Not of this world.

new Blog!

2010-04-30T03:37:00.001+09:00

I'm now a blogger betrayer. I've moved to this new address for my blogging. So please update accordingly (to the 1 person who actually reads this, anna):

http://airinowen.wordpress.com/

2010-03-25T21:20:00.002+09:00

Ah~ warmer weather. Well, a little bit warmer. I'm definitely enjoying the nice sun we're getting because I've gotten PALE. Chase and I have been going outside more instead of playing Xbox. I really enjoying walking around and snapping pics with him. :) I'm going to try to update this blog more with more than pics of JUST FOOD (looks at Anna).

2010-01-07T22:00:00.002+09:00

I see Your face in every sunrise
The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakens in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You’re beautiful

I see Your power in the moonlit night
Where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright
We are amazed in the light of the stars
It’s all proclaiming who You are
You’re beautiful, You're beautiful

I see you there hanging on a tree
You bled and then you died and then you rose again for me
Now you are sitting on Your heavenly throne
Soon we will be coming home
You’re beautiful, you're beautiful

When we arrive at eternity’s shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we’ll sing
You’re beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, I see Your face
I see Your face, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful

You're Beautiful by Phil Wickham

Twenty Ten~

2010-01-03T01:28:00.014+09:00

Happy New Year! It really seems like the years get faster as I get older. Haha, that makes me sound old, but whatever. We've been really blessed this past year, so it'll be interesting what God has in store for us this year. I haven't posted any pics from Christmas yet so here they are.

We stayed here at the Victorian Inn in Blowing Rock, NC for Christmas. It was Chase's surprise Christmas present to me (that and a REALLY nice straightening iron). We were to go up to the mountains for a white Christmas and ski. What we hadn't planned on was an ice storm. This was not one of those nice ones where everything is just slightly iced and beautiful. The power lines were down so none of the restaurants were open and we really had nothing to do in our room. There was already snow everywhere. But that snow turned into huge banks of ice.

We ventured outside to see the damage and of course for me to take pics! Hanging on the veranda were these "icicle" Christmas lights that had turned into real icicles.

The snow/ice was beautiful. You can see how deep it is by the Nativity scene behind the tree. Baby Jesus is covered in an embankment of snow.

We made our way cautiously down the mountain to get some supplies like card games and our Christmas dinner of Honey buns and olive oil Triscuits. This was a hilarious irony. We definitely did NOT need anymore ice at that point....

The next morning, the owners of the Bed and Breakfast came back from the holidays and served us this yummy breakfast. They heard about our ...different Christmas iced-in and took pity on us and we got another night's stay for FREE! (It's really expensive too. :D)

So we made a day of it, eating gourmet chocolates, looking at all the quaint stores in Blowing Rock. We ate lunch at a grille on the main street. I ate a BLT with fried green tomatoes. Totally unhealthy but totally delicious. This is the hubby at the grille looking quite dapper in his flannel.

We went to one of the B &B owner's wine store for a free wine tasting~! We got to learn more about wine and sample a few. It was fun.

I'm glad God gave us this blessing of getting to hang out in Blowing Rock. It really made up for being stuck inside, but 2009's Christmas was definitely memorable. Thank you Baby! I also found out that I don't want to live in cold, icy places. ;p

This was our fireplace for Christmas. Since we were gone for most of the holiday, we didn't decorate the house too much.

For New Years we stayed in and I made a roasted spatchcocked chicken. To spatchcock basically means taking out the spine and laying it flat. It cuts the time in half for cooking. I took some herb butter and stuck it under the skin before cooking it. It was delicious.

This is the Guiness Stout Chocolate cake. It was one of the best chocolate cakes I've ever had/made in my life. It was covered in chocolate whipped cream yumminess.

This was breakfast on New Years morning. Skirt steak rubbed in chili powder with tomato, corn, and jalepeno salad. Also pretty freaking delicious.

I'll post a pic of my new hair later. I dyed my bangs hot pink and cut them. God bless you guys!

Another Hisashiburi post~!

2009-12-30T21:11:00.009+09:00

We were married on November 7~! The weather was absolutely gorgeous and we were totally blessed by our family, friends, and guests. :D

After our honeymoon in Tokyo and Hakone, Japan, we quickly went back to Okinawa to pack my things and say our good-byes to peeps... This is about half of all the food I sent to the states. I could seriously open a store with all the Jp foods I have.

