Sunday, December 23, 2007

update on things

well i think i got the art teacher job, but because they took so long to get back to me and they dont start until February...i might have to decline the offer when it comes...we'll see how my school schedule ends up so maybe i can do it at least once a week.

i did however have an interview for my old Apple job. i really want it back, but if i accept then i cant be gone for more then 3 weeks at a time and then i really cant go to europe with cassie this summer. but if i dont take it based on that, then i really wouldnt have money to go anyway!

friggen catch 22

over the weekend i gt to hang out with some of my favorite girls. everyone was home!
we met at my house and all layed in bed awhile and made fun of cassie for her usual ridiculousness. then we went and got sushiiiiii! and then we went to starbucks/cofee bean for some holiday drinks and drove around to look at christmas lights and sing carols and laugh until we couldnt speak and me and annie were peeing our pants in kelseys car. it was SO fun. then i beat them at scrabble.

today me and my fam went to see the dead sea scrolls. it was pretty sweet. but it was too crowded and loud and their was a PSYCHOTIC lady with a crying baby who just kept going thru the exhibit like she didnt have a screaming child in her arms who was probably wet or hungry.

my favorite part was the old bibles with big beautiful paintings in them. i love how art and the bible totally go perfectly together. its loverly.

then we got some los primos and visited uncle dan and josi and lukey. but they were having a photo session! so we peaced and came home to wrap presents and drink and watch funny movies. my family is fun sometimes.

tomorrow is christmas eve! i cant believe its already here! im excited!

but im more excited to go visit olivia next week and to go to new york after that. christmas has been hard on me financially and im sick of everyone being off work and it being crowded everywhere all the time...hello, some of us have things to do.

tomorrow i work a half day cause we dont get it paid holiday:( i had it off, but i wanted money so im working 8am-1pm. its going to be very slow and probably no one there, so ill get some reading and scrabulous done:)

i got eye infections in my eyes. they are better now though pretty much.

merry christmas friends.

thanks Jesus.

lovelove.

Friday, December 14, 2007

its all happening

well i just officially booked my trip to visit my bestie in oregon! im so so sooooo excited! i miss her way to much, and i really wanna see her lil apartment and life up there. we're going to have so much fun! im going january 3-8th, yayyyyyy!!!

and then im home for two days (i work both days!) and then its off to new york for a week. thats january 11-17. yayyyy!!!

on sunday me and kelsey are going to disneyland to celebrate christmas with mickey and his friends!

on monday im going christmas shopping, i dont have a bajillion people to buy for, but majority of them i have NO idea what to get them:
mom
dad
brother
uncle
best friend

the ideas i do have, im to poor. sucks.

im planning a christmas party for my girls, its an ornament exchange. i think we're going to drink christmasy beverages, drive around and look at lights and sing songs, then come back to my house and spike the beverages and open presents and have treats, then snuggle in for one of the best christmas movies of all time, Elf. yayyyy!!!

this week and last weekend has been so crazy fun! my family came into town and we had so much fun! i feel bad for neglecting my friends, but we were doing stuff all the time and it was just to much fun. i havent seen them in years, so its been nice to spend time together laughing and playing games and drinking and doing stupid stuff together.

heres a picture of me and my best friend Luke. i think this was thanksgiving cause im wearing my official thanksgiving sweater and glasses cause my contacts were broken.



now that schools over, im so perky!

Saturday, December 08, 2007

interview + Christmas!

today i went to the ghetto in san diego to interview for an art instructor position teaching kids in the poorer areas of SD art projects and installing them around the city! im so so so soooo excited!!!

then i took a long and lucious nap.

then me and mom and leah went to uncle dan and titi josis and lukes to visit and wait for my uncle and aunt coming in from michigan for a few days. yay for family! and yay for a lovely friday!

and now a christmas survey:



Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends.

1. Wrapping Paper or Gift Bags? clearly it depends on the shape of the present.

2. Real tree or Artificial? we've had artificial since we moved to cali 13 years ago. its big and beautiful and looks real and i love it!

3. When do you put up the tree? we make an appointment with the family and me and mom prep cookies and nog and the boys get the christmas stuff out of storage and we spend a few hours together doing it. probably next weekend.

4. When do you take the tree down? one year we left it up almost until february...we try and take it down a lil after new years

5. Do you like eggnog? LOVE IT! this year im gettin soy nog tho.

6. Favorite gifts received as a child? doll house with everything to go inside. still have it and my children will be forced to play with it.

7. Do you have a nativity scene? of course! its my favorite thing to set up...second to the entire victorian light up village we have too...

8. Hardest person to buy for? my brother and dad. they have everything!

9. Easiest person to buy for? my mom. i get her PJ's every year and she loves it

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? i dunno, everything i liked at the time

11. Mail or e-mail Christmas Cards? who does e cards for christmas? thats just weird and lazy

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? muppet christmas carol. Elf. and love actually. i watch all of them year round, thats how good they are!

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? when i have money. this year, it will be after the 15th of december;)

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas Present? no, im kind of a "keep it in case i need it someday" kind of girls. its becoming a problem actually.

15. Favorite thing to eat on Christmas? cookies are my worst enemy and we are currently in a fight because mom made a bunch today.

16. Travel at Christmas or Stay Home? we've never traveled on christmas for as long as i can remember. to many people...most of whom get on ur nerves after like 5 hours.

17. Favorite Christmas Song? "the winter song" -eisley

18. Clear or Colored lights on the Tree? i like clear lights, but my family puts all lights on the tree. clear, colored, blue, whatever else we can find

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Blitzen and Rudolph

20. Angel or Star at the top of your tree? an angel with real feather wings and a light up candle and she moves!

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Morning? we can open one on christmas eve and thats all, and then christmas morning/afternoon (we like to sleep late) we open the rest! yayy

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? the endless crowds and traffic and crazy prices and advertising...its gets exhausting!

23. What I love most about Christmas? the parties with friends and family. and drinking and eating like its a 24/hr party but u dont get looked down upon for it. and all the christmas movies on tv.

Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 06, 2007

good things

im done with all my classes for the semester! just two reasonable finals on monday and im DONE! im sooo ready for christmas holiday. im ready to go out and have friends and a life again. and im ready for christmas! and more time to work! and more money to buy presents! yayyyyy!!!

i think im gonna go visit my bestie olivia in the beginning on january. im excited!

im going to NYC with my family right before school starts again! im soooo excited!!!

ok thats all my good news. yay!

lovelove.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

music video

me and cassie were bored/ crazy/ fun. so we got together some ridiculous costumes. a bad wig. a camera. and Of Montreal.

enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbr71yEbyV8

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Thankful.

im thankful for...
-my parents who have worked so hard for me and my brother to have the life we do now.

-bella and lola who never fail to bring me joy on a daily basis.

-my precious amigas: olivia micah kelsey cassie annie who listen to me when i dont make sense and make fun of me when i deserve it and love me when i dont deserve it.

-my house with a beautiful kitchen and bathroom and running water and a fridge and heat and a washer and dryer...i take those things for granted to much of the time, but they are such a luxury to so many people. and a luxury when you come home from mission trips hanging out with those precious people!

-music and art and books which make my heart jump and fly and beat.

-and finally, i am most thankful for the sweet and lovely relationship i have with Jesus. I love talking to you and listening to all you have to teach me. thank you for loving me when i suck (which is all the time) and walking me through all of lifes adventures. i wouldnt be here without you, and i am so so so thankful for all you have done for me and for the world. you are so good!

happy thanksgiving dear ones.

PQ: if you wanna come eat at my house just call...everyones always invited! and it makes it so fun!

all my love.

Monday, November 19, 2007

things im excited about:

Things im excited about:

with 15 of us!
mom, dad, brother, me, leah.
cousins: adam and sue and their precious boys dylan, cole, and evan
uncle dan and Josi ad Luke (first thanksgiving:)
josis mom and auntie

probably some of mis amigas tambien!


Luke! we went and visited them on Sunday and i just cant get enough of the lil guy! hes so funny and sweet and fun. i cant wait to have my own. but until then, lukey pukey is just perfect..he doesnt puke BTW.




very little school left until winter breakkkkk!!! 2 and 1/2 weeks of classes and then 1 week of finals! SO SOON!


charlie brown and his friends express how excited i am about Christmas!

Friday, November 16, 2007

holidays!

hi friends! (my trademark greeting apparently;)

so this week could have totally sucked cause Wednesday i had SO much to do...literally, from 9am-9pm i was running around taking tests, interviews, presentations, it was CRAZY! but i got everything done and because i prepped and studied so much the days before it didnt suck!

and thursday i worked and u should know by now how hateful i usually feel toward my job and how ive been looking for a new one but havent found one and ive been really frustrated...well this week and last week have actually been really good at work! now that ive cut down on days and my boss is getting his personal life together its really affecting how much more work he gets done. he kept trying to get me to do things cause he didnt know how cause his old assistant did EVERYTHING but wasnt there to teach me or anything...it was awful. but now i just do things i already know and like and im less stressed when i get there from everything else i have going on that i enjoy my day more. and its so fun with annie, sometimes we have to remind ourselves to be quiet cause we're laughing and having so much fun!

school is still sucking. seriously, from now until the end of the semester (which is soon!) i will be writing many papers and studying for many tests every weekend.

today i slept in:) and now im gonna run errands, including getting my bro a birthday present which his birthday is today! we're going out to dinner tonight and then im going down to annies for a taco night and to meet the new boy shes dating. should be interesting!

