hmm superbowl

So i spent my time over at my friend mike and anna's for super bowl. Fun times. Until my friend tim came back and shared that at work that same day he tried to rescue one of his workers all the way in the cranes from death. the guy just fell over and stopped breathing. tim tried to do cpr for like 25 minutes but now the man is in icu not breathing on his own and think he is brain dead. i guess they might pull the plug. kinda a sad day... sigh..

eek.

do not agree with all of this but that first paragraph freaks me out.


An Ultimate Judgment

Consider this. In Scripture, one of the ways that a nation was judged by the Lord was to give them immature leadership. Obama is the most inexperienced Presidential candidate in history. He has proven so indecisive that while a state senator he voted “Present” over 140 times instead of taking a position on a bill. He has never authored even one piece of significant legislation, and yet, as has been pointed out, he had time to author two autobiographies. He has never been the chief executive of anything. The White House is not the place for on-the-job training in leadership. It is truly remarkable that Obama was nominated, and I am personally very encouraged that our nation would vote for an African American man to be our President. However, if we vote such inexperience into office during such a crisis, we are under judgment as a nation.

Does that mean that I would give up on America? Never. As I have also shared in previous Bulletins, even the judgment of God is an indication that He has not given up on us, but He disciplines His own. Several kinds of judgment are in Scripture, and only one of them is condemnation. All of the others are discipline from the Lord, and He disciplines those whom He loves.

Neither would I give up on Obama, but as I said, I will be earnestly praying for him and do all I can to support and honor our President. I will be earnestly praying for the Lord to give him wisdom. However, I will be preparing for what I believe will have signaled a much worse economic crisis than we are now in. I also will see this as a clear turn down the path toward great times of trouble, and therefore will be devoted to preparing for them.

Barak Vs Palin.

Everyone and their mother has a celebrity crush on Obama and criticizes Sarah Palin and her lack of experience. I agree...she doesn't have the most experience in the world but does Obama???? Hardly. If I have to choose between a president that has little to no experience vs a vice pres that has the same amount if not more experience, I choose the latter. I'm so sick of my generation falling prey to Obama and his charismatic speeches, handsome features and captivating presence. Does NOT make a good president. Sick of my generation with zero knowledge of the facts and likes him because Oprah and George Clooney said so. Grow up people. LEARN STUDY READ your facts! Not from CNN or MSNBC that obviously has an agenda to promote Obama. This is one of the most important elections of our time. Make the right choice not based on how 'awesome' you think someone is but what they are going to change in our messed up country. Will we be better off in 4 yrs. with a president that is not qualified, no foreign policy experience? Doubtful. I am not a die hard republican. Far far from it. I'd say I swing closer to the left side, but in the case of my country in the state it is in to vote and elect someone with no experience but is a great speaker? Good lord... this below is written by a man from London not even from our country and this is what he writes. Here are the facts


Political experience

Obama: Worked his way to the top by cultivating, pandering to and stroking the most powerful interest groups in the all-pervasive Chicago political machine, ensuring his views were aligned with the power brokers there.

Palin: Worked her way to the top by challenging, attacking and actively undermining the Republican party establishment in her native Alaska. She ran against incumbent Republicans as a candidate willing and able to clean the Augean Stables of her state's government.

Political Biography

Obama: A classic, if unusually talented, greasy-pole climber. Held a succession of jobs that constitute the standard route to the top in his party's internal politics: "community organizer", law professor, state senator.

Palin:A woman with a wide range of interests in a well-variegated life. Held a succession of jobs - sports journalist, commercial fisherwoman, state oil and gas commissioner, before entering local politics. A resume that suggests something other than burning political ambition from the cradle but rather the sort of experience that enables her to understand the concerns of most Americans..


Political history

Obama: Elected to statewide office only after a disastrous first run for a congressional seat and after his Republican opponent was exposed in a sexual scandal. Won seat eventually in contest against a candidate who didn't even live in the state.


Palin: Elected to statewide office by challenging a long-serving Republican incumbent governor despite intense opposition from the party.


Appeal

Obama: A very attractive speaker whose celebrity has been compared to that of Britney Spears and who sends thrills up Chris Matthews' leg

Palin: A very attractive woman, much better-looking than Britney Spears who speaks rather well too. She sends thrills up the leg of Rush Limbaugh (and me).

Executive experience

Obama: Makes executive decisions every day that affect the lives of his campaign staff and a vast crowd of traveling journalists

Palin:Makes executive decisions every day that affect the lives of 500,000 people in her state, and that impact crucial issues of national economic interest such as the supply and cost of energy to the United States.

Religious influences

Obama: Regards people who "cling" to religion and guns as "bitter" . Spent 20 years being mentored and led spiritually by a man who proclaimed "God damn America" from his pulpit. Mysteriously, this mentor completely disappeared from public sight about four months ago.

Palin: Head of her high school Fellowship of Christian Athletes and for many years a member of the Assemblies of God congregation whose preachers have never been known to accuse the United States of deliberately spreading the AIDS virus. They remain in full public sight and can be seen every Sunday in churches across Alaska. A proud gun owner who has been known to cling only to the carcasses of dead caribou felled by her own aim.


Record of bipartisan achievement

Obama: Speaks movingly of the bipartisanship needed to end the destructive politics of "Red America" and "Blue America", but votes in the Senate as a down-the-line Democrat, with one of the most liberal voting records in congress.

Palin: Ridiculed by liberals such as John Kerry as a crazed, barely human, Dick Cheney-type conservative but worked wit Democrats in the state legislature to secure landmark anti-corruption legislation.

Former state Rep. Ethan Berkowitz - a Democrat - said. "Gov. Palin has made her name fighting corruption within her own party, and I was honored when she stepped across party lines and asked me to co-author her ethics white paper."


