A Million Miles...with Donald Miller

So, I'm going to use my own blog to shamelessly promote one of the authors we work with...Donald Miller.  His 60 city tour is getting ready to hit some East Coast cities and I'd love for you to check it out if he's in your area.  I am going to be at the show Friday in York, PA (gonna spend some time with the family and get my puppy back!!!).  I'd love to see you there...it's not far from Baltimore, Philly, NJ...wherever you are on the coast.  He's also got shows in NYC, Jamestown, Asheville, Charlotte...well, just check it out for yourself!

music for today

This is just what a rainy day needs...

dear thieves of east nashville...

While I appreciate the fact that you didn't cause any harm to myself, my roomie or my dog...

And while I appreciate that you weren't able to come into my house and take all of the rest of my stuff because my dog probably scared the bejeebies out of you...

I DO NOT appreciate you taking my Macbook.  The white one with the kickin' art gel sticker on it?  The one that had over 4,000 pictures of my travels, friends, dogs, etc.?  The one with my bajillion iTunes songs on it?  The one that had my most important documents strategically arranged in well-labeled folders?  Ring a bell?  Hmmmm???

And, NO.  I do not have a backup.  Thank you to everyone who has asked, though, because it makes me feel ALL the better about losing all of my stuff.  Apparently, I deleted all of my files on my .mac/mobile me account so that I could restructure and update.  Just hadn't actually DONE that yet.

So...

It's just a computer.  I know that.  It's just music.  It's just pictures.  It's just my personal information in the hands of some hooligans.  My life hasn't ended, everyone is safe and the world is still spinning away.  I just need a few days to accept it.

Therefore, east nashville thieves, I will soon be able to forgive and forget.  Just don't try it again or you are going to get more than my dog barking at you when you climb through the window.

my Refuge

"God, the one and only - I'll wait as long as he says. Everything I hope for comes from him, so why not? He's solid rock under my feet, breathing room for my soul, an impregnable castle: I'm set for life.

My help and glory are in God--granite-strength and safe-harbor--God.  So trust him absolutely, people; lay your lives on the line for him. God is a safe place to be."

Psalm 62:5-8

There's so much to take from that.  I love how The Message phrases it..."why not?"  Seems so easy.  Wish it were...trying to make it a bit easier by continually trusting and hoping.

Just some words of encouragement for us all today!

what a morning...

Last night, I started taking my migraine medicine again (Topamax)...it's been about 4 months since I've been able to afford it (no insurance due to lack of job...at least until last month).  Without said insurance, it costs $225 a month.  With insurance, it only costs $35 a month.  Hence, no medicine for the past 4 months.  But, now that I have a job and can afford health insurance once again, I decided to go back on my medicine so that I don't have to deal with my migraines.  That was a really long story to say that I'm taking my medicine.  Sorry.

Anyway.  My migraine medicine has some crazy side effects for the first few weeks that I take it.  These side effects involve me losing feeling in my fingers and toes.  Or, at least that is what I anticipated happening.  I woke up this morning to go for my run with my friend Tracey and didn't really feel any different...maybe just a little tingling in the extremities.  By the time I hit my first hill, though, I definitely felt like something was "odd" with my feet.  2 miles in to my run and there was pretty much no feeling from my thighs down to my toes, my arms were numb and my face was numb.  Not the best feeling to have when you are 2 miles away from home.  We ended up having to walk about 1/2 mile of our 3 mile run.  Once I got back to the house, I ended up having to go back to sleep because I felt so craptacular. 

I realized, upon waking an hour later, that my dosage was considerably higher than it was the first time I started on the medicine years ago...which is why I had such a drastic reaction this time to the medicine.  So, now I know what to expect the next few days.  Fortunately, I know it only lasts a short time before my body adjusts...and the benefit of not getting migraines is a definite plus.  But, seriously...what a crazy morning.

I'm still in a bit of a funk.  I can chalk that up to several reasons, though...