happy monday y'all ↟↡ 10 facts about me

Ok guys...so I was in a blogging blah. So my absolutely awesome sis looked up blogging ideas for me while she was doing homework. Well, here goes nothing. :)

1. I haven't brushed my hair in years......dudes for real. I have such curly hair than once when I twisted (yes this was a stupid idea) a comb in it and I got it seriously stuck. Eventually *imagine sweat, blood and tears* I was able to get it out after a while....long while. Now, I pretty much just finger comb. I pretty much scream if someone tries to brush my hair. Another reason why I haven't been to get my hair cut in about 7 years. 
2. My favorite color is green. Anybody who lives where there is snow knows exactly what I am talking about. It's so refreshing and there are soooo many shades you can have. Even my room is green. Plus my friend told me today that I look good in green. yay! 
3. I play 6 instruments. Yup yup!! My main instrument is viola (I have chair tests today for the Youth Symphony I am in) and then I dabble in violin, piano, guitar, flute, alto sax, and I say I less than dabble in harp (my sis plays). 
4. I am terrified of roller coasters....not even joking. But for some reason I still go. I will be sitting there through the whole ride not making a sound and definitely not raising my hands. Are you crazy??? Everyone else is yelling and laughing and looking like their having fun in the pictures afterwards. I, however, look like I am in a invisible straight jacket and my face is plastered in a sort of grimace.  
5. I only want boys when I get married. My mom says I am crazy. I know I am crazy. But I still want boys. If God gives me girls I won't complain. And all my kids are all going to have Hebrew names. *pounds the gavel*
6. Escargot and calamari are officially DISGUSTING!!! Who had the brilliant idea to take an animal out of a shell and fry it?....need I say more. And no I didn't want to try the snail. I have an uncle who likes to eat anything that moves basically. That means I have also had turtle, duck, venison, quail eggs (those were so nasty my cousin gagged) 
7. I absolutely adore kids with special needs!! They melt my heart. Seeing a smile from them is like sunshine on the gloomiest of days. I'm actually looking to be an OTA (Occupational Therapy Assistant). I would help people with special needs and some without (stroke patients and such) fine motor skills like tying your shoes and using a spoon. 
8. I actually don't really enjoy reading. The book literally has to drag me into it. Books like Les Miserables, Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, don't capture me. The list keeps going. I enjoy Biographies and any story based off of any war. Does that sound weird?
9. I have mopped the ceiling....ok guys!! This was when I was 9? I think 8 almost 9. Definitely old enough to know better. As a punishment I was put on drying duty for the rest of the month...which meant the legs of your jeans were sopping by the end. Just punishment I admit...*sigh* did I mention we were selling our house at the time? I also accidentally got silly putty stuck in the master bedrooms carpet. I didn't mean to. I swear. 
10. I am not competitive and I don't really like games. Yeah I know. Party pooper. I'm sorta the oddball in our family. My mom has flipped the board and my brother has kicked the board (I was actually playing a game with him cuz he asked). My older sister, my dad, my four younger brothers, my mom are all soooooo competitive. And they wonder why I don't want to play? Cuz they are all trying to beat the snot out of the person they are up against! My dad's monopoly condos cost more money to land on than I have owned in my life. Risk is a game of kill-otherwise-you-will-be-slowly-squeezed-for-five-days-straight. The game of Sorry the pieces go flying with a little oops sorry floating behind it. 

There are 10 facts (and slightly more) about me!! My hand is cramping from typing this all out an iPod (thanks Beks) because the internet isn't working on the computer. 

What color is your hair? What's your favorite color? Do you play any instruments? Do you like roller coasters? Boys or girls? How many kids? Weirdest food you've eaten? What's your favorite book? What is the weirdest thing you have done? Competitive? Do you like games?

The one who waits ↠ Daniel 12:12

       I am at a season of my life where I am waiting. and waiting. Sometimes it bothers me. Most of the time it doesn't. I am just working and helping and teaching while waiting to see where God points me in my short life on this eath. And I don't mind. Here is a devotional that I read over and over that speaks to me in this time of my life. 

↠ Waiting may seem like an easy thing to do, but it is a discipline that a Christian soldier does not learn without years of training. Marching and drills are much easier for God's warriors than standing still. 

There are times of indecision and confusion, when even the most willing person, who eagerly desires to serve the Lord, does not know what direction to take. So what should you do when you find yourself in this situation? Should you allow yourself to be overcome with despair? Should you turn back in cowardice or in fear or rush ahead in ignorance?

No, you should simply wait--but wait in prayer. Call upon God and plead your case before Him, telling Him of your difficulty and reminding Him of His promise to help.

Wait in faith. Express your unwavering confidence in Him. And believe that even if He keeps you waiting until midnight, He will come at the right time to fulfill His vision for you.

Wait in quiet patience. Never complain about what you believe to be the cause of your problems, as the children of Israel did against Moses. Accept your situation exactly as it is and then simply place it with your whole heart into the hand of your covenant God ↞

Wait, patiently wait, 

God is never late;

Your budding plans are in Your Father's holding,

And only wait His grand divine unfolding.

Then wait, wait, 

Patiently wait. 

Trust, hopefully trust, 

That God will adjust

Your tangled life; and from its dark concealings,

Will bring His will, in all its bright revealings.

Then trust, trust,

Hopefully trust.

Rest, peacefully rest, 

On your Savior's breast;

Breathe in His ear your sacred high ambition,

 And He will bring it forth in blest fruition.

Then rest, rest,

Peacefully rest.

Mercy A. Gladwin