Life Plans

Tentative plans:


Next stop (not for another year or so at least) - Dubai or Abu Dhabi.

Then - South Korea (I'm telling you, "City Hunter" changed my life ;) )

After - maybe Turkey, maybe back to Montana. Maybe somewhere totally different.



 Of course, our plans always change. See my post from 2010: Nomads.

That's all.

randomness on my mind

I stabbed myself with a screwdriver trying to open a bottle tonight.



After watching hour upon hour of a Korean tv show, "City Hunter," I had a dream in "Korean" with subtitles.





I really like Gary Jules and Damien Rice. "Mad World" is one of my most favorite songs.

I've got me some fierce wanderlust going on right now.

Josh makes me laugh more than anyone should.

Pretty sure I'm going to get a tattoo here in the next bit.

Winter here in Texas is kind of like summer in Montana.

I really love both Tink and Luna.

That's all for now.

Coming Soon

I am really excited for the Hunger Games movie coming up.

 I am even more excited for the final Wheel of Time book, A Memory of Light, to come out. 

Travel Memories

Here is an entry I posted on Xanga on June 25, 2006:

Josh I must say it, "I am extremely proud of my husband!"  Before this trip the only place he'd been outside of the country was Trinidad (and Canada).  But, he has been AMAZING to travel with.  I mean, we drive up to Minneapolis for Gina's wedding and the day after that we hop on a plane.  We fly clear to Jordan, rush to my parents' house for four hours (for showers and naps) then back to the airport to fly to Turkey.  Josh insists that we miss our connecting flight in Istanbul on purpose so that we can see the city.  We leave the airport and hop in a taxi.  The driver, who barely speaks English, tells us that he knows this great hotel named Santa Sophia, so we tell him to take us there.  It turns out to be a great place, actually, within walking distance of Aya Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar and several other cool places.  So we spend the day seeing the sights, then catch some sleep.  The next day we go shopping in the Grand Bazaar. (Here I must say something about my own travel skills... I had to take an emergency bathroom break... I paid a guy 400,000 Turkish Lira to use the restroom only to find out it was a squatty-potty.  It was an emergency, though, so I made it work.) Anyhow, we took two trains to get back to the airport, which in Turkish is something like Havilavar (just in case you are ever there).  We then flew to Izmir, but still had to get to Kusadasi.  So, we took a bus into downtown Izmir, then caught a shuttle bus to the main bus terminal.  From there we caught another bus into downtown Kusadasi.  We arrived there at three in the morning and had to go wake up this taxi driver to take us to our hotel.  And the whole time it was me who was sort of freaking out and Josh who was cool about everything.  He changed money, bought our visas, found the bus station, figured out which bus we were on (with the help of this great Dutch lady we met), warded off over-zealous shopkeepers, and greatly impressed his wife.  I'm SO blessed to have married someone who will hop on a plane with me and go half-way around the world without really knowing where we will end up.  He is the most amazing man I know, and I LOVE him. Here are some pictures from that trip:

Hidden Treasure

Here is the print Josh and I bought for $12. We bought it because we liked it, and the colors matched our living room.
It is by Sadao Watanabe; painted in 1979. We have 28/80.

Here's a link to the gallery where it is on sale for $1600: http://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists/watanabe_sadao/watanabe_sadao.php .

Pretty crazy.

Haha Tonka State Park

One of the best days ever was the day Josh and I went to Haha Tonka State Park with our friends, Michael and Miracle. It was our first time to go out hiking, and led to a sort of tradition of looking for fun places to go. None of them every quite matched that first trip. Here's why:

1. Haha Tonka has a castle. In the middle of Missouri, a castle.

2. It has a blue river.

3. That comes from a blue spring.

4. With a massive stair-system to get there.

5. And a natural bridge.

It was FREEZING the day we went, but totally worth it.

Doctor Josh: The story of how my husband cured Matt's heart attack / stroke

I dearly, dearly love my brother-in-law, Matt. This is one of my favorite stories about him:

Matt lived with us for a couple of months when we lived in Montana. One night, Josh and I were already asleep when Matt frantically knocked on our door, whisper-shouting, "Guys! Wake up!"

Waking out of a semi-deep sleep, I immediately thought the house was on fire or something (why else would he wake us up in the middle of the night?). I jumped out of bed, jerked open the door, and found Matt bent over, his one arm dangling limply at his side.

"I can't move my left arm and it feels really tingly." (I don't remember his exact words, but it was something like this.) I think he also mentioned something about his heart not feeling right.

I very helpfully asked, "What's wrong with it?"

He didn't know, but was afraid something was wrong with his heart or something. I kept asking him what he wanted us to do, if he needed to go to the doctor, or if we needed to call an ambulance.

I was so panicked, my legs were shaking and I felt sick, so I went and sat down on the edge of the bed while Josh finally got up to go see if he could help Matt. Matt repeated what was wrong. Josh looked at him for a moment.

"Is your arm asleep?" he asked.

Matt was quiet for several long seconds. Then, "Yeah, I think that's what it is."