My Blog Is Back!!

So I haven't had access to my blog in like 3 weeks! For some reason I couldn't type in the post box to add a new post, and today it is magically working again! Woo Hoo! I have been so rediculously busy with school it's insane! I am definitely starting to regret taking 20 credit hours this semester...I am doing ok so far grade wise, it's just so time consuming! And a lot of the time, I don't have the time!

Rachel came here for my Birthday and we had so much fun! We didn't get to go to New Orleans because of stinking hurricane Gustav! We thought it was going to hit us until the night before, so they evacuated New Orleans and most of the Gulf Coast! We were thinking about going to Indiana but decided not to! Then we were supposed to get Hurricane Ike 2 weeks later, but as you know he went west and hit Galveston, TX. The weekend of my Birthday our church started a revival and so far we've had over 50 people receive the holy ghost! That's really awesome, but we are definitely ready to get back to hearing Bro. Mansfield preaching again! A month of another preacher besides your pastor is no fun! lol even though Bro. Plemons is a good preacher!

I am really excited about this coming weekend because we are going to memphis with Cliff's parents and my Aunt and Uncle! We are going to Graceland and hopefully shopping! haha what trip is comlete without a little mall time? I can't wit to get away for the weekend and see our parents! Well I have a bunch of physics homework and class tonight to I am gonna go!

The Craziness Begins...

So, I started school last Thursday and I love it! =) I was a little shocked though that EVERY teacher gave me homework on the first day! Who in the world thought of that bright idea I'll never know! Needless to say this is the first chance to sit down and write about anything! I am really loving all my classes except for physical science and geography of course lol the two sciences! It is all so boring to me...but I am sure I'll make it though! That is really all that I have been doing lately is going to school, work, church, and home the last few weeks! I have never had so much homework since I have been in college and I have only had a week and a half worth of classes! I am gonna need to be MAJORLY focused this semester, I can already tell!

I am so excited about next Saturday though!!!! A) It's my 21st Birthday! and B) Rachel Anderson flies into Jackson at 12:24pm for a Rachel/Sheena Birthday weekend extravaganza!! It's going to be craziness all weekend! Cliff has already informed me that college football starts that day so me and Rachel better take it somewhere else since as he says "you are ridiculous together"! haha so we are trying to take the party to New Orleans! I am trying to work it all out to go on the Monday after my birthday but we shall see! Don't worry everybody! There won't be any real partying in New Orleans for the newly 21 yr old =) Unless you count a concert on the river, live acrobats and theatrical performances next to Cafe Du Mont, fabulous shopping, and delicious meals at cute little hole in the wall cafes!! Honestly, whoever said they could feel the evil spirits as they crossed the bridge into New Orleans were way more "spiritual" than I ever wanna be! I love it there!! Every town has it's crazies and nut jobs right? HA! But that's all for now ! We are having dinner with Lynette and her family then weare taking the youth bowling tonight from 11-2am so I have to go get ready! I am going to be dead tomorrow! Thank the Lord tomorrow is Saturday!

PS. Happy Birthday tomorrow Aunt Frieda! Love you and wish I was there! =)

Happy Happy!

So we have a ton of catching up to do! Since I last blogged Destined08 came and went and so did our trip to the Commune-ity Meeting in Cincinatti! Also, BMG asked me to stay changed my position and downgraded my job so I have way less responsibility! I know that sounds like a negative but it was actually the Lord answering prayer! As usual =)
Destined went perfectly! The singers and our music was incredible, Ryan did a FANTASTIC job (he preached "Destined Generation"), and the "Aftershock" after hours event was a blast with a 3-on-3 basketball tourney, pizza, a coffee shop, and music! All our hard work, especially Cliff's, definitely paid off! Cliff had everything SO, SO, SO, organized! Everything went off without a hitch and no one was asking any questions about what they had to do or where they were supposed to be! Cliff had iteniraries for everyone MCing and all the volunteers with their individual job responsiblities and duties haha it was rediculous...I don't think I have ever met a more organized person than my husband. I really wish I was more like him! We were so tired after our long weekend but it was great fun! Cliff had a lot of fun with Ryan and Jordan, so I was glad he got to have some guy time which he never gets!
We rode on a van with the MS district youth committee to the Commune-ity Meeting in Cincy and we really enjoyed ourselves. The ride there and back was aweful because there were 11 of us and our luggage in a 12 passenger van but we tried to make the best of it! The church paid our way to go which was great and we are so thankful because we wouldn't have been able to afford to go on our own! We had fun hanging out with a bunch of different Student Pastors and hearing some good preaching! Tim Rutledge did AMAZING! So did Nate Rios and Russ Cripps...they were great messages. Tim preached about the 3 temptations of youth ministry Nate preached about having a vision, and Russ Cripps preached about love with no regrets! They were my 3 favorite and the 2 other speakers I honestly couldn't tell you anything else but their title! hehe Oops! =) The bad thing is that we had to put Elvis Presley in the Kennel and even though he loves it, I hate it! I need to find out what Hotels let shmuppies come along so we can take him everywhere!! He did however make a friend with a ginormous Great Dane named Rosie. It was the funniest thing she would just lay there and lick Elvis while he jumped all over her! It was the owner of the Kennels Great Dane and she told me that they just sold the last of her puppies last week and they were about the same size as elvis and some of them were black so she prolly thought that he was one of her pups! How sweet, except next time I don't think I want my baby mingling with other dogs...especially ones that could eat him for a snack in one bite!!! lol Even though Rosie was super sweet and stood up to give me a hug and lick my face! She was about 4 inches taller than me when she stoof on her hind legs! IKES!
Another really exciting thing is that I start school tomorrow! I am ready to get going and start getting some credits that actually matter under my belt! This semester I will be getting a 4.0! No more of this 3.8 buisness(at least taht is what I am praying!!!) ...Also Rachel Anderson is coming into town for my birthday on August 30th and I cannot wait!!! And my auntie Frieda got me the new iphone 3g...I can't wait to get that in the mail next week!! I know I am spoiled but oh well! haha =)

