so i am a dork...and i am sitting here watching the spelling bee...BLAH!!! it's fabulous! i so need to be working on packing and cleaning, but nope, sitting here watching this and drinking coffee...so i am a lazy dork now...

dad will be heading up tomorrow to help me pack up and move. were going over to sign the lease as soon as the office opens up and then i think we are just going to move the necessary things into my apartment and the rest into the garage--YES I GET A GARAGE, for FREE!!! wahoo!!! drew and i want to paint the master bathroom and the living room and dining room-oh did i tell you that this is where drew will move into when we get married and it's in the same apartment complex where he and josh live now... wierd. but anyways, ill try and post some pictures before we get everything moved in, but they are having to fix the floor by the patio door-theres MAJOR water damage and literally a hole in the floor...anyways, i really need to get off my butt and pack and get stuff organized so that i know what i want to take over there when dad gets here tomorrow morning.

GOOD NIGHT ALL.

Oh, p.s. my sorority grandmother, aka granny on my side bar here is in labor up in alaska...so please keep christie and aaron in your prayers and welcome baby harper into the world soon...i don't really know the official time difference, so baby harper might actually be in the world now, either way--PRAY hard!!

"let all you do be done with love"
-m

note to god...

so these are the lyrics to the song that Charice sang on Oprah a couple of weeks ago and i absolutly love the lyrics to it and i just wanted to post them, possibly working on a theme time or worship idea for watersports with this...

If I wrote a note to God
I would speak whats in my soul
I'd ask for all the hate to be swept away,
For love to overflow
If I wrote a note to God
I'd pour my heart out on each page
I'd ask for war to end
For peace to mend this world
I'd say, I'd say, I'd say

Give us the strength to make it through
Help us find love cause love is over due
And it looks like we haven't got a clue
Need some help from you
Grant us the faith to carry on
Give us hope when it seems all hope is gone
Cause it seems like so much is goin wrong
On this road we're on

If I wrote a note to God
I would say what on my mind
I'd ask for wisdom to let compassion rule this world
Until these times
If I wrote a note to God
I'd say please help us find our way
End all the bitterness, put some tenderness in our hearts
And I'd say, I'd say, I'd say

Give us the strength to make it through
Help us find love cause love is over due
And it looks like we haven't got a clue
Need some help from you
Grant us the faith to carry on
Give us hope when it seems all hope is gone
Cause it seems like so much is goin wrong
On this road we're on

No, no no no
We can't do this on our own
So

Give us the strength to make it through
Help us find love cause love is over due
And it looks like we haven't got a clue
Need some help from you
Grant us the faith to carry on
Give us hope when it seems all hope is gone
Cause it seems like so much is goin wrong
On this road we're on

If I wrote a note to God

another 5 school districts applied to...yes, i am putting in my application to 5 more school systems this time in the Jackson area...i think drew and i have decided to "stay in jackson" for now, with the possibility of drew getting a job with jackson-madison county school system we have just decided to stick around here for now...blah, so a whole new search for a teaching job as well as a "summer job" so that i can stay here in jackson. and with this summer job i need to find one and an apartment by the 31st or i have to move home until i find a job--SHOOT ME PLEASE!!!!

...back to the applications.

so i haven't put pictures up here in a while mainly because they were all still on my camera, but i finally uploaded them to my lap top, so here is just a taste of my past semester...

trying to contain my excitement

so i am trying to contain my excitement and not get my hopes up, but i just got an e-mail back from one of the principals that i e-mailed and she said that she can't do interviews before May 22, but to call on May 27 to set up an interview...HOLY CRAP, maybe this hard work and countless e-mails has paid off, maybe i will get an interview and from this possible interview, maybe a possible job--oh prayers prayers prayers please!!!!!!

now, off to lunch with katie soon-to-be-landers then off to JCT to hang out with them for a little while for their end of the year party, and then to nova to hang out with them for a little while for their end of the year party, then back to the apartment to work on packing stuff up. and i am probably going to head to nashville tomorrow to fill out some applications at some places in hopes to get a summer job up there, then i am going to camp to help emily grill out for the first time, so please send up some prayers for peace on my part and peace on emily's part-i know she is nervous about cooking all summer, so hopefully she will gain the much needed confidence on thursday!!! then drewby and i are headed to the lake for part of the weekend...finally!!!

anyways, i have to go get dressed for lunch.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SEND UP PRAYERS ABOUT THIS POSSIBLE INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY!!!!!

