Mr. Pattie's Day

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the cafeteria was only decorated for dinner. not lunch: just dinner. green table clothes, green cookies, st. patrick's day centerpieces, the works. one thing i didn't expect was the non-alcoholic beer, or "brew" as they call it. no one wants to admit they have beer on campus, even if its non-alcoholic. i got a can cause i was like, what the heck?

and it's nasty

that's really all i'd like to say about that, thanks

i didn't get pinched today,

so that's a good thing right? i wore green by accident, and that's a plus to this day also. the bad thing is i feel sick, like all green inside so i guess it wouldn't have mattered if i wore green today anyway cause my face would have shown it.

so step up 2 is one of my favorite movies, and i am currently watching it. it is keeping me in my dorm instead of being early to church, which i am about to have to leave for.

the point is,

hip hop is cool. i may just do it for Jesus someday :). yay :)

the heavens rejoice for the salvation of one soul

and so, they rejoice for the salvation of my soul :)

simply lovely

living weekend to weekend

the weekend behind me was everything i dreamed of course :). st. louis is the same as always and the weather proved to be the best. riding around with the top down singing to out favorite songs with my best friends was probably the most memorable part.

the zoo was great as well. a pretty day at the zoo is close to unbeatable. after visiting it, i can see the reason for God making animals.

eating at a middle eastern restaurant was a first for me. odd, and i probably won't do it again. hummus is not very good in my opinion and those little chickpeas create GAS that smells like dirty socks, rotten eggs, and a huge dumpster that has been full for a year and not emptied out... all combined into one smell :) trust me. i know from experience

and i will say again, the weekend was wonderful, even more wonderful than most. ang's mom and dad are the best and i definitely feel like i have a new pair of second parents. and even more to look forward to is exactly one week from right now, i, along with many others, will be departing on a bus to head to Atlanta to catch our flight to the bahamas :) yay yay yay. God is good, and he's going to do some wonderful things on our trip

mis amigos hermosas

close your eyes and count to 3...1..2..3..

smilee likee you mean itt :)


o o o how beautiful


mmmmm :) sweet tea and bunny ears


squeeze in between and just have a little fun

for the love of people

tomorrow will start off a great weekend with my friends, andrea and abbie. st. louis will be so fun with a trip to the zoo, to a college baseball game, and a day at the salon. along with looking foward to this for some time, today marks 2 weeks until my spring break begins, where i'll be flying out for a mission trip. a mission trip is something i've always dreamed about, but the bahamas?

wow. God is definately great! all in one week, i'll be flying for the first time, be on a mission trip for the first time, and going outside of the united states, also. no wonder i've be thinking and praying about this trip for months.

today i practiced surveying people on campus and it definitely wasn't near as hard as i thought it would be. it only makes my future trip that much more exciting now that i'm officially prepared and know exactly how to do my tasks when i get there. i only pray that God will use my witness to help save so many people that the "epidemic" will spread, starting in Nassau, then the whole island, then the whole Caribbean, along with the whole world.

ok, so that's a little farfetched but i am praying with all my heart that it will start with our very small group that started many years ago at MSU and spread everywhere into all corners of the world.

in Jesus' name.

start of something

so my day started bad.

since there's only one side to my bed, i can't really say i woke up on the wrong side, but you get the point. i slept through my alarm, got a cold shower and was eventually late for class. wonderful eh?

but its all ok. people love me even though i have these flaws and crappy things happen to me. is it really going to matter next year that it all happened? probably not. so i continue my day and just thank God that he woke me up at all, that i had a shower, that i have the means to go to class and college, and that i had food to eat for breakfast. that's more than most people have so i need to be thankful.

this day is the start of something that will get better. i'm sure of it