The Top Ten of Thanksgiving 2010

10. Only setting my alarm clock once while I was home !

9. Watching episodes of One Tree Hill with Liana and then falling asleep in her bed :)

8. Getting paid to do Liana's laundry

7. New hair color (Liana dyed my hair for me and ran out of dye in the middle of the process)

6. Celebrating Dad's 57th birthday...dinner and a movie

5. The typical McCann family stories that are too inappropriate for the Internet

4. NO HOMEWORK

3. Some fabulous girl talk with Mommy and Liana

2. Catching up with old friends (mainly Steven Paul Cable, Sarah and Kristina)

1. A WONDERFUL Thanksgiving Day with my whole family...and having Grammy there with us!What an absolute blessing

3 weeks until Christmas Break. 6 days @ Willard. 6 Days @ Whitworth. 3 weeks at home. Then off to AFRICA....

My car back in Spokane...Ebay and I successfully dug it out of about a foot of snow!

Last November at the Cornerhouse :( The day of our Thanksgiving meal :))))

Sunday morning and snow is coming down. Perfect excuse for a Peppermint Mocha :) 2-5 today at Starbucks you can buy one holiday drink and get a second free. Ebay and I will be going there soon!

Life has been busy but wonderful! Ebay and I joined a new lifegroup at Church and have enjoyed meeting new people. We also went to LifeCenter's college night (ages 18-24) on Thursday. We ran into Michael who was doing the sermon and he was really excited to see us. Saturday we had some of our West Central friends over for wine and a movie. Let's just say, with all our best friends being away we have been forced to step out of our comfort zones and meet new people. It has been a great experience though and we are looking forward to building new relationships!

Today, LifeCenter began a new series called, "It's all about God". Joe discussed how we live most of our lives focused on ourselves. In reality, life is not about us (me), it is about God. He broke it down into three simple points: Creation is all about God (this is God's world), History is all about God (this is God's story) and I am all about God (I am not my own, I belong to God). Lastly, I love this point: we are TWICE God's because he first created us and secondly, he bought us. This is all just a reminder that everything we do, we should do it for God's glory.

I wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday wherever they are and whoever you are with. Enjoy the snow, sunshine, rain... and know that I miss you all. I am so thankful for each one of you and the amazing work that each one of you are doing.

xoxo

Analisa

Surprise!!!

After a long week of school and craziness I hopped in my car Friday at 12:01 right after class and headed home to Tumwater. Jackie leaves on Tuesday for Australia and I will not see her Thanksgiving or Christmas break so I wanted to spend some time with her before she left! I took this opportunity to not tell my family I was coming and surprise them! Friday night I walked into the house and my mom and to call my dad into the room to assure her that it was really me and she wasn't seeing things. Once my mom believed it was me and my dad asked the predicted questions about the pass, we hugged! Liana was off at some dance so when I texted her and told her I was standing in the kitchen she was shocked! Oh I love surprises:)))

Saturday morning Jackie and I met at our Starbucks and snagged the comfy chairs of course. We ran some errands (Fred Meyer's and Great Clips) and then had El Sarape for lunch. Afterwards, mom and I went to Goodwill for some shopping and then to grammy and grampys! My grandma was super surprised and it was great to see her! Mom and I visited Liana at Safeway who was getting canned food donations for the food bank! When she was all finished we stopped and visited my aunt and uncle for awhile, played nerf guns with Timothy and then had McDonalds for dinner :) Finally, we rented the vulgar but hilarious movie, Get Him to the Greek and had a sleepover with Jackie.

The trip was short but sweet and well worth it! I feel rejuvenated for my last week and a half before Thanksgiving and I look forward to be coming home soon again!

DiStRaCtIoNs

It is Saturday night and I am sitting at the Service Station working away on homework (surprise, surprise). I am thinking about all the things that distract me from doing homework so I decided to make a list:
1. My blog
2. Reading everyone else's blog
3. Texting
4. Phone calls
5. Food
6. People watching
7. Pandora
8. Checking my Whitworth e-mail
9. Facebook
10. America's Next Top Model, Survivor and the Amazing Race
11. Attempts at napping
12. other homework
13. Talking to people at the Service Station
14.....and the 45 minute phone conversation I just had with my mom!



HERE WE GOOOOOO HOMEWORK!
Ebay and I have grand plans for the night: Clean R apartment while drinking margaritas!

It's November?

The last week of October whizzed by as I was busy carving pumpkins, making holiday treats, attempting to work those treats off by exercising every day, working on endless piles of homework and BEING SICK! Since I made it through all senior year without getting sick once, it seems I am making up for it this year (already sick twice in 2 months). No worries, after 10 days I finally made it to the health center to get some antibiotics...should be good in no time!

Needless to say, life is going at a crazy pace. Halloween came and went just like my pumpkin I carved (already rotten :( ). Ebay, Joanna and I had a fun Halloween evening and went as two kitties and a hippie! We branched out and attended an actual Halloween party which was fun only because we ran into Bobby Hughes and friends:) Halloween itself was pretty low key...I almost wore my kitty ears to workout, but forgot. Don't worry though, Ebay and I wore them to church Sunday evening which definitely got us some Halloween Candy :) Sadly, we had no tricker-treaters at R apartment, which was fine since we took shots of NyQuil and got in bed by 9!

So, October is gone, November is here! Today is another Princess Day celebration (about 3 and 1/2 years). We will celebrate by Didiers of course...and peppermint mochas compliments of Claire (THANKS!). Hopefully now that I am on meds, I will start getting better. Ebay and I are starting a lifegroup tomorrow through lifecenter...it is for SINGLES post-college 22-32...hmmmm should be good :)

Great thing I learned @ church: The church is not a rest home for saints, it is a rescue place for sinners! AMEN! Joe also said, "Let's get it right and say, I am just a turd trying to follow Jesus".

Also, I am going to give up sweets until Christmas (except on Tuesdays so I can have dids)
Love you and miss you.
Analisa