busy, busy, busy

I need to go to the vet and home depot and do some laundry and workout and pack... but I am on here instead enjoying a few minutes of  peace.  I already knocked ad club stuff off the to-do list for today, so i feel okay about it hah

We've been going non-stop since Thursday, the 13th, which I just realized is the

 last time I posted.  I guess that isn't entirely true.  I had a lot of free time in Florida last week while Josh worked, but it just felt busy since we were gone I guess.

We made an offer on a house in Clermont, but it's not looking very good.  There are 7 other offers on the table and the realtor has implied that while ours is near the best, it isn't quite there  We've made a list of other houses to look at when we go down there tomorrow.  I know Josh has to work Wednesday though and our realtor is busy Thursday I think, so we'll have to fit them all in on Friday and Saturday.  The one I had originally really liked but was pending when we were there last week is now back on the market, so I'm excited to see it.

Presidium was this past weekend.  I expected to really dislike it, but I'm actually really glad I went.  There are some truly amazing people at MTSU that I never would have met otherwise.  I also got a lot of ideas/interest for ad club which is always a good thing.  I didn't take any pictures, but I noticed that I had shown up in a couple of someone else's.  For some reason these uploaded in reverse order than I ha meant for them too and now wont reverse.

I'm in the back corner with my family group in this one hah, which seems silly to keep, but like I said - I didn't take any pictures his weekend, so I'll take what I can get.  My family group was made up of me with Ad club, Kim with Psy Chi, 3 guys with frats, one girl with Collage, one guy with the BCM, and one girl with... like 5 organizations and I can't remember all their names.  Our leader was a pastor which is pretty cool.  Anyways, very different organizations, but everyone got along which was nice.

Okay, the bottom picture actually happened before the top picture.  We did this thing where you take this test that associates your personality with a color.  Orange is creative, fun, bored easily, flexible, expects things to be done now, quick temper.  Gold is rigid, conservative, by the book, wants things done right.  Green is calm, analytical, likes challenges, doesn't respond well to ignorant or unmotivated people, sarcastic.  Blue is emotional, affectionate, empathetic, values relationships.   I'm an orange.  Josh is so green it's ridiculous.  So in the skits we were supposed to show how all the colors work together.  The bottom pictures are supposed to be taking fifty kindergardeners to the zoo.  I was the out-of-control orange child trying to get in the lions cage.

Yikes, it's almost ten.  I really do need to go to the vet now!

books, books, books

I stole this from someone's facebook, so I'm doing it differently.  This was fun for me because I had to actually think about why these books stick with me, which is what I chose to explain instead of tagging 15 people :P   These are in no particular order.

Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. They should be the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag 15 friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what books my friends choose. (To do this, go to your Notes tab on your Profile page, paste rules in a new Note, cast your 15 picks, and tag people in the Note.

15. The Shack  -  This book showed God to me in a way that no other book has before (aside from the books of the Bible).  It's controversial, but I still love the concepts it brings about and showing God who comes into the middle of someone's pain and reveals Himself in an incredible way.  To me, it just shows the hugely personal side of God that I think corporate religion so often forgets

14. Speak - This book deals with teen rape.  I read it long before I probably should have and it's fiction, but I think what really stuck out to me about it is how it left me with such a desire to be compassionate towards people.

13. Blue Like Jazz - I love how genuine Donald Miller comes across in this book.  Christian books are always very hit or miss with me and this one was a definite hit.

12. Love & Respect - Read this right after getting married.  It put some things into perspective for me that I just hadn't thought about prior to reading it.  I know it's somewhat redundant, but I actually think that's great because messages from this book come back to me all the time.

11. The Giver - I can't really describe why I loved this book...  Read it for the first time in middle school and it just always stuck with me.  I have no idea how many times I've read it now.. A lot.

10. The Great Gatsby -  The first book read in school that I actually liked.  It has definitely made me want to read more great american classics, and I have bought some, but am yet to finish any of them yet hah

9. The Book of Lost Things - This book is a little eery and deals with fairy tales.  I actually like that the fairy tales in this book aren't about happily ever afters.  It's a unique and fresh perspective.

8. Seventeenth Summer - This book reminded me a lot of how i felt as i gradually fell in love with Josh as a teenager.  I've read Nicholas Sparks and all, but as far as romance stories go, this is the one I connected with the most (although The Notebook is probably closer to my actual story haha)

7. In the Lake of the Woods - I had a craving for a new book, but Josh and I were trying not to spend money, so I raided his book collection and walked away with this.  It's gritty and interesting and the first war book I had ever read.  I couldn't believe I liked it.

6. Sex God - It seems like sex is such a taboo subject in church, or at least it was for me growing up.  I think I would have viewed it differently if I had read this book back then.  It really deals with how sex relates to God and what its purpose is.  It doesn't take the romance out at all.  If anything, it makes the idea of sex an even more romantic concept.

5. Wicked - combines my love of theatre and love of reading...  It was a little too graphic in some areas, but the overall story is great

4. To Kill A Mockingbird - I read half of this in high school and then started with the cliffnotes.  I eventually went back and read the whole thing and loved it.  Deals with some major issues.  It actually reminds me of a case that went down in my grandparent's town in the early 20th century.

3. The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank) - I think it's important to be moved by historical horrors and to be reminded of what should never be allowed to occur again.  There are many Holocaust books that have touched me (Katarina was the first one), but I like that this one is an accurate account.

2. The Chronicles of Narnia (whole series)  -  Apologetics meets children's books... yes please.

1. Harry Potter (whole series) - I just love that after years and years of being nicknamed "Whitney Library" and being made fun of for loving to read... Harry Potter made reading cool.