I went over to Stef's last night to watch a movie and eat dinner. We always have so much fun together, at least I do. Haha. After lighting the grill twice and recovering it and uncovering it, we decided to actually grill the chicken and make mashed potatoes and chocolate chip cookies. Well, half and hour later (and half the cookie dough is eaten later) and the chicken isn't cooking and we are trying to figure out what is wrong with the grill. Everything looks great, but I figure it is out of gas (there are really only two choice, either the ligher is broken or the gas is out... and the lighter was working wonderfully). So we have to lug out a new tank of gas and figure out how to hook it up and then Stef is afraid to light it because she thinks it will blow up. Heh. So I risk my life and limbs lighting the grill so that we may eat chicken. While all of this is going on the timer is going off inside because the cookies are done and the water is boiling over in the potatoes. So I go running back inside the house and pull the cookies out to discover that they are not even nearly cooked. So I throw them back in the oven and eat more cookie dough. Man, I was laughing so hard because everytime we did something so other timer would go off or the phone would ring. It was great. The cookies got done and we ate more of them and put in a new batch. And finally everything was finished and we went upstairs to watch our movie and eat. And about ten minutes into the movie I remembered the cookies. So Stef goes running down the stairs and pulls them out and they are perfectly crunchy. Not burnt at all. Woohoo. The rest of the evening was pretty ordinary for a Stef and Faith night. We always seem to have some adventure when we are together. Like when we went walking in the pouring rain at Pemberton (while I was in my sling) and we got soaked (completely soaked - and I was wearing jeans that weighed a ton - haha). Or when we went canoeing and ran into evey side of the riverbank that we could. Man, good times.

It has been one long day (and it still isn't over -- I'll be doing homework all night).
But it started off well. Some cute little kid smiled and waved to me this morning on the way to school. I had a smile stuck on my face for the rest of the morning. Funny how a smile can brighten your day.

I'm annoyed at physics homework. I will be here all night tomorrow and Tuesday and most of Wednesday. But on Thursday the world will rejoice, since I will have both of my exams finished. Glory Be!!!

So today was nice. Jared took Jack, Stacey, Linnea, and I out to Chilis today. Man, I am SO full. I ate so many chips and salsa. Chips and Salsa are one of the greatest food combinations ever. They rival peanut butter and apples, peanut butter and graham crackers, peanuts and chocolate, and chocolate and peanut butter fudge.
And now I am doing homework at SU. Well, it was a great begining to the the day. All days can't be perfect, I guess. Then heaven wouldn't be so grand. It has been so long since I have been able to relax on a Sunday. I really can't wait until Winter Break. But hey, seven weeks down, eight to go (meaning we are starting the mid-point week, woohoo). I will survive. And I will have to celebrate when I finally have a life again. :)

Faith puns

Normally I think Faith puns are silly and stupid. Usually more stupid then silly. But I still get them all the time. So when Sarah said to use one for Reformation I rolled my eyes and told her no one would get it.
Well, I ended up using it becasue I thought I had the right to make Faith puns, since my name is Faith. I said, "Sarah wouldn't come up here with me today because she told me reformation was based on Sola Fida. " Haha, Faith alone.
*Rolls eyes*

The Ailey II Dance Company is downstairs in Holloway.
Take a look at their last set of dances...
* I Been 'Buked
* Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
* Fix Me Jesus
* Processional/ Honor, Honor
* Wade in the Water
* I Wanna Be Ready
* Sinner Man
* The Day is Past and Gone
* You May Run On
*Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham

Good songs. This peaks my interest. I may have to toddle on down there and see this.

The outlets

Still to come Winchester and Richmond pictures... here are a few more Williamsburg Shopping pictures before I get back to work.


Anna and her boyfriend. He never has very much to say. But he dresses well.
Sarah and a group of friends she made while shopping. These pictures were taken right after we left the kitchen store after trying and retrying many samples. The kitchen store was definatly the best place at the outlets. J. Crew was pretty hot too. But the kitchen store fed us for free. We ate so many chips and different kinds of salsa and crackers and jellies, and stir fry, and lemonade. Wow. Yum!
Me driving and trying not to laugh. It was sunny and Hayley lent me her sunglasses. Aren't they great? Anna may I post that picture of you to show why I am laughing... ? Oh please! I'll let you think about it.
Me sideways. Woohoo.
Anna shopping.

