"Eggrolls and fried rice and weird kinds of chicken, great-looking soups that just couldn't be thicker...

All kinds of Chinese food in general, these are a few of my favorite things!"

Okay, that was kind of a mess.

Brianna tagged me! Hurrah!

Rules
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Who is your all-time favorite author and why?
I think if all but one of my favorite authors and their works suddenly vanished... I'd pick C.S. Lewis!

Who was your first favorite author and why?
Nancy Rue! I read the Lily series over and over and over. It's AWESOME! Now it's gotten a little... less interesting, but I still like it. I was madly in love with Shad :-)

Who is the most recent addition to your list of favorite authors and why?
C.S. Lewis... I've always loved his fiction, and I just recently started reading his nonfiction - I absolutely LOVE the way he writes! I feel like I've gotten to know him by reading Mere Christianity. I guess at the beginning it says it's a few of the talks he's given - but I can picture him sitting at a little table, sipping coffee and expounding on theology. Agh, I'm not usually this romantical about things!

If someone asked you who your favorite authors were right now, which authors would first pop out of your mouth?
Karen Kingsbury, Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker, C.S. Lewis, and Joshua Harris. That's pretty much all of them! I love a lot of books by different people, but I can pick up anything by these five people and trust that it'll be a good book! God is a pretty fantastic author, too!


Randy Alcorn is a pretty amazing author, too... I'm always more anxious for Heaven when I finish one of his books. Right now I'm trying to slog through his book Heaven... it's hard going. But it's very interesting!

Anyway, Mom and I are home alone, so we're going to a chinese buffet tonight... I AM SO EXCITED! I do not get Chinese enough, can you tell?

He's holding my hand ;-)

I've been watching my old baby videos - they're too cute! (If I do say so myself.) My sisters and I agree, we need to get a baby around here to cuddle. Motherhood needs to hurry itself up!

Tonight the whole family went and played tennis at the courts - even when it started raining, although Mom wimped out and hid in the car. I laughed until my sides hurt... tennis is GREAT! Even better when you feel - and look - like a drowned rat!

It seems like I can never find good passages when I'm reading the Bible, but I found TWO today - probably a record!
Psalm 73:23-26 - "Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

WOOHOO!

And I intend to get a good picture of a summer morning, and stick this verse on it -
2 Samuel 23:4 - "He is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth."

I LOVE that! A gorgeous summer morning, and the wonderful smell after it rains! I suppose it's only natural that those two fantastic happenings would be compared to God somewhere in the Bible. I for one think that verse is pretty romantic ;-) Ahh, can't wait for heaven!

The fuzzy stare... impaired my tribal lunar-speak... hmm...

WOOHOO! It's almost 2am, and I should be asleep. But I haven't posted in awhile, and every night I tell myself, "Ahhh, I'll do it tomorrow." And then I never do. So I'm doing it now!

I saw one of my best friends off on her honeymoon yesterday - it was an absolutely fantastic day. Everything was perfect! I'm so happy for her!

Now I just gotta coax the rest of my friends to find someone and get engaged so I have more weddings to be excited about. ;-)

Apparently the college I'm attending this fall will only have between 120-140 students. *Huge sigh of relief*. I'm so glad! I was NOT looking forward to being lost on a big campus. I'm sure I'll know everyone by the end of the year - way cool!
So I'm excited. And now that the graduation and wedding are over, I'm ready to sit back and chill out for the rest of my summer. However, judging by the knots my stomach was in all day today, I'm afraid that my nerves are ready to work themselves up in a bundle over college, starting right now! Maybe since my mind isn't on the wedding anymore, it's free to be apprehensive about leaving home... Ugh! I don't like that thought at all!

Two girls I know have had babies in the past couple of weeks. When I was younger, I thought newborns were just yucky looking - but now, every time I see a new baby, they just seem cuter!

I've been listening to a happy nonsense song. I have no idea what it's talking about. I just love the line that repeats over and over, with some variation - "Can't steal my sunshine!"

I know it's bad grammar... but I'm pasting it in, and I'm too tired to fix it, even as my perfectionistic inner self cries out, "NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!"

i was lying on the grass on sunday morning of last week

indulging in my self defeats

my mind was thugged, all laced and bugged,

all twisted round and beat uncomfortable three feet deep

now the fuzzy stare from not being there on a confusing morning week

impaired my tribal lunar-speak

and of course you can't become if you only say what you would have done

so i missed a million miles of fun

i know it's up for me

can't steal my sunshine

making sure i'm not in too deep

can't steal my sunshine

keeping versed and on my feet

can't steal my sunshine

i was frying on the bench slide in the park across the street

l-a-t-e-r that week

my sticky paws were into making straws out of big fat slurpy treats

an incredible eight foot heap

now the funny glare to pay a gleaming tear in a staring under heat

involved an under usual feat

and i'm not only among but i invite who i want to come

so i missed a million miles of fun

i know it's up for meif you steal my sunshine

making sure i'm not in too deep

if you steal my sunshine

keeping versed and on my feet

if you steal my sunshine

i know it's done for meif you steal my sunshine

not something hard to see

if you steal my sunshine

keeping dumb and built to beat

if you steal my sunshine

my sunshine

if you steal my sunshine