having ninja adventures...

...at midnight in clemson is always interesting.

somehow bill and kyle convinced me and lauren to go on the above mentioned sort of "adventure" this weekend. all we were told is that it would involve some climbing and having to dress in black...which made us a little skeptical at first, we did end up having lots of fun.

and while i won't go into too many details because i really don't know who reads this...i will just say that we got to see some great views of campus that we probably weren't supposed to see. :)

ssshhhh....its a secret

me and lauren holding tillman...kinda

me and my peter pan shadow!....this was real cool and fun

time for a job

so....in the upcoming weeks i am working on getting some sort of job.

full time, part time, temporary, whatever...i am pretty open.

interestingly enough, i am trying to secure a job that is more ... ministry/counseling/grief/nonprofit/service type related rather than advertising/marketing related.

basically i feel the need to work with people and not design advertisements in a high-stress corporate environment. some people are gifted and called to do this. i realized i am not.

if i haven't talked with you recently, the quick explanation is that God has changed my heart a lot over this past year and he is slowly reminding/revealing to me that my passion always was (and still is) encouragement and helping those who are hurting (spiritually, emotionally, financially, or health-related).

I am not sure what exactly this type of work will look like yet, but I am researching a lot of options right now. I am in much prayer about it and i would appreciate your prayers (and/or career suggestions...haha) as well.


after this year, i have faith that God will make his purpose ever clearer in the days ahead.


"In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation..." Psalm 5:3

Getting sized up

so quick little note about the (strange) highlight of my week:

in my doctor's visit a few days ago, they put me in the exam room RIGHT next to the scale AND left my door open.

I was very close to the scale....as in, the scale is against the wall beside the open doorway to my room. So, this...arrangement...thus enabled me to hear every comment of the people who walked past my door and got weighed in.

most of which were hilarious.

some of my favorite comments:



"well crap. that's awful high. hang on let me take off my hat." ---old man with a baseball cap.

"are you sure you are doing that right? do it again." [noise of nurse slowly sliding the scale again.] "well, i know what i weigh and it is NOT that. so you must be doing it wrong. here, let me do it. "[lots and lots of noise of the woman messing with the scale] "oh nevermind...is it really that important?" ---50ish year old lady

"oh my. do you think i'm shrinking?" ---really tiny old lady

"honey, i am way too old to be worrying about that anymore. i'm just happy i can still walk." ---really, really, really old man

weekend update

went to the doctor on friday and as always, i made friends with some random people which were a huge blessing in my day.

here's the news:

over the next 6 months, the strong dose of radiation that I recently recieved will kill off the remaining thyroid cells in my throat (cancerous and non-cancerous). i will be on my thyroid pills for the next 6 months and then I will stop them again to get scanned/checked at the end of january. Then based on whatever they find then determines the next step, if I'll get checked a year later, etc. etc. for several years.

with thyroid cancer, there is no real black and white, "cured, not cured, cancer free, in remission" type of terminology...at least not for a few years. what they can tell me is that they "expect" me to make a full recovery...sometime... eventually.

it makes me laugh because the poor stressed out doctors can't give anybody straight answers because they really are doing the best they can, but they don't know how the human body is going to react and they have to cover all the bases so they don't get fired or messed up in some nasty red tape for telling somebody the wrong thing. Sometimes I want to tell them that no matter what they tell me, that God is in control of whether I am miraculously healed tomorrow or whether we all are killed in the next 5 seconds....so really they can just do their jobs to the best of their ability and relax because ultimately someone else has the final say in what happens in life.


pretty much as soon as I finish getting adjusted to my medicine (another 2, 3ish weeks?) I should basically try to resume "normal" life and not worry about it until the end of january! God is asking me to faith it for 6 more months. And after the tremendous blessing of everything that has happened this year, I have no problem with trusting him with my health and everything else. :)


also this weekend, we all had the pleasure to send off sally katherine in style to serve in Central Asia for 2 years. leigh and i were lucky enough to get to distract her for the weekend while everyone else prepared for her surprise party (i will post pictures soon)....which was a surpise indeed, both for sally katherine, and for all of us in a way. whitney and emily did an amazing job orchestrating a great time of prayer and love and God's presence was definitely there.

you want to meet someone with a lot of faith? well she is blonde and about 5'2'' and she is about to burst because she is fulfilling God's purpose for her life in overseas missions in just a few more days. she inspires me to keep going. i love you sk. and we are all praying for you.