early morning kills me

today is saturday. thinking i was going to be able to sleep in as long as i desired this morning, i've been staying up pretty late. as it turns out, i have kitchen duty today. our one day to sleep in, and i have to be in the kitchen by 7 am. hooray. so, grumpily i stumbled out of bed and somehow arrived to my work duty on time. the thing is, we are supposed to have another person to work with (especially because i have never even been inside this kitchen much less prepared breakfast for 20 people in it)
unfortunately, my partner in breakfast serving crime, never arrived. so i waited a half hour and still no show. so i thought to myself "screw it, nobody eats breakfast anyway."
however, on my way back to the dorms, i pass the one person who actually does eat breakfast. i looked him straight in the eye and stated "no breakfast today. its been cancelled."
he simply would not have it. in fact, he said he would help me.
so we made breakfast
and it was awful. i was tired and cranky and didnt want to be in the kitchen at all, much less with this guy. but slowly people did start to arrive. (and slowly my pride crumbled)
after an hour, these guys walk in, and somehow we start talking. they are from homer alaska. they have heard of me. they said "hey, aren't you that one girl with the eyebrow ring?" and i says "yeah, that was me."
apparently, the summer i lived in homer, they were gone, but they are friends with all my homer buddies. and they heard all about me. it was the nicest conversation i've had in a really long time.
its funny how annoyed i was this morning, but there was a purpose in it all. firstly, the last person i wanted help from, was the only person who was offering help. and bitterly i accepted. it turns out that he is really helpful and knows about a million things about kitchens. finally, i stopped being snippy and thanked him about a hundred times.
secondly, i love the random connections i am able to make through my life of travel. its like God knows when i need a pick me up. those boys made my day. and i never would have talked to them if i didn't have kitchen duty this morning.
unfortunately, i still have dinner duty. perhaps i will meet someone from wyoming or something.

sometimes its unfair

lectures are boring.

this week, we have a speaker who is covering the very narrow subject of "discipleship."
not only is he very unclear in his speaking, but he never seems to arrive at a point. as my good friend put it, "its like a huge messy stew of information."
so, needless to say, this week has had its challenges. not to say i didn't obtain any useful facts and/or trite christian sayings, because i did. and i absolutely loved it when he misquoted people like jim elliot.

*deep breath*

anyhoo, i realized today, that i can never please the members of the opposite gender. i've often heard that they like smart and saucy women, who are not afraid to speak their minds. but i think that rumor was made up by confused, unpopular women. because this is not true.
for years now, i have had no problem in expressing my opinion and/or thoughts on any matter i find worthy. however, today, after a long debate, i was told, with a huff, that i "think i know everything." silly boy. i DO know everything.

but really, it was only my opinion, and i'm pretty sure his is just as flawed as mine. on either side, it was circular reasoning, which gets old real fast.

boy do i love to vent my angst on the internet.

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rain spoils things

salem. is. soggy.

oh man. i never thought that i, candyce, could ever possibly get sick of the rain. however, i can, and i am. the thing is, rain finds its way through everything. its seems all the roofs here at camp ywam are leaky, and thus moldy, and quite frankly, its smells. like dead bodies.

but enough about that. so, everyone here has pretty much horrid taste in music. i prayed for a music buddy, but none arrived. there is one potential music buddy, but i dont think its going to work out. perhaps this is the end of my music snobbery. i've been accused of this before, and really, im nothing in comparison with my oldest sister lindsay. shes leagues ahead of me in that department. half of the time i mostly just pretend to know what shes talking about when she starts rambling off some hip new bands. sigh. the thing is, ive tried liking silly bands, but i cant.

right now, im sitting in the cafe (i work here) and i am listening to the soundtrack to amelie. its beautiful. but nobody gets it. i lit candles, even. so, goodbye music snobbery. now, i can move on and start (hopefully) to be sincerely interested when someones starts talking about that jack johnson concert they went to last summer.

allow me to introduce myself

so, i caved to the blog mania that has struck the planet.

let me begin. i am candyce, i'm currently doing a dts with ywam in salem Or, and it is fantastic. its raining, all the time (not really that different from portland...so far) there are the coolest kids here, and i work in the cafe and hospitality department. (i made muffins yesterday!)

gratefully, i am not in love with any boys yet.

salem is a strange place. our ywam base used to be a hospital for handicapped kids, (in the 60's) so when i go to put mints on the guests pillows (part of the hospitality job) i get really creeped out. you see, the nurses in the hospital didnt want the kids touching the light switches, so they built the hospital with extremely high light sockets and switches. i can barely reach them. much less little handicapped children. and all the rooms are just oddly shaped and really eerie. its wonderful.
but anyway, i love it here, and next week we will know where we are going on outreach. so, i will keep all ya'lls posted.