We're keeping busy here and trying to get plugged in as much as possible at church. Chase is teaching a grappling class on Sundays at noon. It's called "Grappling with the Word." They do that then a bible study that relates with the moves they've learned. I sit back with my coffee and do my readings in Systematic Theology while they're doing their thing.

The Women of CCJacksonville put together a Christmas Tea. It was a really awesome time of snacking, crafts, chatting, and a really good message. :D

I've been cooking a LOT. I get bored pretty easily with food so I've been experimenting with all sorts of food. The first one was a beef roast that I had braised pretty much all day. Behind it is a challah bread and in the front Parmesan garlic potatoes. I think my favorite in that meal was the potatoes. The picture underneath is a lox (smoked salmon) salad with a nice balsamic vinaigrette. I love salmon. <3

We're getting settled in nicely in Wilmington (NC). I'll leave you this sign (above). Does anyone know what's wrong with it? God bless you guys and Happy New Years!

Hisashiburi post!

2009-10-23T01:41:00.015+09:00

Phew! Hisashiburi dane? I've been quite busy these past couple of months. God has definitely outdone any expectations I've ever had and has blessed me quite profusely. :D A quick update is in order, huh?

First off, I visited my then boyfriend a couple of months ago and now I'm engaged to a wonderful man of God! That's my ring on top of my piano, btw. :)

Then, the chickas threw me a bachelorette party. There was games, gifts, kareoke, and so much laughing! It was one of the best parties thrown for me. I love them. ^.^ Aaaand, yes. I am wearing a teal grass skirt over my jeans.

This afternoon, my mom, Anna, and I went to the restaurant "Daikon no Hana" for lunch before going down to Itoman to see my obaa-chan. Daikon no Hana is an all you can eat organic place. Even after totally pigging out until you can't eat anymore, you really don't feel guilty because... it's organic? The food was delicious and I totally love the decor. It's kinda Wafu (Japanese) circa Meiji era. I think it's more of an adult place unless your kids dig eating organic foods (AKA mostly veggies). Definitely hitting this place up again.

Afterwords, we went to a couple of beaches where I tested out the new lens the fiance graciously gifted me with.

After the sun set, we saw a sign for a cafe so we explored. It was probably one of the best views from a cafe. My only qualm with the place was that the windows were open and I was definitely getting eaten. Everyone else was safe though (as long as I was around). Cafe au lait was good though.

VBS Week

2009-08-04T19:18:00.004+09:00

We had VBS this past week. I got to hang out with the peeps from CC Montebello. I'll post pics from that later. For now enjoy the video.

And a lot of people got sick this week, including me and Anna. I pimped out her mask with an Autobots symbol.

Of Beach Baptisms, Tomas, and Cheesecake

2009-07-21T19:16:00.011+09:00

On Saturday, God blessed us with some really awesome weather with a breeze. I, with a lot of the members of the Harbor, joined together for some beach, bbq, baptisms, and bonfire.

Absolutely gorgeous beach near Torii. We had some wicked waves that day.

Here's Mark with the seven that were baptized that day, including his cute daughter Zoey.

This is my friend, Janae, getting baptized. Praise God! (she had to keep holding Mark's hand because those waves were throwing her off balance)

A silhouette of Tara. I like this picture. :)

On Monday, since it was Umi no Hi (Or Beach/Ocean Day) and most Japanese were off from work, the Tomas invited us and the Konnos over to their house for dinner. Here Yoshi-san is explaining to Roy-san how hand-eye coordination improves the capacity of the frontal lobe of your brain. Deep stuffs.

We had dinner and for dessert my dad bought a Sara Lee pound cake and I made french cheesecake. Usually I'm not a fan of baked cheesecake, but this one was fluffy and creamy and mmmm.... makes my mouth water thinking about it.

After dinner everyone minus Joseph, Halleluyah, and Me played Mexican Train, a dominoes game.

While everyone else was playing their game... we played some Wii. Here's Halleluyah picking on Joseph. J/k. Actually Joseph smoked us in everything except Smash Bros. Brawl (I smoked them) and Mario Party 8 (Halle. won). It was definitely good times with good friends. :D

Psalms 34:3 (KJV)

O magnify the LORD with me,

and let us exalt his name together.

I shot a yamori.

