November 2009
1 post
I just submitted the first half of my application...
hannahbanena:
I realize I never mentioned this before to anyone of you, sorry! :( However, you have heard a little bit about who hosts it, THE DREAM CENTER!
So guys, I would appreciate your prayers and support, while I go through the application process.
Guys, my heart is so into this. I need to do this. This is where I belong. I cannot tell you enough how much I want to do this, and how much...
July 2009
2 posts
Kitchen Table
tktc:
I hope I remember these kinds of things. Sitting at the kitchen table with a book and a cold glass of pink. Cafe curtains blowing the breeze in and blue sky, white tufts and green leaves out the top half of the windows.
I hope I remember nights dancing around in my kitchen to the anya marina pandora station. Eating spoonfuls of chickpeas in pesto vinegarette and gulping a cold Scrimshaw.
I just bought my ticket to the screening of Julie and Julia at LACMA on July 28th! Can you say excited?
June 2009
2 posts
I can talk for hours about males, females, relationships, our differences, the craziness that happens when combined, but friends…I am all talk. When it comes to actually dating, I know nothing.
Or, I know things, but don’t necessarily know how to put that knowledge into action. Should be mighty interesting.
May 2009
8 posts
I am headed up north for a nice little 3 day weekend to a city you might have heard of. San Francisco. Yep, that city. I haven’t been since I was a kid and didn’t take much time to research/plan everything, so it will be a decide as we go type of trip. Except for a few things on my list…
*Dinner at Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Ok, fine. I got a reservation at the Cafe and am wait...
snippets - my sundays
favorite scarf. comfy lawn chair. the word, a book, the bookjournal. hibiscus in the backyard. hibiscus and palms. izzie girl. max aka maximus prime. blue sky. orange tree. artichokes. radishes. lilacs.
“There’s no job posting for your dream”
– Ben Arment
April 2009
16 posts
in the past 3 days i…have been on 4 different planes in 4 different airports, had one major flight delay, stayed in chicago for 8 hours, made it to the midwest without shedding a tear but my eyes were constantly watery the entire 7 hours i was traveling home. i met tons of cousins, tons of friends, saw 2 people i absolutely love who now have twins, played designated driver and went to 3...
snippets from the sympathy card
I stood in front of the sympathy card section for a good ten minutes and I just couldn’t find it in me to buy any of them. None of them were “britt” enough. Then again, they don’t make funny sympathy cards and Britt, she was pretty funny and totally capable of making me laugh in the darkest and hardest situations.
She had something in her that surpassed her petite frame,...
I got one of those phone calls the other day. You know, one of those phone calls that you hope and some pray that you never receive. The phone calls that send you into a whole different state of being. Yeah, I got one of those, but I was in a building where my phone doesn’t get reception and so it ended up being that I got one of those messages.
One of those messages is worse than one of...
“don’t get so addicted to the fruitfullness that you lose sight of who made...”
– Perry Noble via the catalyst podcast
grace in small things #4
1. live music especially the mellow type at my favorite coffee shop in long beach.
2. finding people nowhere close to me in proximity with a heart for the same issues. the internet is an awesome place when used the right way.
3. ice cream day at work. seriously, a coworker brought in 3 types of ice cream, 2 types of cones, 2 types of chopped nuts, all sorts of sauces and bananas. oh! and...
you know what that felt like? it felt like fun. simple, completely innocent fun. and i liked it. so i don’t care to sit around and ponder whether it’s a smart idea or not, because there is nothing to ponder. it felt like running through the sprinklers and doing cartwheels down the hall. you can’t do it forever, but a dose of it every once in a while keeps ya happy.
All The Difference by Red Cortez. Just listen to...
grace in small things #3
1. Somehow making it out of april fool’s day with only one joke sending me into major neurotic shanti mode then laughing hysterically once the joke was revealed.
2. April Fool’s Day Family Style - So gosh darn cute.
3. Beachwood bbq. Please forget that for the most part I eat vegetarian and sometimes even vegan. Perfect mac and cheese and meat seasoned so well that you don’t...
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grace in small things #2
1. Black dresses, because sometimes I’m too lazy to put an outfit together and I don’t want to wear jeans to work.
2. Fresh Strawberries, which are delicious when sliced and thrown in with baby spinach and a little bit of feta cheese for lunch.
