>I’m in Dallas. Sorting things out ^2. My foot is improving- MRI came back that I didn’t tear those ligaments afterall. A pretty-darn-bad sprain and bone bruise. So I am still in the bigblackboot and I can walk around in it almost comfortably but still utilize the crutches for long distances. I’m heading to camp…
>Longing to discover what I’m longing for
>I am listening to the Women’s Breakaway sermon from 2007 (again- you’d think I’d learn by now) and the speaker, Christy Nockles (sp?) is amazing. She tells me all these things that I know yet do not know about myself as a woman and when I hear it I get excited and cry at the…
>I”m employed
>I’m teaching US History to 11th graders at in Garland ISD/ NE Dallas. They are the Naaman Rangers. The mascot looks like a hunter green Sarge! First Varsity football game is August 29th! NFHS is built on a 62.13 acre site, which backs up to a natural forest preserve on one side and can be…
>2 Corinthians 4:18 “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
>Spider House Coffee, Latin, and No Sangria
>9:30 AM.I’m wearing that thrift store redbird shirt and the Haworth thrift store oldman plaid authentic british driving cap. Rings, bracelets, tasseled necklace, and dangly fair trade earrings. lipstick. my hair is pinned up inside the cap like Joan of Arc and I like it. I feel like I fit in here in Austin pretty…
>I drew a big flower in my journal. half the petals were attached and half had been pulled off. It seems to me that the “he loves me. he loves me not. he loves me. he loves me not.” petal-plucking game that girls play should be a thoughtful dream stage not a semi-annual reality sequence….
>I was flipping through England journals and found this pasted in one
>I didn’t write this. Nick Thorn did about a year ago and he emailed it to me while i was in englad. I was pleased to come upon it so I thought I’d copy and paste it here because I dont think Nick would mind. Nick, may I quote you? “I have this weird fascination…
>I’d rather either blow really hard at the dandelion or put it in a vacuum and not look at it anymore. Pulling individual spores sounds less dramatic than it would be.
>apples in pasta- pretty good actually
>dinner was curious like normal. I have too many apples so I mixed them into yet another dish of butter and assorted white-cheesified pasta because when you are single, you have to eat from the same packages like 5 times before you run out. good for things that don’t expire fast but bad for things…
>ligaments and tendons
>news is better than bad. Detached two ligaments around my ankle bone but those don’t require surgery and should heal quickly- like 2-3 weeks they will be strong enough to walk with a little ankle brace. Tendons look promising, but he is not sure because it is still so inflamed. I had nearly convinced myself…
>Hymn 467: Trust and Obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.
>John 2:1-12. Jesus was at this wedding in Cana and they ran out of wine. oh no. So Mary, his mom, asked Jesus to take care of it. He initially said, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not come.” She basically ignored him and told the servants to do…
>Today I had a baseball surgically implanted in my ankle.
>not really. So I was attacking this V.2 bouldering route on the rock wall at approx 8:30pm… I had worked my way up about 12 or 13 feet and had just finished a cross over and a practical split to the far left. My arms and legs were spread out like a jumping jack at…
>reading my blog
>today i went back and read the things that i wrote about last june. i was excited. haha. particularly june 15. i wrote a little on there about me as a woman dressing up pretty and i cant decide if i am supporting or contradicting myself in what i wrote about that the other day….
>The Five Love Languages. I was thinking about it sitting in Poor Yoriks because thinking happens to me when I’m there
>I’m doing good. I’m having fun this summer. Sometimes I run around and just live without thinking. Sometimes when I stop to think or think on accident, I think excitedly and sometimes disappointedly. I’m excited about being where I am right now and doing what I am doing right now and I am excited about…
>wesley, hip-hop, and fake rocks. nothing deep.
>It’s what we’ve all been waiting for. They finally started the road construction outside of wesley. You walk out the door and feel like you are in a prison where ever you turn because the tall wire fences surround you. But a happy prison because hey, it’s wesley. The wooden pickets on the far end…
>I got chalk on the key board
>Baty and I did legs and abs today but then I went rock climbing so I got arms and shoulders in too! I climbed with Stephanie. I like her. I think if now were two years ago and we were both her age, we would be good buds. I climbed two 5.9s and two 5.10s….
