Hats off to Brotherly Love

Today was one of those days that was tiring and wears on you fast.  Kevin and I got a good amount of work done, and I feel somewhat satisfied with our accomplishments, but our moods were never lifted by the excitement of something great.  In addition, I see many daunting tasks on the horizon, that I am hoping I can make go away.  All the worries of the day start to combine and create stress. 

I'm stressed, but I don't have a lot of things due at this very moment in time, so I was talking to Ryan, in Kentucky.  We talked for a little less than an hour and a half.  What an encouraging experience!  We discussed struggles, caught up, and just had a good time.  He was an amazing encouragement to me.  At the end, we prayed for each other.  My mind was far from wanting to pray a heartfelt prayer after such an exhausting day, but for some reason, the things I said were the most sincere things I have said in a while.  I really didn't want to stop praying either; it was a great time of a united friendship coming before the Lord and worshipping Him.  Praise God for allowing us to worship Him, for saving us, and for giving us a desire to pursue holiness and love him more.  That makes today a good day. 

Awesome Business Goals - www.SearchHomesABQ.com

Kevin and I are growing our business like mad.  We love selling real estate.  We are trying to build our website's google ratings right now.  Within 6 months, we hope to be high on the list. We want to be the top of Homes Albuquerque, Albuquerque real estate, Real Estate Albuquerque new mexico, real estate Albuquerque nm, Homes for Sale in Albuquerque and more.  Go check out the site - www.SearchHomesABQ.com

If there is any kind of real estate help we can offer you, please call!

Thanks

Presentations

It will become obvious at around 10:15 tomorrow morning that either I am a mastermind at getting things done at the last minute or that I never prepared for my presentations.  After printing a few wiki articles, I am calling it a night and switching to my greater passion - creating marketing material.  I love designing the next postcard, brochure, sticker, or magnet.  So - see you later schoolwork - I'm doing really work today. 

Today was a really great day.  I love taking Sundays to just contemplate, live in the country, and pretend that the real world doesn't exist.  It was definitely one of those days.  Thank God.  I'm looking forward to some great lunch meetings and times with people.  I pray that I would love the Lord more this week, and work hard for His glory.  This week will be fun, but tough.  Until next time.

Productivity on the rise

So I'm at Parish Memorial. I just finished a few more things on my list - an Operations Management quiz, reading up on IRS changes, finding a good fish sauce recipe, checking facebook, and looking into a Theatre Minor.

I'm excited because I just added up all of my remaining coursework in Anderson plus the extra courses I want to take (Hotel and Restaurant Mangement, International Entrepreneurship, etc.) and I found out that I can get my minor in Theatre as well as finish everything else in exactly 4 more semester. I was ahead by one semester, but I decided that it is worth getting the minor to stay one more semester!! Isn't that great?! As far as I can tell, I shouldn't have to take any summer classes or stay past May 2012, but I can get everything done that I want to do!

I'm off to home now to clean out my car, make some lunches, and plan out my next goal to conquer.

I just love productivity!!

Energy

I'm running full throttle right now. Between getting class assignments done, making things for friends, answering emails, taking phone calls, and talking to colleagues, my energy seems to increase the more that gets accomplished.

I am so thankful for my awesome life. Here are just a few things that I really like about life:

I love my church! I love how the body functions as a body. I love how close everyone is, and how involved everyone is in each other's life. I appreciate the love and unity between us. Praise the Lord for His work among us!

I really like my work! Real estate is so thrilling. It's hard on some days, but overall, it's an exciting, challenging, and constantly changing business. I really like our advertising campaign. It takes a lot of time to develop it all but it's cool, edgy, different, and hopefully effective! I love my business partner. Kevin is a really cool guy! He's smart, creative, and efficient. He definitely keeps me on my toes! (:

I like school. I'm finally in classes that make sense and are contributory to my life. Also, by some grace of God, I am doing well in most of them! Yay!!

Long story short. Life is good, and even if everything didn't feel pretty comfy, I'm still very joyful because of how the Lord is working in my life. That's a fun place to be.

To My Best Friend

To My Best Friend,

Tonight was an eye opener. I knew so many of these things were true, but I hadn't let them hit me as hard before. Your comments, your openness, the way you describe our relationship... It was beautiful and yet sad. It was sad because it didn't quite address the issues that were at hand. It was one sided; it was selfish. I didn't understand. I'm taken back to the mentality of a 16 year old - write out your feelings and make them extremely dramatic. After spending a few minutes with you, I feel like a kid again in some ways. And I like that. So here I am writing out the feelings..

I appreciate your generosity to me, your constant favor, your constant dedication. If I was your husband, I could say you've done a pretty fantastic job at serving me, even from a distance. You've shown an unending amount of dedication and commitment.

So here is my apology. There has never been an an appropriate amount of apology. As we went through what you wrote, we discussed these things, and we talked about how they've changed. I won't specifically address them again, but I am saying with the deepest amount of regret and love for you, I'm so very sorry. Please accept my apology.

Please allow me to really be a best friend. Thomas has told me (sic) that best friends are the people that care about you and are most dedicated to you. So although you say I was your best friend, even more you were my best friend. You cared about me more than anyone. Even down to needing nail clippers, you wanted to be there every single time.

And so in response to the many blogs you've written, which I'm calling love letters, here is my love letter to you, even just as a friend. I love you for your service. I love you for your heart. I love you for your excitement for life. I love your eye for what looks good and your love for the details. I love how beautiful you are when you are cleaning. I love how you glow when someone says something warm and caring to you. I love how you tilt your head and speak softly when you can tell something is emotional and serious. I love that you care about birthing and nurturing you children, that you will give up your own interests to make sure things are done correctly. I love that you love the Lord and want to serve him. I love that we can talk about anything, for hours, and have no awkwardness. I love that I can trust you with everything. There's so much more to say....I love you.

Your Best Friend,

Matt

Playing with Fire

I'm in marketing class, and I'm smiling at my well done job on my project. Who knew that drinking Starbucks could get me an A. (:

I'm also distracted with facebook. Facebook chat has become my new vice. I really enjoy getting to know new people. I haven't been doing much homework lately though because of that.

This post - playing with fire. I'm definitely playing with fire in that I'm not running from my vices. I'm not keeping away from sinful activity. I'm not fleeing the line - I'm toeing it. Scary, I know. So that's the post. I don't know what I'm doing. I guess I should pray.

I had a great time at Gyros (YEE-ros) with Robert today. It was a good discussion, and I always appreciate his advice. I'm also really excited for dinner at Thomas's tonight!

I think that's it..