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Been awhile.

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:58:46 GMT

I don't usually write in here anymore. The only reason I do is when my fingers are itching to tell a story that I want a relatively small number of ears to here. Today, sitting before me are boxes containing my childhood. I'm moving them tomorrow to what will be my adult home and it's a very strange feeling. I am amazingly happy to be getting married and absolutely convinced that I got the most amazing man in the world, bar none.

I am moving out of my parents house into a beautiful home with walls that were painted, cabinets that have been refinished, couches unwrapped and a kitty cat who loves me. It's very exciting. In 29 days it will no longer be "me" but "us" that I have on my mind and "us" that I get to care for. Granted, right now I get to care for us too, but it's a completely new thing. Every step of our relationship has been absolutely breath taking so I can't wait to see where this takes us as well. It seems like there are so many things out there for us to conquer but absolutely no fear of them in me. How wonderful to have this man at my side who can take my breath away every time, even after two years of dating! I'm getting sappy, but I'm in that sort of mood.

I'm happy.

Printing Invitations

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:32:07 GMT

I'm sitting here listening to the sweet music of my printer, printing the invitations to my wedding! Seriously cool! :) Yesterday Aaron and I went and tasted the food. Not sure why the guy would think it was a good idea to use garlic, but other than that PERFECT! The cake was absolutely amazing! I already had an idea of what I wanted, but if they were going to let me try three cakes, my goodness three cakes I will try!!

We spent the rest of the evening together picking out wedding bands, couches and watching a movie. Seriously a prefect evening. I am so insanely blessed! I love knowing that he loves me without question everyday. I love knowing that He loves me without question everyday. Tis a beautiful palce to be.

I have some unpleasant doctor things coming up. I don't think it will be a big deal, but prayers for strength and wisdom would be appreciated. The beatiful thing is no matter what happens I do know that life will go on...and I can't argue with that! :)

Not a whole lot going on here. We are working on details for a spaghetti dinner this coming week. It is going to be a little bit crazy and hopefully fun and productive. It's a fundraiser for Harvest Youth Ministries. Should be interesting if nothing else. We also have Building 429 coming tomorrow night, and to be honest I have never been so excited about seeing a show at the Attic! :) We have a lot of great bands, but this is one I personally am looking forward to!

Well, I should be going. I'm sure there are other things I need to be getting done today rather than just spilling my guts on here :)

Today is today is today

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:01:25 GMT

I was thinking about wearing a tiara to work tonight and then when people ask me why I'm dressed up like a princess I will look at them and say "Dressed up? Who's dressed up? I simply choose to wear my tiara today."

Life has been good here. Stressful but good. I'm having a busy month so that isn't always fun, but usually it's pretty good. Tonight we're having a costume party at work - and that means we're hosting it not participating in it. I've determined that I have an accomplished event planner at this point. It makes me chuckle. Ta ta ta ta.

Anyway, life is good here. I've decided doctors are not my friend because they take my money and are evil. But I suppose it isn't their fault. Aaron is fabulous. We're talking about getting married in early December now instead of late January. I don't know if it could actually happen, but it's fun to dream about. It would also be fun to get married and not tell anyone (except my parents of course because they might notice I wasn't living with them) then have a big wedding in January still. Who knows. :D

I suppose there are other things going on in my world but I don't feel particularly deep or particularly chatty at the moment. Hope all is well in your corners of the world.

Ah, another week.

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:59:03 GMT

This week was kind of crazy. Good crazy, but crazy. Monday I simply don't remember. Perhaps that is showing my age? Tuesday was sweet. I worked in the morning and then got to date my wonderful almost husband because I couldn't do our regular date night on Wednesday. He is SO good to me! Wednesday night I went to a motorcycle class with my dad. More on that later. Thursday I worked. Friday I worked. Saturday I woke up at 6:45 and went to motorcycle class...then I worked. Sunday I woke up at 6:45 for motorcycle class then I took the world's longest shower and did nothing all day!

I have passed the Motorcycle Ohio basic motorcycle training class and now have a motorcycle endorsement on my driver's license. Pretty exciting! I did the class with my dad which was awesome! I've been feeling like we haven't had a lot of time together lately so it was fun to be able to do that with him. I missed 4 points ( you can miss 21 before you fail) on my test so that was exciting! :) It was fun, there were 10 of us that finished the class in the crazy cold weather and they were all super nice.

Aaron and I got to go out on Tuesday. We had a great time just talking and going out to dinner and all that stuff. I was reminded Friday night that I am incredibly blessed to be marrying a man who I know loves me enough to call me on my crap! :) (96 days!!) It's been a rough week in the work world with bad numbers and some crazy drama (gotta love teenagers!! :) We'll make it.

I don't have a whole lot else going on. I feel like everything is coming at me fast. We have a ton of huge events at work that I need to put together. I feel like event coordinator/manager/babysitter/fundraiser/everything else sometimes. Some days I love it, others I don't! :)

Wedding plans are going well. I'm surprised how not stressful they've been so far. That might just be my craziness but it's been good.

Well, I'm off. I'm cleaning and packing (how weird!) so I want to keep going before I lose my momentum.

Have a wonderful week!!

Stop and Start

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:18:53 GMT

So I had a rough day yesterday...which I might have mentioned. I seriously despise being a girl sometimes - too many emotions. No wonder guys think we're nuts WE ARE! Eh well :) I am feeling much better today. I haven't killed or maimed anyone and I did two things I was avoiding before 11:30! I'm quite proud of myself.

