Late nights, Early mornings

I really shouldn't be posting. I should be reading my Bible and then curling up with Buddy and falling asleep. (Buddy is my stuffed elephant I sleep with. He's very cuddly.)

Another school year. Back at good ol' Heartland. Already had some exciting experiences in my classes. I think it will be a good semester. Except I think I have the most boring professor that works at Heartland for my World Religions class. But Shane and I have that together, so at least we can lament together over how boring her teaching methods are.

And I'm really excited about my living arrangements. Once again, God placed me with amazing girls. New ones, and although it was really hard to let my last ones go, these girls are awesome as well. Marcy, Bethany, and Landre'. It'll be a great year.

I have an 8:00 class four days a week. It's not fun. I'm not used to that. And unfortunately, I'm used to staying up late... so that doesn't work out so well when my phone alarm goes off. Hey, if anybody has an extra alarm clock that they don't use and want to get rid of, I'd be more than willing to take it off your hands! I really need one, but I keep forgetting to buy one. And I don't know where last year's one is. Probably buried somewhere in my room at home.

Well, that's a little update on me. Things are going pretty well. Been learnin' a lot. The Lord is definitely shakin' and movin' which I really wanted Him to do. Just didn't know He would do so much at one time! That's alright, He never takes you through something He doesn't want you to learn something from, right? :)

Falling on my knees
-Natalie-

-darting eyes-

So... school starts on Thursday. Yes, Thursday. Way before anybody else. Heartland rocks. So this is kinda like my last night of freedom. And, I'm at home with my family. Which is alright, they make me smile and I can wear pajamas all night. Tomorrow I'm going to Roanoke to be with Angie. We're going to swim in her aunt and uncle's pool. All these sentences are choppy.

Do you ever feel like you have so much to say but not the words to say them? Or like all you need to do is sit and talk with someone and not be interrupted but just pour out a million different words, hoping they make sense? I feel like I've been having so many new experiences with some of my relationships with friends and co-workers. I've been learning and experiencing things at work that I've never been exposed to before that I'd like to talk about. And God has been doing some crazy things lately in my life and in the lives of people around me and I just need to... talk about it all!

But it would be one of those conversations that wouldn't make any sense and would be extremely boring. Because it would mostly be myself rambling about nothing. Which can get pretty dangerous. Seriously, falling boulders and freak storms.

My mom comes in pretty handy when it comes to these kinds of conversations. Sometimes we just lay up on her bed or the couches and talk for an hour or two. She has become my best friend who knows me better than anbody. It's pretty cool because I used to be scared to tell her anything. But that's when I didn't want her to know what was going on in my life. I finally realized she doesn't have to be an enemy and she was young once too. And if you're a Christian, you know, there's nobody else better to go to than to Jesus. And I do. I tell Him everything as well. But ya know how you just need somebody physically there? I guess the next best thing is somebody who reflects His image, which is what my mom does.

So about that whole 'I tend to ramble' thing... heh.
Anywayz, don't think that I'm trying to sound depressing. All is well, I just needed a new post and thought I'd type some stuff that was on my mind. This wasn't meant to be a downer post. :) Hope you're all having beautiful days.

God Bless ya'll

My Exciting Tuesday

Today I remembered why I don't enjoy dentist visits.

I got two fillings redone... I think. I really don't know what they were doing in there. All I know is that they numbed the entire right side of my face. But not the tastebuds so I could still taste the natsiness they put in my mouth. I also know that smoke came out of my mouth when he ran the drill thing. And that when I spit into the little bowl, I couldn't spit because I couldn't feel. And the spit just hung there outside of my mouth, a long string. If anybody's ever seen "Bill Cosby, Himself", you know exactly what I'm talking about.

I told them when they turned their little machines on, "Now don't hurt me, ok? And I have a pretty weak gag reflex, so sorry if I..." and then I made the throw-up look on my face. Poor Dr. and his assistant. Probably completely freaked them out. They asked me kindly not to throw up my breakfast on them (although I hadn't eaten breakfast).

So... then I leave the dentist. Face completely numb and looking like an idiot. I laugh all the way to my car and for five minutes in my car just thinking about it and how ridiculous I feel like I look. Even though it looked fairly normal and my cheek wasn't sliding off my face like I thought it was. So I turned on some tunes and tried to sing the numbness away. Even my RK and MxPx boys couldn't shake the feeling.

I had to watch myself put on chapstick to make sure it went on my lips instead of my chin. And I had to wipe away some drool when I took a drink. And! I could taste the nasty goop in my mouth at the dentist but not the popcorn when my co-worker made some mid-morning. Every patient I checked in at work today probably thought I was a moron. I felt like only half my face was smiling and I couldn't say certain words like "birthday".

The feeling didn't leave me until around noon, so I was fairly normal (as normal as I get) with all the patients in the afternoon. But ya know what I think? Sometimes I think dentists just try to suck the money out of us. Our teeth can decay, ya know without the world coming to an end. Hey! The world survived for a long time with dentists! If any of you are planning on becoming dentists, just let mine decay!

So... that is pretty much the exciting part of my day. Well, and then tonight Landon came to see me, so that was exciting too. :) I just thought I needed to update so that the world wide web could know the latest happenings in my life.

God Bless ya'll