Asia and Chocolate

golf, part 2

So, my first ever golf lesson was fun, if in fact fun means hot and unnatural. ha!

I think I would enjoy it if it wasn't 100 degrees outside, although it was enjoyable because I was with my co-workers and almost anything with them is fun.

Let's just say, I may not be the next Tiger Woods. 

I'm learning how to play golf

kiddos

Last year when I came home from Indonesia I had a big hole in my heart, left there by a bunch of amazing kids. So when they approached me about teaching 2nd grade Sunday School each week, I didn't have to think about my decision very long.

It's been a good year, a good run. I could have definitely prepped more and tried to be more creative, but in the end I think what I learned was that is was more about spending time with the kids than anything else. I've NOT loved the prep time had to be done on Saturdays (or whenever I could fit it in), but I did love being in the classroom with them. 

Earlier in the summer I knew God was telling me not to go back and teach next year. This was just a one-year commitment and God would show me what He wanted me to do with my Sundays. I believe He showed it to me when he brought me a man who lives an hour and a half away and the weekends are the only time I can see him. I'll be glad to have my Sundays back so that Josh and I don't have to be here each week - or I don't have to make sure there's a sub taking my place. But I'll also miss those kids.

Some pics from last week ...

This week is our last week together and I've got to come up with some kind of PARTAY! Send the year out in style!

My google reader hasn't seen anything below 300 in more than a month. What's a techie girl (in love) supposed to do?

Maybe I'll hole up at home tonight and get back in touch with my world of blog friends. 

introducing ...

So, like I mentioned in the last post ... my lack of blogging (and returning e-mails or twittering) is due to spending the weekends with a special someone and talking on the phone for hours on end every night. No time for sleeping, much less blogging. 

some info:

We've been dating for about a month and talking for several months before that. We like each other ... a lot.

He lives about 1.5 hours from my house, teaches social studies to unruly 8th graders and coaches wrestling and football. He plays rugby and enjoys an occasional round of golf. He loves Jesus, his dog, and me, but not in that order. :)

Meet my guy. Sorry no pics yet.

This weekend will be spent in Atlanta with the boyfriend, my brother, sister-in-law and some of my friends from Indonesia who are visiting the States. On the agenda are the Georgia Aquarium, IKEA, Buckhead Church and good food. 

Maybe photos to follow. Must sleep now. 

Playing with the Typepad app on my updated iPhone

This is the remnants of my lunch. I'm just playing around.

Lack of blogging due to my boyfriend. :-)

A little shopping ...

(I've been a blogging ghost, I know ... here's a post that I've been meaning to put up for a while.)

While I was in Indonesia I got to spend some quality time shopping and hanging out with my "little sisters." I was looking for some batik (traditional Indonesian) clothing and they were my little shoppers. I stayed in the fitting room while they brought me one shirt after another. I finally found one that was my favorite ... it was so much fun shopping with these three: Marcia, Melinda and Marvelin.

trying to find our way around ...

posing ... cause we're so cute. :)

FACES!!

we found Cinderella's missing shoe on Melinda's shirt ...

I love those girls!

Word of the day ...

"For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen."

Ephesians 3:14-21

(there is a reason for my lack of blogging ... I promise. It will all come out here in time ... :) )

RagamuffinTop Week 4.5 (i think)

So ... I know I missed one week of the Ragamuffin Top Challenge because I was gone, and then this Sunday I was too jetlagged and busy to post anything. As you can see, I still haven't posted about my trip. It's coming. I think I'm just still processing ... and I've got a lot going on trying to get back into the swing of things. There's also something very exciting going on under the surface, but I'm not going to share it just yet. Suspense ... I love it! :)

Therefore, I'm going to do some retroactive blogging:

I weighed 175.6 on Monday morning before I went to see the nutritionist. Her scales weighed in at 175.25, so it's not much off this week.

Before I left I weighed 177.25, so I've lost, which surprises me because while I was gone I DID NOT do my food program. Well I did drink them warm lemon water most mornings and I brought my good cereal. So I tried a little bit. 

OK, got to get to work ... I'm going to keep going ... my goal is 165. Only about 10 pounds left to go!!!

Time to get serious about this thing again and get those last 10 pounds OFF! :)

Jetlag is kicking my butt ...

I always hated, HATED lock-ins as a teenager. They usually made me sick in some sort of way and I was terribly grouchy and I usually couldn't make it through the night.

That is what I feel like right now - it's 3 a.m. where I just came from and I am sitting at work wanting desperately to crawl into my bed. The thought of food makes me nauseous (I have NO appetite) and I'm cold and shivery.

I so wanted to post pics last night, but time slipped away from me. Once I had finished checking my e-mails, doing laundry and returning phone calls it was 1:30 a.m.

Sooo ... maybe tomorrow, after I sleep some more. Yawn ...