Wow...i have to type fast cause i am running mucho lateo (whats new?!)

I am going to see Ten Sheckel Shirt tonite...with zach and maybe Kody..dang geena i still have to call him.....

oh man...so today I did some hardcore cleaning on our house...for REAL...so i still am in my pjs, needing to jump in the shower (without my guitar...hehe), so that i can be ready for the concert

but i have been listening to UB40's I can't help falling in love with you...and sometimes dancing around my room to it while attempting to make some sense of this mess...hehe....it just rocks my socks off...LOVE IT

so yeah....hung out with Zach last night....we jammed on gee tar for like....3 hours or something like that...it was crazy awesome....

he got me starting to barre...which is way cool...cause he showed me "Those who trust"...which i totally freaked out about...cause i am all about that song...freaking rocks my house off....haha...so i was going nuts i was so excited about kinda sorta playing it...haha...i kept getting all excited and dropping my pic...hehe....woah.....

and he also taught me that new song...dang geena, now i can't remember the name or who its by...but its like.... "would you save yourself/for someone who/ loves you for you...."etc...its a GREAT song....ah freakin a...i just found the lyrics...Sense Field ...."Save Yourself"

but anyway, here it is...and Zach taught it to me in its entirety..which just rocks my face off...and we dueted for my rents...hehe

and then like...once, i think i was playing "Wonderwall" for him..and he breaks out a little jimbe action on the back of his guitar...and then he started playing something...and i broke out a little action on the back of my guitar...hehe...it was so great...

Turn out the light
Just say goodnight, to yourself
May I remind you
When you find you, you're all alone is when you've got to be strong
Cause that's when they call you, in the night
He's got your picture in his mind
He's got your number on a paper at his disposal anytime

Is it really true
Could you save yourself for someone who, loves you for you
So many times we just give it away, to someone who
Someone who you met in bar
The back of a car
And for a moment you felt important but not in your heart
My self esteem, it's been low, go ahead and count it's been lower than low
I know the feeling of it stealing life out from under me
I want to learn, how you save yourself for someone who, loves you for you
So many times we just give it away to someone who, couldn't even remember your name
Could you save yourself for someone who, loves you for you, loves me for me
Give it away to someone who someone who will cherish your name

Cause I want to learn, can you save yourself for
Someone who will love you for you so many times we
Just give it away, someone who, couldn't even remember your name
You save yourself for someone who, loves you for you,
Loves me for me
Give it away to someone who, someone who will
Cherish your name
Cherish your name

wow...what a great song....(fave part I bolded)

I will type more later!


but hey! jerry called me (the second time) and was breakin out a little "those who trust" live and had me hear it...i was literally singing and dancing in my room...haha...rock on...and he broke his G string...LOL...good times

oh yes...i found out I am lactose intollerant...which explains why for my whole life (and most recently the WORST problems were the last 5 months or so) I have been getting sick to my stomach ALL THE TIME....so....if you were one of the people that was like "Dena always seems to be sick....theres always something wrong with her....etc etc etc....its probably mostly made up", you should feel bad for thinking that now...lol...cause now you know that i have always been genunielly ill....so...since i haven't done milk/cheese/ice cream/any dairy in the last...oh...week...you know what? i haven't gotten sick to my stomach ONCE...which...i think i have already set a life long record...i'm not kidding...its so nice to not have to run to the bathroom all the time and feel sick...so...hopefully, lactaid will work when i start using that, so that I can still partake of dairy...so...be praying that the meds work for me...thanks...

everyone...you MUST go check out my soul mate, Ellie's blog right NOW...read Nov 28's entry....

http://www.elliebelle.blogspot.com/

read any other entries too cause she rocks, anyway

oh man...thanks so much Ells for posting that...that SERIOUSLY rocks my house off...thats awesome...I love me a friendationship...for REALS, yo...(but...when i think of "friends with benefits"...i think it connotates "friends" who fool around together...which is just a sucky idea, in the first place)

at any rate...if you are still reading this and haven't yet directed yourself to elli's blog, get YER butt in gear! *SWWWWACK!*

ok...wow...today was awesome...so i already typed out much of what happened today down below.

but for what i left out: here goes:
ok...already told a lot about aunt linda/uncle franks...but...hm..myself and 3 other ladies cleaned up from dinner for hr and a half to two hours...insanity...but it was kinda theraputic and i liked the fact that i could do something for/serve others. I like doing that...and that is something God has put on my heart hugely lately..so that is awesome that He gave me the opportunity to help out today.

Bubby and I sang and played some Christmas tunes after dinner...nice...love the family music jam sessions.