2009-07-16T19:12:00.007+09:00

So I take a million pics a day... I've been having this ongoing battle with this yamori (sci. name: Hemidactylus frenatus, common name: House Gekko) for quite some time now. I'd want to take a picture of it and then when I'd go to a) get my camera or b) switch lenses out.... he'd run away! It was so frustrating. Finally today he was in the corner and had relatively no where to run. Muahaha!

I think I'll name him Hemi. He hangs out in our room quite a bit. Doesn't really bother me too much.

He's about the length of my index finger. Maybe...3.5-4 inches?

He got really annoyed when I started using the flash at point blank of his face. He decided that it really was worth-while to run away. He ran away in zig-zags. I think I may have blinded him a little?

Psalms 104: 24-25
How many are your works, O LORD!
In wisdom you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.

There is the sea, vast and spacious,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.

Wednesday night~

2009-07-15T22:20:00.005+09:00

We came down to eat to a line of plates. Worship teamed is loved. ^.^

I LOVE taking pics of the sky here in Okinawa. The clouds are awesome and the sky is crystal clear blue!

This is a view from the worship leader's mic. I thank Him for me being able to be on worship team. We have too much fun. You have NO idea. <(^.^)>

I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart

I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about You,
It's all about You, Jesus
I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing I've made it
When it's all about You,
It's all about You, Jesus

New lens

2009-07-12T16:41:00.007+09:00

ただいま～！
I haven't updated on the blog recently and I've had some complaints about it (actually maybe one each from the boy and sister). So, I thought it was time to update. I bought a brand new lens for my xsi. It's the 50mm. I love the thing to pieces. It really takes some quality pics (not me, the lens. I'm really not that good at taking pics). ^.^ See for yourself~

I told Anna and Kiara that I would name this pic "同い年" (same age) because they're the same age and Anna is a giant compared to Kiara.

I think the plant got watered enough today...

That's a raindrop that exploded and is now extra-hardcore with spikes.

Pastor Rick telling his fish story. My mom looks skeptical. (Actually I have no idea what they were talking about. Lol.)

And finally a self-portrait. Lol, you can see my freckles. >.<

I'll probably be posting more pics soon. More than likely food pics.... Hey, food doesn't complain about the angle the pics are taken from or that it looks fat.

A surprise and 20 cloves chicken~!

2009-05-30T16:48:00.005+09:00

It's been a good day thus far. I love Saturdays. Normally there isn't a bagillion things to do and I can get a little more rest than on the weekdays (which is SO needed). It was nice going to worship practice, hisashiburini. I especially enjoyed the drive over there in my new red sports car, which my friend gave to me for FREE. Thanks God! Last night after the Harbor, I came home and there was a plastic bag on the door handle. I thought to myself "Hmm... this could either be really bad (poop) or good?" So I opened it and to my surprise I found these:

That is a bag of origami cranes (and the faces behind it are me and my sister's emo-ji onigiris). I was having a hectic time at work on Friday. There were a million things to do and I didn't have nearly as much energy as I would have liked. During the day, the coordinator for the Asian American Pacific Heritage month thingee at our school asked me for some Japanese things for a table. As the room I'm in is not really mine, nor is the stuff in it mine, I was hesitant. So I asked a couple of my students to make some origami real quick so that I could give them to that teacher. The celebration was a success (and I got to eat a WHOLE bunch of Filipino food, yay!) and it was over with so I didn't have to worry about it anymore. I have a student who lives next door and I guess he overheard me talking about the origami. So when he went home, he and his brother made a BUNCH of cranes for me. I just about cried. God has an interesting way of making me feel like a complete idiot for being a cranky jerk to my students. Thank you God for humbling me.

Today I felt really ambitious after watching cooking shows and going to Mihama to get a cookbook. So I made 20 cloves of garlic chicken! Recipe:

It really reminded me of my Thanksgiving Turkey recipe though after eating it. It was just... okay. I gave my brother a piece (along with the veggies I made) and he said that it was "Awesome" and "Umai". If it has Henry's vote, I guess it's aiight.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/content/videolibrary/index.cfm?cm_type=gnav

20 cloves garlic chicken with diced potatoes, tomatoes, onion, broccoli saute. I'm practicing for my future husband~! :P

Avocado Burger?

