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May 30, 2004

A weekend worth remembering

We got back late this afternoon from Wisconisn, and Paul & Christie's wedding. It was wonderful. So often I can get caught up in the junk of life and forget to see the good that God is doing all around me. Celebrating with the Johonsons yesterday, it was hard to deny how good God is, or how much he has blessed them.

It was also good to be with friends. To see those who have gone on church plants, and those who went to SALT, and even to meet some new girls from Wisconsin. It was a good time, and it was hard saying good bye again.

Tomorrow: it is back to work, but hopefully I'll remember the goodness of this weekend, and keep a smile on my face.

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May 28, 2004

Weekend in Wisconsin

I just finished helping Becky haul most of her stuff over to the house, and it's time to start packing and gettting ready to leave for this wedding thing. I'm hoping for a fun weekend...I guess we'll see what happens. But, I'll be back to work, and hopefully back to blogging on Monday.

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May 27, 2004

McDonald's Moment...

Before I get to the real highlight of this blog, let me first make a comment about age and bedtime. I have started to work early mornings on a consistent basis, which, by the way, I like; anyway...this has caused a drastic shift in my time clock. I honestly feel as if I could go to bed every night at 9:30 p.m. and go to sleep right away. I've come to realize that staying up any time after that is simply "past my bedtime." Hmm. I'm not sure how I fell in truly admitting this, especially to so many (yeah, right, like anyway reads this....it's summer) of you. I am not sure if I am completely ready to embrace this change in my life, but if this is what it's like being old, I guess I can deal with it. I make more money by 2 p.m. than most of my friends and I’m okay with that.

In other news....it is time for a McDonald's Moment. Tried and true....just for you. (If I had some rating system, I must say that I would be negative a significant number of points)

So today this overly tan, I might say fake baked, woman came this afternoon. She got out of her red Cavalier convertible, and came in to the front counter. She had her hair pulled up, sunglasses as a headband, lip liner lines all around her lips with her armpit purse, picture phone (with blue sparkly face plates) and sparkly purple key chain. Coincidentally she was wearing few clothes, but I'm going to edit out specifics due to protecting my own gag reflexes.

She ordered a value meal, and two shakes. I proceeded to get her drinks for her, and told her it would be a moment for her fries and sandwiches. Then, I began to take the order of the guy standing behind her. As he is beginning to tell me his order, she buts in and says, "Um.....exactly HOW long is my food going to be? These shakes are sitting here melting away."

I graciously said it would be just another thirty seconds, she put her hand on her hip and began to tap her foot. Oh my. Meanwhile, the guy at the register asks for his double cheese meal with a coke. I take his order, get his money, and then go bag up the lady’s meal. She then asks me to remake her shakes as she is certain that they are melted and she has to drive back to campus town with them, and she does not want to drink a melted shake. OKAY. I make the shakes, that's fine.

She begins to walk away as the guy waiting is trying not to laugh and I am myself containing laughter (because, well, this lady was more like a cartoon character than a real person.) Anyway, she gets halfway to the door, realizes that I didn't give her ketchup, and comes back. "EXCUSE ME, (with as much attitude as would be inappropriate in this case) you did NOT give me any ketchup, since WHEN do you not get KETCHUP with your fries?" I kindly point to the condiments counter, and direct her to help herself.

She then gets almost out the door again, and comes back. "I need sweet and sour sauce with that?"
I reply, "Okay, how many packets?"
"Four."
"That'll be 64 cents, ma'am."
"What, you charge for sweet and sour sauce now that is ridiculous! I can't believe this! How do you get away with that? Can I talk to a manager?"
"Actually ma'am I am a manager and we recently changed our policies due to the high demand of nugget sauces we are unable to give them out for free..."
"Well, I PAID for my meal, so it's not exactly free, but WHAT-ever."

Anyway, she FINALLY leaves.....and the guy standing there says to me (with a barely straight face) "Umm....can I get a new Coke? I'm afraid the ice might have melted in the past minute."

And then, we laughed.

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May 25, 2004

Isn't this exciting

This marks entry number 50. To celebrate I took myself down to the campustown DQ this afternoon for a cool treat**. Now, I love Dairy Queen. It's a fact. But, if we are honest with ourselves.....everyone has noticed the the proprieter of the DQ on Welch is...well...a little crabby. But, let me tell you! Today, I walked in, smiled my biggest smile and ordered by blizzard. And guess what? She smiled back, we had a pleasant conversation, and I walked out of there happily eating my ice cream. Not the biggest deal ever, but it was definitely a pleasant surprise. And you know what? I think the ice cream tasted better.

