5 hour Energy. . . .I think it works.

Ok it's almost 5AM and I have been studying ALLLLLL night. That's right I haven't gone to sleep yet. I'm still not sure if I understand the corrolation between the Roosevelt Corollary and The Monroe Doctrine but I have pages of notes on it so maybe I'll remember enough of it to at least fake my through 3 essays and 5 or 6 short answers. I also have to remember exactly how America's Foreign Policy stances changed from the start of the 7 years war (pre revolution) to the end of WWII. That my friends is a LOT of information. 151 textbook pages of information to be exact. Along with about 20 pages of notes and some internet resources. THANK GOD Dr. Strong is letting us use 2 large notecards with information on them. I learned to wrtie VERY SMALL! Anyway amazingly enough I am not yet sleepy. Why is that you ask? Well that's because around 1 am I was getting sleepy and so I drank one of those little berry flavored B vitamen energy shots called "5 Hour Energy". I think I can safely say it worked! I felt whats called a niacin flush but so far that's the only adverse side affect and it only lasted a couple minutes. Not only have I gotten all my studying done but I managed to write two people up in one night. I am so on a roll! Not that I really enjoy writing people up they shouldn't a been breakin the rules! Anyway I'm going to go hop in the shower and read over my American Foreign Policy notes one more time to make sure I have it all down. Wish me luck and if you ever need a boost to stay awake for a few hours longer than you normally do try 5 hour energy you can find it in the vitamin section of Wal-mart or Walgreens!

On a roll. . .

Wow three blogs in a row I'm on a roll today! lol. Really it's just pure boredom at work. Anyway I was thinking about the whole independence thing and about the fact that I want to go to Conway tonight instead of having Jerald meet me in PB. Well my first reason is I really want to attend a youth service that is being held in Conway tonight. I really feel like I need church tonight since I didn't get to go wednesday. Secondly it would be cheaper on Jerald but not much cheaper on me either way I go with it. Those two reasons were the only ones that I had in mind when I first brought up the idea of me going to Conway instead oh and wanting to see my family (as bad as I hate to admit it I actually miss them from time to time). Anyway on with the story. I didn't write about it but my car broke down and has been in the shop for almost 2 weeks now. Anyone that really knows me knows that my car is my LIFELINE! I HATE and I mean HATE having to ask someone to take me somewhere. So when I got stranded in PB I thought I was going to die and it got even worse when we found out how much it was going to cost us to fix the darn thing. Well I thought I was suppose to be getting my car back yesterday but alas the lady called me and said "there's a problem with your car we seem to have ordered the wrong part" In my mind I was thinking WHAT!!!!!!! This cannot be happening!!!!! I was just fixing to launch in to a tirade about their incompetance or some such thing when the lady finished her statement. "We have a loaner for you" Whew!!! I thought to myself lady you better be glad you said that. Not that it was the womans fault but I would have had to have released my anger onto someone and she the poor innocent soul that she is would have been the closest target. Anyway what does this have to do with the fact that I want to go to Conway tonight? IT"S A 2+ Hour DRIVE!!!!! I am soo excited to actually get to do some real driving again I have so missed my car!!!!

I think I may have slightly dissapointed Jerald and I hate that but I NEED this drive. I know that's weird and wacky and crazy of me but anyway on to the main point that i'm trying to make. Is this or is this not a case of independence being a bad thing? I don't think so but you tell me and be honest.

Yvonne

Independence. . .Good or Bad?

After all that meaningless chatter of my last blog I have actually thought of somethng halfway meaningful to talk about! *gasp* This blog will be in the form of a question I suppose. When, if ever, is Independence a bad thing. I am and always have been an independent person with a stubborn streak a mile wide. I've managed to trim down the stubborn streak a bit over the past few years of my adult life but my independent nature refuses to change and quite frankly I don't know that I really want it to. I kind of like me the that I am but I know that as humans we sometimes have a hard time seeing are flaws as well, flaws. So you tell me is it bad to have a really really independent nature and what could make it a bad thing? I really want to know so please please please pretty please with sugar on top comment???????

Ta ta for now

Not much to say

Well today I am in the mood to blog. I'm sitting at work bored out of mind and searching for something profound to say that will wow my few faithful readers and yet I seem to be pulling a blank. So alas you are stuck with my mundane ramblings about work and school. I've been attempting the blog about my nieces singing but I seem to be having troubles with the video. I'm going to try again tonight when if I get the opportunity to get on my sisters connection. I dont know if I'll be in Conway tonight or not. I'm waiting on Jerald to get back to me on whether we are keeping our original plans of meeting in PB (Pine Bluff for you non-arkansans) or if I am going to come to Conway so we can attend a youth service there. I'll let you know how that turns out (as if you really care about these minut details of my life). It's so fun to pretend that there is a world of people out there reading this thing and nodding their heads going wow very interesting I like this girl. It is quite obvious however that I live in the world of fantasy as you can look at my counter and see the stark reality of things. I've only had a little over 1500 hits on this thing since I started it back in July of '07 and a few of those were probably me checking my counter lol. Not that I'm complaining I absolutely adore those of you that read my blog even though you tend to do so in silence. I would greatly appreciate a comment now and then just to remind me that I am loved. *sigh* I'm going to start feeling unloved and unwanted and then that will lead to major depression and the need for me to receive mental health care and all sorts of other nasty things and we don't want that to happen now do we? So C'mon people be a jewel and comment on my blog even if you wish to such derogatory things as "you suck dirt like a hoover" or "I really wish you would give up this pointless blog" At least that way I'll know you're actually reading!! Ok ok enough with the guilt trip I really don't blog to give you guys something enjoyable to read I blog as an out let. My computer is a captive audience and therefore must listen to me anytime I want it to.

