alright, now for something a little different.

i went to virginia, worked for jon gudeman.
worked with his fantabulous wife, abbe.  went to bible study in her home.

decided i wanted to go to the philippines and work in an orphanage.
abbe went to college in ohio with lori french.
lori works as a teacher at faith academy in manila, philippines.
lori knows the gundersons and gustafsons, and hooks us up so that i can spend my days serving in their ministry holding babies at the little children's home.
my daughter, grace, lives up in michigan and works part time as a receptionist at a massage therapy and wellness center.
she messaged me tonight, that chris who is one of the therapists there, told her that he lived in manila, until he was 12.
because his grandparents founded a religious school there, called faith academy.

God is pretty hilarious sometimes, isn't He?

okay, now on an entirely different topic . . . i've done a bad bad thing.

there is something here called a house spider.

they are harmless, though ginormous, and are considered even to be good, as they eat bugs and don't bite.   mhmmmm.

i wanted to make peace with ours, i tolerated her loitering above the loveseat in the livingroom for a few days.  yeah, the one where i will NEVER sit.

then, one day i walked into my bedroom and there she was on the wall opposite my bed, doing frantic crazy figure eights - confirming that she was as afraid of me as i was of her. i tried to think of charlotte, from charlotte's web, and how i could do this thing, i just needed to get used to her and be tolerant.  

but, it was a bad day when i was in the tiny bathroom, doing bathroom things, and i spied her up on the wall. too close to me!!

she scampered up to the window and tried to fold her long creepy creeper creeping legs up and hide, but there she was, very evidently right there.

did i mention the bathroom is very small??

so, we tolerated each other peacefully.    until she made another appearance in the bathroom.  running around like a crazy nut, just like i wanted to be doing.  i'm sure that if you could hear a spider, she was shrieking up a storm, just like i was. 

i'm so very sorry, but a person needs to relax in the bathroom and enjoy a nice shower.   or whatever.

so, i did a bad bad thing and i killed the house spider.  i felt bad doing it, brooming her that way, but if we kept living together, one of us was going to lose their mind.  and jo jo don't play.

sigh.

this is a pic kim took, in my room, before i came here.   just so you know that not everyone was repulsed by the house spider.

but you and me, shudder, shudder, blech!!!   right?!