ahhh...spring break.  time to play, right?

seriously tho, i think it's time for a lil r&r&g. perhaps not in that order.  but still.  time to get back to God, resting in Him, relying on Him, and all that good YUMMY stuff. 

so wish me lots of prayers!    have a good one!

ahh...so it is time to write my periodic update to my xanga page.  seems so much little nonsense has happened, i dunno where to start!

first off, i am in davis lib comp lab, where this keyboard is SOOO ANNOYING CUZ IT STICKS!!!  i hate that!  too bad they don't have mad faces on xanga.  good thing roy's gonna fix that, RIGHT?!!!!  hrm, where has thuggie gone?  he's not in claaasssss...

anyway,  i was in the new caribou on franklin st. (which is surprisingly small) studying for my exams this week, and they have this kiddie korner thing going on..with little chairs covered in fur with ears sticking out and other weirdnesses like that.  but the scariest thing?  the stuffed animals on the wall!!!  they're like those mounted trophies you see in hunting lodges (so i guess it goes with the decor), BUT THEY WERE TEDDY BEAR HEADS!!!  how traumatic for a small kid!  imagine your parents taking u to a place where they have your snuggle bear's head hanging on the wall?!!!  WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD?!!!    *sigh*

i think that's it for now.  it's exam time...oigh.  and i think i just missed my bus.    okiebye.

awww...i love my babie!!! 

so v-day, we definitely didn't do anything just us - we had brothers' and sisters' appreciation for ao christian fellowship.  and that was grand (thanx fellas!  you're the best!)

anyway, so we traded v-day gifties today.  and my last entry was written about a day i spent w/ him...and the grand hate born that day for sprint.  it was soooo sad that day - i was so depressed and disappointed (it's actually kinda sick how much i was let down...def uglie).

BUT, my babie is the bestest!  he def surprised me w/ a new phone for v-day!!!!  and i go ...

awww...aren't u jealous?  TOO BAD!  HE'S MINE!  muahahahahahaha!!!!

I HATE SPRINT!!!  (angry faces.  lots of angry faces.)  u wanna know why?

i was soooo excited that sprint was having this sale on color phones - $50 at radio shack!  so i go there yesterday to retire my old phone.  my trusty rusty samsung that probably no one else in this world has anymore.  yes.  it's time it was put on the shelf.  not that i don't luv it anymore...but...well...maybe i don't.  not sure...but that's another story.

anyway, i get to radioshack, and i'm super duper excited.  but then the guy is like "you can only buy that phone for 50 bucks if you're a new customer."  and i went

and then i got superduper mad.  WHO DOES SPRINT THINK THEY ARE?  LOYAL CUSTOMERS LIKE ME WHO'VE BEEN WITH THEM SINCE 5 YEARS AGO DESERVE SOME DISCOUNTS WHEN THEY WANT NEW PHONES!!!  I AM ANGRY!  I HATE SPRINT!!!    PLUS, THEY DENY ME MY VOICEMAIL!!!  HATEHATEHATEHATE!!!

so then i was depressed.  and i bought bakingware - a 9" springform pan and a flour sifter (yes, they are fun to use; no i'm not that big of a dork).  so now i will perhaps bake myself into a stupor of dessert bliss.  or something like that.

this week, for qt's, i've been running back through books that i've read that i've really liked, to remind myself of what i should have learned and internalized...

so last nite, i went through another section of piper's desiring god:  meditations of christian hedonist (which i truly recommend, if you're looking for a devotional or inspirational book).  this is the passage i went over:

God Works for Those Who Wait for Him:  To wait!  That means to pause and soberly consider our won inadequacy and the Lord's all-sufficiency, and to seek counsel and help from the Lord, and to hope in him (Psalm 33:20-22; Isaiah 8:17).  Israel is rebuked that 'they did not wait for his counsel' (Psalm 106:13).  Why?  Because in not seeking and waiting for God's help, they robbed God of an occasion to glorify himself.

God aims to exal himself by working for those who wait for him (Isaiah 64:4).  Prayer is the essential activity of waiting for God: acknowledging our helplessness and his power, calling upon him for help, seeking his counsel.  So it is evident why prayer is so often commaded by God, since his purpose in this world is to be exalted for his mercy.  Prayer is the antidote for the disease of self-confidence that opposes God's goal of getting glory by working for those who wait for him.

and in a following section

...Prayer pursues joy in fellowship with Jesus and in the power to share his life with others.  And prayer pursues God's glory by treating him as the inexhaustible reservoir of hope and help.  In prayer we admit our poverty and God's prosperity, our bankruptcy and his bounty, our misery and his mercy.

so then, how does prayer fit into my life?  sadly, it's a thing of inconsistency, of deetching a God who wants to be glorified through serving my needs. 

time to go to class!