thanks remax

This is random but last night I had a huge hankering for bananas. It wasn't dark out yet so I decided to be earth friendly and ride my bike to the store. I ended up borrowing one of my roomates bikes since my tires were flat as usual :)
The trek to our grocery store is down hill the entire way from my house so I was looking forward to the quick trip. I started down the hill a little ways going pretty fast and needed to slow down a little. I gave my brakes a squeeze only to find out that my brakes didn't work! And of course I was wearing flip-flops and no helmut, so stopping with my feet was not an option. Luckily the Remax office by our house has a steep grass embankment so I turned to ride up the embankment and with a little wobbling and falling I finally came to a stop halfway through the parking lot. I finally figured out how to fix my brakes and was on my merry way.

I started thinking about it and realized this marks the second time the remax office has helped me out. Last year I locked myself out of our house without my cell phone and went to remax office to look up a phone number to call my friend Frank to get a hold of my roomates. I could tell the receptionist thought it was pretty weird but I was out of options by this point.

So this is my official muchas gracias to the Louisville Remax Office!

Where God Left His Shoes

Friday night I went and saw "Where God Left His Shoes" in City Park...(which, ps. watching a movie on a big screen in a park is the way to go). The movie won some awards and deals with the issues of family homelessness- which was especially good to see in light of Denver's Road Home- plan to end homelessness in Denver... http://www.denversroadhome.org/.

Sometimes when I think about helping people out of homelessness I think mainly about a roof over their heads, but this was a good reminder of the huge spectrum of hurdles homeless families face such as, employment, childcare, abuse etc... It also made me really thankful for the services set-up in Denver to help families on a holistic level move out of homelessness.

If they are showing this movie near you, you should go!

summer skills

Since it's been so long since I last wrote..here's my top ten list of skills and lessons needed to survive my life this summer...

1. When going to the neighborhood pool, you must master the skill of swimming while constantly surveying the lawn chairs to see if one opens up...if one does, you need to be close enough to a wall to jump out and claim the chair and signal to you friends to bring your stuff over before the moms who are speed walking toward you try to claim them as their own. Moms are really protective of those lawn chairs.

2. Suncscreen is good... I don't think I have been sunburned since I was in Junior High but i definitely happened while we were floating the medina river...painful.

3. Jobs are not gauranteed to work out even though somehow God works out the bigger picture.. I am no longer working for amali... so now I nanny, go to yoga, clean, write and try to figure out what's next.

4. Texas will always be home to me...spending time with family and friends, hearing a band at Gruene Hall, eating great mexican food and margaritas, and floating rivers, going to the ranch, slacklining with my brother and sister...there's just something that seems to always draw me home...

5. Vitamins are incredible and Naturopaths know their stuff...I take like 5o pills a day now but I feel great and I've learned how to strength test people and it kinda creeps them out.

6. Somehow hotdogs taste amazing when you're camping... even to a vegetarian.

7. You don't have to do everything RIGHT NOW... In one week decided I wanted to start my own company, go back on staff with Crusade, go to Naturopathic school and work at Anthropologie all at the same time...not happening.

8. Honey Nut Cheerios are delicious, especially with Vanilla Rice Milk, or maybe I just choose to beleive that cause it's my only option.

9. "Yous" means Y'all in Pennsylvania...When visiting Big Papa in Pennsylvania, be prepared for eating Potato Pancakes, Kielbasa and playing lots of Skip-bo. And coal mines stay between 48 and 52 degrees so bring a jacket when you go- random fact!

10. Toilet seats and countertops are great replacements for a ladder when painting a bathroom. It takes some acrobatic skills but is a peice of cake once you get the hang of it... Also painting goes way faster if you watch the dance scenes from Step Up 2 over and over again :)