The Great Mother Red Hen

So Nathan told me last week that he had the best birthday present for me and I just needed to let him know when a good time was to go pick it out. Here are the hints that i gathered from what he told me...
- "You need to pick out what color you want."
- "Now, you won't be able to use it until we move out to the Route 40 house, but we can keep it in storage until we move.
- "I think they open and close at 7pm"

So that was the end of that conversation, and then we talked about it and figured out that we could go on Saturday morning before work. So I begged and pleaded for a few more hints... I finally resorted to letters.

"Tell me a letter that's in the word..."
"a."
"That's not a letter! That's a vowel!"
"Ok....*pause*...r."
"Babe, I DO NOT WANT A LAWN MOWER!"
"I'm not saying yes or no anymore!"
"There's no 'r' in Mac."
"Ha... yah."
"YOU'RE GETTING ME A GREAT DANE!!!!"
"Yeah right!"
" Recliner....Craftsmen? Babe, i don't need tools... Cuiesenart...."
"Go to bed!"
SIGH

So we woke up at 6am and got dressed for work. We jumped into the car and headed downtown... toward builders warehouse....UFS...*recliner-that i didnt want*.... and then we turned into the tractor supplies.
Passed the cowboy boots....no red ones btw... and HERE IS WHAT HE GOT ME.....



I basically have the best husband ever! They are the coolest... they smell... but they are cool! They will be out in the garage soon...but for now they are chillin' in the basement. Forrest is really not very happy about this...but she is handling it like any pompous, selfish, "i am better than the world" cat.

Then to day in an ode to Easter, I tried dying egg with neckties. It kind of worked... they looked pretty cool...

Here's hoping we'll be at our new house in about two weeks... but who knows... I'll post updated pictures soon.

I am going to type down things that are coming to my head right now...slightly for entertainment purposes and also, b.c i need to blog and i got a lot on the brain...

- I miss my dog. (There's one barking annoyingly outside)
- Can they please call me back.
- It's awesome outside.
- I really love Salt and Vinigar chips EXCEPT they make me sweat and they make my lips swell
- Nathan is so handsome. (just glanced at a picture)
- I need to get in a better mood.
- Oh to be off work by 5pm again.. what would that feel like?
- Can we get a dance crew together of the thousands and dance in a field to a random song?
- I miss my dog.
- I hope im a good aunt.
- What's for dinner?
- I need to finish a craft project...Im having a feeling that im one of those people who start something really cool and never finish it.
- I wonder what the date is when i get all my debts paid off?
- I wish i could get paid to blog.
- Can i get a job doing something that i already do?

I am trying to decide to change my blog, but i still want to keep this one because im one of those people who when they're bored, look back at some of their old posts and re-read them and remember how long it took me to write that one, how dumb it was or how many typos there were. But im officially a W and its slightly obvious that i thrive off of change.

Must do something different now.

End of Senegal

It is not my intention to make this post long, but if it happens im sorry. I have two big spiritual toad stools to sit on and mull over for a while so we'll see.

The end of the trip ended very well. Our second OCC distribution was at the secondary school of about 130 kids, Mr. Lo's part of the school. To start, the english classes had an english trivia contest, then they wrestled, and then they danced. It was funny to see the faces of Ash and Nathan, and Josh. Ashley was get flustered that they were only in what looked like diapers. That made me laugh b/c I know the men she lives/used to live with and they wear much less.

The distribution was a little harder than others, b/c about 400 people came to watch the wrestling match so when there was word of us giving away something, they all crowded around asking if they could have one too. But the high schoolers that did receive one were very happy and we just kept smiling and saying, sorry I don't understand...even though....well yeah...

The last couple days at the house were really fun for me. During the day it really wasn't anything special except for helping Kim and Mary Nowell (sp) do house stuff. All of us were snacking on fruit the whole time, and the last couple of days we went into town and bought no less then 10 lb of fruit (apples, bananas, clementines, and oranges)

As we prayed and headed into Dakar, the truck squeeked alittle more than usual but we smiled, b.c as soon as we were to get there, Kim was getting a new one. When we got there, we headed down the the statue that is kind of like their Statue of Liberty that was just finished about a year ago and took some pictures. There we found out that the demonstrations had already started and so we laid low for the evening. We headed to a great restaurant on the Atlantic ocean (THAT WAS REALLY COLD!) and went back and played cards.

Saturday was really just a calm day at the market, cards, and dinner out again. A good relaxing end to the trip. Kim had a really good conversation with us right before we headed to the airport that's kept me thinking still about different things. Home felt good, but now that im here i feel pretty worthless. Back to the routine and to being too busy for what im supposed to be doing. There's a pull that I keep facing... I could be doing so much more for God if i were to change directions in life from what im doing right now, vs. God has put me in this place right now to use me. But i have been praying and trying to figure out which it is or if it both. Feelings: Right now I feel like I'm sacrificing happiness for life and trying to maintain a joy for God when what I really want is for my happiness in life to fuel the joy that i have for God.

I'll talk about my other toad stool later... have you ever written/typed something out and then thought, "OMG! That's what im feeling!" That's kind of happening right now.