gnc

on april 29th, major cities all over the world are hosting the global night commute. the mission of this night is to make people aware of what is going on in northern uganda. every night thousands and thousands of children walk miles away from their homes to safe shelters, spend the night, and walk back home every morning. they make this commute so they will not be abducted and forced to fight as soldiers. they are invisible children.

i encourage everyone, if you live in a city where this is going on and you are able, please support this cause, you can make a difference. go here to find out more information and to sign up.

a planner

I remember growing up how I wanted to be a maid. I loved cleaning and thought that being a maid would be the best job in the entire world. One time I even got a bucket of water and our feather duster and cleaned the playground’s slide because it was dirty. I wanted to be a teacher. Vis-à-vis pens made my Christmas and the day my sister brought home a sheet of transparency paper was the best day of my young life. I wanted to be an astronaut and fly to the moon. I wrote NASA and asked them to send me space pictures and when they arrived I plastered the back of my door with the solar system. No matter what my occupation, I was going to live in a grand house. It had four stories, including the basement which was going to be a movie theater. I still have the floor plans. It was going to be the house that all my kid’s friends hung out at, the “cool” house. And most importantly, it was always going to be clean. It was great when you were young to have a plan for your life.

If you know me now, you know that I still like to make plans and lists; it didn’t fade away with age. I am one of the listy-est people I know, constantly making to-do lists (write a blog entry is on my current to-do list) and planning things in my head. And like most ISFJ’s, I like stability and nearly cry when things don’t go as planned. I started preparing for my move to Seattle a year before I was leaving. I was worried in august that I didn’t have a place to live when I moved there in March. I didn’t have a job moving out here and that absolutely terrified me. I still don’t have a job and I’m still terrified. I got my degree in business because I thought it would easy to get a job after graduation, not because it’s what I really wanted to do. I don’t know what I really want to do. Lately I’ve been feeling really called to mission work, mainly in Africa.

All that being said, after josh graduates in 3 years, I’m moving to Africa. When I first told josh this, he thought I was just putting the idea out there, you know, something to think about, but I made it clear that I was serious. So, this is my plan for now. I just have to figure out what I’m going to do for the next three years, maybe become someone’s personal assistant…I’d be good at that.

slamming stones

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my goal for this blog was to update more frequently than i did on my other one. so far, i'm not doing so hot. i blame this on my lack of home internet and josh's busy computer-using schedule. so from now until that glorious day in june when my god-sent apple laptop comes to live with me, my posting will probably not be as often as i had hoped.

that being said, josh and i have were quite the cultured couple last week.

tuesday night we went with some friends to a poetry slam. katie and i were judges and it was very stressful work. if you score the poets too low, you get booed. if you score them too high, you are just lying to yourself and the poet. i, of course, wanted the old man to win so i gave him high scores, but my 9.4 wasn't enough, and he was out.

friday night we went with will and selena to see a play called stones in his pocket in the tiniest theater i've ever been in. you know how actors spit when the annunciate? well we were so close to the actors that i actually got spit on. aside from phlegm, the play was really excellent. it just took me 7 minutes to figure out the right spelling of 'phlegm.'

everyone should see this movie (and no longer use paper napkins).

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frequently used

i thought it would be a good idea to make a glossary of names/places that have become regulars for me and might pop up frequently in this blog.

aimee: my roommate. a library sciences grad student who hates when anything besides her feet are in her shoes.

COTA: church of the apostles or where josh and i go to church.

eliacin and ricci: the family that lives in the basement. former missionaries in puerto rico and great parents to their daughter catie, age 3.

greenlake: the neighborhood in seattle where i live. also the name of the lake where i run alongside hundereds of other people and dogs.

jessica: my roommate. a vegan triathlete who works for the sine's. her boyfriend matt is a park ranger.

josué: josh's seattle name.

mars hill: josh's grad school.

thai tom: a thai resturant in the u district that josh swears by. #15 swimming rhama, 2 stars.

tom and christine sine: my landlords. they own the house and live on the main floor. while they aren't writing books they play with their t-shirt wearing golden retriever, bonnie.

zoka: josh's second home. a local coffee shop where josh goes to study and i go to read.

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now that i'm in seattle, i thought it only appropriate to start a new blog along with my new life. i guess with seattle comes nerdiness, who knew?