my life. recently-ish.

Little Talks

If you have not heard of Monsters and Men - you should.

Now here.

My song of the week.

Saturday Adventure

Saturday Adventure part 1:

the invite

Saturday Adventure Part 2:

Breakfast - French Toast

Saturday Adventure Part 3:

Explore Thrift Shops, Antique Stores, and Art Galleries 

Saturday Adventure Part 4:

Yarn Buying 

(and spying on old men who sit and wait in their cars reading a good book while their wives go yarn buying. Don't worry, it's not creepy. I promise.)

Saturday Adventure Part 5:

Make Won Tons. 

Eat Them.

Watch Movie.

 

P.S. Dont ever watch "Zookeeper". A waste of time. Won Tons however - delicious!

"Do What I Want"

Once someone told me, "You should keep writing. I like it when you write." Well, I'm not sure what to write. But I guess there doesn't always have to be a point to writing, does there? And, the great thing about a blog means that it doesn't have to be grammatically correct, or pleasing, or interesting.

Because, it's me.

Several years ago, I started carrying around a little notebook with me everywhere. It's my "Do What I Want" notebook. If I need paper to leave a note, or assign the mafia their game - there it is. If I have a thought, question, book I want to read, movie I would like to see, or epiphany come to mind - there I write it. If I want to share something but no one is around - I share it there. If I read, or hear, something that I think to be profound - there it is scribbled. If I am thankful for something small, like a smile, or a green light, or a person, or a breeze, or a surprise of some sort - there I jot it. If something makes me laugh - there I record it.

When I came home from my mission - I found about 4 of these. And they are my most favourite thing. Probably more than my journals. Because they remind me of little things that I can't record in my journals at a moment's notice. And it helps me realize that life has it's beauties everyday, if we choose to see them.

Some would revert to the "Smart Phones" to do such things now a days. But let me ask you - will you still have your Smart Phone to read back on these things, and laugh, and remember good friend moments in 5 years from now? Or 15 years from now?
I wouldn't.
But I will have my book.

Thank you little "Do What I Want" notebooks. For reminding me of things that are beautiful.

dear shanelle

I miss you.

When There's Nothing Left To Burn, You Have To Set Yourself On Fire

Hi. 

I am home!

And guess what... it is nothing like I thought it would be.

In fact - I was very shocked my first week home, and was very close to buying a plane ticket right back to El Salvador.

But now things are better.

Can I just tell you something?

The mission was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.

And the most beautiful.

You, of course, will hear of my life, and mission experiences, and things, as time goes, and as I rediscover how to use this new "UPDATED" technology.

But for now, I just want to dedicate this post to someone.

The cute Korean Boy at Courtney and Micah's wedding.
Who lent me his jacket.

Who I didn't flirt with enough.

So at the end of the night we had not danced, and he departed without my number.

Shame on us.

This song is to us.