Weekly Series

Letters Between Friends: VACATION GUILT

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Dear Tricia,

I am stuck today.  I haven’t a clue what to write about.  We both have been traveling…you come home ready to embark on your final month here at home before a HUGE transition, and I come home to sick children.

Oooo…Here’s something.  I was wondering if you deal with this much with the amount of travel you’ve done…When we were at the resort last week, I was struggling with the workers.  They were so kind and accommodating and great, but because of the trip I took to Guatemala earlier this year, I had a general idea of what they went home to.  I think I felt slightly ashamed or arrogant.  Nathan assured me that they had a great job and were doing what they need to do to provide for their families.  But I still couldn’t help it.

There was this one waiter, Antonio.  On Saturday, he served us all breakfast.  He would always welcome us with, “Hello Family!”  That night, Ashley, Daniel, Nathan and I were playing cards outside of the coffee shop around 10pm and he was picking up the garbage for the night.  I’m positive the labor laws are incredibly different, but I felt so torn.  Glad that I can help his family income, but by being at the resort was I endorsing improper treatment?

UGH.  The struggle.  Seattle, I’m sure, was slightly different.

Oh AND…I know LOTS about you…but I also need to know the answers to these questions…

  1. When is appropriate to start celebrating Christmas?
  2. If you had to pick an era to live in, which would it be?
  3. What TV series would you want to be a character in?
  4. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?

Happy Almost Friday, Friend.  Hope your week was more structured both in plan & thought than mine.

Love,

Lindsay

TEN YEARS AGO…Pervy Teachers

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TEN YEARS AGO

Thursday, December 1, 2005

Wednesday was fun, as far as I recollect.  I helped out with Emily’s speech seventh hour.  Playing handbells with our moms.  It was weird, because…I never wanted to be in Mr. Sandy’s class ever again.  What a crazy pervy teacher.  Luckily, I don’t think I ever actually saw him.  I must have had tunnel vision, because I just walked in, played, and smiled at Andrea as I walked out.  No Mr. Sandy.  Yay.

TODAY

I’m cutting the old entry short because I want to scream I TOLD YOU SO.  I mean, this is a pretty awful thing to brag about getting right, but….I’ve never let appropriateness stop me from gloating!

Okay, so back when I was in high school, Mr. Sandy taught speech class (and ten years ago I was helping a younger friend with her speech, which is when I wrote this post).  The two things I specifically remember him doing that weirded me out are:  1)  he walked down the hallway once, belched loudly, and stumbled into the wall, and 2)  he stood behind my gorgeous friend Michelle in class and actually RAN HIS FINGERS THROUGH HER HAIR.

That’s the obvious one.

Fast forward to a couple years ago, when Mr. Sandy was arrested for videoing faculty (and one underage student) going to the bathroom with a cellphone intentionally left in the room.  Gross gross gross.

Honestly, I’m more surprised that that isn’t the most horrible thing to happen at my high school.  Just a couple months before Mr. Sandy’s arrest, another teacher was arrested for using a iPod on the floor to film student’s underwear!

So….proud.  Of myself!!  For totally seeing the shadiness.

Not so proud of my old school.  Yikes.

Sunday Summary #8: What’s on the Internet

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1|  This is old news by now, but still, every time I watch the trailer for Captain America: Civil War, I devolve into a shrieking mass of fangirl.  BUCKY AND STEVE!!!

It is also, apparently, the only thing I had time to care about on the Internet. Which is totally fine by me, because Bucky and Steve!!!!

Sunday Summary #7: What’s on the Internet

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1|  Hamilton is taking the Internet by storm, and this article on The Mary Sue makes a compelling case that the hero of the musical is not Alexander, but Eliza Hamilton.

2|  BuzzFeed has created a list of 18 reasons Japan is amazing, including tons of vending machines and organized signage.

3|  The Gospel Coalition posted a spot-on critique of Christian films, culminating in a sentiment I agree with 100%.

What if God Is Not Dead was about a Christian wrestling with the fact that he knew atheists smarter and more ethical than himself?

Suddenly we would have a chance to say something vulnerable, honest, and profound. But as long as Christian films are motivated by a desire to trap people into hearing a gospel presentation, or as a consolation for losing the culture war, they should not make the final cut.

4|  The Travelettes wrote a beautiful ode to female solo travelers, reminding us of the beauty, frustrations, and worthiness of exploring the world.

5|  Andrea Wenger’s writing blog has a post about the writing process of INFJs that I found very accurate.  She’s got posts for other personality types, too, so check them out if that sort of thing interests you.

Oh Hey, Friday! #8 HAVE A LAUGH WITH STEPHEN COLBERT

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It’s another round of the Oh Hey, Friday! link-up from September Farm and 5 on Friday from A. Liz Adventures!  

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Stephen Colbert is the celebrity I would most want to marry…if he were twenty years younger.  Luckily, things like “age compatibility” don’t matter on YouTube, so I’ve spent quite a bit of time this week watching clips from his time hosting The Late Show.  Here are five of my favorites,  perfect for your viewing weekend pleasure.

