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2 Corinthians 5:20

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:29:19 GMT

As though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

new job

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:42:52 GMT

okay nobody posted a comment on my last entry. i feel unloved. what, do i have to talk about greys anatomy or something to get people excited.

this week has premiere episodes for veronica mars and gilmore girls!

there.

i bought new running shoes yesterday. went shopping with my mom. i also bought really cute tiny colanders. not sure what i can use them for. the tag said, for rinsing small fruits. when would i just want to rinse one or two strawberries at a time? not sure. but my three nesting colanders were too shiny and stainless to pass up.

i'm liking my new job. i'm only in this office for three weeks. i bought a stainless steel clock with a red and white face from target. now i know what time it is. ok. it's time to go to quiktrip to get a diet pepsi with cola slush on top. a good snack to end my lunch hour. i ate yogurt and homemade bread with peanut butter.

bye now.

Friday, September 01, 2006

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:14:35 GMT

okay, updates...
i had a lovely time in merced, california visiting my grandma dorothy. i made a lap quilt. woohoo! we thought about making a jean quilt too, but maybe next time.

and audrey and ben came up to visit. we ate sushi and had starbucks and then sat in the downtown square (merced is about the size of owasso, but compressed and a bit more cosmopolitan) and were suprised to see a group of teenage guys roll out a carpet, plug in a boombox and a light, and start breakdancing. it was amazing. then we went back to my grandma's and played cards for several hours. the next morning we drove to san francisco. neither ben nor audrey had been before. we played like tourists and consulted our overly-descriptive guidebook while hiking from fisherman's wharf and pier 39 to chinatown and back. we ate like it was the tulsa state fair. we shared all our meals so as to try everything. fish and chips, crab cakes, and crab for lunch. caramel and chocolate and nut apples for snack. then some taffy for another snack. then some candy cigarettes. then for dinner we ate potstickers and eggplant in plum sauce and lemon chicken in chinatown.

we took lots of pictures. i had some help from my favorite poparazzi. i put some of the photos on my myspace for you guys to see.

okay p.s. i probably have a job now. it's mine if i want it. i'll go in tomorrow to observe and if i think i can do it (i do) i'll take the job as intake counselor at the juvenile bureau. woohoo to health benefits!

i still don't know what i want to be when i grow up, but this will be good experience...

OK Go videos :)

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:35:49 GMT

I found the weirdest site. http://www.okgo.net/video.asp it's this band called Ok Go. their videos are amazing. i watched the Million Ways to Be Cool backyard dance and the Ping Pong Instructional video. :)

They have the coolest dancing on treadmills video at http://youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI .

You will not be sorry!

Christi

job interview 2

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:02:24 GMT

so here's the serious half of my post. the job interview is for a juvenile probation counselor position. there are two open. i want one of them. the job is very similar to what i did before with juvenile drug court. i should be okay at it. i enjoy working with messed up kids and their families. i would like health care.

i'm thinking about missions for the future. mbmsi has a 3 year internship/mentorship thing called journada that is for those who are thinking missions long-term. it could be the first part of a 10 year church plant somewhere.

there's a possible church plant in sao paulo, brasil. i've always wanted to work with orphans and street kids.

there's a cool organization called children with hope ministries. (google it). they do training for people who want to work with high risk children. i may want to go to their 6 week training thing next september in thailand. anyway, those are my thoughts. it's exciting and scary to think of leaving all my family and friends here. i want to do what God wants. i want an adventure. i want comfort. i want want want. blah.

sam dick with mbmsi in canada prayed that i would hear God's voice more clearly each day. Skip B. at church told me to pray for God to increase the desires of my heart. because God puts the dreams into our hearts for a reason. :)

okay people, give me love and prayers and encouragement. i'm going to go visit my grandmother the last week in august. i'll have good away time and alone time to pray and think.

love you all.

especially, you two. :)

job interview

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:51:41 GMT

so i have a job interview thursday. i'm going to wear my suit. sigh. it's going to be 97 degrees outside and feel like 105 and i'm going to wear a black suit. yes, with fall colors. i was told by several people that i had to wear tailored clothes, not ruffley or girly. apparently only wannabe secretaries wear ruffles. :( i'm wearing my hannah approved pointy shoes. i don't know how i'll do my hair.