I was talking to my wonderful almost-husband last night. We were talking about God stuff (which let me just take a moment here, when you're getting married, marry a guy you can talk to about God stuff!!). I told him my quiet times have been sucking lately. He gave me this advice: "Stop doing everything you don't think you should be doing and start doing everything you think you should be doing." Hmm, heavy. So today I was reading in my Bible and God hit me over the head with John 1 - treat others with love...walk in love...be love...you'll be known by your love. I determined that God doesn't think I'm very loving. I'm inclined to agree.

So another moment that displays my vast failings. I was driving down the road and someone cut me off so of course my response was "WHAT A MORON!". Then I thought to myself, I just said Raca! - I murdered the guy in my heart. I felt bad about that. It was strange because I don't usually feel bad about calling people morons but all the sudden I decided it wasn't nice. Today God is apparently trying to drive the point home because I've been cut off many times - and no, I'm not doing very well and keeping me comments nice.

Ah well, I gotta go do some more work I suppose. It's one of those days :)

(Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that!)

Yea!

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:36:43 GMT

Hi Trinh!

Life here is good. Yesterday was a busy day. Kind of rough. I haven't been sleeping well so I end up staying up till 3ish and waking up at 10. It really throws off the day! Especially when I have a lunch meeting at 11:15 and Chinese food is the first thing i eat! :( Oh well!

Went to the doctor the other day. Apparently I'm healthy but messed up. I have to go back in three weeks, we'll see how it goes. I decided that I don't like doctors...specifically my doctor because she seems very pro-abortion, but oh well.

Aaron is wonderful as always. We're getting married in 109 days. It seems like it's coming REALLY fast and let me tell you, I'm excited to be Mrs. Aaron Kilby! Ha, that's just funny. I have my dress hanging upstairs. It's pretty thrilling. We don't have much plannign left which is really cool! I want to get invitations done beginning of November (which apparently is early but I just don't care!).

Hmmm, I think everything else is good. I'm feeling very PMS-y these days which isn't good (but I'm blaming it on my perscription which has listed side effects of nausea, irritability and mood swings!)

Alright, I'm out!

Friday, October 06, 2006

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:48:44 GMT

Hi guys,

Ok, so I'm pretty sure no one reads this, but why not! Life here is good. I'm getting married really soon and I'm really excited! It is amazing how that one little question changes everything. Details are going well. We have almost everything done except for tasting the food - but that seems like the fun part! Yes, I have my dress. It's beautiful and no, you can't see it!

Work is going well. Some days I get really crabby and it isn't fun but most of the time "my kids" are awesome and I love hanging out with them. I'm really excited about some changes we're going to be making here in the near future. It's exciting to me! I think God is really working on us and through us...that's hard to remember sometimes though.

We started going to a new church. Although I love Apex, it was time to move. We are now at Harvest Christian Fellowship - pastored by none other than Jim Kilby! It is small but will grow. It's a weird transition, but done for all the right reasons so I'm excited about it.

Well, if anyone reads this feel free to leave a comment. Otherwise I'm just going to continue to assume I'm typing to no one!

Elizabeth

Welcome Back

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:06:47 GMT

It has been 367 days since I last logged in. According to Xanga, that's a big number of days. Anyway, hopefully I can make this a more consistent part of my day. I am currently reading a book (which shall remain nameless). After reading it, I hope to share my thoughts with you as part of my processing. Please note that this doesn't mean that I will be profound or even accurate all the time, but I will do my best.

The book is remaining nameless for a couple reasons. Mainly because I can't reccomend it. While the guy has some good thoughts, he is also very liberal in his thinking and has beliefs that I cannot condone. The basic premise of most of the book is good though. It is about following Jesus and giving Him the glory that He truly deserves.

Well, chapter 1 awaits me. I'll see you soon.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:08:02 GMT

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is GOOD; his love endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:34 (emphasis mine)

Give thanks - Hebrew: yadah - to give thanks, laud, praise, to confess, confess the name of God

I woke up this morning with that verse (actually, it appears 7 different times in the Bible...fun fact to know and tell) RUNNING through my head over and over again. However when it was in my head it sounded much more exciting then when it's in text...that font that people use when they want to be annoying (I mean...) GiVe ThAnKs tO tHe LORD foR He iS GoOd...that's what I imagine it would be in. Exciting. I don't know how to explain it.

Do you ever have days where you wake up and you think "My God rocks!" and other days when you wake up thinking "Where is my God?"? How is it that we do that? I can only imagine that it is because we have allowed ourselves to wander away a bit. Perhaps that makes the difference? I read somewhere that God sometimes allows us to go through "dry" times to challenge us to continue to persue Him. I don't know if that is incredibly Biblical though. I don't like the dry times...but morning when I wake up with praise on my tongue...just makes the whole day better!

GIVE THANKS!

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:55:02 GMT

So here I am all ready to go to sleep early so I can get up to work on my paper. Then I am on the phone for a bit con mi novio chatting about my sister's wedding and what not. And now I'm so stinkin' awake that it isn't funny! I think part of it might be the tea (caffine) I had earlier, but sheesh.

I'm excited about today. It started out rough. I'll be honest, when I go into situations with preconceived ideas about what should happen I get a little cranky when it doesn't go how I want it to go. But that's ok. I'm just like my mother in that sense. The day turned out ok though. I got my car e-checked and got hit on twice (at the same place! two employees...it was kind of creepy). I also cleaned my whole house and ran some errands. It was nice.

Tomorrow I am skipping at least one if not two of my classes to work on that paper I have due. Fortuantely I found out it is due 2 weeks from Thursday not one. I'm excited about that! :D I'm actually kind of looking forward to writing it, I just need to get on it!

Welp, I need to get going. Been a long day...I'll read some more then hopefully sleep like a baby :)