blessings all around!

Hello everyone!
Well, my life has been pretty crazy busy! Nowadays I always have something to do and always have two or three things on my mind at the same time, and about 10 other things that should be on my mind...or so it seems. There are times in these days that I am able to just relax for a minute and realize that I have the ability to get everything done that I need to do and there is no need for me to feel stressed about it, because that would just make it worse anyway. During those times I talk to God and He helps me get through it and He's the one who keeps me from being stressed out. Thanks to Him, I am able to enjoy all the little things in life (as well as the big). I notice the little blessings in my life so much...I cant think of a day in a long time (or even at all) that was an overall bad day....everytime something bad seems to happen, some euqally good has happened as well. Or God just helps me to pull the good out of situations.
I say all this as an introduction to my list of blessings that I think are worth telling you about. Some of these are just minor things that make me happy and some of them are really funny (well...to me) and really made my whole day....all of them are blessings from God which helped me to feel His love and let me know He cares and He wants me to be happy, even with the small things in life and even during rough times.

1. yey for breakfast and good coffee! (with cinnamon)...that always makes me happy! and chatting with friends in Belgium!

2. Greek is fun! (even at 8 o'clock in the morning)....my good 'sister in club' and Christ, Jeanette, and I often find something funny to laugh at. (something related to class...dont worry, we pay attention!) Often it's because our professor, Loren Gieger told a joke! Sure wakes up the class at least a little. Oh fun times in Greek!

3. I had a nice little conversation with Francess Sawyer, the secretary for the Language and Literature department here at OC. She's such a nice lady. I love her!

4. I got an A on my US History quiz!

5. Reading for my US History quiz I learned a lot! I'll tell you one thing: I used to tell people I'm an Okie, cuz I'm from Oklahoma. I learned that I am not an Okie...apparently, the term is for roughly 300 000 farmers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas who were forced off their land and migrated to California during the 1930's because of the Dust Bowl.

6. I got a package from momma in the mail with Sinterklaas goodies! For you those of you who dont know Sinterklaas, this is the European Catholic St. Nicolas who comes on the night of the 5th to the 6th of December.

7. Then, I ran into Ryan Miller, who is a friend of mine here at OC who lived in Nederland for about 6 years and speaks really good Dutch, so we had a nice long conversation in Dutch (it probly wasnt as long as it took because we both struggles a little and sometimes spent a minute searching for a word) and I shared some Sinterklaas chocolate with him.

8. Jane Austen class! Love it! We talked about Persuasion! Great book!

9. Spent some time having coffee with one my new sisters in club, Heather. That was a ton of fun! She's an awesome girl! She's from Washington and loves white coffee...to give you some random facts about her. Then we went to our club's weekly social service, singing at a nursing home. And after that she came to church with me (she usually goes to a different church). I had a ton of fun getting to know her.

10. After church I spent some time getting to know another friend of mine, Brian. We went to starbucks and had a really good talk.

11. I like the cold! Lets me bundle up outside and feels great to walk into a warm building!