Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book.

Yes, I am one of those people. I LOVE THE TWILIGHT SAGA!!! I reread Breaking Dawn this summer because the first part of it is coming out on Shelby's Ring Day, November 18th. I can not wait but I've been told that I am not allowed to buy midnight tickets. Since the 18th will be our Ring Dunk, Stacey tells me I will be at Northgate that night. We'll see about that ;) Aubrey and I have a movie date already set to go see it together. I love imaginative books. The movies just give me better and have handsome characters to put in my mind to imagine whilst reading. Her religious background also inspired her to write about the character's waiting until marriage to have sex. Kudos to Stephanie Meyer! I'll probably become very depressed just like all of the Harry Potter fans when this saga is finished on the big screen. :( Oh well! That's what DVDs are for!

Day 22 - A picture of something you wish you were better at.

I'm a pretty talented young lady. I've accomplished many things and am still adding on to that list. Of course, we all wish we would've done something or more of something when we were younger. My wish would be that...

I could play the piano better. I took about 10 +/- years of lessons but I shouldn't have stopped in high school. I joined the summer choir at St. Mary's in College Station and have been really enjoying it. But last weekend, I almost had to play with my horrible chords and anxious fingers because the music director was not able to be there for the Sunday morning masses. Thank goodness an awesome guy named Lucas came into practice and sat down and could play pretty amazing to help us out and entice our church congregation's ears. There were only 3 singers, a pianist and a guitarist last weekend because the rest of the kids were on Aggie Awakening. No worries, we did an awesome job!

My worries though are that I am not fulfilling my God-given talents by not being able to play the piano as well or helping out in other ways. I've come to the conclusion that no matter what, I am singing for the Lord, through the Lord, and for His people. He made me and gave me amazing talents to share with others. Singing and music makes me happy. Hopefully I will continue singing at St. Mary's this Fall and so on. It's amazing how much a song can reach out to people and put a twinkle in their eye or smile on their face. So by-golly, "how can I keep from singing" if that's what I can help produce every weekend.

I challenge you to challenge yourselves to make a difference with the talents that God gave you!
I'm challenging myself to playing the guitar in church in two Sunday's and get past my stage fright.

Day 21 - A picture of something you wish you could forget.

This is from my freshman year at A&M. I did some stupid things. This is about the time we got the CS house. I decided to have a friend's birthday party here. It got pretty wild but no harm done. I just dislike this night because I drank a little, ate a lot of cupcakes, have lowlights in my hair and is when I topped off my freshman 23 pounds. I know I should laugh now but it's hard to look at these pictures. It's kinda like "what was I thinking?!"...but it's almost a good thing because I grew up and became who I am today. I'm pretty conscious of who I am and what I like and dislike. So it makes me live in the here and now, not in the past.

Day 20 - A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel.

This should be Shelby's blog post. She researches places to travel to almost every day. I don't blame her. God created a beautiful world to be seen and I hope she gets to see it all. As for me, I am not necessarily picky about traveling but I don't think a lot about it or as Shelby likes to conclude that "I just don't care." Well I do care. I have a goal of traveling and seeing all 50 states. I would also like to travel Europe and South America and possibly Africa. I just never say it out loud. I just got really burnt out from traveling with the softball team for two years. And I don't necessarily care for the beach. I know. You can think I'm weird and curse my thoughts but I have good reasons not to like the beach. Anyways, I'll just take wherever I can travel to so that I can enjoy that place and the time spent with whoever I go with.