Not a whole lot

I just wanted to give a short update. Life is going. I'm in love with Joshua Radin...look him up on itunes or his myspace...I pretty sure he's married but it's love! I leave for Haiti in 5 days...FIVE! So much to do and yet not so much! I still need to plan the vbs and get some supplies together for it. Good news...all the money is in and I'm paid in full! So tonight is the first night in 7 nights I have no plans and nowhere I have to be. So I'm headed to the gym and then I'm cleaning my room and maybe starting to pack. I'm kinda excited about it all! Oh I finished another baby quilt! I'll post pictures later. Last night I got inspired and painted...it's so relaxing to turn on music and mix colors and experiment. I mean I'm not good but there is something in the release of creativity that is so addicting!

292.06

It's amazing how you can totally plan for something and then get the carpet pulled out from beneath you. That has been the story of my past month.
So COAT began...It was all set and full. Then 3 days before it begins a couple calls and cancels. 2 days before another lady calls and asks if it's a possiblity she can come. Then calls me 3 days later to say she'll be on a plane later that evening and is coming for the first 2 wks. (I decided to prepare like she was coming...so that worked out well). COAT is going really well I think...the last couple arrived last night and Renee decided to stay for the full ten weeks of the program. I'm excited that everyone will be together finally. I feel good about it...which worries me because normally that means I'm forgetting something huge! Maybe I'm just paranoid.

So, I leave for Haiti in less than 2 weeks. I'm really excited about my team! So, I thought I had all the money raised and was all comfortable and set to go...no no no that would be too easy. That is where the title 292.06 comes from...I know God will take care of it. I did however get two very missionary looking skirts for 6.36 at family thrift today. They will do well! We can only take 15 pounds with us and we're most likely only getting one shower...and there may not be electricty. I am so pumped about it! We're flying straight out of Port eu Prince to Pingoin (sp?) a very very very small town in the middle of Haiti. Very rural were we are doing some light construction at a school, a vbs, and pretty much whatever the missionary asks us to do. In some ways I think this will be the hardest place I've gone to...I think it's the poorest and politically the most troubled. I've heard there is a spirit of hopelessness there. I so excited to be leading the students that I've worked with for 2 years and to see their attitudes about the trip's conditions. When told about the weight limit, lack of showers, and food they were all like we're not going on vaction we're going to serve. So pray for our safety...especially on March 3rd and March 10th...those are the days we're in Port Eu Prince. Also, for my team to be united in the bond of love and that God will really speak into my teams life and they will see him in a new way. Also, that we'll be used by God.

So an India update. I'm still a team leader and going to India for 8wks (I have to keep reminding myself because It's so exciting). At this time I have 5 college students on my team. Chris, Adam, Dave, Sarah, and Andrea with the possibility of more being added. I've been getting more and more details from Mary (who's in charge of internships) and I'm so very excited the more I find out. I am waiting to start any planning until post Haiti. One country at a time.

I'll love ya tomorrow

COAT officially begins tomorrow. It's 11:40pm and I'm headed home from the office. I had a couple call and cancel today and a lady we've never met ask if she can be here for the program on Monday. I only teared up 2x today and may have forgotten to eat resulting in low blood sugar shakey cranky Corey from being released...don't worry I went home and ate and just sat still for 20 mins. It's amazing how eating and becoming still can improve one's mindset and mood. I bought my granola from Starr's dad to my office so that next time I'm prepared! All in all it's been a good day and I think I'm on track to start COAT in the morrow. Oh Sunshine Krepps is a rockstar who totally saved me from freaking out the 10am binder situtation I had this morning. He spend all day on them...bless you! Oh on January 29 I offically became a U2 fan. The song that did it was Window in the Skies...Twila showed me the music video and I've been hooked since. Here's the link...enjoy it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VskbxuehP3I
Anyway, I'm going to bed
Peace out

Hide the crazy

So it's now less than 2 wks till coat begins again. I'm pretty stressed out to be honest which apparently turns me into not suck a nice or compassionate person. I haven't been feeling well...stress really upsets my stomach. My head is killing me...I think this is what a migraine is? It hurts so mad I think I could puke and all noises are really loud. (thi sis me complaining sorry) I asked my boss if I could leave early 30 mins early and I got told no...so in 15 mins I'm leaving...and in 2 mins I'm putting my head down and turning off my light. Why is it no matter how hard you work on something...it's still high stress at the end. Oh and I'm not sleeping well...14 mins to go!!!!