Wow this blog really was quite pointless wasn't it? Oh well it was fun and allowed a few minutes of this boring work day pass.

I love you guys
Thanks for putting up with my endless rantings and ramblings

Yvonne

SCARY!

Sorry guys I'm back to politics since I got this e-mail from Sis. Allard. When I watched the video in the e-mail I thought ot myself FINALLY something legitamately bad about Obama! I know it sounds weird and many of you looked down on me when I stood up in the mans defense over the lies that were being spread about him online but I have NEVER said that I supported him I have simply said that there are enough bad things about him and other Democrats that are TRUE that we shouldn't have to around making up lies about the poor people. Anyway sorry about the little rant on with the video!

At first when I was watching it I thought well this isn't so bad he's just talking about the fact that there are lots of different religions and we shouldn't discriminate. Not so terrible right? But then towards the end it's almost as if he is mocking the Bible!!!!! Of all things. So anyway watch the video and decide for yourself.




Love y'all

Yvonne

A conceited blog. . .if you'll allow me

Ok so the title is probably slightly exaggerated but if you'll allow me this blog is purely self interested. I simply wanted to wish myself a happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!



More self exaltation to follow ;) (J?k)


But it really is my birthday and I'm 22 years old. I hope that makes all you people who watched me grow up feel ancient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Love you guys

Yvonne

Good Times with Jesus

The following is a video from when my mom was here in Arkansas visiting a week or so ago. I got the privelege of singing with her and my older sister Cristie. We sang "Little Song Coming On" by Three Bridges. I think it went great and just wanted to share that with you. I am working on another post that will include a video of my niece singing which is something I think you will not only find enjoyable but I think that it will bless you!


Enjoy!

Yvonne

Finding what makes us "feel good"

The other day I was eating in a chinese restaurant with some people from the church. I think that my favorite part of chinese food (besides eating with chopsticks) is the fortune cookie! Now at this particular place you could eat as many fortune cookies as you wanted because they are out on the buffet. I went to the buffett line and I got a large handful of fortune cookies and proceeded to open them up and read fortunes and eat cookies. The people I was with were laughing at me as I was becoming quite dissapointed that I couldn't find a fortune cookie with a fortune that I liked. You know one of those ones that make you feel good because they say your going to get money or find true love? Well I once again went and got another handful of cookies. FINALLY after eating 6 or 7 fortune cookies I found a fortune that tickled my fancy! It said you will recieve an unexpected payment soon. ALRIGHT! Just what I need I said and once again the people with me laughed. Later that night I was sitting in my room thinking (scary I know) and I had a thought about my experience with the fortune cookies.

Often times we do the same thing to the Bible that I was doing with my cookies. We dig through the Bible trying to find a verse or a scripture to make us "feel good". I was simply ignoring all those fortunes that said things like "you will learn a hard lesson this month" and simply looking until I found one that I liked better. Once I found the perfect fortune all the others were simply forgotten and that became my fortune. Now I know we can't put much stock in fortunes but we can put complete trust in the word of God and yet we sometimes pick it apart taking only the parts that give us that warm fuzzy feeling and leave the rest to be ignored. It's not that we do it on purpose it just happens. We love the part of the scripture that says resist the devil and he will flee but we often brush past and ignore that part that says submit yourselves unto God. We often try to ignore those ugly words like submit and obey in the Bible and we search and search for the parts that say blessings will flow abundantly. While there is nothing wrong with looking for scriptures that apply to our current situations let us make sure we aren't ignoring some of the many wonderful treasures in his word just because they don't make us "feel good"

Hope you all enjoyed my thought for the day. (See no politics this time either!)

With much love,
Yvonne

Time for a break

Ok guys it's time for a break from politics. It seems that's all I've been writing about lately. With the passing of Super Tuesday I shall take a break from boring you to tears with my political rantings and ravings! Instead lets talk about. . . . ME! lol just kidding I know you all get sick of hearing about me too. However I would like to talk a little about some things going on in my life. We have recently started working on an Easter drama at our church. I wrote it sort of. I took some songs and things that I love and compiled them to tell the easter story from a unique perspective. Why am I telling you this? Easy I need for you to pray!!!! For those of you that are close to me you know that my passion is drama as a ministry. It is in my humble opinion that drama is a powerful tool of ministry. I Do NOT want to just put on a play that looks good or has pretty music. I want to make an IMPACT on people. I don't just want to stir emotions over the bloody crucifixion. I want to stir souls as they realize the power of his mercy. I don't want to just cause excitiment when Jesus raises the dead or he himself raises from the dead I want to build faith in his healing power. More importantly I don't want people to walk away on Easter Sunday simply saying wow that was good I really enjoyed that instead I want people to walk away with tear stained faces and changed hearts and I want our visitors to return!!

So please keep us in prayer. Keep me in prayer as I lead this noble army of actors and crew members in the right direction and set them loose in battle on Easter Sunday. Pray that I will keep a right attitude when someones personality clashes and tempers flare.
Pray for the actual production process that costumes will fit and crosses will be tall enough and lights will be bright enough. Pray that no CD's get scratched midway through a performance and no one forgets their lines.
Pray for the actors that they too will feel the same burden for souls that I have and that our mission will be the same. Pray for the annointing upon each member of the cast.
Finally pray for those souls that will be filling our pews this Easter Sunday. I am challenging our cast and crew to fill the seat they normally occupy with at least one visitor.

The drama is called through the eyes of Mercy and some cast members to keep in prayer are
Destiny
Debbie
William
Leah
Anthony
Cindy
Travis
David
Joy

Thank you all for your prayers and support
With much love

Yvonne