Yoga, candles, babies and Highway maps...

Okay, so the last few days have been pretty interesting as all get out. First off

Babies

id like to say CONGRADULATIONS TABBY!!!!!! This morning at 1:13 am my very dear friend Tabitha gave birth to her second child Olivia. Yes I got the text a little after 3 as i was laying there waiting for my phone to go off. SOOOO excited and am going to go see her and the baby ojn thursday. PIcs to follow!! Super happy she is so beautiful and after 9 days past due it was certainly time for her to be born lol.

Yoga and Candles

As some of you already know i work in a Urgent Care with phones and computers and angry stupid people all day :) so shortly after starting work there my neck began giving me real pain ( imagine that) followed by bad headaches and even some nausea. So I went to get massages off and on and they definately help but something didnt quit seem right with my neck. Finally the last time i went the woman giving me the massage looked at me and asked if id been injured recently and were I worked because she noticed something was off with my neck. When laying flat on my back my neck and chin would tilted always to left even when i tried to straighten it. So long story short she suggested physical therapy....(lol yeah 1,000 deductable no way) or chiropracter ( yeah whacking and smacking my body just doesnt sound terribly healthy) or yoga and stretching...HMMM Yoga sounds like the least expensive so I joined a gym and two weeks ago went to it. I LOVED IT!!! There wasnt any of the "okay lets all light a candle and find our inner monkey" like I thought thered be. Just relaxing music and I felt fantastic afterwords. I am hoping this will help my neck get positioned back to were it needs to be. and the stretching. Which reminds me: does anyone know of some good stretches or something that is great for releiving tension in the neck?

Candles

So Last week I had a day off work and was planning on spending it relaxing and catching up onn some reading. After I got home from yoga :) I made some delicious dark chocolate brownies and added some chocolate chips to it. Yes it was one of those days when you just need to slip on some sweats and sit on the couch, hair in a bun, eating deliciously fatty foods and just be girly!!

Awe Nestle it was love at first sight. The ultimate in chocolate. I see you and I smile :)

I LOVE Brownies!!!! YES YES YES. Chocolate hot is like a sunny day at the beach!!

Well after the delicious brownies had cooled enough for consumption I changed into some comfy Yoga pants, grabbed a book and headed to my favorite spot on the couch for some serious relaxation.

So I just started reading this amazing book by Debby Pearl. I know im not married but its really something that would be good to read right now and better prepare yourself to be the wife and helper you were called to be. This is such an encouraging book. My friend Tabithats Mother loaned it to me to read. I would definately encourage you to read it. Especially if your married wether happily or not. It will transform your relationship!!!

Singles group?

Singles group?...Um did I hear you correctly? Excuse me while I put down my glass of water and try not to choke from sheer laughter. Me going to a single group? never would I of thought that but yes I did. Even now I shake my head. Okay so it wasnt like the five second sit down speed dating thing. I draw the line there. But this past sunday I visited a rather large church in Tualatin that happened to have a 20s 30 adult singles group aka bible study. At first I thought "Oh no not me. Im not walking in and being all.'Hi I need help finding a man so I am going to go in with a group of fellow "desperate" people and try and meet someone." lol At least that's how I looked at it. isnt everyone gonna be "casing the joint" rather than focusing on God? Or wont the people in there be single for good reason? not that im some grand catch but I just thought that's what all the wild people did was join the "singles" bible studies?
Well, shockingly enough my parents were encouraging me to go and I have been wanting tom get plugged into a small group with people gym age. Seriously were I work the only "men" or heck even people that come in are drug seeking, Vicodin popping freaks or people that look like there going to drop dead from the flu.....hmmmm not very appealing. And when im not working there im working out at a women's gym or home cooking or cleaning or hanging out with my pretty much all married girlfriends. The pool of single people including my dear girlfriends in shrinking and drying up. I feel like a tadpole that was once swimming freely in beautiful stream with all her friends, happy as a clam, and now im flopping in a sludgepuddle whilst all my friends have married a assumed the status of full grown frog.
So yes aside from that rather out there definition I am sure you get what I mean. If not then your prob married lol. so I decided I would at least try it once? what could it hurt right? So this past Sunday I went with my parents to church and after wandering around for like five minutes trying to find the singles room i finally came to it. And wouldn't you know but i was five minutes late and every single chair was taken. Oh and the room was really small so as I opened the door and stepped in half the people stopped talking and looked up..."um yeah hi im just gonna go shoot myself" Ever have those moments in your life when you just wanna scream and run. Well one table was nice enough to make room and of course as these things usually work out she started with "oh yeah so this week were not doing things how we normally do" Oh joy. but in all honesty as I sat there listening to everyone talk I realized this was a really great group of people. They all earnestly loved God and had a real desire to grow and serve him and reach out to the community. Nobody was (or at least most everyone) casing the joint or LOOKING DESPERATE. I was rather surprised it was just like a normal small group the only difference was that everyone in there was single. I found out from talking to one of the women after that they have a several small groups that meet during the week. So we shall see what happens with that. I loved the church though. The worship music absolutely thrilled me and the sermon was great!!! Cant wait till nest week :)