Two of My Favorite Things.

The background on this picture was supposed to be transparent and it's legitimately bothering me that it's black.

1. I ordered a book from MayDesigns. And it's basically the best thing I've ever done for myself. You can customize them however you want and I'd like to say that I came up with a pretty snazzy cover. If you don't think so then that's cool too I guess. But really, every page is graphing paper and I can doodle and write and make to-do lists to my hearts content. Plus, I don't know about you, but I have this really personal attachment to journals. Is that unhealthy? I hope not. It's just so fun to have a place where all of your thoughts, whether words or art, are in the same place. It's like a best friend that's always there. I can't believe I just said that.

2. Finding a passage in the Bible that I had never read before, but is something that has always felt extremely dear to my heart. If there was a way to describe how I think we should live, it's this. I've always felt passionate about the concept of community. What's mine is yours. You need something? I've got your back. I'm struggling? You're only a phone call away. We weren't given blessings to use on ourselves so that we have an easy life. Whenever people bring up the concept of "Well why would God give some people so much, and others none?" ...that's not God's fault! That's fault on our part! We aren't being good stewards of our stuff when we are using it all on ourselves and not using it to bless others. We were given so that we could give. Acts 4:32-37.

In other news, today was just one of those days.
Sometime you've just got to get home from work, fix up your hair, put on red lipstick, and then curl up in bed because your date is clearly not with a person, but rather, Netflix. I should be ashamed; getting me into bed on the first night? Scandalous. 4 hours later and here we still are. Lipstick faded and 8 episodes in to How I Met Your Mother.