went to Austin this past weekend at the last minute and had a great time! nice to get away and kind of the last hurrah for my siblings and I to hang out before my brother moves to Alaska this summer.

Went to The Stone for church and it was great as always! Click on Cardboard stories to see the video they showed.

This is the meaning of the resurrection! Jesus really changes lives!

Cardboard Stories from The Austin Stone on Vimeo.

Things I’m not so fond of:

• Big Brother  seriously I hope julie chen is getting paid A LOT of money to host it.  how how how has it been on for ten seasons?!?!
• Toby Keith I know Sean and I go back and forth on this guy, and I’m sure his restaurants are very nice and he has an ardent support for our troops, but really?!  he’s just creepy to me, sorry babe.  you’re not creepy though! haha ;)
• those Pizza Hut commercials…”Would you like to try our chocolate, eh, dunker?”  We air those over and over again…I get it! I get it!  but they just drive me NUTS!!!  Just google “pizza hut commercial dunker” and there are refreshingly many forums that agree.
• this kind of fits, but if you happen to be looking for movers, don’t fill out some time of online application thingie.  I got more calls from random companies that if you google them get “ripoff alert” galore!!

Things I am fond of:

• The Clay Pit restaurant… and a great time with friends!  also, they do have non-Indian dishes too…
• Spending more great times with friends!  And non-chain lattes!
• New, scary, but exciting opportunities!
• This fantastic weather!  I’m not dying or dreading running in the heat the past few days.
• The new Coldplay album.  So good!!!  I keep playing it over and over again.
• FOOTBALL SEASON!  It just feels nice. 
• of course Sean, I’m kinda fond of you too.

For the blogland folks who read this, I have accepted a job with an “integrated marketing” company in Shreveport and I start 9/29!  It’s better hours, better pay, an interesting job and will allow me to somewhat have a life.  So I’m kinda nervous but excited!  If anyone knows anything about Shreveport, let me know!

so i rented a few movies this weekend, one was once. it’s an Irish movie about this singer songwriter guy, singing on the streets, etc.  meets a girl who enjoys the music, she’s a musician too and it’s the once in a lifetime chance to write and play together. sounds kind of sappy, i admit, but the guy is Glen Hansard, the lead singer of an Irish band called The Frames and the writer/director of the movie was in the band with him.  Glen and the girl, Marketa Irglova wrote the songs for the movie.  It’s just so passionate.  Not like a Hillary Duff movie or something when it’s a big name who is nervous but (surprise!) starts to sing well. Somewhere I read it was the best movie of last year that no one saw, now it’s on DVD.  The music is beautiful!!