REDBOX CRAZY!

Isn't Redbox just the greatest thing that has ever been invented? I don't know why it wasn't invented sooner! I must admit though, I was against it at first, just because of the fond memories of going to the video store as a child with the family. And sometimes it is hard to adjust to change, but adapting is surviving which is why I had to get used to this "Redbox."

It was hard to see the video stores closing one by one, but they refused to adapt so they had to pay the penalty. Blockbuster was the only smart one that came out with their own box that has been rather successful I am sure. I can't give all of the credit to Redbox for closing all those stores though, the major blow was Netflix. Oh how I love Netflix, for a small fee you are allowed to watch a gazillion movies and have them sent to your house as well! Who wouldn't love that? But when you want a movie right away and you don't want to just watch it on the computer or you just don't have internet(which was my case), Redbox is the way to go!

So for my Saturday "new" I had a true Redbox experience. My parents left me to watch the dogs yet again so I was stuck at my parent’s house Saturday night with no internet. Redbox here I come! I also had a couple promotion codes for 50 cents off of a Redbox movie. If you text "REDBOX" to 727272, they'll send you random promotions for a free redbox or other things:) Use it and abuse it people!

So I go to Redbox with the intent of just getting one, which would only be 50cent, but I decide to get another because then it'll only be a dollar 50. And then I get carried away. I walk away from Redbox with five movies. That's right people, five. I don't know why, I was just in a movie watching mood! But I was embarrassed if anyone saw me leaving with that many movies in my hands.

It was about ten in the p.m. when I started them, well maybe nine 30. Needless to say, I went to bed pretty late:) The first movie I don't even want to say the name, it was probably the most depressing movie of my life. At the end I just felt so empty inside. It was about how a couple fell in love and then got divorced. Seriously.

Then I watched Vanilla Sky, the one with Tom Cruise. It was pretty weird! It definitely got the wheels turning in my head. It had a good concept and good cast and was well put together. I recommend it. Get ready for the weirdness though!

Then I watched Roommates. Yeah, I fell asleep on this one but I had definitely seen enough anyways. I do not recommend this movie. It was weird and stupid.

The next day I finished it up with Step Up 3. It makes me want to dance so bad! The story line was pretty good but the dancing was amazing! The way these people were moving was just blowing my mind! They were all truly talented! So if you like dance movies, this one is good.

Now I did have one more movie, Stone, but my trusty beau Jacob told me not to watch it because it had a lot of bad stuff in it! Thanks for protecting my mind honey buns:)

Anyways, I really enjoyed this experience, I don't know if I'll do it again, but I enjoyed it! It was also embarrassing to return that many movies to the box the next day. Nothing beats a great movie night!

1 Samuel 6:11
And they put the ark of the LORD on the cart and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.

If you're having trouble adapting to the Redbox, watch this video and it will help you to understand it a little better:)

Coconut Water

Well my Friday night was a good one:) I hung out with my favorite Abby! And it was because of her that I found my "new"!

We were just shopping around, and she suggested TJ Max. We went in and started looking in the aisle with a lot of random stuff. The kind of stuff that you can't get around here like organic nut mix crap or fig bars(really nasty) or weird cookies, etc. Well, I had heard of this coconut water before, but you can only get it at specialty stores up north. Lucky me I stumbled upon it! It was in like a juice box type of thing and called something with a "K" but I forget. Anyways, it was pure coconut water, nothing added to it at all. I had to try! Everyone needs to try, even if you've never been trapped on an island.

Well I tried it. I'll probably never try it again unless I'm actually trapped on a deserted island, but as least I tried it. It was definitely pure! You could taste the gunk in it. I made everyone else try it too, they didn't like it either but they were all glad the tried it!

Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Well this was pretty random, but I agreed to it.

My best friend Audrey and I hadn't seen each other in a while because we both have been so busy, but we finally just started hanging out with each other again. So she invited me to go see this random play at this random school at a random time. But she knew a girl in it and the school was right next to our school, so it wasn't all that random, I just like to be dramatic sometimes:) But really, it was a little random, but I wanted to spend time with her so I went.

It was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They made that into a play? That's a little weird, but I suppose it should be good. I can always use a little more of the C.S. man in my life.

The play was good. It's what I had expected from a high school, you know how that goes:) But there was this one person that I thought was a boy the whole first act, and during intermission I was informed that I was in fact wrong. It blew my mind a little bit! She was the dwarf that was the queen's little right hand man and she was fat looking and had a beard, so I just assumed she was a guy! She played the part so well. She was all scratching herself and rough lookin, it was so weird how much of a guy she looked.

