California

I just got home. About 14 hours ago. I went to California to visit my family, some of them I hadn't seen in 8 years. Others I had never met. It was a great time! I visited a MAC store, Juicy Couture, and Nordstroms for the first time. It's so nice to visit people and places you always hear about but hardly know anything about. Palo Alto is a beautiful city. I recommend highly. I got a new pair of TOMS too. 1 for 1 is now my 3 for 3. (: Congrats to Pete & Stef. Happy Birthday Sarah. And to everyone else, thanks for having us! I loved it!

Shatter the Box.

Rob Bell's quote has changed my life. I shattered my box. His quote was "Thinking outside of the box is still thinking inside of the box because you are still basing your standards from the limitations of the box. To be creative you must have no box."

Buy 1 Give 1 Free

Give not Get.
Crazy right?
Actually not really. For every pair of Toms Shoes you buy one pair will be given to a child in need. Such as victims of Haiti and other natural disasters.
This might sound like a total product placement but really it isn't! Toms Shoes are so comfy and cute. They say beauty is pain and in this case it's totally not! You'd spend 70$ on a pair of Nike's and for Toms you get high quality shoes for 44$ and are giving a pair of equal quality to someone who needs them. It sells itself!
I'm getting my second pair today! So go out and buy some Toms.
~Ida
http://tomsshoes.org

Can't Take It In

Lately some stuff has been happening or has happened and I just can't believe. Everything seems so surreal. It's crazy!
But I know it's ok because God is there! It's so awesome, like everything, good or bad, there's something there, and that is amazing! You have to know that you know that you know. Sometimes I want to pull my hair out but I don't because it's not worth it.
Really. These days everybody makes a big deal of nothing. Think about, if you dropped it would it be there? Would there be a problem? No. If we just know that making a big deal out of something isn't worth our time, our time will be spent better. That's what I'm learning and I'm realising, how much better life can be.

Never Judge a Book By Its Cover. (Or a Band)

Recently I'd been given a CD from my dad. It was from the band Abandon Kansas. Well I didn't exactly think it looked the best, but I gave it a try. It's freaking amazing! I totally would reccomend to anybody who inquired about it.
Happy Listening.

1 for 1

I support TOMS shoes. For every pair you buy they will give a pair to a child in Ethiopia who doesn't have shoes.
TOMS are cute, stylish, and extremely comfortable. You should buy a pair.

http://www.tomsshoes.com

~Ida

Haiti Hits Home

So like the earthquake. It really hit home. Really hit home.

Once you've been somewhere like Haiti you can never forget. And I only saw the small marketplace across from the Haitian/Dominican border. The poverty there struck me enough to realise how bad it must be there in general.

Imagine going from almost nothing, to nothing. Where your one pair of holey, to small, tattered, ripped up, shirt was all you had, and you barely had a roof over your head, to nothing....

Yeah. I'd freak too...

I just thought it was worth mentioning in English how bad it is. I haven't seen it hands on since the earthquake, well since 2007, but I can only imagine...

But our imagination should scare us enough help.

~Ida