Alright, alright a lot is going down. Where do I start? How much do I say? I mean, anyone on the internet can read this if they want to. Will that come back and bite me in the butt after the fact? Hm. Here’s an update on my life (since I haven’t had much else to post about).
I leave for my adventure to Canada on August 28th where the first leg of my journey will take me to Indiana. I will drive there in one day and stay with my Aunt and Uncle for a day or two. They have a lot of land and live right on the boarder of Kentucky. There is something lovely about the home they live in. It’s grazing land, but there are woods. It’s open and free, yet it is completely private. My favorite memory from their home is from a few years ago when I sat on their enormous porch, playing guitar in the heat and enjoying the beauty of that state. It’s one of my favorite places.
The next part of my trip will take about 10 hour’s max where I will arrive in Virginia and stay with my Aunt (my mom’s sister) for a day or two. She also lives on a lot of land. She raises her own chickens, has a few horses, and plants and cares for oriental grasses which she then sells to people who do landscaping. I am very excited to visit her and take a day to hang in the foot hills. I also plan on riding my mountain bike somewhere between Indiana and Virginia.
From Virginia my trip get’s a little hazy. It takes about 6 or so hours to get from my Aunts up to Baltimore, Maryland where I have more east coast family… but the drive from Baltimore to St. Stephens, NB, CA is a bit of a haul. I may try and make it up to Boston after Virginia and either squat somewhere for the night or grab a hotel. However I want to get some more mountain biking in around there. I plan on getting to St. Stephens by September 2 so I can get moved in and drive around the province to get my bearings (and do some riding). I do have to say, I am pretty excited about this move out east. It’s a once in a life time type of thing.
I have received four of my five books for my first semester of class in the mail yesterday. The director of ICEWS; Dan Wilt, recommends reading through them and taking down some questions I have about the content in them to bring me and anyone else in the program up to speed on what we will be studying. It’s exciting to feel like I am already starting to study—and it’s only summer! The first two books I am starting with are; For All God’s Worth by N.T. Wright and Emerging Churches by Ryan K. Bolger and Eddie Gibbs. Thus far I like both of them. The latter is a bit of a tougher read because there is a lot of data and meat (it’s almost like a case study over 5 years of the different post-modern-emerging churches) but it is if anything full of wonderfully educational content. The first, by N.T. Wright so far comes across as blunt, real and straight to the point. The writer is being honest about the world, the church and our part in both. I like it.
So, only 63 days until I leave on my adventure to ICEWS
Filed under: Bikes
If you are a cyclist, you might appreciate this…
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I went for a ride at lebanon last night. I really dig riding by myself. I find that place of solitude and peace even if there are other riders out there. I ran into my ex—kindof. It’s good to know there are no hard feelings there. It is true proof that God does heal your heart in though situations.
I have to exercise a degree of self controll at work these days. They unblocked myspace, youtube, facebook, et al and I have this desperate urge to start logging into all my accounts at work. They unblocked them but are still monitoring our use of them because God forbid we actually have the slightest bit of entertainment while at work. However I am trying to be a bit more respectful while on my way out the door here at my job. It’s just a matter of months and then I will be flying high, spreading my wings and doing my own thing (and getting a tattoo to match).
More details to come later.
Filed under: Bikes
I’m gong to pee my pants.
Lebanon is officially opened for 2007! I don’t care how much mono is left in my body, or how swollen my liver still is… I will be mountain biking for the rest of the week–hands down.
So I went for my first bike ride of the season tonight. I mean I guess it’s not really my first since I rode a bit in the winter–but I didn’t ride much and it sure felt like my first ride. I went 9 miles. Not very long, but definatly long enough being that my mono isn’t totally out of my system yet (I’d say I am sitting at a 96%). I took my track bike out to Victoria and met my friend Kevin for dinner at School of the Wise (aka glorious food. Holy crap it was so good).
