January 10, 2006

• I hate to admit to you that I was seasick. Yeah, that sounds very wussy. What is even worse is to admit that now, a day and a half after being on ‘terra firma’, I am still seasick. We went on a cruise to Catalina and then dipped our toes in Mexico at Ensenada.

  
  

  My Daddy got to come join us in California on New Years day and we left on Monday. Cruises seem to be mostly about eating and drinking. We cut out the drinking part, although I did sip the free champagne (nasty stuff), whiskey sour (which tasted fine until it played ‘Bingo’ in my stomach), and martini (it must have been stirred, not shaken, because I declare the stuff is only nail polish remover with an olive in it) just to say I did it. But as for the eating part…wow. And it is all free, darn it. The only disappointment I had was that Internet was $.75 a minute (I had enough money for 4 minutes) so I couldn’t write and tell you all about the joys of getting fat.

  
  

  I cannot wrap my mind around the ocean. The idea is too big. There is too much of it. Then up comes a piece of land covered with life meeting with the crisp sky. Standing at the bow of the ship, the wind fighting me back, watching the sun dance on the waves…up and down, and up and down…forget seasickness. It is worth it. Watching the sun rise and set from my bed. Being rocked to sleep…yeah, there is a lot more than just food on a cruise. Very amazing. I even beat my dad at ping-pong, danced the “cha-cha” around the restaurant with my brother, and watched a guy feed pigeons off his baldhead, used the nickel slot machine, ate pizza at midnight with Anna, and consumed about three whole pineapples during the trip.

  
  

  So now we came back to rest from our relaxing cruiseJ.

  
  

  Random. I still like popping bubble wrap. And it still bothers Anna—unless she gets to pop it too. “Sus” is a British expression for “I figured it out.” I learned that on the “Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy” (not the movie…the radio version). And as cool as all that stuff is…it does not matter how many galaxies you go to if there is no God.

  
  

  Am I who I am because of my surroundings? Do I change because of circumstance or because of conviction? From convenience or from challenge? Now that everything around me is different, I find it easy to blend into the difference. Is it because I am flexible or because I do not know who I am? Is it because it is right or because it is easy?

  
  

  My verse for this year is Colossians 3:15. The whole chapter is amazing. “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be grateful (I gotta go on for ya) Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord…”

  
  

  Here’s a praise…ya know how someone stole $700 from my band account? Well, they recovered like half of it…praise God.

  
  

  I am hitting the ground running…back in Indy now…thanks for your prayers

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