Yeah!!! I'm in a great mood right now. I'm listenin' to Embodyment really loud, and I had a great small group last night--four of us stayed and prayed for like an hour after we were done with the normal time. It was great.

So two nights ago my sister calls me singin' the new Justin Timberlake song. She proceeds to tell me it's catchy and it reminds her of me (since I'm an NSync Fan) and tells me, "Well, I don't like it though." Uh-huh. She told me she turns it up in the car when she hears it and that its a good jammin' song. She likes it. I know it!

Me-"Um, you like it don't you?"

Dani-"Ha, ha, ha,..............yeah." (this was probably the cutest part of our conversation)

We began to giggle. This is a girl who likes Tool, and John Lennon, The Grateful Dead (why?) and Janis Joplin. Although her tastes may have changed recently, this is really out of character for her. And I'm not even sure I like it. It was just really funny. AND it made me happy that that reminded her of me. I get all kinds of flack when I see my fam for liking NSync (well, it's out of character for me too, I guess. This girl's favorite band used to be Nirvana. NSync? NSane.)

Yesterday I got to go to A&B Cycle to check out the bikes and tell them I wanted to order my Terry. This guy talks me into a women-specific Trek instead, and I will save over $100. I can't believe I found a nice Trek for $315!!! That's insane! Like three years ago that would never have happened. So I tried out all these Treks and Specialized, which was so weird cause I haven't ridden a bike in like, over four months, AND these bikes were sized for me, so they felt a bit too small. My pal Karissa and I had just attended a Students in Free Enterprise meeting and the owner of the new Krispy Kreme in town gave us all a dozen of their first batch of Krispy Kremes afterwards, so I shared with the dudes at A&B, cause they're cool. Sometimes they try to rip you off, but if you know what you are doing then they don't. Or maybe they still do, I still don't know THAT much about bikes. I wish I could work there.

Recently I read Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis, and then, finished in one day, Till We Have Faces by Lewis too. It was that good. I have had that book sitting around for like a year. My old roommate Elizabeth let me borrow it and I never read it cause she told me it was weird. Then this guy on boundless.org recommended it in one of the articles I was reading. He was right. Very good. Speaking of books....I stopped by the XA table yesterday and they were playin' The Lord of the Rings and I just had to freak out, cause it was at my favorite part of the first book and movie, when Gandalf faces off the Balrog. It's SO intense!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!

I get to go snowboarding this winter with my DAD!!!! Yeah!!! I don't know if he has ever skiied before, or if he's even gonna ski, but he got some passes for us when I am there, near Lake Tahoe. I am so excited, cause I still have my boots I won. Oh--you all may not know. I won a trip my sophomore year from Delias.com to The Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah, and I got to stay at their beautiful resort for three nights, got my own snowboard and boots and goggles, and got to meet and learn to snowboard from Greta Gaines and Morgan LaFont, two world-champion women snowboarders, at Greta's Wild Women snowboarding camp. It was AWESOME. RAD. MARVELOUS. Such a strange and cool blessing from God. My Father loves me very much, something I realized when that happen. WHO does that happen to?

And now my dad has been sober for almost 200 days and he's all doin' stuff like this for me. Here's a quote from my dad:
"I'm never letting anything get in the way of my relationship with my kids again--I'm through with that." Go dad!!!

I got a 76 on my Marketing test I didn't study for at all. Pretty good.

Nope!!! Not good!!! I should have studied!!! My first Management test I got a 70. Ouch. Just barely too. I wonder how I did on my GEP course test. I think I did well on that.

Okay, yeah, I can't wait to get my bike. My parents are gonna help me out and its all good. I'm so excited. I have like five friends who want to go mountain biking with me too soon so yeah!! It's fall, and I couldn't wait a second longer.

"This isn't a sign!!!!! SHUTUP stupid brain!!!"-Dana in small group last night, describing the weird ways our brain puts things together, usually wrongly

"....with his prestigious Branson friends...."--Kristin

Okay, don't usually do this, but I'm gonna have to quote myself cause it was just so stupid. In business class, we were looking through the Wall Street Journal and my teacher said something about Huggies.......

"HUGGIES!.....they suck. They suck, like, like Zingers....and Ding-Dongs and Ho-Ho's and Twinkies and.........wait......Huggies are diapers aren't they?!!" --to which Karissa and I proceeded to laugh as quietly in possible in that classroom

Emperor's New Groove quote of the day:
"It's a harp, and you know it."--Shoulder Angel
"Yeah...that's a harp.....and that's a DRESS!"--Shoulder Devil

Hello big wide world! How is everyone doing? I am great. My silly dad called me yesterday, after he got his root canal, and he was all swollen and talkin' like a dork. It was hilarious. My sister also called me after midnight as usual. I miss her loads, as well as the rest of my family.

Guess what I should be doing is studying for my test coming up in an hour but I don't think it will do me any good. I'll study a little I guess. I am just not gonna do well, I can tell ya that right now. It's a personal selling class.

I got my Ultimate Frisbee team schedule yesterday and we are startin' up next week--it looks like I will be able to go to all the games! Yay! It has gotten pretty cold here in Springfield the last couple of days. Its' so nice though. I got to wear my humongous Spy hoodie today so that's fun. So thank goodness we won't be getting too hot and sweaty.

I hope you all like the new look of my site, I just did it yesterday, as well as my first template editing. I can't believe it! I figured it out after staring at the thing for quite a while. I found things that said,"insert your contact info here" and "put your links in this space here," so that helped out. Then I figured out that I could copy the little code thing and just insert other stuff in the specified section to make more links. It was a time of discovery and excitement.

You'll find boundless.org, which is a cool site I came across last week and absolutely love--check out the articles and stuff by "Theophilus." The Blindside link is to Blindside's awesome site--an awesome band. Also listed is my friends' Mandy and Phil and Lacy's websites, cause they are they only friends besides Glen and Paula that have a site--theirs is more personal. You can find out about Glen and Paula on theirs and it also has tons of other links to cool stuff. Homestarrunner is just a hilarious website that I recommend to anyone who has a dorky sense of humor. Make sure you have sound when you visit that. Stuff about my favorite movie and book, The Lord of the Rings, and other fave movie, The Matrix, can also be found to the left, and, finally, my favorite show of ALL TIME EVER, The X-Files. Also, there's smsuxa, which is the site of my campus ministry. Check 'em out!

".....cause she's 'old lady?' "--Zeek, today in class, misunderstanding when I said,"cause she's lonely."


".....NO wakeboarding tomorrow........kay bye....."--Kristin, Sat. night after I called her too late, on my machine

Emperor's New Groove quote of the day:

"....don't you say a word..."--Kuzco to Pacha after he turns himself into a whale