Questionaire

Here's a silly questionnaire to get to know me better...and to waste time. LOL.

Favorites

1. Color: orange
2. Food: seafood
3. Season: summer
4.TV Show: the twilight zone
5.Movie: gone with the wind
6.Band: brooks & dunn
7.Book: (besides the bible) redeeming love
8.Outfit: sundress
9.Vacation: cabo san lucas
10.Animal: horse
11.Scent: perfume Angel by therry mugler
12.Drink: milk and lemonade
13.Famous Person: jesus
14.Sport: swimming
15.Hobby: crafts
16.Number: 12
17.Beauty Product: nail polish
18.Restaurant: ya hala
19.Store: target

Day Thirty: Self Portrait

Day Ten: Childhood Memory

We went camping alot when I was a kid. I LOVE it!!! This is at Cove Palisades (near Bend, OR) We went there every summer and did all kinds of water sports. But one of my favorites was kneeboarding!

This is at Lost Lake (up near Mt. Hood). For some reason my sister and I thought it was fun to put a stick in our dog, Boaz's mouth and run. LOL. We were strange.

Me

Hey there. Thanks for stopping by. Here's that great pic again, taken by ASH Photography. I am Maria Tebeck. I am married to the most wonderful man, Shane. And we live in a small town in northeast Oregon, however we are both from the beautiful city of Portland. We came here to study under a great mentor/pastor. We both work for him at our church, Living Faith. I am the administrator, and my husband is the Youth Pastor and runs Underground Church. We love it alot. You can check out my facebook here. Also, you can check out my facebook page for the jewelry business I own called Bittersweet Bling by clicking the tab "Bittersweet Bling" on the navigation bar, or by clicking here.

Here I am with my best bud, Megan. This is last summer when we had to get all decked out for our church's VBS program.

I am not sure why I like this picture... probably the incredibly blue eyes, which I don't actually possess.

There is probably a ton about me that you can figure out from my posts/pictures. I love to make jewelry, do crafty things, paint, write, blog, shop, go on vacation, visit my family, give gifts, etc.
Here is a picture from my sister-in-law, Adrey and Brice's wedding. Here I am with my other sister-in-law, Allecia.

I have the greatest family on the planet.
Here is my family on our vacation to Mexico in September 2009. That was so awesome. I love the heat, and the water, and seafood, and infinity pools, and the fact that Troy was filmed behind us, etc...
I love this picture alot. It's right before we left on our anniversary to Joseph, Oregon. Such a great time!

What do Shane and I like together, you ask? Hummm... trying out new restaurants, serving at our church, watching House MD, The Office, King of Queens, and the Twilight Zone, talking walks, playing board games, hanging out with friends, etc...
Shane's family at Brice & Adrey's wedding. It was so beautiful. I like how all the men are pretty much the same height, and so are the women. Except me. Hahaha.

Here I am being crazy. I like funky photo edits sometimes. Green eyes, cross process, whatever.

I am so weird sometimes. I like a very wide variety of food, clothing styles, music, movies, artsy stuff, etc.

Here I am on Christmas 2010, with my new little nephew Nathaniel!

Update

Apparently I suck at updates. It's been a long time. Since the last one. I now work as administrator at Living Faith Church here in Hermiston Oregon. My wonderful hubby as youth pastor here. Soon we will have all of LFC moved into our apartments at highland manor. hahaha.

Life is good. My family has been able to visit twice now. Woo hoo (as my sis is soon to be joining the air force) I am part of Roger & Tina Brown's drama team (2nd Acts) which is alot of fun.

Favourite Shoes

These are my favourit pair of shoes. They are in fact, surprisingly comfortable. I just need to go to Hot Topic fir all my shoes.


From Maria and jolly roger

Location:Hot Topic

Dislikes

Pickles. Particle board. Slivers. Bees. Too much coffee. Farmville, mafia wars, and cafe world on facebook. Haha. When people give garbage to goodwill. Satan. Tie dye. A lot of talk and no action. Christians with no conviction. Soap opera. Probably most movies in the theatre and songs on billboard right now. Grape soda. Spumoni ice cream. Gardening.


