Fellowship With Wilderness

The Lord is my first love but in terms of this post I have to admit that it's basketball. I love that sport. And last night I went to the home opener of the men's basketball team and it reignited my love of the sport. I played volleyball in high school also but that was a late add for me- not starting until I was in 9th grade. But basketball... that was a 5th grade rec team start. I love everything about the sport. Sometimes I wish I went to a school like UNC where the basketball team rules. Don't get me wrong I love cleat chasing the football players haha but give start a race for me after the high tops and I'm off. But it's not even the sport that I love so I can love the players but really it's goes farther than that for me. I love the emotion involved in the sport and the lingo and that I will always know the calls of the refs and plays and strategies. I still don't know all the rules and regulations of football and I've been trying to learn for four years. So going to the basketball game last night... it made me miss the community of the boys and girls teams and the thrill of knowing your teammates and them easily no questions asked being your best friends. And knowing the cheerleaders that cheer during half time and the parents that always support you no matter what. That's what I miss and that is why basketball has been and always will be my first love. I hope my true love is someone that can share in that with me, Lord :)

So I realize that it is only November 11th but I am so just all about the holidays this year that I am fully embracing all the festivities that go along with it. I usually bah humbug the decorations so early and talk of the red and green but this year bring on the tinsel and show me the christmas lights. I mean yes there are only two days coming up in the next two months that deserve celebrating but those days are so good- why not celebrate them? Why not have huge sales in honor of those two days and why not let the holiday joy spread out a little bit earlier? And I mean let's be honest you can't stretch them out to beyond the date cause that's just sad. So we'll bump it up a little before and 'bam' you have me happy about the holidays November 11th. I think that a reason I can pinpoint as to why I feel like this is that I just have come to treasure my Christmas Break. I can do anything during those three weeks and it's usually things like spending time with my family and catch up with old friends and go Christmas shopping and decorate for Christmas. I mean now that my fourth break is coming up I've realized how awesome it really is and how much I can appreciate a true break from school and tests and obligations in Athens. It is a truly awesome time so I'm celebrating a little early this year. Expect a christmas card soon. Ho ho ho

Citizen Cope is just awesome and his style of music- it is just right. I mean isn't it weird that for me Citizen Cope does that and for others it's Jack Johnson or Coldplay. But Clarence Greenwood is the one for me. Ahh I just can't explain it but his music's just good. And so I had a treat of getting to see Augustana on Tuesday night for free on campus and I didn't know it before but their sound kind of reminds me of Cope's so oh my goodness Augustana was great. The lead singer has this amazing voice and really gets into- really wants you to love his music as much as he enjoys making it. I mean his guitar was part of him and his voice... I mean really great. And yes I understand that he was probably high as a kite and drunk as a skunk but he played well?

So I really enjoyed the perfomance and proceeded to buy their album and let me just say... it's some good stuff. Like the songs Mayfield and Dust- so good!
Thank you Augustana for sharing part of yourself with UGA on Tuesday.

Drew, the kid I babysit for, well let me just tell you- I forgot what it's like to give a kid sugar... they go crazy!! And normally Drew doesn't like sugar or candy or anything like that so when on Monday he wanted two donuts I said yes sir you may have two donuts. Try to live like a normal kid once in a while and have some sugar. Well the whole rest of the day I babysat him he was ridiculous/hilarious. At one point the dog ran away because they don't have a fence so Drew barefoot goes running after the dog and the biker she started to chase, flailing his arms yelling STOP STOP. So then I start running too and then the other dog Molly starts chasing me and I just had to stop and laugh. In general the whole day he was running around like a crazy man and was yelling and then his dad came home and he was like "Dad! I ate two donuts! And I have SO much energy! I need to get it all out at basketball practice today! And I have so much energy." I mean the kid repeated himself so many times and was in all honesty just running around the house in circles. It was a good day.

My thoughts- I've realized that blogging is an awesome way for me to open up and really get my thoughts out of my head and put them down on paper/the computer. i really like it and i really like reading other people's to see what's going on in their lives and how the Lord is in their life daily and constantly. I've found this is different than journaling- these are my open big thoughts while my journal is usually my more personal thoughts and struggles and prayers.

One thing I've been thinking about recently is what I'm going to do next year. There are some job opportunities that look interesting to me and they're in Tennessee. My whole life Tennessee has honestly been full of backwards people which I think I already blogged about. But I went to the UGA UT game up there and got to see some of the state and then I went last weekend to the BYX Formal in Gatlinburg/ Pigeon Forge, TN and it was beautiful up there. I mean the mountians were gorgeous and the whole state is just breathtaking up there with the mountains. I mean I don't want to be one of those people that says - oh weird i was in TN two weekends in one month maybe i should move there- because 1. there are other things i should base my decision off of and 2. i don't really want to move up to TN because i just don't. Now I may come back here in about 5 months saying that I'm moving to TN and then I can just eat my words but until then there is a lot more prayer and provision from the Lord for me to do that. Like 1- get a job there.

So until that day I'll just remember the time I said that the only car color I didn't want was white... guess who drives a white car?