Happy 4th of July! I've read a lot of articles this last week about whether Christians should celebrate a day that basically encourages pride in our country and worshiping a man-made entity, but I don't think it's about pride or worshiping idols - today is the day we celebrate our freedom from oppression. all kinds of oppression, freedom of religion included. so many countries persecute those who express a freedom of religion, and because I live in the USA, that's not something I need to worry about. I'm thankful for a country that allows me that privilege and will celebrate that freedom today with a day at the lake and some explosions in the sky later tonight.

Yesterday, the church that we live right next to had a free family freedom festival thing, complete with inflatable bouncy houses, a dunk tank, and potato sack relays. The interns and I only participated in the free food part, but had fun watching the rest of the families enjoy the games. We then went inside for a "freedom concert". This church has got some VERY talented musicians in it and the concert was fantastic. songs that celebrated our country and the freedom we are granted through the country and though Christ's death - both were included.

Hope your day is full of hot dogs, potato salad, and sky explosions.

This week is flying by! I've successfully created a pretty great access database for Claro that will help them manage their inventory and raw materials. Just waiting to hear back from a friend who will pump it up with a macro here and there. It's fun working at a company and being able to see what I do impact the company.

Time for a quick little update. 

Dreams do come true.

This post was written sometime last week. Like, Wednesday maybe? Anyway, I wrote it and then just kind of sat on it for a week because I didn't really know what to do with it. Welp, this is my blog so I'm going to publish it. Mostly because it was my reaction to the movie and had a crazy effect on my thoughts of people and relationships and all kinds of other stuff. So, without further adeu, my unsolicited, unasked for response/critique/review of "The Fault in our Stars".

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After seeing The Fault in our Stars on Tuesday, I raced through Paper Towns, with the promise from my badass roommate that a friend of a friend said it was the best book the author wrote. Ever.

Basically any time my roommate and/or the third intern and I go out in search of food or a park or a sonic, we usually find what we're looking for. And after we find it, we sit down and quickly establish this is gonna be "our" place. We have "our Greek place", "our sonic", "our target". Now, most of these places we claim are ours because they're simply the closest (target and sonic included). However, we just found "our pizza and beer place", and it's not just because of convenience.