From Maria and jolly roger

Likes

I like to sing. I love art. Movies are cool, when I ever have time. I have the best husband ever. Church is like my second home. I love licorice...and red vines are not it. My family rocks. I love to cook. I love camping (I miss "the cove") fishing is fun. I have way too many shoes for my own good...but hey, Shane's got way too many books for his own good, so we balance each other out. I like sweet + salty snacks. "redeeming love" by Francine Rivers is my favourite book. I still like Looney Tunes and animated Disney movies. I love caviar. (especially that $40,000 per bottle because it's from 50 year old sturgeon from the caspian sea...oh wait I've never had it) Target, Fred Meyer, and Craft Warehouse are my favourite stores. I love Jimmy Stewart. Daphne DuMaurier is my favourite author. English and geography were my favourite school subjects. Art and drama were my favourite electives. I love to write (novels mostly. Sometimes about real life) Alfred Hitchcock is my favourite director. I like tea. I like to make jewelry. Gone With the Wind is my favourite movie. I love the beach. I like OMSI and the Iregon zoo. Portland is cool. Shane is my best bud. I like to read. I love horses. Dogs are cool too.


From Maria and jolly roger

Location:Home

Just me

I really like this picture of me. Gale is awesome at taking pictures. Then I modified it on my sketching app on my iPhone. I look all solemn, hahaha.


From Maria and jolly roger

Location:Pdx

Recent likings

So recently I really like trees, leaves, owls, peacocks, swallows...(so, birds), poppies, all things Boho and hippie, reds, aqua, and gold.

I am working on a line of jewelry with these themes.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:Breakroom

Just Me

I am Maria I love Jesus yes I do I am a "church junkie" and a "Bible thumper" I will be a missionary to Holland I have the raddist family Worship in the dance and theatre are amazing Writing frees my spiritPoetry southes my soul I support our troops The peace sign, is the footprint of the American chicken In love with Fred Astaire, Nat King Cole, and Charlie Daniels Musicals and the Opera are definantly my forte I am a French Canadian I went to culinary skool Michael Crawford's voice makes me melt Stallions are all that is of grace, beauty, and majesty Monet, VanGogh, and MCEscher are incredible My hero is yes, my daddy.and Batman (Christian Bale...whew) I believe in RKBAJane Austen and Daphne DuMaurier are amazing I speak a little Dutch I Conrinthians 4:13 rocks We live in the land of the free BECAUSE of the brave There are always so many cowboys, so little ropeWhen guns are outlawed, I'll be an outlaw I can play the tinwhistle Seafood is tasty (espically calamari) Phantom of the Opera is my favourite play "The Highwayman" is a great poem Uncle Sam and I want you to take your traterous liberal butt to CanadaPecos Bill is my role model I like escargot, caviar, frog legs, elk, gazelle, and ostrich Rap equals love Oh man...egg nog I have a 67 banana yellow El Camino, and go-kart Steve Irwin and Jaques Couesteau are rad I want to paint my room John Deere green

A New Year

Okay, so here's my first blog for this year. I know what you're thinking, gheez Maria, where have you been. Well, I've been in Hermiston visiting Shane several times now, shopping, hanging out, having breakthru, getting stabbed with a sword. Hopefully I will make assistant manager at work-considering that they are firing the current one tomorrow. Sucks for him. Oh well. Life's been pretty good...except that there seems like there is so many things that I have to wait for at present. I'll make it though. Thanks for all the prayer and support.

Update

Okay so last week I got my permit, finally and I had an interview with Pizza Schmizza. I will know if I get the job sometime today. I also got a call to schedule an interview with a new Taco Del Mar near my house...

I really wanted an interview with one of the receptionist positions I filled out. But nothing has come through. Retail/Food industry is okay, something to get me by, but it's not like you can really grow and learn alot with it.

So I guess if ya'll could pray that I can get the one at either PizzaSchmizza until something more promising comes along, that'd be super.

We're going to go visit Shane again. Super excited!


Ok so here's another short update. Looks like all my prayin' paid off...finally. I got a job at Taco Del Mar and start training on Tuesday. Not the best job ever, but it's better than nothin. And I get to visit Shane this weekend! Yay! I'm sooooooooo excited.

So now, I could probably just use prayer for three things. One, that T-moblie won't shut off my account, cuz I'll be super late in paying it. Two, that I'll be a fast learner and hard worker at work, and three, that the friend I'm supposed to go visit Shane with does not bail! That'd be amazing.

Update

Upon reading this one might think that this is more or less a blog about Shane. But I'll tie myself in just you wait. 

It's been over 2 weeks since I've last seen him. He is working full time at Goodwill, then has some random job cleaning ferret cages for 3 hours, for 40$...(I think). He seems to be growing and learning a lot from his pastors. He is also playing on the worship team, and helping with children's church. I never knew that I could miss someone so much. I mean, I imagined it...but never fully understood it. It is harder than I ever imagined. Days seems so long....(no, I am not depressed) We talk on the phone everyday. Sometimes 2 hours at a time...Hehe.

