Updating from work

I am taking a break from my very busy week to escape from my responsibilities for just a bit. I have been looking at several blogs this morning and I need to know how to operate this whole blog shin-dig. I have seen some very cool ones, and I need to get my profiles looking like some of those. Any who, I have had so much on my mind today! David, who is my campus minister here at UNA, is having his fourth child today (well I guess technically his wife Hannah would be producing the baby). It's going to be a boy and they haven't decided on Joseph Allen Sumner or Jacob Allen Sumner yet. I also have four more tests this week, along with two papers and tutoring some high school kids. This Saturday is our garage sale at the BCM (Baptist Campus Ministry) and we are trying to set up for that. I will be gone though on Saturday to Montgomery. I have my interview for a summer missions camp counselor position at Worldsong Camp, in Cook Springs Alabama.
The main thing that has been on my mind today though is a commercial I saw on TV last night. It was a Cover Girl commercial with Ellen DeGeneres at the spokesperson. I will put a link to the video at the bottom of the page. The first lines of the commercial "Inner beauty is important, but not nearly as important as outer beauty!" I couldn't believe it. I sent an e-mail to Cover Girl and the Ellen DeGeneres show telling them how harmful this commercial could be in the influence of our young girls. I plan on calling a representative from Cover Girl advertising later this week to express my opinion to her as well. I was really disturbed by this and I think it's important that Hollywood understands what sort of impact they have on these naive young women they are trying to solicit their products to.
So anyways, that's what is new in the life of Elise today. Hope you have a fabulous rest of the day and stay warm!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL-C58XlHPc

Refreshing

This weekend has been real weird for some reason. Everyone left town and I couldn't go home cause I had to work Saturday. Clay was suppose to come up, but the weather and an accident at work Friday changed those plans. Normally I like to be alone and I enjoy the quietness, but this weekend I was very lonely! Late last night one of my friends called me and said I have a present for you, are you home? So he came by and brought me an Oreo covered in white chocolate! It made me smile that my friends notice things, like the fact that I don't like regular chocolate. we talked for a while and it was nice. Then today i had lunch with three friends and I sat there and thought how lucky I was that I have friends who are honest enough to say, "You're being real rude today, what's you're deal?" I need that. I need friends who can say something so honest like that and yet they still love me for who I am. It just made me smile and be thankful for the great friends I have now in this new stage of my life away from home.