HOLIDAYS:
last year i was so so over the holidays. weird right? i love thanksgiving and christmas and all the fun during that time, but i was so stressed with starting a new job and crazy school of course, that up until the days before christmas when i finally had time off, i was over it. but this year my desire and excitement for christmas has returned! all these holiday movies and commercials and getting ready to decorate my house and see family and Lukes first Christmas and buy people presents and maybe best friend will be coming home! soooo many things to be excited about! i added the Christmas Tree application to my facebook and im overly excited about that too...its ridiculous! (everyone get one so i can give u fake presents and u can open them on christmas!)

ok so in honor of the holidays i have stolen this survey from my friend Tamara and have decided its the perfect time on a lazy friday morning to present it to u:)

lovelove.

1) EGG NOGG OR HOT CHOCOLATE?
i LOVE eggnog, especially with brandy in it and some cookies on the side. hot chocolate always burns my mouth and then makes it taste weird i bet if i had some high quality kind or home made or something itd change my mind...or with bailys irish cream in it! jeez, i sound like an alcoholic

2) DOES SANTA WRAP PRESENTS OR JUST SIT THEM UNDER THE TREE?
santas a tool!

3) COLORED LIGHTS ON ON TREE/HOUSE OR WHITE?
white on the house...however the last few years my dad hasnt been doing it:( and one time we put blue up until we realize it wa a jewish thing, haha. and we put all colors on the tree.

4) WHO DO YOU WISH YOU COULD SEE AT CHRISTMAS?
Olivia and Machu JR.

5) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY DISH (EXCLUDING DESSERT)?
mashed potatoes my mom makes from grandmas recipe. AMAZING. i like turkey a lot too

6) WHEN DO YOU PUT YOUR CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS UP?
whenever we can find a day where we're all home to do it. we have to make a appointment with everyone in my fam to make sure we're all free that night...basically cause me and andrew are so busy most of the time.

7) FAVORITE HOLIDAY MEMORY AS A CHILD?
when my moms family would get all together and my mom and titis would make a big dinner (including rice and beans of course) and everyone had a secret santa and we would exchange gifts and eat and eat and eat and then play with cousins and it was just really fun.

8) WHEN AND HOW DID YOU LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA?
i was never really that into him to begin with, we tired hard to remember the real reason for the season in my family: mostly cause we're better people then u.

9) DO YOU OPEN A GIFT ON CHRISTMAS EVE?
of course! mom and dad exchange an ornament every year and they open those, and they pick a small gift me and brother get to open also.

10) HOW DO YOU DECORATE YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE?
pretty WASP like...lets see, white and rainbow lights on our ginormous fake tree, and we have a few sets of generic cosco ornaments that are pretty, and we have a bunch of special ones that mom and dad have exchanged over the years, or that me and brother made. and me and andrew used to always fight over who got to put the angel on the tree...shes pretty cool, she moves!

11) SNOW....LOVE IT OR HATE IT?
love it! but i havent lived in it in forever so i probably would be over it by then. i will say that if u dont have to work or live a busy life in the snow, its really pretty to sit by the window sipping tea and watching the snow fall. whenever i visit my family in canada and its cold, i totally love it cause im just chillin and i know its temporary...but otherwise i think id be glad to live in socal!

12) CAN YOU ICE SKATE?
cant everyone? but i only like it if its with a bunch of friends and we're just goofing around. or if a boy wants to hold my had or something like that...whatever

13) DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FAVORITE GIFT?
i got a lot of SWEET gifts when i was little...i got a ginormous doll house with all the furniture and everything for it (or was that birthday? dont remember). i got a barbie swimming pool thing and barbie fold and fun house. when i got older i got a really really nice reking backpack for my India trip and all my other future trips since then! i got a scanner one year which no longer works:( one year my family went to Las Vegas (sounds lame but it was so fun) and our christmas gifts were to pick shows we wanted to go see and i got to get a massage and go shopping and get money spent on me and that was our christmas presents! i love christmas!

14) WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS FOR YOU?
obviously drinking and getting sweet gifts. but seriously, i love how nice people are to eachother and i love how pretty everything is and i love seeing and spending time with fun family and long lost friends and i love love LOVE celebrating the birth of my savior.

15) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY DESSERT?
im a straight up pumpkin pie kinda girl. ive made them the past few years and i kick at it!

16) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY TRADITION?
when my family sets aside one night and me and mom make cookies and we drink egg nog and we get out all the decorations and listen to Christmas music and decorate the tree and house and its so so fun!

17) WHAT TOPS YOUR TREE?
pretty angel whos arms move and she holds a lighted candle and has real wings!

18) WHICH DO YOU PREFER, GIVING OR RECEIVING?
i think i would like giving a lot more if i had money:( in fact, when i had money i LOVED giving even more then receiving...but when ur poor giving sucks and receiving is a relief cause now you can {insert necessity you've been living without due to funds}

19) FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG?
carol of the bells. its so creepy i love it! but i love those old christmas songs about being away in a manger and hearing high angels and naming your son Noel. those ones are so good!

20) WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS THIS CHRISTMAS?
dont know yet, but we always have everyone and anyone over who wants to come...so usually my friends come over and Nicodemus from Sudan comes (but hes gonna be in Africa this year:( and uncle dan and titi josi AND luke! and sometimes our fun cousins from LA come with their cute kids and its always an eclectic FUN mix and i LOVE it so so much!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

BEST WEEKEND EVERRRRR

SERIOUSLY THE BEST WEEKEND EVER.

SATURDAY:

Of Montreal with Cassie Blue. few words: best concert of all time.



then i got to witness via the waiting room, the birth of my new fresh cousin, Luke!!!


hes BEAUTIFUL!

SUNDAY:
Swell season at the 4th and B. from my favorite movie ONCE.few words: second best show ive ever experienced. i almost cried it was so amazing.



MONDAY:
holiday off school! thanks veterans for all you've done! i celebrated my holiday by studying for my bajillion tests and prepping a presentation. but THEN me and micah went to see the best movie of the year!!!

Friday, November 09, 2007

1.The status of you and the last person you texted?
micah ficah! my dear long lost friend who i shall reunite with this weekend

2. What's bothering you right now?
im bored and i wish i had friends who werent busy and i went out. and i miss olivia.

3. What's the closest green thing to you?
literally nothing in my room is green...weird

4. What is in your wallet?
oh you know, an amazing amount of membership cards...some credit/bank cards...receipts...extra nose rings...little to no cash

5. Wallpaper on your computer's desktop?
it changes every minute...currently its a cute picture of Rilo Kiley

6. Background on your cell phone?
me and olivia from long long ago

16. Listening to?
new episode of degrassi!

17. Have you ever kissed anyone named Chase?
ive never even met anyone named chase actually

18. What do you smell like?
hemp. its my shampoo, teehee

19. Eating?
wine

20. What's your favorite thing to have on your bed?
a bella and lola

21. If you could change something in your life, what would it be?
oh jeez...id be done with school and teaching art in a sweet private school in italy

22. What do you wear to bed?
pants and old band shirts cause im cool like that

23. Do you remember your dreams?
not usually...and whenever i do it freaks me out cause i get deja vu

24. Who will you sleep with tomorrow?
bella and lola

25. Have you ever been gambling?
a little bit, but im not really into drunkinly throwing away money that could feed little children in india

26. What's something you wish you could understand better?
why college is so hard

27. What did you do last night?
went to art class and then got updated on my shows

28. Who do you miss?
olivia cassie micah cammie

29. Who is the last person you hugged?
annie yesterday when she went home sick:(

30. Do you keep up with MLB standings?
i dont know what that is

31. Who was the last person you went somewhere with?
alyssa from school and i went chalk drawing in the night

33. Have you kissed anyone on your top friends?
why yes, yes i have

36. What was the last thing you drank?
wine

37. Where were you at noon yesterday?
workin it up gettin paid doubleeeee


38. Who was the last person you vited in the hospital?
my great grandpa maybe

39. Do you like someone right now?
not really...it sucks

40. Are you bored?
YES. which is y ive instigated this here survey

41. What is the last movie you watched?
i tend to watch parts of movies. the last part of a movie i watched was That Thing You Do! SOOO GOOD!!!

42. Name three drinks you regularly drink.
diet coke, water, tea

43. What are you excited about?
WINTER!!! school being over...working more and having money...NEW YORK!...not to mention christmasssss!!!

44. Do you want someone you can't have?
sometimes. he just needs to get it together

45. Who was last to slap your butt?
weird

46. Where was the last place you went?
to take a stupid 3 hour computer competency test at school

47. What's on your mind right now?
my super fun weekend

48. Have you cried recently?
ive been really teary lately whenever i read this news...theirs just a lot of sad stuff always happening and i cant handle it sometimes

49. Do you want to be in a relationship right now?
yeah but i just wanna have fun

50. And why?
cause i like boys and kissing and cuddling and dates and fun
Better question.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

anything new

lets see...no.

went to MADE conference up at Hume! pictures are on myspace if u wanna see a few. i got to spend glorious time with my sweet high school girls and it was so fun. Hume is the best. not only did i get to watch God meet a bunch of girls there, but He totally met me there too. if my blogs are any indication of how cranky and frustrated ive been, its just a small glimpse. but ive been a lot better. cutting back on work helped and making new friends at school and having time to invest in my high school girls. but most importantly, Jesus is helping me to be content with where i am right now. i missed Him, He is so fun.

tonight the HS group had a hoedown! we all dressed up and did square dancing! it was SO much more fun then you're thinking right now! i was so tired and im not into country music or anything like that, but it was SO fun! they had a professional caller come and we did all these different dances and it was so fun! im even more tired now, but my body doesnt like going to sleep before midnight so here we are.

i dont have anything else to report.

school still sucks and i hate my classes and im REALLY not sure if im gonna pass chemistry which concerns me.

