The write stuff

Last Friday was exhausting, but fun! I ran from work right to my friend Sara's house to help her set up the boundaries at a park near her house for the games of Capture the Flag we were going to attempt to play with the Advent Lutheran Young Adults Group (YAK). We ended up playing about 5 games with my team sadly only winning one (the last one which was only because we traded one of the less sporty guys for one of the guys from the other team). I had a lot of fun running around and playing, but discovered just how bad of shape I'm in. I have always been one of the 'give it all you got and run straight for the flag' types and so that is exactly what I did on our last game. I ran with all my might and leapt up the playground's large steps, I grabbed the flag and rushed down and towards my camp. Strangely once I left the confines of the playground my legs refused to run anymore. I just couldn't do it. Thank goodness the sportier guy was waiting near by and ran over...

 So I went over to the Harris household for what Laura and I have dubbed a cupcake date! For those of you who don't know who Laura is, she is Jonathon's little sister (refer to the story about Jonathon if you're not sure who Jonathon is). The cupcakes were so fun to make and turned out pretty good! Ever since Jonathon passed away about a year ago his family has kind of adopted me as the closest they'll ever have to a daughter in law. None of us know of course whether things would have worked out between Jonathon and me, but regardless of this fact and their acknowledgement of it, they have welcomed me as one of their own. It makes me happy that I made Jonathon happy for the short time he was in my life. I find myself connecting with his family on so many levels and feeling so at home with them. I have mixed feeling about all of this, but I think Jonathon would be happy that I met his family and continue to spend time with them. I hope I can be something of a comfort ...

Hi Friends! After our fun discussions during coffee on Wednesday night I was inspired to write a bare bones summary of my Nanowrimo (Nation Novel Writing Month) novelette. It is very much a work in progress, but here is the summary of what I'm thinking of writing so far! The year is 2010 and the heroine is a 30 year old career focused historian named Chloe. Her area of research is on literature and art during the early middle ages (5 th to 1000 th century) and her and her assistant Luke are on a flight from Canada to London where she is supposed to be speaking at a conference on monasticism during the dark ages . Chloe decides to arrive a week early so she can take a train up to the Northern edge of Scotland and make her way up to the island of Iona where she can spend some time in peace and quiet to retreat and prepare for her conference. Her assistant decides to join her as he has recently broken up with his girlfriend and is hoping to dive into work and take his mind of his w...

I don't watch the Oprah show very often, but found myself watching out of curiosity of the subject matter yesterday. Oprah was interviewing a woman with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). It's one of the disorders that have scared me over the years and I find that if I educate myself and normalize things they don't scare me as much. It was interesting hearing this woman's story and how she is managing to raise a healthy (currently 13 year old) girl. The expert they had on the show to explain the disorder did a very good job of helping those of us who don't suffer from this disorder understand it a bit better (since it is one of the few disorders that most of us can honestly not even imagine having). She said that all of us have experienced a form of disassociation at some point in our lives (for many it occurs while we're driving, we arrive at our destination and honestly can't remember the process of getting there). For many of us that have faced a traum...

Generally my workplace is pretty good. Over the last few days though I have found myself feeling a little miffed by their policies. Last week they interviewed my sister and she won the competition for the position within my department. But does she get the job? No. Apparently it is a conflict of interest since she is my sister. So why interview her in the first place? They got my hopes up that I would have someone capable and friendly to work with and now I get to be disappointed and wait to see if they choose another clerk as useless as the last for me to train. And now my sister is disappointed. Anyway to borrow a friends new motto, "I'm so not impressed"