I Definitely Have the Best Friends in the World

So, for several days I've been trying to write about how I am so lucky to have the friends that I have. It just wasn't working out with pictures and all and I kept losing my blog that I wrote. So finally, I just shut the computer down and gave up. I thought I would figure this out later! So, I was sitting at bible study with my "girls" on Monday night and was just thinking about how awesome it is to be able to get together with my closest friends and study God's Word together. I mean, how many people do that? Probably not too many! Then, I was just thinking about how I have the best friends in the world. They will do anything for me. Well, tonite was no different. So, its my 34th bday! Yes, 34! How old that sounds! So, I thought I was going over to a friends house to celebrate my birthday with some of my girls! We were going to hang out, eat, play games, play the Wii and just have a good ole time! Boy was I surprised! I got there and walk in and start talking to my friends and boom...out of nowhere come all these people. My parents, my neighbors, friends from out of town, etc. It was such a shock! I think I was in shock for a few moments. So, we hung out and talked and played the Wii...then it came present time! I opened up all these cards with some nice gift cards and cash and then my friends made me close my eyes and took me outside! I opened my eyes and there sitting in the yard was my very own Georgia CORNHOLE boards made especially for me by my friends. My friends built them for me and my friend Joge MADE the cornhole bags. Poor Teddy, after getting hit in the eye by a softball and going to the med stop to get stitches went and used a jigsaw to help build them straight from the medstop! Then, to top that off, all my friends that pitched in to pay for the materials signed the cornhole boards with a silver pen. It was awesome! I loved it!!! So...hopefully when I figure out my new camera and how to load the pictures, I will definitely post some on here!! So, thanks to all my friends who made my birthday so special! I love you more than you'll every know!!!

Testing...

is pretty boring!! So, I'm actually sitting here in my classroom. This week is standardized testing at school. It is boring, but it does give a break from regular day to day routine. I get tired of saying...put your finger on number so and so. Mark the answer that does not belong - or whatever it is that i have to say. I think I could give these tests in my sleep. It is my 9th year doing it.

Maybe one of these days, I'll get my page looking as cool as April's or Gina's! Maybe when I go to camp this summer, they will show me the tricks to doing this. Is that a hint or what? Which, by the way, I am going to camp for weeks 1 and 2!

Alrighty, well its back to giving the last test of the day.

Carrying the Weight

Well, tonite I was just sitting here reading a little from my Sunday School book and I just wasn't getting into anything that I was reading. I didn't even know what I was reading about or understanding. So, I just put the book down and got out another devotional book that I try to read from a few times a week. It's My Upmost for His Highest book that is adapted for students. I work in the youth at church and its a book that our youth leader gave the kids. It's Oswald Chamber's book in todays language, I guess you could say. Today's devotional was called Carrying the Weight. It goes like this (and I'm quoting this straight from the book)...
Psalm 55:22 Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.

Imagine you are moving into a college dorm. your best friend has given you a reclining chair, but the only way to get it up the stairs and into your room is if you ask your friend to help you carry it. Many of the loads we carry in life are our own creations. It's incredible how many ways we find to mess up our lives. Now many of the weights we carry are given to us by God. But God will never give you more than you can carry. The amazing thing is that when God gives us a load, he will help us carry it. God does not expect you to carry your burdens alone.

We all have burdens. Choose one. Be specific and ask God's help in carrying it. He will lift one end and you can take the other. It's a partnership. God will not let you carry it alone if you ask for his help.

I had a pretty good weekend!! There were a few exciting things that went on. I do have a burden though, that I won't go into on here, but I just need to give it to God and ask him to help me handle it in the right way. Part of me just wants to handle it myself and just lash out, but I know that would be the wrong thing to do.

So...i'll close, but not before I wish my good buddy, April a Happy 31st Birthday!!! I hope you had a great day today and I'm so thankful for getting to know you the past two summers!!! Love ya, girl!!!

Not doing such a good job...

with this blogging thing. I keep forgetting to sign on. Maybe one day, i'll get into a better habit of writing on here. I sure am in the habit of checking my facebook and myspace multiple times a day. I would say its a bad addiction i have. I was even thinking of trying to stay off of them for a week. I don't know if I could do it!! Sometimes, I just sit here on my bed, laptop in my lap, t.v. on, going back and forth like something new is going to pop up on one of the sites. It's so bad!!! Anyway...i had a pretty good day. I had to go to the funeral home tonight. I hate going to funeral homes. One of my former first graders (who is now a 7th grader) dad was killed in a motorcycle accident on sunday. It was just awful. My mom and I stood in line at the funeral home for an hour! If I had not seen someone I knew who was really close to the family, we would have stood there probably another hour. But thankfully, she said to come with her and she took us in. I couldn't believe the amount of people that were there! It was in the hundreds!! So, I bought this book last night when I was at Sam's. I had to have an eye exam...the first one in over 10 years. I have been having these things they call floaters. It looks like gnats flying in front of my face, but its something in my eyes. So, I had them checked out. He dialated my eyes, so for a few hours I couldn't see a thing! Everything was so blurry. Thankfully, my friend Joge went with me up there or I wouldn't have been able to drive home. So, back to the book...with Joge's help bc I couldn't read anything...we found this book called Mistaken Identity that I had been wanting to purchase. It's such a good book. It's about this wreck a few years ago where the identities of these two girls were mixed up...one died and the other lived. This family sat beside the bedside of a girl in the hospital they thought was their daughter only to find out that there daughter was dead and they had been taking care of someone else's child. Anyway...you will have to check it out. I took it home and when I was able to see again, I started reading and couldn't put the book down until around 11:30. Finally, I made myself put it down so i could go to sleep. I read about 15 chapters...then I took the book to school and every chance I got on a break today, I read. When I got home from school, I had one chapter left. I finished the book in less than 24 hours which is amazing for me, because I am not a big reader. I think that is a record...I just couldn't put it down. The testimony that these families had and their love for the Lord was amazing!!! Want to read an amazing story...get this book.

