And so is...
Travis Cottrell (In Christ Alone)
Stuart Townend (How Deep the Father's Love for Us)
Dennis Jernigan (Who Can Satisfy My Soul... When the Night is Falling...& a few others)
By the Tree (Beautiful One)
Chris Tomlin (How Great is Our God...Enough...Forever...Indescribable...others)
Casting Crowns (Lifesong, If We are the Body, East to West, Every Man)
David Crowder Band (Wholly Yours, Everything Glorious)
Kutless (We Fall Down [love you PJ!], Strong Tower, All Who are Thirsty, Better is One Day)
MercyMe (Spoken For, Word of God Speak, Love of God)
Newsboys (In the Belly of the Whale [i LIKE it!], I am Free, It is You, Shine)
Rich Mullins (Songs CD, Awesome God, Step By Step...)
Bob Perdue & Hannah (When God Ran, Bowed on my Knees)
Lincoln Brewster (Everlasting God)
Aaron Shust (My Savior, My God)
Natalie Grant (I Will Not Be Moved)
Lifehouse (Everything)
And some other fun ones, too that make me smile:
Sadie Hawkins Dance--Relient K
Parents Just Don't Understand--DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince :o)
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun--Cyndi Lauper
I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)--The Proclaimers
The Happy Song--Delerious?
Jumping in the House of God--(Hog vs. World Wide Message Tribe) That was our call to Hall Meeting my freshman and sophomore years at Liberty... aahh, the memories...
Then He Kissed Me--The Crystals (an oldies song, but it's from my favorite 80's movie: Adventures in Babysitting)
She's in Love with the Boy--Tricia Yearwood (the one that goes "Katie looks at Tommy like I still look at you")
I Think We're Alone Now--Tiffany (in the 80's, I loved this song... and my brother wrote his own lyrics to it...about bodily functions... and it will forever be the new version wearing the original's clothes!)
but yeah... I'm not really much of a music person!
keep reading, I blogged 2 other posts tonight!
Friday, July 25, 2008
Only in Texas...
Start reading each of these with this phrase:
Only in Texas...
Does the 7-day forecast on the news look like this:
102 102 103 103 104 103 102
Is it a race to take your key out of the ignition and open the car door before you nearly suffocate. You have about 10 seconds of getting your things together before you have to dial 911 for yourself!
Are traffic lights/stoplights/traffic signals SIDEWAYS. It's so strange.
Would I find myself driving behind a fancy maroon corvette whose license plate says: DION3--I don't know sports, could he have been famous?
Can you get a sunburn at 7:30pm... kid you not.
Could I look out my apartment window and see Southwest planes on their descent. We're in their flight path, and they are so close it sometimes looks like you can touch them!
Could I be in the land of cowboys and have yet to see a person wearing boots or a cowboy hat!!! What in the world?! I've seen a western store or 2, not brave enough to enter yet!
Do people who are financially challenged ride around on senior citizen scooters for transportation... in the middle of the road... and are not physically handicapped.
Can you go to a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market. Get this. It's Super Wal-Mart without the wal-mart part, just the supermarket part. I've never heard of such a thing.
Is everything BIGGER. No kidding... Went to the Grapevine Mills Mall which is owned by the same people as Potomac Mills. Oh, and you thought Potomac Mills had a lot of stores. This place has every store you can imagine. And it's HUGE. Their AMC looks like Universal Studios or something... 30 theatres!
Are there 2 Apple stores within a 2 mile radius! Sweet...
Have I ever needed a step ladder to use all the shelves of the kitchen cabinets... Our apartments havea loft feel and the ceilings are like 12-14 feet. The top shelf of the kitchen cabinets are about 10 feet up. I don't know, I'm not a good estimator, but I did have to get a kitchen step ladder thing.
Would you see Taco Bell, Taco Bueno and Taco Cabana all very close to each other on the same road! Within 3 blocks of each other! And they're like the same thing!
Would I find myself on Lover's Lane several times a week and it not be taboo. It's a real road, street signs and all! I have to take it to get to my office. It's just so cute.
Is it this HOT... seriously... it's really not that bad. You just expect it, I guess. Every day is the same. Bright, Sunny, Blue Skies, White Puffy Clouds and temperatures so hot Secret ain't gonna help nobody! Ok, I'm sure there are other places as hot or hotter... I've just never been to them!
Would I have reasons to write this post :o)
Make sure you read the next post... I just wrote about the past month to fill you in since I had been such a slacker!
Almost a month...
So... my dear friend Erin emailed me last night and told me to update this thing. When I logged in, I could hardly believe how long it's been. I actually wrote a fun post on July 4th about Ka-Boom Town, this cool fireworks thing I went to with a group of people my age in the same life status as I am (old and single)... Just kidding... not old, actually a mix, but mostly 20 somethings. But after I had spent forever writing about how HOT it is in TX even at 10 o'clock trying to watch fireworks... I clicked something wrong and lost it without posting.
Hopefully, I'll have learned my lesson and this one should be better.
In the past month, I've gotten a lot more settled in. I still have a few boxes to really unpack but my roommate doesn't come until mid-August, so ever the procrastinator, it's still not done.
