http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4LLwkgmqA&feature=bz302
I got this link in an email. It's about Oprah and what she has to say about religion. I usually don't like these mass emails, and I really don't know anything about the people that made this particular video. But I'm not a big fan of Oprah, and I think she thinks just a little too highly of herself. But since I don't watch her show, I didn't really know what she believes (should have been able to guess, I suppose). Anyway, she denies that there is only one way to live your life (she says Jesus is not the only way), and believes that kindness and generosity and other good moral behaviors, will lead to the same place as someone who believes in Christ and lives his / her life according to that. I know how many people watch Oprah and do or believe everything she says, so it's kind of scary. The guy she's speaking to on the video says he doesn't "think about" what will happen at death (and why is this guy anything? Who made him some kind of religious source of anything?). So that's a comforting thought...you live your life and then you die, and that's it. Anyway, it's all very crazy, and it bothered me.
On another note, I'm sick today. Unfortunately it's the day I only have one student worker (who's usually late) and she leaves at 12:30. So no sick day for me. Also it's the 2nd day under my new boss, so that would make a bad impression. But anyhow, my throat hurts and also my back hurts. Not sure where that came from, but it feels like something is pulled. Maybe I have meningitis...although I think that makes your neck hurt. Whatever.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
What a day
It has been so busy. And my throat hurts from answering so many phone calls. We have a new coach, so it's been a little weird, with the old coaches getting their stuff cleaned out and turned in. I feel bad for Coach Cherry, because I know he was hoping to get the job and the guys all like him. Plus I think he would have been good to work for. But hopefully the new coach will be ok. He's been in today, but obviously tons of people are calling him and stopping by. Maybe sometime I'll get time to actually sit down with him. Or maybe not.
Nick and I totally splurged this weekend and bought an LCD TV. It's a 32" Samsung. It's the biggest we could realistically have in our living room. We were at Walmart getting vitamins, and I wanted to look at the weather radios (which we never did, so I don't even know if they have them). But we walked by the tv's, stopped and looked, and talked to some guy that worked there for 20 minutes. Anyway, we ended up getting one at Best Buy. Nick was so amazed that we talked them down on the price. That's what we learned from Dave Ramsey. Anyway, it's very exciting...it's like the first big item we've bought together. Vacations don't count. But we bought a house...anyway, it's cool. Never pay full price for electronics at Best Buy!
Nick and I totally splurged this weekend and bought an LCD TV. It's a 32" Samsung. It's the biggest we could realistically have in our living room. We were at Walmart getting vitamins, and I wanted to look at the weather radios (which we never did, so I don't even know if they have them). But we walked by the tv's, stopped and looked, and talked to some guy that worked there for 20 minutes. Anyway, we ended up getting one at Best Buy. Nick was so amazed that we talked them down on the price. That's what we learned from Dave Ramsey. Anyway, it's very exciting...it's like the first big item we've bought together. Vacations don't count. But we bought a house...anyway, it's cool. Never pay full price for electronics at Best Buy!
Friday, April 4, 2008
Finally Friday
It's almost the weekend...yay! I didn't sleep very well last night, with all the storming and pouring down rain. I kept having these visions of a tornado coming, and so I had to plan out my survival tactic. You know, who was going to get the flashlight, pillows and dogs. And then getting into the bathtub. But eventually I just turned on BKO to reassure myself that there was no tornado. And Chris Allen said that rotation was possible, as was an isolated tornado. So that didn't help.
So yesterday I got to clean out Coach's office. Possibly the most fun I've ever had at work. I took some of the things that he left (which was a lot). But the most awesome were trading cards from former WKU players. He had a couple Chris Robinson cards (one of him in his Western uni), Darnell Mee, Darel Carrier (not overly thrilled by that one), Art Spoelstra (think that's how it's spelled), a Clem Haskins, Tom Marshall, Greg Smith, Tellis Frank...possibly the coolest things ever! I was super excited about them. How cool is my future WKU room going to be? Also I'm getting ball signed before people go wherever, so I'll have one from the Sweet 16 team. It's getting a little sad over here, with everybody getting ready to leave. Hopefully we'll find out something this weekend (and hopefully it will be good, but I'm worried). I've loved not having a boss. It's been great.
