a google challenge...sort of...

Okay, so my "friend" Char (I don't really talk to her anymore, but I keep up with her blog, so she's more of a "friend" than a friend...) posted on her blog that if you have time, to go to Google and put in your name and the word needs....example: "Crystal needs" and than post the top ten results...here are my results...

1.) Welcome to Crystal Needs
2.) Crystal needs a park!
3.) Interlaken: Hotel Crystal Interlaken
4.) The Education Wonks: The Red Crystal Needs your Donations...
5.) Crystal Needs in Gems, Rocks, and Minerals
6.) Crystal
7.) BACCARAT Crystal discounted by upscalegallery
8.) Department of Children's Services
9.) Talkin' Broadway Review: Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays
10.) Crystal Holidays

Well, that was slightly pointless, but what can you do? It's done. Mrrmrr!
So, I don't have to cry, I found my other glove, it was between the seat and the door in my car. So lovely, I threw my hands up to God with a smile on my face. It caused quite the revelation last night, thinking about my missing glove. Knowing that the next day I was going to leave early and go on a "search and rescue" mission for my glove, knowing full well that I might never see it again. This may sound silly to you all, but I had an epiphany (sp?), I had bought a pair of extremely discounted Thinsulate gloves and had them in the car. I wore those when I found out I lost my other mitten. Hmm.. They didn't keep my fingers warm at all, they were so cold and uncomfortable and I was thinking about my mittens, so soft and amazing, you can sleep in them, they're that comfy. But I thought to myself, "Perhaps this is like a trade. I bought these when I really didn't need to and lost my other perfectly good mitten in the process." Kind of like you don't really know what you had til it's gone. But not only that, like the lost mitten, most things are gone forever. You've left them behind in search of something better, newer, and more "up-to-date." I have to tell you, these mittens have to be nearly 15 years old, no joke. They're so old. They were stored in a box of really old mittens/gloves that my family kept and I decided to keep them when we were cleaning out the house. But they're awesome. It's like marriages that don't last b/c someone couldn't see what they had and they went after something "newer, younger, and more 'up-to-date'", y'know? Than they find out they're in it worse than they had imagined and wish they could go back to the way things were. But they will never be the same. They can never be the same, even if you had remained put. Anyhow, no matter, this is what I thought about. I have it so good and so many things in my life are amazing and good. So why do we think we can get beyond amazing and good? I don't know. The insatiable want for more and bigger and better. The things we are fed everyday through TV, propaganda, going to the store, and even just the way you grow up, if your parents tried to keep up with the "Jone's" especially. Oh man. So, that's that. Not sure if this made any sense to you (I put that disclaimer on most of my epiphanies, don't I?) Oh well, don't really care, or maybe I do cause I wrote that. Hmm.
Anywho, God has just been so good to me, I walked home last night and sat in the road, staring into the sky and looking at the lake. I am in awe everytime I am outside. I never want to leave it. But I did that. I gave up again, I decided that if I made this decision to "lose" my glove, than I had to accept it, even though I was preparing to make arrangements to do all that I could. But is life sometimes accepting things the way they are, but still making all the effort you can until you know for sure that it's not gonna happen, be found, whatever? Not sure.
But I went home and made some supper and listened to Rob Bell's new book, "Velvet Elvis" on cd. So good. Than I read a bit of Bible, journaled, and did some homework. Took a really great shower and hopped in bed, not literally though. It was a good night's sleep. Today God really gave me a great day, I think everything went "my" way, if you know what I mean. It was a good day. It's like when God knows you've had all you can handle and though He's been blessing you all the while, you're ready for a little something-something. You know? Tomorrow is open skate night. I am pretty excited. Skating is a passion. If I could do it professionally, I probably wouldn't unless I could have fun while being really good at it. Besides the point. It has been snowing for awhile. I love it, if it weren't so cold I would stand out in it for hours and hours. I would lay in it and stare up at the sky forever. It's too bad I'm a realist as well as a dreamer. But I think I'm pretty good at balencing it out. I'm excited for the challenges that God has for me, even through all the "". Peace out friends. I love you all.