Bye-Bye Lindsey!

Today was Lindsey's last day at work. :( While I couldn't honestly say I'm thankful she's leaving, I can twist it around and say I'm thankful that she is going to be sharing her knowledge with some lucky middle school girls in Birmingham or Charlotte.

I am so proud to be able to call Lindsey my friend. As I've already alluded to in her birthday blog, Lindsey is a strong woman of God and an incredible role model. I have no doubt that God is going to do amazing things with her life!

Thank you for always being an amazing friend, Lindsey. Good luck with this new phase of life!

Get Well Goodie Bags

As a pick-me-up after the wreck, Katie assembled a Get Well Goodie Bag for me and placed it in my room so I saw it when I got home Tuesday night. In said bag, she compiled a grouping of some of my favorite things: Vogue magazine (with Blake Lively from Gossip Girl on the cover), hair products, Pellegrino, Cheezits and Funfetti icing (she couldn't find the Rainbow Chip kind)! She had also written a hilarious poem and gotten me four Gerber daisies... my favorite!!!

The poem went a little something like this:
I'm so sorry that you bumped your head.
At least you got to lay in bed.
Hopefully our favorite snack from the Golden Days
will help you rest your woes away.
There's something in your bag that bubbles
to help you with all your troubles.
And if you ever get to wash your hair*,
there's something inside to give it extra care.
I hope you have time to read
before you get back on that steed.
And, last, something to make you smile...
even though they'll be dead in a while.
I love you forever!
Feel better!
(*I was not able to wash my hair for 24 hours after I left the emergency room because the glue that was holding my gash together could get messed up. I usually wash my hair when not in this situation.)

It's About Time.......

Let me begin with a formal apology. I made a commitment to post to this blog every day for a year and I have now successfully skipped two months of blogging. Believe it or not, this was not caused by fault of my own... well not completely.

A few days after my last blog post, my roommates and I were robbed by some sleezy Atlanta creep walking the streets of Briarcliff. Luckily, we weren't robbed by this guy. :( But, the jerk that robbed us stole all of our laptops, which didn't get me in the mood to be blogging right away. Then, by the time I decided to start up again, we lost our internet for a month. Therefore, the only other option would have been to blog at work, which I just don't feel comfortable with. No worries though, I am now using my work computer and it connects to the wireless network in my house pretty well. So we should be back up and running.

SOOOO, to get back to business. What am I thankful for today? None other than life itself.

Sunday morning, I was driving Joel and I up North Druid Hills and as we were going through the intersection with Buford Highway, a drunk driver plowed through the very very red light going 40 mph and we T-boned him going 40 mph. We were extremely blessed to walk away from the accident at all, considering the impact of the crash. But we realized we were even more fortunate because if Joel hadn't yelled out "Watch out!" at the last minute, I never would have tapped my brakes and the guy would have hit my driver's side.

Now, we serve a Sovereign God and there is no point in playing the "what if" game, but in this situation it's pretty obvious what an alternative scenario could have been.

So, because of all of this, I'd just like to take this moment to say that I am thankful for life and all that God has blessed me with. This whole situation has re-inspired me to commit to this blog project because I truly have an immeasurable amount of things to be thankful for. :)