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Friday November 19, 1999

19/XI/99 - joy postergada

As I may have mentioned before, work is slow, monotonous, boring, sluggish, ¡sinceramente inaguantable! So today, instead of the usual piddle around the net looking at epinions, or making my amazon wish list. I decided to taken an initiative I should have a while back, and actually write to me dear friend April. For some background, she's in the Virgin Islands right now for her YWAM training, before heading out into the fields of God's harvest (I think she's going to parts of Brasil and other islands near by where she is presently.) She was faithful to write me while I was in Argentina, so I really have no excuse not to be writing her! To make a long story short, I thought I'd post the letter I'm sending her as today's entry. That way you can see how I communicate with my everyday pals! (It's really no different than my normal journal writing stylings.)

there's more where that came from...

November 19, 1999 The Dalles Hey Ape! I've been complaining and complaining about my job and how boringly twidle-thumbish it is. Yet in all the down time I've had, I've never done what I should have done most: write you! I can come up with all kinds of excuses and such, but you don't really want to hear that do you? Okay, if you insist *tee hee*... My bet is on the fact that I don't like writing down trodden letters. Do you follow me at all? For me the purpose of a letter is to impose a sense of joy and encouragement and reconciliation if need be. Unfortunately all I've been able to muster lately as a conglomerate of insecurity and bitterness about any and every thing. Sure, there have been great things going on. But my mind went on into breakdown mode and all I could focus on was how unfunctional (yeah, I know it should be "disfunctional", but I like how that sounds better!) my life and relationships were. Enough negativity, 'cause life's good and everything is resolved! Woo Hoo!! Yep, righter-roonie! Friends flourish, I'm spending good time with Canela, Nichole, Rachel (you remember her right? Johnston?) and Sara [Moore]. Catching up and keeping up with each of them quite well. I'm praying for you: with all your spiders and snakes, storms, and studying. Youth is doing great, tons of people are coming and getting on fire for God. Tonight is the concert I55 is doing for us, word has spread like wildfire. Last night, after some awesome intercession as a whole group, I went home with intentions of calling some people and then IMing others about the concert, inviting them. Turns out Canela already knew about it and had invited MD also. She was only calling me for more info. All the people I talked to online had also heard about it already. Ky somehow knows Sarah (Cory's girlfriend), who had told him about it. Others had gotten a hold of a flyer. I'm just excited about what God's gonna do tonight. The people who are intended to be there will be, and it's going to be great! On a personal note, my yearly birthday bash has been postponed indefinitely due to major scheduling conflicts. The Saturday of my actual birthday is the weekend of Thanksgiving, so lots of people will be out of town (Alicia and Debbie are going to Oklahoma). Tonight is the concert, and tomorrow my friend Jason Stromquist has his PYP concert in Portland that he must, and others will, attend. The week after the high school musical is starting (Ed and many others are involved in that and I, of course, will be going also) and continues on through the next weekend. I tried to plan it here, and there, and everywhere. I must have sent out three different e-mail invites to everyone, but now it's just sitting there, with possibilities of January or February. So I guess I'm saying that you aren't missing out on any big to-do! I've been working on my web-site quite a bit. If you ever get online down there, you should go check it out (www.geocities.com/manky). It's constantly changing and getting more vast, so you never know what you might find! Canela, MDavid, and David Keleher (the son, not the ex-youth pastor) went with me to the Deliriou5! Concert in Salem. It was so cool. Tons of people were there and it was just an amazing evening of worship. I even saw Matt Alley there, but we never said hi or anything, I don't think he saw me. I don't think I even really ran into Joel either, but I saw him from afar. I ran into Naomi (I'm not sure how she spells her name) in line for the ladies room, I miss having all the older girls around. Well, I feel like a dork because I can't think of anything else to say. Wait, I just remember something I've been meaning to tell you: I know you are very aware of it, but I just need to tell you how obvious it is that Joel really cares for you, and is your man. Whenever you are mentioned he gets a