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Name: Jennifer
Interests: OLD: palmtrees, marker-art, and cooking
NEW: running, Spanish, and Ballet!
Newest: Carribean-inspired dishes and tunes
Expertise: smiling, writing, flute-playing, camp counseling, singing camp songs
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Member Since:
2/28/2004
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| Dear Friends,
Soo happy to be writing again! I took a nice long siesta from my writing, so that I could change jobs, move, spend time with my boyfriend, etc. And, now things have settled down and I need to write again. I have so many great thoughts in my head at times that I just wish I could write down and alas I am driving or working or not near my computer. I feel like my lack of writing in the past couple of years has led to a decline in my writing skills. Hopefully, I can get back to where I was and continue improving. :) This semester I have been working on my Spanish skills and volunteering as a writing tutor to a friend who speaks English as a Second Language. Through the tutoring, my desire and hope to write again on my own has increased and now here I find myself with just enough time to jot a few things down. :) Yay!
First of all, the updates. :) Guess what? I am engaged! My dear novio, Carlo, proposed to me on Valentine's Day and we are planning our wedding. It is a lot of fun! Also, this Spring, I am graduating Covenant with a Graduate Certificate. It is actually in a couple of weeks and I could not be happier. I am still working at the community treatment center and loving it. I am able to take trainings through my work and that is helping me learn more about counseling theory and so on. I began working there with a hope of starting a Master's in Counseling, but I do not have the funds to pursue it right now. So, I am merely enjoying my work and getting the opportunity to learn a lot through it. :)
Those are the big things! Hopefully, I will have more time to write again very soon! :)
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| Hey Friends, Smiles and love to you! Just realized I haven't been on xanga in a gazillion years. So I will update you a little. I'm not taking classes this semester... and so instead I am working in a day treatment program with adults playing bingo and uno and pool and eating lots of food and going on fun outings and so on. It's pretty great. I'm working with a very special population with hopes of discerning my level of interest in counseling/social work. Interesting... and fun too! I'm still working at the Cheesecake and still tossing my salads and using the pepper grinder at home and what-not. And I'm in a book group, so I'm still on the study and trying to grow in the Lord. :) It is a nice season, and I have enjoyed the rest from the study and the classes and the homework. In the mean time... work has been nice and it has been great to spend a lot of time with friends and family! So, that is that. I will need to write more later, but my minutes are becoming shorter and shorter and as I had always hoped this nice little xanga journal is gradually becoming an old season... and new things are still ahead! Thanks so much for reading!! | | |
| Dear Friends, Smiles and love to you! I have taken a very long four month break from my regular xanga posts! That is a first in about four years for me! Wow!! :) What have I been up to? :) Lots! Too much to probably share all in one post. So, I will let you in on a new adventure that has been taking up a very large amount of my time this Spring. Check it out! www.seminarianblog.com I tend to post an article every other week there. I am working with several friends from my school and it has been a huge blessing to me to go through the editing process and to support the other writers in their specific areas of interests and ministry. Summer is my favorite season...so naturally, that finds me spending a lot of time in my convertible soaking in the sunshine, and sometimes at little teatimes in gardens... and so on and so forth. :) Lots of things have occurred that I would love to write about, but I haven't quite found the words to express it in written form. A lot of my stories have been told and re-told to my various friends and family.... perhaps to never be written down at all, but simply shared! With that said, have a blessed summer, dear friends! Thanks so much for reading my journal! Jen | | |
| Tonight, it was icing outside and so I made dinner, and about half way through, I just started dancing. I couldn't help myself. It was just me, in the house, and so I danced, and danced, and danced. I thought about what you might see if you were able to open up my heart and take a peek (just like God can) and what would you see there? Would you see a beautiful palmtree, or maybe a piece of scrumptious and succulent cheesecake? Perhaps you would see a pointe shoe. Perhaps you would see my deep love for you! Who knows? :) I re-read part of my journal tonight and found quotes from Kierkegaard and a song that I had written about Jeremiah all before I started seminary. Sigh. I used to have so much sweet time for reflection and writing and what-not. I am looking back and cherishing the free time that I had prior to beginning my studies. My studies have been amazing and I'm so grateful for the time that I spend in them, but I'm also looking back on my time off with great joy as I return to my old writing and think of old times working and running and the friends that I made there. Sigh...I made kona coffee tonight, mmm, with really frothy vanilla soy. Parfait. I look forward to lake rollerblading this Spring. :) In the mean time, there will be lots and lots and lots of dancing. :) Out! | | |
| Okay, I do believe that someone is making the way through all of my old posts and it's inspiring me to re-visit some of my old thoughts. This post is from January 5, 2006. I can't believe that it has been two years ago. I suppose at the time, I was working at a Caribbean restaurant and sub-teaching at a small Christian school, and just starting to make new friends in the Lou post-graduation about seven months. I think I spent the first three months out of school back and forth between K-Ville and Cali, so I had only been home about four months and wrote this girlie-girl post. One thing that I find striking about it is how I look forward to wearing my future husband's hoodies and hats. :) haha. I do love running around the Lake when it is a bit chilly and wearing a hoodie. Aww. Sweetness. And I love reading other people's books, so I look forward to marrying a hoodie-wearing-theology-studying kind of guy. I sure hope so. :) haha. Things that make me feel pretty... :) hehehe... I love being a girl. -ballet flats... ;) Yes! -wearing my hair down and with a couple spiral curls at the ends... -cream skirts and pink roses and blue cardigans -smiling at everyone I meet -giggling, always giggling -eating like a bird...fresh fruit, carrot sticks, celery, mocha frappuchinos, etc. -running in a hoodie at sunset around a lake just because it is beautiful -singing in my car/dancing in my car -worshipping and star-gazing at the same time -writing notes on pink paper in the shape of hearts -writing poetry, journal entries, songs, etc. -harmonizing with Bebo :) hahah... -being nuturing to children because it just comes so easily -kissing baby Clayton's furry head and watching him smile at me -hanging out with my girls and friends who inspire me, refresh me, and pump life into my very body with kind encouraging words and loving care -dreaming about that special someone and knowing that someday I will borrow/read all of his books, and wear all of his old hoodies and hats... -'cause reading theology and wearing hoodies makes me feel especially pretty... :) | | |
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