IM GETTING EXCITED FOR THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS AND OFF SCHOOL AND FUN HOLIDAYS!!!

i have a three day weekend!!! and a bajillion tests and papers due next week so i will be spending my holiday weekend doing homework and studying...huzzahhhh

lovelove.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

halloween

this weekend im counseling up at the high school girls MADE conference up at Hume! im paking all my cute high schoolers from seacoast and we're makin the drive up on friday! kelsey is driving with me and im VERY excited!

this week has been kinda sucking and i dunno if its spiritual warfare coming up on this retreat this weekend, or if my life just sucks or whats going on.

ive decided that i have possibly one the the hardest majors ever and its cleverly disguised as being a wimpy cop out major which i wont get paid much for when i graduate. the liberal studies major and teaching program in the state of california is so stressful and difficult to get into and once in difficult to stay in...its ridiculous. not only do i have a major of something im not interested in (its just a bunch of subjects i have to be good at, rather then something sweet i chose to focus on and somewhat enjoy), but i have 5 tests i have to take, another full year after i get my BA done in a credential program where i student teach somedays (not paid) and have classes other days all day that totals like 40+hrs a week.
my starting salary after all that work is only going to be around $35,000/year.
i will constantly be forced to take more classes and even to get my masters degree someday if i want to move up the pay scale.
all so i can be controlled by the government, teach to the standardized tests so i dont lose my job, and put up with parents and their crazy kids.

im pretty sure im just gonna be a private school art teacher.

which doesnt make all these hoops any easier to jump through.

so thats my venting after a long week of school and a bad case of the grumpies.

this will cheer me up! this is me and lola in her Lobster costume. Bella is a hotdog and sometimes they switch costumes.
i didnt buy them! but they're to fricken cute.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

ekerr.mymarkstore.com

DO IT.

lovelove.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

mas picturas


smoke sky 2007 (photo credit: brother)


a funny picture from olivias bachelorette party in september...hehehe we're fun


fires 2007: our view from out house. and why we peaced out asap.


the best picture ever.



bella got a bow from her haircut and often sleeps with her tongue out cause shes cute like that.


best friends sleep together. hehe.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

100th post!

100th post! amazing! this is quite the occasion!!!

in honor of this occasion, ive decided to do some extra special things.

1) HONESTY
2) AMUSEMENT
3) PICTURAS
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1) HONESTY
-i realized im very self centered. i used to be working on this and trying really hard to be like Jesus and care about others and not about myself. but im sucking at it, and i realized how far down the other side of the road ive gone. i dont know what to do. but im pretty sure having some real legit time with Jesus for the first time in about a month might be a start

-im very judgemental and opinionated and i tend to force other people i love listen to my judgements and opinions. once again, i used to be working on this and loving people and trying not to open my mouth...but im sucking at it big time to the point that i cant stop my mouth before speaking anymore...like, im not even aware im doing it until ive said it.

-ive been "letting myself go" lately and eating whatever i want because of stress and being poor and just plain laziness and lack of self control. im normally such a healthy person its really weird to be "normal". ive been eating cookies from pei wei like its my job, downing diet coke like its water, even candy! i NEVER eat candy! so today i started eating normally again and i feel a lot better already.

-i get really lonely. and other then annie and people in my classes who i only kinda am friends with...i miss my friends. im having an affair with the tv which is ok, but i dont like watching it all alone (well Bella and Lola are with me, but still). i just want roommates and we'll sit all together in the evening and do homework and watch tv and make dinner together and be so fun

2) AMUSEMENT:
-Lola is the most amazing dog ever. while we were in the hotel i was holding her and sitting at the desk on the computer with a mirror on the wall. she definitly propped herself on the desk and started growling and barking at herself for like 15 minutes. it was AMAZING

-last night Lola managed to climb up onto the table and eat ALL the treats out of this pretty large bucket we have of treats we give them when they're good. i had to yell at her and act mad, but it was just so funny it was really hard not to just laugh.

-my coworker was talking to me today about something unrelated to anything anyone would ever have to know, and definitely broke into singing along with the radio mid sentence and then just picked up his sentence and finished it like nothing happened. i would like to say it was funny and hes a cool guy or something, but hes not. and sadly this whole "singing along to the radio" thing has gotten completely out of control.

3) PICTURAS:

this is one of the reasons its difficult for me to get out of the bed in the mornings.


due to technical difficulties, more pictures are to follow.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

home again home again

we moved back home this morning! yay!

the evacuation area and rancho fire is still pretty close to us, but the winds changed and arent headed this way anymore.

its frustrating because they resumed normal shows so catching the news and knowing whats going on is hard unless i keep checking the internet...but we're pretty sure we're in the clear. we're keeping packed tho, just in case.

isnt this crazy! san diego is on fire! ok, but im tired of talking about it and i want to discuss some other important things going on.

why did the babydoll dresses with spandex, combat boots, a scrunchie, and/or knee highs ever go out of style?! i was reminising while watching 1 love the 90's and i totally missed out on that movement cause i was too young and im sad.

colbert is running for candidacy in south carolina and in other states u can write him in. i think i will, cause i like him.

tomorrow i go to work and back into the real world. ehhhhhhh

but for now its time for my shows:)

Monday, October 22, 2007

EVACUATED

well we got 2 calls in the evening telling us to prep to leave. i had packed before going to sleep cause i wanted to be ready. cassie called me at 8am telling me there were fires in san marcos, i looked out my window and everything was orange and black. so we decided to pack up and leave since by the time mandatory evacuations are given, u basically need to be running out.

after struggling to find somewhere to stay (cbad didnt seem much safer) we settled in oside with our lil pups. we have internet! woot. we're realllllly tired since we didnt get much sleep last night and have so much anxiety its ridiculous so we slept on and off along to watchin the news for most of the day.

now we dont know if we should leave here because fallbrook isnt very far away nor escondido soooooo we're still nervous and im reallll sick. ive been sick all weekend but todays been pretty bad.

schools cancelled which would be enjoyable but i didnt bring any school books and im to anxious to try and study or anything anyway.

its amazing how little i found i valued things. we took our old precious pictures a few changes of clothes and me and my dads laptops and my cuddly blanket...but besides a few sweet objects i have fro when i was little...i was amazed at how little i cared about things...i guess id miss my journals and india stuff and diplomas...but other then that, i realized my family and dogs and friends are so much more important to me.

be safe and breathe indoors!

lovelove.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

its been awhile

hiiii
well kelsey reminded me i havent updated in quite awhile.
i havent really had much to update...still busy with school and work craziness.

i had all this stuff due for my integrated credential program at my school, and im excited to report that im almost doneeeee. i have things to turn in tomorrow and then a group interview next week and then im done and im in the program! yay!

so that'll be some stress behind me. it was seriously an entire folder of things to turn in...like tests, medical forms, letters of recommendation...tons of stuff.

i had hardly any homework today. which would have been sweet except im sickkkkk.

yesterday me and kelsey went to disneyland and it was ridiculous. sooo crowded. i spent sooo much money i really shouldnt be spending. we rode a total of 3 rides and waited about an hour for each of them and those were the shorter lines. but was saw a SWEET parade. and me and kelsey felt sick and allergy all day but still had a goodtime laughing and being silly.

these are some of those stories:




Friday, October 05, 2007

BEST GIFT SO FAR

well, my dear friend annie definitely conspired with my boss and got me a Mr. Sticky set!

should arrive in a few days and im going to use it on EVERYTHING.

its weird...ever since that stupid presentation, ive been finding all kinds of things i could use a mr sticky for...*sigh* and now i have one:)

today i had a job interview for a sweet job teaching at a private school in La Jolla, Apple technology to kids:) i realllly want the job, it sounds perfect for me.

then i went to micahs house and we went to sushi and i had sake for the first time, so good, and then we went to a pub and i got a chocolate martini and we shared a creme brulee cheesecake topped with irish cream (which is apparently the same as bailys! who knew?!). then we watched 2 funny episodes of freaks and geeks. then we started falling asleep and decided to call it a night.

i got to talk to my bestie Olivia today. i miss her mucho. i really wanna go visit her soon...im sad without my fun friend.

tomorrow im wearing my bridesmaid dress and going with some of my bests to goofys kitchen. im minorly excited (!!!!!!!!) why are we going? probably cause ITS MY BIRTHDAY.

i cut my dogs hair and it looks REALLY funny. lola looks like a snouzer and we gave bella a mowhawk. i love them. i wish they could come to my birthday.

i love iron and wines new album. sometimes when i listen to them my heart gets so full and big that i want to marry them and i dont know what to do with myself so i have to change it to something else before i get all emotional. i heart music.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

the obvious adventures with kelsey, annie, and mr sticky

well, yesterday was another typical day with kelsey and annie.

