Chop it off!!

Drum roll please......................................... I am getting my hair cut tomorrow!!!!!!! Yep you heard it right folks!! I, Amanda Lynn Howard, am actually cutting my hair. So i have been the worst ever because the last time I cut my hair was the Thursday after we got back from our honeymoon. In case you need help with the math, that is over a year ago. HORRIBLE i know...my poor hair. But I just really don't like paying money for just a "trim" and I really was glad to have long hair that whole time so I just never went. Now I am so stinkin excited to get all this length chopped off. I don't really know how short I will go but I do know that it will be somewhere in between the chin and the shoulder. I'm gonna send in my chopped hair to lock of love too!!! I am thinking I am going to do a Very angled bob!!!!! I hope I like it!! We shall see!!

take the picture

Lately I have literally been obsessed with looking at photographer's sites!!! I JUST LOVE IT!!! this leads me to believe that I most definitely picked the wrong profession. I should have been a photographer. Oh what a fun job. To take pictures of people, make your own schedules. Sounds glorious to me. Maybe I will get a camera for Christmas and start doing it.....i dunno I really don't have one CREATIVE bone in my body so that may be a slight problem......:)

if Jesus was my husband....

So last week i went out of town for an entire week on business...to Oklahoma( i have blogged about it alot~!) So this was only the second time in our entire time of being married that we have been apart for that long. Now this time I was getting to go somewhere instead of just staying home while my husband is living it up in New York City, but still.....I was not looking forward to being gone that long. Well anyways, literally the MERE thought of being gone from him that long was enough to make me sick to my stomach. And I was THRILLED to come back home to him one week later. So it got me to thinking...marriage is supposed to be the only earthly comparison we have to the relationship of us and Christ. But I have gone entire weeks without so much as opening my Bible and only saying a few things to Jesus. Why do I not get that same sickening feeling in my stomach that I get when i prepare to leave my husband?? I may NEVER actually answer that question in this lifetime on earth. But I just want to begin to try to wrap my brain around what it would be like if I desired to be with Jesus more than I desire to be with my husband. I pray that the Lord would show me how to experience this desire on earth. I believe that it is possible but I know that I do not currently have those feelings. How incredible would my walk be?? It is exciting to think about :)

I AM WOMAN

so a little update from my post earlier about how I am being disliked at work because I am a woman. Well let's just say that my spur of the moment trip to Oklahoma could not have come at a better time. I really just needed to get away from all the negativity and re-focus myself and gain some of my confidence back. So I was nervous as you can imagine to go work with all new guys and was kinda fearful that I would run into the same type of close-minded people in Oklahoma. I WAS PLEASANTLY surprised. The guys there were SO respectful of me and they actually asked for and listened to my opinions on things. What a concept! It was so refreshing and gave me confidence that my challenges here have NOTHING to do with how I present myself but have EVERYTHING to do with the guys and how they think. I mean I kept telling myself that in my head but now my heart is actually believing that after my trip as well. God is so good!! HOORAY FOR OKLAHOMA!

lately....

so i went to Oklahoma and I conquered and came home....it was glorious!!! I spent time with all my favorite people including my in laws and close friends! I had sushi, ate at all my favorite restaurants, and bought a ridiculous amount of Oklahoma gear. Oh yeah and let's not forget that my super awesome parents drove up at the drop of a hat to come see me. I hope when I have kids that my kids feel as loved for their entire lives as I have felt for mine from my parents. Sure sometimes they can be a little paranoid and scared for me.... but I always tell them that I never doubt how much I am loved! So anyways, I had such a fun trip but I must say i was pretty excited to come home. A girl can only live in a hotel room out of a suitcase without her husband for so long! ;)

This past Saturday we went to Universal Studios with one of our favorite Floridian couples JD and Kim. We had so much fun....and I am pretty sure that I have never felt so sick in all my life from all the simulators. But Jonathan and I got in for free and that made it all worth it.

So i am starting the get Mandie to tone up exercise program. yep that's right..... I bought rollerblades ( yes I am apparently stuck in the 90's) that I am goint to start using and Theresa and I are gonna start doing yoga which I am really excited about! I have to get tiny before Theresa's wedding. Since I am standing next to her...I need to lose some weight..i don't want to be the fat lard matron of honor. haha!! Wish me luck! ;)