*dusts off the old blogger*

O-kaaaaay.... it's been a while since I've written anything in here, and I'm noticing this is where all my crazy religious stuff tends to go. Perhaps I'm too scared to debate it all with my friends over in livejournal land? Who knows.

Life is going pretty well. I got to go to Mexico a couple weeks ago. Spent my time there helping build a new home for an absolutely wonderful family. I really hope I get a chance to go back and visit, because after all according to Laura (the wife of the household) we're all like family now. :-)

It was a really eye-opening experience. Just across the border in Tijuana, one would think that maybe because of it's proximity to the states it might be a little better off... but no. There's a cloud of despair that hangs over that city and it's really sad to see. There's graffiti everywhere, and it's not just colorful arty graffiti, but most just words, hate-filled ugly words in red and black spray paint scrawled across everything. Houses are basically shanties and they're all squeezed in next to each other. The family we were helping was a family of 5 and they supported themselves on $200 a week. There's smog everywhere, even out in the countryside where we were camping out.

But it was cool, the family next door was getting a new house, as was a family across the street, and so all the neighbors were watching us the whole time. Like, what are all these crazy Americans doing working their asses off for us, for free. Enrique's boss said we must be crazy, but Laura told him we were Loco con Amor. Crazy with love. We went down thinking were just building a house, but we ended up building a community, and providing hope in a very desperate neighborhood.

Definitely an experience I plan on repeating.

Work has been going well. Had my annual review and got a small raise. Also started my 401K, lookit that, me being a 'responsible' Big Girl and all. Saving for retirement. pshaw.

Finally stopped bugging about not being back in school. Yeah I'd like to be able to go, but it's not affordable and I'm in enough debt as it is. So I can wait. I can stick with the banking and just play around with the costuming stuff in my spare time. As long as I keep making stuff I'll be fine. I don't have to be living off my arty stuff, especially since I can't really dedicate all my attention for very long to any one project. I jump around too much. Go go gadget short attention span!

But if I stay in banking it'll allow me to do crazy things like own a home, and maybe even retire before I'm totally old and gray. Then I can be that eccentric old lady having my own art shows and sellin' me wares wherever I can. I'm totally okay with that.

These things don't have to happen RIGHT NOW. I don't have to be some Hot Young Thing or some sort of prodigy.

I just wish I had realized this a couple years ago when I kept trying to go back to school and kept having to drop out.

Anyway, yet another rambly post from me, woo. See y'all in a couple of months or so!