we were going to go to the mall, but of course kelsey made like 50 stops before we could actually get there and annie was hung over drinking a gigantic bottle of water in the backseat. we finally made it to the mall and realized we were in the GHETTO. not to say that im better then anyone else, but their were large ginormous families with parents who were ignoring their crying and looked to be about 18 years old themselves, some really interesting outfits on some of the locals, and bumpin in the parking lot while i saw some people i think dealing drugs...pretttty sweet. we tried to go to the pet store but the stench of poop was so overwhelming we decided to go to sears instead...which wasnt much better. while at sears not finding anything, we heard on the loudspeaker that sears was giving away a free gift to the first come first serve people who followed the flashing blue light in the tools department. of course we dropped what we were doing and followed the light and the crowd of people clamoring for their free gift. the free gift, we were told, was worth about 5-7$, and used in hollywood, and used by all different kinds of professions. it was a glasses cleaner wipe. yep. just one. i reminded myself that one can purchase those 3 for 1$ at ones local 99cent store and hoped we got a sweeter free gift after the little presentation. the presentation was for the glorious "mr sticky" (as seen on tv) who picks up anything and everything and has a lifetime guarantee! our "free gift" was that if we bought the regular size mr sticky, we got a junior mr sticky, and a jumbo mr sticky for free!!! it was a limited time offer only good for today and all for only 25$ !

obviously we then left with our glasses cleaner wipe and ran out the door before annie could buy me it for my birthday.

then we came home and took a nap and i got yelled at for having a long voicemail. then me and annie watched a lame movie and waited for our friends who never came. then they came. then annie left. then kelsey left. then me and cassie went to bed with bella and lola.

now im procrastinating doing my homework cause im really tired and even tho i dont have a lot to do...i just cant bring myself to do it.

another week.

BUT its my birthday week! and saturday is going to be THE BEST!!!

ur so jealous!

lovelove.

(BTW i just looked online and all three mr sticky components normally come for 24$, her deal was even more of a crock.)

Monday, September 24, 2007

blehhhhhhhh

all i do is homeworkkkkkkkkk

but its almost my birthday!
but i dont wanna plan anythinggggg

on saturday i went to a dinner party at micah and tamaras house with the freshly married speelmans. that was fun.

iron and wine are coming in November. so is Of Montreal. im EXCITED! to say the least.

i wanna see paris je tamie, the darjeeling limited, stardust, and hairspray really really badly. so much its painful that i havent seen them yet. i love movies.

i have a lot of weekend adventures i wanna take and have been invited to do. i just dont have the time:( i only have saturdays off and could leave the earliest on a friday afternoon and return saturday evening...which sucks.

lets see...
-gotta go play with kelsey again at disneyland cause its SO fun
-gotta go visit kathleen at USC and watch arrested dev and laugh forever
-gotta go with micah up to LA to play with jaime and do fun LA things
-gotta take a long weekend and go play with Olivia and Yuna in Oregon
-co-leading the high school girls conference at Hume the first weekend in November

and really, by friday im so exhausted i can hardly even move after a week chalk full of 12 hour days. and i can hardly afford gas and random meals out as it is, i cant imagine affording much more at this point.

i think my priority is to go visit Olivia. i miss her a lot and if they cant make it for christmas then i dont know what ill do...its hardly been a month and i just really miss her. i loved it when we were both going to community college and i would always come to her house and study and watch tv with her in the evening and we'd talk about our future cutsy apartment we wanted. and i wanna see her sweet newlywed apartment and see where she lives and maybe even make it to seattle and see Yuna too.

tomorrow at work i guarantee ill be filing for like 3 hours as soon as i get there. the pile was HUGE on thursday when i left and i cant imagine it now. yikes. woohoo

wish me luck with my crazy life.

Monday, September 17, 2007

convicted.

last night i went to north coast calvary, and i was so overwhelmed by the amazing message and special visitors they had that night.

i realized that for a long time ive secretly had the view in the back of my head that "im a really good person, i kinda deserved Gods grace" in came out in my mind that i believed that i had made the good choice to follow God...when in reality, God came after me. 100% God, and 0% me. somehow i thought i was a good one, and that people who dont choose God are "bad ones"

this is such crap.
and its not like ive ever heard this message before. its just that, i never realized how much it applied to me before.

why do i think i deserve Gods grace more then the convicts in prison? why do i condemn them to a life in jail, either physically or mentally, and write it off that they deserve it.

let us embrace the lost, whether they're in a 3rd world country, or down in the local prison. Lord, dont let me forget this undeserved grace YOU lavish upon me. help me to lavish it on EVERYONE else, including those i used to view as "unworthy"--no matter how i rationalized it or switched up the words in my head to make it sound better, your grace is big enough for everyone.

amen.

i was also inspired to think more about how im going to change the world. im praying about teaching at risk kids or in an inner city (or a mix of both, obviously.) the problem isnt if i want to teach those kinds of kids or not, its if i can manage not living in an unsafe place for my family but also not being hypocritical by working somewhere then living somewhere else cause its not "good enough for me", or whatever. im thinking Vista could be a good in between because i wanted to live in the shadowridge area anyway, and then i could teach in one of the low income schools in the area...all my moms teacher friends all live in vista too and already want me to teach at their schools...hehe. but now im wondering if i should get a certificate for bilingual education or whatever. so its something ive been thinking about for awhile, but didnt want to commit to because of all of the above issues. but God is speaking to me about this, i guess the logistics can be worked out later.

in other news: i wish i had time for fun, all i do is school and work. i just want to do one or the other, but at the same time its nice to switch it up with work and to have extra money...but itd also be nice to have time for a life.

dinner time.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

exhausted. done. dead. sleeping.

this week has been RIDICULOUS.
non stop everyday of the week.
hardly getting enough sleep.
hardly any breaks.
BLEH.

but, tomorrows friday and thats exciting.
i arranged my schedule so that friday and saturday i have off, and sunday i have churches and homework...but now i have to put in observation hours at elementary schools around the area for my class, so i had to give up my fridays. now i just get saturdays...but fridays i always ended up doing errands anyway so it does suck, but whatever. i get to play with 3rd graders AND mrs stubstad and its gonna be so fun!

its my birthday soon.
im kinda excited and kinda not.

im so tired and stressed out, i feel like im just running all the time from one thing to the next. im living off of caffeine and coffee and prayer. my neck is all sore and screwy cause of stress and to little sleep. i have nothing im looking forward to besides my birthday which im not excited about yet cause i don have money to do what i want to do. i wanna plan a trip or something for the winter because otherwise im gonna drown.

finally im going to bed.
good night moon.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

sometimes tv

i am ridiculous.

ive been watching old americas next top model and degrassi episodes for 2 weeks now.
unacceptable.

me and kelsey went to disneyland today!
kelsey stayed out way to late last night, so when i arrived early as requested (11am), she greeted me in pajamas eating cheerios. so i read a mom magazine while she got ready, then we had to go to cosco, then we had to go to CPK for lunch, THEN we made it to disneyland! it took forever. after we crammed ourselves into one sled on the matterhorn, and i won the buzz lightyear game, we finished all the fun thing we wanted to do by 8pm we had done everything we wanted to, so we had time to eat a chipwich and people watch. its fun to pick out the people not from these parts...we saw many a lesbian, fanny pack, tank tops, spandex on large women, screaming children, strollers, couples that made us depressed, ect. all in all it was a good day.



Friday, September 07, 2007

EMARIE Consulting

thats my new business. i went to the san diego court place and registered it. next weekend im going to open a business checking account, and submit it to the newspaper (its part of the process, weird huh.), and then i think ill get an email address and business cards. im so legit now.

i got fingerprinted today for work too, and their were two crazy people there and it was funny to hear them talking about their ridiculous lives.

in other news, TOMORROW IM GOING TO DISNEYLAND!!!
finally! after all this waiting me and Kelsey are going to disneyland! annnd i get to see her new house! annnnd i get to spend time with my lovely friend kelsey. annnnd mickey of course. and ride the new nemo ride?! yayyyyyy

speaking of which, i need to plan my birthday. october 6th. i wanna have/have thrown for me and party again with all my local friends...and of course go to dland with the girls.

playing with micah! ok byebye!

thursday

work was average. im still getting used to being an assistant and having all different kinds of tasks, rather then just having my set work to do and doing it...i really like learning new things, but then i get tired of it and just wish i knew how to do everything already cause i like to be excellent at what i do...and u cant do that when u dont know what ur doing!

tomorrow i get fingerprinted! its for work, woot.

in my art class i painted a sunflower.

yesterday right after i wrote that blog, my professor came and talked to us all about every single thing we need to turn in and when...it IS stressful, but they organized it all for me and im SO glad i have my cbest done! check one off!

all i wanted to do tonight was hang out, but i got so tired after the long week and day so i just "took a nap" and then i didnt want to go out again...sorry micah. but tomorrow will be more fun, and ill have had a good nights sleep so ill feel better too.

im still thinking of joining a sorority, i have to turn in the papers on monday!

so lets see...
im an executive assistant
im joining a sorority
i starting a makeup business
i stay in on thursday nights

WHO HAVE I BECOME?!

