Worst Movie Ever

Here at the apartment, we have all of these movie channels. And since things are kind of slow around town for the summer, we've been watching a lot of movies--good, bad and ugly movies....we watch a whole lot of them. This is a good thing when we have days like yesterday where we saw part of Dirty Dancing and Sixteen Candles (and we got to play with hula-hoops, but that's a different story). But today I decided I wanted to see Georgia Rules and find out what that was all about. It is the worst movie! The story line is really messed up and there is too much going on and it was hard to follow. But the acting was pretty bad too on top of it all. We just ended up making fun of the movie for the last part and that made it more entertaining. No wonder it only got a one star rating. Then, when it was finally over, we went back to watching good movies like Legends of the Fall. Overall, I do not recommend watching Georgia Rules...it added nothing to my life.

More change

I regret to inform you faithful blog readers, that the domain for this blog will soon change. This is something I have considered often in the past few months. I really like the name B-Bop's World but when I started the blog I was not as anonymous as I would like to be when I'm posting my stories and blurps on the internet.

I realize that if someone really wants to find me and figure out what I'm doing, they will find a way to do that. But I guess I have just decided to make the effort to prevent any future stalking by changing the address for my blog.

With that said....I don't want people to stop reading my blog just because it's in a new "location" on the web. I would like to leave it open for viewing by anyone because I think the story God is writing in my life is a story of hope and I want to tell that story to anyone who is searching for hope. So if you want to keep reading my blog, please email me at bbopsworld@gmail.com so I can reply to you with my new domain name. I hope to hear from you soon!

Boot Camp

Yes, I'm going to Boot Camp....but it's not what you think. I won a month's worth of Wow! Boot Camp at the church auction to raise money for the mission trip to Nicaragua. I thought it was perfect because I need to get back in shape and I wanted to donate money to the trip. So I started Boot Camp last Friday. You go 3 days a week for 4 weeks and then see how much you have improved at the end.

I have to admit--the first day kicked my rear end pretty good. I'm not a runner and there was a lot of running. It's kind of like circuits where we run for a while and then get to a station to do squats or lunges or something with handheld weights for upper body or ab work. It's the running that's killing me. But hopefully this will be just the thing to kick my rear end into gear and get back in a good workout routine and get back in shape.

The down-side is that I go to Boot Camp at 5:30am. So that has completely messed up my daily schedule. I started working too in the mornings, so here is what my day looks like now:

5 am -- wake-up
5:30 -- boot camp (wondering why I'm running before dawn...oh yeah, the heat)
8 am -- get to work
12 pm -- go home and eat lunch
1 pm -- struggle to try to run errands or get reading done
4 pm -- give up and take a nap
6 pm -- wake up and fix dinner
8 pm -- watch a movie or do something with friends (or tonight i went grocery shopping)
10 pm -- go to bed
11 pm -- still can't sleep--start reading or doing work
1 am -- finally fall asleep

So I'm on this crazy cycle it's really hard to get off of it! Maybe I can correct things over the weekend when I don't have to get up early.

So sad to see you go.

Some of my favorite people in the world are all related to each other. They are a family in themselves and they have let me be part of their family. I have been so blessed to be part of their lives recently but now it's time for them to go and plant a church and bring the good news of God's love to other people who need to know it just as much as I do. At first I was very upset that they are leaving and afraid of what is going to happen to me without them here. Then I realized that I was being very selfish in wanting to hoard my friends instead of trusting that God has a plan and He is going to do wonderful things through them and that I'm going to be okay without them every day.

They truly let me be part of their family. They even included me last night in their family tradition of leaving a memorial at their house before the moved. This picture is of me with the mom and kids at their Ebenezer.
The idea is based on this verse: 1 Samuel 7:12 "Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, 'Thus far has the Lord helped us.'" We all put down rocks and told what God has done while they were living here in Georgia. I could not have imagined more precious blessings that to know these kids and their parents during the past year or so. And I'm so thankful that they included me in remembering how God has been faithful during their time here.

Spontaneity

I really did miss having roommates. I forgot how fun it could be to just drop everything and go get ice cream just because you have the urge. When you live alone, things like that are not as likely to happen. Without roommates, you have to call your friends until you find someone who is home and then make plans to meet up to go do something spontaneous....which defies to definition of spontaneous.

I've only been here a few weeks with my temporary roommates but I have really enjoyed getting to know them and sharing space with them until I can move into where I'm really going to live for a while. This is a picture of a spontaneous trip to Harry Bissett's one night (a week-night even) for some bread pudding. I'm sure it was perfectly normal for these other girls, but for me it was extra fun because it has been a long time for me since I just dropped what I was doing to go out for dessert. And by the way, the bread pudding was excellent!

It's good to be employed

I have a new job. I don't want to go into details, but I started on Monday and I'm working as an office assistant for two people that I already knew to some extent. So far, the job has been good. It's always fun for me to do something new and learn how people do things, etc. I'm still trying to figure out the best way for me to organize myself at this job and the best ways to help my two bosses. Yes, it has been a little overwhelming because there is just so much information at the beginning and I'm trying to learn the lingo and the computer system and the company database and get my email and access to everything set up. So I'm pretty exhausted today. I'm not worried about getting it all down, it's just that today it makes me think a lot just to remember really simple things like how to print out stamps and stuff. And I took a typing test and found out I can type 70 words per minute and I think that's pretty good!

But everything is good. I have a job, a place to live (I think), some new work clothes from TJ Maxx and some that are gently used from Plato's closet. I have good friends, food to eat, a great pool outside my door for the next couple of weeks, a reliable car, a wonderful church home and a loving family! And of course, I have Daisy, my dog. Although she is staying with my grandmother right now because I can't have pets in this apartment where I'm staying for the month of June. I think this picture was taken while I was in undergrad around 2000.

Overall--things are good.

Sleeping In

I decided that I wanted to sleep in today because I didn't have to get up for anything! I took my final for my Maymester course yesterday and I don't start my new job until Monday. So I was really excited about have 2 weekdays off to take care of whatever I want to do.

I went to bed last night at around 10pm expecting to sleep until 10 or something. But this morning, I woke up at 8:30am! Ha! I guess I'm not quite as exhausted as I thought I was. I'm still thankful I didn't have to get up at 6:30 or 7. Now I'm trying to decide what to have for breakfast. I can have anything really because I have time to make it this morning. I'm thinking about making an arugula and cheese omelette--only because I have some baby arugula in the fridge that is going to go bad if I don't eat it up quick.

So far I'm thoroughly enjoying my "sleeping in" day.