7 Things I Find Lovely//Valentine's Day Edition

This week, in honor of Valentine's Day, I thought I would pick out my 7 favorite things about Valentine's Day this year.

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#1: 27 Dresses--Favorite Romantic Comedy in the World

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#2: Red Velvet Mini Cupcakes in Springfield, MO--I am totally going to have to get one this weekend! Yum!

#3: Modern Nature by Sondre Lerche in "Dan in Real Life"--Favorite Love Song...besides the end scene with it is adorable!

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#4: Chandler & Monica--cutest TV couple EVER!

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#5: My first really close friend, Lizzy (Elizabeth), got engaged to John this past weekend! They are getting married in September. I am so excited!!!

#6: My parents still send me a Valentine's Day box every year including lip balm, dessert shells, Dove chocolate, Egg Coloring Kit, a CD, McCalister's Deli, and Valentine's Day themed dish rags. I am such a domestic nerd... ;)

#7: My Valentine for the 5th year in a row, Travis Bell. :)

Have a lovely Valentine's Day with the ones you love!

-Beth

p.s. I loved the GLEE Valentine's Day episode this week! Especially, Fat Bottom Girls & Silly Love Songs!

My Roommate is so Sweet

The lovely, Connally,

roommate of one and a half years,

featured me on her blog this week.

I heart her.

She is also the reason I even have a blog.

Check her out!

It's so great to have such a sweet friend!

-Beth

5 Things Grace Enjoys Doing...

#1: Eating cereal in usual places thanks to great roommates that bring me cereal to eat at work, and great roommates that don't care that the other roommate accidentally brought her cereal instead of mine.

#2: Reading a classic book for fun! 

#3: Spending the whole afternoon watching friends with my lovely roommates (in my pj's).

#4: Making epic Lady Gaga videos with High School friends from back home. (Maybe, I will share it later.) 

#5: Writing about coffee with my new blog series on my other blog! 

I am just trying to enjoy my last week of freedom before Spring semester starts again!

-Beth

Grace in Friendships

So today, I did something daring and new. Leading up the event, I was petrified like a freshman on the first day of high school. I almost didn’t go. I almost through away my plans just because I was afraid. But I didn’t. To some, it may not seem like a big deal, but to me, it was monumental.

Tonight, I went to a benefit concert by myself, not planning to meet any specific person there, and only hopefully that someone would grant me the grace of a conversation.

Being a transfer student at a state university is tough, especially having a job and living off campus. It is hard to really get to know anyone outside of class or know how to get involved. I go through a range of emotions from being so enthusiastic to put myself out there to feeling completely defeated when someone forgets my name. But that is not how it should be, I learned that tonight.

The benefit concert was at a new local non-profit called Lemon Drop—all about promoting creative efforts in Springfield. The benefit concert was for to raise money for a young boy in Nepal to be able to return to his family. It was a good cause, so I thought why not.


I frantically searched for someone to go on this adventure with me, but everyone was busy. I saw that some people from my church, Emmaus, that I was acquainted with were attending on Facebook, so I prayed they would show up and possibly talk with me.


7:30 rolled around and my stomach got sick. I did not want to go. I didn't know what to wear. Where it was. Who was going to be there. I was going alone into a abyss of strangers.


Little did I know that if I gave myself and the people around me a little grace, I might actually form friendships.

The night was fantastic! The bands were fun. I bought a journal from India and two adorable photographs of children. But most importantly, I met people. A wonderful girl from my church introduced me to all these other people that go there. I sat a chat with some girls involved in campus ministries. I talked to a friend from a Bible study I visited and got introduced to her friend who studies Speech Pathology. 


All in all, I felt like I belonged--which is a feeling I don't think I have felt since high school drama club or every Wednesday when I relive those glory days via Glee on Hulu. 


I am so happy that I gave myself grace and put myself out there. I learned that GRACE is ESSENTIAL to forming new friendships, and I hope that those friendships will just continue to grow.

GRACE

"Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship" 

-Samuel Johnson quotes (English poet, critic and writer. 1709-1784)