Red Itchy Shopping Carts

I think my belly button might be infected or something. I did a little google search and I think I'm going to try washing it with salt water twice a day for 2-3 days and if the symptoms persist I may see my physician. I am going to bed right away and I'm looking forward to it. What I'm most looking forward to is lying in bed listening to the heat maker thing. It sounds like a shopping cart and at first I thought it was a shopping cart because there are carts in my hood and then I realized that it was really just the sound of staying warm. Now it's time for me to not think about my red itchy belly button and just focus on sleep.

It's Tax Reciept Time

Good news kids! One of my favorite things in the world, Candeo Housing Association, just recieved it's charitable status. We've been praying and waiting for it for what seems like forever. And we got it! Youpee! So now we get to fundraise a couple million and then buy a building and then let the good Lord heal people in the midst of community. Got questions? Want to give Candeo your $money$? Check out our site...it may or may not change your life.

Regret Regret Beget My Regret

It's cold outside and I'm inside and I will stay inside until the sun is up again. Usually I have incentive to leave my home on Thursday evenings to go to Heidi's and watch the Office - but it's not on tonight so instead I'm staying in and dreaming of the moment when I get enough ambition to get up and go to bed. One entirely annoying quality that I possess is a need for approximately 18 hours of sleep during the winter. Grrrr....
My airband party has come and gone. It was good. I really like airbands, and I really like dancing, and I really like friends, and I really like friends dancing and airbanding. One consistent problem with my parties is that immediately after the party I am filled with a sense of "oh no, what have I done?!" No seriously, what have I done? This photo is one example of "what have I done?" As you can see I am standing on a chair acting out a song with Barbie and Ken dolls. "Where it began/I can't begin to know when/but I know it's growing strong...".

BFF Birthdays

Today is my good friend, Heidi's, birthday. Happy birthday Heidi. Happy birthday. Next week is my good friend Esther's birthday. Happy birthday, Esther. Happy birthday.

In Love With Life and Air Guitar

I am so in love with community. I love sharing my life with people I love. I love that in community I am forced to live my life with people even on the days that I don't want to live. I love learning from people who are sometimes very similar and sometimes very different from myself. I love how I can give more love when I'm surrounded in loving relationships. I love that parties errupt from community. I love airbanding in community. (I love airbanding).
As mentioned on my last posting, the next airband party is coming up in a couple weeks. There's nothing like a little bit of spandex and eyeliner that brings people together. I'm terribly excited about this party. I love dancing. I love exessive costumes. I love guitar shaped cakes. I love watching people trash it up and rock out. So, here are some photos from last year (just a little tease of the event to come).








On a completely different topic, today I remembered how one year when I was a camp counselor at a conservative Christian Bible camp I convinced all the girls in my cabin to embrace the anthem: lewd! crude! slightly nude! Sigh...

It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like....

So I went to my first work Christmas Party. It seems that I may have avoided previous parties for a very good reason. I enjoy my coworkers very much. But the problem with having a party with a ton of people that work together is that it isn't common interests that bring people together. No, no, no. It is a common workplace. This to me indicates a potentially dangerous social situation. Someone is bound to be unhappy with the goings on. One of those unhappy suckas was me. Our Christmas party was at a "Seinfeld" themed dinner theatre...in the mall. I KNOW! Oh well. Some people really enjoyed it I'm sure. Fortunately, I have a party that I will enjoy coming up very soon. (Drumroll please....) It's the 4th annual ROCK STARS AIRBAND PARTY Nov. 18th!! (I even rented a hall this year!!!!) Wooo!! Partay!!! It's beginning to feel a lot like airbanding...

The Sower

I went to the library today to pick up a copy of Henri Nouwen's "Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, and Community." Although I have not yet started reading the book I think I will love it. Wanna know why? I'll tell you why. For a lengthy period of time when I would think of Jesus I would see Jean Francois Millet's painting "The Sower," and then it evolved to Van Gogh's take on "The Sower". In my mind's eye, Jesus was the sower. I believe that some of the seeds that Jesus was sowing were seeds of justice. Needless to say, I was THRILLED to pick up "Peacework" and discover Van Gogh's version is on the cover. I can hardly wait for Jesus to teach me while I read. I just can't wait. Yes I can.