Mother India here I come

Hi,
So a lot has happened in the past month. Christmas was good...it was nice to stay here and have my first Christmas as an adult...this involved me being staying in my pjs all day at the Christner's house who ended up spending way more money on me than my family. It was a tad akward opening the Victoria Secrets gift card that the rest of the girls got from their dad...but I have been hording that Star Bucks one...ohhh how I've sold my soul to the man! I got this way cool pink thermos that well is pretty and I need to start making tea at home to use it!
Then came New Years which was honestly kinda lame...I mean it was fun but I don't know it's just not a huge deal to me. Then after a week off of work I started back and it's been a whirl wind since. The coat program starts in 3 wks and next week I'm at staff retreat where I'm going to be forced to spend 5 hrs in silence and solitude...not excited about it to be honest. I've had a lot of this kind of time lately and well after an hour I'm about done.

Oh the exciting news is that I'm leading a team to India this summer!!!! I leave to help lead a group from CCF to Haiti March 3...just for 9 days over their spring break. India however is 8 weeks! We're living and working in an orphanage ( a lil over 100 kids with some of them Tsumani orphans), free school (1,000 kids), clinic, and pastor training center. Needless to say I am way excited about it! I've been prepping myself by eating Indian food and watching Indian movies...Bride and Predujice and Born into Brothels...both great movies. Also, I've been list

Anyway, I'm excited about it all.

Le Tea

Last Saturday night was the work Christmas party. It was a lot of fun. I personally love dressing up so this was a blast! I bought a new dress that was in the words of Josh Hunter "racy" and actually made it less racy by sewing that piece of lace in...so it was a tad revealing. I love the dress and morn the fact that I have nothing else to wear it to. Any it was a fun day...I did 4 people's hair including mine..who knew I could do hair? I just decided to do hair and 3 lovely ladies trusted me. It was a fun night and I got a musical hulla hoop which I regifted to a niece or nephew. I'll admit I'm a regifter...what's the point of keeping something you know you'll never use? I'd rather give to someone that will use and love it.

Twila and I at the party...we're looking good!

Here is all the hair I did! It was fun...like creating something!

It's not a work function with my favorite kids...ahh the Weinmans how I love them! They are growing up so fast! Christina just turned 11! (Paula is 12)...they are young ladies but Christina still will cuddle up next to me!

So the two single guys I work with were gentlemen and drove me there. There was some drama when I locked my gift and dish (I made this awesome choc chip whole wheat with nuts and flax seed cookie cake thing...it was a good experiment) in my house and Ryan (not pictured) broke in my house vis climbing in his suit through my kitchen window. He was my hero of the night. This is Craig who saved my birthday by breaking in to a house late at night to get my cell phone so I could get my birthday calls. Anyway, Craig has left and is preparing to serve in Mozambique.

The party ended early and I was bored so I took pictures of myself. (Does that make me vain?) Yes you can give me a camera and I can entertain myself for hours.

(I call this Corey the Afghan )

So yeah it was fun. Ok so Le Tea is the Chinese Dance from the Nutcracker which Jesse inspired me to listen today...It's my favorite movement...well at least musically.

How I spent my Saturdays this fall.

This was my first quilt for my almost 3 year old niece Izzy.

The is my second quilt, I put a lot more into it....because of the fact it's for a baby - not that I like this niece more. It's for my newest niece, Zoe...who I actually haven't met yet.

This fall I quilted most Saturdays from 2-6pm with Kathy Olsen, a lady who lives here. It was so much fun! So fun that this spring I'm starting my own quilt! I even got my first sewing machine for Christmas...Oh the fun I will have! I have one more baby quit in the making...it's for Stacey and Derek Williams. She was my mentor here and they are headed to Myanmar this summer.