So yesterday I got to clean out Coach's office. Possibly the most fun I've ever had at work. I took some of the things that he left (which was a lot). But the most awesome were trading cards from former WKU players. He had a couple Chris Robinson cards (one of him in his Western uni), Darnell Mee, Darel Carrier (not overly thrilled by that one), Art Spoelstra (think that's how it's spelled), a Clem Haskins, Tom Marshall, Greg Smith, Tellis Frank...possibly the coolest things ever! I was super excited about them. How cool is my future WKU room going to be? Also I'm getting ball signed before people go wherever, so I'll have one from the Sweet 16 team. It's getting a little sad over here, with everybody getting ready to leave. Hopefully we'll find out something this weekend (and hopefully it will be good, but I'm worried). I've loved not having a boss. It's been great.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
No Bobby Knight
So the Bobby Knight rumor has been nuts. I can't believe something can start on the Haven and get around like it has. Of course our local media doesn't help things. I know they're short on actual news, but it's a little ridiculous. Last night they interviewed Dr. Selig and President Ransdell about it, and also went to Tumbleweed in Glasgow to see if he had been there. But it has amusing, and I guess it gives us all something to focus on during this weird time. But hopefully we'll have a decision on the real coach in a few days, and everything can go back to normal. Although I have to say that I am really liking it right now. I can't do much work, because what's the point? Also, do I still have a job? Not sure. Can't plan the banquet until we have a coach...can't plan for anything. So oddly enough, it's been a relaxing time for me. I don't know who they'll hire, but I know one (former) assistant coach that at least knows how to make his own coffee. Also one that has never asked me to do any of his personal stuff. So I'm all for working for him!
I read on someone else's blog some things about prayer. I still don't feel like I'm praying as often as I should. But I do pray way more often that I used to. But I don't think prayer is always defined as actually stopping what I'm doing and speaking to God. I pray silently in my mind a lot...it's like talking to myself, only it's to God. But I remember something Jason talked about a while back...that we should pray constantly all day and night. Whenever we see someone, or hear something, or anything that happens. And I can't tell you how much I would love to do that. Because the way it is now, when I first come into contact with someone, I tend to judge them. And then feel guilty. And then I have to pray for myself to not be that way. So it would be awesome if I could cut our the whole middle part and just pray to begin with.
Also, I'm very thankful for Jason's series on marriage at 20:20. I'm looking forward to the final two sermons, on the romantic and the physical connection. He went over all this with us in marriage counseling, but very briefly, and not in detail. Also I'm thankful for my husband, who so far seems to exemplify the ideal spouse, according to Jason's sermons so far. Not the perfect spouse of course, but so far we seem to have the three connections that have been discussed. And after this series, he's going to be doing one on raising children. So it's awesome to get all this information at this point in our lives. Also I think Nick wants to start going to Brandon's Sunday night series on Fear & Anxiety. He's a worrier. He says it's a family trait.
I read on someone else's blog some things about prayer. I still don't feel like I'm praying as often as I should. But I do pray way more often that I used to. But I don't think prayer is always defined as actually stopping what I'm doing and speaking to God. I pray silently in my mind a lot...it's like talking to myself, only it's to God. But I remember something Jason talked about a while back...that we should pray constantly all day and night. Whenever we see someone, or hear something, or anything that happens. And I can't tell you how much I would love to do that. Because the way it is now, when I first come into contact with someone, I tend to judge them. And then feel guilty. And then I have to pray for myself to not be that way. So it would be awesome if I could cut our the whole middle part and just pray to begin with.
