>Yeah, I’m wearing a sweater. So right now I am sitting in a coffee shop called “Breaking New Grounds” in Market Square of downtown Portsmouth. oh wow, you would love this town. I walked across this bridge from which i could see things like this and this . Then I walked by things like this…
>Chris had a portcall in Virginia last weekend so he flew me up. In the meantime, my students watched The Hunt for Red October- excellent movie- Sir. Sean Connery played a Russian with a Scottish accent; that’s okay because it was still a really good movie. We went to Colonial WilliamsburgI wish we had taken…
>I know this is a little late in coming. With the super-busy first year of teaching, I have been out of the swing of blogging. The not-quite-so-new-news-that-you-may-already-know is that I am engaged to the most wonderful man that I have ever met. I know, crazy, you meet the man of you dreams and he likes…
>http://www.tomsshoes.com/content.asp?tid=284
>On the plane coming back from a great snowboarding spring break and finding a cute duplex in Maine, I was thinking about the sermon from the Ledyard church we attended and I was reviewing his 09-10 schedule (Chris will be out to sea for half of our first year) and wrote this in my journal….
>I was listening to my ipod on an airplane from Maine to Dallas. Jennifer Knapp’s song, “Martyrs and Thieves” is such a true and honest and humble song. I typed the lyrics at the bottom of this blog. It made me think about several verses and a deep meaning that would have to be deep…
>This is a cool quote about it. It’s a chain reaction: Sow a thought, reap an action. sow an action, reap a habit. sow a habit, reap a character.sow a character, reap a destiny.-Samuel Smiles And I thought, so, Shakespeare’s Macbeth actually taught us something. Macbeth let the THOUGHT of killing the King turn into…
>”Yes, I am about to go to bed. yay. What I said earlier about what I’ve learned from talking with other women, particularly with married women, is that men like to fix things- if there is something wrong, they want to make it better and get rid of the problem. Well that makes sense doesn’t…
>How did the Greeks and Romans cut rock and build obilisques 3x taller than the statue of liberty? How did they transport thousands of tons of stone hundreds of miles from quarries to construction sites (there are temples in Italy that have stones from 5 different locations around Africa and Spain!) Archeologists are not sure…
> Josh Turner Song Oh the longer the waiting, the sweeter the kiss It’s better my darlin, I promise you this. Next time I hold you I’m not letting go. Will you wait for it darlin? I need to know. Well you know I’m a sailor and tomorrow we sail. It’s hard way of livin,…
>During the sermon last week, I was jotting a note about patience. I asked the Lord for more of it. Then I wondered, what is it? So I tried to define it, but really couldn’t. Then I started thinking about the fruit of the spirit listed in Galatians 5:22 and what they are and aren’t….
>Okay this is going to be a shuffled recollection of what I learned in the last few hours. I just got back from a 3 1/2 hour session intended to prove intelligent design. Three speakers (I am not going to spell all their names right)- all science scholars: Steven Myers from Cambridge and author of…
>What am I doing? What could I be doing? There are so many options and I feel like I am choosing the path of less excitement. Not of the least excitement, because I don’t think that any teacher could ever say that. But I want to travel. Why am I not teacher in Denver? Why…
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqrFG7xrE1I
>needs affirmation again. I am slightly shocked and deeply frustrated. I watched a britney spears music video. Tis true, I haven’t done that before- i don’t watch MTV and I never look at celebrity or secular music info on the web. Crazy that I have sheltered myself like that- being 22 and all. When the…
>Grandmother was moved to hospice today. She is too tired to open her eyes or talk, but I can tell by her facial expressions that she can hear us. I sat and sang to her for a long time. It is strange that barely a month ago, we were walking around her house and flipping…
>Heather is living in a surprised state. I’m just surprised that I am surprised about what I am surprised about. It feels good in a wierd and unexpected way. Anyway, have you ever played your ipod while driving by charging it through your laptop computer which you plugged into a converter because it needs to…
> Prov 13:12 “Hope deferred makes the heart sick,but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” Christ is to be my longing. If I let Him, then He will fulfill His promises and thus fill me. And when I am that tree of life with hope in the Lord, I will be abiding in…
>Thinking about it on my way to sleep. Got up and wrote it down. No, marriage is not this close to the forefront of my mind. I am a single woman right now and proud to be that. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t think about it. I want more than anything for that…
>I want to go hike and camp in Ozark National Forest. I have riden through it by car and motorcycle more than thrice, but I haven’t done enough hiking in it. I need to put this aluminum hiking backpack to use. October 25ish- when the leaves are turning and it isn’t too too cold. Any…
>I have not blogged in a long time. I have less time than I used to have. And I have enough company that I need not use this space to replace socialization. I get plenty of “social” at work (there are few places more social than a high school-granted they are all 6-7 years younger…
>Walking down the terminal- Southwest Airlines adds on the walls made me think. The theme sentence between four posters was “hard day?”. Poster 1: A business man fixing a printer with ink exploded on his face and looking frustratedPoster 2: Zoomed in on a broken business high heel shoePoster 3: A dog eating a Black…
>My clever quote concerning men and women in relationships. “”Boys are more obvious; girls are more mysterious. Girls are more intuitive; boys are more oblivious.”
>Camp ended. I got to be a counselor the last week! That was pretty much amazing. I had gotten pretty comfortable in my kitchen role and prayed that God would present a way to stretch me a little more the last week and He did. The director grabbed me about an hour and a half…
>God tends to do this at Pine Cove… PC puts you in a position out of your comfort zone where you are not prepared and dont really know what you’re doing and then gives a lot of responsibility in it. So you pretty much cant do it yourself; maybe you can push through a week…
>Mom took fire work pictures for the newspaper tonight (she’s a photographer and sports writer). So I tagged along and took some shots too. It was fun- very fourth of Julyish. Sitting itchy in the middle of a flat field. kids and toddlers running around squealing in the dark- so dark that the only reason…
>I sent wonderful Dana a text message that said, “I classified myself today. I am a sitting indian style in a coffee shop with a flower in my hair kind of a girl. And you, you are a doing a toe touch on a scottish highland hilltop with a flower in your hair kind of…
>I have too many interests. Mom and I are watching videos of Asleep at the Wheel and Bob Wills’: Cherokee Maiden, Boogie Back to Texas, Route 66, San Antonio Rose, Steel Guitar Rag and Hot Rod Lincoln. It reshows me just how much I love this country singing country dancing culture and why would I…
>I was looking for something specific but found it not. mostly because I got distracted by other ones. Ones about you know what- not the ones I was looking for. Either way, I enjoyed reading through them. It is strange to still be able to see two-year-old tear stains on journal pages and to read…
>Dad and I just went on a 2 hour motorcycle ride. We drove north over the meadow and through the woods and beside the lake and upon the hills at dusk. It was wonderful. We talked about salvation and missions and lifegoals and reasonability of life goals and about men. and about how confusing women…