luck

maybe. blessings? yes. the past two days have been incredible. never a dull moment. let me recap the past 48-ish hours.

thursday - watched Reece. (always a highlight to my day.) :) then lunch, class, free time before work. then work. some friends came to visit me at work and that made my day. after work i stopped by intramural basketball games for maybe 10 mins. then went to an ASG electoral forum. well, they had prizes. I WON 50 DOLLARS TO ITUNES. no big deal. :) went and worked out after. and bed.

friday - class, free time, class, lunch. (on the way to lunch i found 40 DOLLARS on the sidewalk. i was with a friend and so we split the two 20 dollar bills.) then, had to get my phone fixed. the screen had been going in and out. so i took it in. they replaced the screen inside and didn't have to pay anything. then i go to choir. (it wasn't a very great rehearsal. we were in a different room with different acoustics and so for some people it was hard to hear, thus terrible pitch. it was terrible. and it was incredible weather today. and it was a friday. i'm not sure everyone was trying their best.) then i went to coffee and window shopping with a friend. she brought me a present. some decaf roasterie coffee! 1/2 a pound. we had such a fun time. then, kaitlin's mom was in town and we had been planning on having dinner together but debbie didn't want to eat CC. so we went to olive garden (on debbie). then came back and kaitlin tried to get me to do a face mask. didn't happen but we watched Sleepless in Seattle. always a good one.

that has been the past 48-ish hours. i work at 8 am tomorrow until 3. then markli and i will be going home as soon as i get off. it was be grand. it will be a nice little trip home. then we will come back and i have a mandatory work meeting at 7pm and then we both have a small group leaders meeting at 9pm. it will be a busy weekend but it will be good.

goodnight.

love,

maresalee

fluttering

it is terrible that the smallest amount of caffeine makes my heart race. it has been a good day so far. had a test at 8. turned in my application for RA next year. took two history quizzes. had lunch in between those. just paid off my school account. :) (i got a $1000 scholarship out of no where--thank you Women's Auxiliary) i wrote them a thank you note yesterday so that the money would be put on my account. such a blessing from the Lord. just got back from sending a few notes to friends. about to go to choir. i started a new book this week and i would really like to spend a lot of time this weekend reading it and hopefully finishing it. it's raining right now which makes the day even better. it was snowing and then turning to rain and back and forth but now it's just rain. this is a funny blog post. hope you followed. have a good one.

love

maresalee

work

i think i might be working too much. i might have to ask to only work one week night and one weekend day. it's crazy how much relief it was to get tonight off. brady and kreisa had their baby early this morning and so i wanted to go visit. i probably need some sleep and i need to do some homework. so i got someone to cover for me.

today i started watching reece. i'll be watching him every thursday morning 8:30-11:30. he was great. he just laughs and laughs--so we get along quite well. :) in a few minutes i am going to ride with them to go visit kriesa, brady, simon, and maybe darby--if she is up from her afternoon nap (if she took one today). i watched her tuesday afternoon and always fall in love. i'm so blessed to get the chance to spend a few hours with these two each week. sher and beau, you know where i'd love to be but school is in the way. i go into total "mom" mode when i'm watching them. i love it.

should i get these or these? leave a comment.

love

maresalee

bragging

about my nieceS and nephews. just a photo post.

silas breklinn gresham

the duerre family

the newest addition, madelyn

and her proud father and mother

today

is two blog posts overkill in one day? naw.

OH MY GOODNESS. today has been awesome. can i just tell you every little thing about it? so it started out waking up from a great nights rest. i slept in. (mom, don't worry--i went to church last night.) i had kind of planned on going to the plaza for the day. i'd asked a few people if they wouldd like to join. no one decided to come. which was fine. i was kind of thinking about not going with anyone anyway. so, after i was up for a little bit i went to go work out. then showered. started laundry. started thinking about what i was going to do. during that time i made some phone calls. called mom and sherry. it was good. then i looked up times at the plaza to see when the stores closed. well when i finally looked those times up it was 5:10pm. couldn't make it in any stores in time. so then i thought maybe town center plaza would be better. looked up food options there and they had ingredient. i've never been so i thought i'd give it a try. an AMC was over there so i stopped by to see if there were any good movies out and what time they played. saw a few and thought i would decide over dinner. well, i get to ingredient and they closed at 6--pretty sure the website said 9. oh well. i went to california pizza kitchen. i got a grilled chicken dijon sandwich and it came with a soup. i got something tortilla soup. it was so delicious. i saved half of the sandwich. ate pretty fast but only because i was by myself and didn't eat the whole thing. i remembered seeing a whole foods market store on the way to the plaza so i thought i'd see if i could find this one chapstick that i've been wanting. i couldn't find it but i could sure spend an entire day in that store looking at things. so, i headed back to the movie. when i got there i decided on the movie, dear john. it had just started so the previews were still playing. as i was sitting in the theater i realized that i was having THE perfect date. then i thought how nice it would be to have a man next to me. hahah (but i really was--sorry, bear with me. i don't normally talk about this girly stuff.) but then i remembered there is no man next to me and i am having one of the best nights of my life. by myself. i'd say it hit in the top 20 best days of my life. thus far at least. so that movie was INCREDIBLE. i highly recommend it. so good. i've waited a long time for an amazing movie to come out and finally. so i'd been planning my night out ever since i got in the car to leave. that's how i am. after i decided that i was going to movie, i decided i would get coffee afterwards. so i did just that. i got a decaf americano with sugar free caramel. (thank you sherry for introducing me to this drink.) while i was drinking my coffee i talked to beau and he told me all about the past two days. i'm so happy for them and i send them so much love. this has been my day. loved it. i hope everyone else had a good day of watching the super bowl and anything else you did. i'm going to bed early tonight and i can't wait. goodnight.

:)

love maresalee

conversations

are so powerful. i had coffee with a friend friday night and then an early dinner with another friend last night. after dinner yesterday my friend said, ''isn't it interesting how you feel like you have grown up in one conversation?" i said, "yeah, it's crazy. that's what happened to me last night." having coffee with that friend friday night helped me figure out so much about myself and that that is who i am. i think i always saw these 'traits' as things that i needed to change about myself. i didn't like them or thought they were not right because other people weren't that way. needless to say i have many things in common with this person and they had accepted themselves, i guess you could say. it was very encouraging. just now thinking about this again i have come to the conclusion i can't look to others for anything. no one except the Lord. when it is all said and done He is our source. i feel strongly that God uses others to speak to me. this is kind of confusing because it sounds like i'm going back and forth, but i hope you can understand. all this to say, it has been a great weekend of growing. maturing is endless. i can't even begin to think how different i will be in one month. days.

IMPORTANT NEWS!

I HAVE A NEW NEICE! :)

she was born yesterday 6:10pm. Madelyn Grace Carlson--she is precious. i can't wait to see more pictures of her until i get to see her. i know her mother and father are quite in love. :)

i hope everyone is having a lovely day.

maresalee