It is raining again... and you are going to finally get some pictures.

Eating outside of Williamsburg.

This sign is just really classy. I am trying to decide what to do with it.

These windows were really really cool.
Or at least we thought so. These are from Williamsburg when Anna, Hayley , Sarah, and I went shopping while it was raining.

I don't know if you will be able to see it without zooming in, but the placemats were made by Pimpernel (like the scarlet pimpernel). We thought that was cool.

My little brother... pretending he is some superhero...maybe The Ace.
Who thinks she is really cute here? Wait she is always cute. Haha, cute little Anna.
Walking down a road in Williamsburg. Trying to keep tabs on all these people was a challenge.
The guys in a tree they found.

Anna and Erin.
Anna in the van, while I am driving. My parents never left the campsite, so if we wanted to go anywhere, I had to drive. And not only drive, but drive the van. I really don't like driving the van when it is full of eight munchkins.
It rained and rained while we were down in Williamsburg (but we still had fun and did two puzzles too). Becuase it was raining the puzzle pieces swelled and stayed stuck together. This was the worst puzzle I have ever done (rewarding, but horrible). It was a painting and all the colors blended and it was a mess. But we did it! Hooray.
Hayley playing with my camera in the van on the way back from Williamsburg. She was scared of my driving too. :)
I'm sorry to say that Anna and Emily died while visiting the graveyard at the church. People were laughing at us as we took this photo. Haha.

And just when I thought it couldn't get any worse...
I have another two exams next week, a reformation childrens party to plan and decorate for, two colleges to visit (and I have to apply and choose one of them), loads of homework, babysitting the Nyces on Friday, too many projects at work, physical theorpy, and a family to help take care of (Anna and Mom will be gone in Mississippi all week - So it is just Sarah and I doing housework).

If I make it through this semester alive and with my sanity, it will only be through the power of God. I could never do any of this myself. If I was relying on only my own strength I would have died by now. Praise be to God, who I know will bring me through. And praise be for the oppurtunites to learn how to juggle this many things.
*sings* Make me grateful, Lord, Make me grateful oh, Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10
"Each time he said, "My gracious favor is all you need. My power works best in your weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may work through me. Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

1 Corinthians 1: 25 -31
"This "foolish" plan of God is far wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is far stronger than the greatest of human strength. Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes, or powerful, or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God deliberately chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose those who are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important, so that no one can ever boast in the presence of God. God alone made it possible for you to be in Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made Christ to be wisdom itself. He is the one who made us acceptable to God. He made us pure and holy, and he gave himself to purchase our freedom. As the Scriptures say, "The person who wishes to boast should boast only of what the Lord has done."

Kit-Kat bars shall be my downfall at work.

My Professor in Statics handed back our exam this week. There were only two questions on the exam and I was so afraid that I hadn't done the first problem correctly (which would have meant like 30 points of my exam 10-20 maybe if my professor likes me). So my exam is handed to me and I don't want to even look at it. I hate facing a professor when I have a lower-then-expected by them exam grade. So I can't even look my professor in the face. I finally look up at my exam and it was a 98/100. My mouth dropped open! I have never been more shocked to receive an exam back. I just sat there with my mouth open afraid that if I looked back down on my exam the grade would change to something lower. Then I just broke into this huge smile and smiled for the rest of the class. MAN!
In Physics it is nearly impossible to get a perfect score. Anything above an 85 is considered almost perfect. There are so many little things that you can go wrong on. Insane! *Happy Happy Happy* So Happy. Really only my Dad can really tell you how excited I am or anyone that has been in a math or physics world. Seriously, getting anything over a 85 is good and above a 90 is thrilling! Wow.
Hooray! To God be the glory.

When filled with holy truth, the mind rests.
-C.H. Spurgeon

Praise God.

