pictures.

i really need to take more pictures. this is my senior year of college, a time that will not be repeated in my life, and i am not documenting it hardly at all.

on another note, i have finally decided what i am doing for spring break. julianne and i are going to california and minnesota. my home state and her home state. we will be in california for 5 days then fly to minnesota for 5 days before returning for classes. i'm really looking forward to it, because i get to go home and go to a state i've never been to before. it's going to be fantastic. i can't wait!

i think i'm going to go take pictures. or maybe a shower. tough one.
- corrie

craig.

dr. craig boyd spoke today in chapel, and it was amazing. dr. boyd (or craig as he told us to call him throughout this week) is a former gc prof and graduated from here sometime in the 1980's. a couple of years ago he took a position at azusa pacific so when i came here i only heard his name and didn't know who he was. i wish that i could have taken a course from him while he was here.

he is here speaking all week for christian life week, and i'm looking forward to attending every chapel from here on out. this morning he spoke on love, the topic that one of his new books is on aswell. he said so many things that i can hardly remember any of them. the the two that stuck were: 1. love is all that matters. it is first and second, the most important. and 2. love and do what you will. i believe that the second was said by st. augustine, but i may be wrong on the saint. anyway, it was a great message, and i am sure that the subsequent ones will be also.

love. just love.
- corrie

sports.

today was my first indoor track meet of the year. i could have gone last weekend, but chose to take one last weekend off before the season hit full swing. i didn't do too bad today, but nothing fantastic either. my first throw ended up being my best throw of the night. it was 41' 3.75". not too bad, but not great either. i've been consistenly throwing further in practice. all of my throws had good parts to them, but i wasn't able to put everything together to get a great throw off. i managed to have speed on some, and lift on others, but never at the same time. one day it will all click. overall i felt good about the day, and am qualified for christian indoor nationals.

on a different sports note, i've decided that i want to watch more, and learn more about hockey. why? i don't know. i've always loved hockey movies (see miracle - in my top 5 all time movies), but never really watched any actual games. so i'm doing that now. well i was. i just wated the st. louis blues lose 6-3 to the nashville predators. it was a good game, and i plan to watch more when time allows. on tuesday the blues play the minnesota wild, so i may watch that. we'll see. so far i like what i see.

well, i'm exhausted from my day today, and i think that i'm going to go to bed. it's early i know, but i'm dead. hopefully tomorrow is a good day.

three months to my 22nd birthday. crazy.
- corrie

current thoughts.

i love the snow. i do. when i woke up sunday morning it had snowed overnight, and left 4 inches of the beautiful stuff on the ground. the next couple of days were great, i didn't fall and had fun tromping through it. here is what i don't like: when the weather warms up, and the snow starts to melt. at this point everything turns to mush. my house doesn't have a direct sidewalk leading to it, which poses a problem when the hill is slick, and the side is all mud. lovely. most of the snow from sunday has melted away, and the ground is beginning to dry out, thankfully. hope it snows again soon.

also, i'm finding myself watching more mtv recently than i have in the last few years. right now i'm watching the real world denver. some of it is hillarious and drama is always amusing with cameras around. another show that i've been watching recently is miami fever. it's like laguna beach and the hills, but on maui. for some reason i like it better than both of those other shows. amusing stuff.

well, i've got to do some reading and then go to practice. after that we get to take ice baths. brrr. i'd rather walk around in mush, but i'll deal.
- corrie

flurries.

tonight i walked home from college ave in the light falling of snow, and some flakes got caught on my lashes. it was beautiful.

my appreciation & love of snow grows each time that it falls, even a little. it is so beautiful. it makes me want to stay around it more and more.

i dislike the transition between warm and cold weather, but once it's cold, i like it that way. again, it makes me not want to leave it.

i'm not sure what i'm going to do after i graduate, but one day i'll figure it out. and you know... if i'm going to go somewhere new, and different, this is the time to do it right?

thoughts on cold weather, my love for snow, and future life.

we'll see about it all.
- corrie

only 9:47.

it's only 9:47pm and i am beat. i'm more ready for bed now than i think i've been in quite a while. why do i feel this way? one word: practice.

now with practice comes many things aside from throwing. there is the warm-up, whatever drills coach has us do, team meetings, and lifting. aside from throwing itself lifting is the biggest drain on energy. tonight was the first time that i've lifted since the end of last season. that's about 8 months of zero lifting. i forgot just how hard it was, and the soreness that goes along with it. now, i'm not sore yet, but i know that when i wake up in the morning i will be, and i'm not looking forward to that.

well, now that you get the idea of how tired i am, i'm going to go now. i think i'll watch a little tv, or part of a movie or something, then i'm going to bed.

rest up!
- corrie

new year.

it's 2007. in case you didn't know.

i'm looking forward to this year. why? because i will be graduating college. other than that i honestly don't know what else will be happening. well, i do know that i'll turn 22, and probably celebrate a few holidays, but aside from those things that happen every year i'm not sure. actually, i will also be in my first wedding. that will be fun.

in review, while my christmas break wasn't all that i thought it would be (with a small number of homemade meals being the least of things), i really enjoyed being at home. i hadn't entirely, to be honest, wanted to go home, but once i was there it was so nice. and while i am enjoying being back and having the whole room/tv all to my self, i think that it would still be better to be at home. i will make the best out of this next 4 and a half months, and enjoy as much of it as i can (which will probably be when i'm not in classes or at practice).

so i'm sitting here watching commentary of the office "booze cruise" and enjoying myself. i'm actually getting really tired, and am thinking that as soon as this episode is over i'm going to go to bed. yay for classes (kind of, at least i find the civil war interesting, even if homework isn't), and yay for bedtime. (note: i slept better last night than i did for the last week all together.)

happy new year (a few days late).
- corrie