I can't make decisions...

I have been contemplating what kind of MP3 player I should buy. The thing is I don't know what to buy, and when I think I have made a decision, I question myself.

So, this is what I want in my MP3 player and maybe someone could steer my the right direction.
Over 24 hours of music
Video options
awesome graphics
can download my pics onto it
Stuff like that....

If any one can help, that would be great.

The new living room...

This weekend in Bluffton, I tried to explain my living room to some brothers. Of course, I was teased because of all the paint that we used. So, I will try to explain it again.

Our living room was all white, it had no real color except our furniture. So, my roommates and I decided to paint it. We painted the bottom half of our living room black and the top a peach/sandy gold with stressing of gray and brown. Also, we put a tint on top the the top paint called candle light. To some people, this sounds weird, but really is not. So I am putting pictures up to clarify what it looks like.

I do have to say that the pictures don't do it justice, but it gives you more of an idea of what it looks like.

Oh, and to all the people who left for home after the wedding, this is what we have received...

Friendship...

What is friendship? What do we look for in a friend? How do we know if we are friends? These are questions that seem very easy to answer, but think about it. Have you ever defined what friendship means to you. Do you go through a list when you meet someone, to see if they are qualified? Do you even question the friends that you have? I have been contemplating what friendship is in the past couple of weeks. So, I went to the Bible for answers. I found scripture that helped me, like Ec. 4:9-12. But something kept coming to me, the ultimate friend. No matter what kind of friends we have, there is only one that is a true friend. Jesus! He has never failed me. This is the person we should look for inside our friends. He is the list, and meaning of friendship for me. This makes me think of a song that I would sing to myself when I first repented... when all me friends left me.

WHAT A FRIEND

What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!

What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!

O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear.

All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer!

Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?

We should never be discouraged, take it to the Lord in prayer.

Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?

Jesus knows our every weakness, take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care?

Precious Savior , still our refuge, take it to the Lord in prayer.

Do they friends despise, forsake thee? Take it to the Lord in prayer;

In his arms He'll take and shield thee, thou wilt find a solace there.

Settlers of Catan...

Have you ever played Settlers of Catan? I started playing this game when I moved to Indiana, and I am warped into loving it. The thing I like about the game is that you can make the board yourself or follow one out of the book. Also, you can EXPAND and I mean expand, like there is Seafarers, Cities and Knights, or a combo of all of them together. You can make the game as big as you like or as small as you like.
The reason I bring this up is... I want to know if other people have ever played it or like it as much as I do. Also, if you have never heard of this game before... I am warning you that I will most likely convince you to play it sometime with me.

So, I guess this is my day to start blogging again.

Why I am not a dog person...
1. Dogs slobber...
2. They can out smart you, some days...
3. You have to walk them, no matter how cold it is (GgggRrrrr)
4. They are not cats...
5. They chew on everything, including your new shoes...
6. They run away on you, when you are not looking. (This is not just Sam)
7. They bark really LOUD.

SO, can someone explain to me why I feel so compelled to watch these critters?

Reading...

Lately, I have been reading a lot, and am finding less books for me to read. So, I am calling for books to read or poetry. I have been re-reading Tolkien and Austen, lately. Also, I have been reading Maynard. So... here is my plea, what should I read next? Last week I read a book in three days.

I will leave you with some poems, since I found them very sweet or compelling to the mind.

Autumn Morning

An hour ago I could not see for mist

These hills that now are rich in green and gold-

Under a sky of palest amethyst,

And in an air benignant, shrewd and cold.

Hardly perceptible is any change:

Rime on the grass, and stillness as of prayer

Each morning; and it strikes the heart as strange

To find some branches are already bare.

Each tingling dawn the winter draws more near,

While time stands breathless, rapt in loveliness,

Staying awhile the passage of the year

To gaze upon the woods' brocaded dress;

And I, when one leaf flutters from a branch,

Think it the signal for an avalanche.

Blind

I cannnot see;

Yet God gives shining dreams to me

Of rainbow and of golden-fruited tree.

How many go

Who, seeing yet sightless, never know

How blue the ocean is, how white the snow.

And I shall gaze

Enraptured on the Ray of Rays-

Brighter, perhaps, for all my darkened days.

Both by Maynard.

So, I thought my luck was changing... WRONG.

Last week, I fell at my job and it was a bad one. I popped a blood vessel in my arm and it looks great (NOT! Ask anyone who has seen it.). Also, I have many bruise to account for this fall. I will tell you this though, that I am extremely lucky to not break any bones.
So in the last month or so... I have faced pneumonia, hit my car, gone further in debt, and fell really bad. When will it stop?

I am excited about a few things, though. I got to see an ultrasound of a baby, and it was awesome. I got to see this little boy, who is about to welcome this world with his beautiful presence, and it just got me so excited. He waved his little toes on the ultrasound, and I just couldn't help but to giggle at how cute that was. I could talk all day about it.
Also, my family comes next week to see me. I miss them so much. Especially, my niece, she is such a cutie. So, I will be busy in the coming week with my job, my family coming, and not to mention the HOLIDAYS :). So... I will start updating hopefully more frequently in the near future, maybe tomorrow after attempting to make doughnut's at my friend's house.