matt

wertz. came out with a new EP. and. i love it. www.mattwertz.com. he was in kansas city tonight. he usually gives away free tickets each night of his tour. so, we went down late this afternoon to wait around. he will either hide some tickets around the town he is in and people can go find them (he will twitpic-and you have to know the area) or he will just add some famous people's names to the will call and you go up and say you are friends with them. he tweets these things. anyways, we waited for about 3 hrs. during this time we went and had dinner also went to teadrops and i had an iced chai. anyways, we were waiting and waiting for him to tweet and it never happened. bum out. we could hear a couple songs just by standing outside of the venue but i felt weird doing that and we finally decided to leave. wish we could have gone but the tickets were 30 dollars. not paying that. i mean he is great, but i can't afford that. can i just say i wouldn't mind marrying a musician? i just did. ha.

well, i find it funny what i blog about. some people are so deep and use lots of words and it is just funny to me that i am quite opposite. it's just me. it just funny how different people are. SO different. each and every one of us. i mean, we've been told this since we were kids and in sunday school, everywhere. all the time, but when i stop to think about it it still baffles me. it's really just incredible. i love it.

the Lord has been revealing so many things to me lately. some of it is stuff that has already happened and i am just now realizing the significance of it. He is incredible. (maybe.) did you know the word incredible means unbelievable or not convincing? the informal definition is amazingly good or beautiful. so, it's odd that we use that word to describe things, but especially him because they are quite opposite of that definition. am i understanding this correctly? He is so believable and so convincing. so maybe i should say He is magnificent. He is that.

funny how this turned into something kind of deep. oh boy. well, this has been a great week and weekend should be good too. i can't believe march is almost over.

have one!

love maresalee

cake

well, i decorated a cake yesterday for suzie and grandma's birthday. (brek's too.) :) i think i could do that during the summers while i'm teaching. or i could do floral arrangements. i think i would really enjoy either one of those little jobs. it would be fun for sure! this one is nothing fancy, but i like the style.

tuesday

today i slept in a little. had a little cereal. went walking. was on the computer for a bit and then had lunch with mom. they have a really great salad bar at hyvee that'd we'd had before. it was delicious today. good fruits. then after i went to kaldi's. had the best ever decaf americano with sugar free caramel in my whole life. it was so good. i'll be going back tomorrow for the same. it's the cheapest thing on the menu so i do believe i could go back any day this week. :) tonight i am going to hang out with sarah. maybe get a free redbox and have some coffee and some cookies she made. tomorrow might be a movie theater day. then lunch at the pasta factory. then kaldi's. church. hang out afterwards. maybe. oh, this week is going to go by so fast.

that is all.

love maresalee

movies

today i am going to go see Remember Me with a couple girls. i hope it's good. at home we have this option on our cable where we get to watch free movies. last weekend Pearl Harbor was on it. i hope it still is because i want to watch it. there are some other movies i will be watching as well. it is going to be such a great week. i might leave tonight to go home or i'll wait until the morning. just depends on how long i hang out with these girls.

i just got back from sonic happy hour with my vanilla diet dr. pepper. so good. i'm really craving red robin. i hear they have a really good veggie burger and i think i'm quite in the mood for that. maybe we will go there after the movie today. crossing my fingers.

love maresalee

spring

break. i know i will find myself many times just sitting and thinking. i have already started to. psh, more like--i always do. ha. i won't receive/think of an answer for the majority of my questions but that is fine.

next year is going to be so different. i don't know what to expect. i know i won't let events or people drive me to exhaustion. i wonder who will be "in" my life next year? this year was so much different than last year. i know i shouldn't worry about these things. i'm really not.

i hope i am a person who is in touch with people's emotions and feelings. i hope i understand them. i wouldn't want to hurt them because i didn't put myself in their shoes.

love maresalee

mother

theresa quote. like mother theresa. not my mom.

"we can do no great things,

just small things with great love.

it is not how much you do,

but how much love you put into doing it."

columbia

sherry don't read this unless i have called you. :) i want to tell you about life over the phone.

okay, let me start from last weekend.

friday-found out i got RA for stockton. i have already been thinking. too much. i'll try to be studying and i'm already trying to think of how i will decorate the hall. (it won't be much--very simple style.) i've also been thinking about how i will arrange my room. it's ridiculous. i wish my brain could hold off until the summer. i'll have so much time to think about such things. so friday afternoon a group a girls went home with markli and me. we had a relaxing time. we arrived and had dinner. it was delicious. made some dessert. then we watched a movie. i feel asleep very early that night. didn't really watch much of the movie. then the next morning we went downtown for some coffee and sightseeing. after a couple hours of that we came back to have lunch. soon after we headed back to olathe. a couple girls had to be back that night. it was a short trip, but it was nice. they loved seeing columbia. it is a great place.

saturday evening i hung out with bethany(last year roommate). it was very fun. we went to the plaza and split a pizza at california pizza kitchen. went window shopping then topped the night off with some coldstone ice cream.

sunday i got up early to work out. went the the 11 o'clock traditional service at college church. i actually really liked it. it was a good nazarene structured service. ha. but really, i enjoyed it. that evening i had a choir concert at a church.

monday was a full day. i took the CBASE (test for getting into the Elementary Education program). hope it went well.

today i woke up to rain. went to chapel. speaker was good. todd bowman. he is one of the professors but also counsels here. i always enjoy it when those guys speak. then i had lunch. went to my one class of the day. target afterwards. then came back to my room to make some coffee and i also vacuumed. a very mellow day. it has been wonderful.

spring break is next week. i will be vacationing to my home. i am making myself a budget for the week. i will visit places i have never been to in columbia. it will be very nice. at the end of the week beau and suzie and madelyn will also be visiting. i cannot wait to hold that little baby niece of mine. :)

as for the job search. i think i am just going to stick with baby sitting for the rest of the semester. honestly, it is nice not having to go to work in the evenings. i'm not making money, but i'll be fine.

love maresalee

well

yesterday markli and i came back from home. i went and picked up my car (cousin geoff put on a new hood and front fender) and headed to the mandatory work staff meeting. we were all informed that that night It's A Grind had closed it's doors. for good. the reason: money. i definitely think it was the best decision on their part. the stress of it all was getting to her and her family/marriage. something needed to change. there were signs along the way that showed this needed to happen. some catering orders weren't going out anymore, the bakery we bought from closed down. it will be fine. i will find a new job. you could be praying for that though. i'm on the job search. i'm not stressed at all--it is in God's hands.

i hope everyone is having a lovely day.

love

maresalee