Storms.

Hello, friends!

Something that I've wanted to do for a long time is start a blog...so here I am, sitting in my basement with my brother's fat beagle Lucy during a thunderstorm warning. My background music is my youngest brother, Barrett playing ping-pong Forrest Gump style while my mom has the TV on "Ellen" because the weather channel keeps popping up with new warnings. Our power just went off and came back on. Anyway, I love thunderstorms. I feel like there is almost no greater showcase of God's splendor and might than powerful rain and beautiful lightning. (Barrett has now moved over to our terribly out-of-tune piano that my mom inherited and is playing a "rain song." Oh to be a little kid again.) While I am typing this, my fellow Beasley Beauties at SBU are without power. I just got a call from my RA to make sure that I was at home and accounted for.
Anyway, today has been a pretty good day. I woke up and went to my 8:00 class, Foundations of Middle School. Dr. Haun is my favorite professor this semester, which is good, because my roommate and I have him everyday at 8 am. He handed back our "History of the Middle School" papers today and I was excited, because he wrote that I had one of the strongest conclusions he had seen so far. Yay! (Inner people-pleaser coming out right now.) After that, I had "Oral Interpretation of Literature" which was just okay. Our professor had us read a piece of poetry aloud based around a man abusing and killing his wife. It also featured a couple of curse words, which I promptly replaced with the word "darn" when it came my time to read aloud. Awkward times. I then got to go home for the weekend early, because I had an appointment to get the stitches taken out of my lip. The doctor told me that everything was looking great and I more than likely won't have any scarring. Praise the Lord! Afterwards, my mom took me to lunch at one of our favorite places to go together, DiGiaCinto. We enjoyed a lovely lunch of chicken salad sandwiches and iced tea. Later this afternoon, I took both of my brothers to the batting cages, and then that leads us to the present.
Well, it seems as if the storm is lifting a little bit. I just got a text message from my boyfriend, Hayden who is currently traveling to Las Vegas for missions. He is at the Cadillac Graveyard in Texas and spray painted our initials on one of the cadillacs. What a sweetie.
I will leave this post at that. Thankful for the weekend and for the rain!

Until next time,

Jess