Crispy Crispy Critter

i totally did not blog last week...my bad. i am curious to know if i even have any avid readers who anticipate my new posts. Probably not, because this is more for me to ramble my thoughts and be a crazy passionate lady. BUT if there are any, my deepest regrets go to you all on failing to complete a nice post last week =( forgiven?

anyways, so the last time i wrote was on valentines day. i hope you all had a wonderful love day and have memories that will last a lifetime. i unfortunately didnt hear any really sweet stories...does anyone have any?? i was so excited for the day after valentines to hear about jaw dropping events that would make my heart melt. i didnt hear anything about rooms full of roses or a surprise dinner...i didnt hear about any juicy poems or romantic songs...hmm i was bummed. my mom called me and told me about her and my dad's valentines date. HAHA, wow they crack me up. my parents go out to movies alllllll the time, its just their thing =) i totally get that from them...i dont think its like cliche at all to go out for dinner and a movie. i LOVE going out to a nice restaurant (haha who am i kidding, frickin take me to buffalo wild wings and ill be the happiest girl in the world...theres gotta be a lot of celery though! i dont need to go spend $30 on a plate of food...please) and then going to a movie after! its sooo relaxing and cute! so anywho, that is what my parents do probably every weekend. so they continued there tradition into love day and got some fantastic pizza (says daddio) then went to a movie. They saw "The Wrestler"...........bahahahaha! my two old folks who are just innocent and want to see a nice film and spend some quality time together saw the wrestler. My mom said she was horrified and and hid in my dads arm the whole movie because it was so gross. Poor mom had to watch men fight with torture devices....what a lovely way to end valentines day huh? and this has happened to my parents like 5 other times, you think they would start researching movies beforehand.

so i was dumb. straight up dumb yesterday. and i am most definitely paying for it today and will be for the next few days. tralala, i got off class at 1 yesterday and had the entire afternoon to do anything until my class at 5...heck i could nap, i could hang out with people, i could go for a run, i could watch some Friends, i could journal and have a quiet time, the options were ENDLESS!! mondays are like my only real days off...i am garunteed mondays off on my work schedule so i just always know i have an open day for whatever my heart desires =) so i got back to my room at like 12:55 and did the whole hands on the hip stance and just stared at my room and was like "what now....hmmm" so i sat down on the fu (we do not call it a futon...haha it is our beloved FU!) and decided to go on Pandora and see what music they could hook me up with and that turned into a 2 1/2 hour long introverted music time! i sat there completely sucked into Joshua Radin's beautiful words with his song "I'd rather be with you" and couldn't stop seeking out new fresh music to rock my soul. its a bad addiction and itunes eats my money like nothing else. i see the clock and its like 3!!! and im just like "AMY YOU WILL NOT WASTE ANY MORE TIME!!! its your afternoon off, be productive!!" so out of all the glorious options, i decided to go tanning. i think i felt the urge because in less than a week, half my friends will be in mexico or florida...getting a golden tan and enjoying fun in the sun and relaxing for SPRING BREAK!! i however decided that working would be the best for me since i am saving up for a macbook, school, krotch rocket (it will happen, taking lessons this summer!!) and a few summer trips (TEXAS!! and hopefully Belize). so yes i am actually staying in winona for spring break =( and making mula!! i think it will be awesome though guys...seriously...i have an entire week of silence to spend with my Lord......that sounds soooo refreshing!!!!! it will be weird and ill hate some of it, but ive never really had a retreat of silence and now i get a whole week of evenings with no one and nothing to do...i want to get into the word and conquer a few books of the Bible and pray in my room for hours =) =) =) STOKED!!!! so we'll see how that goes....

