Oh Happy Day! Oh Boo!

For those of you checking this for up dates:
I received my approval to purchase my plane tickets - the tickets where so expensive we decided to leave a week later than planned! I now leave January 8th.

I received a check in the exact amount that I had left to raise! Kinda wildly providencial - huh?

Oh yea!

Today someone gave me this prayer of St. Patrick:

Christ be with me, Christ within me,

Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me,

Christ to comfort and restore me,

Christ in quiet,

Christ in danger,

Christ in hearts of all that love me,

Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

January 3rd Approaches

In a coffee shop again. Twice in one month!
Iced Tea is my choice - ironic because its around 5 degrees outside.
Today my fellow wifi user introduced himself to me - from Scottland, naturally friendly. Turns out he just finished touring as a chief for Rolling Stones. I asked him if the boots I am wearing would work for the wet Irish climate. He told me no and to get a good umbrella. He did tell me to look foward to warmer weather, clean air, and seeing stars in the night sky.

Meeting him has just made me Sooooooo ready to go!

Anyway-
Many people have been asking me how I am doing and if I am nervous. Nervous? Not as nearly as I should be. The only thing I am truely worried about is leaving some element of life here unfinished - or better and more simply - running out of time.
As far as how I am doing - well I am living on both sides.
Living in peace in the midst of having the least amount of control I have ever experienced.
Being in close comunication with my Lord and yet pondering if I have any reason to believe this hogwash at all.

Well my coffee neighbor keeps talking to me- a friendly chap - he's going on tour with Queen this summer. He also told me where to run into Bono in Dublin - J.W. eat your heart out.

To close out this sporatic wandering - I leave on January 3rd to start the next chapter of my life. This is where you will find details/observations on my life in Dublin.
Check it out often!

Embarking

This post thing is pretty fun - come up with a crazy post title then away you type.
Today I am embarking on a new adventure called wireless internet
For the first time ever I am on the "net" in a coffee shop
- actually just going to a coffee shop is a rarity for me on its own-
Anyway - this is so much fun I am so cool sitting here for hours clicking away!
(I really am working!)
There's this guy sitting near me who has been here for longer than I have
- he is so totally hardcore - he has a chocolate brown cord blazer on and chin length black hair and a scarf (that clinches the coolness) For as long as he has sat there I have been wondering what possibly could he be doing on his computer typing so much?
- And then there is the issue of using the fascilaties - everyone seems to just leave their stuff when they go to the restroom - I am just so paranoind that my 2001 laptop would walk with its newly installed ethernet card - that I have sat here for 2 hours having to pee.
-Of course the guy across from me did just get up - I should take something of his....
Oh wait - I'm a Christian and I don't steal. I could just pocket one of his suede gloves - he'd get up to go and be like "Hey where's my glove?" I would chuckle.

Anyway - the purpose of creating this blog is not to share my klepto fantasies but rather to share with visitors about my life in Ireland and prayer requests.
Embark away!