Right now I've got a very small income by grading the papers of the students that Amy taught. My plan is to buckle down and get a real job right after this first vist to Hermiston (Oct 20&21). I shall try to work between 50-70 hours, pay off some bills and save for a car. I am retesting for another permit, and will drive my friend Amy's, extra car. Hopefully by the time I've saved a chunk of money, I'll be ready for the drive test. Which I'm sure I will. It's not like I've never driven before. Haha.

Oh life is exciting, scary, challenging, and happy all at once! And yeah, I eventually plan to move to Hermiston with Shane...however the date is still undecided.

Change

And the bad change. Well, it's good and bad. Shane has moved to Hermiston Oregon. He will do a 2 year internship with a pastor who helped start his home chruch. It will be ery good for him, and he will grow and learn. But it's really hard. It has not even been a week, yet it feels like eternity. I'll manage. Somehow, with Jesus, I'll manage. Yay for us!

Just Life

Ok, so now I work at this little pizza place in Gresham called Carly's. It's allright, just minimum wage+tips. Tips are pretty good, except when I worked on Independence day...ha I made a whopping 1.50$...ha. Usually it's not quite that bad. Ha. And let's see. I live with my good friend Heather and her mom. I've been dating Shane for about 6 weeks now...oh wow. 

Let's see. On Monday night I got virtually no sleep. Then I swam for about 3 hours in the afternoon, then worked for nine hours, slept little, worked nine hours again, slept, and yeah...now I'm messing around. Amazing.

Your Script

Everyone has his own script to write. His own story. What does yours say? The funny thing is that I was realizing the other day, that mine is mostly good, which is good...I guess. Dosen't really fit with the "no pain, no gain" idea. It seems as if someone has had someone dear to them die, parents divorce, abuse, alcohol, or some form of other crisis. I can't really think of anything of that sort that has happend in my life. Sure my great grandma died, but she was 87...to be expected, sort of. At age 9 I had scoliosis. No pain, though. None. Ever. God has given me a gift of a VERY high pain tolerance. I've always thought however, that if one doesn't know pain, then you can never fully understand true happiness. Likewise with any emotion, and its opposite. Most everyone I know, has, at some point battled depression, anxiety, anorexia, etc. I have not. My father died at age 25, when I was not yet 2. But I didn't know him. I can't remember a blasted thing about him. They all say that I look like him, but when I refer to my dad, I mean the man that my mom married sometime later, who adopted me. I have a wonderful bro and sis who are the best and I never really had too much sibling rivalry going on. My parents have always loved each other and have set a great example for me.

So, if I turn out to be a loser, it's obviously nothing in my past. Everything about it was amazing...

100 Life Goals

Accomplished: Listed in John Deere Yellow

Yet to do: Listed in John Deere Green

adopt and/or have a sponsored child
befriend an enemy
be in two places at once
bring gifts to an orphanage in a 3rd world country
debate a pro-choicer
do a 360 on a kneeboard
don’t have a TV ‘til kids are older
don’t get fat
don’t name kids common names
eat healthy
help a homeless person
get an ol’ car for my 1st one
get a period style dressget married outside
be on jeopardyown spurs and chaps
paraglide
go on a Caribbean cruise
go on a mission trip
skydiverock climb
surf
learn Dutch
learn Spanish
learn French
learn sigh
learn German
learn to tap-dance
learn to line dance
learn to ballroom dance
learn to sing opera
mr. Right must be approved by God and Dad
learn to snow ski
learn to water ski
own or lease a horse
ride horse on beach
see Oklahoma play
see west side story
see Annie
see fiddler on roof
see phantom
see swan lake
see Shakespeare’s best…in Ashland
star in Broadway
star in Shakespearevisit Australia
visit Austria
visit Victoria Canada
visit Nova Scotia and PEI Canada
visit Banff Canada
visit Paris
visit Frankfurt
visit Great Pyramids
visit Israel
visit Dublin
visit Florence
visit Pisa
visit Rome
visit NZ
visit 7 wonders of ancient world
visit bora bora
visit Tahiti
visit Barcelona
visit Kazakhstan
visit Bancock
visit Yellowstone
visit Crater lake
visit statue of liberty
visit mt Rushmorevisit golden gate bridge
visit Alcatraz
write and publish book
jump from bridge
go-kart…for real
be 1st on swim team
go to favourite statelearn how to tune up carlearn basic survival techniqueslive, love, thrive…
bake Christmas cookies for neighbors
climb a silo
drive the deere
write and publish poem
learn to play an instrument
ride in FRONT SEAT of cap car
learn basics of bartending
go to culinary schoolgo to theatre school
go to Bible school

