what a day! clemson beat maryland in basketball on the road tonight. it was awesome. i couldn’t even watch the last couple of minutes, i came in here to poke around on the internet because they were causing me heart trouble. they need to work on their free throws. ;)

today on the way home, andy, chad, and i got in an interesting discussion on this girl at work, donna. she proclaims herself as christian, and that’s great. she’s a nice person, but she proclaims it in such a way, that makes the bad things she does reflect on this image she makes for herself. also, she kind of beats you over the head with the fact that she’s christian, so when she ends up saying something about how important God is, its almost as if what she’s saying has been cheapened, which is what andy said this afternoon. andy went to lunch with her and laurin today, and i asked if donna brought up any of the drama going on in her life. she’s been in the process of having a house built and i don’t know if its because she’s chosen the wrong contractor for EVERY job or her attitude when talking to the contractors puts her at a disadvantage. as a general rule, when i need someone to do something for me, i don’t talk down to them, esp when its a guy who’s one of the only ones to do it. she is on the phone a LOT at work with the contractors, its a bit distracting. anyway, so andy tells us about how donna was saying she just bought a brand new tv, an HDTV that will fit perfectly in the living room. okay, this really made me lose any sympathy for her. she’s a single mom with two kids, and she drives kind of a hoopty car (her words). she doesn’t feel comfortable driving to work because she is not sure if it’ll make it, and sometimes she’ll rent a car to drive to work. so what does she do about it? goes and drops $3000-4000 on a new tv. andy also expressed some frustration over her continually saying the good things in her life were blessings and the bad things in her life were sacrifices she had to make. i told him that i think part of donna’s problem is that she lives in a christian bubble and just kind of floats through life. yes, you depend on God, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to make any decisions. for instance, her choosing to buy the new, expensive tv instead of getting a cheap used car or paying for some of her new house expenses, that’s not exactly a good decision. that’s not God wanting her to make a sacrifice to not have a car, that’s her having her priorities wrong. andy said that donna told him that he’s blessed for being smart when he told her about what he thought about her priorities…i told him it doesn’t take an engineering degree to make a decision that seems to be a no brainer. she’s a nice person, but her reality is just a tad askew. i alluded to this when she was hired, and andy says that now he’s starting to see it. so where am i going with this discussion? i’m not sure, just don’t be like donna. yes i depend on God to lead me, yes i pray that He’ll provide, but that does not mean i sit around and waste the tools He gave me.