I know my way around to the local things without my GPS...but I still can't leave home without it... just in case.
I got to go to PA for 5 days for Eachus Family Fun Week... (or so I named it) had a blast seeing everyone! Avery and Drew are getting so grown up... which although a little sad that they're not all itty bitty babies anymore, they're a total blast because, especially Avery can carry on a conversation and communicate. Drew is absolutely the most adorable little boy in the whole world. So happy!
Saturday to Sunday of that trip, I headed to VA for a quick overnight so I could say a little something in church on Sunday. ODBC has so graciously named me the recipient of the special missions offerings for the month of July, and since I was so close, I popped in to share a little bit. It was a little funny because not a whole lot of people knew that I was going to be there, so their looks of surprise were so fun. In passing to a few they asked what are you doing here and I quipped, "I changed my mind"... oops! A few of them thought I was being serious until I spoke. Sorry!!!
After the trip, I came back to Texas... and can I just tell you again today I was driving to Target and absolutely could not believe I'm in Texas (wait, it's hot enough, I know I am!)... So I came back to Texas and up until the visit to PA and VA, I was doing really well with the transition and moving. But after I got back, I had a really difficult week or 2. It felt like the world caved in. I had gotten to go "home" for long enough to really know what I was missing: people who know me, love me, are a support system, etc... here, I basically have no established relationships... the first few days being back, i really thought about leaving, about changing my mind for real and just going back and doing something different... but, no... I know the summer will soon end, people will be moving in, classes will start and life will go on. I need to re-appreciate this down time and soak up the last month before classes begin.
So, to get myself out of the pit, I joined a gym. DTS has a deal with this fancy schmancy fitness center that all students taking 6 hours of classes pay their $55 activity fee each semester and that covers a membership to their facility. Very cool. Only, I won't be a student officially until August, so I went and bought a 6 week membership... to fill in the gap and have been LOVING having an indoor, SAFE, air conditioned track to walk on. There is also a 1/2 mile outdoor path that has a pond, fountains, etc to walk around and I've done that a few times but end up inside because it's so stinking HOT in Texas! Joining the gym was probably the best thing I could have done.
Oh, and I also got a little iPod. It's called the shuffle. And, it was like $50 and I got the tiny one because I am a self-proclaimed "not a big music fan"... so i just put a few songs from CDs that I had and downloaded a bunch from iTunes and apparently, i don't dislike music as much as I thought! I have over 8 hours of songs on there aready!!! Matt--isn't that hilarious?! And, believe it or not, I have a bunch of rockin' Contemporary Christian songs because I want to be worshipping, but also want to be getting a good walk in. So I've got like Jeremy Camp, David Crowder Band, Skillet, Kutless, Newsboys, and yes, Cheryl and good dose of MercyMe, too! So, yeah, apparently I like "loud Christian music" :o) Who woulda thought? But it's great because I walk for a little over an hour and never know what I'm going to hear. I'm in my own little worship world. LOVE IT. hhhmm... maybe I'll post my favorites sometime. Yes, for sure... PBOB is on my iPod! When God Ran... LOVE IT!
Oh, I also got my hair cut and highlighted... for a great deal. Went to the Regis at the fancy pants mall here in Dallas. It's called the North Park Mall and they have all the ritzy stores you can hardly pronounce... so, I figured I could get a good hair cut for Regis prices and I was pleasantly surprised. The lady's name was "Precious" no kidding... and she did a fabulous job!
hhhmm, what else was new this month? Well, i got declined for health insurance because I'm working as an independent contractor for my job, so insurance companies don't have to insure me with no questions asked. Of course, being a veteran to open heart surgery (even if it was 28 years ago) means they will not insure me. So right now, I got nothing. But, seminary policy states that I have to have something. So please pray with me about this. That first of all I stay healthy and don't need my appendix out or something and that there would be an appeal or another company (like a ministry for seminary/ministry people) that will insure me. Even if it's just major medical.
The job is going well. I work for a great guy (he's no Pastor Steve, but he's wonderful). Check out his website: http://www.timwackel.com/ I am his: Executive Assistant, Business Development Specialist and Director of Marketing. Depending on who I am speaking to. In short, I'm his "Ministry Assistant" and do a little of this and a little of that :o) I really like it. It's a flexible job. I can work a lot from home (a-hem, remember the procrastinator stuff? yeah... working on that) and when classes start I'll be able to fit both in without having to always go to the office to work.
Let's see... well, I guess that's about it.
I'll post again before a month, PROMISE. Absolutely, I will...because next weekend, I'm going to the BETH MOORE SIMULCAST!!!! First Baptist Dallas is only a few blocks away, and they're a host site... Aaaaahhhh... I could use a little Beth!
Love & Miss you all!
Here's my campus mailing address if you want to send me mail :o)
Katherine Eachus
3909 Swiss Ave, #534
Dallas, TX 75204
Same phone number: 703-328-2864 and I'd love to hear from you!
Hopefully, I'll have learned my lesson and this one should be better.
