Monday, April 26, 2010

Paying the price to look Good!

This blog goes out to all of the women who have to be on their feet all day in HIGH HEELS. :o) I just want to tell you all.... I HAVE SO MUCH RESPECT! i recently got highered at a retail store where we have to look cute but chic, sexy but conservative, and HOT but classy. The clothes we are required to wear.... it is a must to wear heels. We are not necassarily required too, but there is no way around it with the outfits we have to put together. On top of that, the shoe cannot have anything going in between the toe. That rules out ALMOST ALL cute sandles. UGHHH

Well, since I have had this job... and I am not complaining (well kinda haha) because I love my job and I love fashion and I AM MAKING SOME MONEYYYYY.... but I have about 42 new blisters on both feet..... I grew up as a dancer so I had some scars anyway... but this is just too much. I can't take it... because my feet were ABOUT the ONLY thing I just LOVED about myself. I don't want to end up like one of those old ladies who have all of those nasty corns!!!! EWWWWWWW :P

If anyone has any advice on how to be able to stand 5 hours on your feet in heels and NOT GET blisters every time you work... that would be greatly appreciated! :)

PS....i am kinda starting to get used to the pain in the balls of my feet so they don't really hurt AS MUCH... but i need to fix the blister problem!

Monday, April 19, 2010

LISTEN...and be amazed!

So I will start with last night and then lead up to today...
Last night, I was feeling a little down and plus on top of that I felt like crap and so I thought I looked like crap! I started to get really insecure when I was looking at myself in the mirror. I couldn't stop thinking of things like "why can't i just be skinny??" "why can't I love myself??" "why can't I have whiter teeth??" "why can't I be more tan??" Then I started boohooin.... BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO BE HAPPY WITH WHAT I LOOK LIKE!!! I began praying for God to help me to love myself the way that He loves me... And to see myself the way that He sees me..... then..... when I closed my eyes and started thanking Him.... I HEARD HIM SAY.... 'WHEN I LOOK AT YOU..... I SEE BEAUTY!!!!!' it was such an amazing moment!!!!! It was the first time I have heard God like that!!!! Everyone always talks about how they heard God say something.... and i had always felt the nudges on my heart and I've always known certain thoughts were not mine.... BUT THIS.... was the first time I heard God say something to me!!!! ANDDDDDDD while I still worshipping and thanking God.... MY EYES WERE STILL CLOSED and this bright light started shining and I heard God speak to me again.... He SAID..... EVEN IN DARKNESS YOU WILL SEE MY LIGHT!!!

AHHHHHHHH I am just so AT A LOSS FOR WORDS!!! God truely is such an amazing experience and I knOWWWWW that I am nothing without Him! His spirit is with me every where I go... I don't have to be scared of anything... OR ANYONE!! ALL I HAVE TO DO is TRUST HIM! I am not going to lie.... trusting is such a hard thing to do ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS SOMETHING/SOMEONE YOU CAN'T SEE! But That is why its called faith... and LATELY I;ve been called to read my bible more than ever before!!!! AND HIS WORD is so much more faithful than any HUMAN mans! His word is the only thing that matters and THE ONLY WORDS THAT ARE TRUE!
This verse just got stuck in my head last night as I was getting to know MY JESUS.
2 timothy 3:16 says this: All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right.

It was so weird because I always hated reading and always thought " why do i need to read my bible if I have a relationship with God?" BUT THAT VERSE quickened me and Told me faster then I even thought the thought!

THE TRUTH IS..... that WE ALL FALL SHORT... we all have insecurities and EVERYDAY we all battle SOMETHING... whether it be drugs... a bad family life..a bad relationship...alcohol...insecurities..porn...school... being broke constantly...I DONT KNOW... but WE ALL STRUGGLE! I just wish that SOME PEOPLE would stop being stubborn or prideful! STOP THINKING THAT NOTHING CAN HELP WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH....AND WE ALL need to press on and pray for God to set us free of and deliver us from these worldly things. HE CAN AND HE WILL. The POINT GOD WANTS US TO GET when we go through these things... when we start falling out of control of our lives and of ourselves is that HE IS IN CONTROL... not us! He wants you to call out to Him when you are having those nasty thoughts that the enemy brings to your mind. He WANTS TO TELL YOU HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE and He wants to tell you all of the plans He has for you! :) Its pretty wild when you get to know The Lord more and more... Its almost unbelievable STILL that there is so much love He gives and no matter how bad you mess up... He's always going to be there with open arms!

