| Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
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Ok... so I need a break from this cookbook which is owning my life right now... so I thought I would post a little something I found on my friend Sheryl's Facebook... that I thought I would put on my blog!
Two Names You Go By:
1. Erica
2. Scams
3. Solerica (OK OK... so I know the game is called "TWO" but, who says it can't be called "THREE" or even "FOUR"????)
Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Underwear
2. Straight Hair - but for some reason, it makes my head itchier. I like curly better.
Two Things You Would Want (or have) in a Relationship:
1. Many, many laughs...
2. Commitment
3. The ability to be who I really am, and not be judged for it.
Two of Your Favorite Things to do:
1. Cook/think or read about cooking...
2. Spend time with Tim.
Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. To not be working... only 1.5 hours to go!
2. To be sitting on my couch, ensconced in a blanket of some kind... with Tim.
Two pets you had/have:
1. Hoppy - he was a cat. He only had three legs.
2. Taco. The MOST faithful dog you could EVER have... husky/rottweiler cross.
Two things you did last night:
1. Watched "Mozart and the Whale" (meh!)
2. Ate Burger King.
Two things you ate today:
1. A pizza pop.
2. Animal crackers.
Two People you Last Talked To:
1. Dave Pauls
2. Rosemary (about the proper spelling of my soon to be new last name)
Two things you're doing tomorrow:
1. Working.
2. Donating Blood. 1-800-2-DONATE (do it... seriously!)
Two longest car rides:
1. From Ontario to Manitoba in my second year of Bethany on our Drama Tour. Seriously; Gravol put everyone else out like nothing else, but gave me a buzz... what up!?
2. From Manitoba to Hepburn when I worked as a recruiter... I remember one particular trip I have never been so conciously aware of myself being about to fall asleep at the wheel - ridiculous!
Two Favourite Holidays:
1. Any day off, where I get to sleep in.
2. Christmas.
Two Favourite Beverages:
1. Pepsi (duh!)
2. Tea. |
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| Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| Dum dum da dum... |
Topic of this blog: 
OK. So here is the question of the hour. What are some good song ideas for a wedding? Tim & I need to pick a song for our friends Amy & Betty to sing during the signing of the registry time... any ideas???? HELP!!!
A picture of Lily Allen singing to inspire you all:
"It makes me smile" when you all suggest songs... :) |
| posted by Erica @ 12:30 p.m. |
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| Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| Also. |
In response to the last blog titled "7 Things You Might Not Know About Me" I realized I forgot to tag people... so. I tag: Kelsie-Lynn Harms, Sheryl Epp, JON ESAU (hahah! Now he'll have to contribute; right Bonnie?), Dana Barrand (for the love of everything good and decent: POST!) and Jon Hamm.
There you have it... I look forward to reading your responses on your blogs! |
| posted by Erica @ 10:22 a.m. |
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| Friday, May 18, 2007 |
| 7 Things You Might Not Know About Me |
It honors me that I was tagged by the one and only Denita Dyck and so I must comply with her request to list "7 Thing You Might Not Know About Me"... and I'll try not to be toooo depressing. Okey dokey... Here goes...
1. I LOVE MANATEES. And, I truly believe that we should be doing something to save them... visit their website here: Save the Manatees!
2. I am a weeper (If something moves me to tears, emotionally sets me off, etc... I don't just cry. I weep. Grey's Anatomy is the DEVIL for this one... Oprah, hearing a certain song, seeing people doing kind things... BRUTAL)
3. My dimple is actually a chipped cheekbone that resulted from an accident with my older sisters bike (I was a TINY kid) and the corner of a table.
4. I have been to 10 countries (for a significant length of time): Qatar, England, Netherlands, UAE, Peru, Colombia, Lebanon, Jordan, Thailand, USA...
5. I secretly long to be a long legged, toned, tanned tennis player. (Alas... fate is against me.)
6. I once saw MacGuyver in the Vancouver airport...
7. Hermithood. I believe very, very strongly that if it were not for my love of people and cultures, that I could TRULY disappear into the woods somewhere, build myself a home (much like Jodie Foster did in the movie "Nell") and live happily ever after with the forest creatures around me... hermithood. |
| posted by Erica @ 3:03 p.m. |
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| Monday, May 14, 2007 |
| Indeed. Indeed. |
Today Dana and I went to see some of the kids dancing at this Grandmothers for Grandma's fundraiser/awareness event thing.