glorious twinkle in his eye and a flashing spark of joy comes over his whole face. He keeps everyone up to date, and hounds me to write you whenever the subject comes up. He worries whether or not you're receiving our mail (I guess he got something returned and it really bummed him out!) I've got to say, you've got quite the catch there! Congrats all around! Well, that really should be it for this time around. I remember you constantly, and I can't wait to go over everything when you get back. Argentina news: Paulette is getting married May 20th, so I've got to figure out how to get myself down there! (Erica [Ed's oldest sister] is getting married the same day!) Unfortunately that also conflicts with the annual conference GOBHI [my job] puts on, yet another reason to find something else. If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm bored out of my gourd here. There's literally nothing (or very little) to do in the work day, so I end up dinking around acting like I'm being productive. Even my supervisor is bored and aghast at the current workload. She's left early a few times as well, leaving me to surf the net for the afternoon. Hey, if they want to keep paying me for that time, so be it. But it gets old driving all the way out here to do what I could be doing at home. Sure, the money's great, but I've got better things to do with my life than sit on my bum all day in The Dalles! Okay, enough babbling for one correspondence. I'm really signing off this time! Toodles! Amancay So I'm done with the letter, and yet again striving for something to do! Little tedious five minute projects are found about once an hour. That's all I have tying me over for now. At least Jeannie is out today, so we can listen to the normal radio again (she's on a super oldies kick that's getting old, no pun intended... but it sure came through well). I've been doing my Christmas shopping online this year. It's a matter of figuring out who would want what, then disciplining myself to actually shop for it instead of surfing. So far I've made myself a great wish list at amazon (was I the only one who was shocked today when they suddenly were "closed" with little or no explanation? They are back up now, but it was weird) and cdnow. I even sent it out to some family members and a few select friends already since my b-day is also coming up too soon to procrastinate any longer. If any of you out there feel so inclined as to grant some of my wondrous wishes, go ahead. Amazon will even send it straight to me. Would you look at me? I'm soliciting gifts from complete strangers! Could I be more pathetic? Hey, whatever works! I'm hoping I get RollerCoaster Tycoon from Ed. When I mentioned it to him, he said to consider it finazzled. I can't wait to play it. That's what I'm looking forward to most about my birthday! News Flash!!! I just spoke with Ed... to invite him to come play RollerCoaster Tycoon on my birthday. (okay I admit it, to hint around). "What makes you think you're getting the game?" he said. A bit disappointed I whimpered, "You said I finazzled it!?". "I'm just being a dork!" he admitted, easing my nerves. I mentioned (incase he hadn't yet gotten it) that I saw it at only $16 at buy.com, with free shipping. He jumped on it and asked if I could get it and he'd pay me back... and "yeah, we could do that for your birthday..." I'm a happy girl! Other then that, my birthday should be quite the sham. I'm so used to having a major party that I'm afraid of feeling all bummered out. If things go well, and Ed and I actually do end up Tycooning the night away [that last bit sounds way cool if you end it to the tune of Chubawamba's Tubthumper], it should be pretty fresh! Otherwise, 'blech' is all I can think of. However on Friday night there will be gaming going on at church with the youth. Joel hopes to keep everyone out of the gym and actually play interactive games as a group like we used to do constantly. Things like Old Maid, Five Crowns, Spoons, and Uno come to my mind! But I'm usually up for any non-super-physical game! Turns out I wimped out on getting the game at buy.com. You see, I realized that this coming week is only three days long. Plus buy.com doesn't ship out on weekends, so I wasn't going to get my game in time for my birthday (or our evening of gaming fun!) I called Ed back again and explained the situation. I asked him if he minded my canceling the order and he said it was okay, "I'll get it somewhere else." (Aside from all this, the free shipping things wasn't true, it was only for their clearance area! So it was only $3 different then at Fall Apart.)

...enough already!

  scribbled by manky @ 0:00:01
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this has been a birthday, friends, music to my ears, shopping spree entry

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