Wednesday, December 28, 2005
christmas update
well, i haven't posted in quite a while...why, you may ask? we still have dial-up internet in the good ole 'ham so it takes about ten years to do anything. but i thought i would give a few highlights of my christmas break so far:
- my cousin had her second baby...a precious little baby boy named andrew...on december 8 so he is only a few weeks old and so stinking cute. we are hoping now that my sister-in-law will get the fever and want to have a baby. also, andrew's older sister, kaylee, is 4 1/2, a drama queen and is not used to not getting attention, so christmas day was quite funny watching her play with her baby dolls like they were andrew and trying to get attention.
- as many of you now know, i'm sure, liz and jd got engaged. that was a hilarious night of plan after plan going wrong, but everything worked out in the end. she said yes. now we are on to planning a wedding in five months...way more stressful than it sounds!
- i had surgery...nothing major and i'm not giving any details, but needless to say, i completely underestimated one-day surgery. i thought it would be simple but it was a full-blown, air tube down your throat, surgery. that was no fun and i lost three days that i had planned to get things done.
- most of you know my dad's mom passed away this summer. it was really hard cause it was so sudden. but for christmas, my mom and aunts took one of her diamond rings that had eight diamonds in it (she has 8 grandkids and always said we would get it) and made a diamond pendant for each of us. we all cried but they are so beautiful and i love it!
- one of my favorite nights was getting to hang out with my best friends who now live in san antonio, mandy and joel. they are the best most coolest people i've ever met in my life and we've been friends since 6th grade. joel is actually the youth pastor at max lucado's church in san antonio and he informed me that he uses stories of all the ridiculously stupid things i did in high school as illustrations...thanks joel!
well, so that's about all i've got. my break hasn't been too eventful because of the surgery and the fact that there isn't much to do in birmingham. i've mostly been hanging out and watching that 70's show with my dad (my dad and red are two peas in a pod and i'm not even kidding!). but i'm super excited about passion and getting to see everybody again! i love you all and see you soon!
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
i'll be home for christmas
this is andy...he is my dog. and at the risk of sounding like a first grade reading book, i am going to start using more complex sentances. he is one of the many reasons i am excited about going home for christmas. other than the fact that i am officially the last one standing at my house, and i am supposed to be studying for a final that i have tomorrow (i can't even begin to tell you the amount of roman emporers that have been murdered that i have memorized...what a violent society) i am just ready for a break from school. this will be my first christmas break to not work at the good ole american eagle which i am very excited about.thursday i'm going to hit up the atl and visit my sister (and rachel) because liz is turning 23! exciting. hopefully there will be an exciting trip to stone mountain for their christmas festivities in store for us! then it will be home to the 'ham for a while. i enjoy chillin with my parents (which is apparently strange to some people). me and my dad enjoy watching c.s.i. reruns and being all-around dorks together. me and my mom love to watch old movies and cook together (when i feel like helping). and andy, oh andy. he gets so excited when i come home because i let him cuddle with me on the couch! true story: the day i left after thanksgiving break, my dad and mom said that he laid on the living room couch all day by the window waiting for me to come home and when i never did, he sulked straight in the bedroom and went to bed :(. how sad is that. so i can't wait to see andy. he really is like a little person. he has actually faked being asleep - or what we call in the wilkey household "playing possum" - before when i was trying to get him to get off the couch. he had his eyes closed when i was talking to him, so i stopped talking and just looked at him and he opened his eyes and looked up at me and when he saw i was looking at him, he closed his eyes again really quick. promise!
it will be rather sad though i think, because liz won't be home for the break. she's a working woman now so i have all this time to kill and no one to kill it with. therefore, i will be spending a few days in huntsvegas with my brother and sister-in-law. i'm pretty excited about that because they just built a new house and i'll get to see it. and courtney lives up there so maybe i will see her! and then just a few days later...PASSION '06! i can't wait for that.
but for now, i should probably be studying, so until then....
Thursday, December 08, 2005
ode to dr. k.
as many of you know, dr. kicklighter is probably one of my more favorite people in the entire world. he is the reason i manage to still want to go to class after working the wee hours of the morning. one of the things he is known for is his use of horrendously large words (licentious, cosmopolitan, mercurial, nepostism, venal...and oooh, ooooh usurper - that's a good one) another one of his many attributes is his talent with the one-liner. so since many of you do not have the pleasure of having this great man in class, i decided to put together a few of our favorite quotes (as recorded by miss anne womack):- "thursday night humps"
- "We can be friends, have great sex, but no children." (we can't have bastards running around - and that was in the non-cussing way...if dr. kicklighter can say it, i can...he has a heart of gold)
- Just because you're a good philosopher doesn't mean you'll have good children."
