inked legacy

• is it rude to tell someone to have a good day as they pull away from your window, when they have already told you that they’re having a bad day?
• why do people not remove the little label that says “remove this sticker before using your card” before using the card?
• drive thru etiquette #1… turn off your windshield wipers! we don’t find it funny when you spray water in our faces when we’re already standing in the cold waiting for you to count out $5 in change.
• “yeah, and i’ll have a fruit and walnut.”
  “did you want the fruit and walnut salad?” i found this an acceptable question, since we also have the apple cinnamon walnut oatmeal.
  “is that a salad? it looks like it’s just fruit and walnuts.”
  “…. well, that’s what we call it.” seriously? when you make a fruit salad do you call it just fruit?? 

• learn how to actually use my camera!
• start college classes!
• keep myself healthy/stay at a healthy weight!
• be more spontaneous!
• get more into the God’s Word!
• become more organized?

So. I hate the terms “boyfriend” and “girlfriend”. At least for my relationship. It’s so…. Overused. Unimportant. Everyone has a “boyfriend” or a “girlfriend”. I want to describe my relationship in a more special way.
“Betrothed”. Old-fashioned. Commitment. We are going to be engaged to be married. Not quite “fiancé”. Not “husband” just yet.
Yes. He is my betrothed. And I love him beyond measure. There is not a person or thing alive that can compare to him.
I am his. And he is mine.
“Betrothed.”

I think when I have boys and I get tired of their fighting, I’m going to send them outside with Nerf swords to beat each other up.
Sounds good to me

Do not fall asleep with knee high socks on. You will regret it when you take them off and your blood starts circulating.
Today is my beautiful mama’s 43rd birthday. I’m driving her around as she does 43 random acts of kindness for our community.
I miss my man. 6 days. This week is going to drag…
Christmas is less than 2 weeks away. I need to finish my shopping.
I have a massive sinus headache. When will I actually go a day without feeling like my face is going to explode?

make the absolute best of Mondays. Be happy. Happiness is a choice.

It’s about 10:30, and I’m still asleep in my warm bed. My dad comes in and starts to jump on my bed, “wake up!! It’s time for traditional Thanksgiving!”
“what’s that?” I say sleepily.
“it’s when all the women-folk slave away in the kitchen all day while us men watch tv.”
we don’t even have tv.”
“then we watch kung Fu movies on Netflix! Get up! Good practice for wifeyhood.” he says as he walks away.
I just roll over and pull the covers over my head.
Happy thanksgiving y’all :)

this morning while eating my cereal, i was looking over a catalog called Heifer, where you can donate money and the program will give farm animals to people in other countries in poverty, and teach them how to care for the animals and turn them into profit, like selling their milk and wool, etc.
it got me thinking, yeah, this is a great effort. but what about those people in our country who need help? the homeless, the hungry, the addicts? the list goes on! people in america are so obsessed with helping people overseas, celebrities donate millions of dollars to these causes so they look good. but unless there’s a disaster, like the hurricane a few years ago, nobody even thinks twice  about the people in america who are in need.
my dad’s sermon this morning was about the sheep and the goats. the sheep see people in need, and they help. he told a story about an old shoemaker who wanted to see God, and one day he met some people who were in need and he helped them, because he could, not because he had to. i know i’m not explaining this very well, lol, sorry. but it really got me thinking, and i actually started crying.
i want to help people. and not just by giving them money, that’s the easy way out. i want to make a difference in someone’s life. my boyfriend feels the same, he feels called to work in inner-city missions, and help those kinds of people. maybe open a halfway house.
this is where him and i are going in life. i can feel it. him and i are going to make a difference, change people’s lives.