Wednesday, January 11, 2006
I've moved.

I've moved. My NEW site: http://www.xanga.com/lulumac

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It got better

Saying yesterday started out pretty crappy, it ended fairly well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I really enjoyed work last night. NO SARCASM! I worked with Alysse and I LOVE working with her. We got to talking about our Christianity and what we want in a husband. (Yes, the convo made since and went together nicely.) I got to tell her ALL ABOUT MY TRIP! Plus, I got to think. Like really turn my mind OFF to the world around me and think. I haven't done that in a really long time. Topics: -----An accountability partner. I need one. Not just for sex, but for drinking and smoking too. I really need one. I honestly don't have anyone who asks me anything like that. I normally volunteer it, but the way mine and Sara's relationship is going, I don't even do that anymore. -----I thought about were my life is headed and how I don't see Sara in it. I can't be around her and the temptations that surround her. I don't want to see our relationship go, but I think it's the best thing for me. They all seem like wasted memories now. All the things we've done together and said we are going to do together. I already miss her, but in all actuality she's been gone for a long time. Not only her, but I know I have too. I'm not saying it's her fault, nor mine. We just both want COMPLETELY different things and I think it's best it if slows fades away which is were it's going at 132 mph right now. It seems like I am ending a marriage, but isn't that what a marriage comes from, a strong friendship? I've said it before, I want a marriage like Sara and I had in a friendship: talking for hours every day, have the best time doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, being enough a like to have something to talk about, yet being different enough not to get bored, knowing when we've had to much another and telling each other that, and just wanting to spending time with her. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I bought a book yesterday while wasting time before work. I specifically went into the Storehouse looking for it and I found it! It was recommended by NUMEROUS people to me. I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris. I'm halfway through it. I really agree with almost everything he says. They are considered "radical ideas," but I already had them. It talks about waiting on God's timing and He will send you someone, not to waste your time on relationship that you know won't go anywhere, and when you do date, date with marriage in mind. Maybe I can say that because I am "looking/waiting" for a husband. But it's taken a lot to FINALLY be happy with being single. Pursuing friendship is what I have to keep in mind. I want my best friend to be my husband, not my husband to be my best friend. Explanation: I want him to be my best friend before we are married, not after. I recommend the book to ANYONE and EVERYONE! (I plan to read the next book of Harris' Boy Meet Girl: Say Hello to Courtship as soon as I am done with the first.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The more I talk to Josh, the scarier it gets. I find that we have more and more in common. We talked for over three hours late last night/early this morning. Wow. I am tired. I got to vent on him about my day and he put me in a better mood. Yall know how my mind jumps around a lot. Well so does his. So between the two of us, we never stay on just ONE topic for more than ten minutes. We will be on it, talk about something else for a while, then eventually come back to it. But we never totally stay ONE topic any lengthy amount of time. Yesterday, I really need that! It took my mind off how bad my day had been. (Thank you, Josh on the cheek! ) At the same time, he almost made me cry. He was talking about his "ex-best friend" and why they weren't friends anymore. Josh wanted to change his lifestyle and he couldn't do that being around his friend. Even though they'd been through a lot, for Josh's sake they couldn't hang out anymore with his friend being around the temptation's and they drifted apart. I understood those circumstances perfectly. I don't want to loose Sara at all! At the same time I see us falling further and further away from one another... I guess all I have left to do is pray for her and pray for our relationship. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And to end on a lighter note, I really like my Xanga site. I don't plan on using my others, yes Blogdrive and MySpace anymore. So this is a notice. NOW ON USE www.xanga.com/lulumac

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Monday, January 09, 2006
Song and poetry from Mexico

Trip That Never Ends
(to the tune of the Song That Never Ends)
by: Car riding people from Texas border to Waldron, AR

This is the Mission trip that never ends.
You thought you'd be nine days,
now look ten!
This is the trip that never ends.
We're at the border,
we're almost there!
But NO, five more hours in you chair!
This is the trip that doesn't end.
It goes on and on my friend.
Some people stared on it
Not knowing how long it'd
Take to finally get home...




There just something in me that makes me want to write poetry. I've never been able to figure it out, but it just happens. Maybe a muse comes up and whacks me or maybe is the way I escape...my release for my emotions. Majority of my better poems are very emotional and the reader can feel my anger or grief or happiness. This one falls into that catergory. I hope you enjoy. Drop me a comment so I'll know what ya think...



Goodbye Mexico
by: my emotions

Over the Rio Grande
Four and a half hours, oh man
Searching for the words
To say goodbye.

Mexico, I love the
Memories you hold
And even the ones that
Are still trying to unfold.

Mexico, I don't want you to go
So with a tear in my eye,
I'll now wave to you
my sorrowful goodbye.