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My last day at BMG is Aug 15th...so great except I don't have another job lined up yet. That's no good, but I am working on it! We have the busiest week ever ahead of us since Destined08 is this Friday! We are supposed to have 300+ people there so we are really excited! Cliff has been super busy the last few weeks so I will be happy when it's over so that my husband will actually come home sometime before 11 every night! haha...he just wants everything to be perfect so I understand! Ryan Loyd will be here Thursday afternoon until Monday and I know Cliff is really looking foward to him being here! Sunday is the big kick off for our 1 service and I cannot wait for that! That is basically everything....I know really boring haha! Ttyl!

Trophy Wife...

I decided yesterday I just want to be a trophy wife...haha you know those wives that stay at home all day making sure not a speck of dust enters their house all the while looking fabulous! No work or school just homemaking! lol too bad I live in the real world! This week has been rediculous! The week before last I made a mistake at work...It was a pretty big mistake, but it was caught before anything major happened! Well Monday my boss called me into her office and was talking to me about the mistake and I thought she was going to give me a warning (since this was the 1st big mistake I have ever made) but no, she was like if we weren't going to be short staffed the next three weeks with Tina gone and you being the only other one who really knows how to do claims, I would be letting you go! I was just like wow...I mean she was really nice and wasn't rude but it's still so stupid! I mean she should have just said we would fire you but we are going to use you instead! She was all like we don't want to fire you, but we realize that we aren't your first priority when you have school and church work also going on. Duh! Sorry I am not going to quit school and youth work to be your full time secretary! She told me I had until Thursday to decide wheather I want to be "committed" to them. I asked what that meant and she was like that we can put way more responsibility on you and you will not be making mistakes and you won't be able to take off so much time for church stuff. Well first let's just clarify that I have made no mistakes since I was first learning my job! I made some then but of course I would I didn't know what I was doing at first! And second I make 7.25 an hour (I used to make 7 but after I begged for a raise in may they had told me I was getting in January) so NO, I am sorry you cannot put anymore responsibility on me. I already do all the filing in the entire office (there are 11 ppl pulling files everyday all day), I am first on the phones, I sort the claims, print the claims, write the checks for the claims, mail it all out (Tina does this too but I am her secretary so I get the grunt work) So needless to say, I have applied for 3 other jobs since Monday. 2 retail jobs and 1 with the city of meridian to be a teacher's assisstant! I am praying so hard that I get the teacher's assisstant job but either of the other 2 will be fine just to get me out of here! It's been so akward ever since because I found out that everyone in the office thought that Denise was firing me Monday, not giving me a second chance. You should've seen the confused looks when I came in on Tuesday! It's just really frustrating how gossipy they all are.
So on a better note Holly and her brother Keith came to see us on Thursday night and stayed until Sunday morning! We had so much fun! Keith has a love interest in Jackson MS which is only an hour away from us so we didn't see much of him, and Cliff was so so so busy at the church so we didn't see much of him haha pretty much me and Holly did our thing the whole time! On Saturday Holly and I went to New Orleans for the day and we had a blast! It was kinda rainy for about an hour but other than that it was perfect! Holly had never been there before so it was cool. I loved having her here even if just for a few days! And I think Cliff had fun getting to talk "student pastor talk" with Keith since they are both Student Pastors haha. We also found the tiniest black kitten ever and we brought him home to live with us (as an outdoor cat) and he stayed for 4 days then he ran away!!! I was so sad becauuse he had a hurt paw and I has neosporen and band-aid on it haha oh well...I tried! He also has a flea collar so that should help him out! He was so sweet though...he wasn't scared of people at all and he loved to be held and cuddled which is weird for a stray cat! I hope he comes back! Well I guess that is about everything! Cliff and I are going to Impact conference in Columbia MS tomorrow and Wayne Francis is preaching Student Impact and we are so excited! Cliff is MCing so he gets to introduce Wayne and that will be funny...he's busting out old school memories from IBC haha ....Another part of being a "Trophy Wife" I don't ever have to ask off for anything and we coulda been up at Impact all week like we really wanted! haha oh well...maybe when I'm 60!!