SO ANY WAYS... I could just talk about the Lord forever!! lol
But anyyyways this morning when I got up, i completely had no idea I had to work.... I just wanted to go to the doctor and figure out what the heck is wrong with me!!!!!!! UGHHH Well as I am pulling up to the doctor I see my work schedule and realize HOLY MOLY I AM SUPPOSED TO BE AT WORK RIGHT NOW..... welp... so i start tryin to call work and for about 30 minutes I tried to get ahold of someone... no ones answered... So i wait...... because I know that someone is bound to call me when I don't show up. I am waiting for my prescription to be filled when Caroline calls! BLESS HER HEART... I would have hated me If I were in her position. "I have the flu... i can't come into work." Ohhh she sounded like she was so mad... and I FELT TERRIBLE!!! She said ok let me see if I can find somone. So about 15 minutes later she calls me RIGHT as I was leaving the doc and asked me if I could go ahead and come in because she can't get anyone to come in! ANd I had too to go anyways because my heart just felt so terrible for putting her in that kinda position! I feltttt like CRAP but I felt like crap for doing that to her! LUCKILY caroline is an awesome woman and had someone come in early for me so I could leave!! Thank the Lord because my voice is half gone and I hate listening to myself talk... my throat is killing me.. and this cough HAS GOT TO GO!!!!!!!

I have small groups tonight and I really want to go.... and I know I;m sick but I am going to cover myself with antibacterial stuff!!!

Saturday, April 17, 2010

FACEBOOK


TOdaY has just been a day filled with BLAHHHHHHH. For the last 3 days I have just felt like a hot mess!!! Not to mention that today was the A-day game... and I missed it!!!! This was the first time in 3 years that I've missed it :( Oh well.... tuscaloosa I'm sure didn't miss me too much! This morning I woke Up with no voice, my neck was swolen, my body hurt, my throat hurt, and i was sweatin' bullets!!!!! ughhhh so I had to call into work too because I just could not hardly move from my bed. I finally just started to feel A LITTLE bit better around 11:45 PM tonight.

I have been taking Nyquil until I can get to the doctor on monday. Hopefully its nothin too serious!!

I also have decided in the last week to delete my facebook. It's just something I know I need to do. It distracts me from the things I need to be focused on... Like the Lord, school, and work. I always seem to find information on facebook that upsets me or irritates me and I know that God would rather me be reading WHAT HE HAS TO SAY rather than what the people on facebook have to say. That being said.....I'm getting so serious with my relationship with the Lord. He truely has blessed me with amazing talents. I just pray for the courage to do what He calls me to do and for the strength to speak to the people He wants me to speak too.

There are days when I think, there HAS TO BE something bigger He wants me to do. Its like I'm ready for the next part of my life to come on already. Ha That is me being impatient. I THINK I AM READY but clearly God is not ready for me to step into the next season of my life. I gotta keep taking the steps to get to that point God wants me.... and deleting facebook is one of those steps.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Problems from the past

So today.... my x bf sent me a message on facebook.... which is stupid that it bothers me because he is something I have let go of... I have blocked him on my phone... I HAD him blocked on fb just to make it easier not to check up on him... then I unblocked him and i don't know why it still bothers me.... its not that I still want to be with him... Its the fact that.. everything we had... He just dropped me... wanted nothing to do with me.... and I didn't know what I did.... so i was wondering what the heck did I do to this boy to make Him not even want to be friends with me?
All he said in the fb message was basically how are you? I wanted to check to see you was!
and stupid me..... said miss you! but I do miss him! But its not like the miss him like i used to miss him... I miss him as a friend and in a friendly way... we always felt so comfortable around each other and goofed off and laughed alot! YET, he didn't know how to have a serious conversation without getting offensive or he just wouldnt talk about anything serious at all!