It is raining again. Rain is for sleeping in!!! I let myself sleep in an extra half hour today and decided to braid my hair instead of letting it dry curly. It would have been way too cold to walk around campus with wet hair anyhow. Or that is what I told myself this morning so that I could roll over and go back to bed for a while.
Last night we had the Nyces over for dinner and I answered the usual school and work questions. I need to find a way to talk about something else with adults. But I really like the Nyces (maybe becuase I used to babysit their boys... who knows), so I didn't mind rambling on about school and work. Normally people get bored of hearing me talk about physics and engineering in the first two sentences. They zone out at "I'm a physics (I lose half of them there) and mechanical engineering major (and the rest all stop listening there)." They nod and smile. Haha. No, last night was fun. I wrote three letters to people that I have been meaning to write to and I haven't for a while. And I just remembered I left them on my dresser at home. Oh well, I haven't written in at least a month anyhow, what is one more day going to do?
And Dad, Sarah, Luke, and I ran last night in the rain. It was awesome! I felt so great Sunday night running (full off of all that great mexican food and thanks to Jared, fried ice cream), but last night I don't know what my problem was. I made it two miles and wanted to fall over, but thank God for my dad who pressed me on for my full three miles and in record time. My Dad is really wonderful. I love him. We get to go up to visit college park on the 21st together. I think we are stopping at Red, Hot, and Blue for some delicious catfish and sweet potato fries on the way back. Woohoo. Now that will be a grand old time. Although, I think I am driving, I really don't like driving in cities(or anywhere else for that matter). Driving Rt. 13 everyday to school is more then enough driving for me for years.

"If I had a work truck, I would hang this picture in it."
Haha.
Or something like that.

I am finally giving in. As of October 19th, I will have unlimited text and picture messaging. Haha. So I might start actually replying to some of your text messages, Hannah and sending you some of my own. :D Won't that be nice of me.

Last night Hannah, Jared, and I went to La Tolteca! Woohoo. The fried ice cream was awesome! Man, I think I will just get that next time. No meal, just fried ice cream! Haha. That way I can finish it all and still not feel so sick that I can't run with my dad when I get home. :)
Although, I love the rain, it should not ever rain and be this dark outside on a Monday. Makes a terrible start for a week. Raining days should not be wasted on Mondays. They should strickly be held to happening on days off so that I can sleep in, read, sit around in my flannel pants and a sweatshirt, and drink coffee and hot chocolate. So rain rain go away, come again another day.

Favorite quote of Sunday (That wasn't from Jared), "If I didn't know either of you and I saw you all walking along, I would think, 'What a cute couple!' "
Three people, of whom I value their opinion, said this to me yesterday. :)
*smile*

And now it is time to go back to school. Blah.

Well, I am back in the SU computer lab. What a week. It rained all day yesterday and I sat around the house and drank pounds of coffee and planned Reformation. I loved the rain because I didn't have to be anywhere and it was so relaxing. I wanted to call people and have them run in the rain with me and splash in puddles. But there wasn't anyone around. :( So I stayed nice and dry inside.
Luke kept begging me to go to Barnes and Nobles with him so we went running off through the sheets of pouring rain and crowds of people and read for a couple hours. Then dear Hayley Taylor got off work because the mall flooded (haha - glad I wasn't there) and came and we sat around and talked. We decided to do soemthing fun and Hannah, Jared, Linnea, and Hannah seemed like some fun people to call up and play games. What a blast playing the crazy sentence drawing game. I laughed so hard my face hurt. And then we watched the muppets and I laughed so hard I couldn't breath. MAN! There is always one extremely funny part and I lost it (Unless of course it is the episode with Vincent Price and he is not funny at all).
Today was adult choir and church and youth choir and now Su. Later on I have a Women's Retreat Committee meeting and youth choir again and I think that is it for the day. Maybe some Reformation planning with Sarah a little bit later on tonight.

Blessed be Rebecca Wise! She has just made my day by offering to show me around College Park and find someone for me to room with. MAN!! That would be totally sweet. I am beginning to get slightly excited about this. College might actually be fun and enjoyable. Rebecca is one of the sweetest people I know. Praise God for dear friends, both old and new.

Oh, and I should have photos from Winchester, Williamsburg, Richmond, my sling, my roses, and my Colarado Puzzle sometime this week or next week. I finally got a cd burner to transfer my pictures from my dead laptop to a working computer. Woohoo. So you can either look forward to, or dread that. Haha.