Hey Look... I'm postin'

Okay... for all ya'll who are addicted to my post and keep buggin' me to write some more... Hey Look... I'm postin'! I love ya'll! I know that I was undating like everyday there for a while... but that comes in spurts and is not the usual. Ask Hannie... normally she's like... "Hey Kristy, are you gonna post this month?"

It's bright and early in the morning and I just realized that I totally spaced my 5:30 step class AGAIN! It's only offered twice a week and I missed it both times this week! I'm totally bummed... but on the other hand, I really just want to be done today. It's only 8:39 right now, but I don't want to be in the office today. I had to come in because there are a couple of things that I have to do. However, I'm in jeans and my Canada Hockey sweatshirt and my hair is in a headband. If that doesn't say, "I'm not staying at work" I dont' know what would! Actually, the funny thing is that I'm most productive when I'm dressed like this. I've already lined up another driver for tomorrow night, made my list of who I still need to contact and when, and hey, I'm just cute!

Lots of love!

K

I'm totally Stoked!

So I was going through my "mass of e-mails" and found an e-mail from one of my fav. independent bands from Denver! I haven't been to a concert in like 3 years because obviously, I haven't been in the area in a long time! However, these guys are AWESOME! They've gotten a new bass player since I left, but they are still amazing!

These guys are great! They have true Christian lyrics in a great punk/alternative/funky/ melodic type sound. I love these guys. I'm working with our local coffee house to try and get them out here. It would be awesome and I really miss seeing them live! I think Myria (my cousin) and I went and saw them every single weekend the summer between my sophomore and junior year of college. Anyway... check them out at http://www.purevolume.com/threecordwonder

You can listen to their latest cd free at the website! Check them out and let me know what you think!

Love and Blessings!

Happy Valentine's Day

Blessings and Peace to all of my wonderful friends!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

I know that many of us are single, and that this holiday makes you want to eat chocolate until you puke, but DON'T!

Yesterday, I went to the circuit meeting worship service, and Pastor Ahlemeyer spoke very powerfully on what St. Valentine was really about, Sacrificial love. St. Valentine would do anything to preach Christ crucified and about His sacrificial love. One of my dear friends, Linds, currently posted on her xanga asking the question if "she'd ever be enough." Thankfully, our dear friend Ames refuted that.

There is not one of us who God has not called out by name, formed to perfection in His eyes, and lived a perfect sacrificial life so that we don't have to! What a great day to celebrate a love so much greater than that which a "significant other" could provide! What a great day to realize that we a loved more than the earth, more than the angels, more than the rest of God's creation! We are His, and that is worth more than anything we could ever ask for!

I got a devotion this morning for Lutheran Hour Ministry talking about I Corinthians 13:13 "But these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest among these is love." The devotion was beautiful in that it talks about WHY the greatest among these is love. I'm going to paraphrase is here, but I'm giving them credit for this knock of brillance.

Faith is necessary for this life because as it says in Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. However, when our Father calls us home through His Son, it is no longer faith that we live by because we will have seen with our own eyes the face of our Lord and Savior.

Hope will then be fulfilled. We no longer will need to hope for something that is right there in front of us! God will be there, fulfilling the hope that we will live with him forever! He's right there in our lives!

How amazing and what a blessing to know that we will no longer have to live by faith and hope, but that we will be in the ever present face of LOVE! What an amazing sacrifice Christ gave us so that we will live the most fulfilled lives!

So Happy Valentine's Day!

God's blessings to all of my friends whom I love! Know that you are in my prayers and that I love that God has put you in my life! I wouldn't want to live this side of life... and I can't wait to spend eternity serving our gracious Savior with you!

Reducing the Funk

Okay, so winter is really Funk time for me, but I have to say that the last couple of days have been funk free! I was so blessed this weekend to see Mike and Tammy, familiar and friendly faces. It was like no time had passed at all! It was such a blessing that I get all knotted up inside. Tammy is one of the cutest prego's I've ever seen. I'm really bummed that I forgot my camera to take pictures, but that's okay. There is a slight chance that "Call Day" April 25th, I could have come wonderful friends coming to live near me, which would be absolutely awesome!

