Yeah, thanks for caring Marci :-) or being bored, whatever. You can tell we are busy when I feel too guilty to even take the time to update our blog. When it rains it pours, yes; in our case it generally rains deadlines.
I realized the other day that I really have the best variety of husband that is probably even made, and I think they’re a pretty limited edition model. He’s a jock: soccer and basketball; he’s a musician: guitar and percussion; he’s a scholar: studies languages, history, Bible stuff, theology, etc.; he’s just a tad geeky: knows html, java script, php, etc.; he’s handy in the kitchen: makes me egg-in-nest-s, waffles, granola, bread, pickles, humus, all manner of drinks, cures iron skillets, and other stuff but those are his current specialties; he cleans, a lot and usually better than I do; he didn’t start out as super fix-it man, but he’s gotten a lot more that way and he really likes learning that stuff. So I’m sure I missed some stuff, but I feel I have a really well-rounded man! :-D
We recently had the opportunity to pack up our lives for a year and lead a REACH team, to which after muuuuuuuuch deliberation finally declined. I’m sure it would have been an excellent experience and fit some of the stuff in our hearts, but there were just a number of things that ended up not quite feeling right about it. Several people were extremely bummed, several extremely elated, and we were mildly disappointed. It would have been pretty funny to have Maeve as the little REACH mascot, though.
Speaking of small bundles of energy, she is scooting around all over the place – I know I won’t be able to keep up with her at all once she starts crawling. She sits up pretty well, though we have to catch her from toppling when she gets too energetic. I just might get her to say daddy one of these days.
now I had best get my butt in gear on a project I’ve been supposed to finish for a WHILE now for David… yes, Kirk, it is entirely MY fault that the forum isn’t public yet. Oh, and about the issues that people have had with not getting updates in their email anymore, I know David was messing with it the other day, hopefully it’s fixed, I forgot to ask him.
ps. I finally got deodorant again! We bought a few things online and I wanted to pay for a product instead of shipping, so voila. Yeah, that stupid trick of the companies sometimes works for me. Anyway, you may all rest easy again, knowing that I will, at least sometimes, not be smelling up your general vicinity.
David wants you all to know that I was smoking pot when I wrote the last post. whoops, he just said it would make him look even worse if he lets me smoke pot. um, well. anything you may have read below may or may not be true. apparently it is really really bad if you don’t shower in Latin America. good thing we don’t live there I guess. LOLOLOL. he was shaking his head, laughing, and covering his face in shame while reading. He’s not quite as secure in his state as I am I guess. I am also to inform you that we are certainly not opposed to having much more strict hygiene at some future date, and even look forward to it. EDIT: strangely, we do brush our teeth twice a day and FLOSS. no lie. see, we’re not heathen.
I have wanted to update for a long time, but haven’t been able to justify it with all the deadlines crowding in. Right now most of the balls are in the other people’s courts, so I’m taking the opportunity. That and the fact that I have a cold and feel like crap! So it’s easier to justify not doing anything that involves too much thought. Hmm, and I just looked at the time, which is telling me we should be getting to bed!
wow, it’s been so long I don’t remember what we need to tell you! The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is that our poor little buddy on wheels needs a new engine and for what that would cost we thought it would make more sense to just buy something else. So we proceeded to look at some Hondas, Nissan Pathfinders, and Volvos. We came really close to buying a nice Volvo station wagon from OH, but then we found this $500 van on craigslist that was right here, and we thought well, I guess we can just suck it up for that price. We were getting tired of thinking about it. And we really didn’t want to spend the money. Sooooo we are now the proud owners of this. Who would have guessed? Who knows, maybe this is where “old foagys” go wrong and become eternally “not cool.” Maybe it is when they start talking like that last sentence, haha. I don’t know. In a scary sort of way the van kind of fits us. We often dress like “trailer trash” and I don’t remember the last time I wore deodorant. I take that back, I know it was at least a year ago. I sometimes smell gross. But a lot of the time it’s no big deal. I fully expect to start wearing it again someday. But that will be when I get around to buying some more natural stuff. I had some for a while, but I need new stuff. I could just try some vinegar. David isn’t too down with that. I think I just might. White vinegar in a spray bottle. I’m not sure if that would be cheaper than actual deodorant, though. Hmm. I haven’t lost any shirts to those stupid deo stains in a long time. Nice. That used to t me right off. While we’re confessing. We don’t shower super often. I would say our average is two or three times a week. Sometimes less. Not saying we wouldn’t like to more. Just that it’s not at the top of our to do list. Some of you probably already suspected that. But I don’t know, things like sleep and working and eating just usually slide in there above it. At least we’re skanky together. We really couldn’t be more perfect for each other. David will probably kick me for telling you all this. But I kinda think it’s funny. I also thought it was funny when Salt & Light from RBC came and sang at our church a couple of years ago and asked if we were hippies. It was partly my fault because I was wearing this thing on my head, and partly David’s fault cause he was growing this big mountainman gotee at the time. I don’t care, I like who I am, apart from the leftover jiggly stuff hanging on my body. Oh yeah, we get like no exercise. David gets more than I do. that’s not really who we are anyway, I guess. But that’s definitely a way that our life kinda contradicts itself. We’re all health oriented, but not in the live in a shack sort of way. Unless there is wireless internet. And no bugs. And… convenient things like ice crusher/shaver things. That’s got to be one of my favorite kitchen appliances. $7 from Target if I remember right. Countless days of yummy, virtually calorie-free, body-cooling concoctions. Saved us a ton on air conditioning, let me tell you! A big bowl of ice and you can be downright cold when it’s 90 degrees! Well. We still need to go to bed. More so now. Apparently this is how it goes when I haven’t written for a while and I’m sick. Sorry for any TMI. Haha. Eh, not really. Our lifestyle would fit plenty of countries just fine.
