MISC.

Bought new socks. Need a new phone because mine won't text and has ruined some weekend plans. Eh, I have a great life if that's my one complaint from this week. Considering driving to Portland to attend Imago (I don't care if it's ridiculous). Trying not to slow down too much or I'm afraid I'll end up in bed eating the bag of misc popcorns I bought at Target and watching movies. Just wasting time until life begins again.

Digging these posters.

Have I posted this before? Because I periodically watch it. It's how I imagine a modern day fairy tale. From ESB.


Did anyone else miss that LUSH is making conditioner now? Cannot wait to try it!


I think it might be time for another book week! So interesting.


I dare Port Orchard to do this. Please. I'd get up extra early for church to participate.


I think this home would make me claustrophobic!


Iceland, still the coolest.


Check out what we're doing for my moms birthday! I'm terrified and totally stoked.


Nicknames are so fun!

Mumford and I'm a bum.

The new album.
Sophomore albums are so tricky because I love the old one so much and I'm never sure if I like the new style as much. I'm giving it a fighting chance though. I love ghosts that we knew and the above tune.

In other news I have no desire to do anything. I want to burrow under my covers for one hundred years.

Peace.

Peanut butter jealous time!

My dear friend from many years of summer camp and miscellaneous adventures is on an adventure so cool it warrants its own post!! Without a doubt. Get ready......
He's in Lebanon. Seriously you say? I know, I'm struggling with envy and wrath and all sorts of deadly sins against him and this awesome 18 ish months he's going to have. I might have to go visit him! When we went to camp together every day for half an hour there was an activity where you spent time getting to know another camper who you didn't have a relationship with. And every year we paired up on Thursday. I can't believe we got away with it really but we did! He's going to do some amazing things. I'm proud.

His blog.

The book I sent him.


Lebanon facts- do you ever get sucked into the CIA factbook? Oh my word I do! It's nerdy pinterest. Also WHO has an awesome website...


Street style.

A funny.

Yesterday I was singing on praise team and I'm standing on stage while someone is talking (I think maybe the preacher was giving the welcome) and Nana comes running down the isle in the baby Doc Marten-esque boots completely intending to do join me. She was gunning for my spot! She made it all the way up the first stair before her mama caught her.

I love that girl.
I would have held her all service and sang with her.
She was the happiest part of my day.

MISC.

I feel like an ad for the Y all the time, but really it's the greatest. Although I haven't been able to shave sitting on the side of the tub which I appreciate there are so many benefits like:
- Being able to watch whatever I want while I work out including but not limited to: cute boys, cute girls, old couples, ESPN, and my feet.
- A great pool that's never crowded before seven.
- 12 week starter programs to help you set goals and achieve them by utilizing the Y.

Blah blah I know. But really my life if going to work and going to work out. Work work work. This weekend is work on Christmas presents weekend (I have them all planned now I just have to buy/make them)! This is going to be the most selfish thing that might ever come out of my mouth but here it is: I like to be done Christmas shopping by black Friday so I can shop for myself. Yikes! I want some knakis and a white shirt like this dashing fellow.

Laughter is the best medicine.

My old dear friend wore this watch to a wedding we attended and I'm digging the retro vibe.

I love peter pan collars! And dresses.


Anybody else going to use these at work?


If I had someone else's life his would be in my top three.


YES!

Iceland, ineedyou.

I cried.

This is not shocking, but I find myself surprised by it anyway. The wild north sneaks up on me and calls to my soul. The wanderer.

An adventure. And food to take on it. From ACOJ.

Cheezballzzz-

Two happier girls you will never see.

The zoo! We love it.

VACAY.

I'm taking a blog vacay.

So a week of more sleep and more swimming and more praying.

And maybe a few posts I have tucked away.

Some weeks are the dumps.

MISC.

I went to a dinner about aHUS this week- only 15 people out of a million are diagnosed with this disease and we had a whole dinner on it. It was so cool to listen to a distinguished Doctor talk about championing care for the tiny group of patients. The community in Seattle is full of people who care about people and their pain and sickness. It makes me proud.

Also I ran into a screen door at an older couple from churches house so hard I popped it off it's track. In front of ten people. It was maybe the most embarrassing thing I can think of that I've done this year! Yikes.

Today I went to the zoo with 4 kids and my mom. I saw the walrus getting fed, he know over 200 hand signals/voice commands. IT. WAS. AWESOME. I have a season pass again, so let's go!!!

My friend went to the Olympics! Whaaaaat?!?!

Only slightly less embarrassing than the door incident, but I've listened to this for two days straight. I like how MJ has permeated culture. Oops, a cover. On a more serious note I actually think the hip hop bridge has some legitimate pearls of wisdom.