>I want to go dancing. My hiphop class was postponed to wednesday. sad me.I’m going rock climbing with steph tomorrow. I found my gear. glad me. Still working out daily. Like it alot. Baty is accompanying me tomorrow.Spent two hours in starbucks today. Conversed with a Muslim and an unreligious guy that knows alot about…
>In additoin to the Identity Misplacement entry (second half of a few entries back)
>Women do enjoy dressing up. We play dress up when we are little girls then run up to daddy and ask, “do I look beautiful?!” and spin in a circle so that he can watch our skirt twirl. We spend a whole day getting ready for prom and ring dance and take our time to…
>I want to see the movie, Once. I’ve been listening to the soundtrack and it plays my style of music. http://youtube.com/watch?v=qx8yLvb0gZM. You know how weird coincidences happen sometimes? I was writing the word, “Once,” and Sleeping Beauty was playing on my i-Tunes and the prince sang, “I know you, I walked with you ONCE upon…
>Today I sat in the trunk of my car (which is big enough to fit two bouldering pads) and stared a bit of Baby’s Breath (a little flower that I love- http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wildseed/19/19.1.html) for a good twenty minutes. If I could climb on the roof, I would have gotten up there, but my car is not…
>So I was cleaning out my ears and I found a sequin in my right one; and identity misplacement
>I found a sequin in my right ear today. Anyway, lunch experimentation today was creative. Sandwich: thin slice of honey ham, baby spinach, crisp pair slices, brie cheese on sour dough. I think it would be better on a sweeter bread, but it was pretty good-. the pear was better than just weird. Gala Apple,…
>If you want to see some interesting foreign photography, look at http://loretomonsalvec.blogspot.com/
>while i cook
>So i am having to figure out timing. last time i made pasta, it was with angel hair noodles and those cooked fast and this time it is penne pasta. That takes longer, of course. So my sauteed shrimp is sitting with a pan that is bigger than the pan that it is in on…
>year old email cut and pasted
>Heather Haynes to hooter10 (wayne)show details 7/20/07 Reply Lord, who is this manwho steals my thoughts,teases my dreams,and treasures me so?Is my heart gullable and he just coaxing me? He coaxes me certainly but unless coaxing is wrong, do I mind?I toss the idea of him around in my heador rather pretend to toss it–…
>”What you think about will be what you long for and what you long for will be what you chase after.” Ben Stuart “Hold every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ” 2 Corinthians 10:5 “Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” Matthew 12:34 If you spend your time thinking about…
>cliff jumping, anti-drowning body surf practice, and MOTORCYCLING!
>Today I hiked in the rain forest again, this time it rained while we were in there so it was more humid and more cool and the colors just seemed so much brighter. I really like it. We went to Waihamia Bay and cliff jumped off of a 30 foot rock into the blueblue ocean….
>Hawaii II
>So yesterday was pretty much amazing here in paradise where mongoose run like squirrels. We rented a little 1996 convertible Geo Tracker for cheap and drove the full circumference of the island of Oahu with half a tank of gas. Amanda P, Steve, and Greg and me- we stuck the boys in the back seat…
>on the wall in a holeinthewall hawaii cafe
>There was an old story on the wall in a small town fish n chips cafe that taught me quite a bit. SO There was this badger that lived a little ways from a river. He owned two buckets which he would fill with water daily and carry back to his house on a stick…
>Hawaii
>Look I’m on the internet. We got up at 4am Tuesday morning (after sleeping only 3 hours) to make our flight, which was 8 hours long, and when we got to Hawaii, it was mid afternoon. So we went to bed as soon as the sun went down because we were so tired. Then we…
>FFH song “It’s a Good Day”
>How ever long our feet have walked on this world, we have all lived long enough to know that sometimes life will go our way and other times it wont. But still I have this joy inside of me. With each new dawn I do believe to say, “Hey it’a a good day even if…