The Unhygienic Journey: Day 2

48 hours has passed friends and to be honest, I am starting to enter the "gross" phase of The Unhygienic Journey. But two quick, funny stories for you from today:

1. I was emailed today by University Housing's video producer asking me if I would be a part of a promotion video that Housing is doing for residence hall living. But when did she want to film it? THIS WEEK. I thought to myself, "You've got to be kidding me! Of all the weeks to do this she has to pick the one week of my entire life that I am not showering?!" Fortunately for me though, the times that she gave me I were unavailable for, so I conveniently rescheduled with her for next Wednesday. Conveniently, one day after this challenge is over. Praise God. :)

2. My boss walks into my office today at work and turns to one of our coworkers and says, "What smells?" Immediately I thought, "Oh my gosh, I don't smell that bad yet!" Our coworker replies, "Yeah...it smells like garlic or eggs or something." If you can picture my eyes growing to the size of saucers--that's what happened. I also discretely tried to catch a whiff of myself just to make sure. But then my boss says, "They need to get rid of that in the hallway, it's traveling through the whole building." Whew. She wasn't talking about me...yet. That did raise an idea in my head though today--should I tell my boss what I'm doing? Should I explain my semi-disheveled appearance when I'm at work next? What do you think?

My hair no longer feels light, nor does it look shiny. It has started to feel thicker and is limp, clinging to my head. It has taken on more brown hues than blonde. Ew.

My skin feels itchy. I've noticed that my scalp has been starting to itch, but the skin on my face is quite oily which I think is from all of the oils in my hair.

I smell like my vanilla scented moisturizer that I used this morning. I think this lotion is going to be the cure to my smelliness in the future. I should get another bottle...or two.

My mood is still optimistic. I haven't reached my breaking point yet, and I am praying that I continue to feel this way for at least 5 more days. :)

As I meditated on the scripture in Numbers today, I noticed that in other translations, it reads that God's love is steadfast. That word really stuck out to me. I started asking myself, what does it mean to have steadfast love? And I think God put this picture in my head of a tree bending in the wind, or a big rock at the bottom of a moving river. The tree and the rock both stand firm despite all of the movement going on around them. What a cool picture of God's steadfast love for us! His love for us stands as firm as that tree or that rock even when we doubt, when we fear, when we fail. All of our humanity can be in that wind, or in that moving river but God's love stands firm and anchored in the midst of us being human.

Tomorrow's scripture is taken from the book of Deuteronomy.

"If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers. He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you." -Deuteronomy 7:12, 13

The Lord loves me and you and He wants to bless everything He promised He would give to us. Amen!