CAKEEEE.

I blogged a long time ago about making my wedding cake... so ta-daaa! There it was.

and Bethany & Heather made Mason's cake!!

It saved us TONS of moolah & they turned out great...
<3
mrs.keller

I must say...

-I will be a married women in 8 days(well less than that if you wanna get technical).
-We FINALLY get our TV in today :]]
-Mason found a vest!
-Right now, I believe our 'pursuit of happiness' is being stolen...slowly but surely.
-We're BROKE.
-If I had Jackson Memorial tickets I'd sell them on Ebay too.
-I got a crooked hair cut, Mason says it's got character :]]]
-I know I am blessed.
-I get to see extended family in Florida!
-I hope & pray our marriage license will only cost $11, not $71.
-My car is paid off.
- It angers me that the government takes 20% of my check every month, 50% of every galloon of gas I buy, 8.25% or more of every luxery I work for, charges .44 cents for stamps(while the USPS is still in major debt), has bankrupted my retirement fund & medi-care & medi-caid, wants to run my health care, wants to control my carbon emissions (my exhales), & for all that I profit nothing... but am left to worry about what they will take from me next, fail at, & then suffer NO consequences. I LOVE my country, not my 'public servants'.
-I hope & pray 'someone' gets preggers soon.
-I keep dreaming that I leave my vail at home.
-I wanna use our apartment 'gym' soon.
-"Jesus, thank you!"
-I still like Sarah Palin, she tells it like it is.
-Im happy the Horton's got a new BIG house.
-I have ONE class till I get my Associates of Arts degree & transfer.
-Mason wants to be a pilot.
-I believe there ARE moral absolutes.
-I hope my generation will wake up & save America from a soft tyranny simply by being informed voters.
-I hope & pray July 14th @ 7pm in Penscacola Florida is overcast & breezy... not insanely HOT.

...
I have alot on my mind.
You?

In the end I wasted it.

"I will tell you what a tradegy is. I will show you how to waste your life.

Consider this story from February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball, & collect shells...'

Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgement: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.'

That is a tragedy."

Don't Waste Your Life
John Piper

the above always refreshes me & my mindset.

So...

I've freakin gained 10lbs since high school. Many of you are thinking "10lbs, come on Anna whats the big deal!" ... & I'm thinking my dang favorite jeans are TOO tight. & bikini shopping was a pain...but thats the same every year cause, of all things, I lack boobs.

So I went "healthy" food shopping... low calorie, low fat, low sugar... HIGH fiber. & worked out 3 times (so far) this week. my abs are very sore. when I laugh I cry... ha... ouch. haha... ouch ouch. And I do believe I have a nice case of shin splints.

other than this I am over & abundently blessed & was fearfully & wonderfully made.

While you were sleeping...

To get you in the loop... Here is an small part of the very chilling letter written to Attorney General, Eric Holder, from a lawyer (Andrew McCarthy) asked to take part in President Obama's roundtable discussion on the "Task Force on Detention Policy".

McCarthy declined the offer for MANY reasons including...
"Obviously, I am powerless to stop the administration from releasing top al Qaeda operatives who planned mass-murder attacks against American cities—like Binyam Mohammed (the accomplice of “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla) whom the administration recently transferred to Britain, where he is now at liberty and living on public assistance. I am similarly powerless to stop the administration from admitting into the United States such alien jihadists as the 17 remaining Uighur detainees. According to National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, the Uighurs will apparently live freely, on American taxpayer assistance, despite the facts that they are affiliated with a terrorist organization and have received terrorist paramilitary training. Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from theUnited States. The Uighurs’ impending release is thus a remarkable development given the Obama administration’s propensity to deride its predecessor’s purported insensitivity to the rule of law."

PEOPLE do you not understand... "Foreign terrorists trained to execute mass-murder attacks cannot simply be released while the war ensues and Americans are still being targeted (quote taken from the letter too)." If America loses its security... its economy will fall even further until security it brought back. Remember the stock market crash after 9-11... but more importantly remember the 3000 people who died in the name of jihad.

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these are some lyrics that always kick me into political reality:

United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we're lying in the dark
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night
America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for it's King

But here are even more moving lyrics that kick me out of politics and into God's arms:

who's your brother, who's your sister
you just walked passed him, i think you missed her
as we're all migrating to the place where our father lives
'cause we married in to a family of immigrants

my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man
my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
it's to a King & His kingdom

there are two great lies that i’ve heard:
“the day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die”
and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
and if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him

but nothing unifies like a common enemy
and we’ve got one, sure as hell
but he may be living in your house
he may be raising up your kids
he may be sleeping with your wife
oh no, he may not look like you think

please wake up America.

I can't freakin' do it all.

I wanna be...

an awesome best friend
a good sister
an involved daughter
an even more healthy eater
a partcipating Christian
a straight A student (ha.)
an energy-ful fiance
a political activist
an organized do-er
a regular reader
an available listener
a consistant gym member

but I just can't do it all.
& its very dissappointing.

anyone wanna help me address the 200+ wedding invites that need to go out in the next couple weeks?? or maybe you'd rather help me CLEAN my room & car? How about anyone wanna make me make time for the gym, my bible, my neices & nephews, my best friends, my homework, & my job!?

life is SO good, but SO fast... its hard to fit it all in.

PRAY I MAKE IT TO MAY 16TH (end of the semester) SUCCESSFULLY.

[84 days till I marry my best friens & get to vacation with him]

GASP! & a quote to think about.

I AM ONE OF THE 47 MILLION* AMERICANS WITH NO HEALTH INSURANCE.

BUT THATS BECAUSE IM 20, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I'VE BEEN SICK, & I CHOOSE TO WORK FOR A SMALL BUSINESS WHO DOESN'T OFFER HEALTH COVERAGE.

HERE IS THE "GASP!" OF MY SHORT STORY... I'M ABOUT TO HAVE TWO [MAYBE 3] DR. "CHECK UP" APPOINTMENTS & I'M PAYING CASH :] DOCTOR'S LOVE CASH.

*THIS #, ALTHOUGH USED BY SOME, HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN ACCURATE. IN FACT NO ONE KNOWS HOW IT WAS CALCULATED AND ISN'T EVEN CLOSE TO THE ACTUAL # LISTED ON THE LATEST CENSUS.



and here is the quote to think about -

"It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."

“The Soul of a Collectivist,” For the New Intellectual, 73.

[just one of the gazillion times our president has asked us to sacrifice so far - Obama's says in his acceptance speech (regarding the recovery of the economy): "It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." ... what exactly does that mean in the political world... no one is sure... no one will explain it.]