Got Aloha?

To Ma Collie

2008-03-01T11:45:00.000-08:00

Hey you! thanks for keeping up with me, sorri i haven't been able to do much updating. all i have time for most of the time is posting pics on facebook. Here are some for you tho... i love you so.

We cleaned windows the other day... and got to wear JEANS!!!

Liz me and Bella having some fun

Emily and me sneeked into the cosmotology room and had a field day with all the heads.

Me and Fhally at the zoo

This is one i took of Noelle while home on my Christmas break

EQUIP 22 Left to Right and Top to Bottom:
Kendra, Emily, Alison, Me Hannah, Jessica
Faith, Autumn, Mary, Sara, Rachael, Bella

My LIT team, Me, Fhallon (the LIT) and Mary

Our team went to the zoo!

Sara, Emily, Heather, Faith and me!

So yeah, thats not even scratching the surface of the adventures we have here. Oh! I am going to be coming home here pretty soon... like early april... for good. so ... yeah. i'll be albe to talk to you soon!
Please pray for me, i'm gonna be goin in to character suite pretty soon with a new LIT so, just that God would be at work in my life, and her life and Mary and Bella too (i'll be in with them)
Love you beautiful, and pray for you whenever i think of you. :*

To Collie

2008-01-19T14:56:00.000-08:00

It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend:
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you:

Elphaba

The last few days

2008-01-10T14:20:00.000-08:00

Okay. So i was sick. Like really sick. Like go to the doctor and take drugs sick. I had to stay in my room for 3 days. I couldn't sleep too well 'cause my throat was swollen up so my day see sawed between trying to sleep and emailing... well that is until the internet went out at like 3am or something and stayed out until today (3days... the whole time i was in my room). That was a bummer. :'(
Buuuuttt, it gave me the idea to work on discovering the potential of my new macbook whom i have christened nicholas. So now i have a 15 minute (well, unfinished anyway) slideshow of EQUIP training pictures.
Oh! and on top of that, I'm gonna (prolly) be getting an LIT in the next week... who's got some serious issues, so i hear. So thaaaats interesting. But i'm just glad to be better. I never realized what a blessing it is to be able to swallow!
Aaaaanyway, Sometimes i just miss home. Sometimes a lot. I am up here on 13th with my cool friend and life is so good. So so good. And my dad said he wanted to have a long conversation with me sometime so that makes me really happy.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Phl 4:11

Lovin that verse.

Well, time for curfew. God keep you. I love you.
.:Laurie:.

So Love is Blue

2008-01-04T13:25:00.000-08:00

Okay. Here's the update! We just had leaders meeting and, as i predicted, everyone is switching rooms. Emily is moving off of Fhallons team and Mary and Bella are going to be her leaders. Only news of one new LIT coming in the near future and chances are that she will be moving in with ME!!!!

That means I will be in CHARACTER SUITE!!!
The cool thing is that i already live in a C.S. room so i won't have to move. Plus Lydia is going to be moving in with me and she is totally the bomb.
Whoever is praying for me, thank you. Thank you so much. It is way easier than i thought it would be to get my head ready for C.s. I thought i would be.... well, i still might go crazy. C.S. is when you stay in a two room suite with an LIT and one other leader (lydia) for at LEAST two weeks. One of the leaders gets to go down an get food at every meal but other than that you are pretty much stuck.
GAaaaahhh!
I am gonna get cabin fever! So if anyone has time, letters over the next few weeks would prolly save my life. REALLY.

Wow. Vacation flew by so fast i hardly had time to blink and now it all feels like a dream.

*sighs* well, its almost time for dinner.
I get the room to my self for 5 days. Thats cool. Wish i had a cell phone tho.... =/

2007-12-19T19:57:00.000-08:00

Hey i love you Megan. I love you so so much.
Sorry i don't have time to really update cause ma roomie wants back on her comp but i'll talk to you in 3DAYS!

