there have been far too many life changes occurring recently.
fresh start, fresh blog? nope! only because i think i’ve actually superceded the max quota for a number of blogs a person is allowed to have. xanga. blogger. ugh.
luckily, i like wordpress. and its typography fascinates me 🙂
i’ll stick with you.
– hiatus broken the second time this year –
aiya.
…but I’m not sure what that’s supposed to look like.
I kind’ve have a general idea of what I want my future career to be .. public health, going overseas, epidemiology(?), teaching, lots of personal interactions.. but for me to actually get there.. the question is, should I fill in the blanks now or complete them as I go along?
34“Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. Matthew 6:34
HIS PROMISES ARE TRUE! I guess I just need a reminder from time to time.
I’ll settle for the bits and pieces given to me. But for now, short term goal planning seems doable.
Hopefully by writing them here, they become official???
This week, I resolve to:
-edit my resume
-GTL daily. T, weather permitting 🙂
-start on the songwriting (haaayooo)
Accountability? Anybody?
My bad. I’m not even sure who I’m apologizing to because I have no idea who reads this!
I’m back, I think. for sure.
So much has happened since my last post, I don’t even know where to begin.
So maybe I won’t. Instead, it’ll just be a gradual updating process. In the coming posts, I’ll talk about life redirections, maybe some product reviews, a hodgepodge of randomness.
Again, not sure who reads. But this will be good for me.
Verbalizing rather than internalizing! Building writing skills for a hypothetical audience.
This is going to be good.
[sjdfajsdfjaksdnfjkasdnf who even reads this haha. why am i being so formal?]
I’ve found my newest tv personality crush haha
Ben Wyatt from Parks and Recreation! good balance of nerd and cute.
Okay, that is all 🙂
So, today was pretty eventful. I went to Ikea today with my family. It’s kind’ve the thing we do whenever we happen to find ourselves in Long Island. And today’s trip was actually more productive than our last few times. We were there for, no lie, more than 2 hours. But it wasn’t dreadful this time around. Not sure why, but home furnishings and interior design have recently caught my attention.
Today, I bought ORGEL VRETEN
It’s such a good change to finally have a good amount of light in my room. For maybe 8+ years, my room (not huge, but pretty spacious when clean haha) has been lit up by a clip-on desk lamp. Trusty lamp, but it’s definitely time for a change.
The room looks significantly brighter and feels warmer, now that colder weather has arrived. And I feel happier, too. Not that I wasn’t before, it’s just that whenever I walk into my room now, I get a fuzzy happy feeling 🙂
Reminds me of a paper I wrote on lights and happiness. Glad to see my toil and stress actually making sense!
Anyways, yup. That’s Orgel.
I also bought a clamp jar for idk what, but it looked cool. tea brewing, maybe? .. and a jar of lingonberry jam. it will be a fun week in baking, indeed 🙂
My eyes first dropped to the quotation at the end of the post. Ha, the end.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” // Mark Twain
Then I proceeded to read the rest..
And just like that, it was as if I saw a sign from God himself telling me to go. To Haiti, Uganda, or whatever site SafeWorld decides to choose in the next few days.
Maybe I’m being rash. No wait, rash is bad.. is bold a better word?
Okay, so why this makes sense in my head:
If not now, one day for sure. But Lord, if now, show me that this is for real and that this is where You want me to be.
Blarggh. Dangerous (?) thoughts at 3:06am. Thank you, insomnia.
aside//
– I can’t even begin to wrap my head around His plans that he has for me, to prosper.. to give me hope.. a future.. It’s scarily awesome. Keeps me on my toes!
– This ethoshift blog, man.. always got me thinking really hard about my own life. I’ve only visited this blog, maybe.. 4 times? But each time, each post speaks to a certain part of my life. THIS ONE, ESPECIALLY. A doozy.
– And Ate Jan, it is NOT by accident that I happen to soak up all the stuff you share with me. You’re like, God’s hint-dropper for me! ❤
tl;dr.. i wanna go to Uganda?!
(thingquest, lite!!)
power duo! these two are great together. i saw passion live a few years ago in a tiny cafe (YEAH THAT’S RIGHT.. before he was cool haha), without leejay. he was amazing, but leejay and gabe on the guitar definitely add a different element to the vibe. it’s cool. even so, i feel like beatboxing is still a very under-appreciated art these days. (ramble, ramble..)
random post. idk. OD crushing on leejay right about now haha
(..leaving girly moment)
ANYWAYS! I found this video on youtube a couple of years ago – a video tutorial for beatboxing. Pretty interesting and helpful! Give it a try 🙂
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
HOLY MOLY, this book just plunged me into reading mode. Definitely kept me on my toes, and even though I get sick reading books in cars, I took every free moment I had to keep going. Amazing. Can’t wait till the movie comes out (definitely won’t do the book justice, though!!) Onto Catching Fire 🙂
Nothing good happens after 2 am – Mrs. Mosby, How I Met Your Mother
It’s still 1:47, we’re good.
They say after 2 am, you should just go to bed. So I’m not really risking things by blogging right now. Nor am I really risking things by taking to heart what this blog had communicated to me.
After a conversation with a friend a few mins ago (you know who you are!), sticking to my guns and not really listening to him, I realized.. he’s right. Not on the premise that he would think, but on the idea that..
I shouldn’t assume, nor have others assume. Or something.
Anyway, back to the blog – Three things that happen when communication does NOT happen (Matt Chambers):
1) We assume the other person already knows what’s going on and either doesn’t care or is ok with it.
2) We keep it inside and let frustrations simmer until they turn explosive and detrimental.
3) We don’t communicate because we’re embarrassed or don’t want to rock the boat.
Truth, no? I don’t know, but the continued conversation was about risk-taking as well. It’s all a jumbled meshing in my head.
Give that blog a read. He’ll explain things better than I ever can. Then again, different person, different situation.
Bottom-line: communicate things clearly. ROCK THAT BOAT.
(own that pony tail, work that updo lol) < babbling. why? coz it’s now 2:01.
Seacrest Avena, Out.
hah. one of my favorite hymns redone.
I think it’s really cool how, generations later, classics can still be slightly tweaked to appeal to younger audiences (haa. VBS flashback anyone? We kick it old school). Granted, this one is a bit more indie sounding.. but hymns done heavy metal? (youtube search – challenge accepted!)
the quest 