2 down, 4 to go!

Hey ladies and gents,
this is going to a boring post, but I just HAVE to declare that I am officially 1/3 of the way DONE with GRAD school!! :) As of tonight, I took my last final!!

Two semesters under my belt....not really sure what the phrase actually means or where it came from, bc it's kinda strange when you really start to think of it...but anyway,
I'm ready to keep going and be done!

btw, this is me below saying... YES!!!
excited,
accomplished,
energetic,
happy,
cheerful,
hopeful,
...you get the point :)

It's a bird, It's a plane, No...it's Batman Kite! :)

The windy days lately got me really thinking about kite flying!
what better outdoor therapy than kite-flying?
impulse control, exercise, determination, if first you don't suceed -try and try again, etc! :) love it!

So for the past 2 days I have taken my clients out for a little flying of the ol' 2 dollar batman kite! It totally broke the first day, so for today I had to safety pin and tape it back together. Now it's practically good as new.

Just to keep my client anonymous,
I've "smiley-faced" his/her face :)

Baxter!!!

No, this isn't a blog about the lovable dog on Anchorman...

I have been reading Karen Kingsbury's Baxter family series. I am in the Firstborn series right now, so I have read 8 of the series so far...and I have 6 more to go! Then I'm gonna move on to another related series after that!
I met Karen Kingsbury on friday at Ewomen conference. She was very down-to-earth and seemed like such a sweet person. She has to be to write about life the way she does.

I'm kinda inspired by her books to want to write short stories or something. hm...just a thought.

sillyness

Ok, I want everyone to know that I am currently ahead of Alanna Andes on watching LOST!

...She's such a slacking fan! haha. no one else will really understand this...but as long as I can bless her life with this, I'm happy :) haha

Aquarium!

Jeff, 8 others from biology at NGU, and I all went to the GA Aquarium this past saturday!
It was a blast!
I did the free audio tour download off the website and ended up learning tons! such a nerd, i know.

I really like this picture because I love seeing little children fascinated by God's amazing creations!

What a magnificent God we have!




Did you know that many fish, especially coral fish change sex whenever they need too. For instance there are several that are in harems with several females and one leader male. If that leader male dies, the dominant female of the group will change to male!!
There was one type that the male was bright purple and the females were orange, and I saw a couple that were crossing and their color was somewhat mixed! It was so crazy!

Also...did you know that you say "fishes" when you are talking about fish of several
species??
Well... you do now!

Running Away

So fellow bloggers, I now am a runner.

Not really a good one, but I have been trying to run more and more.
This week my goal is 15 miles. It's thursday night and I've run 11.8 miles since Monday...think I can make it? :)
I've found that I need to begin toning my legs and other muscles if I expect to be able to endure longer distances. I have trained my breathing now to endure much more than what my muscular body can handle....and if you are curious about what I mean by muscular body just look below at a pic I took last night!!
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oh my...........I crack myself up



I have been trying to use running also to help in my weight loss goal and overall "in shape" goal. I'm only hitting one problem, the more I run, the more I desire to eat! ugh! haha Well, I guess I knew that would happen, but I was kinda hoping I could just burn the calories and move on, ya know?

Oh, random but I did origami with a client the other day. I made a dog, cat, and a crane. It was pretty cool, but I think it frustrated me inside more than my client. Probably means I should do some therapy on myself....hmm....

Love...actually

Hey there ladies and gents,

Today I was reminded of something very important that I knew, but I feel I had lost the importance of it.
My devotional is about Becoming a Woman who Loves, and today was about the source of true love and how we can express love to the Lord and to others the best.

The key points revolved around the Holy Spirit and Obedience. So many verses in scripture tell us this main point from Jesus and the Father, "if you love me, then obey me."
As I read more of the verses, I came across the ones that said those who do not obey, really do not love the Father, and that only once we love our Father can we truly learn to love others. Wow. What basic concept, yet so true and refreshing.

It reminds me of memories of my childhood when my earthly father would always tell me if I loved him then I would obey him. When I was a small kid I had the hardest time verbally saying "i love you" to my parents. In my little 7, 8, 9 year old mind, I felt like how could I say something so huge like that when I know sometimes I would fail them.
"Love" was such a precious and powerful word to me then, and it almost makes me laugh to think how deeply and better I understood God's truths as child than I even do now. But then again, the Bible does say we can only come to him with faith of a child...so maybe that's why.

These memories also make me so thankful for my parents because as a child I did see them as worthy to tell me that they loved me even with having such a strict and even somewhat "perfect" idea of what love is (never doing someone wrong). In my eyes my parents were always there for me and did what was best for me, even when I didn't like it.
Thankfully now I understand that of course they failed me too, just as we all fail each other.

But wouldn't it be nice if we all thought more about trying to always be "worthy" to say we loved someone....being more concern on whether our actions backed up our words. I hope I never forget my childlike view of love.

1 John 5:1-3
¹Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. ²This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. ³This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome