Shout Out

This is a shout out to my good friend Xiao Wen or Anja (I'm not sure which name you are going by). Anja left me a comment on my last post and its so good to hear from her!

There are people who have touched my life and changed me for the better (sounds like a song), and she is one of them. I learned so much from her and am forever in God's debt for arranging the time we had to gether. She is my Sister, and my friend.

I'm not good at keeping in touch or contact with people. Its a huge failing. None the less, God is Great, and by His Goodness, Anja found me after I returned to the US and has kept finding me off and on over the last 9 years or so. I only wish I could talk to her in Chinese as her English is much better.

Jamie's sister is pondering going to Taiwan to teach English and so in looking up some info made me so "home" sick. I really want to go back and experience it all again. I need to just go and do it! Maybe I should also make an effort to study Chinese?

Thanks Xiao Wen/Anja, I miss you and pray for God's blessings to be on you!

ps I used my camera phone to take pictures of these pictures thats why they are so blurry.

pps I wanted to put every picture I have on here so you could see how cool she is, but I limited it to just these :)

new years resolutions

I don't know that I will ever get "around" to posting about Christmas. It was so fun and nice and makes me feel a bit depressed that its 11 months away till i go again :( I'll try to stick a few pictures in here and there, but I didn't take very many.

I have had some fun times since coming home. I'm having a tought time remembering anything. I went tubing up at soldiers hollow. It was way fun! And since it had a rope tow, it was even relaxing, strange as that seems.

I've cooked some too. I'm trying to use up the garden produce. A couple of weeks ago I went out and pulled some carrots out and look what I found! Unfortunately this one broke off and since it was dark I couldn't find the end. Look at the other one I pulled up. Its a purple carrot!

I also made an onion caserole out of home grown onions. And cooked some squash. yum. Here is the line up (the long skinny one is from the store).

Anyways, what I wanted to blog about was some new years resolutions. I'm a bit worried about jinxing myself, but oh well. I have been doing great with not eating out. It was such a tough habbit to break since I get a lot of pleasure out of it. Along with this I haven't had any sooooda. go me.

Another new thing is something I picked up, from a blog called flylady. She has a "baby steps" section and I've started to use some of her ideas. Namely the "shiny sink" and "hot spot" daily clean. This has made a huge difference in the cleanliness of my home and how I feel about it. Its great to wake up to a clean sink. I've noticed my roommates have kicked in too and things are just staying neater and cleaner in general. I have also tried to do the "lace your shoes on" first thing in the morning which has helped me get more out of my off days. Some time I will tackle my room....