Check my neck... Is it gone yet?

Yup, Kasey beat me to telling about our girls-day-out-turned-redneck-4 wheelin' - weekend. And no Kasey, you got me HUMMING Redneck Woman, not SINGING it. You heathen to get Gretchen Wilson stuck in my head! Blech!

It was so much fun! I don't think I've ever screamed that much in my life, except for maybe when we rode Thunderation 4 times in a row at Silver Dollar City in Branson. I was squealing and screaming up a storm. I'm just glad that Dave is good-natured to listen to me in the back seat all night. He seemed highly amused at me.

Mud is more fun! I wouldn't have liked it had it been wetter and therefore sliding around more, I HATE fishtailing, but turning doughnuts in the mud was THE BEST (and I'm so proud of you Kasey, you've finally learned to proper term!)!!!!

And I need to clarify some of Kasey's comments so as to not frighten anyone. We were back into a dump site, refridgerators and couches everywhere. Well, on one side of it was an old graveyard that apparently they just dug around so as to not tamper with it. But there was a really shiny urn sitting on top of something, and it looked like it was a table. It scared us. It turned out to just be a large headstone, but I was just thanking Jesus that He is on my side and I don't have to be afraid of anything the devil does.

And the pistol... it wasn't a big deal. He's a redneck, remember how everyone has gun racks in Arkansas, Mama? Anyhow, I just don't want anyone to be afraid for me, because I know how someone can IMAGINE something was can be a lot worse than it actually was. Anywho.

While I did enjoy it, I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. I won't do it again, because I did feel like I was putting my life into someone else's hands. I feel scared when anyone else is in the driver's seat besides me, most of the time. And that's just driving down the street, how much more while driving over trees and spinning in mud?

It will be a once in a lifetime experience that I will always remember. You really should have seen me hopping up on top of the luggage rack of that Jimmy and sliding down the windshield! I've always said I'd like to experience culture... never thought I'd be smack dab in the middle of redneck culture (what an oxymoron! but enough about dumb guys cleaning their face...)!

I was raised in Arkansas, and up until now, I've managed to come away uninfluenced by the rednecks. And after 1 1/2 years in Tennessee, and one night of four-wheelin', all that has been washed away.

Will I ever be the same? Is there any hope for me of becoming a distinguished citizen once again?

Y'all think 'bout that fer a spell... I'm a gonna fry up some chikn' n' biskits....

Clean up with Soaps!

For Wendy (Erika, sorry, you get the next one, this beat Farm Horror)

Soap Song by Carman

Gone are the days of Leave it to Beaver
Matt Dillon and his sidekick, Festus
Now we survive on the immoral lives
Of those on the Young and the Restless

It's not that they're young, they're just, uh... restless
Not living at all like they should
So they go to the General Hospital
But the Doctors can't do 'em no good

So they go on with their Search for Tomorrow
Not doing one thing that's right
And they all end up in Another World
About to fall of The Edge of Night

But that shouldn't matter, cause after all
As the World Turns
We only have but One Life to Live
There remains a blessed hope for you and All Your Children
More hope than Ryan could ever give

If we want true contentment, peace in our homes
With an end to marital strife
We must live for Jesus Christ
The only Guiding Light
Not one, but
All the Days of Our Lives

Meet Me at The Mills!

Good morning y'all! It is a good morning so far. Hopefully today will be a better day than yesterday. His mercies are new every morning.

Chris Rice is giving a free concert at Opry Mills Entertainment stage tonight at 7:00 p.m. I wanna go! Everyone needs to meet us there! Check it out on The Fish's website (bloop, bloop Buddy). :-)

www.94fmthefish.net

And tell me please if my music is not working. It's supposed to NOT play until you hit the play button on it. That way it won't blow you out of the water everytime you open up my blog!

Look to Jesus, people!

I Love That Place

What I got at Goodwill:

Cassettes

Kermit: Unplugged

New Kids on the Block: (whichever has The Right Stuff on it)

Raffi

Sesame Street

Dave Koz (awesome saxaphone guy)

Wes King : A Room Full of Stories

CDs

Matthew West : Happy

2 compilations cds with the likes of Newsboys, Tobymac, 4Him, etc. Great big hodge podge of stuff.

Clothing and Accessories

a purple purse

a pink striped t-shirt



Ok, I feel better now. Goodwill always has that effect on me.

Wanna hear my theme song right now?

Relient K- High of 75 clip

What's up with this weather?

It's been a weird day. I'm up, then I'm down, I'm up, then I'm down. But I guess all in all the good has outweighed the bad today. It must be the weather. "Lately the weather has been so bipolar and consequently so have I".

Okay, the bad first.

Cute girls make me feel bad. It's nothing against them, I just can't help comparing myself and I feel stupid. I need to lose weight and get over it. But then I'll make other people feel bad. Oh well.

I don't like it when people point out obvious stuff to me like I don't know what I'm doing. And they do it in a tone of voice that makes me feel inferior. I know this is easy to do partly because of my known and acknowledged lack of self-esteem (partly, in certain areas, and at certain times). But it is not all my fault. And maybe people don't even realizing they are doing it, but HELLO I've worked there since August. Don't treat me like a new comer.

Okay. Rant over. I feel better now.

Good stuff time!

Kasey & I are getting together this weekend!!!

I am slow to make friends. I am an outgoing person, but I am shy at the same time, depending on the situation. All of the personality tests I've ever taken have told me that I have so many different traits from every personality out there that I must be either a people-pleaser or schizophrenic! :-) And trust me, I am neither! I just have a very multi-faceted personality. In some situations, I am reserved, in some situations, I am wild and crazy.

I don't like to push myself on people. I am the kind of person who will sit in the back waiting for someone to talk to me. However, let me get with a shy person, and I will be extremely outgoing and friendly because I know what that is like. I know that to have friends I should show myself friendly, and I think I do. But I don't invite people over to my house because I am not proud of it. I know that we are newly married and everything, but I am a terrible housekeeper and everything is so plain and non-well decorated. Again, inferiority complex. It's not so much what people would think, it's mostly me, but I want people to be comfortable in my house. It was nice when Bro. Brian & Bro. B.J. came over that one time for dinner. He's so sweet and let us know that it's a person's spirit that matters, not the fanciness of their house (Thank you Lord, for reminding me of that just now. I needed that).

Anyhow, it's hard to put into words what I'm feeling. Good grief, this was supposed to be the good stuff part! Told you I'm being bipolar. :-) Anyways, I'm looking forward to spending time with Kasey. I'm in very bad need of some good fellowship.


Pray for my friend from work. She came to church with us Sunday, and while she wasn't delivered, she is looking the right direction. And to anyone who was there Sunday, please just pray for her. Until you are in a person's shoes, you really don't know what they are going through. And no one wants people who don't know their situation to jump to conclusions, right? She is a sweetheart and I know that soon she will experience the total freedom and deliverance that only Jesus can give.


Are you happy now Kasey, now that I've blogged a whole book? :-)

First Round of Photos

Us in Our African Hut

Am I Seeing Double???

African Lady Stirring her Pot
(Enjoy this people, you'll never see me like this again!)

Aussie Meg

More pictures to come once I upload them from my camera. Thanks so much for these Rose! :-)