WHAT IS LOCAL IMPACT?
...An easy, no-strings-attached way to serve the community for a few
short hours. There is no sign-up...just show up! We will be serving
organizations that help the poor in the Coachella Valley, doing some
cleaning, painting, and whatever else they need us to do! Encounter will be meeting at SCC where we'll decide where we can be most effective and we will
caravan to the location. We'll be done by 11:30, perfect time to go grab some lunch together!
WHEN? Saturday, June 27, 9 AM-11:30 AM
WHERE DO WE MEET? in Room 202
WHO CAN COME? Anyone! Please leave your dog at home, doesn't count as anyone ha!
WHAT TO WEAR: Bring some work gloves, gardening tools and water, and wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.
This SATURDAY, April 18th is another opportunity to help with Local Impact. We'll again be going to the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission to paint, move boxes and demolition... that's right, I said DEMOLITION!! We need about 30 people in order to get this done and we could totally use your help. It's such a short time, but is really rewarding to see the difference you can make in two hours of work. Here is the info:
WHAT IS LOCAL IMPACT?
...An easy, no-strings-attached way to serve the community for a few short hours. There is no sign-up...just show up! We will be serving organizations that help the poor in the Coachella Valley, doing some cleaning, painting, and whatever else they need us to do! Meet us at SCC, then you’ll decide which place you want to serve and we will caravan to the locations. You will be done by 11:30, so you’ll still have the rest of your Saturday free!
WHEN? Saturday, April 18, 9 AM-11:30 AM
WHERE DO WE MEET? in the worship center
WHO CAN COME? Anyone! Bring the whole family!
WHAT TO WEAR: Bring some work gloves, gardening tools and water, and wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.
This FRIDAY, April 17th we're having another Bowl-BQ! We all like to bowl and we all like BBQ, so it's safe to assume that we all like to Bowl-BQ! The BBQ starts @ 6PM and we'll bowl from 7:30PM to 9:00PM. The total cost is $10 which includes everything. If you have friends who are hesitant to check out church, this is the perfect event to bring them to. You can have fun with them and introduce them to some people at Encounter.
It's been a log time since I "blogged" at all. I posted a lot(ish) on my livejournal in it's hay-day, but I haven't posted a real post on there in ages. Josh has a vox, so I thought I'd get one too. And I thought that I should be somewhat documenting my life and the life of my future child.
I have a child living and growing inside my tummy. It is so strange and a little overwhelming. I feel like I know nothing about parenting or babies. I haven't even babysat a kid since I was like 17. I really can't remember the last time I even held a baby, and now I'm going to have one of my own. I know that I'll be fine, and that it'll come naturally or something, but sometimes it's hard to believe. At least I have until September; I have a whole hot summer to prepare. I have been given some advice, and a friend at work who has a 1 1/2 year old reccomended a book, Baby Wise. From what she described, it seemed like that kind of parent that I want to be. So I went to Barnes and Noble last night bought it, and a piece of cheesecake (hehe) and read a little in the cafe. I really like it so far, and it claims that your baby will be sleeping through the night in no time. I left the book at home, but I think I'll post some excerpts from there as I learn things, or maybe the summary that they give at the end of the chapter.
Josh and I are also taking some parenting classes at the CPC, the crisis pregnancy center associated with our church. We're not in total crisis mode (yet ;-) ) but I had a free ultra sound there and they thought we'd like the classes. Today is our first one, during my lunch break. We'll see how we like it. We really do have a lot to learn, so I hope the classes will be beneficial to us and our baby.
So, I know not a lot of people really "follow" me here on Vox, but in case you do and you're missing reading my posts, just thought I'd remind you that I've moved over to Blogger.com. Here are a few of the things I've been writing lately...
Today - How it is that I have a wedding dress, a date and a venue, and yet I'm not engaged.
Last Week - Everyone should feel beautiful sometimes.
TMI Thursday - This one time, at choir camp...
Gut Check - When my conscience kicked me in the stomach.
Wow, What Wonderful Weather! - Things I love that start with W.
First Kiss Story - "Put your lips together and blow."