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Nada

I now have a Xanga blog.
www.xanga.com/lulumac
Ok so, so much NOT CONFORMING...I now have three online journals, I do plan to fade out THIS ONW though and use my Xanga as my main one...just to let you know! From 20 questions to 200. OK, maybe I exaggerated a little bit on that, but it was close. About 2230 last night, Josh and I start playing 20 questions. We don't know a whole whole lot about one another so, why not?! (Plus it's a great way to ask some off-the-wall or out-of-context question without looking completely insane. ) It ended about 0100, whenever we both decided we might want to get to be since we both had early mornings. It wasn't straight back and forth, either; many questions led into lengthy discussions. The funny thing is, while waiting for my second class to start this morning, I typed up a list of 43 more things and e-mail to him. From my point of view, we get along great and have a lot of the same things in common, yet not. If that makes ANY sense. I don't wanna get my hopes up or anything. Starting out friends is a good start. I just know my luck with guys and if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all with them. I am REALLY sleepy, so I'm gonna go take a nap! Tutals.

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Sunday, January 08, 2006
A change of heart and convictions...

OK...Mexico did a number on me both physically and spiritually.

Physically - I lost weight while I was done there anyway, because I didn't eat a whole lot since I couldn't stand the food. I just keep dropping them though. I've been sick the entire time I've been home, minus the first six hours. Every form of sickness, I've had it. I'm afraid to eat, and when I do, GUESS WHAT! I GET SICK! AND IT ISN'T OVER YET! I REALLY don't want to be sick on my birthday!!!

Spiritually -
My convictions have changed. I know that I've broken the law, whether they are God's Laws, USA Laws, or the Nazarene Church Doctrine. But I've never really been convicted to change my life style. It was one of those things, I can just as long as no one knows about it kinda things. I am convicted now though. I am really focused on keeping the new purity of my heart, new purity of my mind, and new purity of my body. I pushed out 2005 with a heavy and unpure heart and rang in 2006 with a new and clean one. I am going to cut out everything and everyone that might complicate that.

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Friday, January 06, 2006
Blogs from Mexico 3 of 3.....Sunday 01/01/06

230 AM. Just got into bed from our Neuva Aņos thingy. Leilani leaves tomorrow morning. I'll probably cry when she does. Josh and I had a LONG CONVO tonight. He's hott. Andy gave me all THREE of his phone numbers. LOL! Leilani and I sang in the service tonight while Robert played his Recorder. It was the best feeling to the Americans singing and the Mexicans clapping while Worshipoiung as we sang. I know I got a lot out of it. I hope everyone else did also. I hope I Josh's number; we agreed really connect/relate to one another. We confided in each other tonight, and we barely know one another. It's weird! I'm exhausted! More tomorrow! Happy New Year! Feliz Aņos Neuva!

1000 AM. Leilani left this morning I didn't cry! Yay! I plan on calling her sometime next week or maybe even the week after.
Me - "Do you like SNU?"
Lana - "SNU is FULL of hypocrites." "Everyone lies about who they are."
Finally she opens up!!!!!

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Blogs from Mexico 2 of 3.....Friday 12/30/05

Today, watching the children pray, brought tears to my eyes. Most eyes closede and heads bowed, I had to sneak a peek. VBS was so much fun. All decked out in face paint and costume, I bounced around and had a blast! I think that the kids enjoyed it...or at least I hope so! Lunch was pretty good. FLOURED TORILLAS, not corn! (Nathan dug around this this morning and gave me one during breakfast.)

Half the group is painting at a preschool. The rest of us our in the church escaping the heat. I KNOW I'll be sunburned! We were scaping paint from the outside of the church. At one point me and the Pastor's wife were beside one another singing along with a CD they had going. Her in Spanish and me in English...we are God's hand and MUST support out brothers and sisters in Christ.

So Andy, Sean, Jennifer, Jake, and Alex all went to down town Sabinas tonight. It was so cool! Andy and I rode a mini Pirate Ship carnival ride for like fifteen minutes. 30 pesos=3 American dollars...the first five minutes we really funny, then it got old. Some of our group left to go look and something and came back while we were on ONE ride. THen we played on the Plaza playground equipment. I had fun until I hurt myself on one of the tetter-totters. It only had one handle, and I didn't want to sit in bird crap, so I decided I'd ride without a handle. I told Andy to be gentle though. Him being TWICE MY SIZE, jumps! I get launched towards him. I caught myself on HIS side on the tetter-totter! I landed totally on my right thigh. He felt so bad...it really hurt to walk, so he carried me. When I got to my room, I looked at my leg. I have a HUGE bruise! OUCH!!!

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Before I left, I looked for Leilani. She met me in the hotel lobby, "I need to talk to you...what are you doing this summer?" Dumb founded I just stared at her. I wasn;'t catching her drift until she explained further. There is a Misson trip to Ecuador in the summer. It's focus is Agricultural Missions. I almost started to cry right there. I then went upstairs to talk to AL Cummings and his wife about it. It's a week, but I could stay longer. $400 airfare.

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This is an answer to my prayers! WOW! A lot more prayer will go into confirming it and for the financial stuff to go with it. It's not like I had to think about me question to the LORD. I instantly thought of that. It's amazing how the LORD works!

