top 10 random.....hum

so i've been tagged for the 10 most random facts eh! well i don't know if these would count as random, but we'll try none the less

1. i sold books door to door in Wisconsin in the summer of 2000. they said it was an internship. um. not really.

2. i worked with espn in the press box when i was in college. i was a broadcasting major.

3. i've had a five minute conversation with morgan freeman in cleveland, ms. and i didn't have my camera. my friend gary was really mad at me for forgetting it. :)

4. i just counted it up and i've had 18 roommates since my freshman year of college.

5. i've also lived in 19 different houses/apartments (not including that little stint moving to wisconsin for 3 weeks to sell books door to door.) :)

6. i only like to sleep on down pillows. and i ALWAYS travel with my pillow. except once when i backpacked the Volta region in ghana. there was no space. but my pillow has been to russia! i get this from my grandmom, nanaw. she takes hers everywhere too.

7. i've flown a two seater plane for about five minutes before i really freaked out that the pilot wouldn't take that joy stick thing back under control.

8. i've sat in a blackhawk and was amazed at all the buttons. so many buttons. i love buttons.

9. i've dipped skoal. ok. maybe not too random. i am from mississippi :)

10. we used to go cut down our own christmas trees when i lived in madison, ms. we would take my sisters horse and my dad would rig it up so dawny buck, the horse, would carry the 12 foot plus tree back to our house some 2/3 miles away :). also my dad would always cut it down with one of those really hold hand saws with the center cut out. seems like it was hard work :)


i don't know if these are what i would qualify as my most random, but i think they will suffice as of right now. thanks tates for the tag :)

friends coming to learn.

just wanted to say that my home church is coming back in april and i've linked the people who are coming to my site....check em out and if you want to support their efforts....well you can figure out how to do it :)

check out anna and russ's blog, the teams blog where joel and his family make posts and mark and melissa's blog!!!!

a little bit of everything

I love when nouns become verbs. Such as .... I'm going to blog now or hey facebook me. Our ever changing art of communication seems to create a vocab of its own eh?

I'm blogging not out of duty but purely to dedicate this one to a friend here in Ghana who said the other day, "some people don't blog anymore...." :) so here's to you!!!!

I do love a blank page. Wide open space to let the thoughts and expressions inside flow freely....what do I want to say???? hum....

I think one part of communicating that is so hard is the amount that happens to us in any given day. And do we deem that blog worthy? Or is it relatively 'normal' and we feel as if to blog wouldn't be needed? I guess that is the gloryesness of being a blogger...to each his own of considering what is and isn't blog a riffic.

So today I'm at the Mozleys house wrapping up one week of playing 'mom/tatum/rebecca' I have had several people ask me how being 'tatum' has been this week....so Tates if you're reading this....you have indeed made an impression in Ghana :) I won't tell you what else they said ;) wink wink. Just kidding.

This past week has been busy and I've realized the amount of organization it takes to run a household. The first 'day on the job' was getting everybody a list of what needed to be done....but I had to figure out what needed to be done and never having to had figure that out took some time. I think learning the patterns, likes and dislikes of other people is interesting, enjoyable and a tad exhausting.

I would say this past week for me has been great. I've seen the amount of energy the interns pour into helping the Mozleys and the amount of energy Claire and Micheal dole out....and we didn't have the revolving door of people coming through like they usually have!!!

Maggie, Luke and Anna are some of the coolest and most well behaved kids I've ever seen so hanging with them was fun. Well most of the time....sometimes the mornings getting out of the door were a little um....what's the word.....rushed?

Sitting with Smags last night working on Algebra brought back so many memories of my High school days. I was/am a procrastinator and for the most part it works well for me. I thrive on deadlines and actually this year n I've noticed, for me, no deadlines equals being less productive! Of course there's got to be a healthy balance....of procrastination that is.

As I sit at my computer I'm working on several items at one time. At this very moment I'm uploading video to youtube, working on a flyer for Race for Relief (a triathlon some friends and I are creating), researching prices for Final Cut Pro books because I've been asked to teach a course, calling contacts about a DVCAM I found to rent for a shoot for the Marriage Course (they are re filming an international leaders dvd and the contacts here asked me to consult with Ghana/London)and just finished studying material for our small group that started meeting on Thursday nights. We're doing Beth Moore's Jesus the One and Only study. And all of the sudden I'm overwhelmed with these thoughts...

In part of the study we are looking at how after the Angel Gabriel came to Mary to tell her she would indeed be the Lord's mother and how in Luke 1:48 she says humbly maybe out of shock .... not pride...."from now on all generations will call me blessed..." i think she was in such shock to be looked upon by God because she was a peasant girl. Nobody extravegant. An ordinary plain and simple person God decided to use :) I just love that and it made me smile this morning as I'm sitting in Ghana, living out a life that seems at some points too amazing to be living. I'm so thankful today. I hope I continue to be amazed and joyful even during the hard moments.

This is indeed a smorgeshboard (i have no idea how to spell that...but that looks good) of my thoughts. Freely flowing....:)

margaret