blast from the past

i pick one HECK of a day to travel... yay for terrorist plots when i'm flying. homeland security was on orange alert and on red alert for international travel. but i made it to NJ fine...can't wait to go back to bama on friday i'm pretty sure i have to be at the airport 3 hours ahead of time...AKA 4am, when philly airport is 2 hours away...it's gonna be a fun night

on a happier note, i had an amazing day today with a great friend/exboyfriend. i had a philly cheese steak IN philly, while it poured down rain... good times good times

i plan on spending a lot of time at the beach...relaxing and soaking up the sun and that amazing jersey ocean...it's gorgeous up here (well sometimes) but hey, it's home

and the stroll down memory lane continues...

peace that passes understanding

Lord you know my heart, and all my desires
and the secret things, I'll never tell, Lord you know them well.
Though i may be young, i see and understand that at times like sheep we go astray, and things get out of hand.

So i promise to be true to you. To live my life in purity, as unto you.
Waiting for the day when i hear you say, "here is the one i have created just for you"

until then oh Lord, I will be content. Knowing that true love will come some day, and it will only come from you.
Cause i have seen the suffering that loneliness can cause. When we choose to give our love away, without a righteous cause.

So i promise to be true to you. To live my life in purity as unto you.
Waiting for the day when i hear you say, "here is the one i have created just for you"

"I Promise" - Jaci Valasquez

procrastinator's R US

well, copeland totally called me out about not blogging (but only after i got him) and i was sitting on the couch looking for things to do other than study so i figured i'd go for a blog... so just to warn you in advance it will probably bore you....

so let's see...what's happened since my last post...probably a lot but i won't recount it all cause it was probably just studying for MCAT - which i haven't really done much this week and i'm starting to worry a little cause the test is april 22nd so 21 more days! and right now Casey is scolding me that this is my last chance and i have to do well haha...but he's right i really do need to get motivated...

so this past week was spring break for just about everyone...technically i don't get a spring break but that's ok cause i feel like i'm on a permanent break (also not good for motivating) but so Miles and i got to hang out A LOT this week. He came up here saturday then sunday morning we went to Jasper to go to his church and hang out with his family...we had so much fun! then monday we came back to madison and did absolutely nothing for 3 days straight haha it was awesome! i love being able to spend every minute with him! and now that he's not here it's a little strange . but thursday morning he left cause i had to go to work - i have a new job working at the business office at Huntsville Hospital... my first full time job yay it's kinda boring but oh well...i need the money

alrighty well i REALLY need to go do some studying since it IS saturday and i have all day and tomorrow i'm going to Jasper so i probably won't get much done...

"More than words...is all you have to do to make it real. And you wouldn't have to say...that you love me... cause i'd already know!" - Extreme

what a night!

God above all the world in motion, God above all my hopes and fears, i don't care what the world throws at me now... It's gonna be alright!
Hear the sound of the generations, making loud our freedom song, all in all that the world would know your name... It's gonna be alright!
Cause i know my God saved the day! and i know his word never fails! and i know my God made a way for me! Salvation is here!
Salvation is here! Salvation is here and it lives in me! Salvation is here! cause you are alive and you live in me! Salvation is here! Salvation is here and it lives in me! salvation is here! Jesus is alive and he lives in me!
Cause i know my God saved the day! and i know his word never fails! and i know my God made a way for me! It's gonna be alright!

(Salvation is here - Kristian Stanfill)


Walk towards me. I wanna hear the heavens singing over you. When you breathe and look at me i want to be captured by you
Gaze into my eyes and let me know you'd fight thousands for my love
Slip your hand in mine. Ask me to dance with you tonight...just ask me for my love
I want to hide what's deep in my eyes. I'm scared to be known by you. But when i turn my head and see you there i wanna be pursued!
Gaze into my eyes and let me know you'd fight thousands for my love.
Slip your hand in mine ask me to dance with you tonight...just ask me for my love
I dream I would wake from a story that would never end
The ground your feet walk on... let me be there!