3. Coworkers that make me laugh. Whether it be witty words, cheesy jokes or random comments, I appreciate it. When I first started my boss...
tktc:
beautifulordinaire:
Jose Gonzalez - Down...
March 2009
26 posts
Grace in Small Things #1
1. Mondays off. I will seriously work bright and early Sunday morning if it meant having Mondays off again. Forget the weekend, I love having a day off when people are usually at work. Makes everything feel a bit more spontaneous and there aren’t crowds.
2. Old friends. I meet a lot of awesome people and have a lot of people come through for different reasons and seasons of my life, but old...
“Smile
Like you’ve got nothing to prove
No matter what you might do...”
– There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You - Ben Folds
Honestly? The whole speak the truth in love thing? Nobody told me how hard it is to do so or how badly it can hurt.
Art, pizza and one crazy night in Chicago →
tktc:
oliviaisferosch:
(via vikax)
……
I hate when travel writers come to the city, eat some pizza at the most cliched of all the restaurants, drink beer, look at the Bean and think that sums up the Chicago experience.
I was going to let the Berghoff thing slide given that it’s an institution despite the food being mediocre, but really, Elizabeth Landau, really? Duffy’s? DUFFY’S?!...
i think i'm still full...
friend, i took 111 photos in the 6 days i was in the city of awesomeness and well, a good amount of them are of food or the restaurants i ate said food in. i might have to create a seperate facebook album just for the food pics and i will probably name it “a lesson in gluttony.” seriously.
Failure isn't a 4 letter word
Here are some things to remember when something you attempt fails.
Failure is an event, not a person.
Failure isn’t final.
Failure is often the first step toward success.
A ministry that has stopped failing has stopped growing.
Failure is not an option, it is a necessity.
If you fail and don’t learn from it, you’ve failed twice. Don’t waste a failure.
The antidote to the fear of failure...
It is slightly haunting being here. With the streets and the places that automatically trigger memories of a life that really just seems like it was a completely different lifetime. It is virtually impossible not to walk through my old stomping ground, the set for a copious amount of lessons learned and ridiculous life experiences, and not be back there all over again. It’s not a bad place...
This week has been one of those weeks where I seriously would not like to use the word Christian to label myself. First it was the Christian Salt deal. Now it is Westboro Baptist doing what they do again. Seriously? Seriously.
fact: California has NOTHING on the midwest when it comes to the male population.
the next time someone asks me what my “type” is i might just tell them “midwestern. figure it out for yourself.”
the little suitcase
I am tempted to get on the plane tomorrow sans luggage, bringing the very very bare essentials with me in my purse and buying clothes in Chicago. That statement in itself is sickening, I know. But I don’t want to drag the big suitcase around the blue line walk it to wacker and then slug it on the red line. What was that? Use the little suitcase? I own a little suitcase? Hm.
I am a master...
The Watoto Children’s Choir were at our morning services today and within seconds of them being on stage I started crying. And it didn’t stop. Not after the first song or the second or even when they were finished. These children were so spirited, so full of joy…a joy that I rarely ever see. Something SO pure and wonderful, it blew me away. It is the type of thing where I was...
Crushcrushcrush
zoelulu:
thenickmusicblog:
So I’ve had a hardcore crush on this girl for quiet awhile now. We have been in the “talking” stage before and we hang out and make out and we always have a good time with each other. We never date though. I don’t really understand what’s going on. She told me she was going to date me once and then she never did. But we hung out again tonight and sat on the back...
03.03.09
I woke up with that feeling. The “i know today is going to be challenging” feeling, but I couldn’t gear myself up to deal with any sort of challenge. So I fell a little short, which lead to me having constant internal battles until 1 p.m.
My afternoon was lovely. Yes, lovely. I took a half day, changed into a t-shirt, jeans and the new hat, stopped denying my craving for a...
“i hope to meet a girl one day at trader joe’s as we both reach for the same jar of capers”
living breathing proof that boys like the just like the movies moments too.
Om Shanti Om
zoelulu:
blissfulself:
Great yoga class tonight:
My teacher played the Beatles - instrumental versions of some great songs
Lots of twisting - I feel a detox coming on
Lion’s breath is a stress reliever
Women carry lots of emotions in their hips - thanks to pigeon pose I am fearless
We placed our hands on our hearts for the final ‘om’ and let it resonate within
I left my entire day on my...