I've been in Victoria almost a month now. I came here with this big set of plans and this big to do list that would help me grow and learn. To be honest I haven't come close to crossing anything off besides get a job.

Yes, i've been procrastinating, but I also realized I don't really need that list. I still wanna complete it, but how did I think a list that I could have completed at home would change me. That list didn't have anything on it about helping with living with someone you don't know who's messy, or any of the other little things. So i'm making a new list here is it.

-SPEND TIME WITH GOD. 

Yep, that's it. That's the only thing on the list, because that's really all I need. I mean GREAT if i finish all those things and i'm not going to completely throw that list out. But i'm going to stop beating myself up for not getting those things done because god and my family is more important. And i've come to realize that's why god has brought me here. Well part of the reason. I know I won't know the full extent until I get home, but that's definitely most of it.

I'm rubber you're glue..maybe i'm glue.

I've been tirelessly trying to come up with a layout, design, and name for a design blog. And by tirelessly i mean watching boy meets world every night. I'm stuck at the name. I have three names i've kinda narrowed it down to. I want it to be something clever, something witty, and something simple. I've come up with three, i'm stuck on one but it's just not working. I know i've been taught never fall in love with your ideas and don't be afraid to throw anything out if it's not working. 

I've realized i've wanted this to be so perfect, and I thought it had to be. I thought, whatever i come up with now I have to keep. Might as well start branding myself and my designs now. But I guess that's not really true. I probably have a year to actually finalize something. Who cares if I start my blog as TBD really, at least i'm starting and posting and it's the content that counts.

So by the end of next week my design blog will be up and running! yay! 

Time to stop procrastinating Nicole.

Lists Lists Lists

I've clued onto several reasons why I'm supposed to be in Victoria this summer. It's clear god is up to something. But I've decided to make a small summer bucket list or things to do while I'm here. We all know I'm a list person, I create one every night for the next day. So far I've already hit the beach and Beacon Hill Park...and ended up with a sun burn. So here we go. This is mainly so that I have a hard copy of this and so that I can hold myself accountable.

READ:
 I have quite the big reading list for the summer. So here we go.

Bible (obviously)
Crazy Love (re read)
Jesus is_____.
Girls With Swords
Architecture of Happiness
Shaping Interior Space
Greater
The Shack
The Winter Vault

BLOG:
Blog on my Personal Blog Often
Start and keep up a new design blog. (which I have started!)
Read my daily blogs

CREATE:
 2 drawing exercises weekly. At least on perspective a week.
Finish two paintings.

APPLY:
 For 10 Scholarships

That should keep my pretty busy.

Time for a new adventure

here we go. Out on my own for the first time. Packed up all my car would fit and I’m headed to the island. 

When God says go does he ever mean go. I had the inkling to move to the island for the summer  a few months ago, but I pushed it down and ignored the idea. I debated the fact that I was really supposed to go. Was it god telling me to go? Well he really wanted to make it clear and during worship one day a r:gen specifically told me to go after as soon as I just finished my sentence praying for clarification. I was the most unreal thing i’ve ever felt. God has talked to me before but always in a gentle quiet voice. This was definitely louder, still gentle and quiet but loud in a different way. The only other time I’ve heard his voice so clearly was when I was in a black magic shop and it shrieked to shrilly and loudly to “GET OUT” which I agreed with, the place gave me the he-bee-jeebies and it was not okay.

So here I am sitting on a ferry with a few inklings why God has called me here for these short three and a half months, but I’m excited.

And I promise to blog more. I also have plans to start a design blog, so be excited. I just have to do some planning because I have a huge list of things I want to do this summer; reading, painting, drawing and blogging are some of the main ones.

So fellow bloggers I am back!