Just one more day....

I only have one more day until my spring break is officially over. If summer break is going to be like my spring break, then I am in trouble. It was a pretty boring, rainy week. Two days, i know I stayed in my pajamas until at least 2:00 p.m. I did a little bit of shopping, a lot of sleeping and since I joined Netflix this week, I've watched a lot of movies. I got Alvin and the Chipmunks in the mail today. Why I even ordered this dvd, i don't know. It was just stupid. I loved the chipmunks growing up, but this just wasn't even good to me. I went to downtown Macon this evening with my friends, Jon and Joge. We went to the Cox Capitol Theatre to watch National Treasure: Book of Secrets. The cool thing about this theatre is that it is very old and it doesn't have theatre seating...it has tables and chairs set up and you order pizza and eat it while you watch the movie. It was really neat and different. I'm sure there are theatres like this everywhere, but i've never gone. The Cherry Blossom Festival has also been going on this week, but the rain has cancelled a lot of the activities. Last weekend, I did get to go down to the Lawnmower races, which was actually kinda funny. It was fun taking my Yankee friends to what seems like a Southern Redneck activity. Last nite, several of my aunts and uncles came over for a fish fry and one of my aunts and uncles spent the nite. It's always fun having them here. We stayed up really late playing Mexican Train - a dominoes game for those who are wondering. Like I said, the weather has been really rainy and stormy here the past few days. We woke up this morning to 7 trees down in our yard - one laying across the dog pen. Poor Socks probably had a heart attack last nite with all the trees falling around her. We were suppose to have our first softball game today, but it got rained out too!! Oh well, maybe next week will be better!!

Spring Break

I'm on spring break this week! It is a much needed break to get myself ready for the remainder of the school year. I just wish I was laying on a beach somewhere or doing something exciting. This week has been very low key. Yesterday, I did go with a friend to the Mall of Georgia up in Atlanta. I can't believe that I did not spend a penny! Well, except for breakfast and lunch - I did not buy a thing! Today, I got my first two Netflix DVD's in the mail. That was very exciting. It's the first time I've tried Netflix. I got Night at the Museum and The Ultimate Gift. Night at the Museum was interesting. It was better than I thought it was going to be, but not the greatest. I don't think I would watch it again. I haven't watched the Ultimate Gift yet...well, actually I watched the last part of it at a friends house on Sunday night, so I ordered it so I could see the first part. What I've seen so far was really good, so I'm excited to see the first part of it. I went to my friend's used book store today to get some more books for my classroom. She had a spring break special for 50% off, so I was able to purchase quite a bit of chapter books and even talked my mom into buy a bunch for me too. Then, before I left, my friend, the owner gave me two whole bags full of Sweet Valley High books. Okay...now why would I want Sweet Valley High books? I loved these books growing up. I wouldn't get rid of any of them and I thought it would be fun to have some more. I probably won't read them, but they are fun to have. Maybe I will...who knows. I got confirmation yesterday that I will not be going to Camp Wabanna this summer. I thought maybe I would, but I know that staying home is the best thing for me this summer. It will give me time to relax and really get prepared for the next school year, if I don't try to do something else. Hopefully, I will get to visit at some point. Well...that's about it for today. Hopefully soon I will figure this thing out and get some pictures and a better background up.

My First Blog

Hey Blogging World! I am new to this blogging thing. Several of my friends have them and I enjoy reading them. I've thought about doing this for several weeks, but I didn't think that I would really have anything interesting to say. I lead a pretty boring life. I work, I come home, watch some t.v. for a while and go to bed only to repeat the same thing the next day. You may wonder why I chose curly girl as my title for my blog. Well, other than the obvious that I have curly hair, its a nickname that my uncle gave me a long time ago when I was little. He has always called me curly girl when he would see me and its a nickname that only he would call me. In October of 2004, we got a call that he had died in the middle of the night. Apparantly, he had a really bad case of lung cancer that no one knew he had and we do not think that he knew either. So, I guess I name my blog Curly Girl in his memory!