Today is my last full day with all of my hair. Tomorrow, at 12:45 I'm cutting my hair for locks of love.  I've updated my user pic so you can see just how long my hair is. It almost touches the table! Actually, it might have...

I'm just a little freaked out! But excited.

Didn't intend for an entire post about my hair, but oh well!

Eight days, 700 miles, adventures, monsoons (I just learned the technical definition of one!), amazing views, great conversations and company, good food, staples, and more money spent on gas that one should in a week ( Read more... )

I don't get on a soap box very often, so please excuse me.

During one of my bi-weekly walks last week with Lindsey and Gretchen, Gretchen told us about a Rob Bell sermon where he talks about how our generation could change the world. http://www.mhbcmi.org/listen/index.php This is the link for the page with the sermon on it. Even for the ( Read more... )

With age comes ( Read more... )

I wish I had read this about 2 years ago...

"How can we answer questions such as 'What is reality?' or 'What is truth?' when the very act of asking the question biases us to percieve certain aspects of our environment while screening out others?"

My brother re-enlisted in the Marines for another 4 years.

Who would have thought that school would have ended up being one of my favorite places to be? This is the place I love. This is where I want to be. This is where my heart is. This is where my home is ( Read more... )

This place just really gets me down. It makes me feel so sad sometimes. Thank goodness I get to go back HOME tomorrow.

I was looking under my bed here and I saw what I kindly refer to as my "boyfriend boxes." After two particularly important relationships ended I created boxes to put the mementos of the relationships into to save. I decided to ( Read more... )

Do you ever get the feeling that no one is actually glad you're "home" for a few days? Do you ever feel that no one really cares? I wish people would follow through. It would make me much happier ( Read more... )

From our newspaper today ( Read more... )