CHUZZLES. PUFFLES.

my little sister showed me her "puffle" stuffed animals last night. they are off of the show "club penguin" and I was PUMPED at the fact they are just like chuzzles. when she showed me I yelled "ARE THOSE CHUZZLES!?" and she responded with "UM NO puffles DUH."

ohhh high school.

I drove all the way to Lexington today..just to do laundry. I can't complain though, I could use the dorm facilities...but when my roommate found random undies in her laundry...I decided I just couldn't do it.


 I have to admit it is extremely weird being home. Every time I return to Lexington I feel like I am in high school all over again. It's an uneasy feeling. The person I was for most of high school is a person that has been long gone for about a year now. When I enter my room I see the remains of that girl. It brings back good memories, but also a lot of bad ones. I didn't experience anything tragic in high school, but I was an angry, bitter, and mean girl. I regret so many things I did, especially the way I treated some people. So everytime I am back in Lexington, I return to a time I am fairly ashamed of, and that is hard. At the same time, I know being back makes my relationship with Christ even better. It just forces me to remember that he DIED for me. My sins are forgiven. I was given a new life. All the old memories are just that: memories. They shaped me into who I am today, but it is not who I am anymore. I am new...
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17

...DUH AL.

I have done most of my "changing" fairly recently. Being here it was hard to turn my life around, when I got to college it was simple. God put me exactly where I needed to be and gave me every tool I needed to start living for him and serving him. Unfortunately, I feel like unsettled business is back home. it's a strange feeling. I will say, however, that it is SO GREAT running into people when I'm home. Sometimes their reactions to the new me are good...sometimes bad...but either way I know they see a difference. I also know that despite rejection from some old friends..I have a crowd of people cheering me on, one of which is my father, Jesus Christ :)

On another note...I LOVE seeing my cat.. and my family too I guess. I also enjoy catching up with old friends...which I try to do when I am here, if times permits. Before I started typing this I was looking at old pictures. That's the one thing I love about this old desktop computer: it holds a lot of funny stuff.

junior year :) emma & oliver

freshman year. hannah. we spent hours taking pictures in meijer..ha

sophomore year. hannah. typical us.

senior year. bob. my best friend.

blog?

so here I am...blogging. It's mainly a result of being extremely bored on a snow day..and also because marilee has a blog and she is really cool...my goal is to be just like her.

I guess im supposed to write about my life, that seems to be the pattern in all the blogs I read...so here it goes.

Today I officially resigned from something that I once thought was extremely important. When I got to college I joined a sorority in order to make friends and get involved. It was a decision I made entirely on my own, without any help from God. That was my first mistake. I came up here ready to control my life and do everything on my own. I was caught up in being a scared freshman and ignored the fact that my life wasn't about ME. The cool thing is that god is so good and quickly changed my heart and made it clear to me what I was supposed to be doing.

Even though it was sad to sign the papers and remove myself from the sisterhood, I am so excited to throw myself into the greater things God has in store for me. Now I just need to remove myself from chuzzling...actually no, that probs wont happen.

ChuZzL3s 4 Lyf3.