Hey hey hey it's fat Monday.

I don't know. The weather is wacky here and I think I'm allergic to spring time. I'm not complaining, but my brain feels fuzzy. Name that movie (answer below).

I have a tattoo. It's a cross with an "M" for Mary behind my left ear. Standby as I try to take a decent photo of the side of my head (it's ridiculous).



Update: I gave up trying to take a picture of the back of my head so here is a screenshot of my friend Katherine's instagram. Technology.

Recently I've been thinking about getting another. When I got the first one people told me that tattoos are like potato chips, you can't have just one. Also, apparently grey hound dogs are also like that? Jury's still out on that.

So I said, "That's silly, one is enough" and now two years later I'm seriously pondering getting another one.

I have a design all thought up.
I know a safe and clean tattoo parlor, run by a former FOCUS missionary and amazing father of two (Thaddeus and Penelope...I mean, so cute) so I would love to further support his business.

But my team was recently talking about our Resurrections and our glorified bodies and I can't help but wonder if my glorified body is going to have my tattoo on it.

Jesus' had the wounds of His Crucifixion on His glorified body and I always assumed that martyrs would bare some mark of their martyrdom, but maybe that's just a faulty assumption on my part.

If I am a martyr I kind of want that to stick around when my body is risen. I know that tattoos are not the same as martyrdom wounds but I'm wondering if they will stick around too.

Anyway, I would love to hear your thoughts.
Or you can just tell me how ridiculous I'm being. Either way.

Happy Thursdays of Easter!

Edit: Here's a YouTube video of Matt talking about tattooing. So great

You guys, I love icons.

He is Risen! Alleluia!

I was very nervous about celebrating Easter here in PA without my family. I went to college only 20mins away from my parents so I could go home whenever, especially on days like Easter Sunday.

I know, super spoiled.

All my married teammates went to extended family to celebrate so it was just me and Rachel. And basically all the students at CMU.

Denise got confirmed!

Gaby, Denise, Rachel, me

Maybe some day I will learn how to take a nice picture.

Anyway, the Cathedral was beautiful and the Bishop said almost all the Masses/services of the Triduum. He washed feet and kissed each foot. It was really beautiful


Also it is 76 degrees here. I literally don't know what to do with myself. I am ashamed to bare my suuuuuper white legs in public but I am sweaty. I know, my life is very hard.

Here are some hip people slack lining by the library.

My team here at CMU is really into talking about hopes and dreams, things we'd like to achieve, maybe dream jobs if money (or education) was no object, what makes us become fully alive, etc.

It's pretty great.

SO I'm going to write (type) down some dreams! I encourage this. It's not being irresponsible or making up unachievable goals, it's about what makes us come most alive and then realizing that a lot of these things are probably attainable.

ONE
I want to write books. At least two published written works. One novel and one other thing. I know what I want the other thing to be but I don't know what to call it. I'll get back to you on that.

TWO
I want to have some babies. However many God wants to bless me/us with.

THREE
Late Night Talk show host. This is a new dream of mine. I love Jimmy Fallon and I love Stephen Colbert and I'm pretty sure I could do that. I was talking to Crystal and she was like, 'that's great but I can't stay up that late' and I said no worries so maybe I'll just slap it on youtube.

I could do that. Hang out with my friends and fancy celebs (meh) and cook with chefs and have quirky bits on tv. I could so do that. Hannah and Katherine and I used to say hilarious things and say that NBC needed to hire us as writers. I stand by that.

FOUR
I want to see a moose in the wild

FIVE
I want to be a person who can confidently say, "I cook" and "I know things about wine"
That one is maybe the scariest.

The glory of God is man fully alive -- St. Irenaeus

Have a great day! Talk to God about your dreams, He probably has some great ones picked out for you.

I knew it had gotten bad when Hannah's husband texted me about my hiatus. Whoops.

And now I'm all baby come back, you can blame it all on me. Like those Swiffer commercials. Remember those?

Anyway, I apologize for failing at blogging again. Things get crazy at the end of the year here at CMU and working my way over to the Oratory to use the wifi suddenly seemed like an impossible task.

Here are some things that happeneeeeed!

1. Curtis Martin (founder and CEO of FOCUS) swung by Pitt and CMU and gave a great talk to students and it was awesome. We also had dinner with him and I sat next to him and I was REAL nervous. He's a big deal.

2. Umm...

3. We had a Regional Gathering, so all the missionaries in the Northeast? Upper northern part of the East? Not Super East Coast but Still East Coast? The boundaries are confusing. Anyway we all convened in SCRANTON, PA. It's a real place, and I was there. I took no photos, but it happened.



4. Also, not super time consuming, but my beautiful mother bought me The Prince of Egypt so I had to watch that. I mean, it's so good.

Hey, everyone.

Art, man.