A flyer I made for the next Catalyst show...

so i have...

a mask:

and some more mississippi pics:

first attempt...be nice!

Here is my first venture into a semi-un-myspace edit. Just some pics i took at jr.high youth group last night and a pic i had on my computer. I dont know...what do ya think? Pretty basic...

PS Go take a look at my friends blog:
robbinsnestdigitaldesign.blogspot.com

Oh, I Forgot!!!

The last morning of winter camp I walking down the hill from my cabin on my way to get some coffee. I had only brought twenty dollars cash with me (I'm all about my debit card) and was actually going to pay for my four shots of esspreso with a one dollar bill and a mix of quarters, feeling slightly embaressed. Only slightly becuase I REALLY needed a caffiene rush. When I saw a piece of paper sticking out of some frozen mud...it was a $20 dollar bill. Yep.
Sorry, it was just very exciting to me.
=D

Pics from Mississippi

“I’m not shocked by the bodies, the blunders. You can’t stay stunned forever. The anger doesn’t go away, but it settles somewhere behind your heart; it deepens into resolve. I feel connected to what’s around me, no longer just observing. I feel I am living it, breathing it. There is no hotel to go back to, isolated from the destruction….We are surrounded all day and all night. There’s no escape.”
-Anderson Cooper


Great quote. This almost sums it all up for me, thankfully I did not see any dead bodies though. Crazy, but he was only talking about New Orleans. New Orleans got the very least of the devestation. Bet you didn't know that.

this church was built in 1898 and used to be on the other side of the road

Cracker Barrel

March 12:
After 18hrs of no eating, thanks to a two overly delayed flights, and two full days of no sleep....cracker barrel didnt have a chance.

blehhhhhhhhh.

i lost my cell phone!!!!!!!!
i forgot my cable for my camera to download pictures.
argh.
i cant find my cell phone.
and if one more person refers to me as "california girl" like its my name, im gonna FREAK!!!!
hey, did i tell you i lost my cell phone?!

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this last thursday to monday has been INSANE. like, i mean total utter insanity. let me give you a taste.
March 8th-left for jr.high winter camp at 8am, got there at 4pm, went to bed at 1:30am. Had major caffiene deprovation headache (no coffee, =[..), couldnt eat at all that day. very stressed out.
March 9th-got up at 6am, blur of laughing, dancing, walking, napping (kindof), esspresso shots (total of six that day, caffiene deprovation terminated), went to bed at 1am. still couldnt eat, not sure why. maybe too fricken tired and maxed out on the caffiene....? i did force down a couple pieces of cantalope and a few bites of spinich salad though.
March 1oth-got up at 6am, two esspresso shots first thing, blah,blah,blah. two more esspresso shots, blah,blah,blah. went to bed at 2:30am BUT with time change it was 3:30am. oh,ya. still couldnt eat.
March 11th-got up at 6:30am. four shots of esspresso straight up. by this time with the no eating thing, all this caffiene was no good for my system. shaky and lightheadedness at lunch time. no good. chris drove home my car for me. left at 12:30pm got back at 6pm. waited around in my office till 10pm so i could leave for waveland, mississippi. ya. same day. got on plane at about 12:30am
March 12th- maybe slept like and hour on plane. it was supposed to be a two hour to houston, texas. really bad stormy/lightning weather so we circled around for and extra hour and a half. connecting flight to new orleans was delayed two hours then we sat on the plane on the runway for THREE hours before it took off. basically we were supposed to arrive in new orleans at 8am, didnt land till 1pm-ish. drove another three hours to wavland and CRASHED. i have never slept so good before.
March 13th-today, well im eatin good and healthy now. woop! and when i get time im gonna be postin some un-real pictures of here. its unbelievable. just incase you think that all the people effected by Hurricane Katrina are back to normal now.....not even close. not even a little bit.

PS you know they spent 14million dollars to rebuild the superdome (the football field in new orleans that housed everybody) and literally across the street there are houses and apartment complexes that have blue tarp roofs and people living out of tents. everywhere.
people living in poverty < football.
i hate america sometimes.

Religion on a Superficial Level

"Of course, it is true that religion on a superficial level, religion that is untrue to itself and God, easily comes to serve as the "opium of the people." And this takes place whenever religion and prayer invoke the name of God for reasons and ends that have nothing to do with Him. When religion becomes a mere artificial façade to justify a social or economic system—when religion hands over its rites and language completely to the political propagandist, and when prayer becomes the vehicle for a purely secular ideological program, then religion does tend to become an opiate. It deadens the spirit enough to permit the substitution of a superficial fiction and mythology for the truth of life. And this brings about the alienation of the believer, so that his religious zeal becomes political fanaticism. His faith in God, while preserving its traditional formulas, becomes in fact faith in his own nation, class or race. His ethic ceases to be the law of God and love, and becomes the law of might-makes-right: established privilege justifies everything. God is the status quo."


Thomas Merton - Contemplative Prayer

It looks like im going to sneeze.

But, I'm not. Its a short little, kinda boring, video blog for all zero of you who read this.