2009-05-27T17:26:00.003+09:00

Today was a pretty good day at work. I got a lot accomplished. Gave the kiddies quizzes, made up a project that they have to present to the class, and took them to the library. All in all a good day. In my random free time I perused the top 20 recipes on Allrecipes.com and found this recipe for Guacamole. It turned out okay.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Guacamole/Detail.aspx
I decided that I was too lazy to make tortillas and instead made an avocado burger. Avocado burger= wheat buns+ mozzarella+ beef pattie+ romaine lettuce+ guacamole. It was really filling and I guess kinda healthy?

Woah! I'm updating!

2009-03-01T19:41:00.005+09:00

I thought the next time I would update would be on my new laptop, but unfortunately... Aafes SUCKS. Anyways, hmm.... what should I make you read about? I've been working a lot lately which makes me extremely tired (substitute teachers really get to see the worst of kids). But it's okay, my job is extremely gratifying and I love it. I recently went on a trip over Valentine's/Presidents' Day weekend to an Island called Izena which is off the main island of Okinawa. It was too much fun. Our crew met up with an awesome Swedish missionary named Karl and his family. It was a great time of fellowship and definitely a much needed get away for me. On our last day five of us tried to go to a smaller island called Iheya to deliver Bibles. We boarded a small fishing vessel and were rocked by the massive waves. You may think that I'm exaggerating "massive" but I kid you not we almost capsized. I really hated the ferry ride on the way to Izena, but that small boatride was increda-fun! I think it's because the ferry is much larger so it makes me feel like I'm on an airplane (I'm aviophobic). Anyways, here's some pics!

Organic bread from La Mer cafe that's right around the corner from our new house.

Soup and Salad from the La Mer lunch buffet.
Salad: Poke!
Soup: ...Stop it!

This is basically a video of how freaked out I am on our way to Izena Island. So freaked out in fact, I say "But that's okay." ....twice. Do I _really_ sound like that?

This past week~+ Happy Thanksgiving~!!!!

2008-11-28T00:08:00.014+09:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
What are you most thankful for this Thanksgiving??? Hmm... I'd have to say firstly, God. He's awesome and always there for me even though I'm not always there for Him. Even so, He's helping me become a better person every day. So, hopefully I can be of more use to Him more and more each year! :)
Second, my family. They're always there ...because I live with them! Lol, jk jk. Seriously though, I'm definitely thoroughly blessed by my family. We may not always see eye-to-eye but in the end, God's growing us all.
Third my friends and especially my bros and sisters in Christ. Thank you to you all!!! Wow... doesn't this sound like an acceptance speech? Lol, I need to stop with the mushies and on to what I've been up to, huh? :P

It was my brother's birthday on the 17th. Our family has a tradition that the bday person gets to pick whatever they want to eat the entire day and then for dindin, we all eat dinner together at their restaurant of choice. Henry wanted Chili's so we went there. He ate a sirloin steak. Doesn't he look totally pleased with himself?

This is what I ate. It was Chicken Club Fajitas I think. They were okay, I guess.

This is the family (minus me... I'm taking the pic) singing happy bday. All the kids pick Baskin Robbin's ice cream cake for their bdays. Tasty~! Do you see what looks to be a Christmas present in the back? Yeah, that's his bday present. We just ran out (or never buy) Birthday wrapping paper, so we used Christmas wrapping paper instead. Are we the only ones who do this? hmmm....

Last Friday was the Jp Women's Thanksgiving edition Fellowship. On the way there there was a lamp post that cast a curious shadow in the shape of a cross. Thankfully I had my camera with me. You kinda have to wonder how many people would actually notice something like this? I think God blessed us with something cool on the way there because we were tired in order to encourage us! ^.^

I made the turkey for the Jp Women's Fellowship. I tried a new turkey marinade recipe the night before and it turned out to be AWESOME! The turkey was so juicy and succulent! I was really worried because I wanted everyone to enjoy the turkey. But, I think I'll be using this recipe for many Thanksgivings to come!

This is a pic of the Fellowship hall with all the peeps from the Jp Women's fellowship and the Girls' Bible Study.

Basically same thing, different angle. We had a glorious time the Jp Women's Fellowship~! Since we didn't have to worry about the parking, some of us stayed late and ended up leaving around 11. Good times~

That night Kiara spent the night and the following evening we went on base to skateboard. The first place we went wasn't ideal. It was on a huge incline so you'd go faster than you'd want to... very very quickly. We searched for another place and for about an hour couldn't find one. Then we "happened" upon a brand new, freshly paved parking lot with NO cars. It was funny because we were looking for Ryukyu Middle School, but for the life of me, I couldn't find it even though I drive past it almost every day. We were all in agreement that God blessed us with probably the best place to skate on base. Isn't He awesome?!? Anyways this is Kiara lookin' awesome while skating.

