This video is Dave Potts singing a song by Greg Adkins.  Bill's blogged about it and now Greg's blogged about it, and now I am also blogging about it.  I can't hear this song without crying.  I thought I would be able to watch this video today since Bill isn't here...I thought maybe it was Bill being there that made me cry, but no, I still couldn't make it all the way through.  I thought you all would like the song, it's very sweet.

It's kind of a sleepy Friday today, actually.  All the students moved out and headed home last night or this morning so it is eerily quiet.  In another week this will feel normal and peaceful, but today it just feels slow.  I had to say goodbye to Nathan McConnaughhay yesterday, who came as a freshman my first year working here and has been doing work study in our office longer than any of my other workers.  Not only that, but he was involved in Lighthouse and then at Crossings with us.  I definitely cried when he came by to say goodbye for now, but I know he will touch a lot of lives.

Cana and Katie came over last night and watched the Thursday night shows with me, which was nice since Bill and Taylor were playing a show at Manhattan's downtown till late.  And they brought me a refreshing drink from Starbucks which made the night go down even easier.  I am sad that this past week was the last time our small group met as a whole group for a while.  Kristin and Cana will head home, and Heather and Kim will be gone mid-June, but hopefully we'll come up with some fun things to do and some of us can meet all summer at least.

I think the whole weekend will probably be quiet like this since everybody's gone and Taylor is flying to Puerto Rico.  I am thinking it's a good weekend to make some soup (yet another Mandy Watson recipe that blows my mind) and watch movies at home in our PJs!  Sounds good to me!  Have a great weekend everybody!

p.s. note the MMJ album release on 6/11/08!  Can't wait!

Happy Founders Day!  We had two former president's daughters at chapel today, and they were interviewed about their lives growing up on campus.  It was pretty funny actually.  Now all the students are off having fun, probably rock hopping or cliff jumping or something.

Bill left this morning to go to a high school friend's wedding.  He's once again the wedding singer.  I was very sad, to say the least, to have him go for a few days, but I am happy he'll get to see his friends and family.

My small group's green class went fine on Tuesday.  After our normal meeting last night, it was cool too hear how much all the girls learned just from teaching their class.  Heather and I did some grocery shopping before group and she was really on top of the game.  Mostly she just pointed out random packages and said things like, "What!  That's too much packaging!" and "I would never buy that, that's not biodegradable".  We had a VERY hard time in the produce section.  Turns out that most of Wal-Marts produce comes from other countries or as far away as California and Washington.  There wasn't ONE thing in their section from this side of the country even.  So, Wal-Mart will not be my produce provider anymore.  However, they have a fine selection of earth friendly cleaning products (Simplicity dish soap and green works multi purpose cleaner) and I bought some dryer sheets that biodegrade in 21 days.  These were just a few more steps in the right direction. 

Don't forget to get LOST tonight!!!!!  How exciting! 

This weekend is going to be interesting.  I am without a car.  Even though the Nelson's kindly offered us one of theirs to borrow, I thought I would be able to do without and that it would teach me a lesson about how I don't have to depend on modern transportation.  I forgot that during this time Bill was leaving for a weekend and most of my friends are going out of town.  I was duped into hosting a Mary Kay party Friday, which I'm not going to say anything about because I can't say anything nice.  I have 2 friends who are being kind and going so I'm making no-bake cookies for them.  I think the rest of the weekend will probably be spent baking, crocheting, reading about babies and napping.  I'll probably watch Stranger Than Fiction because I use that movie as a motivational tool for my life and usually go on a creative binge for a couple of weeks. 

If you are on campus and you are doing something fun, remember that I am at home without Bill. 

On a positive note, I'll see my sister for a few hours on Saturday so there will be a short break to my alone time.

It will be good for me.

See ya later!