Hola!

Yo peeps. What's new in my life, you ask? Well, I am heading to Belize for the next month and a half. That's what's up. I am currently in the Phoenix airport headed to SLC to spend the evening with three of my favorite ladies before I embark on this crazy, insanely rad journey. I leave at 6am tomorrow morning and am full of random emotions as I don't quite know what to expect. I am going as a trip leader for a non-profit group called Humanitarian Experience for Youth. I will be hosting three, two and a half week sessions. There are about 19 kids in each trip, who are all excited to serve, learn, grow. While there, we will be building a lunch room onto a small elementary school in the town of Corozal. I our free time we will be traveling the country and experiencing everything wonderful it can offer us. My chacos and bandanas are packed, my iPad is loaded with music fit to lift any spirit, and I have my pepper spray ready to use against anyone who messes with my kiddos. I hope to be able to feel my own strength and potential challenged as I am put in new circumstances. I want to learn to love deeper and serve harder. But mostly, I am excited to find greater understanding of the strength and beauty of the human spirit through each individual I meet. It's go time.

Team Pacey

Folks, lets talk Dawson's Creek for a minute.  I just felt like it was time for me to make an informed stance on this whole Dawson/Pacey situation.  I am here to announce to the world, loud and proud, that I am most definitely, without any reservations, team Pacey.  I mean, Pacey buys Joey a wall.  A wall, people.  If that ain't true love...  Now, with that being said, can we please quickly discuss a few points of all that is Dawson's Creek.

1.)  Joey Potter brings all the boys to the yard.  Seriously.  What is her allure?  She has some magnetic pull that I will never understand.  Maybe it's her sassiness.  If so, that, I do understand.  More importantly, I respect.  But other than that, I'm at loss for understanding.  And, while we're on the subject of Joey Potter, might I remind you of the episode where she sings "On My Own" from Les Mis.  Oh.  Sweet.  Mercy.  Why?  I think that's my only response.  Please, why?  If you need your memory jogged or have not had the pleasure of hearing this...please, please, please watch.  I would like to say you won't regret it, but that would be a lie.  You probably will regret it, but I can promise you will find some strange fulfillment as well. 

2.)  I can't handle Dawson Leary.  Is it the character I vehemently hate or is it just James Van Der Beek?  I don't really know.  I think the two are so closely intertwined that I can't clearly decipher.  Either way, he and Joey ARE NOT SOUL MATES. 

3.)  Joey's main mode of transportation is a row boat.  Seriously, does it get more rad?  I love when something dramatic and emotional happens--instead of running to her car and driving away....she runs to her boat, and paddles away.  I just started laughing outloud thinking about this.

4.)  The Weepies.  ALL UP IN IT.  My heart fluttered a little the first time I heard them play on the show.  I will always love them. 

5.)  Dawson's parents are a joke.

6.)  Grams is the only adult with any sense of parental responsibility. 

7.)  Aunt Gwen (Claire Dunphy circia 1999) knows what's up. Always remember, when you find yourself in the middle of two potential lovers and can't decide who you want--choose whoever makes you feel alive, don't settle for what's safe.  I'm sure this will come in handy, because we all know, this is a frequent predicament...atleast in my life.

8.)  I don't want to wait, for my life to be over.