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1|  Stephen & Emily Blunt Have a Fake Vomit-Off

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Letters Between Friends: SCANDAL

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I got Lindsay into Scandal, and it has taken over both our mental states.  So today I wrote her a letter about all the ways we should imitate Olivia Pope…and a couple ways we shouldn’t.

Check it out on Lindsay’s blog, Wild Ginger!

 

What Are You Reading Wednesday #WAYRW (10)

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I only just realized (two hours after publishing this blog post) that today is actually TUESDAY, not Wednesday.  I have no excuse other than I clearly do not have enough structure in my life.  Please consider today a whimsical treat:  What Are You Reading Wednesday (on Tuesday).

 

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What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature started on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate. You can answer the questions in the comments section of the weekly #WAYRW post or link back to your #WAYRW post on your blog via the link up. You can grab the image above or create your own, just please make sure you link back to IART as the host for this meme.

How to participate:
Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:
1. What’s the name of your current read?
2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

 

ness1. What’s the name of your current read?  

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.

“You know,” he [Jared] says, when we meet back at the waitress station (still called a waitress station even though it’s only us two waiters tonight), “this thing with Henna only really came up when she started dating Tony.  And now she’s going to Africa after graduation.  And then Nathan comes into our lives to catch her eye when she’s single and you’re still ‘gathering your courage.'”  He eats a french fry off a plate.  “Ever thought you only really like her because there’s always something in the way of actually getting close to her?”

“I think that all the time.”

3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

Mmm, nah.  Ness’s satirical world is fun, but I’m not dying to live in a world where indie kids fix supernatural problems while everyone else struggles through real life issues.  I’ll read about it, though!

TEN YEARS AGO…First Snowfall and Low Grade Depression

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TEN YEARS AGO

November 16, 2005

Gah!  I LOVE Lost and I HATE Ana-Lucia.  I love that every episode I’m left with my mouth hanging open, eyes bugged out, gasping for some sort of closure that never comes.  Every week–it’s just awesome.  I’m in love.

In other news, it was the first snowfall today!  Quite exciting.  Now we just need a good blizzard, a few snow days, and then I’m ready for spring.  But I do like snow.  I wish somehow it could snow without being cold.  Because I don’t like that.  Especially since I know we’ll have to be marching in it soon.  Ew.  Related to snow, my milk carton today was special; it had snowflakes on it.  There were only three of them.  Weird, but I was excited.  No one else seemed to understand the cuteness of it, but oh well.   Continue reading →

Sunday Summary #6: What’s on the Internet

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1|  There’s a bookstore in Paris (Shakespeare & Company) where people can stay the night, even live there, so long as they “read a book a day, help out in the shop for a couple of hours, and write a single-page autobiography for George’s archives.”  People who stay are called Tumbleweeds, which is just adorable.

2|  The drama surrounding the “anti-Christmas” Starbucks red cups is succinctly described and shot down by Buzzfeed.

3|  Nikita Gill is blowing up on Instagram for her beautiful and powerful short poems.

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Letters Between Friends: PERSONALITY TYPES

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Hah, this letter from Lindsay is a perfect lead-in to my post going up tomorrow about how I recently realized I’m a Type 4 instead of a Type 9 in the Enneagram personality test.  Tomorrow the post will be largely a freak out, but Lindsay’s letter today makes me feel a lot better about being a 4!  Especially if it means Lindsay and my personality types go together so well!

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Dear Tricia,

We’ve been talking sooo much about personality tests lately, so I feel I should write you about that.  [Notice I write “feel” which means I’m an emotional person].

In the Enneagram Test:

  • I am a #2 The Helper: Caring, Interpersonal Type: Generous, Demonstrative, People-pleasing and Possessive

o   “When moving in their Direction of Integration (growth), prideful, self-deceptive twos become more self-nurturing and emotionally aware, like healthy Fours.”  YOU’RE A FOUR!  Ha!

  • You are a #4 The Individualist: The Sensitive, Introspective type: Expressive, Dramatic, Self-Absorbed, and Temperamental

I looked at what #2 & #4 bring to a relationship…yes, I think they were more directing info at a dating relationship, but they had AWESOME things to say:

“Enneagram Twos and Fours can be a safe place for each to share their hopes, fears, and insecurities. They can be good medicine for each other: Twos contribute sociability and energy, giving Fours the confidence to interact more easily with others.“

“Fours also bring emotional depth and sensitivity to their relationships, a sense of mystery and unpredictability, sensuality and sexual freedom. In short, Fours invite Twos to take a closer look at their deeper needs, the truth of who they are and what they actually feel.”

We go together like Peas & Carrots!

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You should totally read more.  I was laughing at how we DON’T mix.  I was also realizing…do you think that the creator of the Divergent series read these, and FOUR/Tobias had a deeper meaning…it was kind of weird! Things that make you go….Hmmm…

I’m sorry I don’t have much to write you.  I’ve been with you this whole week AND I’m planning your party, so to have an expository or narrative thought is slightly difficult at the time.

See you this weekend!  For your PARTY!

Love,

Lindsay

Check out Lindsay’s blog Wild Ginger for more of her personality and passions!

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