Which brings me to the question.... why can't he just leave me alone for about 6 months.....I would be fine if he would just leave me alone long enough to where when he does send me a message it doesn't get to me... I can't figure out why it gets to me though.... maybe its because its alway on HIS TIME.... if I send him a message just to check on him AS A FRIEND and try to start up the friendship... the friendship is a no go and I NEVER get a message back from him...nor does he answer or return phone calls! BUT when he messages me, I'm always on top of sending him a message back!
I don't have a problem with wanting to be with him anymore... because I want to be with a man of God who loves the Lord more than he loves himself...I had that soul tie broken... and I KNOW THAT GOD HaS SOMEONE MORE COMPATIBLE for me.... I guess my problem is that I just want to be friends with someone who obviously doesn't want to be friends with me! Which is fine... because number one... I am a great friend to have so its his loss and number 2... he was the one bringing me down and making me feel bad in the first place!

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

STUPID insecurities

I love all of my friends to death! They all are special, unique, and beautiful in their own way. Today, I found myself being very insecure around them. I know that GOD says I am fearfully and wonderfully made. He tells me over and over again how beautiful I am and how loved I am..... but for some reason... I barely believe it myself. I WILL SAY, I have gotten alot better about believing it, but it is just certain things that bring up my insecurities.
I try and try and try to keep my mind focused on MY RELATIONSHIP with the Lord. Then, I get around people who seem to be more focused on a relationship with another person, or constantly talk about a boy that they like or a boy who likes them. Then, I find myself wondering, well "why doesn't a boy like me?" THEN, is when my insecurities come flying in my face and I start asking myself, am i not pretty? is my personality not good enough? am I not skinny enough? Its so stupid to me and I hate that those questions even enter my thoughts! But it is the truth..... When I see girls who are totally cute and pretty talking about guys all the time, it makes me wonder, why not me?
Then, I start blaming the guys. For being so visual. For not taking the time, TO GETTING TO KNOW ALL THE GIRLS! The skinny ones, the bigger ones, the beautiful ones, the ones who are simple, the quiet ones who are shy in front of other people. It starts to make me mad when there are girls like me who have great personalities and love the lord but no one will take the time to reallllllllllllyy get to knoW us. They don't take the time To know how funny and goofy I am. Sometimes, I think my perrsonality is what makes my looks even better.
ALL of this makes me mad, because I DO LOVE THE LORD, which is why it bothers me so much that I even start thinking any of this. If we all Love the Lord so much, and want a relationship with him, why are we constantly worried about what other people think? or if a guy likes us? or a girl likes us? Why do we have these insecurities!? Boy crazy girls who claim to love the lord, just make me so mad sometimes. These are beautiful girls who ALWAYS have a different boy in every conversation that comes up! It makes me mad, because I do so good with myself until a boys name comes into the conversation. I DON"T even WANT TO THINK ABOUT BOYS right now. OBVIOUSLY, some of us are single because that is the way that God wants it right now.. I believe we are going to be single until we fulfill Gods plan for us in the season we are in right now. THEN, he will send us someone. I just wish other girls would understand that. I also believe that, if your focus is on a guy all the time and not completely on the Lord, he's not gonna bless you with the perfect man because your not focused on THE MAIN MAN.
Girls like that, for some reason, bring me down and make me start thinking about stupid things. Then, secretly, in my mind, I start getting mad that they are so focused on a boy and not the Lord. I don't say anything, because I feel its not really my place to say anything... But it quietly makes me not want to hang out with girls who are so boy crazy that it makes me start to think about boys.... it makes me lose my focus on the Lord and I don't like how I feel when I am with girls who are boy crazy!
I don't get it... I dont understand it...... its just there. Maybe I am just completely abnormal.

TIM MCGRAW concert

This weekend so so absolutely amazing!!! We went to gulf shores to see the Tim Mcgraw concert! Tim Mcgraw has to be the best concert giver EVER! LOL We got to sit in the lower section and that was the closest I have ever been to a famous person. LOL LadY Antebellem was the opening Act, and I kinda snuck up front and got to touch Charles Kelley's hand! And got a couple of really REALLY great close up pictures! And THen TIM MCGRAW came out, and I have never in my life seen a man that sexy! haha That is really bad of me to say, but goodness gracious he is fine! hE PLAyed ALL the good songs that everyone knows! EXCEPT, I was really sad he didn't play Indian Outlaw... That is one of my most favorite songs by him! :) hehe
We went and ate oysters before the concert at a Place called shuckers, it was extremely yummy... if anyone is ever in orange beach, AL you should check it out!

Saturday, April 10, 2010

TIGER, you are not cool in my book!