I also found out today that Penn Cycle will be putting on their Buck Hill MTB races this year. I am excited because I wanted to try those out last year. And, I have my first Mountain Bike Patrol on Sunday April 29th at the Iron Man Bicycle Ride. So I am just a busy kind of girl. It feels good to be getting back into the swing of things. The month of March was a kind of a dud. I had made some indefinate plans on some of the weekends that ended up not happening for circumstances that don’t matter now… either way I had a lot of time to do stuff but nothing to fill that time with in March. Finally now in April my life is getting back to how it was around November or December of 2006. It’s nice to fill my time–and finally I am not filling it out of lonliness but because I desire to do the things I am doing. You are only young once, and God wants to do things without life, and to impact His kingdom in our singleness–so I’ve decided to embrace it.
So I am still on my death bed. Or so it feels. If only this sickness would go away. I did find out however that mono is in your body up to 8 weeks before you show any signs or symptoms of it….. if only you knew what I was thinking right now… however I won’t be a jerk today. Forget I said anything.
I also have strep throat. And an enlarged liver. If my throat doesn’t feel any better today then I will be going back to the doctor to get pumped with steroids. Woo hoo. I wish I wasn’t feeling like this because then I could ride my bike. however that wont be happening for a while. But by the time I am well the trails will maybe be semi-dried out so I can rock the mountain bike. I really want to ride the jail trail, but don’t really want to go to St.Cloud. Stupid St.Cloud. I shake my fist at that freaking city. If only the jail trail wasn’t so much freaking fun to ride. BOO! That’s all I have to say.
I leave for colorado next week. If I am not feeling well then Nora and MarthaJoy will be doing a majority of the driving while I sleep in the back of the car. That should be fun. And by fun I mean totally lame. I hope I am well this time next week. Or well enough.
If you are bored go to www.theslowskys.com. It’s really, really funny.
Out.
Let’s start with friday, shall we? I was supposed to hangout with my good friend Kevin, he however was busy. So Nora and I went on an adventure.
A bicycle adventure.
Nora just started a new job at Quality Bicycle Products. It is one of the nations leading bicycle distrubutors. Either way, she doesn’t own a bike. Only parts. When you work at QBP you can demo bikes. She got a Surly Cross Check to demo and I took her on her first road bike ride. We took the greenway starting at 29th and Bryant, down to Hiawath Ave. into downtown Minneapolis; Washington Ave. to Hennepin Ave. to 9th Street to LaSalle Ave. back into uptown. It was a good ride. The temperature was about 40 degrees, and the puddles of water from the day were starting to feeze over. We ran into Jay “Hollywood” Henderson on the way, and as he approached me he told me to “not slip on the ice.”
I did. He always has a way of seeing me fall on my butt when I ride. It’s kindof lame.
I woke up saturday morning with one swollen eye, one swollen gland, one clogged nose and a sore body. Nora came over and we made Sour Cream-raspeberry-choclate muffins from scratch. We also went to target where I sucessfully found a new pair of aviators for $5.99. I went to church on saturday feeling like complete crap. I pretty much had a metal break down. I started crying and couldn’t stop for a good 45 minutes because I was so overwhelmed. I felt ill prepared to lead worship, my song list wasn’t the right one, my heart hurt (emotionally, not literally), my head hurt, and I couldn’t move my eyes without feeling pain. It was weird. My worship team helped my pull through. They prayed for me, we got a good set list put together and did worship. It was the hardest weekend of church worship I have ever done. I had to compart-mentalize my feelings for the greater good of the congregation. It’s a tough thing to do. I then went to MarthaJoys and we ate pizza and watched Stranger than Fiction (fyi, see that movie. It’s sooo good one.) I cried all the way home from her house and didn’t really know why.
I tossed and turned in my sleep all night Saturday. For the past few days I had been sleeping on the couch. When I don’t want to think about things I sleep in front of the TV to keep my mind from going crazy with thoughts but last night I actually slept in my bed. It was a hard night, and loosing an hour of sleep didn’t make it easier.
I woke up today and my head still killed. Now both my eyes were swollen. I took some meds and went into church where we rocked our worship set. That was pretty sweet. Came home, slept from noon to 5 on the couch. Woke up and went back to church to present some graphic design ideas for GEER; City Hill Fellowship’s youth group.
Came home. Now I am watching CSI. Woo hoo. Eyes still swollen, gland still swollen, head still pounding. I think I am going to call in sick to work tomorrow.
