Snorting

Sometimes I snort when I laugh. Don’t make fun of me. Everyone does it. Just today I was laughing hysterically and was trying to be discreet about it. I managed to keep my mouth shut, my face got red, and I started sweating. People were gawking at me, causing me to cower in the corner and further deprive myself of oxygen.
Keeping your mouth closed while laughing is like committing silent-laugh suicide. Once you close your mouth, you have two options. You can re-open your mouth and make a squealing noise like you are starving for air, or you can keep your mouth shut and breathe through your nose. Snorts will follow.
Snorting can be embarrassing because of the accepted norms in our society. The typical description of a lady does not include say, “She is a great cook and an excellent snorter.” Instead, it usually talks about her giggling or “delicate laughter”. I believe the books on etiquette need to be rewritten in order to correct this flaw. Every balanced woman needs to have a sense of humor, and therefore must snort at least a few times in her life.
The snort must be a full fledged, unforced, natural snort. Laugh. Let your face get red. Temporarily suffocate yourself and then simply inhale, because a life void of snorting is no life at all. Live, laugh, snort.

today i am free

Today rivaled some of the best days of my college career.
during every semester i have visited the business office at least once per week to give mr. blumer (one of my favorite people on campus) candy that i have taken from other offices on campus. i decided that if i cant pay my school bill - i might as well give him what i do have access to!
today, however, i waltzed into the business office with a check for the rest of my school bill. my grandpa shepherd knew i was financially drained for the semester. i had prayed and prayed and prayed all semester - but didnt tell my grandpa. bob informed me of grandpa's desire to be a blessing last week and i got the his check on saturday. reality didnt hit until mrs. mckee said "okay. you're all set." what a blessing!
today, i smiled at mr. blumer and i left the business office.
tomorrow i will snap back to the reality of classes, but today... today i am free.

Quick Post

Quick post:
I'm overloaded.
I'm Cell-phoneless.
I'm behind in my school work.
I'm broke.
I'm depraved...and yet GOD is STILL good to me!

I'm learning to depend only on Him.
I'm learning discernment.
I'm changing to be more Christlike (slowly, but surely!)
I'm learning that God's mercy is more than i will ever fully understand.


For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18