Starbucks...and other evil things

I like Starbucks. Let me just say that from the start. However, if i have the choice between starbucks and an independently owned coffee house...i pick the latter.

Well, I had a nice little adventure while in Tucson Arizona. Sarah and I were on our way to a good friend's going away party. We knew the party would go late and since my body was in a time zone two hours later...we thought we should get some coffee before heading out. We go to starbucks. Now, I am wearing my "Join the Revolution Shirt" and sarah is wearing her "Stand back! I'm changing the world shirt!" Great combo when out in public, right? Haha.

So the barista asks us what we are fighting for. We both laugh and mention the baha'i faith. Sarah orders. He says he has a friend who is a Baha'i but doesn't know a lot about it. I order. He asks if I will explain it to him. A cop comes up behind me and the other barista says, "The usual?" he nods. Anyway, I start talking about the baha'i faith when a cup of coffee is placed in front of me.

This is where my brain shuts off. So caught up in my conversation...I reach down for the coffee, not even realizing that I ordered an ICED coffee and this was CLEARLY hot. I lifted it to my lips and did the thing I ALWAYS do with hot coffee, i blew in it. As soon as I do I realize my mistake...that this isn't my coffee. That this is the police man's coffee. and i have just blown in it.

great.

All Settled

Alright, Andrew put me back on his list, Sarah is on mine and Caitlin is updated. All is well in blog world.

Yesterday I went shopping at whole foods. This can make one happy, but to make one even happier!!!! i bought falafel, israel's official snack food. Look how yummy! Maybe for tonight we will make this for dinner. My grandfather and his wife are coming into town...i don't know how they would feel about this...






I also bought endangered speices chocolate! no, it is not chocolate made out of endangered species...it is chocolate that provides 10% of its profits to help endangered animals. Sarah,

Afsaneh and I all know and love the products.









This is a pretty boring post, but what do you want from me? I cannot remember how to post. But this is for cait...

I enjoyed the television program last night.

and this is for sarah...

we do all feel bad!! we love you sooooooooooooooooo much!!!!

and this is for everyone else...

Um. Tear!

So I was on my brother's site when I noticed...he totally took me off his list of people. I am hurt. Is it because I haven't updated in several months? Probably, but still this is no excuse. I post this as a protest.


PUT ME BACK ON YOUR LIST BROSKI!!!

A better post will come once I am back on it and safe again.

Heaven on Earth

Rejoice! For I have found it!! The place where all of my money will be going!!!

look familiar? it should. it is a ben and jerry's scoop shop.

this of course is my favy!

but today i had the last straw.

Fundraising

I am a fundraising fool!!! I have started to sell mark...yes, mark...it is an avon line of makeup for youth. As unlikely as that may sound...they are giving me 50% of whatever I sell which means a better chance that my lovely youth will be able to go to new horizons.

I also participated in a car wash.

Soap was also made and sold.

But nothing can compare with what is happening next. This saturday...at my house...there is going to be a....

SPA DAY!

Manicures, pedicures, makeovers, you name it...might...be there!! yeah. hopefully this will make us the hundreds of dollars needed. come...ya know...if you aren't too busy.

I am almost expectant of hearing the doorbell ring and having Ed Mcmahon at my door, with one of those huge checks. He will let me in on the nation's largest practical joke ever...the SAT. Haha, as it turns out, he will tell me, the nation just wanted to freak you out about college with ap tests, sat, and act tests! they don't really mean anything, but if you take so many, you recieve $10,000 for college! Score!

But the bit of realism in me knows that if the doorbell does ring, it will be little Gabrielle down the street wanting to know if fluffy can play and, can she have something to eat?

If you are aware of Dante's Inferno, then you will understand when I say that this past week was lowest level hell week. I had four tests this week, two of them AP, I worked every night, was getting sick, had the SAT yesterday and was attempting to plan a meeting with the youth that fell through. Oh man. I have never felt so successful...oh wait. Yes I have.

Tonight we are having a Cluster Reflection meeting and I am all about it! Bring it on community!!! Show me what you got!!

Kansas Baha'i Spring School

Some Favorite Moments include:

~Gross Gas station food~pigging out~sarah finally arriving~nose cloths~sherry in our room~the stain that wasn't really there~writing by flashlight~getting to know jane better with my girls~eating chocolates~toothpaste~the leopards~getting to know rob~ice tea~creamer~horses~archery~lots of little kids~watching adrienne play duck duck goose~beautiful tears~my hair feeling loved~the skit~knowing that it will be there next year!!!