Monday Night Blogging. . .

Long day at work today. We were pretty busy and my mind was occuppied with about a billion different thoughts, so I really pretty much lost it and struggled through. Didn't do much after work. Took a nap. Made myself some vegetable medley thing. Spent a few hours looking for hotels in the Wisonsin area. Did my devotions. Took a long walk. Watched the finale of "For Love or Money" (horribly intriguing). Now I'm here. Sigh. It was about as interesting to live as it probably was to read :)

But, hold on! All is not lost here! I actually got a couple pieces of great news today. The first is that Brandon put the application in for our new apartment and got approved!! So I'm going to try and check it out after work one day this week and it looks like we'll probably be moving in about a month to a much nicer apartment in an area that's not only better and cleaner, but also closer to my parents, my gym, my movies, and a nice coffee shop. So, that was good.

Even better, though, was that I finally was able to get in touch with an old friend I have missed dearly for over a year! See, my friend Katie moved to Chicago a few years back. We were really close, probably almost best friends. But after she moved, I lost her number. And my grandma, who she knows from church, gave me a number that kept saying it was disconnected. I never heard back from her e-mail address. But, since I would be in the Chicago vicinity this weekend, I figured I would call my grandma to see if she had an updated number so I could give it another chance and see if she wanted to catch up. Lo and behold, this number worked. Unfortunately, I just got her voicemail, but hopefully I'll hear back from her. She was so much fun to be around. I really miss her.

I wish I had the energy to write something a bit deeper here today. It's not that there aren't thoughts going through my brain. There are. And I've been wrestling with deep thoughts, questions, and emotions all day. In fact, getting to the end of the day feels kind of like I'm collapsing across a finish line after being chased for all these hours. I've worried about bills, fretted about finding a cheap hotel for the weekend, worried about how uncomfortable I would be to just stay with Erin's friends this weekend, was elated to be in touch with an old friend, caught up in wonder at Christ's obedience in life, mourned over my sins, asked God to walk me through prayer because I didn't have the motivation to pray, worried about being single--is everyone's fault because they haven't seen that I'm a good guy or is it my fault that I never open my mouth out of any fear? Ugh. Lots of questions. Few answers. So now I'm going to go to sleep. God's mercies are new in the morning. So I'll look forward to that.

C-Dubbs