But my favorite parts of the play were before every scene, Audrey's friend would come out and do a little ballet dance thing and she was so good! So graceful and beautiful! I loved it. Overall the play was pretty good, a little awkward at points, but I really expected nothing less.

Oh! I also did another new! You know how people always are puttin up cones on the road because there’s "construction"(really they just park there junk there) going on and you can't get down that road? Don't you ever just wanna run over some cones? I know I do. So I did! It felt really good. Audrey didn't understand why I did it, but it just needed to be done. Someone has got to do it, if I hadn't someone else would have.


Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion’s cub;from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lionand as a lioness; who dares rouse him?

These guys knew it needed to be done.

Ready to be Insane!

Well today was the day I truly went insane! Meaning I started my workout Insanity today! And it truly was.

All it was today, was the fitness test so I can see how out of shape I am to begin with. Well let me just tell you, I was still sweating like none other. It was literally dripping off my body, and this was only the fitness test and not a real workout! Oh my, what am I getting myself into.

There were about 8 different exercises that I had to do, and you have to do as many reps of each as you can. The first one was switch kicks, then powers jacks, power knees, power jumps, globe jumps, suicide jumps, push-up jacks and low plank oblique. I didn't do too bad for my first time, I'm not terribly out of shape. But I have never sweat so much in my whole life. Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it really was just rollin off of me. And this was only the fit test! Great, I'm definitely in for it.

I am just so ready to get in shape! I am ready to go INSANE!

1 Samuel 21:13
So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.

Insanity and God

Don't be fooled by the title, I'm not calling God insane, although he is insanely amazing. I am merely combining my past two days of "news" because I didn't write yesterday, I was extremely tired and went to bed early.

Anyways, my "new" for yesterday was something I had gotten in the mail! Oh I just love getting things in the mail! Nothing beats good old fashion snail mail. Anywho, what I got in the mail was the product of a long awaited resolution on the part of EBay.

So as you know, I am really trying to get into shape for that Tough Mudder thing that I am doing, and I do very well when I have a video or something to tell me exactly what to do. So I decided to buy something. I had done P90X for a while and that was okay, but I wasn't positive about it. I had heard of this other workout called Insanity that was supposed to be really good too, plus you didn't need extra things either like weights or pull up bars or anything, which was a plus. The workouts are supposed to be shorter too which I liked because P90X workouts were always an hour long and they just get old and I would get tired of them.

So I decided the best decision would be to put my pennies together to buy Insanity for about 50 bucks. The name on eBay looked a little sketchy but I decided to buy from them anyways because they had a good rating and the lowest price. I guess no one really trusted them, but I decided to give them a chance. Well, I shouldn't have.

After I paid for it, they took it off eBay saying they didn't have it anymore and couldn't send it to me. What a bunch of big fat scammers! Now I had to open a case on eBay for them to refund me my money. Well they never contacted me and so I had to appeal the case to the next level. Great. I feel like I always have to deal with this kind of dumb stuff.

I checked the other day and eBay had sent me a message that they fixed everything and I would be getting a full refund! Well that was nice but I had still wanted Insanity, but I guess it was for the best. But when I got home that day, there it was! I was so excited and I opened it right away, but I had to go to work so I took it with me. I read the nutritional booklet there and I'm really excited about it! I'm so glad it decided to show up at my house! We shall see how I do!

My new for today was nice and very much needed. I spent more time then usual with God, and It was so nice. I'm going to be diving deeper into my devolutions and I'm excited!

There's a little schedule at the back of my Bible that gives me a plan to read through the Bible in a year. So here I go! I'm diving in, I'm going deep, in over my head I wanna be! (Going way back in the day on that one, thank you Steven Curtis Chapman)

Anyways, I want to have a good summer even though I'm working all the time and I get frustrated. But I am working on my attitude and it's going to be great summer! I'm going to figure things out for my next step in my life, I'm excited to see what God has to show me:)

Jeremiah 29:11 

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  

P.S. This is what I'll look like when I'm done;)

The Blue Stinkin Angels

Well I don't think Lynchburg was prepared for the amount of people coming to see these "Blue Angels." This town is just not big enough.

All week, all I heard was Blue Angels this and Blue Angels that. I got so sick of it. I was not planning on going to see the Blue Angels, mostly out of spite. And because I don't have any money.