This is Anna looking awesome on her skateboard. I was having a lot of fun taking pics. Of course I played around on my longboard too. I'm getting a lot better. Ie: Not falling as much. :P

The next day Halleluyah came over to hang out for a bit. So we decided to go on base and skate again~. Of course, I brought my camera to take more pics. This is all of us and our Daigo (the celebrity grandson of ex-Prime Minister Daigo) ウイッシュ[uisshu] pose.

This is our "gangsta" pose. Yeah, we're all Japanese who grew up in Japan, so it's a little sad. I'm trying to rep LA and failing so miserably. I apologize to anyone from California in advance. (T_T)

This last skate pic is awesome in the fact that... well, look at Halleluyah!!! Man, I wish I had that kind of balance and upper body strength to do a handstand on a SKATEBOARD!!! ...Okay, so we took a few pics of ourselves. I'm pretty sure if someone was watching us (as creepy as that would be) they'd be SO amused at us.

OK. I think that's enough posting for now. I'm REALLY sleepy. I'll probably edit some of the videos and pics that I took on Thanksgiving... later today. Breaks always go so fast! Be safe out there on Black Friday's crazy shopping and for those of you in a different time zone from me, stay safe on Thanksgiving~! I'll now leave you with a daily verse from Christnotes.org! God bless~!

Whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:8-9
New King James Version

Random quiz thingee instead of studying for my exams.

2008-11-25T12:42:00.003+09:00

I'm totally procrastinating having to do all of my school work. I'll post some pics later because I'll have to edit them before posting them and that takes a little time. Time that I don't have right now... (T.T) When will I learn not to procrastinate my schoolwork?!?!?!?

6 Random Facts

1. My favorite food is unagi.
2. I was born in Yokota AB.
3. I'm double jointed in my fingers and can pop my thumbs out of socket. (Isn't that two facts???? ....hm....
4. I'm an avid anime-r/gamer.
5. I love to skateboard but am not that good at it.
6. I've only been in Okinawa for a year.

5/5 Lists (I had no idea what else to call this)

10 Years Ago:
1. I was 11.
2. I was one of the "popular" girls in my class. (heh).
3. It was 1998.
4. I hated Nsync and Backstreet boys while everyone else loved them.
5. I really didn't know what anime was. (gasps!)

5 Things on Today's "To Do" List
1. Make more coffee.
2. Go to class early.
3. Take my Mid-term exam for my business class.
4. Take my "mini-test" for my upper level compy class.
5. Do some JP Lang studying

5 Things that I would do if I were a millionaire:
1. Go to any college that I want to.
2. Buy my parents a house.
3. Travel the world.
4. Pay for my sister's college.
5. Give 75% of my moneys to missionaries who need my moneys more than I do.

5 Places I have lived:
1. Berlin, Germany.
2. Enid, OK
3. Marysville, CA.
4. Tokyo, Japan
5. Moore, OK

5 Jobs I have had:
1. Lawn cutter
2. Baby sitter (that was VERY infrequent. I REALLY don't like babysitting)
3. Waitress at a pie/country resteraunt
4. English teacher
5. Video rental store staff person

My random goings-on

2008-11-15T20:39:00.007+09:00

Here are my random goings-on~:

This is at the Japanese Women's Fellowship from October. Lisa and I won the "who can remember all of the names from last month's meeting?" game. So here's us holding our prizes. I guess Mariko wins too since she's got the Word of God. :)

This is a lovely plate of my very awesome gyouza. It's crunchy on the outside and juicy on the inside. Yummy~!

This is the sunrise from on top of our house. I like to imagine God just kind of brushstroking the clouds in...

A beautiful hibiscus from the garden in our front lawn right after it rained.

Anna and Cassandra goofin' off at Dragon Palace in Mihama during Cassandra's bday party. I forgot where everyone else was when I took this... hmm...

This is one of my favorite purikura (sticky pics) that we took. I decorated it. :) And does anyone know where Cassandra is?

