Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Sorry to leave anyone hanging for so long! I’ve been a busy girl for the first 3 months of 2010 and I don’t think its going to slow down any time soon. Which is somewhat scary! So here’s the brief on what’s been going down:
1) DR Congo mission stuff. Lot’s going on there! I’m really excited to be a part of this really small team of people from our church. Our mission dates are May 18th to May 31st! Crazy that it’s only like a month and a half away! I pretty much sway between excitement and anxiety over going. Shots are up to date, our visas have been sent off for approval, support is coming in (thanks a million to anyone who has sent in support) and I’m in full yard-sale mode for our big shebang happening on April 10th! If you have anything you want to get rid of from around your house please let me know I’ll be taking donations right up until the event! If you’d like to donate to this mission you can click here to download the donor card and then send it in with your check to Port City Community Church.
2) Then there’s my job. We’ve been busy bee’s since Christmas 2009. Just kind of cranking crazy things out like this “The Whole World” series intro video and this “That’s Why” video of my former housemate Hannah That’s Why – Casey & Hannah Sikes.
Just to name a few things. But the big deal coming up is Easter. We’re starting a new series called “Collide” and I’m pretty excited to say that the video elements we’ll be showing for Easter Sunday will probably blow your mind. I work with some of the most amazing Directors, Film makers, Animators and artists in the greater Wilmington area! What a great blessing!
3) Then there was LOST. I’m totally sucked in. There really isn’t anything else to add to that. It’s finally getting good. And there’s V which starts up again today. I’m interested to see how this show pans out. And Biggest Loser is pretty great this season, too!
I think that’s about it. Will post more on Congo soon. Can’t wait to see what the next 3 months will bring! 
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Well, this has been a long time coming. At least I think it has. My blog has been quite put-off until recently when a great friend of mine agreed to help get it live. That great friend and his wife are becoming two of my most trusted advisers and friends. They are a few years older than me and have equal experience to match their age. Jesse, the husband, is a work comrade who I see 5 days a week, 9 hrs a day. We laugh a lot, mostly at each other. Erin, the wife, is a dear friend who I get to share some of my more intimate secrets with. Not that I have very many of those but it is extremely nice to have someone I can trust to confide in. I never feel judged around them, ever. A girl like me needs that kind of friendship. So, I am very thankful!
Wednesday was the one month anniversary of my full time employment. It’s been a whirlwind to say the least. With Evan’s baby coming 3 weeks early and people being gone on trips and now with school starting back. It’s the first year school has started back without me. I’m sad, to say the least. It all seams like a brief memory of a past life. One I occasionally desperately miss and want to return to. Things seamed less complicated then. They weren’t, but they seamed that way.
Another thing I miss desperately: Kenya. I miss the way it smelled. They way it tasted. I make it sound as if it were a lover whom has betrayed me, it is a lover, but one I betrayed. I can’t keep the dreams from coming. Being there with James (my sponsor kid), living in a one room hostel, being awaken at 2 in the morning by the gorilla-sized crows. I hate that I’m not there. I hate that I’m not sure when I’ll get to be there again. I cried for two weeks about not being able to go with the team that was there a week ago. I miss it. But it’s selfish. Missing it is selfish for me sometimes. I over commit my thoughts to it and end-up bitter that I’m not there. Africa is one of those things that gets under your skin. It invades your mind and I often find myself thinking of it when I least expect it. Like when I’m driving to work or brushing my teeth with a minty toothpaste that I used while I was there. It’s my escape from reality, in what twisted world anyone’s escape is to the most impoverished continent in the world, I don’t know, but it is where my mind runs to when I’m frustrated with this life; when I want things to be different. You’re reading this and thinking it sounds creepy, it is; almost. If you’ve ever been you know what I mean. I want to get back there. And I want to do something other than write a blog about the way I feel. It’s confusing.
But life keeps happening and I can’t slow it down. Day, night, day, night, day-night. This is ridiculous. I’m going to bed.
-Rachael