**events of this story may be altered for a more smooth transistion from opening statement to actual antecdote. (translation = I went to DQ before I even thought about the blog)

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May 24, 2004

That's a lot of women.

So Paul and Christie were here last night, and so were some other people, but the sujbect of roommates was brought up. Paul commented that he has had like 30 roommates or something....so I decided that I needed to count up my own number of roommates.

The grand total (so far)......is 34! Wow. Of course, the summer I was at Myrtle Beach there were 8, last year at Knapp St there were 11, and over last summer there were 8 as well. That's a lot of people. In honor of my past, present, and future roommates I feel a bit inclined to share a few stats...

Roommate lived with the longest: Alicia Hoecherl & Mara Sutch (both two years now)

Roommate lived with the shortest: Sarah Skogland (she lived with us for a month or something)

Weirdest roommate: Myra. She drove Cy-Ride, was from Nebraska, ate strange foods (i.e. lamb and cabbage), and was generally strange.

Number of engaged roommates: 4 (Kirsten, Rachel, Nancy, Alicia Kennedy)

Quietest household: North Franklin.....just me and Alicia, and a big house.

Noiest household: Knapp St. Summer 2003...oh my.

Favorite place to live: This is a toss-up between the house on Franklin Ave, and the apartment on Walnut Ave. Each was wonderful and comparing the two is probably more like comparing apples and oranges.....it's just impossible to do it. Oh wait! I didn't like the house so much, but favorite place was definitely at the cottage in Myrtle Beach....1/2 a block from the ocean.

Favorite landlord: Well, between the Bovenmeyers and Martin Property...it no contest with everyone else.

Weirdest evening at home: This one easily goes to the night that Lindsy Rohlf put on every article of clothing in the lost & found at Knapp St. (For protection of all parties, details, photographs, and other memories of this evening are edited out.)

Most memorable household prank: Sneaking out of the house two days in LT 2000 and tying all the boys' shoes up in the tree outside their house.

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May 23, 2004

this ol' house

Yeah, so the internet wasn't working again. I hate that. But, it's up again, and that brings good news to everyone.

I'm kind of sad today. Everyone finally left for SALT this morning. I couldn't get myself up to say good bye, it was too hard. But, I got to say good bye to Mara. I guess this has been a week for good byes, though I wish it wasn't.

Alicia is coming to visit on Thursday. (Alicia = best friend, now lives in Iowa City) I havne't seen her since like January or someting, so I am pumped! It's great to have somebody has been through so much with you and understands completely how you feel about something even though she's not in the situation with you.

Other than that, I've been reading a lot of Galatians lately. Especially chapter 6. It's good stuff. And, I'll probably be back some time in the near future with something more. Thanks for sticking around!

Posted by Angelina at 05:34 PM | Comments (0)

May 19, 2004

on waiting

"I wait for the LORD, my soul waits;
and in his word I put my hope.
My soul waits for the lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning
more than watchmen wait for the morning."
--Psal 130:5,6

Matt was saying in church the other day about how when something was repeated in Hebrew it puts a strong emphasis on the statement. I read this on Sunday night, thinking what is so important about waiting longer than a a watchman waits for the morning?

But then...it hit me. The watchman is alone, all alone, in the middle of the night keeping watch and waiting until morning when the sun comes up, the danger of night is gone, and he gets relieved. Those painful hours of the early morning are the hardest to wait through.....you want nothing more than to fall asleep, to essentially give up. After all, no one is watching, no one knows.

I've been applying this to myself the past couple days. Am I going to wait for the Lord, am I going to put my hope in His words, am I going to keep on when the waiting gets tough? When life gets difficult, when the waiting for the Lord get tough, it's hard to see that goodness lies at the end of the waiting. I find myself wanting to experience present satisfaction or gratification rather than waiting and trusting int the Lord, and His promises. But the truth is that there is nothing worth more than waiting for the lord, and the blessings he wants to bring into my life in His perfect timing.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
--Jerimiah 29:11

"A man's wisdom gives him patience"
--Proverbs 19:11

Am I going to embrace God's plan for my life, put my hope in His words? It seems the hardest thing to do, but I know if I pursue wisdom from the Word, it will feed me, it will give me the patience to keep on waiting, more than a watchman waits for morning.

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May 18, 2004

A day in the life...

So what is it with people and their cell phones? You'll never believe what actually happened to me today...