- "Any port in a storm"(regarding some people's desperation for sex)
- "Picking up hot chicks"
- "They would probably have to go to Vestavia, not Mountian Brook, ya know, training snobs"
- "Some people might say 'gee, it's already 10 o'clock. I need to get home, have some milk and cookies, and say my prayers' "
- "What is that crap you're wearing?"(in reference to Anne's UVa shirt - the use of such strong language was shocking and therefore very funny)
- "She has a big ole asp!" (referring to Cleopatra's suicide by snake bite)
- "Today we have pills, guns, stick your head in the oven"(in reference to modern suicide tactics)
- "nay" (one of his favorite contractions)
- "AT! When will this class finish AT, mr. hood. It will come to an end in 1688." (he doesn't appreciate poor sentance construction)
- there are no words to describe the secret squirrel dance (using alpa gam secret rituals as a parallel for ancient greek religious cults)
- "mr. dunn, our resident expert in all things licentious and lurid" (referring to joshua's love of the slightly pornographic hbo series "rome")
- "just because you're a bastard doesn't mean you can't live it up"
- "you know, any spare kid you got layin aroud will do" (ensinuating a queen might try to fake a birth to have a son)
- "the colts will prevail!" (this was actually a slide he put in the middle of a powepoint lecture to silence the students who doubted the colt's ability to defeat the titans)
- and my personal favorite: "oh, it's a song about farming. he's an agricultural lover" (in reference to ludicrus's song "you's a ho"
well, you get the point...to truly appreciate this wonderful man you should take a class with him. he is amazing. and he also loves peyton manning...go figure! (and dr. kicklighter, if you read this, i am aware that i did not capitalize properly...habit...i know, kids these days)
Sunday, December 04, 2005
i hate school
YIKES!!! what is this picture? no, no, i'm not in rehab...this is a state of misery. i have been sitting at my computer working on this stupid paper and i have no motivation whatsoever. this is the paper that determines my grade and whether or not i intern and i could seriously care less. why is it that you work hard all semester and when it comes to doing the stuff that matters you're ready to give up? is that bad? if you notice my room is a disaster area because i haven't had time to clean in days. what's on the tv? a terrible biography on "we" about prince william because i need something on in the background to occupy my subconscious but it can't be something i really care to watch. the guy doesn't even look like william...he's not even cute. i wish i had a laptop so i could at least get out of the house, but here i am...chained to my desk. i could probably die in here and no one would find me for days, because i haven't left in so long. ok, well, i suppose i will get back to my actual work...peace out for now.Friday, December 02, 2005
verses of the week
ok, so last night at encounter (what an amazing and holy night!!!) i was completely inspired by the men who spoke. i don't know if anyone one else noticed or was amazed by their ability to quote entire passages of scripture but it completely blew me away! i guess because that is the one thing that i am so terrible at...intentionally memorizing God's word. i'll be like, "you know where it says that thing about this" and someone will be like "oh, yeah, Leviticus 5:17" and i'm like "how the heck do you know that?" so this is my goal...not because it will get me "in" with God or to be percieved as more holy or anything, but for my own edificationin the Spirit and to take to heart the words of Father, I am going to start intentionally memorizing scriptures. ya'll are free to hold me accountable to this. so here is my passage for this week:
"The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. Let him sit alone in silence, for the Lord has laid it on him. [and here's my favorite verse] Let him bury his face in the dust - there may yet be hope...Though He brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love." Lamentations 3:25-32
and thanks to schweers for the inspiration to read lamentations. this passage is so loaded my words to expound on it wouldn't do it justice, so for now i will let the holy words of God speak for themselves (imagine that).
"The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. Let him sit alone in silence, for the Lord has laid it on him. [and here's my favorite verse] Let him bury his face in the dust - there may yet be hope...Though He brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love." Lamentations 3:25-32
and thanks to schweers for the inspiration to read lamentations. this passage is so loaded my words to expound on it wouldn't do it justice, so for now i will let the holy words of God speak for themselves (imagine that).