On Human Life

Obama: Devoutly pro-choice. Voted against a bill in the Illinois state senate that would have required doctors to save the lives of babies who survived abortion procedures. The implication of this position is that babies born prematurely during abortions would be left alone, unnourished and unmedicated, until they died.

Palin: Devoutly pro-life. Exercised the choice proclaimed by liberals to bring to full term a baby that had been diagnosed in utero with Down Syndrome.

Now it's true there are other crucial differences. Sen Obama has appeared on Meet The Press every other week for the last four years. He has been the subject of hundreds of adoring articles in papers and newsweeklies and TV shows and has written two Emmy-award winning books.

Gov Palin has never appeared on Meet the Press, never been on the cover of Newsweek. She presumably feels that, as a mother of five children married to a snowmobile champion, who also happens to be the first woman and the youngest person ever to be elected governor of her state, she has not really done enough yet to merit an autobiography.

Then again, I'm willing to bet that if she had authored The Grapes of Wrath, sung like Edith Piaf and composed La Traviata , she still wouldn't have won an Emmy.

Fortunately, it will be up to the American people and not their self-appointed leaders in Hollywood and New York to determine who really has the better experience to be president.

Gerard Baker is US Editor and Assistant Editor of The Times of London. Email: gerard.baker@thetimes.co.uk

i want bubble tea

i have a huge craving for bubble tea and i don't know how to take this craving away at the moment. I'm not in taiwan and i have found out that anywhere else you drink bubble tea just kinda sucks.

pain?

I'm in Issaquah. Living with a girl I don't know. Working in a new job. What the heck? How did I get here? It's funny where life takes you. Last year I would've thought I'd still be in Philly, but life brought me home and now here. The roads of the past year have been rough. Safe to say lots of pain.

But I think pain is good. I was watching the discovery channel the other day (I LOOOVE that channel. Don't knock it.) and it was all about the human body and they focused on pain. It was so interesting how important pain is (physically AND emotionally).

Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience..." and that pain is "part of the body's defense system, triggering mental and physical behavior to end the painful experience. It promotes learning so that repetition of the painful situation will be less likely."

I realize that they are talking about physically pain BUT! Shouldn't this be true for emotional pain? I think for so long I've had pain and tried to numb it, avoid it, cover it up and let it destroy me INSTEAD of allowing the pain to do its TRUE job and let it promote LEARNING so that the painful situation will be less likely. Brilliant. So from seeing it from a new perspective (I love new perspectives don't you?) it changes everything. But pain hurts. It's just a fact... but I guess it's a fact I'll finally accept as truth this go round. It means I have to get messy. It means I have to hurt, to open up and let people back in and thats hard.

Embracing the pain. Embracing the fact that last year was shitty. Embracing everything that hurt me and letting pain do it's job. So no more self pity. No more covering things up and being numb but letting it all go...even if its ugly because if I can allow myself to open up about all the things that have truly happened last year (that no one knows about) maybe...just maybe the healing begins.

Everything was stolen...

so this birthday was crappy. I woke up this morning and went to my car and something was wrong...I thought maybe my dad had driven it since the seat was far back. Then I noticed my navigational system was gone. I think it started to hit me... CRAP. Someone in the middle of the night came in took my camera, my 2 ipods, and my navigational system. AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. My mom said she wished she could hang the guys by their balls and shoot them with a gun. Atta girl. Thats my mom.

In the end, I'm not as sad about it as I thought. Bigger things in the world to concern myself with. All about perspective. I'm pissed, but I didn't have a friend die today or I'm not starving to death or have really anything wrong. After all my friends called to wish me a happy birthday I was just happy to have amazing friends and family. Who gives a F*$% about stuff anyways. Its kinda liberating ....

ALTHOUGH! If you just so happen to have any of these laying around at your house feel free to be generous and send them my way! haha.

relief

You know... people always told me to hang on and that sunny days would arrive sooner or later. And finally they have.

Here is a recap of my life for the past few months. I got to go to Taiwan/Kona and just have the most AMAZING time of my life. Seeing old friends is always good for the soul. Came home, Caroline came up to visit and we all headed down for the beach house reunion. 25-30 of possibly the most fantastic human beings that I personally know gathered together. From cheese factories, football on the beach, taboo, some beer and a good time... I can't think of anything better right? Seriously, having people be flying in from Aussie land, Thailand, Taiwan, etc... yea it was rocking.

Okay so then I was about to move to L.A. and a near death car crash prevented me from going. It was a total God thing! seriously. All my korean sistas lived (caroline, ihnhee and myself). Then my good friend Dave bought me a freakin' ticket to Kona so I got to go BACK to hawaii again!! agggg! I'm a lucky girl. I'm working for AVEDA at a spa and its all good. I'm still planning on moving to Florida next year or something and I'm STOKED!!!! I cannot wait to be living in the company of my buddy Cliff and hopefully Brendon and a few more folks. Already been offered a job with AVEDA down there so God is really opening up doors for me.

Okay so honestly, last year was hell for me. Alot of things happened, alot of mistakes from my part and others and just crappy times. I always new that there was a light at the end of the tunnel... just was a freakin' long tunnel. But I can honestly say that I have an abundance of joy back in my life.

I told JB that only 5% of me wanted to keep going with this thing called faith and christianity. I didn't have any more strength and I just felt like a failure at seeing how my life has been recently. But he told me that if I truly took the bible as the TRUTH then I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. If its true that God is stronger in my weakness then 5% is just perfect. I can't fix people, I can't undo the past, I can't control my life anymore but letting something bigger take over is perfectly okay with me now. 2008 is shaping up to be pretty awesome. I'll post pictures when I get them loaded onto my computer lata.