continuing the tanning story!!!! i get my ipod on and head over to electric beach to lay down in a bed of warmth and death! i walk in and there is a line of like 7 people. whaaaaaa?? ive never seen such a thing! then i rememberd, duh...spring break soon. no one wants to burn their pastey white skin. you think i would have turned around and just been like whatever and gone for a run (much healthier...you dont get cancer from running) noooope, i made an appointment and waited 25 mintues to TAN! i just jammed out to my ipod while waiting then it was my turn, and i trotted upstairs to my lil heaven bed of joy. oh bed 23, well hello, please tan me well! i lay down and the timer is set for 12 minutes. thats not even long right? electric beach plays awesome music and its really loud so you cant help but be giddy and sing while laying there soaking up the....rays. my face felt a lil hot and i turned off the face lamp, not wanting to burn. the time flew and i felt great and walked back to campus feeling toasty and a lil darker. SCORE! went to my film class, watched the lame movie Psycho, came back, and went to my neighbors room to chat and snack on M&M's. a few of us girls sat there and were talking about surgeries and bone breaks...and how awesome i think it would be to have surgrey. after a hour or so, my pants started to hurt me. haha, seriously i was like "whaaaat the crap, am i allergic to my jeans??" the part where the button and zipper meet was irritating my stomach and it started to like itch and burn and i kept having to adjust my jeans. i was so confused. everyone was probably wondering why i kept getting up to fix my jeans then sitting back down, ha. out of nowhere someone was like "hey did you go tanning...you look darker" and im like "yeeaahhhh i did" (in my head i had totally forgotten that i went earlier) then i sprang up and ran to my friends body mirror and lifted my shirt to look at my stomach and i was REEEEDDDDDD!!!!!! BRIGHT PINK RED STOMACH!!!! like a roasted red lobster!!! everyone was like "oohhhhhhhh aaaammmmmmmyyyyy!!!" ahhhh the inside of my elbows were red, my neck, my chest, my thighs, my back, my everything BURNT! its like someone put me in a rotisserie chicken oven and took me out hours later to reveal the crispiest critter ever!!! the rest of the night i could barely move...everytime i sat or stood up my dry cottony clothes rubbed against the tender burn alllll over my body. good roomie stephanie rubbed lotion all over me and i went to bed with a fan on me full blast. its like i got a turn to be the sun for a day...i was radiating heat like none other. my skin was on fire. today it has toned down but some parts still have that burning feeling and it looks like my skin is swollen =( well i wont be going tanning again for some time. maybe they were new bulbs? im not sure...but i am sure this KILLS!

talking about it makes it hurt sooo on a more serious note....Romans is cool. i know i have said this before and have shared from Romans before but seriously Paul is the man. He reminds me of me....he kind of goes off on rants and says the same thing and he "snowballs" his thoughts. ive been said to snowball...thanks steph. its really cool if you guys do this, frickin get into the word and get to know the people you're reading about. they have personality traits too and you may find yourself relating! its sweet. so i read Romans 7 last night and there was a part that stuck out to meeee....let me copy and paste....Romans 7:14-20....

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

okay correct me if this is inappropriate but this honestly made me crack up. do you see Pauls freak out?? i picture him walking in circles and saying "ahhhh i do what i dont want to do, and i dont do what i want to do!!! why?? ahhh!!". Romans 7 is straight forward and written nicely and i love the content, but this one paragraph Paul seems to kind of lose it and he really seems to be having spiritual warfare. i love Paul's honesty and he says the same thing over and over again. interesting huh? just read it a few times and its just funny, because i totally see myself doing this a lot. why do we do what we dont want to do and then dont do what Christ wants us to do? well stupid sin obviously. Paul really wants to make it clear to you that as a human being, you are going to sin...it is sin living in you that causes you to do things you do sometimes. man does it suck, but we are saved through Jesus Christ so what up sin, take it! i guess i just wanted to show this to open people's eyes to spiritual warfare that even amazing men like Paul have gone through it. and its comforting to see this truth in God's word and see hearts experiencing what i am experiencing today! GODS WORD IS TRUTH and its amazing, diiiiiig in!!

well there will be many more posts to come next week with all my spare time. i will teach myself to play at least 2 or 3 songs on a guitar this spring break. people will come back tan, ill come back musically inspired! muhaha! yeah we'll see...ill probably quit. i tend to do that.

song of the day-(like i stated earlier) "id rather be with you" by joshua radin

Peace