As you can see, I pretty much do a lot of stuffs. Right now I'm super busy with school. Both of my classes are upper level. Which, of course, means lots and lots of papers to write. Blah. Keep me in your prayers as I consider the Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa. They've got a Japanese majors program that I really want to partake in. However, as most of you know, the cost of living in Hawaii is crazy. So, I guess we'll see what God does with it, eh? :) He never fails to astound me with something awesome. I'll leave you with a daily verse from Christnotes.org:

Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You!
Psalm 119:11 (Read all of Psalm 119)
New King James Version

Sometimes when people come to our house, we like to hit them in the face...

2008-11-06T12:19:00.004+09:00

Actually we only like to hit them in the face on Wii boxing! :P One of my favorite things to do when we have company over is to bust out some of my Nintendo Wii games. The favored game is Wii Sports because relatively anyone can play it (for the most part) without any real skill. However, if you want to play Smash Bros., please bring your A-game because my Pikachu dominates. :D Here's a clip of some peeps who came over to play (Wii Boxing). It took me a while because the file has to be less than 100 MB to upload. So after editing and editing now the video quality isn't as good as I had originally had hoped. Oh well~!

What I've been up to lately (pt2)

2008-10-18T01:25:00.017+09:00

So apparently I'm only allowed to post so much? Oh well, TO CONTINUE!!!

This is Hanna-chan and Anna looking like total kankoukyakus (tourists) at Mihama. It was late and people were giving us weird looks. But if you don't know, that's old style Okinawan wear.

Here's me on this one Jp dude's bike... I forgot his name, but he had a sick bike. :P

Here's Jai and I playing the taiko drum game at an amusement game ...place... when I went to go spend the night/hang out at CC Ginowan Bible College.

Here's my little Mister Doughnut "set" that I had today. (Ahhh... one of the many reasons for me being so chubs....) Anna and I went to go shopping at the Max Value mini mall in Yomitan. I got some super cute hot pink headphones for the Ipod nano that I'm ordering... tomorr- well I guess today? I'll post pics of that later.

Later this evening we went to the Youth Xtra that we had at Wago Family Fun Land. I drove our van which was full of High School boys... that was ....well, it was interesting. Anyways, this jar of kitkats was in a drink vending machine. The jar was actually made of glass, so I took a pic of it.

Here's me taking a pic of Maria when she's taking a pic of me... or is it the other way around? We're in a kareoke box in Wago Family Funland. I have some pics of peeps in this box singing Disney songs, ...but they were too funny to post! Sorry~!

Here's Katie-san and Kiara engaged in a ping pong death match. Not really. Actually the game between Me vs. Kiara+Anna was more of a death match except that I totally killed them 20-7. Heh. :D The preteens have much to learn in the way of the table tennis.

This is Anna and Kiara singing more J-pop Boy band (yuck!) kareoke. Kiara wouldn't let me take pics of her face this time.... sad..

Anna and I singing a duet and being dorky as ever.

When I got home from all the excitement I found this cute guy on my car. I love them.
So, as you can see, I pretty much keep myself really busy. But I guess that's good. Otherwise I'd be LAZY. You can ask my mom, she'd totally vouch. I leave you with another daily verse~! Oyasumi~!

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
James 1:21

What I've been up to lately

2008-10-18T00:54:00.009+09:00

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been SUPER busy with work and and church and well, life? But I have brought a million photoshopped pics with me~!

Kiara slept over so the three of us headed over to Big Echo in Mihama to do some kareoke! I'm always one for competition, so we made interesting Batsu game. In our Batsu game each person had to pick a song (one round english two rounds japanese) for a person to sing (we determined who by clockwise, counterclockwise, etc.) and whoever got the lowest points on their song for that round (the kareoke machine decides how well you sing with points of course) had to drink the Batsu game drink. We had a all you can drink soft drink bar for free so we got creative. We ended up with this:

It was a mix of coffee, ketchup, hot water, ginger ale, orange drink, green tea, syrup, and dairy creamer. Yeah, ew, right? Kiara had to drink this for the second round. We each ended up drinking one.

This pic is when Hanna-chan was staying at our house and we were being random. If you can't tell, we're using our hair to make mustaches. :P

This is one of the beaches we went to with Hanna-chan. Okinawa=totally beautiful~!

This was also at that beach. Anna found what has to be the tiniest hermit crab I've ever seen. It was so small that the *wind* kept blowing it off her hand!