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

wednesday.

so yesterday was sooo hot, but luckily i got to spend the day in the air conditioning at new job learning learning new new things. (it was tiring and a bit frustrating, but i think im getting the hang of it). then i had art for kids class where we made color wheels and other easy things. then i said byebye to machu whos off to europe today and went home. THEN it got all cool and nice outside and i slept soooo good! i havent been sleeping well cause of the heat (and my rooms lack of air circulation due to limited fans, and of course we dont have air conditioning of any kind), and the dogs are always waking me up and being anxious about all the stuff i always have going...but i slept SO good! but of course, when you sleep good, then your super tired the next day (WHY IS THAT?!) so i just downed a coffee and ate some protien, hopefully ill wake up for my next classes today.

PS: csusm is a really sweet school. its like the nicest campus ive ever been to in my life! everythings new cause it was so recently built...i take elevators to my classes. free wifi EVERYWHERE, almost all my materials in my art class are provided, pretty hills and flowers everywhere for relaxing (i think when it gets cooler itll b nice to sit outside and enjoy the sunshine rather then curse it).

in other news, i have to do 45 hours of teaching observation for my teaching class. and nother 5 for my art class (pretty sure im gonna cross examine them, i totally just used that incorrectly but im rockin it so leave me alone). 5 hours in 5 different types of classrooms, and the rest with one teacher. i kinda wanna kill myself just thinking about it. to get into the integrated credential program entirely next semester (currently im in the prereq semester), i have to take a computer competency test, fill out a 130$ security of clearence form and get fingerprinted, get all my medical records sent to the nurse here, get tested for tb, get recommendations, ect. its only the 2nd week of school, but im already overwhelmed with everything i have to do. arrrgggg...

i wanna start now so i have it all together and not stress at the end of the semester when im trying to apply to get into the program fully and its christmas and i have finals, ect.

lately ive been feeling pretty. i think im going through a "pretty phase". you know, like how some people go through ugly/awkward phases (its true, i had one and so did/are you). hmmm...but maybe nothing dramatic changed on the outside, but maybe my insides were made beautiful and im shining out. i dunno. either way, i feel good about myself almost all the time and accept compliments and believe them. not in a selfish or vain way, just in a confident way from Jesus. either way i dont care if u think im vain, i know i am loved by one greater then you.

ok, im gonna go to science class now. its in a gigantic room that looks like a real college room and all the levels have plug ins (for this here macbook) and huge screens up front and my professor clicks his powerpoints and its really legit. thats the class where the gigantic smelly lady in the sundress and hat with her bra showing thru and rolly backpack kept talking to me. i was going to move, but luckily she couldnt crash the class and had to leave, oh happy day i can go back to not being talked to again...maybe im just to nice. maybe i draw them to myself by my seemingly niceness...as i have told u and i will now tell myself...be loving esther.

Sunday, September 02, 2007

wedding!

welll its over already! the wedding has come and gone and Mr. and Mrs. Lang are off to Palm Springs for their fun filled honeymoon.

the wedding went really well, it was kinda stressful and tiring to be in the bridal party (its just a long day for all of us) but it was fun to support olivia and also to be dressed up and pretty looking for her big day. the vows and ceremony were beautiful, the bride and groom cried it up and made us all cry too cause it was such a sweet and special moment for them and for everyone who got to share the time with them. i cant believe shes married! well i mean, i can...but its still crazy!

in other news, i felt pretty the entire day cause lots of friends and family kept coming up and telling me how beautiful i looked. thats always a fun time! hehe...but everyone looked lovely, especially the bride and groom!

it was sweet because after micheal and olivia left for the hotel, the entire rest of the bridal party and family stayed and helped clean up everything along with the caterers and stuff...their was lots to do left like flowers, sound equipment, ect...so i felt blessed to have a bridal party that doesnt just get drunk and leave or something (like most wedding stories ive heard of) but we were all nice fun people who were the last to leave even tho we were the most exhausted!

after the loooonngggg day of playing wedding, i had a choice. go home and sleep, OR go to tims house and party it up with good friends i dont see very often and with makeup and a dress that i look like a mamasita. so i chose the later obviously, and it was SO fricken fun. me and machu went to tims HUGE parents house in rancho and met about 20 or so other people there, including xaiver who came in town for only 2 nights for the wedding. so i finally got some champagne and got to spend some time with old fun friends and new fun friends, annnd cassie came too so it was double the fun! except like 3 of my friends pretty much hit on her which kinda sucked, but we were really cute in our wedding atire and just drew them in, what can i say? and it was nice to do something fun with her outside of...nothing. we all drank a little too much then it being safe to drive home, and we were also exhausted so it magnified being crazy so we slept over in the ginormous living room and i got home today around 930am. SO FUN. it was nice to let loose and relax after such a long wedding day, and it was all people i know at the house so i felt safe and could really just chillll...

cassie made a good point this morning as i stood outside waiting for the car in my bridesmaid/party/sleep formal dress, my professionally done up hair now slept in, and my huge sunglasses...that if i were to grab a pastery and coffee and hop on down to Tiffanys, i would pretty much be the new poster girl for Breakfast at Tiffanys. i was honored cause its my fav audrey movie. and i knew ud be jealous so i thought id post it. hehe.

i decided on weekends i want to hang out more and relax after my hectic weeks at school and work. but i dont want to just go out and drink all the time (like some of my fun friends) i wanna go to movies, plays, parties that are fun, ect...annnd maybe drink sometimes but i dont want that to be all i do all weekend every weekend.

i think ive decided i want to learn to do and do other peoples makeup. so i looked at mary kay and i feel like mary kay is for old people...so i checked out Avon and i remembered that new part of avon they have called Mark. and it seems pretty sweet, and i like the products and its not a huge effort to start doing it in my free time with my friends and stuff. so when i get paid again in 2 weeks, im gonna get the starter kit and get started. annnd maybe i can do weddings like a hoped. anyone wanna be my partner and do hair?

ok dears, byebye.

Friday, August 31, 2007

bittersweet symphony

so i just woke up (which is amazing cause i slept like almost 11 hours which is a miracle since i could hardly sleep all week!)

and im all excited cause i can finally say that "Olivia is getting married tomorrow!" but im suddenly so so so soooo sadddd. i knew this would happen, i knew she would be moving away, but all of a sudden its here and all the prep talks i gave myself so i wouldnt be sad arent working. best friend is moving away again and has an official new best friend. no matter how i look at it, those are the facts.

BUT im going to try and visit her cause i really want to see their cute apartment and play with her being married in her new home. and im pretty sure they will be home for christmas, so it wont be so long until i see her again even if i dont make it out there before then.

no more slumber parties.

ok, i gotta go get my nails done...i cant go all blotchy and teary faced...

byebye best friend.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

wedding weeks!

last night the bachelorette party was SO fun! we had a lovely dinner and dessert and fun games and laughter at my house. leah and mom decorated SO good and the margaritas were amazing...and the cake my mom made was so fing good too. i was so tired, but had a goodtime...and most importantly Olivia said it was too perfect and exactly what she wanted too, and thats all that mattered to me. im glad i was able to do it for her, i found i really love party planning...i should do it all the time! but i dont like being the hostess, i cant relax and enjoy the guests so its not so fun...which is why people need party planners!

the picture upload form isnt working and im too tired to be patient.

tomorrow me and annie r getting our nails done and cashing our paycheck (YAY!) and i have some wedding errands to run. THEN we have rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner from 4pm on...im gonna look so fing hot, im so excited.

so what happening with the weather, all of a sudden its fricken HOT again...and it was so nice before too...sad.

worked new job again today. it was ok, im just frustrated that my boss doesnt seemed thrilled about explaining things to me...and i get confused and try and write everything down but he talks so fast. he doesnt like to come into work so hell just come for a few hours a day and its all stressful trying to get him to get everything done and help me with everything within like 3 hours...maybe tuesday will be better when he explains the difference between signiture guarentees and checks and securities files again...for the 50th time cause i cant remember. i try and remember its not my fault, ive just never done it before! arg!

ok, BED has been calling me all week! here i come long lost friend.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

first day of new job!

was so fun!
i really liked everything i do...some of it is similar to my receptionist job but lots of it is new with maintaining the advisor's financial accounts and other admin stuff for them...its pretty cool i guess. and me and annie get to IM to each other and have lunch together and laugh at her bathroom problems...haha...

tomorrow night is the big bachelorette party im throwing for Olivia...its been really crazy trying to get everything together but i think its going to be really fun. lots of yummy food, laugh, drinks, sweets..niiiiceeee...

im soooo tired...i havent been sleeping good cause of so much stress, and im sooo tirrrreddd...

ive been on a Degrassi kick all week so far...i saw one ive never seen before! the one where manny gets an abortion, it was really really sad actually..i was frustrated with her for being such a whore and then being all suprised and upset about it...of course, its not real...whatevs.


ok byebye. im so excited for the party tomorrow!!!

Monday, August 27, 2007

something silly

today i had the first day of most of my classes. i forgot how horribly boring school is and i truly dont know what to do because im already bored with doodling...someone give me ideas so i dont daydream and want to kill myself.

my schools really nice! its all really new and fancy and clean and nice.

start my new job tomorrow! woot!

stressed about everything happening this week and my financial issues and planning parties and attending parties and new job and new school and EVERYTHING happening at once...didnt sleep hardly at all last night, have been having intense tummy and heartburn issues cause of stress i think, i keep having to ask God to help me calm down and to trust Him with everything Hes given me...i need to remember He never gives more then i can handle...but i have to call on Him! i need to do that!

ok friends, wish me luck on this crazy week.
if ur lucky, ill post pictures!

lovelove.