PRAISE THE LORD!!!
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Blogs from Mexico 1 of 3.....Thursday 12/29/05

Woship. No matter the language barrier...it possible. This morning (while in my clown costume) watching the kids sing and praise God was AWESOME! Watching the faces of them listen intently to the story of David and Goliath. Wide eyed and curious, they listened.

The work on the roof it almost done. It's really exciting to be around the culture and the people of Mexico.

Tonight was even better. I wasn't with the same group as the night before. I was with one of the girls in my group, Leilani (it means God's flowerin Haiwaiin). She in a Masonic Jew (believes Jesus Christ is the Messiah). Anyways, today is the fifth day to light the Monaroh in Chanukah. She showed it to me and explained what it all meant. We are twins. She is 27, Floridian, teacher, dark eyes and dakr headed...we are twins. We are a lot more a like that either had thought. We are both "loners" on this trip so it's awesome to meet someone like her. She has been added to my prayer list and me to her's. When we were in her room, her roommates came in: Aly, LindsAy, and Erin.

I told them all part of my story and about how and why I am a Nazarene and a Christian...I also talked about Jared. Erin cried and when I saw her cry, I began to also. She has two brothers. She admitted that she couldn't even imagine ever losing them. Leilani then spoke up saying she'd lost her mother. WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON! I am amazed!!! God works in mysterious ways! I will keep in touch with her! Nationwide long distance baby!
The group from Bentonville has been extremely nice to me. There are 15 of them in our group of 24. They have excepted the other 9 of us who are all "loners" on the trip like we were one of them, just like the Waldron group I rode to Laredo with.
One thing I realized last night while discussing my tongue ring, then other 12 piercings, was how many people, guys and girls alike, aren't as pure and the first seem.
Crystal: ex-druggie
Andy: by the comments he's made, doesn't seem like a virgin
My roommates, Lizzy and Lana: have tattoos, along with there "Holier than thou" attitudes towards me. Oh well.
Told 'em all the first night, while playing BS...you either love me or ya hate me; there is no in the middle.



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Thursday, January 05, 2006
Mexico

Wow. I had the MOST AMAZING TIME IN MEXICO! I can honestly say I didn't miss anyone, just my soft bed.

I left 1245 Christmas afternoon and returned about 830 last night... I was suppose to be home hours earlier but trouble at the border haulted my quick return, but I'll get to that later...


I met the most amazing people on this trip, three in particular. Ones that I DEFINITELY plan to keep in contact with. But they really weren't the ones that made my trip so awesome...it was Him. He spoke in me in a way down there that really made me realize that my heart NO WHERE NEAR the United States. It's kinda funny, I said I didn't want to leave Mexico and it took us four and a half hours to go across the Rio Grande River. (They were looking for drugs on EVERY SINGLE COACH BUS. They actually wound up closing the border there a little while after we went through it. Praise God we actually GOT through it at all!!!) Even more I realized how much I want to transfer schools. I had some of the most theological discussion with a group of various ministry majors one night. I don't get that here. I don't have those deep discussions on religion. I really enjoyed it more than any other night. Our Mexican brothers and sisters in Christ were the friendliest I'd ever met. They didn't judge or ask why we were they; they just acknowledged it and helped right along beside us in the VBS and in the construction. By the way, I was the clown for VBS! It was a BLAST!!!

I am sick right now, I've been thorwing up and running a fever...I'm going back to bed...

In total I spent 67 hours in a vechile this trip. NOT COOL!!! That's almost 3 days of my trip!

I am sick right now, I've been thorwing up and running a fever...I'm going back to bed now...

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Friday, December 23, 2005
Last blog of the year!

OK, I just lost a whole blog...A finished blog....ERRRRRR!!!! Lets try this again!

Normally when I get on the computer I get on Air1.com to listen to the radio. Something or someone has happened to the sound on our computer and the songs sounds like the person singing has been sucking Helium instead of Casting Crowns...It's actaully really funny, but at the same time aggrivating!

Yesterday night Liz, Sara and I exhanged gifts. I had had a stressful day at work. I went into work at 2. I walk in and everyone in nagging at one another, grumpy, and being flat out mean to one another. I was in a good mood...but that kind of ruined it. I was about ready to let them all leave to try to save my good mood! So about four, we almost had a total shift change. All the replacements were in GOOD MOODS! I was excited.


Anyways, back to the original story. We exchanged gifts last night. They got me all sorts of goodies for my trip. Shampoo, conditioner, lotion, body wash. etc. Sara and I got Liz an electric razor that she'd wanted for MONTHS now! Liz and I got Sara lounge wear: slippers, robe, and pajamas. We all went out for a little while after we got done. Then me and Sara went back to her apartment. We talked for a really long time. It was about really random stuff too, like the guys we like and us having kids...don't get me wrong we normally talk about some stuff like that, but not to the exent we did last night...

(If you would, would you pray for me while I am gone on my trip. Thank ya!)

I love yall! I hope you have a very Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy New Year! I'll see ya whenever I get back!!! God Bless!

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