The kids were part of an Afrian Dance group... and honestly, as I sat there watching these beautiful kids I felt so proud of them... for some I am sure it was a nerve wracking challenge to get up on stage and do that... the way they kept looking at their instructor to make sure they were doing it right - so beautiful!
I was also impacted by these children and the lives that they have lived already. Maybe some of them are too young to remember, but these kids are refugees... and at some point in their lives have had to live in very difficult circumstances. Man alive.
I am in the process of developing the youth advance theme for next year. I know these thoughts don't seem connected; but honestly every day I am more and more inspired to go with what I have been thinking as a theme more and more. This world needs positive action... we need to be inspiring and encouraging one another to do the things that are being laid on our hearts to do to be people who are affecting change where it is needed.
A little shout out to my roomie, Dana Fern - go with what you are dreaming of... you are meant to inspire change.
Much love all... much love. |
| posted by Erica @ 4:13 p.m. |
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| Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| PS... |
My two favorite clients from Global: Zhen & Alvin
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| posted by Erica @ 9:04 a.m. |
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| Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| Hey Hey!! |
So all... I really am stinking at this whole blogging with consistency thing.
Why oh why!? I do not know... I think it's for several reasons:
1) I've been busy getting settled in at Bethany this week (which is rocking my world just so you all know).
2) I spend all my time with the talented, charming, (and dare I say) studly... Timothy Baerwald. It's really weird. You always critique your friends when they get married/engaged/deeply involved with someone because they kind of drop off the face of the earth. Confession time: I am one of them. The whole marriage/pre-marriage thing is WEIRD. Us Christian ladies from the moment we enter Bible College (even if we try to be the 'cool' girls and remain all independent and strong...) deep on the inside are plagued with the dream of a wedding one day. We think of all the details and talk about how we'd want our marriages to be... and really. That is all it is: is talk and thought. Nothing compares to the real realities that one faces once the real deal is on the doorstep. Hear me out - IT IS AMAZING. But, at the same time, I feel as though I am watching myself from the outside and observing this change/growth happening. Even as I watch it and accept it/struggle through it and work at liking me for ME... it's all this big jumble inside of me, EXCITING PEOPLE... LIFE IS EXCITING!!! So much going on....
3) I feel like I want to write about what is on my heart regarding LIFE... but I don't even know where to begin. Recently, I read a post on a friends blog talking about our involvement in the world and such... and how we really don't do too much or as much as we could. My heart has been so challenged on this in these last few months, and I feel as though I have been going through this phase of self-loathing/rejecting my home culture, etc... that it's almost debilitating. Being born a North American is really crazy. Truly, think of how we have come (and this is no fault of our own... something I struggle with is HUGE guilt for this) to simply accept the things that come so easily to us. Truly, how are we to know any better? This is the culture that we are ensconced within; we are not able to simply disassociate ourselves with our home culture, just as we are not able to completely disassociate ourselves in any other culture... But really. How then, do I balance my realities? A) I see hurt/need/etc out in the world, here in my own culture/society. B) I feel guilty that I am the way I am... and C) I feel challenged to to change and be more compassionate/active, but have ZERO idea where to start really... and then D) I go back to LOVE. What is it to LOVE truly? How can I forget Erica and LOVE with greater depth and fullness?
Aiy people... so all that combined have made it difficult to post. How to express myself? How to express the JOY that I feel in my heart - abotu my job, about my Tim, about my heart stuff, about EVERYTHING I feel......... It's so funny cuz in premarital counselling we have figured out (SURPRISE!!!???) that I am an "emotional person." NOT in that I am crazy emotional... but that I feel so many things at the same time that I'm a big jumble of emotions. HA! Wanna be in my brain for a day?? Good luck!
Oh yeah, and:
4) I want to post pictures. Soon my friends... soon! |
| posted by Erica @ 10:05 p.m. |
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