October 2009
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“We can build bridges across the Chesapeake Bay, but we can’t make stickers...”
– Andrew, getting very frustrated as he tries to scrub price tag goo off of our lamp.
Good thing we are safe in Mexico and not in Flu... →
(footnote: credit Joanna for the HILARIOUS pun…)
“He named a couple drops today.”
– Howard Major (I think he meant “dropped a couple names”…yes, that’s it).
Photos
Below are a bunch of my photos from the X Project and the Clean Water for Life Outreach. It was an awesome 3 days of meeting Mexican families, meeting American participants, and seeing relationships form between the two.
Go to my Flickr for more photos.
***Disclaimer***
The U2 tickets were not bought with the funds that you guys donated to us. The tickets were the one thing this year that we had decided we would dip into our savings to purchase. And even then at the last minute a certain U2-superfan in my family offered to buy the tickets for us.
The concert was unreal - in case you were wondering.
Thanks again to Dan Kimball for finding the tickets for us at...
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on our way to Laguna...
Andrew: Laguna Beach! Do you think we'll see Conrad? What's her name? Lo? Lo Conrad?
Me: It's Lauren Conrad and Lo Bosworth.
Andrew: Speidi?
Me: Spencer and Heidi.
wish me luck.
Things to do this weekend
1) Wedding in Laguna on Saturday (yay, Blair and Erin!)
2) Hang out with my lovely cousins for brunch Sunday in Pasadena
3) BBQ in Pasadena
4) U2 CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5) Exchange day Monday (that’s a day off - if you’ve worked on a weekend)
HAPPY :)
Hot Tamales
When my siblings and I were young we used to have a pretty regular morning feeding routine:
We would gather ‘round the microwave as my mom defrosted mini Lender’s bagels for us. EVERY TIME they were ready she would get them out and they would be SO HOT that she would have to bounce them around from hand to hand, yelling “HOT TAMALES”, until they cooled down.We loved it.
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our office just got our work day "interrupted" to...
A wise man once said...
1. humbly be who you are
2. serve with compassion. not competition
3. find the humor in every circumstance
4. lead by presence not by power
5. be kind to yourself; allow yourself to fail and allow others the same
A Novel. By: Joanna
On Saturday we were hanging out with some Amor (and former-Amor) friends. We were all talking about life, the Yankees being amazing, and whatnot. Being that Andrew and I were present the conversation naturally revolved around NYC and it’s awesomeness. I was explaining how I love New York so much - I always want to live near the Big Apple, but living there did make the novelty wear off to...
BEST DAY EVERRRRRRRRR
Andrew just informed me that we will be seeing U2 FO SHO on Sunday, October 25th.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I TOLD YOU IT WOULD HAPPEN!
An here is how it did:
Mike Flavin kept telling us to contact one of his first “kids” in youth minsitry, Dan Kimball. Mike went to his first U2 concert with Dan years ago, and he thought he might be a good resource for us to get tickets out here. We...