well, my birthday is coming up in awhile. just a few more days. I feel like I can see it's shadow as it tries to sneak up on me. I'm not sure yet if I'll catch it at the last moment, or if I'll turn my attention elsewhere and it will actually succeed in surprising me.
anol shalom....
I really want to watch Gladiator.
Roger came over today and we did music stuff. I'm not really nervous anymore. my biggest problem is knowing the order of each song. I love the comraderie in the worship team though. they go out for dinner after church every Saturday night, and just hang out over pizza and a soda. he's not worried about me, so I guess I shouldn't be either. not worried, just a tiny bit jumpy, if you know what I mean.
school goes on. if you guys have any ideas, we are doing compare/contrast essays next week. we need to pick two people (I'm definitely thinking literature or movie based, but they have to be from the same book or movie), figure out 10 values they share, 10 interests they share, and what we've learned from them. and it absolutely can't be LotR. so...all the examples I'm coming up with are two people from different books. I'm sure I can think of something, but if you're reading this and have a moment of brilliance I would like to hear it.
French is still pretty sweet. stupid masculine and feminine....that's the only hard part so far. and it isn't that hard really. today we watched a video about why French people have like no heart disease even though they eat three times the fat Americans do - apparently it's all in the red wine, and cheese isn't nearly as bad as milk, something about the fermentation. this is good news because I love cheese.
but of course it's much more complicated than that. it's also all in the processed foods we eat, and the microwaves we use, and the amount of snacks we eat between meals....Americans must be the unhealthiest people on the planet. I hope I lose weight in Europe. :P
We have no heat in our house because some transformer blew so the furnace and heat pump don't work. it's getting replaced today, but it's been about 50 degrees since last night. I'm really thankful that we can get it fixed so fast though, and that we have heat. a lot of people have worse problems than me.
and I have my own little room with my own little space heater.
please pray for the India team from the church in Portland - they left yesterday morning and are probably in Singapore right now....can you believe they've been traveling for a day and a half and they aren't there yet? that flight absolutely sucks....anyway they are all really tired and still have a ways to go and a lot to do over the next two weeks. if you want to keep up on their progress and stuff they're doing while in India, e-mail me and I'll send you a link and password for their website.
I guess that's it. anything exciting happening anywhere else?
no. lifes as dull as pancakes. which, actually, arn't that dull, but . . . . you know what i mean.
ReplyDeleteyou know me, an outburst of brilliance comes few and far between, but couldn't you try thinking of stories where the plot is split half the time between two people? other then that, all i can think of is "the theif". any story with a group of heros would be good . . . .
I'm not following you on the thief exactly. but I decided on Jane and Elizabeth Bennet, and so far it's been the easiest. I think I'll probably stick with that.
ReplyDeletedull as pancakes? really Jacob...
whaaaaaaaaat.
ReplyDeletelol pride and prejudace? interesting. i was just saying that i recently read the theif, the book anna has been trying to get me to read. i loved it. i thought maybe gen and one of the other adventurers would be good, but nevermind. :) lol.
Cool! I'm so glad you read it!!!
ReplyDeletethat's one of my top faves of all time. have you read the sequels yet? all three of those books are fantastic re-reads.
but I think Gen just stands alone. I mean....it's hard to compare him to anyone.
if you guys know of any particular interests the Bennet sisters shared other than reading, dancing, and handsome young men, please let me know.....
Ummm, there was an earthquake this morning. Does that count as interesting?
ReplyDeleteOh no! was it bad? I hope not, probably not because I didn't hear about it.
ReplyDeletebut yes that's very interesting.
it's snowing here. do you guys have lots of snow there still?
Well, my bed was shaking and a light fixture fell down. But that was about it. It wasn't real big.
ReplyDeleteActually, we do not have a lot of decent snow. Not fair!! Most of it turn to slush and water and then froze. So now we have a whole lot of ice to slip and slide on but not a lot of fluffy, cute snow.
Oh that's too bad. Yeah we just had a trace...maybe a half inch at the church. it's all gone now. it was really pretty driving to church this morning though. I miss living out there where everything is so beautiful. :)
ReplyDeletecould you email me the India website thing? I am interested in that.
ReplyDeletemy life is duller than pancakes. Definitely.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm starting Spanish today, which is going to be interesting. I'm trying to decide if I want to take Spanish or French at running start, so taking some Spanish now will help me decide . . . hopefully.