I have something else that I'm excited about... but I must remain hush hush... or Mark Blanke may ra-ra-ree... and kick me in the knee!

Everything is coming along GREAT with my house. I've got a color scheme for my kitchen... so I just have to actually go and pick out the colors. I'm so excited to get painting and get things moving.

Plus, I'm just going every where this month. Sat. I'm headed up to Marquette, MI to see one of the daughters in the congregation play hockey, then the next weekend will be 30 Hour Famine. The weekend after that my friend Stacy is going to be in state, and I can't wait to see her. Then sometime soon my aunt is going to come up, and my grandparents are going to be coming up to see my new house too! I've finally got something to actually look forward to. Plus, 24-25th I'm going to be in Madison, WI for a Mary Kay conference. I'm stoked! I'm going to be a very busy lady, not including all the things that I need to get done in my office. AHH!

The thing is that once I get through the initial end of Jan. beginning of Feb. funk, I'm all excited about the rest of the year! There are so many wonderful things that are coming up at church and in my life. It's almost overwhelming. The congregation voted to continue with the building project which means new sunday school classrooms, new offices, more run around space for the youth in the winter, places for lock-ins, no more tear-down, set up, tear down, re-setup when there is a luncheon and the take down the sunday school rooms.

I'm just gonna say AMEN! and be done!

Lots of love!

Random Collection of Thoughts

Okay, so it's 1/12th of the year is alread come and gone! Can you believe it? Who's wonderful idea was it for this year to begin, let alone be 1/12th of the way through?! This next month is going to be crazy because I'm in the middle of buying a house and let me tell you that it is not by any means an easy or stressless project! I had the house inspection yesterday and the owners have some work that needs to be done by the 28th as well as things that I'll have the joy of doing once I move in. It's time to touch up the plaster on the walls and EVERYTHING needs painted and I don't know what colors I want to paint! So, I have lots of fun stuff with that going on. I just really am not prepared for this year!

Our staff has taken a positive step forward though and I'm really happy because we are meeting twice a week now instead of just once. Now for many of you that may seem redundant and like you don't have time to meet with your staff once a week, let along twice... but all of our meetings have been to do lists and have nothing to do with the broad stroke of ministry. We've begun staff devotions which I'm very excited about and truly need, as well as time to talk about ministry planning and not just who is doing what this week.

It also hit me late last week as I had accepted a counter offer on the house I'm buying and began moving forward in this whole house buying project that as I'm buying a house, there will still be no one there at the end of the day to come home to. I still have the responsibility of all of the chores and making sure that I eat... and something other than McDonald's because it's quick and easy. Then I read Jamie's blog on being in the nook and it hit again. There are some opportunities here for me to start dating again, but can I say that it literally scares the crap out of me to start dating again! And with that, what makes me even madder is that Doug popped into my dream the other night. It was like he's trying to torture me. I don't want to get back with him; but it bothers me that he began dating again briefly after we broke up. And the reasons are completely self absorbed, he should be sitting in his house wallowing over me, even though I don't wallow over him. Heck, I most of the time I don't have time to even think about wallowing. But now, because I'm being self absorbed I feel like I'm wallowing! GRRR!!!

Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited about my house and will be posting a slew of pictures soon... I just took new ones and they are getting processed. It's very me, and will be even more me once I plaster and paint, and decorate. BTW~ looking for a place to get away? I could use some company... not that any of us can get away.

I think I'm simply feeling homesick still or again, whatever you want to call it. My aunt is hopefully going to come visit me soon after I close on my house and that would be nice, because it really is missing my best friend... and while I miss so many of my friends, she and I have never connected well over the phone and being thousands of miles away has always driven me crazy.

Well, I think that my thoughts have been random enough for today. I'll get the cool pics of my house up hopefully by tomorrow... but don't count your chickens til they hatch!