My hair is unruly, and tends to match my personality of the day. If I am around town and my hair is a mess-you may want to steer clear. If my quaff looks good to you, it's probably not supposed to look that way, and I am probably frustrated. If my hair looks awesome and makes everyone say "cute hair," I am probably like, "I know right," and I am in a fantastic mood (then I send them on their way to Martina ;). It just came to my attention the other day how much my hair affects my day.

Yesterday, I dried my hair, flipped on my flat iron, and it was a "bibbity-bobbity-boo"moment. My hair, literally, fell into place. It was going to be a good day. I felt like I had been hit with the pretty stick, as my mane swished and shined while I finished my morning routine.

I stepped outside, and even though there was a thin layer of snow on the ground, I smelled nothing but Spring. The sun was luminescent, and all was well. I slid over the black ice as though I was an amateur figure skater, but I didn't notice, too much, life was good.

I get to work, coffee in hand, and on time! Neat! The day was good!

I tend to dread February 14th! I hated walking the halls in high school, seeing girls carry bushes of roses, smacking me and my singleness in the face while stuffed in the crowded corridors. Then college came... instead of just seeing the too perky teensters with their Safeway packages roses, I encountered something worse... dorms full of grocery store roses, puke-sick love notes, and worst of all rocks. No not pebbles that belong out in nature, but stones that stung my eyes when caught by the light, on the hands of friends that held them tightly, on a significant left hand finger with a platinum band; diamonds, sigh. Valentines Day lead right into the "Ring by Spring" slogan of any Christian College. Barf.
This year, the year of the Ox (what-what), I actually looked forward to the scariest day of the year. Some may say that it was actually February 13th that was the scariest day of the year (Friday the 13th), but those people are wrong. February 14th will always be the most frightening for any single female in any part of the world. Any single female who has to watch flowers be delivered to co-workers, or even drive behind a flower delivery truck/car thing home and watch it not pull into her driveway, yes, it happened. Anyway, I had plans. No more I fear this day, as long as I have other single friends to share it with!
I drove to Bellevue to meet my "roommates" for a matinee of He's Just Not That into You, and Dinner. I got to the cinema early, so while I waited, I bought tickets. I was still too early, so I stood and waited for my "dates." That was just no good! I had a very bad cold, and what I observed just made me nauseous. Seriously, couples everywhere, holding hands/kisses here and there, really PDA=Trina+Puke.
So, my friends get there, and I rush them into the theater to get good seats (which I feel like, only my sister and I are weird about), but finally all the nastiness washes off as I am in the presence of my friends! I am so thankful for them and love being able to hang out without guy drama lingering!
The movie was, in my opinion, great! I loved it! It was a great guy bashing movie, but still hopeful. I liked it and it kinda explains a lot! There is a reason why a "crush" was called what it was. Anyways, don't listen to the reviews it was good, and it was pretty clean (skin wise... they didn't show anything, which I think is a good thing!).

Right now we are going through Judges at church. Today, the sermon was on Deborah and another woman named Jael. After church a friend told me that he has a friend who does not agree with the way women are portrayed in the Bible. He asked my thoughts and I tried to reply, but I didn't think I thoroughly answered the question. SO, I later responded via facebook (I know, classy huh?), but this was my response:

Ok, so after church I went shopping (what Trinas do best), and I started thinking about the question that you asked. So you said that you have a friend that does not agree with the way women are portrayed in the Bible. So, what do I think... I think that part of me really wants to be a feminist and say that it is a gender biased book, but the other part of me shudders at the thought, knowing that IT IS the word of God. However, the message is that if not for God we would not be here. We all have sinned, Jesus is savior and without him WE WILL GO TO HELL. Really, it is the examples/stories that we are told/preached about. And like I said earlier, I think it really was a culture thing. God talks about A LOT of men in the Bible, and out of those men there were also a lot that were wicked and ALL were sinful. There are not a lot of women talked about, but when there are more that were glorified and honored by God than shunned by him. This brings me to present day...I know that God appoints people (both men and women) for different positions. I went to an Assemblies of God college, and I have a lot of friends(female) who majored in pastoral ministries. So, do I think that it is wrong for a woman to be the main pastor of the church? No. I can honestly say that if God wants her there than that is where she should be. In her personal life, I do agree that if she is married, than her husband needs to be the spiritual leader. I was fortunately raised in a household where my parents made joint decisions, and compromised. It was not a male dominate home. My parents taught me to think for myself and showed me how a Godly relationship worked. That aside, American history shows that people are created equal. Well, when that slogan/political propaganda came around, it allowed for different races of MEN to vote. Thus proving that all of history, not just the Bible, is gender biased.SO, in conclusion...I know that I am a child of God. I know that my gender means nothing to Him. I know that he would love me the SAME if I were born male. I know that he did create women for support and companionship (the creation of Eve and Proverbs 31), but I also think that I have other purposes in life besides being a wife and a mother.

*Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

because it means GREAT sales! I just got back from shopping, I bought some DVDs and a new digital camera. If you've noticed, I have not been blogging a ton, mostly because I can't post any pictures. My camera broke (for no apparent reason) last October, so I've been pretty bummed/irritated that I can't take any pictures. For instance, the other day I was downtown during lunchtime, when I saw this little punk, who was obviously supposed to be in school, skateboarding down the sidewalk. He tried to do some sort of stunt and ended up messing up his footwork and missing his board. WIPE OUT! It was sort of funny and I wish I could have captured it and then blogged about it... yeah. Anyways, so I got this great deal on my new camera, only to get back home and see that it doesn't have a memory stick. Boo! Back to the store I go!