I almost tripped over this while looking for seaglass. It totally freaked me out. I think I squeaked and jumped up about a foot in the air, but that's enough about me. It wasn't dead for too long so it looked like it was just hanging out on the sand.

I was debating whether or not to upload this one because I look TOTALLY CHUBS! Anyways, it's a good pic because we had an awesome time hanging out with Hanna-chan and the Longoria sisters. We had some UEBER food at their house (of which I totally should've gotten a pic of!), played Wii, and ate snacks until we were too sleepy.

Sunday Funday!

2008-09-29T22:21:00.012+09:00

Can you tell that I couldn't think of a title? Lol, anyways. Yesterday I went to church super early so that I could serve in our church's wonderful worship team. I had a blast as per usual hanging out with my peeps at church and just praising and learning more about our gnarly God. After church I got to hang out with cool Hanna-chan. I asked her what she'd like to see and she just kind of shrugged and said everything. First we started with food...
I took her to my favorite Okinawa soba-ya on island. It's called Umi-ga-mieru-soba-ya (Soba restaurant where you can see the ocean-very specific ne?). Hungry yet? The owner's are super sweet which makes the visit even better~!Here's Hanna-chan eating the soba. After that we walked along the seawall to look at the beautiful waves that the typhoon was creating. I looked at them and made a comment that maybe I'd appreciate them even more if I was a surfer. Hanna pointed out how close the waves were to the breakers. I probably get really hurt trying to do that. :(Afterwards we went to Mihama or American Village to do the stereotypical girl pastime of SHOPPING. But first we wanted to ride the ferris wheel.
This was our car, number 14. While waiting to get on I asked Hana:
"Hey, do you think that there's airconditioning in there? I know the one in Odaiba has airconditioning in it... so maybe this one does too?" It was really hot outside.

So we get on....Airconditioning?

Inside we look around and find one paper/plastic fan..... attatched to a string. We totally cracked up.

That's one of the views from the ferris wheel. I'll upload the video I took tomorrow when I have a little more time. The arrow is pointing at my tiny toy car.
Next we went to Quickly's to get some Honey Milk Tea with Tapioca Pearls. We got it for free because I had two filled up point cards. :)
After a lot of shopping and some Starbucks, we went to Calvary Chapel Ginowan for their evening service or W2. For some reason this picture ended up super blurry... Anywho, these gals are totally great and on fire for God. I'm really looking forward to hanging out with them some more in the future~!
Well, I think that's it for me tonight. I need to get a little shut-eye before work otherwise I'm going to be cranky. Tomorrow I'm going to have to blog again because I must tell the world of the fun time Anna and I had today. :P I shall leave you with a verse for now, Oyasumi~~~~! <3 id="dbv-content">The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them. Psalm 145:18-19

JP Women's Fellowship & Guitar Shopping

2008-09-27T21:32:00.000+09:00

Yesterday was our monthly JP Women's Fellowship. I went for the first time last month (I'm not sure if it was the first time it was held... or not) and was totally *stoked* to get to hang out with my sisters in Christ again. As always we had fun eating, singing, playing games, some sort of devotion and of course fellowship. :) Kirei na Kristy-san shared her testimony and got to pray over one of the lovely women who wanted to know more about God.

Here are the awesome McCord sisters which, of course, are Anna and myself. (Please excuse my not-wearing-make-up-ness. >.<) Today after worship practice I picked up Anna from the house and we went looking for a guitar for her out around gate 2 street of Kadena. We had too much fun people watching and looking at guitar and piano stuffs. Afterwards we went to the Baskin Robbins for some much needed ice cream. And of course, we got the new fall gigantic sundaes because.... that's how we roll. We both ordered the Chocolat Framboise (Chocolate Raspberry). I'm totally supposed to be on a diet but I will tell you that it was utterly WORTH it. :P
Yeah, I just pulled this pic from the JP Baskin Robbin's site. It was definitely a blessing. Anywho, Anna found a guitar she really liked but she's going to check Camp Foster's music store and pray before buying it.

Well, I need to iron my church clothes and get ready for bed now. I'll leave you with this daily verse from Christnotes.com. Until next time God bless~!

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."

Psalm 91:1-2

Hallo.

2008-09-27T18:06:00.000+09:00

Hallo peeps~!

I decided to make a new blog since I really haven't had one since.... high school? I'll be posting the random things I do from day to day. Usually my posts will include a picture of some kind. Thanks for reading. God bless~!