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I've had a fabulous evening...actually...a fabulous week if I want to be honest. Its just been good. I love it. Hung out with a girl I babysat when she was 12...she's 17 now and a fun girl. We watched a stupid/fun Hilary Duff movie...then drove around for awhile being mischievous...it was good times.

Anyhow...completely random and pointless...but I was just trying to decide what to watch and realized exactly HOW random a collection of DVDs I have. So, not that anyone cares...but I thought I'd write them all out....just for my own amusement. So...here they are:

8 Mile, Alfie, Big Fish, Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Bring It On, Bull Durham, The Challenge, a Cinderella Story, Closer, Clue, Crazy/Beautiful, Crossroads, Dawson's Creek Season 2, Dawson's Creek Season 3, Dawson's Creek the Final Episode, Fast and the Furious, Felicity Season 1, Finding Neverland, Firefly, Garden State, Gilmore Girls Season 1, 2, 4, 5, Grey's Anatomy Season 1-2, High School Musical, a Home at the End of the World, Legally Blonde, Little Man Tate, Lizzie McGuire Movie, Lost Season 1-2, The Man in the Moon, Material Girls, Meet Joe Black, a Midsummer Nights Dream, Moulin Rouge, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the Notebook, On The Line, One Tree Hill Season 1-2, the Polar Express, Proof, Queer as Folk seasons 1 and 4, Raise Your Voice, Rent, Serenity, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, South Park movie, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Walk the Line, a Walk to Remember, the Wedding Planner, Woman on Top.

So yes...I have the most random assortment of deeper movies and mindless kid movies. But...I own all of it...and I love my collection. I wouldn't have it any other way...it fits my personality to a T...so if you want insight...you've got it. If I had more money I would buy tons and tons of shows on DVD. I have many more shows I need to buy, but alas...I can't afford anything else. Sadface.

Tomorrow is New Years Eve and apparently the party I am attending is starting at 6:30...that's CRAZY early...I may conveniently be later than that...although I need to let go and just have fun. I seem to be holding back in this group lately, and I don't want to do that anymore. I guess I do have reason for it though, just...yeah...I want to move on and let things go back to how they were pre-July 2nd. Guess I'll see how it goes...

Rainy Days

I love rainy days. I love listening to the rain fall, and the cars drive through water. Something about water is so comforting to me. I like it. Makes it a perfect day to curl up on the couch and watch some TV shows on DVD. Which is precisely what I have done today. I love TV on DVD...it may be one of my favorite things ever. =o)

CanDance got in town a little bit ago, and I am about to head out to Flower Mound to go see her and hang out with everyone. Should be a blast and a half, I've missed that girl!!

This break I've gone back to hanging out with the group I hung out with from March-August. I've missed them. They are amazing people. Not that I don't love my new group of friends, and I've hung out with them some, but I didn't realize how much I'd missed Ty and Tina and James and Chase and Shelby...that list goes on and on. Good kids. Always a good time, New years eve is going to be ROCKIN!!

Emotions

Unexpected emotions...catch me off guard and leave me wondering what I am to do next.

Unconcious tests that sound stupid once I realize its what I'm doing and actually state it outloud...and you just smile and say its ok and you'll wait.

I don't know what I'm doing...and I don't know whether to think about it or to just go with it. Usually things are better if you just go with them, but hell, I don't know...I just don't know at all....

what do I do now???

Bosnia?!?

OK, so I got this email yesterday from one of the professors at my school, and it was informing us about a trip to Bosnia for a couple weeks this summer. The trip is $2500, but $1500 is paid for you through grants. The remaining $1000 I would have to come up with myself. That of course, is assuming that I am one of the 8 people picked to go.

I want this. More than anything.

To me, doing global missions is just what I want to do. I find it so interesting when I tell people and I see their different reactions. They think its great that I want to do that, but they also think that I am a little bit crazy. Maybe I am, maybe wanting to work with children in horrible conditions qualifies me as crazy, but I like to think I'm just special. I'm special because God has called ME to be passionate about doing work with orphans in bad areas. Bosnia was never one of my first places on my list to go to do this, but let me tell you what, if this works out, I know it will be an amazing experience. Who knows, maybe it would open doors to me getting into Africa, Russia, Romania to work in their orphanages.

I just hope that when I apply, that I am picked to go on this trip. I can't think of anything I want more.

