Crashing California

We went to a different 'dog friendly' beach this Saturday with Andy and Laura. I love watching Dog's play about ... so cute, to see so many different sizes of little guys running around and loving each other. If only we could be the same. Jay struck a pose Laura and I watching her little 'tike' playing. We're excited -- we're both getting our hair done this week and going for a girl date Saturday: shopping with our other friend from church Erin -- should be fun, I'm excited to ditch my Jay professed 'hippie doo' it'll be a surprise for all... Water Waves Wash over me flooding, filling all I can see Holy Ghost breathe on me Feed me, fill me make me believe I believe your hands sculpt the land your eyes place the skies you are everything and to your heart I bring all I am -- it's all I can

This blog is going to be pessimistic ... just a disclaimer I have had a 'tumultuous' couple of days. It's a combination of things, which I'm not going to share necessarily, perhaps another time, but it's built up into what it is today... Emotional Rollercoaster is a better word. I've been feeling like I'm an unstable basket case, and grumpy, very moody... although the days have been spent well, with friends and somewhat relaxing I have just felt 'blah', generally sad and dumpy, and NO I am NOT pregnant. I've come to the conclusion that I hate my 'feelings' because I feel like I can't control them. In a world where we base our situations and our quality of life on 'how am I feeling' at the moment. Seems that the human race in North America is really good at trying to 'feel good' and pretending that we really do, when in reality, we all don't really 'feel good' at all. I don't want to become 'sick...

This week has been a busy one for me. As we settle into the 'life' of living here in San Diego, it can be easy to fall into sort of a 'complacent' state, ie. not feeling like doing anything... I feel like that today, but I know, I need to keep hammering on with my work, so I decided to blog (so much for work) I'll get to that in 10 mins. Anyways, I had a particularly crazy day yesterday, putting out some 'editorial' fires so to speak and feeling like my head was going to fly off, so I decided to go for a walk down to the neighborhood 'KINKO's" (business center) to send some faxes. Boy, am I glad I went, nothing like getting out of your situation for a moment, looking out into the beautiful blue sky, feeling breeze on your face and marvelling at the created world around you. I am so thankful to be in a place where I can walk and see palm trees and hummingbirds in Feb. It's truly marvelous, I don't understand why the whole world doesn'...

It's pouring down rain today (Monday) Today is actually the REAL Presidents Day (my mistake on last Monday). In the United States they celebrate 2 Presidents Birthdays, one week apart, I guess if you're a school teacher or government worker, you get both off. Usually though, it's just today. The weekend was fabulous. I keep consistently feeling like I'm on vacation here, as all the surroundings seem too good to be true. Jay and I made our way to the beach on Saturday, not sure what the day would be like weather wise, but brave nonetheless I donned a bikini top and shorts. The day ended up being spectacular, we hung out in Mission Bay Park, the touristy beach all day. We had lunch at this total little 'beach/biker bar', complete with a steady diet of Hendrix, George Thourogood and Ozzy, while we had one of the best BLT sandwiches ever. (Tomatoes like, 1" thick!) We got a little sun-kissed, and decided that we need to invest in sunscreen if we can get pink in...

I was sitting here this morning, pondering the giant pummello grapefruit that Jay and I bought the other day. It's the largest citrus fruit I have ever seen. It's seriously the size of a canteloupe, and yet its a grapefruit -- it smells like gentle citrus, fresh and clean, like you could drink in the scent all day and not get tired of it -- and it came from nothing. Oh, you may say, but it came from a seed. I guess it did, but where did the seed come from? another plant. Where did the plant come from? A seed, and so on it goes ... so where did the seed come from? Not nothing. I believe that the seed comes from God. And only God can make something (everything we see) from nothing. See, mankind, we create things, and make things, but we always have to start with something. We need materials, motivation, longing and desire. But God gives us the desires of our hearts -- something, from nothing I have found, and will continue to find, that God does what He does best, consistently. H...

You may remember us mentioning our friends Andy and Laura, Andy is a professional photographer, he took Jay out to Ocean Beach Pier Wed. night for a shoot. Here is one result (Mur -- check out the Guitar) -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- landscape sound be a light shine round precious heart hear his new song

(Have you seen this boy?) Well, apologies are due -- it has been awhile, but I do have an excellent excuse -- well, I actually really don't but I had to start this long over-due blog somehow! It's been almost one week. We've had lovely dinners out with friends -- a great Saturday shopping trip, worship on Sunday and today is President's Day, which I guess is an American Holiday ... I'm not sure what exactly they celebrate, but Jay got to stay home from work today, so it was nice to spend time together. Last Thursday we went for sushi (again) with our friend Werner, he's so great -- and watched this completely bizarre movie called 'the secret'... [Sidebar] I guess it was just on Oprah too, so you know it's full of it ... basically a really good 'half truth' or quarter-truth ... just to show how dark our world is becoming, the New Age movement comes in many pretty packages. Just my opinion. [end sidebar] Werner is a really cool guy, and we'...