Transitioning...

Please please please bare with me. This blog as you can see is in new transition. I need a new theme..and a new look...and i like what i have but in order to customize it all i have to do it in the tricky and complex coding. So I just haven't decided what I want to do. So it is on hold for now.

Tomorrow I leave for Virginia again for my journeyman debriefing! It will be amazing to see some of my best friends and people i haven't seen in a couple of years and to meet some new peeps. I will be back on Sunday evening and then will try to head off to Cali by 5 AM the next morning. So...you might not hear from me for quite some time. One day this blog will be back and in full function...but just not yet. My life is in transition..so I guess it would make sense that my blog is too!!

Love you guys! Do you miss me? I miss ya'll!

Prison Break- Season 3

Prison Break.... what can I say? I am addicted, obsessed, and in love with Prison Break. It is a simple joy of mine. I have tried to rationalize why it is that I love this show so much. It is seriously one of my favorite tv series EVER. I woke up this morning especially excited because I knew that at 7 PM I would get to watch it. I know...rediculous.

I watched season 1 and 2 after they aired...so I got a little spoiled by watching one episode after another. I was a little disappointed tonight after the first episode to think that I actually have to wait a WHOLE week before I can see the next one... seriously?

I will say that I was a little curious what they were going to do with this new season, but the way the set it up today...I am very hopeful and excited about...

See you next week Michael Scoffield!!

Back In Texas

It is good to be back in Texas! This past week, I was in Richmond, Virginia at the IMB headquarters for job training. Then we hopped a few states over to South Carolina for some hands on training at North Greenville University for their Global Missions Conference. I spent about 5 days in South Carolina and would have to say I experienced a little culture shock! Not from being in America, but from being in the deep south. I loved everyone and their country accents and their amazing southern hospitality. At the North Greenville, I even stayed in this awesome log cabin...it was quite wonderful.

Let me just say this...let me put this out there... I LOVE my new job!! This new job is a perfect job match for me. I will write another post about it all together, BUT I get paid to use my gifts, my passion for missions, my love for relationships, and my love for students!! I am starting to get a little anxious about moving and getting to meet my students and the staff there. However, I am STILL enjoying my last couple of weeks in Texas BUT also kind of counting down the days till i get to move to California (exactly 2 weeks tomorrow)!

Random things about me since I last posted:
1. I wrote my first check since I have been back in America which was also my first car payment I have ever made. yikes.

2. I found out I get my own business cards...I am officially grown up now.

3. I still have not been to Wal-mart yet.

4. I bought a planner...it looks like I will actually have a schedule at my new job...so I get to write stuff in a planner! Planners are a simple joy of mine. This time I went for the grown-up planner...you know the really thick ones that are leather and have places for business cards and pen holders.

5. I have been asked to go back to India next July to help supervise and to lead some teams!! Um...can't tell you how excited I am.

6. I officially have a place to live in California! I will be living on campus in a cottage with one of my best friends...Lindsey Cooper. It's just the two of us in ONE big cottage!!

7. I also officially have a California address and cell phone number. Let me know if you need it!

8. I ate at Sonic for the first time last week..yumm.

Here are a few pics from my time away....

My new co-workes and the famous Eloise!! Any of you know about the hip granny that does video for the IMB? Yep...that's her in the middle.

My new supervisor- Melody! She is AMAZING!! I love her and she is very talented at her job!

My sweet sweet fun crazy friend Chesed. You might remember her...I visited her in Singapore last New Years. She was also at my training!

Off to Virginia and South Carolina

Howdy. Howdy. I leave early tomorrow morning for Virginia and South Carolina. I will be gone till the 13th for training for my new job in Sunny California! yay. I will also be attending a missions confernce at North Greenville University and will have an opportunity to speak in a church. So...my new job already begins! Yay.


A fun exciting thing too is that I will be only 40 minutes from my friends Jonathan, Kelley, and little Kiran (she is walking now) !!! Isn't that amazing?! So I will hopefully get to see them and their new house! Wahoo. This was a sweet little gift from the Lord...God is good...all the time!!

See You soon Caskeys!!!

I will try to blog and post some pics if I can...if not I will see you after the 13th!!!

Blog Makeover

As you can tell...my blog needs a little blog makeover!!! I am no longer in India and I just think it needs an overall new look....

I need a new theme, but I have thought for a long time and I am un-inspired....HELP!!!

Anybody out there have any ideas?

The JOYS of Texas....

The JOYS of my Texas hands down are those you love...friends and family. This weekend 5 of my college best friends came to see ME all the way in San Antonio! This was the first time we were united to just hang out since I graduated in May 05. My college friends are like sisters...so seeing them is like coming home. It was a JOY to see them again and I already miss them. I am realizing the older I get how unique and rare these opportunities are so I try to cherish every moment!!

My parents were also really sweet and threw a "Welcome Home Alicia" party for all my extended family. It was nice to not have to miss out on a family get-together...another JOY of Texas.

I heart Texas.

Uncle Tye, Aunt Traci, Kiley, and me at a Mexican Restaurant!

Outside my house... I had to show them my new wheels...no more 1986 White volvo....

Trying to re-in-act a picture from years ago....

Kiley's favorite thing to do all weekend.... "I don't know"

To keep tradition alive...we went to Chick-fil-A for dinner! High class...I know. In college, Chick-fil-A was kind of our default place. For lack of creativity and lack of money in college, we always ended up eating at CFA. I guess not many things over the years have changed.

We are CHICKENS at Chick-Fil-A. Don't we fit the part?

Chillin' at my parents house. I love this pictures. I might have to print it and frame it.

A group shot outside of CFA...also a frameable picture. Its nice to have new pictures of these beautiful gals.

Don't we look like we should be in a magazine! We are so candid. These are also the gifts I gave my friends from India.

our attempt to be creative with the camera...

My amazing parents that helped make the weekend so fun...

At the Mexican Restaurant

In honor of Amber....

C-U-Later...Kiley kept doing this cheer for us...this is for you Kiley...