Got home from that and Ellie and Kate called me...which was cool cool...YAY!

Then...Bub and Olivia and I drove to the Plaza to watch the lights come on...that was awesome...got lots of pics/video clips from my dig. camera. We were so silly and had lots of good bonding time.

then we decided to go see a movie at the Cinemark on the Plaza...lots of memories from that movie theatre...some really good ones that made me retell the stories of...some really shitty ones that i cringe when i remember....so...the three of us go in and call Kendon and Elizabeth who are on their way to the theatre to meet us...and we decided to see "bad santa"..really long story short: we sit through about 10 mins of the movie....realize how disgustingly raunchy and inappropriate it is...and all 5 of us pick up our crap and get the heck out of there....TERRIBLE...don't see it....so...we went into Gothica late...that is freaky! haha....i kept clinging onto Oliva...and one time...we bonked heads REALLY hard cause we both leaned in really fast toward eachother at a suddenly scary part....

after that, we walked to Starbucks on the Plaza...that is always good times. Had coffee, of course (my choice of the night was a caramel latte...yummmmm)....Elizabeth spilled her coffee...hehe...um...I literally checked Kendon's tag....lol....i sat on a table...hehe....and we met/made friends with this dude named Joe who is in a local Emo/Punk band when I asked him to take a pic of all of us....so. yeah...that was cool...he was on the warped tour....(not a big punk fan, but emo is good)...made friends with him....asked him when his next show was and for his website addy and he gives me his phone number instead...lol...ok? ne who. good bonding time, good talks about Kendon and Eliz. going into the mission field some day together (yes...they are destined to be together, anyway...just look at them together for crying out loud)....we closed 'bucks down. rock on.

took some more pictures after that....freezed our butts off...drove home...looked at pics....

so...if ya'll want to see any pics from the festivities, go here:

http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?selected=451416

Um..what else, not involved with today?
I play guitar..it rocks...i have for a month..i love it...i can't barre yet..the thought scares me...I started writing...which I love....Um...hm...learned some really cool songs...its a totally diff. experience/emotion/groove than playing piano, ya'll.

I'm seeing 10 Shekel Shirt tomorrow night and meeting up with Zach...and maybe Kody? And...at some pt, Zach and I are jamming and hes gonna help me with geetar....

doing a get together at bub's tomorrow at 1...that will be good times

seeing DW on Sunday in st louis....rock on....ELLIE NEEDS TO COME TOO


um...hm..what else...i have no earthly idea of what else to talk about

but...God is so great to me..and I don't do a thing to deserve Him...sometimes...I catch myself wallowing in sin...and I'm like...I am SO disgusting...but He still loves me...amazing grace....

so...ya'll email or call or IM me and tell me whats up with you...praises, prayer requests, anything...i'll be there for ya...but Jesus is the only one who will NEVER let you down.

I am so thankful and greatful for so many things...mostly...this is very general...but I am so thankful to God for opening my eyes/heart to SOOOOOOOOO many huge things that I was so lost in...within the last several months, really....and how He is working continueously. I love that...I love the fact that not only I notice God's work in me...but that other people notice and comment on it...and I love the fact not only that I see God's work and goodness in my life, but that I am able to see (at least some) of the things i still need serious work on, and that God has put some very christlike people in my life as of late to help confront me and pray for me, and help keep me accountable, and encourage me, and convict me, and tell me in love when they see me falling short somehow...and i pray that people will continue to confront me in love whenever need be...and that God will continue to use godly people in my life to strengthen me within the body of Christ.

mucho oso....whats up everyone? I am tired, i think...sleep will be good.

Ok...so...happy thanksgiving...today...i ate at my aunts...which was weird...cause...we've always eaten at home...and had the family come here...so...this year was weird....and...last year was weird...cause i was at my (then) boyfriend's family's in Chicago...PLLGH on THAT! so...two weird years in a row.

so....i love my family ...we are all weird and so entertaining and just....tons of funny stuff happens...i love them. So yeah....before we ate, i was washing dishes, and my cous, Marie will never eat the end of the deviled egg that doesn't have the filling on it...so its been dubbed the "egg bite"...so...its this joke with us to try to pawn off the egg bites onto someone else...lol...so yeah...while i'm up to my elbows in dishwater, Marie comes at me with this egg bite in her hands trying to get me to eat it...so it turned into all out war...hehe....so i'm like ducking down ducking my head down even farther...and my hair is all enshrouding me. (was that a word?) and so she couldn't get to my mouth...so everyone in the kitchen is laughing and all...but somehow...she managed to get some of the filling in my hair...lol...so my mom told me...and then marie is like "oh , here i'll get it off..." so i start running out of the kitchen cause i didn't believe she would really try to get it out...but she finally did with a towel...haha..

