28

The number of years these two incredibly amazing people have been married:

Happy Anniversary Mum and Dad!

You two mean the world to me.
Oh, wait. You pretty much ARE my world.

Mucho love.

Your perfect middle child,
J

As of today ...no, this today. Ah, that was yesterday.

My thoughts are running, running, running. I try to slow them down, so I can sort through them, or count them, or organize them, or identify them, or... whatever; but, they go faster, faster, quicker, like a merry-go-round that ceased being merry twenty spins ago.

So many ideas. So much I want to do. So much I want to be.

How? When?

Now?

I have no clue.

I blunder ahead.

As of today

Persistence prevails. Thank God.

More Photo Fun

Could they be any cuter?

THE Client

The first brave soul showed up on my doorstep this afternoon for the introduction of the PHOTO BOX! Meet: Jenny.

She is also the first neighbor to welcome herself to my backyard and introduce herself. Hooray for the arrogant cat soul.

Never to forget: the photographer with the client shot!*

*1 cat sneaking into my house + 1 sunbathing session interrupted = 1 way cool sunglass shot.

OPEN for business: the Photo Box!!!

It is THE place, my friends, to be crazy. It is cool. It is wild. It is funk. It is punk. It IS the PHOTO BOX.

Wish me luck. My stomach is filled with a thousand crazily, prettily colored butterflies, and I can't keep track of their flight.

A snapshot out a night-shift cured brain

Today:

Is my Friday. Six days off.
My photo box equipment comes today. Behold: Box Photography comes to life.
I supposedly climb Rainier this weekend. Interesting.
I love my patio. I like clear blue curly garden hoses.
Should I AGAIN check to see if the UPS has come? No. Wait.
My house is a mess. Always is after a full work week. But I'm going to sleep and THEN clean it... after I set up my studio, after I rent my climbing gear, after I do yoga. Cleaning is SUCH a high priority.
I have nothing to say. The mind is numb. I should go.
I will regret this post. Oh well.

fail

I fell today, in the middle of the cross walk of a 4 lane wide intersection. I tripped on the center curve and sprawled head on into traffic. My knees are skinned.

All for the sake of this:

which is a lousy picture anyways.

"Simming" in the lake

Jade Linn

Life Update #2

Overheard (conversation among Starbucks' baristas):
Barista 1: ...'07
Barista 2: I graduated in '06.
Barista 1: Really? How old are you anyway?
Barista 2: Yeah, but I think you're older then me anyway... you're 21 in...?
Barista 1: 21 in November.

Laugh all you want people over 21. I'll be 22 in August, and it makes me feel like this:

(and yes, I did commander a "stock photo" enjoy the x)

Life Update

God is pulling out all the stops in my life.

I'm so glad.

Flora and Fauna

Lu "getting some"

That's what they call it over in the cross-fit gym. That's what they call it when you pour out every bit of mental and physical strength to complete and perfect a work-out. When you go 150%. When you do what you told yourself you could not do.

Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting...

My weekend(!):

If you ever wondered what a short person sees when they look at you, this (with a slight pan up or down depending on size):

at random

My reality

In previous blogs, I spoke about things that I saw across the fence, and thought, "Ah, how I would love to have that." Then I dreamed up all aspects of that life, which was really no life at all. Today I realized how LAME those thoughts are. And, right on time, (like God always is) my mum gave me her devotion of the day, which pointed me back to ACTIVELY THANKING GOD for all that He HAS given me.

So I did.

And people? God IS so good.

Things that I love:

JESUS, God's incredible love, family, down comforter, Mercy Flights, new days, bluebird days, cloudy cuddly days, my patients, the opportunity to go to college, my brain, the way God is so practical and so unpractical all in one, a healthy body, stars, books, other people, open facial expressions, my apartment, my soon-to-be roommate, biking, lilacs, fuzzy green grass, accounting, a reason to "balance" my checkbook, Oregon's ecological diversity, growing up in Chiloquin, growing up with God-fearing parents, being the middle child, having a little sister who wishes I would never have to go back to Medford, boxing with my 3 yr old brother, the bible, the way God gives me power in Him, spring days, running, dirt, fresh paint, morning coffee, being a paramedic...

You know the list keeps going. Really, I have so much to thank God for. More then a running list though, this, people, IS my reality.

Thank God, for that!

the day I fell in love

...is today. People, could it be possible? The perfect little house, on the perfect little road, with the perfect little pasture for my perfect little horse.

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FOR RENT
NEWLY RENOVATED FARM HOUSE WITH ACREAGE


Million $ views & close in.
4-5 acres, country living.
1370 sq ft
New Doors, Windows, Electric, Plumbing, Paint, Insulation, Individual room heat, Carpet, Hard Wood, Most appliances and New Bath.
New Exposed Aggregate Concreted, New Plantings, Some Yard care included.
Large Rustic Barn & shop was grainy.
Irrigated Pasture for couple horses or other livestock.
Dogs negotiable. Perimeter fence, Dog door, Single spayed Cat Possible.
No Smoking.

1100. Month, 1100 Deposit.

Make Appointment to See. Will Try to get more photos uploaded soon!




Oh, no. It can't be. But it is a glimpse, and perhaps, one day... One day, when I finally pop my roomie's personal space bubble; and develop (at the minimum) a green pinky.

Life is a strangely beautiful thing.

Brookings/Bandon