Another late night...

First of all, I can't believe I started this thing and haven't written anything in it yet. Second, it's exactly 3:33am in Texas and I still can't sleep...this has been quite a pattern lately.

Wow. We're so grown up. Karissa, I hope the new jobs, but especially the fellowship, are going well. Just don't run yourself in to the ground. I'll pray that God provides the money for rent/life, He always does, but trust me, I understand. Part of the reason I can't sleep. And I'm SO proud that you gave blood! I thought of you a few weeks ago, long story short, I was sitting next to my cousin on a boat and a rope sliced through both hands down to the bone. Blood EVERYWHERE. When I was sitting in the emergency room with her, I thought, wow Karissa would be dying right now. And it made me miss you, lots. But seriously, I'm so proud of you!

Jenna. Big girl job. Almost new apartment (I actually don't know that for sure, but I've done some facebook stalking and it looks that way!) New church. I'm so excited for you! I do miss your baking/cooking LOTS. My mom and Robert are on a diet where they have cereal for dinner to help them lose weight. downside for me? I get to cook my own meals. Which are never as good as yours, no matter how much sweat and blood I pour in to them. argh.

Katie Craig. We suck at keeping in touch, but one of these days it'll happen and I'll get to hear your voice. Umm, like I said major facebook stalking (I can't sleep, what do you expect?!) and patrick freaking o'connor....what is he doing? are y'all talking? what? ANYWAY. I am so proud of your growth this summer (with God AND your boobs! whooo hoo!!) And of course you're blowing all those merced students out of the water, they're competing with the champion of creativity. keep making me proud.

Julie: WRITE SOMETHING. i miss you. joge.

So. Life for me lately consists of my job and working out. that's all I do during the week. I work 50 hours a week and then I workout for an hour and a half every day. mostly because I just want to see how in shape I can get, just for kicks. I like the internship, I'm learning a lot, and I actually get to do real work (like create an ad campaign, for example. pretty sweet) BUT I know for sure I won't ever work for a big national company some day...I prefer small companies.

I dyed my hair. It's now a darkish/reddish brown. I think I like it. But you know me and hair color...still trying to find the right one haah. 

The au pair agency now has all my paperwork and is working to find me a family. This process has been expensive, but if it works out, it'll be SO worth it...PLEASE pray that I get placed with a family. It's hard waiting and trusting that God has something out there for me. I'm just trying to take the first step and take that risk of doing something out of the ordinary, which right now looks stupid to everyone else (for example, my father. He and Steve would be besties. Super conservative. Hates France. yadda yadda). So yeah...prayers are great. God is good.

I bought my plane ticket to Tanzania last week. 42 days! I leave August 10th, get back the 29th and could possibly be leaving for Paris as soon as September 5th. AAAAH. Crazy. Anyway, I'm so excited for Tanzania...spending a few days in Kenya to see the little girls that I stayed with last time....and to pick up Jesse. Who will then spend a little time with me in Tanzania. And then we're spending about a week on Zanzibar, an island about an hour and a half off the coast. Staying in a hut. With no door. On the beach. Same room. WHAT? it could either be really great. or really awkward. we'll see. I'll chat with y'all about that when we talk via the phone. I'll leave it at that for now....OH. and it's 2 flights. each about 11 hours long. I HATE flying, especially by myself. and one of them is on the same kind of plane that the air france one was...so pray that I'm safe. both in the air and from somali pirates/malaria and other diseases/etc AND that the orphanage will be a blessing to the kids there.

So yeah...that's basically it. I really look forward to the weekends now, which I'm sure you can all relate to...I haven't had a dull one yet. Ashley Cheda came a few weeks ago, which was great, otherwise I hang out with the girls I grew up with or my family. Dallas is actually a great city, I'd move here someday. but that's a big maybe. who knows. Can't guarantee it, but I'm gonna try to fly with the other girls to Paris from LA, so hopefully I'll be there for a few days in early Sept and get to see y'all. Karissa, get your butt down there if I'm there. I promise I'll come to san fran someday!

OK, i'm gonna try to get some shut eye so I'm not a total waste tomorrow. I love you girls so much and wish I could just pop over to 263 and eat some cracker/caramel goodness, drink some vino, and see your beautiful faces.

love love love,

Becs