After sleeping but an hour and a half, I am awake and blogging. I would normally be frustrated at my inability to sleep, but for some reason I am in ultra relaxed mode. I have six candles and one stick of incense burning, which has my room floating on wave of pure deliciousness, and soothing chakra music playing faintly in the background. My fan is on and directed precisely at the angle to hit my face, sweeping away the Tennessee heat, and bursts of light from fireworks are emanating through my window....
I recently have decided that I am going to become a better artist. I have been told that somewhere within these long fingers of mine lies a sketcher and not a doodler. I have yet to see that person arise within me, but today I started to chisel her out. My mom stopped by to take me to lunch today, and arrived with a sketch book, pencils, charcoal, and nifty pencil shaders and erasers. I already tried copying one little sketch of a man... the results weren't so captivating, but I still have time. I am going to try to start drawing every day, and maybe by the end of the year I will be able to draw an ear that actually looks like an ear.
On other news, I have also realized that my video game skills aren't so captivating as well. After an intense game of Scooby-Doo on the Wii with Matthew, and after a few comments from him such as, "Hali will you just jump already!" or "Hali press Z, press Z, press Z, PRESSSS ZZZZZZ!!!!!!" I quickly started to dismiss my hopes of ever being able to walk into Game Stop with confidence.
Work at the Local Taco is going wonderfully! I absolutely love everyone that I work with... especially Cristina. There is something wonderful about having your butt grabbed in front of your manager and it not being sexual assault and you or having to worry about being fired. But seriously, I am so blessed to have been given an opportunity to serve. I am so excited to bless the tables I wait upon, and to have the bless me! There is something humbling about seeing direct results from outpouring love and attention to people. AND it doesn't hurt that I work with someone who is friends with Nick Carter. That's right. I wonder when I meet him if he will remember waving to me ten years ago at the Black and Blue tour in detroit...
FINAL NOTE:
Something God is showing me in my life right now is that things are in HIS hands and not my own. I often times want to fix things, knock sense into people, and sacrifice so much of my energy and emotions to mold my life into the way I want it to be molded. When in reality if I just focus on prayer, love, and seeking Christ, things will be revealed and healed in ways I couldn't even imagine!
