Pucker Up Baby

so usually, i just push the "new post" button and then start typing like a mad woman and don't stop until i realize that no human being would want to read that long of a post...then i stop. today however, i am just staring at my screen completely wordless and thoughtless. weird! amy lancette is NEVER wordless! this girl can talk =) about ANYTHING to ANYONE! haha ask lauren...she is the one friend who rolls her eyes at me when i start to go off on a tangent because she knows it won't end for quite some time. love you darling! maybe its because today is well Valentines Day and sometimes love is hard to talk about...ya know?

so yes, it is Valentines Day today! I usually try to blog once a week and i didn't chose today on purpose at all. i worked on tuesday, thursday, and friday and for some reason didn't find the time to blog any of those days. and now its saturday (and i have 5 hours of work left) and i havent blogged this week so i have no choice...this is happening haha. so dont think that i was purposely anticipaitng this day to babble about love in my post. im most definitely not an expert when it comes to LOVE. however, i have learned a lot about love and how to love and how to accept love and feel love and see love. its been a journey...and let me tell you guys...if you dont know where love is supposed to fall as a priority in your life...then you havent truly let the LOVE of Christ envelop you!

im not a hater of valentines day (sometimes)...overall i think that its cute we have a day where people are extra giddy and pink is the fashion statement and men NOT carrying roses or balloons will be punished haha. i think love should be given every day no matter what, but hey why not have a day where people go over the top? its an excuse to let your man take you out for dinner or an excuse to hang with your single ladies and eat pounds of chocolate while watching "the notebook". whatever the case, if you have a positive attitude...valentines day can be lots of fun. heck im doing something completely different this year...after work, i am going to spend a couple hours in a quiet area and open the Bible and look up all the verses on LOVE and really allow God to captivate me and my heart. hey if its a day of love, i want to be spending some of it with the man who loves me most...my heavenly Father. im really excited for this time later today...its the first time in like 5 years where my heart is free from other relationships and is desiring the richest love of all...God's LOVE.

annnyyyyyways, i have a few HILARIOUS stories for you! so the combination of valentines day and working at a bank with weird winona trashy customers equals CREEPER DATES!! so im chillin at my teller station...being productive right? stocking the deposit and withdrawal slips. adjusting my name tag to look professional...pretty much being a rock star. then i see dude. dude who comes in like twice a week and finds ANYTHING to talk about for at least 15min. he is like 40 and is going to school at winona state. he looks like he just walked out of seinfeld. just one strange character this man is. he comes up to me and flashes me an awkward smile then looks at our decorated "today's special" sign that has info about home equity loans. we colored little hearts all over the sign in celebration of today. he stares at the sign. i say "hey jeff, are you interested in the new rate for the loan?" he says "no...i just really like all the bright colored hearts and its just really pretty...and well...that just reminds me...of something i need to ask you". im like ahhhhhh okay, what in the world?!?! shake it off amy. so we start doing his deposit and of course he starts babbling about his fuel gauge in his car and if i knew how to fix a broken one. ha are you kidding, i dont know how to open the hood of my car. we finish up the transaction and in the deepest depths of my heart im super happy he hasnt said anything referring to his uncomfortable comment before...i smile and thank him for his business and HOPE he gets the foxtrot out of my personal bubble! awkward jeff begins to play with his hands and mumble randomness. what the crap?! "is there anything else i can do for you today?" i ask. jeff wont even look at me and says "welllllll...um...i....i....welll....the thing is...if you were to like any certain kind of flower....um....well...what, what....what kind would it be?" im just dumbfounded and dont know what to say. so what do i do....NOT SAY ANYTHING!! i just froze and was screaming "ahhhhhhh weeeeiiiiiird" in my head. then he says "i just wanted to get you some flowers and then ask you if i could have your advice about sending flowers to Kazakhstan for a lady interest of mine...we video chat and talk on the phone and i want to send her something pretty...to make her happy..." can i just say that wow was i relieved!!!!!! i totally ignored the whole comment about flowers for me and was like "ohhh a lady interest??? whats her name??? when did you meet?? whats she like?? have you met in person??" trying everything to keep the focus on this lucky lady over by china who so desperately needs flowers from this man. we ended up discussing the cost of shipping flowers over to kasakhstan and that it would be around $115.00!!!! wow! my advice: dont have a long distance relationship that far away lol. poor girl is never gona get flowers. so after he stayed and debated this idea for like 10min! he decided no...he is just too broke. he then has the nerve to ask ME what he could do over video chat to show her that he cares.....................................................there were no words. i suggested he read her a poem? HAHA! i was way too disturbed to think of any other options for the poor guy. he was just like, "oh ill think of something creative...do you really think she'll be happy with a poem over a video chat?" im just like, yesssssssssss, now please leave the store. haha. no i was happy to help, whatever i can to ensure a couples love on valentines day =) yeah sure. there were more stories, even worse...involving me getting candy hearts as a date proposal, and getting invited to a "pisces party" where only scorpios were invited (me and the other teller jess....) yeah just ask me about it.

to end this post on a LOVE note, i would like to share with you all a very well known Bible verse. "Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. "– Matthew 22:37-38 it is stated right here that loving God is the MOST IMPORTANT and GREATEST of all commandments. people get caught up in everything else in life, and Christians especially get caught up with living this perfect life and doing good things and serving and prophesizing and that stuff is all good and necessary for God's kingdom. BUT we must not forget what God has imprinted on our hearts first and that is LOVE. we must love, we are called to love. the second commandment instructs us to love our neighbors. so first we must love God and then love each other. God is frickin awesome. above anything else...no if's and's or but's...we must love. we must love our enemies-people who have lied to us, people who have stolen from us, people who have talked bad about us, people who have hurt our families, people who make us angry, people who don't give us a chance....alllllll these people are God's children too and why wouldn't we love them too? how are we going to attract people to following christ and becoming christians if we dont show never ending, deep, passionate, real love??? its the only way. and God commands it of us. "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:12-13 wow so we are supposed to love others as if they died for us and our sins??? we are supposed to love others as if they were CHRIST??? intense. and of course we can celebrate God's love for us with this verse..."I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me." - Proverbs 8:17 ...guys...seek that love and you will find that love. its so filling and amazing. nothing can compare =)

I LOVE YOU ALL! and i pray that each one of you spends this holiday chillin with the people who adore you and the people whom you adore. oh and if you feel this need to...ohh...idk...get me chocolates, im totally down for that =)

song of the day-"boy with a coin" by iron & wine

(ps...do you like the font color change in honor of this fine love day? heck yes. appreciate)

Peace