PS: GO NOW AND BUY THE ROSIE THOMAS CD'S...ANY WILL DO, JUST GO BUY THEM NOW.



i stole this from micah who NEVER does surveys, i thought it was a momentous occasion

1. Who was your best friend?
cassie, she even gave me hand foot and mouth disease from her house.

2. What sports did you play?
i did marathon training, but only made it up to the half marathon...got last place. i rule.

3. What kind of car did you drive?
same one as now. good old viagra. (acura vigor 94)

4. On a Friday night what were you doing?
having BBQ's, going to see Noise Ratchet or As I Lay Dying shows, watching movies, doing nothing with that stupid boyfriend, watching Degrassi with cassie...so what else is new?

5. Were you a party animal?
no, that happened after high school. and even then, i wasnt so crazy...just happy.

6. Were you considered a flirt?
no, i was busy doing nothing with stupid boyfriend

7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
9th grade i was in handbells. i know ur SO jealous

8. Were you a nerd?
no, i was a cool indie girl with undiagnosed learning disabilities...sweet!

9. Did you get suspended/expelled?
ive never gotten in trouble my entire life...other then for wearing revealing clothing at random church camps, but even then its just cause im too hot for the cranky old counselors...sometimes i cry

10. Can you still sing the fight song?
repeat: i was a cool indie girl. therefore i was way to cool for school organized activities, especially sports.

11. Who was your favorite teacher?
mrs mansberger. i got a 103% in her class and she ran with me in running races for marathon training even when i was last everytime.

12. Where did you sit during lunch?
normally with everyone else in the little shaded bench area...we had a spot. on tuesdays me and stupid boyfriend ate on the hill and sometimes cuddled and sometimes got in fights

13. Name the school full name?
La Costa Canyon High School

14. School mascot?
mavarick i think

15. School Colors?
green and gold maybe?

16. Rival high school?
torrey pines?

17. Did you go to Prom?
junior year, yes. senior year we went to dinner and a play instead cause...well face it, proms kinda lame.

18. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
i would edit out stupid boyfriend, i would have taken more AP classes so i could have NOT gone to community college for 3 years, i would get help for not being smart, i would play more with olivia.

19. What do you remember most about graduation?
i remember my english teacher who i thought hated me all year, and i hated him...came up to me specifically to tell me how awesome i was. (i may have used a "free speech" time in class to talk about Jesus...whatever)

20. Where did you go senior skip day?
i skipped all the time, their was no official day.

21. Favorite memory?
junior year prom i guess...we have an AMAZING picture to prove it and it was a really fun time.

22. Were you in any clubs?
christian club, that marathon club

23. Where did you go most often for lunch?
our nook

24. Have you gained some weight since then?
probably, but not a ton.

25. Who was your Senior prom date?
i didnt have one. finally broke up with stupid boyfriend by then

26. Are you planning on going to your 10-year reunion?
probably not, i dont know anyone except people im still friends with...maybe if my old english teacher is there and hes still single...ummmmm

27. Who was your homeroom teacher?
homeroom is for losers!

29. Who was your high school sweetheart?
jake

30. Do you still talk to people from high school?
my closest friends

31. Did you win prom queen or king?
obviously the angry indie girl won! we didnt have that anyway so ha.

32. Where did you work in high school?
i worked at my church actually and i was a nanny too

33. What were your grades?
B average and worked my ass off for it too!

Saturday, August 25, 2007

out of the loop

well, my dear friend kelsey reminded me that i have yet to post an update in quite awhile again. i suck at this, but i do have to say i am better then others who havent updated in like 5 years...so ha.

currently i am awake sitting in bed at 7:41am. why am i up so early on a saturday u ask? yeah, i dunno either but its annoying. it happens a lot actually...ill wake up at like 6 or 7 cause the dogs have to go outside...but then instead of being a normal person and going back to sleep...i lie awake for about 2 hours pondering everything i have to do that day and such...its not so fun. so thats what i was just doing and i decided to go on the computer instead...the effect is working, im getting sleepy again.

so by the way, i got the new job at the office...i was supposed to start this week, but bossy boss was really busy being in a golf tournament and going on vacation on the days i was supposed to work...soo it got pushed to starting on tuesday. im a financial advising groups assistant. the situation between my boss and the girl who worked the job before is really weird, so im kinda sketchy about getting really excited about the job yet...im pessimistic.

olivia gets married a week from today!!! i cant believe it! im so so so soooo excited! this week is going to be really stressful for me tho, and im not looking forward to that...but hopefully the wedding being the light at the end of the tunnel will help...and the million things i have to do are pretty fun i think. im throwing a bachelorette party for miss olivia on wednesday night, its going to be SO fun...which reminds me, i should probably invite the people today...hehe. i start my MW classes next week too...im excited for my teaching foundations classes and pretty non chalant about my grammar and science class...they are just my last lower division classes that miracosta didnt offer...BORING...but after them its clear skies all the way with actual interesting classes...we hope. i had my T/TH class, art for children, and im already SO excited about the class but then miss beth van boxtel was in it too which was soo exciting since i really dont know anyone there so even seeing someone around is fun let alone in your most favorite class ever with u!

next week, i have new classes MW and new work and art T/TH. and then bachelorette party im throwing wednesday, the bridal party is going out thursday, friday is rehearsal dinner, and of course saturday. i think its going to be ok, ive had crazier weeks before in my life...and everything is fun like i said...but ill just be surprised if i make it alive to friday...being past my prime and everything.

i think today im going to see my long awaited Harry Potter. even at the IMAX 3D thing. ive waited all summer and today is the day.

ok, i think its time for a snack and back to sleep. also at my early waking hour i get STARVING, even if manage to get back to sleep my tummy will wake me up...it really is ridiculous but it happens all the time and i dont know why!

ok, night night.

lovelove.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

things

well i might be getting a new job at the office, something bigger and better...im trying not to get my hopes up because it might not work out, but it could mean a pay raise, my own office, new duties, ect...so im minorly excited!

my cars in the shop cause its dead from not being used. kinda annoying to be stuck here.

sunday i "start" in the high school group, just checking it out and making sure its something i really do feel called to do. im excited cause its all my friends in leadership and i think it could be really really fun.

pick up my bridesmaid dress on saturday and lay down another 100$ on it. everyones coming into town for the weeks around the wedding and im so so SO excited to see everyone and dance the night away looking like a mamasita in my strapless dress of lushiousness...hehe.

i got the box from apple to send my computer back...arrrrrggggg...my lack of credit got denied from apple to get a new one. we'll see what best buy has to say. im annoyed.

i feel lethargic cause all i wanna do is play with people but everyones out of town or working and i dont have a car...its frustrating. i have tons of things to do around the house, but i just don wanna...

ok, back to figuring out the computer issues.

lovelove.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

its been awhile.

well i havent updated in forever.
india doesnt like blogger apparently...nor does life like to give me time.
but here i am now, alive and well and home from far away india.

lets see.
it was a lovely time there. lots of amazing ministry with kids and young people and fellowship with believers across the fricken world. if u wanna see pictures, go to myspace:
www.myspace.com/estherthebesther
and i have an india album up u can see some pictures.

well im home now. i dont start school until august 23rd, and i start work back at the office the same week. until then im running millions of errands, getting ready for the besties wedding, getting unpacked, seeing everyone, soooo busy...

in other news, i lost my job at apple cause they're retarded. im bummed cause i was told long ago i would be working at san marcos, and i was excited for all the opportunities for work stuff...so now i suddenly have to send my computer back and i dont have the money for a new one, and im annoyed and dont know what to do.

sooo my classes for the fall are so much better then they've ever been. i still have two crapp undergraduate classes i have to fulfill, just physical science and some weird grammar class...but then i get to take two education classes and one art for children class! im excited!

currently im watching good ol Degrassi.
i really love this stupid teen show...im so lame.

kelsey, cassie, annnnd annie will all be home this weekend!!! im so excited!

i pick up my bridesmaid dress this weekend.
see harry potter this weekend.
play with my girls this weekend.

its all happening!

lovelove.

Monday, July 02, 2007

INDIA 2

my second email to supporters. sorry for the lack of pictures, it wont let me!

miss u!

lovelove.


Dear Supporters!
Hello again!

Just an update on recent and current events here during our ministry time in Shillong. Yesterday we went to uncles church, City Church, to do their Sunday school, preach the message, do music, lots of things! I mentioned in the last email about what we would be doing there, and I just wanted to tell you that it was a really great day! Thank you for your prayers for energy and divine words, even though some of the team members are sick and we were tired from such a big day, God really used us and we got to see it in so many ways!
>Me and Yuna taught about 150 kids from Samuel about hearing God and talking to God personally and that He desires to hear from us. Needless to say, I had an amazing time and was SO joyful in getting to teach kids again. The kids really responded to what we were doing and really seemed to learn a lot.
>I taught a “teachers training” to the Sunday school teachers afterwards. It went really well! I was kinda nervous going into it, I don’t know anything about how they do Sunday school or anything about Uncles church! God gave me relevant words and I believe it was helpful.
>me and Yuna gave testimonies in relation to the message Dawn was preaching on, “Grace”. A few people afterwards came to us and told us we really spoke to them.
>at the end of the message, Uncle came and asked people if they wanted to give their life to Christ for the first time, or if they wanted to return to Him after awhile away. He asked them to stand up if they made a decision, and our team and other leaders from the church we went and layed hands on them and prayed for them. I was able to pray with two girls, one of which was really crying and I really hope God continues to work in her life.