I am so sick of hearing about Tiger Woods..... UGHHHHHh I don't care how good he has at golf.... I don't like him.. still! I just can never look at him the same way ever again! He was percieved as a Family man and a loving husband! HA The entire time he was cheatin and playin and beIN DIRTY and MESSy! Its men like him who give all men a bad name! Its so hard to believe any man... actually its hard to believe ANYONE (girl or guy)
But erywhere i turn.... I am hearing about tiger woods! I am just tired of it.... honestly.... he's not hot anymore, and i hope he loses his magic touch with the PUt PUt stick! I'm sorry, but no ONE will go unpunished for their wrong doing... and I don't think he has been punished enough! Losing your wife and kid FOR A LITTLE WHILE and going to sex rehab.... IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH! ok.... I'm off my soap box now! lol

LEaVING FoR GULF SHOReS.... NOW! :) i'll post pictures as soon as i get back!

HA i'm Addicted

hehe I've been at this for hours now... It is so interesting and i am still trying to figure everything out!!!! I've been browsing, and some people must have played and played with this website! I have seen some really nifty things and heard people talk about some really crazy things! LOL I LOVE IT THOUGH!! You can see and read about peoples lives from all over the place!!!

I am so tired, but I am just having so much fun with this thing! PLUSSS I am excited! i am going to the beach tomorrow! :) But its not just any beach trip... I am going to gulf Shores for the Tim MCGRAW and LADY Antebellem concert!!!! YAY!! I haven't been to a concert in way too long! It's gonna be so legit!!!! Tim Mcgraw is fine as it gets and so is the male singer of lady antebellem. haha

Friday, April 9, 2010

ONLY bY HiS GRACE

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OK.... this is my very first blog.. so here it goes

My name is Jessica and I feel like blogging is an outlet and a way to share experiences. I believe it is also a way to get things off of your chest. I am open to anyones opinions and advice if you have any.
I recently rededicated my life to the Lord, and I have not been the same since. He has changed every part of my life. He gave me a new heart, a new life, new friends, new perspective, and new understanding. I am so thankful to My God for giving me a second chance. He is my main man, and nothing can get in the way of my relationship with him. I can say from the bottom of my heart... it is ONLY BY HIS GRACE that I am where I am today. WHich is a great place :)
Psalm 116:2 I will call on him as long as I live.

I am 23 and currently a student at The University of Alabama ( BTW i hate school) where I have majored in everything under the sun!!!! UGH.... I have majored in business, elementary education, nursing, social psychology, fashion retail, AND now my final decision.... is General Human Environmental Sciences... Which is basically another way to explain.. IMMA BE DONE WITH SCHOOL FASTER! haha

I am single and enjoying every minute of it. I know that I am single right now because it is Gods will. Every day I am learning more and more about myself. God is working in my life and in my heart right now, because He knows that before I can be in a relationship with anyone other than Him... I've got alot of things to accomplish. I've been hurt and hurt and more hurt in the past.... and it took me a long time to finally trust God with everything I have, which is why He has SO MUCH work to do in me. My focus belongs to Him right now, and He has promised me THE MAN OF MY DREAMS WHO IS COMPLETELY HEAVEN SENT, AS LONG as I stay faithful to Him each day, and my focus remains on him.

I adore children and I PRAYYY that I will be blessed with beautiful babies one day.
I Am a happy person and I love to laugh! I usually laugh at myself more then anything! lol I love going to the movies... Scary movies and funny movies are my favorite. I love to eat SUSHI!!! I am a pretty simple person and it doesn't take much to make me happy. I love the outdoors* FishIng, HuntINg, CampinG, and I really really want MY OWN 4wheeler!! I'm a country girl but I grew up dancing and being a pageant girl! I love getting dressed up but at the same time I love getting down in the muD! I really want to have a farm one day. With horses and cows and pigs and goats. I wants acres for miles! I loVE LoVE LoVE shoes and the little money i have i usually am shopping with it! :)

One day, when I'm rich of course, I want to travel the world. I want to see everything!!!!! I want to see the other cultures and how people live.... I want to see the beautiful land God created!!!

MOSTLY, I want to touch people's lives.

Right now, my favorite verse is Philippians 3:13-14 But one thing I do: FORGETTING what is behind me and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the prize for which God has called me to Heaven in Christ Jesus.