barware

Over the years, I've accumulated quiteeeee the collection of baking utensils, tools, pans, gadgets, ingredients...skills.

I'm hoping that my next collection will center around cocktail muddlers, glasses, jiggers, ice cube trays, shakers, ingredients...skills.

:)

lesson learned

what a mistake to get my nails done before going to work. they're going to look terrrrrrrribleeee after a whole day of working with my hands and on my feet running around. should've just opted to do my own nails in the bahamas instead of paying money only to have them get messed up in the end anyways -_-

so, imagine you're swimming/diving underwater, and you're holding your breath....and you're deep down below the surface so you have to keep holding your breath as you swim up towards air, so you strain and strain and strain, and swim and swim and swim....and you know that that breath of air would be so so sweet...but it's still so far away, or so it seems, so you just keep swimming harder and harder, trying to reach that place as soon as you can. But the harder you swim the more desperate you become to get to air, and that desperation only gets more and more intense.

All you can think about is getting to the surface when you can finally breathe again...

to take a break from all that swimming

and holding your breath

and just _

breathe.

perspective

There comes times in my day-to-day life when I feel like life is getting a little too confusing for me...and in those times, I really really miss my family.

I could really use a trip back to LA right about now...get a breath of fresh air, gain some perspective, realign my life...

Romans 8:1-2, II.

"don't be so hard on yourself, nancy"

Several people have told me this in the past few months... There's something about me -- maybe my Asian upbringing of valuing sacrifice and letting others have the bigger portions, this twisted conception I have that suffering is glorified, or my innate desire to achieve and perfect things -- that keeps me from really finding freedom and joy in the grace God so lovingly wants to bestow upon me...

not on men's wisdom...

"When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power."

1 Corinth. 2:1-5