Happy New Years!

Wow it's 2014. That is crazy, 10 years ago in 2004 I graduated high school. That 10 year number is pretty scary to me. At least the nice thing is that I do feel like I've accomplished a lot in my 10 years and the only thing I think I truly regret is not studying abroad one semester in college. If this was my 5 year post from 2004, I would probably say I regret not staying in contact with some people. I now know that some people just go in and out of your life, it's not a bad thing it just happens. I just am someone who would prefer 4 quarters over 100 pennies.

Something that has changed a lot from high school is that I haven't been reading as much, mainly because I treated my high school as one big blow off class...which it was super easy. Due to this in 2012 I made a resolution to read 30 books that year and I did. In 2013, I read 33. So in 2014 I think I'm going to try for 34 books. So that is my loose resolution and my super serious ones are to eat more cheese and watch more Netflix. :)

So the first book I read was Half the Church by Carolyn Custis James. It was  good and I ended up just staying up all night to finish it. I love the viewpoint she held about who women are in the sight of God, we are ezar- warrior, strength. I also enjoyed that she talked about women with the global mindset, not just it's all about sad poor white women in the suburbs, which is something I  run into when reading other books from Christian women. I did think some of her random encouragement was eye-rolling, I enjoyed how she dived in and told Ruth and Naomi's story. One thing I found really odd and distracting was how much she talked and most likely based this book off another book she read: Half the Sky. I haven't read this, so maybe I'll put it on my list. With that I will leave you with 2 of my favorite quotes from the book:

"Instead of addressing the wide range of questions and situations women are facing today, we focus mainly on marriage and motherhood, and that within a two-parent, single-income family."

 "A message that points to the marriage alter as the starting gate of God's calling for women leaves us with nothing to tell them except that God's purpose for then is not here and now, but somewhere down the road"

**rereading my summary makes me realize I suck at summarizing books, hah. It's ok, I'll know what I mean. ** 

In other news tomorrow I'm going to this restaurant for: Drag Yourself to Brunch  Which is brunch and a drag show, it should be hilariously amazing.