updating

i haven't posted in a while. that's for no reason really, except that i've been busier at work and otherwise. :) i know you are all just wilting from the lack of sustenance graciously provided to you by this blog, and thus i feel it's my duty to continue provision of that life-giving brain food you have all, no doubt, come to depend on.

so, here are a few things that have happened in my life since March 7th (date of last post).

I...

...made some summer fun-plans. these are currently including, and not limited to:

• going to chicago for a weekend in July. this is a plain fun trip.
• going to peru for two weeks in June. this is a missions trip. which will hopefully be fun.
• possibly going to Florida with The Fam to watch a shuttle launch. there is potential for fun here, mostly because of the Florida part.

...applied to the university, hopefully to start this fall.

• still don't know what my major will be. right now i'm "Undecided - General." any suggestions are welcome. current possibilities: political science, philosophy, english, psychology. not really too serious about the last one, but it would be neat, i think.

...remembered how very much i love spring flowers.

...decided i don't really care much about the death penalty, at least in this state.

• and, i am tired of hearing about it.
• i hate politics.
• and stupid people. er, i hate it when people are stupid.
  

...learned far more than i ever have before about the beauty of the unconditional, forever love God pours out on all of us. and how that aspect of God's character is displayed in human relationships.

...thought pretty hard about getting my hair cut, but in the end, i didn't. at least, i haven't yet.

• but it might happen, sometime.

...finished paying off my car. you (may) have no idea how great a feeling that is! i will get the title transferred to my name as soon as we get to a...title place...?...and sign on all the appropriate dotted lines.

...listened to some more of the Heaven book. thoughts are forthcoming.

...have gotten spring fever, or whatever they call it when you are overly anxious for warm weather.

• i have also gotten nervous because it could still snow, or be cold.

...learned not to put too much faith in people. or maybe i'm still thinking about that one, and trying to decide how much is too much, and how disappointed i really should be when people i already know are fallen human beings fall, further than they are expected.

...still haven't done my taxes.

...canceled some store credit cards that had been the bane of my financial life for several months.

...was sick for the third time this winter.

• the first time it was strep, and then i had some kind of gross coughing disease.
• this time it was rhinosinusitus, a.k.a. a sinus infection (the rhino part is kind of neat in the other term).
• really, who can blame me for hating almost everything winter brings?