a huge reason why i enjoy the bible at all is for the poetry and elegance of writing. i think i should take up reading it again after i’m done with wicked.
also, this is what i looked like on nye… alone in my hotel room in tampa. at least i had sparkles. i couldn’t resist [...]

i miss my sister being in dallas with me. boo.
it’s supposed to ice tomorrow. joy.
one of the fun things we did at home during Christmas was go through old pictures. now, i always knew this, but i finally compiled evidence on how badly my parents dressed me when i was young. serious. i’ve got the [...]

ignorance showed it’s face to me today through a man who stopped my mom, my sister and i in the parking lot at gateway in austin and asked us “if we spoke english”
i don’t think i’ve ever been asked that and it really did not make me happy. why the heck would he automatically assume [...]

recently watched a video about bullfighting. it’s just awful. it made me so sad to watch this poor bull be teased around and slowly murdered. it’s so extremely cruel. i would hope that they at least eat it to make some use of it. if it just goes to waste – i just completely don’t [...]

i love my family. i think we’re a bunch of crazy kooks. out of the three siblings, oriana might be the most mature… which is sad considering she is 6 years younger than me – 8 years younger than oliver. we steal each other’s food from dinner plates. we poke each other until we collapse [...]

a long time ago at the church we went to when we first moved to texas, there was this husband and wife with two daughters. they were really nice and the husband even led us in worship from time to time.
the younger girl went off to mexico (or spain, i can’t remember) to live or [...]

seeing in just black and white makes it hard to love.

i remember whenever first dating someone, it was so hard for me to call them for no reason at all. even though i’m not much of a phone person (can’t really keep me on there for that long), you just get that longing to call them. just to talk or see what they’re doing. and [...]

well, today was just divine. honestly. not. just one of those days. my eyes ached a bit after work. i have a horrible habit of sitting too close to my screens when i’m concentrating. starting to feel the stress of wrapping things up and trying to finish up projects before i go away for vacation. [...]

g’s been traveling to htown for the past couple of weeks, so i’m dealing with an empty house (‘cept for the 2 dogs, of course).
realized this past weekend that we only have one more weekend until we set off for asia! hard to believe, but in two week’s time – i’ll be in tokyo. i [...]