Truth

Ok, so I've kinda been freaking out lately because a month or so ago I got pulled over by a lovely motorcycle officer. What was my crime? I was going 71 in a 60, that's right I was on a freeway and I was going with the flow of traffic. However, I was the only person in the left lane, when this officer stepped out into the my lane to flag me down so I'd pull over. Ok, fine, I don't think I was speeding, I actually didn't think I was even going 70 because I had a feeling there would be a cop out that morning and that I should slow down so I wouldn't get a ticket. Guess that didn't work too well. This officer walks over to my car and had already started writing my ticket! He informed me that I was pulled over for speeding, yadda yadda yadda. Ok, if you know me, I have friends who make fun of me because I don't speed. So getting a speeding ticket SUCKS. The officer was kind of rude to me, and I was super polite to him. I don't do the crying to get out of tickets thing...I'm usually too freaked out to think about anything else.

Anyhow, the ticket said to sign the back and check off no contest or whatever admitting guilt to the offense and how you would like to take care of it. So, I checked off that I was guilty and that I would like probation. Mailed it in within my 11 day grace period. Well, I guess its technically been over a month since I mailed that sucker in and I had not heard a single thing from then and they are supposed to mail paperwork to me so I know how much I owe and what the terms of my probation are. Well, I have been having mini panic attacks worrying that they didn't get my ticket and that I am going to have a warrant out for my arrest and such. Last night I even had a tsunami dream. I only have water/wave/tsunami dreams when I'm FREAKING OUT about something in my life and I'm feeling overwhelmed.

So...I call the court today and I am on hold for 20 or so minutes when I nice lady gets on the phone. I explain everything and give her my information and she varifies my address and lest me know that they are working on my paperwork and they have not sent me anything yet. *whew!* Seriously, I have not felt that relieved in a long time. So, no jail time coming for Deb, and hopefully my probation won't be too bad either...

Adventures...

Today was a day of ups and downs. Overall, I had an amazing day. Although, around lunch time I had quite a fright! I went to check on my car payment and saw that the website did not show any activity for me even though I already submitted my payment. So, I pay go through the whole process of paying it. Only to find out that there was a mistake on the website, so now I had $700 trying to go through instead of $350 for my car payment. Lets just say that I don't have an extra $350 to spend on an extra car payment this month. So I call Honda, they can't do anything. I call my bank, they say I need to go into a store. I go into the store, and they say I have to call the 800 #. I call the 800 number and they tell me that they can stop the payment, only to find it it costs $28, and takes 2 days to processs so if the payment goes through before that, then you get charged the $28, the payment goes through, and overage charges. *sigh* So, stupidly, i say ok to stopping the payment. Then I call my mom in tears (gotta love still being the baby of the family even if i am 24), and she goes to the bank and deposits the $350 extra into my account. So now Im out $28, which I guess isn't too bad. But it definitely stressed me out for a bit.

However, I had a date with my mom tonight. Dinner and a movie. We went to this upscale baja-mexican restaurant. It was really good, I had a blackened salmon dish. Then we went to see Persuit of HappYness. Wow. Amazing. I love spending time with my mom.

That's all for now. Tomorrow I get to call the court and see why I haven't heard anything about the ticket I mailed in over a month ago. Hopefully I don't have a warrant out for my arrest or anything. Guess we'll find out.

Fun and food

I dropped Anne off at the airport this morning. Its so weird realizing that I will not see her for a month. An entire month. That sucks. Its so weird how you become so close to some people so fast. It will be sad to not have her here.

On the other hand, I have a friend in town from Germany who I need to spend time with. Also, one of my friends will be in town from Austin, and I have a ton of other friends I have not spent time with in far too long. So, I'm super excited about quality time with each of these people.

Christmas Eve is Sunday. On Wednesday I am making Oreo Balls with the girl I babysit for so we can both have some for Christmas. They seriously are the best things EVER. So, I thought I'd share the recipe. Because i can, and they are amazing.




2 hour prep time:

1 package regular size Oreo cookies, crushed
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 package white almond bark
1 package chocolate almond bark

Makes 25-35 walnut sized candies


1. Using a blender or hand held mixer, mix Oreos and cream cheese together.
2. Roll into walnut size balls.
3. Chill for an hour.
4. Melt approximately 3/4 package of white almond bark.
5. Stick a toothpick in an Oreo ball and dip it in the melted white almond bark.
6. Allow to harden on wax paper.
7. Takes about 15 min.
8. While waiting, melt about 1/4 package of chocolate almond bark.
9. When Oreo balls are no longer sticky to the touch, decorate with drizzles of chocolate and white almond bark. just use a sandwich bag with a tiny hole cut in one corner to drizzle the almond bark.

Eat and ENJOY!!!