Head Update

I haven't posted how my head is doing for a while, so I thought I would give everyone an update. I've been I guess good and bad all at the same time. The month of May was great. I saw my doctor at the beginning of June and he took me down on my dosage of one of my meds. I called them just last week and asked if I could go back up, simply because I really think that could be one reason why I haven't been as good.

I coming back to school. Duh. I've said that a million times now. I guess I should say I haven't changed my mind and I'm still Auburn bound for the fall. I was in Auburn yesterday (just a quick trip to the apartment) with my parents and it was fun to just be in town.

I'm excited about my living arrangements too. Courtney Powell is living with me as well as my sister. Courtney is seriously one of the sweetest people I know. I'm excited about living with Brooke (my sis). She is so great and it will be her freshmen year, so it will be fun to watch her just finding and figuring everything out. And if I should get really bad (my head), I have her there, which is nice. And home is only 35 mintues away (yep, 35 from the auburn exit to my driveway, pretty good huh?) I'm scared, but I was talking to a friend the other day and told her i was scared and she told me that she was scared too and she had already been there for 2 years. Made me laugh but also was good to hear.

I've just got to be super disciplined and not try to do too much. I still can't do a full day. We went to gatlinburg a couple of weeks ago and i took pain meds everyday there and for about a week after- it was just too much. so basically i have to go slow. take my time. and realize i don't have to be the social butterfly i once was. And I go back to the doctor on sept. 6 - which is comforting for me to know.

I've also realized that I can't wait around to feel GREAT-you know. because i mean who ever really feels great? somedays are great, but everyone has days where you just simply don't want to get out of bed. so that revelation has been encouraging.

Again, thanks to everyone who has prayed for me and encouraged me. I honestly don't know how I would have gotten to this place without all of your love and support. so basically, you guys rock, and don't ever forget that!! MUCH love
-cg-

freedom

Last night I was reading through Galations. The last half of verse 6 in chapter 5 just really stood out to me. "The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love." Wow. Chapter 5 talks alot about freedom and living in the Spirit. The Lord has had me parked there for a while. We are given freedom in Christ. But at the same time it takes discipline. That I am learning too. Constant surrender. Dying to my flesh daily. "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." I really like Galations because it talks alot about the law and how Christ fufilled the law. The other day this quote came to me from Legally Blonde- i know just hear me out. In one of her classes her professor writes on the board- the law is reason free from passion. and we then find out in the movie that those words were written by aristotle. and then i started thinking about the law in the old testament and how Christ fufilled the law. the old testament, in a way, could be considered reason free from passion. which means the new testament is Jesus coming in with passion and fulfilling the law. how cool is that? behold the power of love. Just something to think about. If you read galations my thoughts might make some kind of sense. So for now that's all. Let's walk in step with the Spirit so that we can experience His freedom, His abundant life that he has promised to us!!!

bloody pirates!!

arrrgh! keep to the code, matie!! .....


oh yes. who doesn't love captain jack sparrow?!?! yes i'm in the pirate mood. just saw the new movie. "dead man's chest". i highly recomended it. a bit gruesom, but funny, adventurous, a love story, action packed, sit on the edge of your seat, bite your nails.....just great. my prediction for the third movie's title-- "Return of the Black Pearl". think about it, the last movie in a trilogy- Return of the Jedi, Return of the King....

yes well check out the trailer....

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808556813/trailer

who doesn't love a pirate??

LYMON

ok, so if you are feeling a little crazy, check out this website-->

http://www.sublymonal.com/

"your mind is being refreshed"

its , hmm lets say, very different. you may have seen commercials for this website on tv. this website address was first released as an "in game" website for "the lost experience" game. if you type in the words that flash it will take you to different things. typing in other words will bring you a definition from wikipedia. if you type in pyramids it will take you to a dj dan podcast. all of this requires lots more of explanations. i promise ill post explaining more later. even if you don't like the tv show lost, still check out this website. its pretty crazy. thats all for now.
-cg-

word

(*disclaimer-- complete randomness makes up this post. possibly funny, but nothing of significant information about me. but if you have some time to kill i hope you kill some of it by reading my wonderful words.)

word. yes. thats my new favorite word. actually its not new. its really old. i said it all the time in highschool. i guess i "refound" it. i picked it up from being around jenny. gotta love her. in class she would show the combination and then go "word? word!" its so great. i mean it can be used as a greeting, or simply agreeing, or even as a goodbye!! word. ok so i felt like writing but i really had nothing specific to say. so let's see where this goes.

i just got done watching the series finale of star trek: tng. haha oh yea- next generation with captain jean-luc picard. ok so let me explain here. as we all know the head keeps me kind of limited as far as activities per day is concerned. still can't do a full day, but earlier in the spring i watched lots of tv- i like to blame the head for this. so anyways, afternoon from like 1 to 4 there is nothing on tv. nothing i tell you. you may argue, but in my opinion nothing. so my parents love star trek (ntg that is). i remember them watching it when i was like tiny. like 3 or 4 years old. if you've ever seen it there is a character named geordi. he is blind but he had this special vision thing that helps him see. he actually sees better than the normal human being, but thats just silly details, nothing you guys are interested in. but back to the story, my sister and i (at age 3/4, brooke was like 2 or 3) anyways we would get the hairbands we would wear and put them over our eyes and pretend to be geordi. classic, i wish we had a pic.

ok so anyways, the parental units love it, so mom suggested for the afternoon why don't you watch star trek. i scoffed at the suggestion but one day i flipped across it and that particular episode had some travel in it. ( ANYTHING with time travel interests me. i think i've written that on here before). so i started watching. before long i knew all the characters names, and now i'm at the point to where the shows that come on in the afternoon, i've seen a good third of them. yes so i guess we could said i'm an official trekie. ahh!!! sometimes it's just good fun to embrace the inner dork within.

yes well, like i said, nothing specific. so now the movie "what a girl wants" is on. i love how these cheesy movies set up the girl and she magically meets prince charming. SO non-realistic. i think the best non-realistic situation movie is "walk to remember". oh buddy did i bawl like a baby the first time i saw that one!! and then as i was bawling good old laura g says "oh my gosh!! this is sooo cheesy!" haha fun times. good memories.

ok well i've typed alot already. this is probably one of those posts that you get on, see i have a new post, you start to read, realize it has nothing of importance in it, skim to the bottom and then you feel like what the heck are they talking about?!?! oh well . its always fun to me to just put my random, meaningless thoughts together. ok they aren't meaningless, maybe a better word would be trivial.

and i'm having serious lost withdrawls!!! no new episodes until the end of september!!! atleast i've got good old rachel blake to give something until then. i'll have to write another post about her along with persephone, speaker, hanso, and all the other lovely characters belonging to the interactive game for Lost this summer!!! ok thats all i want to share for now. its time for the new favorite word to say goodbye!!

-WORD-