"let all you do be done with love"

saturday morning cartoons...

no, i am not watching cartoons, i am watching the travel channel and it's shows about food, weird food, nothing like weird, nasty looking food to keep you from eating something....

anyways, on to the real point of this post, THE JOB HUNT!! ahhhhhh it's making me go crazy right now! For the time being i would love to just find a summer job, a job that will allow me to make the move to nashville, a job that will allow me to start making real connections in nashville, a job that will allow me to move and get a new-Nashville address that, i believe, will help me in the teaching job search, a job that will get me closer to the schools and school systems that i want to be in, a teaching job that will get me over the river and into the foothills of the mountains, a job that will allow me to really start this new chapter in my life, a job that will allow me to get an apartment so drew and i can move our couch out of storage and into my apartment, a job that will allow me to get an apartment and move my bedroom furniture from my bedroom in memphis to an apartment in nashville...this one summer job will do wonders, it will literally launch me in the direction that i want to go and all i can do right now is pray!!!! and pray hard, and then pray harder....last night, on friday night i looked online and got phone numbers for school/teacher supply stores, craft stores, scrapbook stores, and even some tutoring places in the nashville area and i am going to call on monday-unless some openings at the Y open up, and find out who might be hiring, i know the hobby lobby here in jackson is hiring, so maybe possibly the ones up there would be as well...then i may make a day trip to nashville this week to fill out applications to the places that are hiring, and taking 2 boxes of books to mckay's to sell and hopefully get a few bucks, but yet again, we will see. i also have one of our advisers who lives and works at a law firm in nashville to ask around to see if someone is possibly looking for a babysitter or nanny for the summer...but we will see!!

-off to go try and find some appropriate shoes to wear to TOOTIE'S WEDDING that is tonight--ahh, so happy for them!!!!!!! Ill post pictures, eventually...

LOVE.

"let all you do be done with love"

-M

zip a dee doo dah

*almost through my first week as a college graduate...holy cow!! my week has been easy, lazy, stressful, and so many more emotions it's not even funny. i have started to pack up my apartment and that's no fun, i have decided that i have wayyyy too many books for my own good! my room is such a reck it's not even funny-my bookshelves are almost completely empty, part of my "wall decor" is gone, my closet is beginning to get cleaned out and packed up...i don't like this not knowing, i don't like this idea that i might be possibly moving back home, i just want to know!!

*took my car in this morning to get worked on...it needs an oil change and they are going to look into 2 other problems, when/if i take my hand off the steering wheel for just a second, my whole car starts to drift to the left, and then when i apply the breaks after going fast-like getting off the interstate the steering wheel shakes really bad, so hopefully it won't be anything too big and won't cost too much money and that they can fix it today so i dont' have to drive drew's truck too much...

*tootie and matt are getting married tomorrow, so send up some prayers for not only this weekend, their wedding weekend, but for the new journey they are about to start on!!

*i applied/sent my resume to 2 more principals last night, only these were to 2 schools in sumner county for 3 different openings, so lets hope and pray about these...just one door needs to open, one door that is for me, one door that God has opened and i just have to walk through...

*drewby and i went to the midnight showing of this movie last night, or should i say this morning and it was AMAZING!!!

I personally think it was a better movie than The Davinci Code, but drewby liked TDC better...whatever! it's long, but there wasn't any part that i was ok with missing to get up to go pee, so that's a statement!! it's emotional, graphic, and so engaging it's not even funny!! i want to go see it again...but my favorite quote was from towards the end and it goes something like this, "religion is flawed because man is flawed" or something like that and i absolutely love this quote, we are all flawed and that is what is "wrong" about religion, but if we were all perfect then there would be no religion...

