Dancing

Well!  It's going to be a little quick tonight for the blog post.  I don't know why but I've just really been in the mood to share more than I usually am.  So let's see, I have one more week of school.  After that same week is over I get to take a vacation.  That'll be fun!  Then at the end of my week off I have my graduation that Saturday, the 4th in Longview.

Today I remembered something that really made me crack myself up:  I remembered Elaine from Seinfeld and the way she dances.  What did George call it?  The full body dry-heave?  Well when I remembered it, I did it.  Yes, I did it.  Let me tell ya.  If you know what I'm talking about, and you need some cheering up, I recommend "the Elaine."  Like, right now.  Stop what your doing and do "the Elaine" for just five seconds.

Querstions

I've started to notice just how much I don't really give the answer to a question when it's asked. I started to notice it in myself because I first started to see it in everyone around me.

When I sent this to Beth I immediately thought of what she might reply with: "Please don't throw those away I'm going to use them for a craft for Selah!" or, "I'm sorry I meant to throw them out but I just forgot!"

What I'm afraid that she doesn't yet know about, is that my question was sent with the simple expectation for a "yes" or "no". And I'm afraid that my tendency to always ask her to explain herself will be the cause of it.

I want to start listening to the question that's asked. I feel like anything more is just noise.

Donations

Anyway, I'm talking on the phone about clothes that I just donated to Goodwill. Beth's reply was something along the lines of, "Yeah I was looking at my side of the closet in relation to how nice yours looks all cleared out."

I said, "Yeah. I'm tired of holding onto stuff I'm only kidding myself about..."
Pause. Then, "...dude I HAVE to tweet that."

More

I just got The Incredibles from Bethany!  She went to a garage sale on a whim while on her way to Brookshire's for some essentials.  She found a really cool table and chairs for Selah and the dvd was part of the conglomeration.  It's been a few years since I'd seen it, and totally forgot how good it was.  The animation, the music, the screenplay, it's all so good!  I watched it with Selah in my lap for the first time.  There was a line in it that got me pretty good.  Toward the beginning when they're getting married, and Mr. Incredible got there late, Elastigirl says under her breath to him, "I love you; but if we're gonna make this work, you're going to have to be more than Mr. Incredible." 

How often I preoccupy myself with only trying to be Mr. Incredible.

Worship

I was just driving home listening to KVNE and a song came on that starts with, "You are not a God created by human hands." Or something close to that. When I heard it I had this thought, "You are GOING to worship something. There's nothing that can be done about that. There's nothing anybody can do about that." And the question I asked myself was: Am I going to worship a god I created or the God that created ME?

Makin' a dent.

The past few weeks have been pretty neat. I haven't been able to say "see ya later" every day to Selah, but making it a point to do so with Bethany and her has made a difference in my mornings I can tell.

The bit about "following up on a lead" with music kinda fell through. I was planning on sending in an audition packet with The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. But they canceled the opening, or at least postponed it.

And I'm just about to leave here to have breakfast with a bro in Christ. So even tho it's not lunch, it'll still qualify. And I'm really looking forward to it.

What is hipster?

Would you like to know something truly unique about me? I feel worthy to use trendy words an average of 5.36 years after I first notice everyone else use them. Like with "legit." Wow, it took me forever to start using it and when I did I felt oh so cool. The example for now? "Hipster." I see tweets and instagrams all day with the use of that word in them. And I must admit every time I do, I feel like the maintenance kids on Monsters Inc.: "They're so AWESOME."

So I'm just apologizing ahead of time, sorry for the moment that I feel that it's right to incorporate that into my vocabulary. Sorry for all the confusion I may cause.