shared some words of encouragement I've come by during the past year and a half (my favorite concept is that even if our daddies suck, we have a Father who will NEVER leave us or lie to us) and it was so nice to feel like I was giving someone hope in a situation that I know sucks so bad. God is so good for allowing me to see the good works he is doing through me and for positioning me to help someone I may never have even known I had so much in common with.

Visionary Love, Dream Sex

When I went to College Station with my cousin a couple of weeks ago, she was telling me to check out this podcast she'd started listening to. Its out of the Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC and the title of the series is "Visionary Love, Dream Sex." It goes through Song of Solomon. I listened to it a lot on the bus ride to Daytona and its actually really good. The guy's teaching style really reminds me of Casey. Just thought I'd pass it along and see what yall thought.

P.S. I'm listening to it right now and he just said his wife told him "Even if you have to go out and work at WalMart, I'll still love you!" heh :]

Mission accomplished :]

Thanks for humoring me dear.

I love you :]

Even if I have to drive through floods, I'm on the right path!

Okay, so maybe it wasn't that bad, but it sure felt like it!

I woke up early this morning to drive to Rockdale to judge their high school dance team try-outs. It had just started to rain when I was leaving, so I was hoping the drive wouldn't be that bad. WRONG!!! First of all, I am extremely paranoid of driving in the rain. I have had 2 little fishtailing accidents and I am scarred for life. I panic when I'm riding with people and their cars do it (John has lost his arm circulation due to this fact many a time). So I was driving and it started raining... and then it started raining harder... and harder... and then I couldn't see. I am not kidding you, folks! I was so scared and just wanted to pull over, but couldn't even see next to me to tell if there was a guard rail or a ditch or anything. All I could see was the faint, white dotted line so I followed it veryyyyyyyyyy slowly. Finally it let up a little bit, but then I hit this town that was flooding. I could see the water splashing up on my windows as I drove through. Oh and P.S. one of my windshield wipers quit working. Thank God it was the one on the passenger side! And of course during the entire 60 mile drive my car is randomly swerving and sliding and I felt like I was going to throw up my heart. It was in my throat the whole time and I don't know how I got my hands ungripped from the wheel when I finally got there.

SO, needless to say I was not in the best of moods when I got to the try-outs. Well, my attitude did a 180 as soon as the first group started their auditions. I loved it! I don't know why really. I mean, it's not like I got to do anything particularly fun. And the team has a new director, so they're in a transition stage where they're going through a lot of re-building. I just LOVE dance team! I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe I'm ready to be done with being on a team, but there's no way I'm ready to have that out of my life. That's what I know and what I love. I had this opportunity today (they even took my information so I can help them again next year), I'm teaching several classes at a studio this summer, and the company I work for is willing to let me teach camps this summer even though I can't attend the mandatory staff retreat. I just feel like everything is pointing me down this path and I absolutely could not be more excited :]

Dance isn't through with me yet!

I've been thinking about it for a few weeks and I have finally come to a conclusion... I am changing my major. Well, kind of. I'm still going to do education, but rather than elementary I want to switch to being a high school dance director. That was always what I wanted to do, but for some reason I've been making excuses and talking myself out of it. I don't know why, but I'm not going to anymore. Especially after doing all my observations here in Brenham, I've realized that as much as I love kids, that's not really what I want to do all day, every day. I think I just loved it so much in high school because I was assigned to an amazing teacher with a great classroom. But now I realize that that is definitely not the norm in public schools. I was an officer for 2 years in high school, I work (worked?) for a dance company, and I have had some experience teaching in studios (I'm teaching 2 classes this summer so I'll have even more!). I know technique, I know how to choreograph, I know companies for costumes, camps, competitions... I really feel like I know what I'm doing! Especially after being on the team here the past 2 years, I've had a lot of time to think about what I would do differently if I was in charge. I feel much more confident about this route and much more excited :]

Go BC!!!

We got 3rd in Daytona, with the highest rank and score Blinn has ever gotten. Yay Dream Team! :]

Congrats to cheer for getting 2nd and breaking their records as well!

Feel free to check out our performances on varsitywired.com.

Just click on videos and search Blinn.

Nationals preview

We leave for Daytona tomorrow. This was just our showoff performance on campus tonight.

I'll be back to report on Sunday :]

Wish us luck and have a happy Easter!

So its not bluebonnets...

but its progress :]

Maybe College Station won't be so scary.

Yesterday I went and spent the day with my lovely cousin, Lauren, in College Station. It was so much fun! We went to the mall, got pedicures and Starbucks and had dinner at Cheddar's where I had a super delicious salad. Yummy :] And the more we drove around, the more I realized that I know my way around a little better than I thought I did. Plus I was very happy to discover that the drive between there and Brenham is way easier than I thought. And there's a Hobby Lobby and lots of bookstores! Woohoo!

On a worse note... I forgot my no candy rule :[ urghhhh. Thankfully I didn't splurge, it was just a Tootsie Pop. I was still irritated though. But I have been doing well with the ice cream rule! I reallyyyyyyy wanted some yesterday, but I could only have it one more time this week. Since I'm going to John's brother's birthday party tonight, I decided to hold out and wait for the special occasion. I have been drinking a ton of water (even more than normal!) and even though my weight isn't reflecting much change yet, I feel better. So that's a pretty good start I guess :]