"Thank you for chossing McDonald's, how may I help you?"
"Can I get an orange juice?"
"Yes, what size?"
"NO, that's an orange juice!"
"Yes, ma'am, what size would you like?"
"NO I SAID I WANTED AN O-R-A-N-G-E J-U-I-C-E!" (insert squeal of tires)

At window....
"That'll be one orange juice, what size?"
As the woman peels her cell phone from her ear, "huh, what did you say?"
"Just checking your order, ma'am. You wanted an orange juice, what size?"
"Oh....uh.........medium."
"That'll be (insert $ amount)."
"What, no I said a juice," as she jerks away from continuing cell phone conversation.

Anyway, it was a painful encounter that ended with change and an orange juice. But, tell me.....what was so important that she couldn't get off the phone to buy an orange juice....and more importantly if said conversation was so important, WHY was she buying an orange juice in the middle of it?

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The friendly face...

Okay, so some may remember the story of the Radio Shack guy.....and some may not. But, this week the same type of thing happened to me.

As I was working drive-thru at McDonald's one rainy day this week, someone came through who was incredibly rude to while s/he was ordering. It was tough for me to put on my happy face and great him or her when I took his/her money. But, I did...'cause that's what I get paid to do. When the person approached the window, I became very sad...because it was a Christian that I have known for a couple years now.

The person immediately recognized that they had been rude to me, and went on to explain what o rough day they were having, and if they had known it was me, they would not have been so rude.. I was kind of taken aback. On one hand, I know what it's like to have a tough day, but on the other, we need to be a light to this world, and that includes people in the drive-thru, the cell phone guys at Radio Shack, telemarketers and so on and so forth.

Today I was reading the proverb, and this stuck out to me...

"An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends;
he defies all sound judgment." -Proverbs 18:1

...and I've decided that, so much as it is up to me, I want to seek to be that friendly face in the grocery store, drive-thru, and at Radio Shack.

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May 12, 2004

I'm Back!

Mad props (phrase only heard from Heather, not sure it fits me, but we'll go for it) to Tony for getting the internet to work at our house today...and for reformating my hard drive. Thanks Tony! (and Kirsten for staying up late and helping)

So, here's a little update on what's going on right now....
....in my head---"All That I Can Say" by David Crowder...
....on my heart--I'm kind of sad that people are leaving, but I'm excited for a 'quiet' house...
....my Bible bookmark--on I Timothy (decided to put down the one year for awhile)...
....state of my room--mildly cluttered, but driving me nuts. (I'll have to clean tonight)...
....thing I want to do this summer--start a scrapbook...
....new favorite game--frisbee golf...
....job annoynace levels--low, with rises and falls due to general rudeness of people and pouring rain when I have to stick my arm out the window a hundred times a day...

I guess that's mostly it: tomorrow, well, I make no promises about tomorrow, I have to work at 6 a.m.

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May 07, 2004

cleaning the house

This semester we sort of gave up on organized chores here at the Hunt St. house. Oops. It is kind of, for lack of a more applicable word...nasty. With parents in town, and random people moving in, I know it'll only get worse. So, I'm cleaning the house. The weird thing.....I'm enjoying myself a great deal! FOr some unbeknownst reason....I love to clean. Now, I'm not consistent, and I make no claim to be a maintainer of cleanliness, but I do like the feeling of working really hard and having a nice, clean room to enjoy.

So, I'm off to clean....today.

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May 06, 2004

blogger's block...

It's gotta be a real thing, right? I am still alive, but for the life of me I don't know what to blog about! So, I guess you're going to see the details, how ever few they may be, of my week...

I got up Monday morning.....no, I'm not really going to bore you with those details, after all, I want you to come back.

It's really been an okay week. I got to talk to my mom and dad on Tuesday, that was a good time. They are coming to town on Saturday and I'm excited to see them for a couple of hours.

I am going shopping (can't say what for) with my sister this afternoon. I like her....a lot. Well, duh, she's my sister....it's like having someone who speaks your language. She knoews all there is to know about me and doesn't seem to mind.....that's a cool thing.

This evening is Angie M.'s birthday BBQ.......Happy Birthday ANGIE!!! You have a cool name, let's be honest about that.

Other than that, I start working at the West Lincoln Way McD's full-time starting Monday. I'm excited for the change of pace, and hope to see many of my friends coming to say "Hi."

But, uh, I guess that's it. Maybe tomorrow I'll have something more substantial thought out, maybe I won't. We'll see how long this block lasts.

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