Land O' Lakes

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:13:33 GMT

okay, so the coolest new snack -- making your own airpopped microwave popcorn. You take a heaping 1/3 cup of kernels (generic walmart or reasors brand) and dump them into a brown paper bag (lunch size). Fold over the end once and use a small piece of tape to tape it shut. Put in the microwave on the popcorn setting (I have to hit the button twice for a medium size bag of popcorn). Voila! you have an amazingly healthy snack. or if you want you can then drizzle with melted Land O' Lakes butter and dump on the salt. ENJOY!

looking foolish

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:15:48 GMT

why am i so afraid of looking foolish?

i have always wanted to be smooth and sophisticated with an air of mystery. i wanted to be polished and poetic, slim and sleek, wearing black and knowing everything. like lydia from beetlejuice with a dash of daria.

the opposite would be dharma from dharma and greg. she's free-spirited, creative, and not afraid of anything. she goes shopping with jane as a german tourist. she drives a school bus for fun and plays drums in a high-schooler's garage band.

i'm trying to balance between the two personas. i don't want to be a ditz who acts purposefully silly all the time. and i don't want to be a boring ice queen who only watches other people having fun.

as you grow up you can either stick to what you always do or you can try new things. my chica jennie took up boxing last year. my grandma dorothy takes up a new hobby every decade. swimming, quilting, darkroom photography, etc.

i want to do the same. what should i try next?

i want to take so many classes and learn so many things.

yoga, dancing, kareoke, painting, swimming (i never did learn how to dive), welding, ice skating (i want to spin), skiing, playing harmonica, running more than 5 miles, etc.

more later...

when i grow up i want to be . . .

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:43:36 GMT

okay, so for a long time i didn't update my xanga because my options were a) talk about work where anything that is interesting is confidential, b) tell the funny stories that i already tell over and over to my friends or c) talk about my personal thoughts and ideas that i don't want people to know.

so now that my job ends this week, i can talk about it. i liked my job. or at least, i like most of it. i work part-time with juvenile drug court and family drug court. i get to do lots of soothing administrative duties plus the interesting and fulfilling duties of counselling and doing home visits with clients. i get to go to court and listen to all the legal messes. and i get to play with babies and toddlers when i visit their parents who are recovering drug addicts.

my boss was mentoring me in how to do her job. she has years of experience and wisdom. :) she prays with clients and answers their emergency phone calls nights and weekends. she admits she doesn't know all the answers.

ok, so i'm still not talking about the future. for some reason i don't feel closure of leaving. i feel like i'm staying in my current job. or more like, i'll be gone for a few weeks or so, and then get rehired back on fulltime. it's true that my boss needs me. :) there are all kinds of job possibilities for my future. i could work anywhere. with almost anything. i'm just praying and waiting to see what God has for me.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:58:03 GMT

okay i am tired and moody-swingy. it is suddenly 11 pm and i "went to bed" at 10. so this will be ultra short.

how come i always think of the best things to blog on my drive to work when I can't type?

how come my mood goes from "all is right with the world, I like everyone, and God will take care of me in the coolest possible way" to "i'm sick of all of this, nobody likes me, and what is wrong with me?" in the space of an hour?

how come my favoritist things in the world to do i can't choose as a career?

so future blog stories:

1. the copperhead at my back door and how forgot to take a picture of my hero.

2. summer arts and the kids that write the funniest stories about killer cyborg robots and an old couple named ruby and frump.

3. how my job is ending this week and i don't know what to do when i grow up.

4. arranged marriages? yes? no?

5. to be announced later

6. why i dont' like blogging and avoid it.

7. why gayle will hate me because i wrote too long of a blog yet again.