Also, I'm very thankful for Jason's series on marriage at 20:20. I'm looking forward to the final two sermons, on the romantic and the physical connection. He went over all this with us in marriage counseling, but very briefly, and not in detail. Also I'm thankful for my husband, who so far seems to exemplify the ideal spouse, according to Jason's sermons so far. Not the perfect spouse of course, but so far we seem to have the three connections that have been discussed. And after this series, he's going to be doing one on raising children. So it's awesome to get all this information at this point in our lives. Also I think Nick wants to start going to Brandon's Sunday night series on Fear & Anxiety. He's a worrier. He says it's a family trait.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Yay
So I'm very excited about the new development in my work life. I'm probably not supposed to be excited about it, but I am anyway. If you read this, you probably know that I had not been happy with my job in a very long time. It's been stressful when it shouldn't be, and I know I have probably taken it out on Nick a lot. I had been looking for other opportunities, but for whatever reason they weren't out there. Or I wasn't finding them anyway. And it was very frustrating. But the thing is I love where I work, and I for the most part like what I do. And I really liked almost everyone I was working with. So I have been praying about it, and I had talked to Nick and asked him to pray about it. And the whole time, I actually was thinking that for some reason, God wanted me to stay where I was and be patient. Which is not like me, because I'm not a patient person. But anyway, all of that to say that now, for the first time in my life, I have been able to see God work in my life. I have always known that God was there, but I'd never visibly seen it. Which I think is due to me prating more, and working to have that relationship with him. And it's so cool that I had been praying about it, and now God has (hopefully) answered my prayer. I obviously don't know yet who my new boss will be, but for right now, the situation is infinitely better. It definitely makes me want to pray (and praise)!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Funny how things work out
So it looks like my job is going to be changing soon. Assuming I still have a job. Hopefully the change will be a good one though. But even though I think it will be, it's still going to be challenging. We have a lot of things coming up soon that need to be planned and it's going to be hard to do that now. But I have a good feeling, so I'm not going to worry about those things.
At Sunday School yesterday, one of our leaders said to me what a great game it was Thursday. And then she said something like, it's great WKU can play with a "team like that." Now I was in church so I couldn't really respond how I would have liked to. But I am so tired of people having this idea that those teams are on some higher level than us. I understand that if you only watched the first half of the game against UCLA (and you hadn't seen us play all season prior to that), it might seem like we couldn't play with them. But I guarantee you that we are better than that. I personally think we're better than we played in the second half also. But seriously, we're just as good as UCLA (I think we're better).
At Sunday School yesterday, one of our leaders said to me what a great game it was Thursday. And then she said something like, it's great WKU can play with a "team like that." Now I was in church so I couldn't really respond how I would have liked to. But I am so tired of people having this idea that those teams are on some higher level than us. I understand that if you only watched the first half of the game against UCLA (and you hadn't seen us play all season prior to that), it might seem like we couldn't play with them. But I guarantee you that we are better than that. I personally think we're better than we played in the second half also. But seriously, we're just as good as UCLA (I think we're better).
Friday, March 28, 2008
Last Night's Game
How disappointing. Not just that we lost, but that if we had played like we could have, we would have won. The first half was absolutely the worst half of basketball I've seen us play. And that's ok when you're playing Sun Belt teams, but not so much for UCLA. Who wasn't really that great. Sure, Kevin Love is good. But he knows it. And in the second half, Boris actually did a good job of fronting him and denying him the ball. I'm proud of them for coming back and cutting the game to 4. But it's frustrating to know that we actually could have beat them. If only we hadn't played so poorly in the first half. And I know now that everyone is going to say, oh well, great season. Sure. But losing sucks, especially when you kind of beat yourself. That Collison kid? Tyrone's way better. So I guess I won't be going to Phoenix this weekend.
Also, as a side note, the announcers said that we gave up football in the 1970's. That's interesting that our apparently nonexistent football team won a national championship in 2002. I hate CBS announcers.
Also, as a side note, the announcers said that we gave up football in the 1970's. That's interesting that our apparently nonexistent football team won a national championship in 2002. I hate CBS announcers.