(For my love - Bethany Dillon)

i think those two songs accurately describe my night tonight...it's all about love and trust...they go hand in hand with an indescribable end result

a revelation

1 cup of coffee + 1 cup of coffee = 1 very hyper Lauren...and slightly ADD might i add

first week back

Well there ya go...everyone who's been waiting on pictures from Chile...there's a couple. (scroll down to view) I realized after i got back that i didn't really take that many pictures...but i guess that's cause i wasn't enjoying myself and didn't think to take pictures...i did take a lot of pictures of the mountains cause they were AMAZING! maybe i'll add a couple more a little later...

so right now i'm watching the UAB/UK game and we're losing...it should be over by the time i post...but hopefully the tables will have turned by then!

So i had a GREAT week this week...tuesday i went to the ham to make my appeal and check on my scholarship and everything has now been completely resolved. By monday i should have 3 wonderful W's (everyone's dream) and therefore a complete waste of my spring semester cause i got 0 credit and my scholarship had to pay for it...BUT as long as i take 10 hours this summer i will keep my scholarship for my last year of school which is a HUGE relief! so i'm home free for my last year of undergrad - something that's weird to think about...i only have one year left and i'll have a friggin college degree!

ok the game's getting intense it's 64-67 with 19 sec to go!

so yeah tuesday i surprised miles at work which i thought would be funny but i guess he didn't think so... so it was kinda an unemotional reunion which was a little upsetting to me the day didn't get much better as i had to wait around all afternoon then all through dinner and a movie he seemed rather distant, not saying much... but afterwards we drove around a little bit and got to talking and got down to what was bothering him... it was a great, much needed conversation and the night ended well after all Wednesday i went with miles and his brother jack to Jasper to hang out with his mom, eat dinner (pork chops and the works to go with them...yum!) and go to their wednesday night service at church...it was AMAZING! i was really just in awe the whole time of how much their church family is "of one accord" they're so real with each other, not holding anything back and just letting God run things... something that really doesn't happen in most churches nowadays... so wednesday was a great turn from tuesday... thursday was great too! i went to lunch with meghan (i'm trying to convince her to get an apartment with me next year...so everyone get on my side haha) then looked around for an apartment, got my classes cancelled, went out to eat with Miles, worship at BCM, then we went to see V for Vendetta - which was really good, i highly reccommend it... and then i started my wonderfully long drive home ...it was a little difficult staying awake but a little Eve 6 on volume 30 did the trick OH YEAH...and bekah let me stay with her while i was in B'ham which was so great! we don't get to see each other very often but when we do it's always fun times and i'm so thankful that she's a part of my life...whenever i need her she's there for me, and i just hope that i can do the same for her

today was rather uneventful til about 430... i've finally made my MCAT study schedule and it does not look like too much fun... but i'm gonna do it. cause i have to. and i have nothing better to do or study for oh yeah so at 430 miles showed up! we just sat around and watched a movie... then switched to the game, but we had fun! (which goes without saying)

a HUGE fire at some important government building in Chile 

my beautiful bedroom... it was SO big :) 

Me, Marie, and Jessica (from Japan and Australia) 

Some cool exchange students from Norway, Wisconsin, Austria, and Australia respectively 

the Andes...as seen from my window! 

back in the swing of things

Alrighty, well i'm finally getting settled in here at home in Madison...it's kinda weird living back with my parents after being gone for 3 years straight. my mom called the house today just to "check on me" and i was like mom you wouldn't be calling if i was living in birmingham! haha i don't think it'll be too bad...we'll see

So i've had to change a lot of things now that i'm not finishing out this semester... like now i can take the MCAT in April instead of waiting til August which was the plan, but that's good cause right now i don't have class so i can focus on studying just for that. Also, i'm gonna have to take summer school...it's looking like one spanish class and two biology classes FUN

tomorrow i'll be in Birmingham (YAY) cause i have to make an academic appeal about getting administratively withdrawn from my classes for this semester...i'm hoping i can get my scholarship back and maybe use it for the summer classes but of course knowing UAB it probably won't happen but one can hope

so i finally get to see Miles tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so excited...still haven't seen him since i've been back! so YAY for that Even though i'm back in the state...i still live an hour and half away for awhile but hopefully we'll be free to drive and see each other often :)

i applied for a job at Bath and Body Works today haha YAY for retail jobs! i've never done it before but my friends Linc and Stephanie work there and they're hiring so i figured i'd go for it cause it should be fun! and it's only for 3months or even less.

spending the night at Bekah's tomorrow night! YAY i love her bunches and UAB choir recording session Wednesday! i'm in for two amazingly great days! here goes...