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Coffee, flowers and getaways...

In the last couple weeks, I helped WaYfm with their missions trip blog. I was kinda like the communication hub as they were on their trip June 12-22, transcribing/summarizing their daily phone updates, adding email comments the team sent, and then adding final updates after they got back. It was a ton of fun, something I really enjoyed. Well, as a thank you, Rich brought back a team t-shirt and some potent-amazing-smelling Guatemalan coffee! It tastes good too, and it has major caffeine, kept me up quite late last night, and I think it's still in my system, because I'm not very tired this morning. Here's a picture of the view from Guatemala City.



Sometimes - or most of the time - the office cubicle needs help looking alive. To stare at a computer screen all day does something to one's sense of reality and life. And being indoors all day does something to one's nerves.

I am very thankful to have two windows in my little cubby, being on the corner end of the MNN trailer, but I needed to be closer to nature and something living. In light of that, I have begun to acquire a little garden on my cubby windowsill. The first brave plant was the green plant on the left, from the Right to Life banquet last November. It did have some pretty purple flowers when I first got it, but it hasn't flowered since, though it has grown in size! My second was a gift by my dear Australian friend Brooke during the Christmas-New Year's holiday season. The little cactus reminded us both of the Winter Gardens in Sheffield, and it's a very low maintenance plant, which hopefully means I won't kill it!




The third is my personal favorite. I was needing flowers in my life, something to cheer me as I worked. So I bought this miniature rose plant at Meijer. It had a few yellowish-pink roses when I bought it but they soon wilted and the plant was bare. I thought I'd killed it's flowering days, but with a little nurturing, bright green shoots soon shot up and developed tiny rosebuds. And I had to repot it into a larger pot, and my roseplant's now affectionately called "Rosie Cotton." I'm glad to say it's doing very well, and it's my fill of roses and nature, and I tend to it daily. :-) Here's an up close of its beautiful little flower. Love roses!





And today's my Friday! I am off work the next couple days to traveling to Northern Michigan with my mom, grandma and aunt for a girls' weekend. :-) It will be nice to get away, be up north, relax, have fun, enjoy summertime...a breath before a couple frantic months to come. Need this calm before the storm of events and busyness that will assail me (work and life) the rest of the summer. Perhaps I'll have some stories to blog about upon my return.

So until then...


update: I neglected to mention upon first posting of this that the flower garden pics were taken by Topher on his cameraphone (since I don't have one) and uploaded to the internet via the amazing technology. So, THANK YOU Topher! Muchas gracias! And the Guatemala mountain pic was taken by Alisha (I believe) on the WaYfm missions team.

posted by FaithChristine @ 12:00