Joshua pointed me toward this blog and I've been digging through it loving how it makes me think. Also that he was a Merwin poem.

Another couple books to read. The Star Wars book was a gift from my brother for my birthday.

I would own every single thing that Madewell makes. They seem so pretty but functional too.

The new album comes out in ten days! Yikes, better budget for it!

Trying this tutorial for real this weekend, I finally buckled and removed my bottle opener from my keychain... my adventure calendar has given me several alternatives to a bottle opener anyway so I'm set.

Umm yes.

Coconut milkshakes? Thank you please right now. Milkshakes might be my favorite dessert. Ice cream is my favorite but ice cream that you drink? Heaven! And coconut is perfection. After a day at work a milkshake is the best comfort food. Or before a day at work... or pretty much any time. I wish it was healthy! I bet there are healthy milkshakes out there. But do they taste good? Maybe I'll try out some healthy recipes.

And three other things I'd like to make/eat tonight.

Mini farm!

Don't laugh but I may have inherited my dads love of pigs.

Especially tiny pigs!

And then at camp, where all the most crazy ideas happen, I decided it would be amazing if someone would make a mini farm! Complete with a teeny barn. And I'm sold on it.

Pig, cow, pony.

A perfect starter farm.

9.11

Beautiful.

New reads...

I hear about books on NPR, on The Moth, from friends, from ten year olds who watch movies with me. And sometimes I try them out (like The Night Circus). The trick is, what do you try and what do you leave?! I've been thinking about taking the plunge on these. But I have a stack of books literally as tall as my waist that I own/Joshua owns/my brother owns and I'm plowing through them.

All the while Nick mocks me from his monthly column which I will drop everything to read.

MISC.

Getting my oil changed today. What a grownup. And my hair died, I've become pretty adventurous when it comes to hair- after all it's not permanent and it'll grow out in a month. Meh. Do what you want. Next week is my first full paycheck- I think it's fair to get excited a week early! When I think about my weekend I mostly think about rest... and good thing! Hope you are planning something adventurous though!

This photo is the background on my computer. I love grey ocean days the most.

This is my number 1 choice for car listening right now. OBSESSED.

This makes me so happy! Smarty nerds are normal people too. Via ACOJ.

I'm pretty sure I've posted this at least twice. But really? It's perfect.

Mini webisodes for Doctor Who. I hate that Rory and Amy are fighting- better resolve episode 1!

Cutest couple.

I might do this to every journal ever from now on.

I want a progressive wedding. If I were just having a tiny wedding I would 100%. Or have it in Iceland. Or both!

Ombre.... part 1.

So we tried ombre but since it was the first time we went more conservative, you can barely tell that my ends are lighter! Now that practice is over next Friday we're going for it- either a BLONDE BLONDE or a plum for fall. I'm stoked for either!

Death.

I love my job.

But man when young people come in my heart aches.

Probably why I've been listening to this more this week.

I get a lot of literature and the latest book I got was about difficult conversations you have to have as a nurse. And the end-of-life is probably the hardest bit for me. Do I mind if I talk about it? Dignity and presence are conscious things we can offer as people transition from health to death. But it's hard, and scary, and hard.

Stanley Hauerwas talks about death in this question and answer session. He says, "In the Book of Common Prayer there's the prayer, 'save me from all oppression, conspiracy, and rebellion; from violence, battle and murder; and from dying suddenly and unprepared.' In the Middle Ages, what people feared was not death, they feared God. They prayed to be saved from a sudden death because they wanted to have time to repent and have their lives appropriately positioned to face God. Now we just fear death." Isn't that so different from how we feel?! But I want to feel that way.

He also postures that how medicine deals with illness, especially long term illness leading to death is an example for the church living together with the illness of lives lived in sin. It's easy to go through a moment of deep pain together but how to continue after without burnout emotionally is the trick. I haven't been in long enough to speak to burnout but how to keep your heart guarded enough to function but open enough to care for people is a fine line.

Phew. It actually makes me feel tired just digging in to the ideas. And sad. But hard things aren't always bad.

This always makes me cry, and commiserate. We all wish it wasn't a part of life.

A series I'd like to see.

If you want to learn more about hospice.

Woof.

As the idea of living on my own becomes more and more in my mind the more I realize my schedule and apartment living is easier on a kitty. But oh man I love puppies! I love they way my puppydog smells and drools and loves me and turns two circles when he sees his family driving up. Puppies are most best. And this tumblr is best best. I mean check out these photos! I couldn't choose a favorite, I loved every picture. I die.