Tender Hearted

It is so amazing how God places certain people in your life; people that become such huge part of your life, that you don't even remember what it was like without them. One of those people is my wonderful friend Vanessa. Although I haven't known her for a long time, it feels like I have known her all my life. What a blessing she has been to me!

Her kind and loving heart is apparent and her love for the Lord shines through in all that she does. Her sweet notes, kind words, beautiful smiles, and prayers have been such an encouragement to me.
Early this evening Vanessa called me because she had made dinner for our family and wanted to know when she could bring it by. This act of love touched my heart so much. Amongst her busy schedule of classes, homework, work, life, and everything that comes with being in a family, she took the time to make my family dinner. Wow! What amazing tenderness.

I love all the fun talks we have had, the laughs, and the serious and deep conversations. Running every once in a while with Vanessa has been a blast... I love that we can both run at the same speed! I miss having her at school... it is so sad that she is no longer there. She is greatly missed.

Vanessa my dear friend... I want you to know that I am grateful to the Lord for placing you in my life. You are a wonderful example to me and I treasure our friendship. I am praying for you and know that you will be a shining light everywhere you go. I love you!

Running and Shorts in January

Alas because of my busy schedule and the weather my days of running have almost ceased to exist. But I hope 2009 has changed that. Along with making the resolution to be more organized I also made a resolution to end my procrastinating. Because of this I actually have time in my life to do things like running!
This month though has not been very condusive to running... first the snow and then the horrible rain (yes I know I could run in the rain, but I just don't find that overly enjoyable). Today after days of waiting for safe weather I went on a run. It was so exciting to get my running clothes out of the drawer! I made the decision to wear shorts (see Corina, I knew there would be a time to wear shorts) and when I came upstairs I looked like a cherry... red and round, due to red shorts and a red shirt. :D
I put my shoes on, Daddy lent me his MP3 player (wasn't he sweet?), stretched for a few minutes and then was off. My warm up was glorious and my run was even better. Sure I was barely going faster than a snail but who cares?!
The wind was blowing, it was misting, and the clouds were dark and ominous but my heart was light and happy!
I ran four miles and it felt great ( tomorrow will be the true test). I know now why I named this blog "The Wind in my Face"...

Tomorrow is the day!!

Well y'all... tomorrow is the day. Its the first day of Winter quarter. Aaaaaaaaah! Where did break go?!?! I guess way down deep in my heart I am excited. The first day is always quite easy with hardly any homework and that is also the day that ALL the teachers seem nice. :D
There are some cool parts about this coming quarter.

• 20 credits
• 2 of my classes are in the same room/same building and are consecutive
• Geography with Trevor... not quite sure yet if that is a good thing. LOL It will be fun.
• Taking Freddy with me
• Being done pretty early on T/Th
• Tutoring
• Finally doing math
• No science... actually biology would have been cool to keep doing
• Seeing how long I can go without coffee
• Practicing piano

Winter '09... wow! I can actually see the end in sight now, graduation is around the corner. Yipee!

So I will see some of you tomorrow!!! Bright and early, ready to hit this new quarter with all that we've got. Its going to be fun, crazy, exhausting, irritating, and a great opportunity to rely on God for everything.

Resolution #1

Along with many people I made some New Years resolutions, although I am not convinced that they really work. I made the list short in hopes that the things on it would actually be eventually carried out.

One of my resolutions was "Become more organized". Thats pretty broad, but oh well. :D

And so in an attempt follow this resolution, I purchased 3 items today. First was a big calendar that I am going to hang on my wall; it has really fun colors and designs for each month. Second is a folder with 8 organizational pockets ( I love the green and polka dots too!!!) that I am going to use for school and university info. Last but no least is my new brown daily planner. I have never had one of these before and hope that it might make my life just a tad easier.

I have this feeling that the planner is going to be a "friend" and will probably get more travel time then Freddy (poor guy).

My new planner!!! Look at all the room to write!!!! :D