Thanks for the encouragement. I love you!

ps cn you tell me how things go up there?
I mean normal everyday funny stuff like... did you go to panda today?
i'd give my right arm for some panda rightnow...

hey beautiful

2007-12-16T07:35:00.000-08:00

Hey! I don't know if you got my emails but i tried to write you after i got all your coments. Girl! you have no idea how good it is to hear from you! I tried calling but couldn't make the phone here talk to your phone so... :'(
I also couldn't read your comments 'cause of the int connection. but thats better now.
Life here is good. plenty of ups and downs but i have gotten used to that. we are doin this challenge thing where you have to come up with a picture for each of the 12 days fo christmas, memorize isaiah 9 6-7, keep room perfectly clean (which with 3 roomies is a tall order) and do something nice for one of the families on staff.
We have most of it done but still have the pics to do. the przize is an outing (big big deal to get out of here).
One of my friends left on thursday and thats... idon't know. im not sad all the time but last night i sat in the hall by myself and cried. i hate losing friends. 'specially 'cause she's not commin back. (that was Kat, my crazy friend)
I have been learning alot and will prolly be alot different when i get home even though i don't feel a whole terribly lot different. Just maybe easier to get along with ;).
Do you have a blog? I really miss hearing from you and how you are doin... and since you can't have email? maybe we could keep in touch this way.

I appreciate so SO much your comments EVERY DAY on my blog! you have no idea what its like to know someone (who can-i kno c. prolly would) cares enough to do that.
i love you so much megan. and i am prayin for you.
got a letter from noni 2 days ago and have been tryin to find the time to write back. made my week to get a letter! Anyhow, its time for church, we got "snowed in" (not that we normaly go out...) so we couldn't go to church but we are meeting in the auditorium at 11.
The sno is beautiful and i wish you were here. you should totally totally come and i'm not even kidding.
Love you much beautiful.
talk to you soon!

7DAYS!!!!!

Love Laurie

Angel in the outfield....

2007-12-01T13:51:00.000-08:00

Okay. I am borrowing my room mates computer.
Everything is going so good! Today i was mary in this skit for like a C.I. kinda thing. it was soo so fun! I don't really know what to write...

Well, training is long over thank goodness. Now i have lots of free time 'cause i don't have an lit anymore. My friend Emily is with Fhallon now and they don't get along very well. (which is good 'cause she will grow alot more with Em than with me.) But... i miss them... and i miss emily too 'cause i don't see here anymore....
oh, for pics look for her on my facebook....
i can't get on my profile 'cause of stupid character link. :P

So don't worry about me.... I am prayin for you....
and i love you....
dis is weird.

ONLY 22 DAYS LEFT !!!!!!

Have a mahvelous day dahling!

Love Laurie

updated

2007-11-10T06:44:00.000-08:00

hey. man is it good to feel these keys! haven't been on a comp in 8 weeks.
tomorrow is promotion and then comes freedom. but today at 1 is the big test. not looking forword to that. wow.
well, been missin everyone at home an awful lot. had a mountain dew for breakfast so am a little wired... they don't serve breakfast on the weekend here... kinda a bummer. brunch is in 1 minute though...

I wish i could say all i want to say... i miss you...

more later... soon as promotion is over... got some good stories to tell.
getting dizzy... prolly better go.

The Old Days

2007-08-14T07:04:00.000-07:00

Wow, time has pulled a fast one on us.

ma dawgs

2007-08-13T17:17:00.000-07:00

I am leaving in 33 days and when i get back, these two are going to get married and have kids and one will be my dog whom i intend to name joe.

and my address while i'm away shall be:

Lauren Fuller
c/o Indianapolis Training Center – Equip
2820 N Meridian St.
Indianapolis, IN 46208

feel free to write as i will prolly be homesick and desperate for news from home. I would be eternally grateful.

decisions

2007-08-09T09:41:00.001-07:00

That was it then. No going back now. He held no deep concerns that he might have made the wrong choice. That was how he made all of his biggest decisions: He went with his gut and never looked back.
~Ethan Cooke
-Fearless, by Ted Dekker-

Soccer Team and the Ultimate Redneck Family

2007-07-31T06:38:00.000-07:00

(the dog is Duke Macias)

(im in the red shirt on the right)

Good Advice

2007-07-26T07:03:00.000-07:00

Warning

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandlas, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Jenny Joseph

Eight Rules for A Healthy Relationship
(from The Red Hat Club by Haywood Smith
1: Do Over
Any one, at any time, can ask for a fresh start and get it: change of subject change of attitude. No mattter how bad they may have screwed things up (in which case immediate apologies are in order) NO grudges allowed.

