Tagged

I was tagged by Neely...

Five things on my to-do list today:
-Clean my room
-Call Rosalba
-Go to Staff Service
-Watch Grey's Anatomy season finale
-Make to-do list for next week

Five snacks I enjoy:
-Pop Secret popcorn
-Coke (does that count?)
-Breyers Vanilla ice cream
-Salt Water Taffy
-Japanese peanuts

Five things I would do if I were a millionaire:
-Pay off my student loans
-Buy a new car
-Travel
-Save
-Give to many, many charities/non-profits...can't choose one

Five places I have lived:
-Los Angeles, Ca.
-Pasco, Wa.
-Bell, Ca.
-South Gate, Ca.
-nowhere else...

Five bad habits I have:
-Chipping my nails
-Talking too much
-Correcting people's grammar constantly
-Cracking my knuckles
-not knowing what to put next...

Five jobs I have held:
-Student Store clerk (junior high)
-Albertson's courtesy clerk
-Personal assistant
-Tutor
-Student Minister

HOORAY...I did it!

I tag Allison and Damaris...

And this makes 500

This is my 500th post!

Took me a while to get here...but I did!

Hooray!

Wedding Lessons:

Here's Bibi, Cookie and I during the ceremony..I just got done with the second of three weddings I will participate in this year (this wedding is the one where I was J-Lo).

Here are a few thoughts I gathered after it was all said and done:
- Never let the groom do the decorating...unless he has an obvious creative touch.
- Blue and white don't go with a gold-themed wedding.
- Designer heels and standing up all day don't go well together.
- Make sure to tell your mother goodbye before leaving for your honeymoon.

I am proud to announce that I was able to clean up an entire reception in my 3-inch heels...

take that, 13-hour day!

Raindrops Falling on My Head...

I was desperately needed at the lot today...it was sometime around 1pm...

I stepped out of the church and felt a light drizzle.

I went into the building at the lot to try and fix the alarm ( I failed)...

once I stepped out I was soaking wet...

pouring rain, from one moment to another.

By the time I went back to the church the rain had stopped, but the asphalt was steaming...

crazy weather!

I am a murderer

Everytime I hear a new song I like...

I kill it.

I play it over and over again until I can't anymore...

this usually takes a good couple weeks to happen.

I love learning the lyrics by heart, memorizing every part, feeling the beat, loving what it says and why it's said, taking it all in...

and then, I love telling my friends about it and making them listen to it. I often speak the lyrics to them, just to make sure they are also taking it all in...

What do you do when you find a great, new song?

I Can See Clearly Now, the Rain is Gone

I went out to dinner with a new group of people last night.

By new, I mean people I usually don't spent any time with. It's those people I see at church every weekend, but never slow down to actually talk to or spent time with.

Strange thing is, they're all my age (most of them, at least), going through the same things I'm going through, watching the same TV I do, worried about the same things I worry about.

I always thought they were different. Thought they weren't like me...and I found that I was right, but also wrong...

Does that make sense?

All this to say that yesterday...

I had a really good time.

Chocolate Milk for Adults

Last year, while tutoring the Zandate kids, their mom, Laura, brought home frapuccinos for us. I'd never tasted that blend...but it was yummy. It had chocolate in it, chocolate chips too, and cream...super good!

Yesterday morning, I woke up with a strong craving for that drink. And I mean STRONG.

So before heading to work I stopped by Starbucks and described what I remember the frap tasted like to the barista...the girl said, "Oh, you mean the double chocolate chip frap?", my answer, "sure, why not?".

Once I took the first sip, I knew it was IT.

My friends laughed at me and said that the double chocolate chip frap is just a fancy, iced version of chocolate milk...

I don't care...I love it!

What Are the Odds?

I smacked my left elbow on the edge of my desk at the church on Sunday morning...

I smacked it again on the edge of Gaby's desk on Wednesday while looking for cheap flights to Mexico City...

while cleaning up last night I smashed the same elbow on my cupboard door...

boo!

First Night In

Tonight will be the first evening in over two weeks that I will be staying home.

I can't wait to organize papers, watch some good TV and update my planner.

I think some family is coming over too!

So good to finally rest from all the fun I've been having.

Naturally 7

I went to see Michael Buble in concert at the Honda Center on Saturday night.

So good!
Here's what's up though...

his opening act was a group called Naturally 7.

7 guys who do something they call "vocal play". No instruments, no backup music, no pre-recorded tracks...they all "play" (sing) the instruments you hear.


Very, very cool.

Check them out here...

and here.

Connect Four (minus 1)

At my small group last week we had a question and discussion night.
Students were allowed to write any question on a piece of paper that would be read aloud to the group and could be discussed.
Homosexuality was brought up...and was the most heated topic of all.

I've spent the last week praying through this coming weekend...we'll be starting a series on taboo topics and homosexuality is up first. I'm trying to find ways to program it without being offensive or cheesy.

This afternoon a person came into my office, someone I hadn't had an actual conversation with in a long time, and they confessed struggling with homosexual feelings. We spent a good hour talking, sharing, praying.

Strange how God connects it all together.

Here's why I haven't posted much:

FRIDAY
Dinner with Maribel & Gaby
SATURDAY
Jeremy's game, birthday party, birthday bowling

SUNDAY

The Little Mermaid with Damaris

MONDAY

All-you-can-eat Dodger Game

Damaris choking on a peanut

Singing "take me out to the ballgame"

TUESDAY

Disney

It's been fun!

Interesting

I've asked a couple of people a question recently:

are tattoos acceptable to God?

The answers I've gotten have been very interesting.

For me...tattoos are a cultural issue not a biblical one.

For others...well, I've had mixed feelings thrown at me.
Some find them beautiful while others think you'll have to give God an account for them...really?

What do you think?