thunderstorms and name changes and Spam

I keep thinking of really fun things to blog about at like 2am. Mostly because today at 2am, I got woken up by the most rockin' thunderstorm ever ever ever. It was throwing down outside, and the lightnight was horizontal and super close to my house, and my mom fliiiiiipped when I went out and stood on the patio to watch it. Smudge totally hated it, she had her head stuck under my bed for about three hours of misery and I had to give her a bunch of cookies and tell her that life was going to be okay again soon.

Anyway, this morning at church was super rad. I bounce around between churches in Atown, but today I went to Woodland Hills Church of Christ (I typed out the name for a reason, stay tuned) with my friend Sally because she's moving to the dang Czech Republic in two weeks, which is the weirdest/neatest thing ever. Pastor Paul talked about creating a contagious culture, and about representation, and mostly about worship, and it was so neat, but the neatest part is that they're changing the name of that church! Cool, I know, right? They're changing it to Woodland Hills Christian Church to better portray to the community what they're about, which I think is rockin and bold and all kinds of other stuff. I really like Pastor Paul. I went to the church across the street from WHCC all through high school, and their pastor is named Paul as well, and sometimes I'll pop over there because those guys are my church family, but man oh man do I love Pastor Paul's teaching. He's got nothing on Richard, though, but I think those two would get along.

I would like to leave for Colorado today, please. It's a bummer that I have to wait for that a little while longer. But I get to do lots of fun things before that, like my half marathon training (bahaha...I am currently a fan because I don't have to run again until Tuesday according to that fun little guy), and a road trip to a YL camp here in VA, and this fun thing called JamFest which is a big youth rally week, and I get to lead a team on to total victory this year. I'm the bobbing for SPAM (yes, you read that correctly. It's like bobbing for apples. But better.) champion, so I'm gonna have to train a new pro. Nothing i can't handle. I think I have the neatest life ever.