If you don't already use Google Reader to keep track of all the blogs you read/follow, I highly recommend it! It's awesome, because you can read it all right on one page, and you don't have to check various places if it's not all on your Vox neighborhood... *hint, hint* :-)
I still check out my neighborhood regularly! Love you guys.
So I decided to give blogger another chance. I'm still going to use this blog, possibly just for more personal/protected/private posts, or I may even cross-post from my new blog and just kinda see what happens with each one. But if you feel like following me over there, here's my first post which kind of explains why I decided to make the switch. Long story short, I want a place where people can comment who don't necessarily have accounts set up at the same place.
That's all for now -- it's late!!
I just went to iTunes and selected "Party Shuffle" (because I'm too busy and lazy to make playlists). These are the first 5 songs it played:
New Year's Day - U2 - War
Consume - Scars of Tomorrow - Demo
The Levee's Gonna Break - Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Three Times a Lady - Cloud Cult - They Live On the Sun
Break The Curse - xDisciplex A.D. - The Revelation
Can someone tell me
Why I woke up so early
And so easily...
When I didn't get
To bed last night until like,
Half past twelve o'clock?
No, seriously
Cuz every other morning
I CANNOT WAKE UP!
My dang snooze button
Gets hit about fourteen times
And THEN I sit up...
Maybe, maybe not.
But anyway, I digress --
(And are we surprised?)
This Friday morning
I made it to the shower
Before SIX O'CLOCK!
And that, my friends, is
Why I had this extra time
To write some haiku.
In keeping with yesterday's "cool" theme, I want to tell you about two more cool things that happened today. Ready?
Number one. My boss was showing me some new duties I'm going to be taking over temporarily until he finds someone else who can do it -- maintaining one of our labs. Ooooh...fun. Okay, but that's not the cool part. I mean, as excited as I am about tracking down obscure-looking pieces of equipment that are due or soon-to-be-due for calibration..... No, the cool thing that happened is that my boss came across a nifty flashlight that has no batteries. Instead, it's got this magnetic thingamajig inside it that you "charge" by shaking it, so that the magnet activates these copper wire doohickies or something, which then enables the light to turn on. I'm sure there's a more official name for this contraption, and it's probably not that cool to SOME people, like super-high-tech engineery-type people, like Joe. But anyway, my boss came across it and said, "Here! Put it in your car in case you ever find yourself in the dark or in need of a light source." Yay! (Little did he know I would spend the rest of the time we walked through the lab shaking it and trying to stifle my silly giddy-girl giggles. Yes. I am dumb.)
Number two. The other day, when I bought some healthy-type snacks and munchies to stop myself from being a big fat vending machine pig, I got an eight-pack of those little 1.5 oz boxes of Sun-Maid raisins. And I don't know if you ever did this as a kid, but the minute I pulled out a box and finished all the raisins today, I remembered making music with those empty boxes! Did you ever do that? I'd tear off the flaps from the open end, stick that end in my mouth and blow as hard as I could, and then there would be this gloriously obnoxious kazoo-esque screeching that ensued. Entertainment for hours! ...Er, for a six-year-old, of course. No, I in my current 23-year-old state of total maturity and serious adulthood, did NOT practically skip out the door at the end of the work day, throw myself into my car, shut the door and gleefully start blowing into my raisin box kazoo. Nope, not even a little bit. And I also didn't take a video (or three) of myself trying to make different pitches and noises with it. And I'm definitely NOT going to upload them to YouTube later tonight for your viewing pleasure.
Okay...maybe I will. But only if you promise to still be my friend.
That's all for this moment. Stay tuned for (possibly) a spurt of attempted fictional creativity, at some point in the next week or decade, about the mysterious red truck that I drive by every day on my way to work. (The truck's real, but I'm just thinking about making up some brilliant story about why it's always there, in the same spot, every morning...WITH its headlights on. I know, right? It's weird!)
And without further ado...here are ALL THREE ridiculous videos I recorded of myself playing the raisin box kazoo. Don't hate. And also, please disregard my totally disheveled, gross appearance. I was getting ready to go running! And didn't bother to put on makeup this morning for work. And frankly, didn't even wash my hair this morning either. Seriously...don't hate. Love. Love me like I am. (Name that country song!)
