Reverse – Tedashii feat. Andy Mineo

Panera Bread in a Tornado, anyone?

So yesterday I had the pleasure of hanging out with my friend Branden Lane. He lives in Tipp City (far away, right?), is learning how to be a welder (interesting, right?) and he abosolutely loves Jesus. He’s passionate about Leadership (a group at his chuch in which he leads a small group with younger guys) and worship and Christian rap music. As we drove around yesterday from place to place, we worshipped to everything from Hillsong United to Andy Mineo to Lecrae to Elevation Worship. It was awesome.

First we got Panera. We were inturrupted by a huge storm. First the power went off, plunging us into darkness right in the middle of our dinner. We paused for a minute, looking around. Then we went right back into our conversation as though nothing had happened. We casually chatted about the probability that we would survive to see tomorrow as the wind buffeted trees outside the restaurant to almost a horizontal position. People attempted to leave, but they were soon ushered back inside by the insane winds. We looked out into the Dayton Mall parking lot and saw swirling winds near the ground. I was freaking out, but Branden was pretty relaxed in the face of death so I too was calmed.

After the winds settled, and the rain downpoured for a good 20 minutes.

Then we escaped, back onto the roads. The rest of the night we spent going from place to place, eventually ending up at my friend Ian Wright’s house to watch Mean Girls. I hadn’t seen the whole thing until yesterday.

It was so dumb. Yet so….endearing.

Darn you, Lindsey Lohan.

Romantic Musings

I love that feeling of potential. Do you understand what I mean? That beautiful border line between friendship and romance where things are free to be whatever they want to be, no obligations or worries. I’m certainly not promoting the “friends with benefits” idea, I simply just enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of mutual liking that is the fine line between a friendship and a romance. I could actually set up camp and just live on that line. For the rest of my life.

Romance is too scary for me right now. Every time I think I’m ready for it, I just end up running away screaming. Most of the time it’s because I’m scared. Every time romance rears her beautiful head I end up being so scared of what might come I just run away, heading for the hills, hoping she won’t find me again but secretly hoping she actually does so I can stop being so scared.

I’m not mature enough to be in a relationship. I am still in the process of growing and everytime I try to rush that process God always slows me down and kind of whispers that the time isn’t here yet. That I have to wait, because his special someone is coming. Just a little bit longer, he says.

Soon, he says.

My Day at Chick-fil-a

first day at chick-fil-a! hey, that rhymes!

so today was my first day at Chick-fil-a.

I experienced every kind of nervousness possible for a new recruit. i panicked that i was supposed to report at 6 AM instead of 6 PM  (like I thought I was supposed to). i worried that my black wrinkle-resistant twill pants with inside back pockets would somehow still be incorrect. i wondered if my purple hair would peek through and if corporate would stop in and yell at my small little rebellion against conformity.

in the end, all my worries were dispelled. i walked in, sat next to my other newly hired friend, and with my nervous style of joking, i made small talk as we waited to be shown a video about food safety. as the video began, my friend and I (my friend who has a very complicated, unique name that I haven’t quite grasped yet) made jokes about the absurdity of some of the rules (wearing 3 layers of gloves to clean up body fluids) and making sure you washed your hands twice when you went to the restroom. after a mere hour and ten minutes, blissfully, it ended, and we proceeded to get the other half of our uniforms on – the signature maroon “team member” shirts and my very own namebadge. Then we really got to training. We were re-introduced to where everything was located around the kitchen, which was filled with people cooking food, washing dishes, cutting up chicken, and making salads. it was a noisy and friendly bustle of people going about their assignments. i tried frantically to remember all the things Robin, my supervisor, was telling me. Okay, lift up the lemonade and put it into the dispenser when I see it’s getting low. Always ask the customer for the kind of sauces they want, or you’ll hold up the kitchen people. Make sure you use the red cleaning supplies for front line. Say “My pleasure”. Always ask “Dine in or carry out?”

Probably the coolest part of the night was meeting my dear friend Julie Moser’s cousin Kayla, who works at Chick-fil-a as well. She asked my name in the middle of showing me how to make coffee and when I answered “Angela!” she exclaimed, “I’m Julie Moser’s cousin!” We talked about Josh and Julie and Southbrook Christian Church and by the end of the conversation I realized I already had made a friend.

I’m pretty sure I caught a good 30% of everything Robin told me. so much information crammed into my brain…can’t….think….what…is…my…name?

can’t wait to work tomorrow!

“For we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him”

– Romans 8:28

i’m up too late

my family is sleeping around me. yet i’m awake. i’m sitting on the warm comforter on my bed covered with a flower pattern, eating trailmix, and staring absentmindedly at the computer screen. i don’t even know if i have a soul right now. all i know is that it’s tough to feel very much this late at night. or in the morning I should say?

last night i spent the night at Mariah’s house. we went shopping today and i got extremely irritated by a woman at kohl’s that displayed such poor customer service and was so extremely rude that i was prompted to call the manger and complain for the first time in my life. it was that bad. on the plus side, i came home with two armfuls of bargain clothing mined from all over the town – thrift stores, department store sales, etc. looks like this girl will be fully-clothed at Cedarville!

then i went to bible study for the first time in forever. it was actually really awesome tonight. we talked about proverbs and the wisdom it encases. that solomon sure knew a lot. Proverbs 14:30 says: “A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones”. i envy way too much, and when i do, i realize too late that my soul is disappearing with my longing to be like someone else. i need to be content. i need to be at peace.

blessings.

Hey!

hello wordpress world. this is a strange and unfamilar universe I find myself in.

My name is Angela. I’m an insignificant combination of spunk and passion.

One day I’m going to do great things.