oh man..THE best part of the day...after dinner...as we're cleaning up, my aunt is about to take this BIG pot of these really nasty noodles that my cousin andy made...and pour them outside...so she tells my mom to hurry and get the back door for her...so my mom....is really highstrung anyway...so she sees aunt linda trying to get to the door with this really heavy pot....and so mom runs to the door and is rushing to get it open for her...so she...LMAO....slides the glass open, and bolts outside to get out of the way...only...somehow...misses the fact that there is a sliding screen door to open...lol..so she TOTALLY takes out the ENITRE freaking screen door...lol...just TOTALLY knocks it PLUM off the darn hinges...and it was awesome...my mom...totally plowing through a screen door...it was so loud and funny..

ne who...runnin out the door for the plaza lighting...i'll tell you more later...bye!

Ok...i never update this dern thing...lets see...

just after the beginning of the football season, i became a football fan..yeahp..thats right...never thought you'd live to see the day, did ya? Yah..so anna actually explained the game to me...which...apparantly, no one had done before...or no one had been able to explain it in such a way that i understood it...so..for real...i really really really am into football...I mean, yeah...the Chiefs are kicking butt...but its not just the chiefs...i love watching football, in general. I sit down through entire games with mah dad...and do the football thing...hehe

wow...i can't even believe it myself

so yeah....really long story...but... did i tell you all that i found a home church? yeah...well...i did...so...this is the link where you can read about that...cause after you read about church...then i can continue on with my story...

ok...the links aren't working...so you'll have to copy and paste..sorry:

http://www.derekwebb.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4355

ok...so...hopefully you read about that...if you did..

then...heres my story:

i met this guy, Kody, at bible study...he has started coming to this church the week after i did...we had talked and such after the bible study..and talked after church services and whatnot...i knew his family had chiefs season tickets...so....yesterday...after church...kody was about to take off..and i said something about the game and who all goes that they have passes for, etc...and hes like..."well we have four...but a couple people backed out last minute that were supposed to go, so we have extra tickets today"..and i'm like "really?" hes like "yeah...do you want to go?" or something like that ...and i'm just thinking...are you kidding me?! so yeah...LOOOOOOONG story short....i went to the chiefs game yesterday...hehe...it was SO awesome...i had never been to a football game, in my LIFE....not too shabby having the first one be from my hometeam that is 10-1, 24 rows back on the first level, on the north end....hehe...and we won...it was such a tight game...the crowd was off the wall...

i had so many layers on, i looked like i weighed about 30 lbs more than i do...hehe...i felt like that kid on Christmas Story thats like "i can't put my aaaaaaaaarms down!"...heheh...so...yeah...it freaking snowed the first snow of the season...how awesome is that?! it flurried...it was so beautiful...the only thing that got cold on me was my feet (even though i had on tights, two pairs of socks and shoes) and my hands (even with two pairs of gloves on)...and my face...hehe...so i kept pulling my turtleneck up...and my stocking cap way down..hehe..i looked like such a goon....

oh man...it was so fun...did i mention that?! yeah...well it was...i yelled a lot...hehe...its great...football is awesome....plus, it was awesome to hang out with kody and to get to know him...very cool guy....

so..about church...i love it....i love it...i love it...its great...i'm so blessed....its awesome to be in church where they realize the ultimate grace God gives to those who love Him....man...i am so blessed. and i am SO glad i'm in bible study...and...we start sunday school/study hour in jan...which will be awesome....and right now...i have two options for that...i can either be a part of the women's study hour...where, obviously, its all women...encouraging eachother in our womenly lives, studying books of the bible/women of the bible/godly womanly characteristics and such....OR...i can be a part of one of the more theology/doctrines/chatcheism (how do you spell that?) driven classes with both sexes as my study hour...what do you think i should do? pray for me, please....right now i'm leaning toward the theology stuff....but...it would be great to have the mentorship of a godly woman...but maybe i can have that outside the study hour....that would rock
...i long to be the Christ centered, proverbs 31 woman...i have a long ways to go


ne who...
i saw caedmons call on saturday night..yeah...holy cow...that was awesome....seriously...dude...wow...i started writing up a review...but i haven't gotten it all finished yet...in fact...the first third of the concert is only written up thus far...but if you want to see what i have so far (and will add to eventually), here is the link:

once again, the link won't hyperlink....so copy and paste this address:

http://www.derekwebb.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=95308#95308

that is all for now...yep.

Grace and Peace
Matthew 5:6 (i love this one...this was my meditation verse a couple weeks ago)