2: No Lies
we must be able to trust each other for the truth. But that doesn't mean we have to tell everything we know, especially if it would betray a confidence or cause senseless hurt. Thus, if one of us askes a question better left unanswered, we are obligated not to tell what we know. In such instances, "i'm sorry. I really couldn't say," is the preferred phrasing. So if one of us doesn't really want to hear how those new white slacks look from behind, she shouldn't ask, or she's liable to hear, "i'm sorry, i really couldn't say." Which is ouch enough.

4: No Telling
Never, Ever, Ever will we rat out one of the group. Our shared secrets are to be kept secret. We do not pass them on. The penalties for breaking this tradition are immediate banishment from the group and eternal damnation featuring perpetual freezing feet and zero-carb diet.

5: Girls First
(or each other first, i adapted this from a book about a ladies' club)
No one, including buddies mothers, brothers, sons, fathers, daughters, bosses or pals, shall come between us.

6: No Beating Ourselves or Each Other up when we Blow it.
The second part is fairly easy. The first part is hard, hard, hard, since it seems to be our curse to feel responsible for everything that happens.

7: No "I Told You So's"
Simple to say, but maybe our biggest challenge to obey. This extends beyond words to gestures and facial expressions. Infractions are punishable by having to pick up the tab for the entire table or take everybody to whatever movie the victim wants to see, at the victim's choice.

8: The Subject of Weight will Never be Mentioned or even Implied
"my body, my choice" means no pointed looks when fried foods, junk foods, heavy sauces, second desserts, or alcoholic beverages are consumed or abstained from in our presence. We are not responsible for what any of the others chooses to put into their body. Our obligation extends only to taking the car keys if its drugs or alcohol. But as an extension to that, those of us who've let ourselves go are banned from whining about tight clothes, or obsessing about diets. Bor-ring

Guess Who!

2007-07-24T15:02:00.001-07:00

l2r
Grace and Leah are in front, I'm holding Hannah, then there's Luke, Caleb and Aaron.

Tim, Me, Luke, Aaron and Caleb (l2r in that order)

The one and only one man bomb squad.

The Yarn Princess

2007-07-24T14:49:00.000-07:00

"good mothers wear polka dots, and have rose bushes, and use big words."
-the yarn princess

I've never seen a film that made me cry so hard.

“Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.” -

2007-07-24T07:19:00.000-07:00

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.”
Christopher Robin to Pooh

Thanks James!

2007-07-17T15:49:00.000-07:00

James, the fire fighter let Megan and me take pictures with engine one at the bulverde volunteer fire department. It was the highlight of our photoshoot day.

when in washington

2007-07-15T18:01:00.000-07:00

how do you describe perfection?

paradise

2007-07-15T17:59:00.001-07:00

megan and i went whale watching with her family on her uncle's yacht. it was the perfect place to curl up and catch a cat nap. the sunshine was terribly luring.

breakfast at tiffany's

2007-07-15T17:50:00.000-07:00

"I LOVE YOU, LULA MAE. "
"I know, IT'S A MISTAKE YOU ALWAYS MADE-- TRYING TO LOVE A WILD THING. YOU WERE ALWAYS LUGGING HOME WILD THINGS-- A HAWK WITH A BROKEN WING, A FULL-GROWN WILDCAT WITH A BROKEN LEG... REMEMBER? YOU MUSTN'T GIVE YOUR HEART TO A WILD THING. THE MORE YOU DO, THE STRONGER THEY GET UNTIL THEY'RE STRONG ENOUGHTO FLY INTO A TREE, THEN TO HIGHER TREES,THEN TO THE SKY."

my friend- life is good

2007-05-23T14:03:00.000-07:00