The House I Lived in
I've been living in the "Aylward House" these last 6 months. It's funny the places we live in and their names that we take for granted. I've been living in the city of angels and today I'm driving down to Saint Diego. These names no longer have significance except to label a geographic area but at one time they represented more than just a location.

But back to the house I've been living in (and I say "lived" in because I'm moving out for good in about 20 minutes) It's named after the m.issionary Gladys Aylward. I read her story a couple weeks ago and was touched that I was living in her namesake.

She was born into a working class family at the turn of the 20th century. She worked as a maid and was actually rejected by her m.issions school because they thought she wasn't academic enough to learn the Chinese language.

However, she ended up moving independently to China by saving her own money and there she took on many innovative rolls such as women's foot inspector (the Chinese government asked her to help enforce the new law that made it illegal to bind women's feet) and hotel manager along a busy travel route. She used all of these innovative mediums to share the gospel.

What a great house I've been living in....

more than serving tea...

interesting...

Michael Jackson-Beat It Video

haha...oh my gosh...go 80's! Their clothes are hilarious! and Michael's piano shirt! so funny!

7th annual weblog awards...looks like a good place to find new, interesting blogs.

Thoughts:
*I secretly want to live in an old house with creaky stairs, fire place and organic herb garden in Portland someday
*I'm thinking about switching to xanga despite how I much I dislike the idea of trying to figure it out...mostly because their security options are so much more flexible than blogger's
*I love crazyauntpurl (even though she doesn't know I exist :-)...her 1/18 entry was particularly touching.

i'm much better now. thanks for your prayers. i'm very busy now as you can imagine...so posts might be few and far between for a while. but do keep me in your thoughts/prayers and be sure to check my other blog as well.

i'm the sickest i've been in a long while. *sniff* it's a bummer because this isn't a good time to be sick for me. like there's any good time to be sick but this really isn't a good time.

Lord, please heal me quickly!

this is disturbing! about the effects of the movie "kiterunner" on actual afghans.

Ten Potential Surprises for 2007 from "The Globalist"

Interesting guesses.....

hahahaa...."Friends" turn 30....totally relate...lol

Ahhhhhhh!! I just bought my one way ticket to Turkey! Needless to say a lot needs to get done before I leave. How has time come upon me so suddenly?

Anyway, here's the deal...I'm leaving LA by Feb. 1st and driving all my crap down to SD where I will store, rearrange and pack some more. Then my plane will leave for Turkey Feb. 11!

So I definitely want to hang out with you LA homies before I leave. I'll be emailing tonight to make times to meet with ya'll.

http://www.pandora.com/

check it out and thank me later...:-)

Happy 2007 everyone!

You can check out my "videos" link for more videos if you like...Ro's here visiting so I won't be blogging much for a couple days.