Time Well Wasted

I love Brad Paisley. Like really, if he could possibly divorce his wife (which she's awesome, one of my favorite movies is Father of the Bride, which she's in), and then marry me, that would make my life complete. Okay, that's not a great idea, because he would never go for it. Sad day.

In other news, I am not writing a blog devoted to Brad, even though I probably could. haha. Today was pretty good. I had a great night last night, so my day was good today! Let me just say that I lovelovelove my friends. I had a crappy day yesterday and then two of my best friends and I went to Starbucks to hang out, and I instantly felt better. All we did was sit and sip on our fancy coffee drinks and laughed at everything. I love Erika Conn and Maria Brutkiewicz tons! We got kicked out of Starbucks. It was nice. We hit up Waffle House, then went and chilled with Mo and KJ, at Mo's apartment. That was fun too. :)

I think my favorite part of college so far has been making so many awesome friends. Really. My close little circle of friends are amazing. One thing I have been thinking about recently though is this. I never really talk to all my friends back home, my best friends, the ones I graduated with, everyone. Out of my graduating class, since graduation, I think I may have talked to maybe 6 or 7 of them. Out of 72. That's kinda sad. I know it's really impossible to talk to everyone, but I promised everyone I would. I feel like I disappointed everyone by not making the effort to talk to them. What can you do though? Everyone has their own life now. Wow, I got deep for like 3 seconds.:)

Peace Be Still

Wow. All I can say. It's amazing how you can have such an amazing weekend and then it all comes crashing down the next day. It stinks big time. I hate to be such a negative Nancy, but today was not a good one for me.

It's funny when you have bad days. I feel like God speaks to me more on my bad days than on the good ones. The past few weeks, I have been constantly listening to worship music, when I walk to class. It really prepares me for class and it puts me in a good mood. I enjoy it. Today, I did my usual Monday stuff. Theory (boring), trombone lesson (which initiated my bad day), history (alright I guess), seminar (meh), and brass choir was last. By the end of brass choir, I was beyond ready to get outta Laidlaw and just go to my room and basically have a pity party. I don't feel good and all the complications throughout the day, made it worse. What's worse than that is that the worship music in between classes, didn't really make me feel much better. That is until my iPod played, "Peace Be Still", by Rush of Fools. I'm certain that God turned my iPod to this song, to basically wake me up. Here are the lyrics:

Come to Me, you who are weak

Let My strength be yours tonight

Come and rest, let My love be your bed

Let My heart be yours tonight

Peace be still, Peace be still

Please be still and know that I am God

and know that I am God

Come empty cup, let Me fill you up

I'll descend on you like a dove tonight

Lift your head, let your eyes fall into Mine

Let your fear subside tonight

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

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First off, the last couple of days, everything that I have observed and thought about always led back to Psalm 46:10. "Be still and know that I AM GOD." Hello, this is clearly what this song is based around. I can honestly say, I listened to this song about 25 times today. It made my bad day, seem less horrible. Just listening to those words, comforted me in knowing that God will never leave my side and that He is always there for me.

Two Bears Hibernating

Raise your hand if you had a cray cray weekend. Alright, well you can't see me, but I raised my hand! Seriously, if the expression "cray cray" could only be used one more time for the rest of my life, I would describe this weekend with it. Oh yeah, I went there. As much as I'd like to tell you every little detail to fill you in on this weekend, I'm fairly certain that I couldn't, because there is too much. I'll let you in on some good stuff though. :)

Well, about 90% percent of my homies were gone, playing flag football in a tournament, but I still had Maria and Kristen, which is always good of course! I was so bored Friday afternoon, I thought about doing homework. What's up with that? Anyways, I did some hardcore chillin from that afternoon to night, then went and chilled with KJ while she worked/stole my iTunes. Maria came and told some stories and we cracked up. Story of our lives. Maria & I went to IHOP around 1 in the morning, because we were hungry. On a side note, today is National Pancake Day and I didn't go to IHOP and get pancakes. boo. After IHOP......................until 8:30, well that's what was cray cray the most, but I'll just leave you wondering about that. And no, we didn't party or hit up any clubs. haha.

I had a fabulous Saturday, even though I was running on 3 hours of sleep. I spent the day with some of my favorite people at UM! Chicken alfredo, SingStar, and the Lion King were all included. Hello, doesn't those 3 things make up a party anyways? 9 o'clock started the real fun though. The Melting Pot in Pensacola! I wish I could go there everyday and eat chocolate fondue...ahhhh. Plus, I was with three awesome people: Courtney, Megan, & Lindsey! After that, we played Beatles Rock Band, then I crashed in Jessica & Bryley's room. It was an awesome night!

Today's been pretty chill. Brunch with my two wonderful future roomies, then a little shopping and smoothies with Erika! Also, a tad bit of car washing....baha. :P

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So, I've just realized that I've been slacking on the job of blogging. LAME. I mean, I love to write. And even more than that, I love to vent and spill my guts in a blog. Anyways, my last blog was in September. In other words, that was like last year, four billion months ago. Alot has happened since that glorious month of September, but I sorta don't feel like explaining it all in bunches of paragraphs. So how about I say what my favorite part of each month was until now? Why yes...that's a FANTASTIC idea. I just answered my own question. Nice. This is CRAY CRAY.

-->October: Skillet & PEANUT FEST. 'nuff said.

-->November: Thanksgiving at Mama Sue's of course! mmmm casseroles & fam. I miss Mama Sue.

-->December: END OF THE SEMESTER, getting my mandolin, & being ranked 5th in the world on Yellow Submarine, on Beatles Rock Band. chyeah.

-->January: being reunited with my Mobile buds from over the holidays!

-->February: it's not over yet, but...CEC was pretty AMAZING!

I looked back at my other blog, that I did in July and wow. I had mentioned Lady Gaga and how she was a disgrace to music and how her music was trashy. It's kinda reminded me of that. I went out and bought her cd and it is pretty sketchy indeed. I don't know what to think...I don't let music influence me negatively, so should it be a problem? Hmm...the burning questions.

I have an awesome update. I am on the leadership team at BCM now and I'm STOKED about it! God never ceases to amaze me in things that He blesses me with. For the past couple of years, since my junior year or so, I have felt like I needed to become a leader of some sort for His purpose, but never really acted on it. This time was different! I feel extra good about it. I haven't been on leadership for long now, like barely a month, but I can already tell a difference in the way I look at things and think in general. I went to a study thing about the baptist faith and guess what? I had no idea why I was a baptist. I couldn't tell you what I believed and why. That's not good. After the first session, I had a serious wake up call. I needed to know what I believed! How was I suppose to witness to people when I wasn't secure in my beliefs? Exactly. I read through tons of worksheets and the Baptist Faith and Message and figured this stuff out! It was so interesting to me. Awesome!

......if anyone doesn't know, I started another blog, called the music guru. :)

I love music. I love writing. What is better than analyzing songs and reviewing albums, artists, etc? Yep nothing! That's why I started a blog just about music. It would be awesome to become famous off of it. OH YEAH! You'll see me in the New York Times as a music critic one day. Go check it out! I love doing it!

Anywho, I think I'm done for now. I'm gonna try and blog everyday or as much as I can now. It's amazing!

Adios,

Tay :)