Ode to Meeks

So I was checking out google, becasue I have nothing better to do, and I put the word ''meeks'' into a good image search, and this is the best thing I found, well besides all the scary looking people with the surname ''Meeks.'' This wonderful peice of art work is called ''Meeks-Lookin for Love.'' Now all I have to do is get muss to recreate the masterpeice with me inside!

SO HAPPY ITS FRIDAY!!!

Wow, what a weird morning! I decided that it would be a good idea at the last minute to take a taxi to the post office and pick up the parcel my daddy sent me becasue I wasnt home yesterday when they tried to deliver it! It cost me 15 euro to get to the post office and then down to work- traffic was insane! So that sicked me out, but the package from my daddy was so cute! He sent me all the stuff I miss from Canada, including my beloved blue and yellow sweater that I cant believe I forgot in the first place!

So I got to work to recieve a phone call from Joanne the lady from the recruitment agency that sends me out temping- and it turns out that this week may be my only week at Crosscare becasue the lady I am filling in for might be coming back Monday. So that really sucks because I love working here. But I trust that God is removing me for a reason and that He will find me something better sutied as it is kind of hard to get too everyday!

So yeah despite the fact that its just a normal friday with crap going on, I am still stoked and in a really good mood for no reason!

Jen and I are going to try and go and see some irish country side next weekend- hopefully we can get that all worked out becasue it would be amazing just to take off for a weekend and relax! If we cant get to the irish country side maybe will just sit and relax on the street outside our house, hahaha!

Anyways, I am pretty much done rambling for now, I will leave you with one last bit of exciting new........I have decided to take up ''FENCING''

Could be fun!!

Choose a band / artist then answer ONLY in titles of their songs . . .

1. Choose a band / artist: Kelley Clarkson

2. Are you male or female: ''Natural woman''

3. Describe yourself: ''Beautiful Disaster''

4. How do some people feel about you: ''Angel'' (haha!)

5. How do you feel about yourself: ''Low''

6. Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend: ''Where is your heart''

7. Describe current boyfriend/girlfriend: ''What's up Lonly'' (as in I HAVE NO BOYFRIEND!)

8. Describe where you want to be: ''Miss Independant''

9. Describe how you live: ''Thankful''

10. Describe how you love: ''Addicted''

11. What would you ask for if you had just one wish: ''Some Kind of Miracle''

12. Share a few words of Wisdom: ''The trouble with love is...''

13. Where Do you Live? ''A moment like this''

14. Now say goodbye: ''Since You Been Gone''

WOW! Thats was way harder than I thought it would be!!

MEEKS LAND

Here are some of the things that are definatly going to be a part of Meeks Land:

-peppermint chairs
-chocolate river
-lollipop trees
-sparkley green grass
-instead of raining- it just sparkles for a while!
-lots of rainbows
-lots of laughing
-lots of dancing (muss will be there dancing to beverly hills!)
marshmallow clouds
-bubblegum tshirts- yeah! you would smell so good!
-lots of yellow duckies walking around!
-the stars are multicolored
-the sun is made of skittles!
- huge swimming pool
- warm all the time
-My palace will be in the middle of the city and every 10 minutes is screams my name alternating between MEEEEKS! and YONEZZ!! and every half hour it explodes in pink smoke, glitter, and little pictures of meeks!
-All of the music played has my name subsituted in place of the word ''me''

Im sure I will think of more, but that is it for now! I love this picture of candy land, I will be using it to model Meeks Land! yay!

Something to think about. . . .

''Trusting God in the face of disappointment is the ultimate test of faith!'' (Shannon Kubiak) It seems like a no brainer, and unless you are seriously facing disappointment its easy to say that its not really big of a test of faith becasue you know the truth and the truth is God is good. When I read that today it seriously made me think about the times in my life I have been disappointed and not happy with what God was doing and to no suprise I had no faith. Its hard to trust God especially if you are disappointed in Him, and honestly I dont really know how you would go about trusting God if you were disappointed in Him. The definition of disappointment is a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized (dictionary.com- the lazy way!) Thats an interesting way of thinking about it becasue if you are disappointed in God then you are unhappy at the fact that God has not realized your expectations.

Now onto expectations, those are a killer and will let you down everytime. So really if you think about it, the only reason we ever get disappointed is becasue we choose to have expectations. Yikes...I dont like where this is going!

So I thought about it for a bit and then moved onto a quote in the book by Elizabeth Elliot that says ''Trust the man who died for you.'' Thats a great quote and its very true. Why wouldnt you beable to trust someone willing to lay their life on the line for you...

just something stuff I am thinking on...I am going to stop now because I am giving myself a headache!

Chilly and Dancing!

Brrr- its like working in the Arctic today! Normally when its miserable outside I love just hanging out inside becasue its warm and there is glass and brick separating me from the bitter cold rain and in this case hail! But no no, today it has to be just as cold in our offices as it is outside- the draft is insane! So here I sit, wishing I has some mittens!

But hey if your cold and have no mittens what else can you do? DANCE! So I got the oldies pumping- well they no longer are pumping becasue ''You raise me up'' by Westlife just came on- this is upsetting becasue I can't dance to Westlife! Boo- so my dance party has turned out to be a bust!

I am currently in the process of thinking of ideas for my ''Meeks Land'' board game. I am going to make it and take it back home to Canada for Muss! She will definatly appreciate the beauty of the Meeks Land board game me thinks!

Oooo Footloose just came on! Meeks Dance Party is back in action!

City of God's Delight

I figured I would start myself a blog seeing as I do nothing at work. I answer the phone that never rings and or mail letters that never come in- all in all the situation is looking pretty good for me and I am left with lots of spare time that I am getting paid 12 euro an hour to have!

I have been in Dublin for 4 months now. Looking back to when I first got here, i didnt think that being half way through this trip was even possible! It was a really hard transition to make- leaving all of my friends and family behind and moving across the ocean to start a new adventure with nothing by God and my best friend. I knew that God has called me here and I had spent the whole year working towards moving here, but yet when I got here I was miserable, homesick and terrible to be around. I didnt want to do anything but go home and the anger in me towards God for bringing me here was terrifying! I toughed it out though and somehow through venting and screaming my disapointment at God and friends coming over to kick me in the butt I made it through the first few months- to my relief and probably my best friend Jens who often had to listen to me vent and freak out!

So the trip is half over, and I have a house with my best friend, I go to church most sundays, I have an office job at a place called Crosscare that does social work, feeding schemes and drug abuse couselling all over Dublin, I work with an inner city kids club on Thomas street, I have kids in my neighborhood come over on saturdays to hang out and get loved on, and I always have sunday night dinner with Jen and Konrad (my favourite polish person in the world)! So even though I still get homesick, I think that alot has happened in 4 months, and I am really happy and I dont hate Dublin anymore! yay!

God has also done so much work in my heart! Even up to a month ago I was so angry and broken and I shut my heart of to just about everything, including God. God has brought so much healing to me though and really given me a passion to walk with Him rather than making it a chore. So much of my walk with God has been based on the fact that I have nothing to walk away too, so although I hate walking with Him there is nowhere else to go. But God has showed me just how good He really is. He is so faithful and I have nothing but testimony of His faithfulness and goodness. He is always there for His kids. I love Him more than I ever have and want to do nothing but bring Glory to His name. To serve and love the way He first loved us. God is the last person I think about before falling asleep and the first person I wake up to in the morning- that is the desire of my heart.

So with all that in mind, I am loving my time here and finally relaxing and enjoying it! I have a big heart for Dublin and my heart breaks for the children here more and more everyday. I am falling head over heels in love with Jesus and I have never been more myself.