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10 Things to Look Forward to This Year
any season but winter
Ibiza
find a house?
outcome of U.S. presidential election
will U.S. pull out of global and national nose dive?
Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ
The Roundtable
What will happen in my neighborhood?
What will happen in the world?
What will happen in my heart?

10 Favorite Christmas Presents
Hello Kitty
Amelie Soundtrack
Lush
Mini disk recorder
Mesa Camilla (table heater)
Phone conversations with loved ones far away
Jim's curry dinner at Juanan and Inma's
Being a guest at Jesus and Amalia's for Xmas Spanish style
Hearing my Grandpa say "I Love You, Heather" on the phone
Jonah back home safe from England

10 Ways to help out with the Aids situation
ask God what you can do
expect ideas and opportunities to come
visit a sufferer regularly
give money to Aids charities
befriend the family of a sufferer
enjoy sex within marriage
research the disease
love extravagantly
pray regularly
push your comfort zones

6 Things I wanted to be when I grew up
Veterinarian
Published Poet
Missionary
Medical Laboratory Technologist
Horse Jockey
Country Western Singer

10 Favorite Pets I've Had
Casper the Little Mutt Dog
Murphy the not so Miniature Schnauzer
Dewey the Miniature Schnauzer
Nellie the Blond Afghan Hound
Sir Boots the black Afghan Hound
Hadji Ba Ba the Afgan Hound Puppy
Princess the Black Afghan Hound
Mae the Cat
Kati the Doberman
Razil the Horse

10 Favorite 80's Bands or Musicians
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Duran Duran
Suzanne Vega
U2
The Police
Depeche Mode
The Smiths
The Cure
Cocteau Twins
Kate Bush

10 Favorite Cities I Have Visited
Amsterdam, Holland
Marrakesh, Morocco
London, England
Edinburgh, Scotland
Budapest, Hungary
Toronto, Canada
Seattle,WA USA
San Fransisco,CA USA
New York City,NY USA
Seville, Spain

10 Favorite Movies
that I can think of right now:
Some Like It Hot
The Shawshank Redemption
Amelie
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
The Pianist
Life is Beautiful
About A Boy
The Three Amigos
The Black Stallion

10/16/2003

I've just finished two days of running around crazy trying to get the papers together to apply for a 800 hour course in theater costuming. After waiting in 5 lines, filling out 6 pages of forms, designing 1 resume with Jonah's help, literally running back and forth across town 7 times and surviving 1 interview in spanish I may have a chance at getting into the class. Hopefully the fact that by the time they interviewed me they had lost my resume and head shot and that I was so nervous that my spanish sounded like I had only just arrived in Spain that morning won't affect the outcome too much. We'll see by next Wednesday.
Costuming is something that I always regretted not pursuing when I was younger so it would be cool to be able to pick that up again at this stage.

Jonah left this morning for Madrid. Boohoo. I am looking forward to using my time for sewing and such. Today though I think I will have to take a long siesta as I am very tired
from not much sleep last night and the trauma of the interview.
posted by Heather 10/16/2003 12:58:00 PM |

10/15/2003

YAY!! some people actually read my blog. that is encouraging to know.

Well, I have officially decided not to do voice lessons this year until I can get some bugs worked out. Mainly, get a piano, a place to teach and better cross cultural resources. I will continue to help people with their here and there questions or mini lessons but as far as making a job out of it better to just let it go for now.
I am still hopeful for other opportunities to use my musical gifts...meanwhile I will keep setting aside blocks of time to work on art, music, poems, etc.

So Jonah leaves tomorrow morning to Madrid. He will be there for meetings with YWAM until Saturday night. While he is gone I hope to spend some quality time with God to get refocused on how to best spend the next several months. Quite a few things I had hoped to be doing these next few months have fallen through so I feel I need to take a break with God and get refocused and be open to new ideas.

Jonah and I had a really good time with friends Inma and Juanan today. they invited us over for a very nice lunch. Spinach crepes, cous cous, and tomato salad with wine and for desert ice cream and herb tea. Yum. Juanan and Inma are lending me their sewing machine for a month so I can get a pile of mending done.

Juanan and Inma have two little very cute girls and they really want to go horseback riding and invited me to go maybe in a couple weeks. I hope that works out because I really miss horses.

posted by Heather 10/15/2003 09:19:00 PM |

10/14/2003

does anyone read my blog?
posted by Heather 10/14/2003 06:44:00 PM |