...thanks...?

i'm in the art class at maranatha drawing with the students...

taline: colleen, you're really cool for a 27 year old.

colleen: (laughs)

ashley: she's 27??

taline: yeah! isn't she cool for that old?

80's teen adventuring

consideration

today i was going to just go nuts and have ice cream for lunch.
then i saw a block of tofu in the fridge and thought better of it.
then i had the ice cream.

aw.

i had a great time with the kids at maranatha today, especially visiting the art room at lunch (i was subbing for academic classes today) i was BEGGED by the students to come visit sometime soon and do some art work in the class..."colleen, come visit! you HAVE to!" i promised i would .
i just wanted to share something that made me really happy.

stuffed

i will never again take for granted being able to breathe with my nose.

sweet success

the chosen cookies this 

week started on a somewhat questionable note...

but they actually turned out quite good.
(evan said they were his favorite)

and everyone was happy.

cheers!

er...

i think i am one of the most awkward human beings who has ever lived. now, no one get all huffy about this, i have very good reason. just...just trust me. just this once.

uuuuhhhhhggg

laura and i got back this afternoon...our exhausted arrival being not far unlike the scenario below...


and as of this evening we're both stumbling around the apartment sniffling, sneezing and coughing. wasn't i already sick not even two weeks ago..?? we just rocked too hard this weekend, i guess.

before i collapse...

my ears are ringing, my wallet is empty, every joint aches, and somewhere in a vast trampled field lie my prescription glasses.

so ends a successful day 1 of coachella!

well...off to indio...
gonna be a busy few days...

*

i'm thinking i might just shrivel up from over-whelmed-ness. in
every very thing. really good, lovely things and bleeding impossibly painful things...my head, heart and body. oh to simply sleep for a good long week...!

ehh

i'm so sleepy. but i hate that i haven't posted anything since sunday.

stormy

back from a weekend of sweetness. a building up with my sisters in Christ... complete with singing new songs, conversations in life, and of course, pinecone contests.
tonight i asked that God would help me with work this week and minutes later the school called me needing a sub all day tomorrow. the wind is positively howling outside...

it's springtime

status

Taxes: RETURNED
Unemployment: FILED
Letters: WRITTEN

time to go sit in the sun.

drowsy

it's...raining? it sure looks wet outside under the streetlights...

another mild earthquake today...it woke me from what ended up being a very short nap.

easter was lovely, people are lovely, my family is lovely, music is lovely, Jesus is lovely.

and anxiety sucks. :[

newness

hopeful...

mourning...

anticipating...

excited...

scared...

wondering...

praying