8 Random Things:

1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

Heidi tagged me! Hehe, I like this one.

1. Today I dreamed up a program that I would like to start someday (or to get involved with a pre-existing one) which is basically helping people get jobs by helping them write resumes and fill out applications, practice interviews and talk about first impressions, how to work a cash register/count change/etc. even so far as offering skills training--typing classes, word/excel. my brainstorming went on and on, i swear (i have a lot of time to think at work!) i read about one of these programs in the book The Working Poor: Invisible in America which I highly recommend.

2. I have at least 150 books in my room. Probably more like 200. My top favorite book, ever, is Thomas Merton's No man is an Island, which no one should go through life without reading.

3. My favorite Bible passage is Psalm 73. It's not too well-known, but the ending part is soooo good.

4. I'm big on the concept that time is relative. Ie; I have a hard time getting my mind around the fact that my dad died of cancer about 2.5 years ago, because life is so different now. But I also have a hard time with my semester abroad in Scotland. It was already almost a year ago that I left on that plane, yet it feels like just yesterday. I have a hard time letting go of my memories there, and I'm always wishing to go back. I know that's not scientific, but time is relative. My experiences tell me so.

5. I love taking showers and taking naps. (I can sleep just about anywhere, anytime.)

6. I have two adorable neices and a nephew--they're triplets of my step-brother. BUT I have another one on the way!! My brother zach and his wife Jane are having their wee one sometime late July. They chose not to find out if it's a boy or girl, though... we're all impatient for the kid to be born so we can find out!

7. Glasgow, Scotland, is my home. Not technically. I grew up in west Michigan. But if I had to say where I've felt most at home in this world, most comfortable with who I was, and where I'd like to be right now, it would be in Scotland on Kelvinhaugh Street, in West End....

8. I like ministry and I like volunteering. However, I also like my expensive education at Calvin College. Therefore I must work in a factory doing odd jobs (and scrubbing at least a hundred bins) and data entry so I can graduate in 2 years.