"It was my sin that held him there, until it was accomplished. His dying breath has brought me life. I know that it is finished."

I cannot write right now. Maybe more later.

Kara just saw this article pass along the AP wire. JLo! you made the news. I'm sorry to hear about your car rolling away. It's a good thing it wasn't hurt!

By Bob Saget
The Associated Press
FINDLAY-More than 50 security officials at Marathon Oil were flabbergasted by a car that rolled out of control in the company parking lot this morning.
According to Lt. Honda of the company's security team, the vehicle--registered to Jason Elliott Lopp of Bowling Green--was parked on an incline, causing it to roll into oncoming traffic.
Officials were able to subdue the silver Nissan quickly. There were no reported injuries or damages to other vehicles. However, one security officer, 89-year-old George Michael, had to sit down and rest after witnessing the driver-less vehicle meandering its way through the lot.
"I was so startled," Michael said. "It isn't every day you see a car drive away on its own. That young'un forgot to put on his parking brake."
The incident was unintentional, and no charges will be filed in what Lt. Honda dubbed a "potential attempted manslaughter case."
"My car goes so fast I didn't know the thing had brakes," Lopp said. "Guess those foreign chaps think of everything. I'll never forget to brake and park again." (We think he meant park and brake).
The company has sent a memo to all employees--both domestic and foreign--alerting them to the dangers of improper vehicle control. This topic will be added to all employee safety training, Lt. Honda said.

Geez... ppl are sooo mean;) I took the pop up off. I've been meaning to do that because I knew that ppl were annoyed with it. No one told me until now... I just had to ask and then ppl sound all annoyed like "yeah... duh that thing is annoying." I might put the little stars that pop up all over and see how you like that.

Anyway... my weekend was good (until now;) ) The video scavenger hunt was spectacular!!! For all of you that didn't come, (eh hem... JLo... Mike... et al.) you really missed out. It was by far the best thing we've done ever. Tess and I dressed up like... well... for lack of a better term "white trash." She had on the aviator glasses and camo garb, and me...well I had a trucker hat on and after a few frames I probably got a belly to go with the stereotype.

We scarffed down half a biggie frosty (think of the biggest frosty you can imagine then times that by 10) and fries and marshmellows, some dnl, and yeah... we were all a little woozy afterwards.

The videos are hillarious. Robert played thumb wars with the thinker--- my personal favorite part of the video. I think the thinker won;)

Yeah... so the only thing bummin me out this weekend is the fact that the status page on apple.com still says "open." What is that supposed to mean?!?!?!?!!!!

I think it means "open for interpretation" or "open for comments, but we aren't going to make your iPod until we feel like it."

:twisted: = apple.com

anyway... i should get to bed because i can...

JLo... if you read this again before tomorrow night, what are we doing for Bible Study dude? We don't have anything to teach those peeps!!!

night,

boo

i hate colds... my week has been a blur thus far due to heavy doses of cold medication plus intense amounts of paper writing.

i think i did well on my am. lit test that i stayed up till the wee hours of the morning studying for. this thing was worse than a final. passage identification, dates, short answers, essays, author identification, and everything in the fill-ins had to be spelled correctly--- ahh... it took me awhile to learn how to spell Crevecoeur... that whole "oeur" thing was trippin me up.

check out Robert's blog (link to the left).... you should have heard us trying to tell JLo what a "blog" is last night at Bible study. he just couldn't get it...

anyway... i'm not making much sense am i...

later,
boo

"I love You, O Lord my strength."
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
And I am saved from my enemies."

Psalm 18:1-3

And for another Psalm:

Psalm 66:3

"Sing the glory of His name; Make His praise glorious."

(May this psalm be a witness on my new iPod-- yes my new iPod-- the one that will be arriving in 2-4 weeks!!!!)

ahhh, so happy,

boo

To all who are sad, disheartened, and depressed,

Don't be. Now I know that is easier said than done; however, I also know it is a sin to let the devil get the best of you.

It seems lately that there is a curtain of sadness that has swept through those who are close to me, and even myself at times. It could be the weather. Winter tends to get me down after awhile. But I think much of it lies in the fact that Satan likes to get us down, and sometimes we just let him.

What is school, that it should make us tired? What is homework, that it should distract us? What are grades, that they should stress us out and depress us? What are disappointments, that they should steal our joy away that we find in the Lord? What are feelings of loneliness, depression, and despair, that they should divert us from our walks with the Lord?

That fact is that all of these things are nothing in the spectrum of time.

