35 random things about me

1. I am a dork...the biggest dork you'll ever meet...and I have NO problem with it. :)
2. I'm a little too sarcastic...and I'll be the first to admit that I need to work on it.
3. I have a trust issue...as in I never trust people. It takes a long time before I feel like I can trust anyone enough to tell them anything.
4. I’m a terrible liar. I always have been, because you can know what I’m thinking at all times by just looking in my eyes.
5. I’m a very loyal person. Once you’re my friend, I will think of you as a friend for pretty much ever. It doesn’t matter what you say, or do. It doesn’t matter if you walk completely out of my life, at the end of the day when I am saying my prayers, I will still pray for you. At the end of the day, if you need me…I’m going to be there. It is sometimes my biggest downfall.
6. I have a lot of nicknames, but my favorite is "Maggie-mags"
7. I wish I had blue eyes, and I resent the fact that my brother got them. (haha jk my brown eyed girl is a pretty great song, so I guess my eyes are okay.) 
8. I hate being cold. I hate it more than pretty much anything, but I love snow.
9. My brother and I made up a par 3 course in our old yard. It’s one of the things that I miss about the other house.
10. I love love love love love love love Auburn. LOVE it.
11. I’m 20 years old, and I still don't like going to the dentist.
12. I hate it when my friends lie to me, or don’t tell me everything, because they think I’ll judge them. I'm not a judemental person at all.
13. I enjoy talking, but I am a great listener..and I love helping people.
14. I am a deep thinker...and I love sitting in just pure silence just to think and talk with God.
15. I get at least two new bruises every day, because I am the clumsiest person in the whole world. No really, I promise you I am.
16. I wish I could escape my life and view it from another angle.
17. If someone taps me on one shoulder I tap myself on the other shoulder (as unnoticeable as possible) to keep it even and symmetrical.
18. I have realized that the purest form of happiness is when you truly grasp the fact that nothing will ever be perfect…but that it's going to be okay.
19. I love it when it rains… the sound is so soothing, and I love playing in the rain it brings back some of the greatest memories I have with my brother… I just love everything about rain. Especially the sound of rain on a tin roof
20. I worry about everyone elses happiness more than anything.
21. I have been told that I have the humor of a guy…but honestly I just think I have normal sense of humor and that everyone else who doesn’t think I’m funny is just weird.
22. I smile all the time. And it’s easy to make me laugh, because I dearly love to laugh!
23. I love getting mail. Since I rarely get mail, I keep all of my mail and reread it all of the time. Especially my mail from California and Montana :)
24. I hate it when people judge me before they even know me.
25. No one knows the stories behind my art, and therefore I don’t think I could ever part with any of it.
26. Art therepy is better than retail therepy
27. I CRAVE adventure. 
28. I WILL build a fort in my house one day...I feel like I missed out on that during my childhood, and I resent that. 
29. I hate Axe and Tag, because guys put on WAY too much… i don’t think they understand that a little bit of it goes a long way. I’m a huge Polo Black fan though. It may or may not be a slight obsession.
30. It bothers me when guys think they’re too strong to cry. And they are embarrassed by the idea of crying
31. I give awesome hugs…so I’ve been told.
32. I know that one day I will find the perfect guy for me that won’t want to change one thing about me.
33. I find beauty in things other people find insignificant.
34. I am obsessed with a few things, and they are as followed: Sunsets, sunrises, stars, orange roses, art, funfetti cake, harry potter, razzles, rain, small children, smiles, ridiculously stupid pick-up lines…oh, and call me, maybe references.
35. I make happy lists often to remember everything I have to be grateful for. I have a quote book, and a bucket list. I’ve had my bucket list since the 8th grade…but I’m not weird or anything…

That awkward moment when.....

You have a huge knot on your head, because you fell down trying to get out of the shower. Story of my life. I know what you're thinking....and the answer is yes. Yes, I am quite possibly the clumsiest person you'll ever meet. I pretty much fall down flat on my face on a daily basis. Yeah...be jealous. I fall in all sorts of places..I fall on the concourse, dance floors, up stairs, down stairs, heck..I even fall on flat surfaces!  I think it's good for me to be clumsy though in all seriousness...it DEFINITELY keeps me humble. Anyways...Lately I've been learning to fall on my knees before the Lord. I've been praying that the Lord will give me the strength to keep going day after day. It's really amazing, because He does. He doesn't promise that life will be easy, in fact, His promise is greater than that. In John 16 Jesus says that in this life we will have trouble, but to take heart because He has over come the world. Isn't that just awesome?! He promises that ultimately it will be okay. In Isaiah 40 it says that The Lord's understanding is beyond anything we can fathom! And He's right there waiting for us to fall on our knees.

The Dirt Road

I went to Pa’s house this weekend. It was hard for my mom, and that’s why I went-- I knew it would be…but what I had forgotten to think about was how strange and hard it was going to be for me too. We walked in and it looked the same. It was like walking into a time capsule. Everything was still in the same place it was at Christmas time. The house was still decorated for Christmas, and it still smelled like him…but it wasn’t the same. He wasn’t there. We went and picked blueberries and when it was time to go inside…I thought he’d be sitting there waiting on us to come back. It felt like all the air had left the room every time I realized that he wasn’t going to be there. I’d wake up in the morning and wait for him to shuffle down the hall way with his oxygen dragging, but it never happened. We went by his grave and I talked to him and Grannyma. It was so sad…but I assured them that I was taking care of mama and that we both missed them a lot. But you know what the strangest part about the whole weekend was? How hard it was to leave. It’s weird, because even though he’s not there, it’s still just as hard to leave that house as it was growing up. There’s something about that dirt road. There always has been…and there always will be. It's home. It’s a part of me, and that, well…that will never change.

If Home is Where the Heart is...

Then I think my heart is a long way off from where I currently reside. If I’m being honest, I love being home with my family. I promise… I love Covington! And it’s no secret that I LOVE Auburn. (War Eagle) But, do you think it’s possible for your heart to be in a place you’ve never been? Well, I do.  I believe that my heart is in Uganda. I’m not entirely sure why, but I just feel this pressing need to be there, I come up with scenarios and ways to get there every day. I’ve thought about spending a Christmas break there, a summer there, a year there, I’ve even thought about spending two years after I graduate there. But I feel like I need to go to Uganda sooner than that. It’s the craziest thing, and I know that my parents would be so freaked out if I told them. Haha So for now, I will pray for Uganda and all of the missionaries there sharing the love of Christ. Even though I can’t be there right now, I can pray for the people of Uganda. And I’m asking you to join me in prayer for the people, and their salvation. I have been filled with such anguish for the lost everywhere, but particularly there. And one of my dearest friends is in Uganda for the summer, so please pray for her. I’m putting a link to her blog for you, because it’s a blog that I think everyone should read. She is on fire and completely sold out to the Lord, and I’m sure reading her blog will bless your life as it has blessed me.

Let’s be in prayer for Uganda together! (And the rest of the world, of course)

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