In the past month, I've gotten a lot more settled in. I still have a few boxes to really unpack but my roommate doesn't come until mid-August, so ever the procrastinator, it's still not done.
I know my way around to the local things without my GPS...but I still can't leave home without it... just in case.
I got to go to PA for 5 days for Eachus Family Fun Week... (or so I named it) had a blast seeing everyone! Avery and Drew are getting so grown up... which although a little sad that they're not all itty bitty babies anymore, they're a total blast because, especially Avery can carry on a conversation and communicate. Drew is absolutely the most adorable little boy in the whole world. So happy!
Saturday to Sunday of that trip, I headed to VA for a quick overnight so I could say a little something in church on Sunday. ODBC has so graciously named me the recipient of the special missions offerings for the month of July, and since I was so close, I popped in to share a little bit. It was a little funny because not a whole lot of people knew that I was going to be there, so their looks of surprise were so fun. In passing to a few they asked what are you doing here and I quipped, "I changed my mind"... oops! A few of them thought I was being serious until I spoke. Sorry!!!
After the trip, I came back to Texas... and can I just tell you again today I was driving to Target and absolutely could not believe I'm in Texas (wait, it's hot enough, I know I am!)... So I came back to Texas and up until the visit to PA and VA, I was doing really well with the transition and moving. But after I got back, I had a really difficult week or 2. It felt like the world caved in. I had gotten to go "home" for long enough to really know what I was missing: people who know me, love me, are a support system, etc... here, I basically have no established relationships... the first few days being back, i really thought about leaving, about changing my mind for real and just going back and doing something different... but, no... I know the summer will soon end, people will be moving in, classes will start and life will go on. I need to re-appreciate this down time and soak up the last month before classes begin.
So, to get myself out of the pit, I joined a gym. DTS has a deal with this fancy schmancy fitness center that all students taking 6 hours of classes pay their $55 activity fee each semester and that covers a membership to their facility. Very cool. Only, I won't be a student officially until August, so I went and bought a 6 week membership... to fill in the gap and have been LOVING having an indoor, SAFE, air conditioned track to walk on. There is also a 1/2 mile outdoor path that has a pond, fountains, etc to walk around and I've done that a few times but end up inside because it's so stinking HOT in Texas! Joining the gym was probably the best thing I could have done.
Oh, and I also got a little iPod. It's called the shuffle. And, it was like $50 and I got the tiny one because I am a self-proclaimed "not a big music fan"... so i just put a few songs from CDs that I had and downloaded a bunch from iTunes and apparently, i don't dislike music as much as I thought! I have over 8 hours of songs on there aready!!! Matt--isn't that hilarious?! And, believe it or not, I have a bunch of rockin' Contemporary Christian songs because I want to be worshipping, but also want to be getting a good walk in. So I've got like Jeremy Camp, David Crowder Band, Skillet, Kutless, Newsboys, and yes, Cheryl and good dose of MercyMe, too! So, yeah, apparently I like "loud Christian music" :o) Who woulda thought? But it's great because I walk for a little over an hour and never know what I'm going to hear. I'm in my own little worship world. LOVE IT. hhhmm... maybe I'll post my favorites sometime. Yes, for sure... PBOB is on my iPod! When God Ran... LOVE IT!
Oh, I also got my hair cut and highlighted... for a great deal. Went to the Regis at the fancy pants mall here in Dallas. It's called the North Park Mall and they have all the ritzy stores you can hardly pronounce... so, I figured I could get a good hair cut for Regis prices and I was pleasantly surprised. The lady's name was "Precious" no kidding... and she did a fabulous job!
hhhmm, what else was new this month? Well, i got declined for health insurance because I'm working as an independent contractor for my job, so insurance companies don't have to insure me with no questions asked. Of course, being a veteran to open heart surgery (even if it was 28 years ago) means they will not insure me. So right now, I got nothing. But, seminary policy states that I have to have something. So please pray with me about this. That first of all I stay healthy and don't need my appendix out or something and that there would be an appeal or another company (like a ministry for seminary/ministry people) that will insure me. Even if it's just major medical.
The job is going well. I work for a great guy (he's no Pastor Steve, but he's wonderful). Check out his website: http://www.timwackel.com/ I am his: Executive Assistant, Business Development Specialist and Director of Marketing. Depending on who I am speaking to. In short, I'm his "Ministry Assistant" and do a little of this and a little of that :o) I really like it. It's a flexible job. I can work a lot from home (a-hem, remember the procrastinator stuff? yeah... working on that) and when classes start I'll be able to fit both in without having to always go to the office to work.
Let's see... well, I guess that's about it.
I'll post again before a month, PROMISE. Absolutely, I will...because next weekend, I'm going to the BETH MOORE SIMULCAST!!!! First Baptist Dallas is only a few blocks away, and they're a host site... Aaaaahhhh... I could use a little Beth!
Love & Miss you all!
Here's my campus mailing address if you want to send me mail :o)
Katherine Eachus
3909 Swiss Ave, #534
Dallas, TX 75204
Same phone number: 703-328-2864 and I'd love to hear from you!
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