Quick update

I know it's been a while, but I had a big desire to blog today. I realized there are many things many people don't know. Like...
I moved to Memphis. It's so beautiful and I wish I had better pictures to show you. Everything is so green. People say it's the "biggest small town." It's really true... there's such a small community feel


Tyler and I have a garden in his backyard. He tilled the ground, built a fence, made the rows, planted, and now we water constantly and pray that God will show us some fruit from our labor! It's looking so beautiful and I feel so proud every time I look at our strong plants!

I really have loved gardening. It takes so much time, but it makes my life feel slow, calm, simple. I can't wait to eat our vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli, radishes, kale, sugar peas, snow peas, carrots, spinach, turnip greens, onions, and more) and share them with our neighbors!




Tyler and I have been vegetarians since we moved to Memphis. I'll go into more detail in another post, but we're not extremely strict, and decided to have meat once a month. I chose Buffalo Wild Wings the other day, and was NOT disappointed at all in my decision because it was coupled with a snow cone, my room mates, and a park.

I'll blog more in depth soon about: the program I'm doing, my new nanny job, being a vegetarian, my wonderful room mates, and more. Stay posted!

Donald Miller is riding across America

"Serve God, Save the Planet" by J. Matthew Sleeth, MD

Caleb (one of the program guys) just went to the ER because he cut his toes with a machete. He was just walking and swinging it... and the rest is history.

:/

I found that video blogging is easier and more interesting than this. I've been doing them on facebook. If you don't have facebook, I'm sorry. I'll try to figure out how to get some on here.

I'm reading this book called "Serve God, Save the Planet." It sounds cheesy, but it's SO good. This guy is a doctor and I guess one day he looked around and realized his family wasn't being a good steward of God's creation. So they moved into a house the size of their old garage, his kids hang their clothes on the line, and they only have one bag of trash every few weeks.

He talked about how 1 in 15 people get some type of cancer, and it's all because of what we're doing to our environment, our food, etc. We just accept it as a norm that so many people get cancer, but it's not supposed to be like that.

So this guy (J. Matthew Sleeth, MD) is just talking to far about why we should care about our environment and diseases that have been caused by it. In the rest of the book he'll get into how to do that, etc.

It's a GREAT book and so cool to hear from a Christian perspective. Some people say it's going overboard to be obsessed with preserving the environment, but it's just taking care of what God made and preserving it for our people!

He just told a story about an 8 yr old girl that died from air pollution and it literally made me cry. So sad.

Anyway... check it out.

Itchy in Oklahoma

This is the time of day that I get terribly sleepy.

And terribly itchy from all the mess that's in this Oklahoma dirt and air.

My throat is going crazy. I just want to take a long back scratcher and shove it down there to give it a good scratch. In a perfect world... it wouldn't make me gag either. No, in a perfect world... I wouldn't have an itchy throat.

And about these eyes.
My contacts feel like goggles suctioned to my eyes, trapping dirt underneath.

Right now I want to nap. No, I want to read. But reading lately makes me sleepy. It's sad.


Still waiting on:
Chacos in the mail
My bike coming today from Lindale
Letters from you!


:)

the big MO (I think that's the abbreviation)

We went to a starbucks in Joplin, Missouri lastnight.

My first time in Missouri. I feel like there's nothing different about it... but also heard that's not the best part of the state.

Interesting.


I got a company vehicle to drive around until my beloved bike gets here.

It's a 4 wheeler.


Booyeah.

This just in: Oklahoma has the Internet!

And wireless at that!

Casey, Presley, Chili, and Tomara drove me to Lindale, TX on Sunday night. It was a fun little roadtrip. The Oklahoma camp director lives there in a house on a lake. It's BEAUTIFUL. I woke up in the morning and had the house to myself. I sat, read, wrote thank you cards, made some eggs, relaxed.

The drive to Quapaw with the director's wife took 6 hours. She is SO great. She's so wise and just a ton of fun. I can't wait to learn a ton from her this summer!

So... the staff seems cool. I've been kind of introverted... just sitting back and trying to figure out everyone's personality. It's interesting.

I'm excited to be running, biking, and reading in my spare time.


Keep checking back... hopefully I'll have more interesting stories. I'm just trying to keep y'all posted so far.

OH and... I only get reception in a few areas around camp, so emailing is probably the best way to get to me fast.

Much love!
Erica

7750 S. 655 Rd. Quapaw, OK 74363

Welp... the job turned out to be at the Oklahoma Sky Ranch.

AND I TOOK IT!!!


I'm leaving Denton on Monday.