I don't make these very often, especially these days, when I'm so busy, I feel like I never have time to update and look at deviations and create new masterpieces and look at everyone else's andandand...


*sniff*


It'd be great if I had time AND remembered, but unfortunately, (or perhaps, fortunately) that is not at all what this journal is about, making the previous sentences and my current explanations a complete waste of your time, especially since they aren't accomplishing anything.

Okay, now, for something actually related to the title of this otherwise nonsense I'm currently writing, because I can.

I was recently checking my email, minding my own business, rushing about, doing homework and stuff, when I happened across a news article. The article talked about a rising trend in the poverty-stricken nation of Haiti: eating dirt.

Dirt-cookies, to be precise, as they are semi-optimistically referred to. The article did it's best to make it sound not quite so terrible, adding that the edible clay was probably slightly more nutritious then simply not eating at all, and that the cheap food, while at risk for transmitting diseases and parasites, and still lacking nutrition...at about the equivalent of 5 cents, it still allows the impoverished to at least eat something.

Now, did that sound like a load of dirt to you? Well, it did to me, and I was the one who said it. So, like I've often done in the past, (before I would lose steam, that is)
I said...I want to do something about that. Maybe not something great, maybe not something permanent (I'd LOVE to do something that great...if I could...)

So I found out, that I can go on a mission trip, for about $500 (which is just barely what I can afford, alot of mission trips are more then that) for one week, to help distribute what you and I would consider this luxury we call "food."

So here's why I'm writing this. I'm am very seriously considering this, but I don't know if I can overcome the stresses of my current, day to day life, or the excuses, or forget, or something, or whatever, without some support and encouragement. If you think this would be a good experience for me, and a good thing to do, then throw a little momentum my way, so that I don't quit before I've actually got something done!