*so i was given the opportunity to go up to camp next thursday to help emily, the new puf, help cook for orientation. troy asked me yesterday and said that if i was available and wanted to that i was welcome to come up and help, and my response was if emily wants me there i will be there, but if she doesn't then i won't be up there...i dont' want to step on her toes or try and take over her job, because truthfully, it's hers now...i am just and "alum" so i asked emily and she was so welcoming and open to the help so i get to go up there next thrusday and hopefully help her get her mind at rest for the job that she will have to do 20 more times this summer...send up some prayers for her as well as the other staffers, they are going to need it this summer!

i am going to take a quick nap...

"let all you do be done with love"

-m

miranda...

...didn't get the job.
...has no idea what she is going to do now.
...is back in jackson.
...is so ready for november 21.
...wants to hear back from nashville like, yesterday.
...is sad, it's really hitting me today, i am not going to be at camp this summer.
...is happy for all those who will be working on that holy ground touching the lives of kids all summer long.

for those of you living within driving distance to memphis...

...check out this link to the pink palace musuem. right now, through may 31, they have free trial memberships that you just sign up for, get a temporary card, print it out and it's good for 2 people...

http://www.memphismuseums.org/trial-membership/

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, soon-to-be moms, and future moms out there!!!

Mom, I love you so much and could never thank you enough for all that you have done for me over the past 22 years. You are an amazing role model and I couldn't have asked for a better role model and mom!!!

I am graduating in just a few short hours, HECK YEAH!!! It has been a long, and some-what disappointing road, I have worked my butt off-right along side people that partied and skipped classes and didn't do their best and yet they get "Latin Honors" and I don't get jack-**it! It was awesome and frustrating and disappointing yesterday during practice, sooo many people got these honors and i didn't' get anything, well, except for my diploma, but it's just frustrating because i feel like my hard work and dedication has gone without any kind of appreciation...but whatever, this part of my life is very close to being over and i will get to start on a completely new chapter and hopefully a job will open in nashville and i will be able to just move up there and start fresh.

Please pray for all of the graduates that have graduated and will graduate in the near future.

Please pray for all the moms out there...

"Let all you do be done with love"

Love

-M

...darlin...

*spent the weekend + monday in memphis and it was good. drewby and i went to music fest on friday and sunday and he went on saturday with josh and daniel. i got to see matt nathenson(sp?) and he was AMAZING! i also got to see James Taylor-who wasn't as good as i hoped for, i got to see Jerry Lee Lewis and that was awesome-for a man as old as he is to still be able to get up there and play piano and sing and to love it...just amazing

*we looked at wedding invitations...should post this on the wedding blog, but i am lazy tonight and this update is as good as its going to get. back to the shopping, drewby and i went to a few different places and found a few different ones we liked, some were WAY out of our price range while others just looked really-really-really cheap, so we still have to keep looking. oh and we are officially scheduled for our engagement photos-on July 12 at camp, ahhh can't wait! oh and it's almost completely official that we are going to walt disney world for our honeymoon...heck yeah!!

*i have a job interview tomorrow for a day camp counselor position this summer at a private catholic school here in nashville-btw, i am in murfreesboro right now-and i can't wait. i hope the interview goes well and that this door will stay open-if i get a job then i can move up here as soon as i get an apartment secured up here....so lets keep our fingers crossed but more importantly the prayers headed to the big man upstairs...

*graduation is on sunday...graduation is on sunday...graduation is on sunday...graduation is on sunday....holy crap!!

*oh, last night when i was getting cover letters and addresses ready to take to different schools in the metro nashville school system i counted the number of schools that i have emailed and will have taken my resume by since this job hunt started, and after tomorrow the number will be over....40 different schools! and still nothing, blah!! i am still hoping and praying that something will come through very soon and that i can start not only physically preparing but also emotionally prepare for a giant move and new step in my life...

...going to go back to getting ready for tomorrow...

"let all you do be done in love"

love

m