No DC for me

Just found out today that I will not be going to DC for the visas. I was kinda looking forward to just having a day away and doing something completely different. But there are lectures I have to attend so I don't get to go along.

It has been a really good day...it started off doing a service project for a local ministry. They have a lot of stuff donated to them to pass on to the homeless and we went and sorted through everything and organized it in order for it to be set out for Christmas. There was SO much stuff to go through and I was so glad to be able to help...there was no way this family that runs the ministry would have been able to get it all done.

This evening, I got to go hang out with some friends from LA. One of the them, Britany, is from this area so I went with some other LA alums to have dinner with her family. Good food, great people, wonderful night!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today was a very good day! Before having our own thanksgiving feast, a team of us went to serve food to the homeless. There is a program that we work with that takes over the local Wendy's restaurant. The people come in, we seat them and bring them a very tasty meal. We had such a good time being able to serve them and bless them in this way.

We are still working on preparing for our international outreach. There is going to have to be a trip to Washington D.C. next week in order to get our visas and I may be one of the two heading up there for the day! Fun Fun!

Hope you all had a great day with your families, or whoever you spent Thanksgiving Day with! God Bless!

3 in one day...and some big news!

This is the third update I have posted just today...trying very meagerly to make up for the fact that I neglected it for almost 2 months.

So on to the big news! I am going to be heading out on an international trip at the very end of December and will be gone for 2 months. One of the most exciting things about this is the fact that it will not just be one country, but two:

India and China!

We will be in India for all of January, in a small city called Manipal. And in China, for the month of February, in Tianjin. It will prove a packing challenge since India will be 100 degrees and humid and China will be below zero and snowing! I am a little worried about the freezing part of it, but know that it will be good all in all. Just have to buy some clothes fit for that kind of weather.

I don't really have too many details about what we will be doing exactly in either place, but I will post it all on here as soon as I have more information.

What's wrong with this picture?

Yes, if you look closely, that resembles the center console of a car..and it happens to belong to me. So someone thought it would be a hoot to break into my car and steal my poor little radio. They didn't do it very nicely either because they ripped apart the plastic and bent pieces of metal and broke off more than just the radio portion. Not a very good thief. Needless to say, though, that I was not terribly pleased and have to go through the headache of getting it fixed and all that nonsense. Luckily, I have a zero deductible so I don't have to come up with any money out of pocket to fix it and buy a new radio. I would have rather just given them the $50 though...less hassle.

It finally happened!

No need to check your pulses...you are still alive and there is finally a new blog posted here! Amazing, I know.

I could offer excuse after excuse as to why it has taken me so long to update (I hang my head in shame)...I will say one thing and then subject dropped and I will update better. Things have been so busy for me and I don't really have much access to the internet like I used to. I no longer work at a desk and I don't get internet in my bedroom, so at night, when I have a few minutes, walking downstairs to the office does not appeal to me at all. Ok, that's all.

A lot has been going on in the last couple months. I am still in North Carolina, currently doing a training school and on staff at the same time. And for those of you that don't know what my responsibility is here at the base...I am one of two kitchen managers! I realize some of you could be laughing since that is so far from my experience, but it has not been too bad. Things are more routine now so that helps and I have a good team to work with. I just never pictured myself doing anything of that nature and I am definitely learning a great deal!

I have thought about this blog (and have been bugged about it by a number of friends!) and knew there were things to write about, but never got around to it. But I will do better. Bear with me though. Love ya!