I was in the middle of writing an entry when my dumb cat, Stanley, decided to crawl underneath the desk and nudge something to make the computer restart. Stupid cat.
Anyway, so I thought it would be interesting (for at least me) to post some of me and my grandpa's emails to each other. Enjoy!

Hey Grandpa,

Well, I'm back and it feels really nice to ( Read more... )

Today was a decent day. The morning was shudderingly awful but tonight was our first appointment and it went really well! But I will expound on that later...first I will deal with my morning of awfulness.
So I get up this morning, grab my book (it's a great book), and head to the kitchen for some brekkie. Our mini-compost bin was sitting on the ( Read more... )

Today was a very productive day. I finally got some momentum going with this whole support raising thang. We finished up our prayer/update letter and stuffed envelopes and sent them all out. Then tonight we did some phone calling and set up 4 appointments for next week! It feels good to say "Look what I did with my time" and I am also really ( Read more... )

Tuesday is a rainy day this week. It's about time. We needed some rain. And I've been a huge procrastinator. Tons of stuff I should be doing, like working on the prayer letter/update letter and namestorming for people I need to contact for support raising. I think I thrive under pressure. When there's no pressure I just laze about doing as I please ( Read more... )

Well, I must admit, I'm not a huge fan of packing. I do enjoy moving around and change and whatnot, but the whole packing deal is a bit of a bother.
It's good to be back and right now I feel uber ghetto as I'm using the internet at the library because I don't have it at home. Who does that anymore? Me, apparently.
We're moving on Saturday and it'll ( Read more... )

I'm back. It feels generally good. Besides for my digestive system getting used to all this ludicrously delicious food...I'm doing well. I'm not sure if I'm just not realizing that I'm back but the "culture shock" isn't hitting me that hard. I think I had seen how Jamie handled it 2 years ago and realized that it would be hard and started to ( Read more... )

I copied this from Peet.

Climbed a mountain
Held a tarantula
Said 'I love you' and meant it
Hugged a tree
Bungee jumped
Visited Paris
Watched a lightning storm at sea
Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
Seen the Northern Lights
Gone to a huge sports game
Grown and eaten your own vegetables
Slept under the stars
Changed a baby's diaper
Watched a ( Read more... )

So I'm leaving in 2 days for Africa. I've created a specific blog for my time there and you can check it out at:
http://stricklandsintanzania.blogspot.com

Don't think I've deserted livejournal, I just don't think I will have time to blog on both and I definitely wish I had used livejournal again because blogspot is very user UNfriendly if you don't ( Read more... )

2 days 'til I leave for Tanzania. Wow. It's actually starting to hit me. I'm getting that excited feeling in my stomach. That's not good. That's the feeling that keeps me up late and wakes me up early! :) Oh well.
I don't have too much that I feel like I can blog about because it's all kinda whirling around my brain right now. Perhaps tonight I ( Read more... )

So once again I am sucked into the reality tv show, Survivor. The only person that has kept me watching this season is a girl named Stephanie. In the beginning there were two tribes, Ulong and Koror. Stephanie was on Ulong, the supposed "strong and young" team. But Ulong never one a single immunity challenge, thus leaving Stephanie the sole ( Read more... )