<-now-><------------------------------ETERNITY-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> and so on and so forth...

"For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die! So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after the wind...

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God. For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy." (Ecclesiastes)

No doubt, anything we do without our focus being on God is a striving after the wind. If you don't believe it, go out and just try to chase the wind.

1. You won't be able to see what you are chasing after
2. Just when you reach out and grab for it, it will swerve behind you and knock you over
3. It can only move you, you cannot move it

Wow... that's what the worldly stuff does to us... we can never attain our desires apart from God because we can't even see them and they always seem to bite us in the butt when we least expect them to. Satan uses all that stuff to move us, but we can never move it. God has to be the one to move all the crap out of us.

However, if we have enjoyment in Him... wow, we get wisdom, knowledge, and JOY!!! That's right my friends, instead of all of those crappy feelings we get JOY!!!

Give it up... it's useless... a chase after the wind...


i'm outie,

boo

Check out my sister's blog. She's a superb gal, just like me;) Link to the left.

I hate mice, especially since my roomie found one in our 10th floor room. I am glad he ran away, but he had better not be back. I will shoot him with Pledge or Windex, like I did to the Asian beetles:)

later,

boo

So I just got my taxes figured today (yes... my parents do not trust me to do them myself, so they pay to have them done for me), and I was just reminded that sometimes the gov't give you money back. Whoa... what to do with that money???

Well, I was just thinking and I thought that my Dad still has that money from my Walmart mp3 player, and I have a little wad now from my taxes, and so I could feasibly get an ipod and still have a wad to put in the bank!! whoa...

Now the dilemia is, how to present my proposal to the parentals. All I have to do is buy my Dad a gas station cappucino and listen to him tell me stories about how I once ran away on my cabbage patch big wheel, or how I... nevermind... Anyway, my Dad is easy.

My Mom is the rational one.... I really don't NEED an ipod, but it sure would be nice to have one.

Maybe I can whip out some "Influence" techniques, eh Tess?;)

I will ask if I can buy the big one, and it will be like "No Way Jose!!!" and then I will say something like, "well I suppose I could settle for the 15G one"... I don't know if that will work though. Hmm... I may have to settle for the ipod mini... listen to me... "settle"

I would luv to have an ipod, period. When would I need more than 1,000 songs anyway. I'm at my computer enough to change them around too. Well... I will dream tonight and make my proposal tomorrow;)

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Night peeps,

Boo

One feeling I usually haven't experienced is loneliness. Tonight I babysat the Stufflebens and had a lot of time to just sit around and think about some stuff. I realized some pretty depressing things (at least to me).

However, I know that I have no reason to feel lonely because I have a constant companion and even more so, a unfailing God. What is my problem... I don't know?

What is loneliness anyway? It is when one laments for things this world has to offer and that the the world is just failing to serve up. Well, I am going to flout this so called "loneliness." Let the world indulge in itself; but I need to be content (or even more so- estatic!) with God.

Hang on as I kick myself in the bootie, cuz there's no one around to do it for me.

Oh wait, there is God. But sometimes he kicks pretty hard, which is probably what I need right now. Depression and loneliness have never been my thing, so God can just kick it all out of me now because I don't like the looks of it at all.

Ahh... that feels better.

whoa-- these song lyrics just popped in my head...

"loneliness, loneliness, is what i long for,
loneliness is what i need,
loneliness, loneliness is what you want for me,

so take my heart and form it,
take my mind transform it,
take my will and from it,
to yours, to yours, oh Lord." (some sonicflood song)

Definately!

Night,

boo

I dunno if this a universal feeling. Sometimes these surgeances of emotion can be attributed to biology and the ways in which God created a women to rollercoast from emotion to emotion. However, I think JOY is one of those emotions that we (those of us in Christ) rollercoast into whenever we are reminded of God's awesome power and grace.

So on such a gloomy day, I just got a huge spurt of JOY and I don't attribute it to mere emotion, but to God's awesomeness.

Whoa!

Yeah, I just wanted to share that with you bloggies.

Anyway, if you have time today (which i am sure you do), get out your Bible and read Ecclesiastes because it is a superb book. This is one of those books that people tend to take things out of context so read it all at once or else you may be very confused. It is an amazing argument because the author is making a comparison throughout about worldly wisdom vs. wisdom through a God filter. It is quite amazing. Also, it was cool for me to write down a commentary as I read. There's tons of good stuff in the book.

Give God the Glory Peeps!!!

boo