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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

4/02/2004

This will be my last blog entry for about a week. We are moving house tomorrow and won't have the computer up and running until hopefully next week.

This is also Holy Week here in Spain this coming week. The town runs on a completely different schedule to allow for the parades and jamming of streets that happens throughout the city. People gather to watch the floats of Jesus and Mary and the penitents paying for their sins by marching in long processions behind and in front of the floats.

The Passion of the Christ opens here this week as well. Not much talk about it. It seems people in Sevilla are much more interested in their hundreds of years old Holy Week marches than they are in some slick new hollywood produced film. I am looking forward to seeing it though. Finally a film that might actually come close to showing how the bible describes what Jesus went through when he died. I am referring to Isaiah chapter 52 where it says "just as there were many who were appalled at him - his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness." I don't know if I will be able to handle it actually. But I will give it a try.

posted by Heather 4/02/2004 12:25:00 AM |

4/01/2004

STILL MOVING!!...Tomorrow we are having a moving party...lots of friends invited to help us move our stuff over...probably have pizza or something at the end.

This week I was able to order some prescription sunglasses that are ready for me to pick up. I used some of the money I got from the insurance from the mugging to be able to buy them. It has been a couple summers already that I really could have used some prescription sunglasses...YAY I was able to order them this week!
posted by Heather 4/01/2004 07:47:00 AM |

3/28/2004

Ok I am really getting anxious to move now. I had to get used to the idea of change and now I can't wait to get out of here and get settled into the new place.
posted by Heather 3/28/2004 11:20:00 PM |