Learning

One of the Gestapo officers sent to observe the proceedings remarked to one of the pastors, “This is the way kings are buried!” to which the pastor replied: “Hardly! What is happening here is that a blood witness of Jesus Christ is borne to the grave.”
Deep my friend. Deep.

http://www.paultripp.com/articles/posts/reasons-to-be-passive-part-3

http://stuffchristianslike.net/2013/11/27/quit/
made me chuckle at work

Randomness, my coworker's sister works for a clothes line company, designer group, whatever you want to call it. So he gets free jeans. Sick deals. That's pretty cool imho. Also cool, free lunch a couple days ago. :) Also cooler, getting to learn more about coworkers that I don't interact at all with. I'm too quiet cause I can't think of anything cool to say in the conversation, but I got to learn so much more about them. It was fun. Like actually fun.

Curses in my job situation? If I finish it quickly, which I try to do... I'm left with nothing. Which would be fine if I worked from home. Cause then I could do some chores. Jam out cause I'm trying to play my guitar again after a several month hiatus. Do some jumping jacks to wake up, I dunno. But then working at home for more than a couple days makes me antsy, cause literally... I'm in my room for way too long.

Random cool things I've found/quirks to keep in mind:
Kickstarter is cool. Like I'm realizing it now, but it's really cool. Case in point, I might buy this.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/702400282/maxstone-iphone-your-camera

Tip for staying warm in winter. What happens to clothes as you wear them? They wear out. And most of the time it's just get rid of them or something. But, if you have an old wool sweater that has holes in it... use it for lounging or sleeping should you want. I plan on doing that while snowboarding cause who cares if there are holes. Longsleeve, wool sweater, fleece, shell ready for sub freezing temps baby. Why? Cause wool is incredibly warm for it's weight compared to cotton, a natural body odor fighter, and wool sweaters breath well. And cotton absorbs all your sweat like a nasty boss. So now I get to get more use out of a sweater that I had every intention of tossing away. Yay me.

But in all seriousness, new years is approaching. Whereas normally I say what the the heck it's just another day, I want to recap my goals.
1) Volunteer
2) Save money
3) Short term missions in Japan
4) Learn more and act more like Christ
5) Six pack (why not keep on trying haha)
6) Limit spending (aka some clothes to replace my shirts with holes, laptop, possibly new cell phone, some small things)
7) Change job position or new job (unless something cool happens with my job, but doubtful)
     Sub goal to this, move out of C'ville unless something makes me want to stay
8) Visit the family I haven't seen for over four years... cray cray.
9) Share with my family my future goals
10) Read books (Currently reading Mark of a Man, Don't Waste Your Life, Boy Meets Girl (No there is no reason for this, please don't misinterpret. Just wanted something on a different topic if that makes sense))

These goals are not in any particular order, and number 9 will probably happen sometime this week. But I'm scared in many ways to be honest. Am I qualified to dream these dreams of mine for serving? Nah. But will I ever be qualified? Nah. But we'll see how that goes. For real... scared.

Btw family, I'm going to be forever poor in the world. And... ya, I'm going to be poor. In fact, I'll be surviving based on the grace of God and the kindness/power of Holy Spirit in others. Oh dear...

Which honestly is scary in other ways too. Could I realistically invite someone to join me for a life like that? Overseas? Other potential complications? Yet is it worth it in the end? Yes... yes I dare say it is. But that's still intimidating, to both my parents and to any potential other. But in the end, it's say it. And trust in God. Anxiety is a reminder that I don't trust in God enough. Being cautious is not a sign of lack of trust in my opinion, but that's a fine line. Regardless, learning to trust my friends. Learning to trust. But this applies to so many other aspects in my life. Prob expounding to be done at some point.

Random guilty secret that's funny. So I have to put lotion on during the winter cause my skin dries out really quickly and gets ashy. Joggeum gross. But I forgot to pack lotion, so after my shower I looked in the bathroom for lotion. (On a ski trip with my fam currently). And found body butter that smells like warm vanilla. So relaxing haha. Will I potentially buy some in the future for winter use? Maybe. Don't judge me guys. But it's like having a candle smell following you, so relaxing.