So Sunday was a success! Praise Him!

Today we went on the prayer tour of Shillong. Ayophy and our guide Robby drove us to a few places around Shillong so we could pray. We are continually blessed by our guide Robby. Hes a local and knows the local tribal language and gets us into places we would normally have a hard time getting into even with Ayophy (shes from another state). He drove us around and had lots of insight into the places we were going, and its nice to be around a boy my own age too! Today we went to:
>First stop was the local tribal place of worship and sacrifice. The local tribe is Kashi (its not spelled like the cereal, but its pronounced like it so I wrote it that wayJ that is the tribe Robby is from. Many have converted to Christianity, but many still practice their tribal religion of goat sacrifice and something to do with a sacred tree. We were able to see this place and go inside and really pray in the exact place where they sacrifice goats.
>Next stop was the second tallest mountain in Shillong, from there we were able to see all of Shillong and pray there. It was absolutely beautiful and we were blessed with a day with no rain! The first one in days! we had a picnic there too.
>final stop was a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. It took us awhile to get there cause we got a little lost and its quite hidden up in the mountains, but we made it (also thanks to Robby who could ask locals for directions on the way!). the monks opened up the worship area and we were able to pray in there and take pictures. We also walked around a bit and prayed around there too.

I got a lot of really great pictures today and on Sunday, but the email hasn’t been letting me send pictures, so ill try again this time and hopefully it will work.

Upcoming:
>Tuesday and Wednesday we will be at St. Anthony’s College doing the “survey” with students there and building relationships. We will also prayer walk there.

>Thursday and Friday we will go to another school, im not sure if it will be St. Marys or St. Edmunds. Either way, we will go to one and do the same kind of work

>Saturday on our day off we’re all going to Cherapungee, which is the wettest place on earth! I think Ayophy and Robby will come with us again and it will be a lot of fun.

Prayer:
>Yuna and Thess are now VERY sick with flu and fever. They are now missing ministry times and Thess hasn’t left the room much for the last week. Please be praying for them, and for the rest of us to not get sick either. Having four in a room with one toilet for everything is really rough! Not only is it really gross, but just for cleanliness sake too.

>for our ministry this week on the college campuses. Please pray for good conversations and opportunities to talk about the things God has to say to them through us.

>next Sunday we will be going to lead the service at the other local tribes church, the Garo people. We haven’t prayed about who will be speaking or giving testimonies or what, so I will give you that information soon! Theirs very few of us who are able to, so most likely ill be speaking in some capacity!

>our final team leader, Anna, is coming Thursday! We’re excited! Please pray for a safe journey as shes traveling alone. And when she gets here we need to apply for special permits to go into Nagaland for the last part of our trip. Please pray everything goes smoothly and that the sick girls get well enough to go!
Funny story: our first Sunday here we went to a church of one of the YWAM leaders here, Theja. While there we saw other white people! (pretty rare here!). they were two young men about my age, ones from Amsterdam and ones from Texas. They are here doing ministry too and we both mentioned going to Nagaland about the same time. We’ve seen them around this big city quite a few other times this week and today Theja called us and said they will be joining us on our permit and traveling with us to Nagaland! Isn’t that funny! I feel blessed to have men with us while traveling!

Thanks so much to all of you who are praying and thinking of me and my team while im here in Shillong. I am really encouraged to know you’re praying for me, especially when I feel grumpy and tired of our throwing up room mates or tired of all the men staring at me all day. Thank You so much! God bless You!

In His love,
Esther

Friday, June 29, 2007

hello.iamindia.

hi loves. im copying my supporter emails here. will try and always do it. we'll see how the computer time is.

lovelove.

Hello from Megalaya, India! Well, we’ve been here for just about a week and I thought id write my first email to get things started right!

To begin with, we had some flight problems when we were first trying to leave last Monday. Due to bad weather and missed connections, we didn’t end up leaving until last Wednesday and arriving here in Shillong, Megalaya very exhausted Friday evening. Just to give you an idea of the trip:
-I flew into Madison, Wisconsin 6/16
-we were supposed to fly out 6/18 but ended up staying in Madison until 6/20
-flew from Madison to Chicago
-flew about 15 hours non-stop from Chicago to New Dehli
-12 hour lay over in the Dehli local airport
-flew 2 hours to Guwati which is in the state Assam
-drove 3 hours up the mountains to Shillong and arrived here around 5pm 6/22

I feel like I’m still recovering! I can’t believe Dawn, my outreach leader, makes this trip 3-4 times a year!

But now we’re here! Yay! It is so beautiful here! Very different from the south where I was last time! It is very humid here (none of our clothes will dry!) and it’s the rainy season so it rains for a few hours every day, but its also very cool weather here while the rest of India is burning up! So we’re very thankful for that! The people here also look very different then the rest of India, because it is so close to china the people look like very dark Chinese…basically a mix of India and China, absolutely beautiful of course! Ive seen some of the most beautiful men and women ive ever seen here! It is very hilly and green and the houses all look like sweet little country cottages. Its quite clean and because it is a “Christian” state their aren’t any random animals walking the streets like in the rest of the Hindu states. I forgot how much white people get stared at in India, thess and yuna on the team fit in perfectly (phillipino and Korean), while me and Kelly don’t at all…its already quite old to have people staring at us wherever we go, especially when its mostly men here.

I suppose like me you are wondering why ive come to a “Christian” state to do an outreach and why does YWAM have a base doing evangelism here at all? Yes, I was wondering the same thing. Welllll…although this is a “Christian” state, it is just like the United States and other western countries where many many people say they’re Christian or grew up in a Christian family and go to church but don’t really have a personal relationship with the Lord. YWAM has a Discipleship Training School here to help take students deeper and most importantly to get students from the surrounding nations to come and deepen their relationship with the Lord, get excited about missions, and go home and evangelize in their home where missionarys aren’t allowed or wont be as effective. YWAM Madison (where I did my DTS and who im here with) have a passion for the unreached nations surrounding Megalaya, these nations are officially closed to missionarys and some are even closed to tourists. I encourage you to look on a map, find the north east of India, find Megalaya and see the nations around it. I cant name them in email due to security reasons (that’s how intense it is), but these nations are in desperate need of the gospel and are completely closed to it. This is why Megalaya is so key! And I am excited to tell you that YWAM Madison and Megalaya have teams planting bases and even baptizing a few Christians in these unreached nations! God IS moving!

So Esther, what are you doing there?! Well im glad you asked! The city Shillong is a university hub (thanks to the Christians it seems, most of them are named after Saints), students from all over the north east come here…many of them from the surrounding unreached nations. YWAM Shillong feels God has made it clear to them that its time to start a campus ministry to disciple the “Christian” students and even evangelize to the visiting ones so they will hopefully go back to their country and have a ministry there. YWAM Madison has a campus ministry also, and are helping YWAM Shillong to pioneer their new campus ministry…that’s my team! We’re the pioneers! Although YWAM Shillong knows its time to begin a campus ministry, they aren’t really sure where to start, so they have us here to get things started gathering information and finding out the needs of students here. We’ve come with a fully open schedule, trying to be really sensitive to the Lords leading in what we’re to do here. Dawn has tons of connections here and theirs lots of opportunities to do ministry here with those connections, however the leadership for this outreach really felt like this was to be a very personal outreach, not a “program” doing skits in the streets or speaking to established groups who already have speakers and there isn’t as much of a need for us. So we very prayerfully consider all of our options people give us, and are trying to be really sensitive to the Lords leading in where we go and what we do.

Ok, that’s a big summary of what im doing here! Heres some highlights from the past few days and upcoming plans!

Past few days:
-meeting with the different ministries here we have connections with and planning events we can be a part of in relation to college ministry

-prayer and intercession for the different colleges here and deciding where and what we are going to be doing there

-spent 3 days at Shillong College which is a secular government college here. We’re working with a local woman named Ayophy who has a developing campus ministry. She helped us put together some survey questions and got us permission to go the college and ask students there the questions. The questions are more of a conversation starter, ive hardly used it actually…we want to really get to know the students and even develop deep relationships so we can really get to know their needs and/or encourage them with our own testimonies. The information we gather we’ll be passing on to YWAM here so they know how to progress with their ministry..hopefully we’ll be able to connect the students we meet with YWAM permanent staff in Shillong so they can be further discipled. Praise God we’ve already met a student from one of the closed nations surrounding Megalaya, he said theirs quite a few more here!

-another ministry that past YWAM Madison teams have worked with, is a ministry started by a local man named Uncle Miller…sorry I don’t know his first name…in India we just call our elders Uncle or Auntie, I love it! Listen to his ministry, it will amaze you just like it did me. God provided his family a huge 3 story house (it really was one of those random financial miracles). So the bottom floor he has a school for underprivileged children in the neighborhood (he charges a very little fee so the poorer kids can still go to school). The entire second floor is a hostel for college students and he has weekly ministry times they can attend. Then the third floor is where he and his wife and 4 children live, PLUS the 15 orphans hes taken in over the years. Not to mention hes a pastor at a church in the area also! Amazing! Last night the hostel girls had a meeting and we came and shared some testimonies and Kelly my outreach leader, lead some worship with them too. We were just invited to dinner and to sit in on the group time, but Uncle had other plans for us;)

Upcoming plans:

-we have 3 more schools we feel God wants us to do the survey at and prayer walk on. We will visit each school for a few days within the next few weeks. Please pray for our time there, building relationships, YWAM Shillong pioneering, openness in the shy students here, and a boldness in us to talk to people we don’t know!

