What Goes Around

Here is the results of the experiment I did on how many countries I could get of people who look at my blog. Thanks to all who helped (Jessica). United States India Latvia Thailand Canada France United Kingdom Malaysia Netherlands Germany

This is a totally random thought blog post and probably isn't worth your reading. Last night, as I was drying off after a shower, I noticed something that I don't think I had noticed before. I was looking for a wild hair that sometimes grows on my lower back. I hadn't seen it in a while so I was looking to see if it was growing or not. Wild hairs are weird. Why does a hair just grow super long in a day some places? Or do they grow slowly but we just don't notice them? I couldn't find the wild hair. I had talked before about hanging a bead on that one hair and celebrating it. It would probably pull the hair out though, since the wild hairs are usually pretty thin. If I had three hairs all together, I would braid them. I would like to see how long I can grow one someday. But getting back to last night and my discovery. As I cranked my head around to see my back I realized that I could see my own butt crack (sorry Mom and Dad). Why did I never realize this ...

Sorry for my last, pathetic blog posting. I was having an early pity party for my birthday I guess. I am feeling better and less stressful about the whole "having no money" thing. I know I have friends to borrow from and I know we won't be poor for very long. It is good to remember how lots of people have to live month to month and go without things. I know one day we will be millionaires and won't have to worry about money anymore. And when I am a millionaire, I will still hate spending money.

Lately I have felt the sting of poorness. I have an issue with anxiety anyway, and this is a new test for me in seeing if I can survive through it. It is also a good test in learning to trust, both God and my husband. We are importing skateboards to sell here in India and right now we are waiting to get them out of customs. I guess we didn't figure in the long delay of customs here when we planned. So there sits our boards (and money). So anyway, we had to leave India for our visa renewal and we came to Thailand. When we got here we withdrew money and the ATM shows us the balance in our bank. After withdrawing, we have around $30. left. I have never had that little of money. I know that my idea of broke is different than others, but to me, we are broke. So I lay in bed worrying about our finances and wonder if I am suppose to trust God to take care of us, or if it is our own poor planning that is making us suffer. Like, does God take care of you when you are foolish? I al...

Every six months, we have to leave India. Our visa stipulates that we go out of the country after 180 days. We can just cross the border and come back in, but we choose to use the time as a break from life in India. We also like to visit friends in close by countries. So this time, we went to Thailand. Actually, we almost always go to Thailand. So we flew here on Air Asia because it was cheapest. But I didn't realize that they nickle and dime you until it isn't so cheap or comfortable. Here is where I lost it. When I say "I lost it" I don't mean that I lost my mind. I mean that I lost my cool. Traveling is stressful for me. If I was alone I don't think it would be too stressful, but I am with my husband and son, which makes it a little more stressful. Steve normally packs his bags a half hour before we leave and that is stressful to me. So I have learned a skill to help me. I ask him a day before, "When will you pack your bags?" And he...

A few days ago I was wasting time by reading blogs of people that I don't know. You know how on the top of a blog page there is the "next blog" button? Well I just hit that and if it was interesting, I read it. I read a blog about a couple who had three babies that died, two were still-born and one lived one day. Sad. I read about kids with illnesses. I read about traveling. And then I read one that caught my eye. Or at least the picture caught my eye. The picture that caught my eye was of a bookshelf that was arranged by color. I thought that it looked nice and that maybe that would be the way I would rearrange my bookshelf (or I should say, Steve's bookshelf). I told Steve my idea and he didn't go for it. He said he wouldn't be able to find his books. But I didn't let him poo-poo on my parade. I let him see my sad expression (manipulation) and then he decided that it would be okay. So the next day Micah and I took all the books out and arran...

As I walked to the market today, two things struck me as interesting. Firstly, it seems that cars here end up honking right next to me. I wonder if it is done on purpose. People honk when they approach an intersection or a turn that they are not going to stop at, or that a person may be not stopping at and will hit them. So it is just a way of letting other drivers know that you are there. So I suppose that if I am walking right before a turn or an intersection that it could just be that I am in the exact area that they always honk at. It is irritating none the less. So loud and startling. The other thing I thought about is boom boxes. I remember back in the 80's that cool people would walk around with a boom box (music) held on their shoulder. At least I saw it in a movie or on a commercial. Well today I passed a guy who was listening to music, but he was listening from his cell phone. So I wonder if it is the same idea. And I wonder if it is just an India phenomena or...