2 days

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! 2 days left until I leave! I am so not ready. And I am so not helping the situation by sitting around all Saturday morning watching movies and checking email. But... well, I've always been a bit of a procrastinator.

Okay, also: I am now officially 30 years old. I sat in meetings most of the day on my birthday, but then all of the YWAM New Zealand ministry leaders (we were having a ministry leaders' meeting, so I was in Auckland) went mini-golfing in the evening, and then we had a little cafe night at one of the Te Au Marama bases and there was cake for me and also a chocolate banana smoothie that was really good. And everyone was really great and fun and it was just nice. I had a really good night.

And now I'm just getting ready to go (except that I'm not! Hmmm...) and chilling. Tonight is my friend Juliet's 30 birthday, so she's having a big party, which should be fun. I'm pretty excited to get home, and also to go to Scotland, and cannot believe that I will be there in a week. Seriously, a year ago, I had this passing thought that I'd really like to go to Scotland and do this school, and dismissed it as basically impossible. And now I'm going!

Anyway... the meetings that I was at were really good, and really kind of set a stage for the next little while for me, I think. We talked a lot about not getting caught up in doing stuff so much, and just getting to know God in a deeper way. Which, actually, is something that I always talk about. But now I'm actually taking some serious time to do it. And of course, doing stuff is important, too. But... well, whatever. This is going to be a good year. And it's going to be a crazy one. And I'm excited about that.