-on Sunday our little team is leading the entire service at Uncles church. Me and Yuna will be teaching about 100 kids up to 6th grade. Thess and Kelly will be teaching the other 100 kids 7th grade and up. Then we will lead the childrens worship time, and then I will be giving a seminar to the Sunday school teachers about teaching, kids, and encouragement. In the afternoon the adults have service and Dawn will be preaching on grace, and me and Yuna will be sharing testimonies. Its going to be a really big day, please pray for divine energy and an openness in the children and adults to what God is saying to them through us.

-we also have quite a few other student groups we are going to be speaking at through Ayophy’s ministry and other local churches. Please pray for these meetings and building of relationships.

Other prayer:
-we’re all feeling pretty tired and sick, thess came with a very bad cold and had to go to the doctor here to get some medicine…now I think Yuna and Kelly are getting it. Because we all share a room and are always all together, of course the germs are traveling easily! Praise God I don’t feel sick yet, and I haven’t had any stomach problems either. But please pray for continued protection and for the rest of my team to stop getting sick!

Thank you so much for your prayer and support! Im sorry this was so long, but in this first one I wanted to give you a good summary of what we’re going to be doing, so from here on out I hope they’ll be shorter!

Our God is a God of the nations! Praise Him!

In His love,
Esther

Dear Friends!
Hello from Megalaya, India!
Well, we’ve been here for just about a week and I thought id write my first email to get things started right!

To begin with, we had some flight problems when we were first trying to leave last Monday. Due to bad weather and missed connections, we didn’t end up leaving until last Wednesday and arriving here in Shillong, Megalaya very exhausted Friday evening. Just to give you an idea of the trip:
-I flew into Madison, Wisconsin 6/16
-we were supposed to fly out 6/18 but ended up staying in Madison until 6/20
-flew from Madison to Chicago
-flew about 15 hours non-stop from Chicago to New Dehli
-12 hour lay over in the Dehli local airport
-flew 2 hours to Guwati which is in the state Assam
-drove 3 hours up the mountains to Shillong and arrived here around 5pm 6/22

I feel like I’m still recovering! I can’t believe Dawn, my outreach leader, makes this trip 3-4 times a year!

But now we’re here! Yay! It is so beautiful here! Very different from the south where I was last time! It is very humid here (none of our clothes will dry!) and it’s the rainy season so it rains for a few hours every day, but its also very cool weather while the rest of India is burning up! So we’re very thankful for that! The people here also look very different then the rest of India, because it is so close to china the people look like very dark Chinese…basically a mix of India and China, absolutely beautiful of course! Ive seen some of the most beautiful men and women ive ever seen here! It is very hilly and green and the houses all look like sweet little country cottages. Its quite clean and because it is a “Christian” state their aren’t any random animals walking the streets like in the rest of the Hindu states. I forgot how much white people get stared at in India, thess and yuna on the team fit in perfectly (phillipino and Korean), while me and Kelly don’t at all…its already quite old to have people staring at us wherever we go, especially when its mostly men here.

I suppose like me you are wondering why ive come to a “Christian” state to do an outreach and why does YWAM have a base doing evangelism here at all? Yes, I was wondering the same thing. Welllll…although this is a “Christian” state, it is just like the United States and other western countries where many many people say they’re Christian or grew up in a Christian family and go to church but don’t really have a personal relationship with the Lord. YWAM has a Discipleship Training School here to help take students deeper and most importantly to get students from the surrounding nations to come and deepen their relationship with the Lord, get excited about missions, and go home and evangelize in their home where missionarys aren’t allowed or wont be as effective. YWAM Madison (where I did my DTS and who im here with) have a passion for the unreached nations surrounding Megalaya, these nations are officially closed to missionarys and some are even closed to tourists. I encourage you to look on a map, find the north east of India, find Megalaya and see the nations around it. I cant name them in email due to security reasons (that’s how intense it is), but these nations are in desperate need of the gospel and are completely closed to it. This is why Megalaya is so key! And I am excited to tell you that YWAM Madison and Megalaya have teams planting bases and even baptizing some Christians in these unreached nations! God IS moving!

So Esther, what are you doing there?! Well im glad you asked! The city Shillong is a university hub (thanks to the Christians it seems, most of the universities are named after Saints), students from all over the north east come here…many of them from the surrounding unreached nations. YWAM Shillong feels God has made it clear to them that its time to start a campus ministry to disciple the “Christian” students and even evangelize to the visiting ones so they will hopefully go back to their country and have a ministry there. YWAM Madison has a campus ministry also, and are helping YWAM Shillong to pioneer their new campus ministry…that’s my team! We’re the pioneers! Although YWAM Shillong knows its time to begin a campus ministry, they aren’t really sure where to start, so they have us here to get things started gathering information and finding out the needs of students here. We’ve come with a fully open schedule, trying to be really sensitive to the Lords leading in what we’re to do here. Dawn has tons of connections here and theirs lots of opportunities to do ministry here with those connections, however the leadership for this outreach really felt like this was to be a very personal outreach, not a “program” doing skits in the streets or speaking to established groups who already have speakers and there isn’t as much of a need for us. So we very prayerfully consider all of our options people give us, and are trying to be really sensitive to the Lords leading in where we go and what we do.

Ok, that’s a big summary of what im doing here! Heres some highlights from the past few days and upcoming plans!

Past few days:
-meeting with the different ministries here we have connections with and planning events we can be a part of in relation to college ministry

-prayer and intercession for the different colleges here and deciding where and what we are going to be doing there

-spent 3 days at Shillong College which is a secular government college here. We’re working with a local woman named Ayophy who has a developing campus ministry. She helped us put together some survey questions and got us permission to go the college and ask students there the questions. The questions are more of a conversation starter, ive hardly used it actually…we want to really get to know the students and even develop deep relationships so we can really get to know their needs and/or encourage them with our own testimonies. The information we gather we’ll be passing on to YWAM here so they know how to progress with their ministry..hopefully we’ll be able to connect the students we meet with YWAM permanent staff in Shillong so they can be further discipled. Praise God we’ve already met a student from one of the closed nations surrounding Megalaya, he said theirs quite a few more here!

-another ministry that past YWAM Madison teams have worked with, is a ministry started by a local man named Uncle Miller…sorry I don’t know his first name…in India we just call our elders Uncle or Auntie, I love it! Listen to his ministry, it will amaze you just like it did me. God provided his family a huge 3 story house (it really was one of those random financial miracles). So the bottom floor he has a school for underprivileged children in the neighborhood (he charges a very little fee so the poorer kids can still go to school). The entire second floor is a hostel for college students and he has weekly ministry times they can attend. Then the third floor is where he and his wife and 4 children live, PLUS the 15 orphans hes taken in over the years. Not to mention hes a pastor at a church in the area also! Amazing! Last night the hostel girls had a meeting and we came and shared some testimonies and Kelly my outreach leader, lead some worship with them too. We were just invited to dinner and to sit in on the group time, but Uncle had other plans for us;)

Upcoming plans:

-we have 3 more schools we feel God wants us to do the survey at and prayer walk on. We will visit each school for a few days within the next few weeks. Please pray for our time there, building relationships, YWAM Shillong pioneering, openness in the shy students here, and a boldness in us to talk to people we don’t know!

-on Sunday our little team is leading the entire service at Uncles church. Me and Yuna will be teaching about 100 kids up to 6th grade. Thess and Kelly will be teaching the other 100 kids 7th grade and up. Then we will lead the childrens worship time, and then I will be giving a seminar to the Sunday school teachers about teaching, kids, and encouragement. In the afternoon the adults have service and Dawn will be preaching on grace, and me and Yuna will be sharing testimonies. Its going to be a really big day, please pray for divine energy and an openness in the children and adults to what God is saying to them through us.

-we also have quite a few other student groups we are going to be speaking at through Ayophy’s ministry and other local churches. Please pray for these meetings and building of relationships.

Other prayer:
-we’re all feeling pretty tired and sick, thess came with a very bad cold and had to go to the doctor here to get some medicine…now I think Yuna and Kelly are getting it. Because we all share a room and are always all together, of course the germs are traveling easily! Praise God I don’t feel sick yet, and I haven’t had any stomach problems either. But please pray for my continued protection and for the rest of my team to stop getting sick!

Thank you so much for your prayer and support! Im sorry this was so long, but in this first one I wanted to give you a good summary of what we’re going to be doing, so from here on out I hope they’ll be shorter!

Our God is a God of the nations! Praise Him!

In His love,
Esther

PS: ive attached some pictures for you all to see! the name of the pictures should explain what they are! the picture of us getting sweets, the boy in the picture is our "guide" provided by Ayophy, its one of her students she disciples from church. His name is Robby and he takes very good care of us! ill be taking more this week and ill try and keep sending them! hopefully you'll be able to put faces together with names and ministires ill be talking about! God bless you!