this time around

i just bought the new paul brandt cd. it's good. i'm enjoying it a lot. wow, it's so different to not have 3 tests, and multiple papers due, all in one week. yay for midterms being over! today i have to walk to the site gallery downtown to look at my selected works of art for my art history essay. should be some good times!

i'm learning to play guitar, did i tell anyone? come to think of it, i think only jenny knows where this site is, so even if i tell people read this, no one will really know.....anyhoo, i'm playing guitar in my spare time, and it's getting easier. i've got calluses, very exciting. oh dear, i have gone downhill since i left highschool. i don't know how to spell anymore. is that how you spell calluses? who knows!

yesterday was a fun day, where i should have gotten more done, but didn't! steph and i had some chats, good times, then her familia called, it was stressful for her, so we went to safeway (with our trusty card and coupon!) and bought 4 litres of icecream!! and some flowers for our apartment. then we saw eva in the parking lot of our building (she lives in our building) and we invited her up for cookie pizza and icecream. steph had made one giant cookie pizza before we left. so we put our flowers out, and had icecream with cookie pizza. yum, yum! we also brought our landlord some, and some flowers. she was happy about that. so that was my evening. i didn't call my familia, which i meant to do, but s'okay. i'll do that tonight. i love my familia. they are some good stuff.

i'm really enjoying paul brandt. really, i am. and you know what? i'm enjoying God this week and weekend. i'm realizing a lot more about heaven. stink, did you know that we actually for-real get to go there?! and it's not a sing-a-long in the sky for forever - it's us doing exactly what God has gifted us to do, worshipping him in pure abandon and having the best fun ever! which means, i get to play baseball to the glory of God! i get to sing my heart out, without worrying about being off-tune or sounding good - i will, and God will love it! and it's going to be intimacy beyond intimacy here on earth! i got one of those slight internal scares yesterday thinking i may not get married before the world ends, but seriously, the intimacy that i long for in marriage is NOTHING compared to the intimacy i was created to experience with God! the shadow of it on earth is something we search for so hard, and long for, but the creator of it, the perfect unity in the trinity, has something so much better!! i'm holding onto that. heaven is not going to be a disappointment. not by any means. death is to be with God! there is no fear in death, and while i love life here, i can only imagine what it will be like in heaven with abundant life in Jesus! you'd think we could come up with a better word than heaven....it just doesn't seem to capture what i think is all a part of live everlasting with Jesus, the author and perfector of love!

woo. that just all came out. good stuff. have an awesome day! multiply the good stuff by 10, and then think how much better it will be in heaven!
this isn't home, praise the Lord!