Go Read Callie's Blog!

As most of you know, my friend Callie has been blogging about her life with brain cancer for the past year. In her most recent post, she links to two other blogs: one belongs to a Holocaust and cancer survivor and the other to a college friend who had a massive stroke. Take a minute to visit Callie's post and check out the links. I just spent an hour catching up on Katherine's story.

It will make you grateful, I promise.

Sad Times

It's been a rough two weeks for the Academy faculty.

One of our special education teacher's sisters passed away last Monday. She was 36 years old with 8 children. Last Wednesday, a married teacher couple lost one of their extremely premature twin girls. On Friday, my friend Lisa's sister passed away unexpectedly after a routine surgery. She was 41 years old with 5 kids. Then, over the weekend, a family member of our principal's secretary was killed by her husband who then shot himself. Wow.

The campus is not dealing very well. Morale was already low, and these recent tragedies have pushed us to the breaking point. Please pray for me and my school family! Pray especially that my words will be His words, and that they will speak life and hope in the face of death and loss.

Thank you.

#8 - Work at Sonic

Close enough:

#7 - Buy A Newer Vehicle

I actually checked this one off way back in August. Deanna went with me to help haggle for my new 2010 Honda CR-V. Thanks, Deanna, for being my photographer! :)

Here it is loaded down for the very first time! I helped Deanna transport all of her new classroom stuff to school.

Right before school started, I drove the Accord home to Mississippi one last time where I sold it to my father.

He was gracious enough to let me have one more moment with my Accord to say goodbye. You were good to me, Accord! I really do miss you!

Yeah, yeah...

I haven't posted in a WHILE! In my defense, though, I have been crossing things off my "26 Things" list. :) I will update about those later in the week. Tomorrow, I will be spending $979 on a root canal at 7:30 in the a.m. This is my plea for your prayers, as I am super nervous.

Please, please, PLEASE pray for me between 7:30 and 11:00 tomorrow! You're the best.

All my love,

Kristy

#15 - Indoor Rock Climbing

 

My former student Jasmine helped me cross this one off my list last week. We went to Exposure Indoor Rock Climbing in Carrollton and had a blast for about two hours! We took turns climbing and belaying, so we were always busy and burning calories. A few websites I checked out claim that you can burn up to 700 calories an hour while rock climbing indoors. We had so much fun! I will definitely be heading back with the roomies - hopefully before school starts! :)

#13 - Double My Savings

Check!

The arrival of my "First Time Homeowner" tax credit effectively doubled my savings. Sadly, I must post this now before I deplete my savings to make #7 happen.