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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

3/17/2004

Ok, so we've got...
husband home, studying his arse off.
Lora visiting this month and studying spanish intensively.
housemate Amanda has the flu.
dog in heat.
and I've been running around crazily all day going to the dentist, eyeglasses shop, grocery store, etc. etc.
tomorrow I get to stay home and tidy things up around here. and hopefully get myself a little more centered and organized.

Seems like after a painfully slow autumn and winter things are suddenly shifting into high gear.

posted by Heather 3/17/2004 12:02:00 AM |

3/15/2004

This weekend was very SOCIAL. Saturday we went to the annual Alternative Encounter fair. There are vegetarian food booths, loads of handcrafts booths, workshops, theater and music. Very colorful and inspiring. Definitely a highlight of living in Sevilla. We met there for our weekly Triburbana core group meeting. Sunday we went out to the fair again, then picked up our friend Lora at the bus station. Lora is from the UK and is staying with us for a month. She is taking an intensive spanish course. We know her from 24-7 Prayer. Then Mark and I went to the Peliqueria, weekly film discussion group. The film this week was 21 Grams with Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro. It was really good, well acted and well made. I would like to see it again in English. One more film marked off on my list of films to see.

Continue to be horrified by the train bombings in Madrid. I am amazed at stories of people I know that normally take those same trains but for some reason or another were not on them that day.
posted by Heather 3/15/2004 05:01:00 PM |