Everyone just kept freaking out about them, I didn't get it. Well, today was the first show and I didn't go, but I could see them really well from my house, and I get it now. It was really exciting! I mean even on the way home while I was just driving and minding my own business, they flew right across the horizon in front of me, it was amazing!

I was standing outside looking up for a while, but then I decided to get on the roof! That sounded like a great idea because I wanted to get as close as possible. When I was trying to get out the window, I couldn't get the screen open so I thought and the house is getting demolished anyways so I decided not to think too hard about it and just break the screen open. It worked out pretty good.

When I got out there the roof was freakin hot! But! I was prepared with a towel to sit on. The show was so good! It was so weird just getting so excited about these planes doing tricks, I felt like a little kid. They got so close to me, that I could read what was on the planes! Now all I want to do is meet these Blue Angels! I want to tell them they all did a good job. It's the first they've been back in two years after a couple of them crashed and died. I guess that's another reason why it was such a big deal.

My favorite trick that I saw was how they all were in a circle, nose diving down straight to the ground and then they leveled out in all different directions. They're doing another show tomorrow, but I'm working so I can't go:/ I know it's so sad, at first I didn't care at all, but seeing them today changed everything. Oh well, I'd probably faint when I got there anyways like the 200 other people did today. And that's not an exaggeration. It was on the news. And another thing about our local news, for some really weird reason they decided the best people to interview for the air show story was two little boys and an old fat man that didn't have a shirt on. What the world? Why would think that they are the best candidates for a story like this? Weirdness.

So anyways, my “new” today was getting on my roof and watching the Blue Angels, even though I didn't technically see the real show, it was good. Maybe tomorrow my new will be meeting these nice young Blue Angels, who knows!

Just some of them, not too hard on the eyes;)

Psalm 91:11
For he will command his angels concerning youto guard you in all your ways.

Outsourced

This will just about ruin anyone's day. This "new" definitely ruined mine.

So I had this dumb bill that was literally from last summer that I had thought I had already taken care of, but apparently I had not. It was a card from the Gap. I don't even remember what I had gotten from there, all I knew was I owed them a lot more then what my clothes were worth. First off, I thought I had taken care of it in the store, but that was a big No. They are so tricky.

So for about a year it was accumulating late fees, the notices were sent to my parents house so I never took care of it. Well now it was up to the debt collectors to get me to pay now haha. So I endeavored on a journey to pay my bill and I have never been so frustrating with anything like this in my life.

I started out by calling Gap. The first two times I called I told my information to the machine thing and then they said everyone was busy and hung up on me. When I finally got a hold of someone I explained my situation and she said, "Okay, we have a different department handling this." So she transferred me. Then a guy answered and I gave him my information and he said a different people were taking care of it and he gave me the number to call. So I call this place and I had to give my information to another guy that I could barely understand! He couldn't understand me either. I kept telling him my social and he didn't know what I was saying! I mean really. If you're going to talk to the english, you've got to speak and understand it! I know I was speaking clearly too, because I always make it a point to talk slow and clear to these people anyways.

So after practically yelling my numbers to him he said he couldn't help me. Go figure. He gave me the number to this other place I had to call. Oh my word, I had such a headache. This was getting so ridiculous! Well anyways, I called this number and they transferred me yet again! And then I finally was talking to the guy who could help me. He was a foreign guy too. His name was Garnish or Garish or something like that. Anyways he told me I had a bill of $114 I had to pay. Well I told him my situation and how I was trying to get it lowered because I didn't know I had this bill and how I moved and stuff.
"Okay well because of your hardships you have to pay $96," he said.
"Well is there anything else I can do to try and lower it? Talk to anyone else to try and figure it out?" says I.
"Okay, Okay hold on let me talk to my manager."
I'm pretty sure he just put me on hold and waited there staring at it for a minute.
"Okay because of your hardships you can pay $85" he said. I felt like I was bartering with him.
"Um okay that's fine I guess," says I. But I didn't have any checks with me, so I would have to call him back a little later. I told him a time I would call but I was on my way to work and he called me instead. Very persistent. So I gave him all my information and everything was taken care of. Finally.

It's so frustrating trying to do all this kind of stuff, it's taught me my lesson of staying on top of things better that's for sure! Those outsource people make me so sad too, I wonder if they even like doing all that junk. They always sound like machines to me. The only thing that makes me feel a little better about it all is the show "Outsource", I hope they're all like that in real life:)

This was is what I imagine Garnish/Garish to look like:)

Genesis 23:4
"I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."