thumbs up: went bike riding for the first time since elementary school with wynnford and ray yesterday. thumbs down: soreness in my nether-regions. why do bike seats have to hurt so much?
thumbs up: short week! only one class tomorrow. thumbs down: i have a midterm tomorrow for that one class.
thumbs up: going to the dentist tomorrow before class. thumbs down: going to the dentist tomorrow before class.
thumbs up: good start for all 3 of my fantasy basketball teams. 1st in two of the leagues. 3rd in the other league. thumbs down: looks like my fantasy football team will not make the playoffs this year unless i get 2 big wins in the next 2 weeks.
my sister sandy and her two kids came over tonight. and they brought with them "singing in the rain" so we watched it for dinner. i've actually never seen the whole thing from start to finish, so it was cool watching it. i can see why it's a classic. gene kelly. donald o'connor. i love their style. i love all the tapping. it makes me wanna dance :D
last night was the worst night of my life. worst. night. evar. ok, maybe i'm exaggerating a little bit...
after fellowship, i came home, un-winded, and then went to sleep. an hour later i woke up with excruciating pain. yes, excruciating. maybe i'm still exaggerating a bit, but that's what it felt like at that time. haha. the left side of my face was hurting because one stinking tooth was hurting. it was so bad that i had a splitting headache and couldn't fall back asleep. my whole body seemed to be in pain because of that tooth. no matter what i tried the pain wouldn't go away and we don't have any advil or other drugs to take, so i had to just man up and take it like a man... except i curled up into a ball and prayed God would take away the pain instead. He didn't. i probably dozed in and out, but it felt like i didn't sleep. it was not pretty.
so this morning i made a special appointment to go see the dentist. after checking things out, i apparently need to get a root canal. fun. he did some stuff so there is no pain now, but i need to go back in tuesday morning to finish up whatever he started. not really looking forward to it, but i know it's necessary.
anyway, as i was withering around in pain last night, one reminder God gave me was this: jesus went through so much more pain that i was going through for me. i couldn't handle this toothache, but he went through crucifixion for me. now that's crazy love. i was also reminded of 1 corinthians 12:26. "if one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together." so yea, thanks God for the reminders of you in the midst of pain :D
sometimes you're on the highlight reel for posterizing someone. sometimes you're on the highlight reel for getting rejected. sorry shannon, but you're on the wrong side of this highlight.
