Four Divas and a Dad

Weeding out my social networks

April 12, 2012

I have started to feel overwhelmed by all the social networks that I have joined. Checking Facebook often and wondering what comments were left on Pinterest had me online a lot. I finally got tired of going back and forth, and I deleted a lot of my accounts. It was amazing to see what accounts were easy to delete and which ones were difficult. For the most part, most networks were easy to completely delete. The most difficult to delete was Groupon. I actually had to call them to delete my account.

Here is a list of the social networks I deleted.
- Pinterest
- Instagram
- Groupon
- Facebook, by far the most difficult to delete, but I think it’ll be worth it!
- Tumblr
- imo
- Path

Here is the list of apps I decided to keep… for now.
- Twitter, enjoy using Twitter and there is not a lot of advertisements like FB.
- LinkedIn, probably the next one I’ll get rid of
- WordPress, use a lot for my personal blog and for work.
- WhatsApp, I’ll probably get rid of this as well.
- Skype, must have for me. Got to keep in contact with the grandparents
- Google +, Not a lot of people on it but I really like Google products and I get extra storage on my Picassa account.

Well that’s the run down! We’ll see if I feel like I need FB again! LOL.

Kale is my new favorite food!!!

February 6, 2012

Kale is so good! For some reason I have been craving it! Yeah, I know kinda weird. It could be that I am getting older… or it could be that it’s just so good, and I never gave it a chance. I think it’s more the later. If you’re not into Kale, please try these recipes. Try them quickly though, because kale season will be over soon.

Here are a couple of recipes that I really like:

Bacon and kale adobo: Bacon makes everything taste better. Try this recipe with chicken adobo and garlic jasmine rice!

Kale chips: Our family fights over these… except for Eva. Even little Alexa goes to town on these simple to make chips. Total time? About 30 min. Tonight I made two separate batches of kale chips.

Hope you enjoy these.

God Wall

February 6, 2012

Students writing their thoughts about who God is

Monday through Wednesday of last week InterVarsity invited people to write their feelings and share their experiences of God. We got to interact with a lot of students and staff. Great conversations and it was eye opening to hear what others thought about God.

I personally had one conversation with a student from the Jewish Association on campus that was amazing. She came up to me and I could tell she was somewhat frustrated because of the God Wall. I asked her if she was okay and what she thought about the wall. She quickly asked, “Who are you guys?” I said we are a Christian group on campus and we want to hear what people are saying about God. She told me about her experience as a Jewish person interacting with Christians and how she believes in God, but unlike us is still waiting for the Messiah. Our conversation went for about 30 minutess. I found myself apologizing to her in the ways that people have tried to shove Jesus down her throat and just listening to the ways that she experiences God. It was very eye opening and I walked away from that conversation thankful for us meeting. For me it was a great peacemaking story.

School has began and we are ready for the semester!

February 1, 2012

SJSU Leadership Team for Spring 2012

This is our Servant Leadership Team. These guys are making things happen on campus by leading a Community Group, organizing outreach, leading worship, giving announcements, guiding a prayer time, or gathering people for something fun. Ministry on campus could not happen on campus. Very thankful for them all.

Please be praying for them as they balance their studies, spiritual development, work, and social life.

(L to R) Jennifer, Jonathan, Alexa, Jason, Gene, Edward, Kyle, Jared, and Jonathan