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tomorrow evening is going to be one of the craziest nights of my life! big stuff happening, big stuff! photos to come as soon as possible. you will NOT want to miss it!!!!!! (for the small amount of people who knows the events of tomorrow evening, hush hush!!? i’m just trying to build some suspense!!!

call me opinionated. call me critical. either way, i love providing thoughts on whatever. movies. make up. blogs.

despite all the fake “make money while doing practically nothing” ads out there, it’s nice to find something that’s actually legit. at least i think so. i read about this thing called ReviewMe on spitbox. it’s a site that solicits advertisers to find bloggers to review their products. to kick it off, ReviewMe offers new reviewers a pre-determined amount of money (based on technorati rankings) for reveiwing their own site.

simple and clean, it’s easy to sign up to be a reviewer. you can add up to six of your blogs, you create a description, and let advertisers come to you. my blog is worth $60 to an advertiser. ReviewMe takes a steep 50% cut, but honestly, i don’t mind. any extra money is welcome in my bank account. even if it is only $30. you get notified you have a review opportunity, you write a 200 word review and post it on your blog. the check (or paypal) follows.

the only thing i don’t like about ReviewMe is their logo. it’s honestly a little cheesy. it’s kinda mickey mouse looking, and i find that oddly disturbing. nonetheless, it seems like a pretty easy way to make some extra cash, try some new products and write!

(the above was a paid review. they make me say that!)*

although it is a grand 85 degrees outside today, i have been in the christmas spirit this week.? i’ve had a record three peppermint mochas (two of which were free), we are starting to get christmas stuff ready up at work, and the twinkle of christmas lights has been slowly but steadily filling the night sky.

i am so excited to be back in dallas this christmas.? one, it’s warm.? two, there are a million ways to get your fill of the holidays.? besides the obvious things, like more time with family and friends, below is a list of some of my favorite christmas past-times which i’m looking forward to this season.

-Volunteering at the Neiman Marcus Children’s Parade
-Caroling at Hotel Adolphus (We listen, The Church of the Incarnation performs)
–Peppermint Mochas
-Christmas lights in Highland Park & Interlochen

What are yours?

“I have something to tell you. I didn’t vote.”

“What?”

“In the last mayoral election, when Rudy Giuliani was running against Ruth Messinger, I went to get a manicure and forgot to vote.”

“Since when do you get manicures?”

so, it’s inevitable. with the whole ted haggard scandal, the cynics are hammering out some hate for evangelicals. this group of cynics also includes some of my friends and acquaintances, and being the “strategic” person i am, i start planning how conversations with these people might go.

instantly, my mind goes to the “it’s christians like that who give other christians a bad name” and “i’m not that kind of christian” and then i realize…

i AM that kind of christian.

since becoming a believer, i have lied. i have stolen. i have used god’s name in vain. i have dishonored my parents. i have looked at porn. i have abused alcohol and other mind altering substances. i have thought lustful thoughts and have done lustful things. i have neglected my relationships and put ministry and career first. i have been bitter. jealous. materialistic. i have been unforgiving.

yet i am scandalously forgiven by a provocative father who loves me.

so, mr. haggard, i don’t know you. and you don’t know me. but at least on this little piece of cyberspace, i am standing right with you.

i am that kind of christian.

No, not those kinds of runs. The good kind. I am not a trendy person, but it seems like more and more people I know in real life or virtually are running these days. Danielle is a girl whose blog I’ve been reading for a while, as she has been training for a marathon, our teaching pastor Wes is running his first marathon soon, today was the NY marathon. I’m feeling a little inspired to start running.

In middle & high school, I was actually really athletic. I outran all of the guys in my middle school (there was one other girl who was faster than me), and I played basketball, ran track, played tennis. Now almost 10 years out of high school, my muscles have given in to the real world, and it’s my own fault for not making effort in keeping them up.

I’m still not quite ready to hit the gym hard. My incisions are still sore (the muscle & tissue that was cut through) and my surgeon said that would be the case for a month or so. I figure I’ll take another down week and maybe start jogging a little bit next week. I think I’ll train to do something small first, like a 5 or 10K fun run for charity. But any tips any of you have for getting my formerly athletic butt off the couch and back into my sweet pink and grey New Balances would be appreciated!

A little white house
It’s everything we dreamed about
I wanted you to know
I’m hanging up my ego

(OLP)