About Me

[A is for age:] 21 A is also for: Also…ha, Apollogetics, Amethyst, Aroma, and Amy.
[B is for breed of choice:] Depends on what for, but we’ll go with the Native American…so pretty. B is also for Buccaneer, Brave, Batman, Belgian waffles, Bible thumper, Boccellis, Blonde, and Brit.
[C is for career:] I am a student. Also I’d like: Chef, Caterer, Childcare, mad-skilled Concert pianist, Concerto writer, and Crazy actor, Captain morgan, Canada…eh?, Court Jester, Cowboy/Cattleman, Calimari, Cherokee, and Condoleezza Rice.
[D is for your dog's name:] well, my family’s dog is Benz (after Mercedes-Benz), and my host family’s dog is Amber. D is also for: Daracula, Drive, Detrimation, Dragster, Dictionary, Dance, Daphne duMaurier, and Dad.
[E is for an essential item you use everyday:] existential, eucalyptus-eating elk jerky. E is also for: Emerald, Evergreen, Ezekiel, Encyclopedia, Escargot, Egg nog, Egypt, Eschatology and Euphrates.
[F is for favorite song at the moment:] “Jolene” Dolly Parton and “Say Yes” Dusty Drake. F is also for Ferry, Forlorn, Flamboyant, Freddy, France, Fred Astaire, Ft. Vancouver, and Fabulous French Food.
[G is for favorite games:] too many. cranium, wink murder, pictionary, poker. G is also for: Gumballs, Gumby, Grandparents, George W, Greek, and Giraffe.
[H is for hometown:] da Couve. H is also for: Horses, Hephisina, Halalujiah, hemp, Hawaii, Holland, and Horatio G Spafford.
[I is for the instrument you play] I am a mad pianist, voice, cello, and tinwhistle. I is also for: Imagination, Intuition, and Igloo.
[J is for favorite juice] Orange Cranberry all the way. J is also for Jaguar, Juggling, Joker, Jack of spades, John Deere green, John Wayne, Jane Austen, Jacques Cousteau, Jeopardy, and Jesus. 
[K is for kids?:] Somewhere between 2 and 4. K is also for: Kaleidascope, Knee board, Karamel…with a K. ha!
[L is for last kiss:] Good one…I am unsure. L is also for Lover’s Lane, Lone star state, Lars Larson, Lon Cheney, and Lord Byron.
[M is for mom's job:] My mom is a homemaker and she home-schools my little brother. M is also for Maria, M&Ms, Mikey, Michael Savage, and Mom. 
[N is for Nothing]
[O is for overnight hospital stays:] When I had scoliosis surgery at age 15 I stayed for one week. O is also for Orange, Olives, and Oregon trail/territory.
[P is for phobias:] I’m not so sure I have any…P is also for: Powered blue Mikey shirts…ha, Polar bear, Phantom, Pirates, Pink, Pizzazz, Prestige, Pecos Bill, Paraglide, Parasail, and Promises of God.
[Q is for quotes you like:] "Necessity is indeed the mother of invention” Q is also for: Quick-stitched, Quilted Quotes, in whose author’s names begin with “Q”
[R is for restaurant] Rimsky-Korsakoffeehouse. Heck yes! (amazing fool) R is also for: Ravishing, Refurbished Rooms Representing Rad Renaissance themed artists, Romeo, Roller skating, Rap…some, Rogues, Red Roses, Right-wing Redneck party of “R”s, and Rambo.
[S is for status] Single. And S is also for: Summer, Sly Snakes, Swords, Spiderman, Steve Irwin, Sapphire, SCUBA dive, Sean Hannity, and Schwager…Schwagsta, or Schwaggenator.
[T is for time you wake up:] 0700. T is also for: Theatre, Thai food, Tea, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Titanic, Tractor, and ‘Twas.
[U is for under…?:] Underwater, particularly really Underwater, however the Ultimate Underwater adventure at Rimsky is ultra-amazing. U is also for: USA, Unicorn, Umbrella, Uncle Sam, and US flag.
[V is for vegetable you love:] olives and radishes. V is also for: Vancouver, Vivacious, Valor, Voodoo doughnuts, Van Gough, and Vermeer.
[W is for worst habit:] You tell me. W is also for: Washington, We Were soldiers, WWI and WWII vets, White chocolate, West Side Story, and Whistle.
[X is for x-rays] From age 9-20 I probably had about 16 or 18 x-rays for scolosis. X is also for: Xylaphone, and Xena
[Y is for yummy food you make:] fool’s paradise and seafood linguini. Y is also for: Ya Hala, old Yeller, Yo-Yo, Y’shua, and Yodel. 
[Z is for your favorite animal at the Zoo:] now this is way hard…but I’ll go with the crocs. They’re so strikingly random and fierce. Z is also for: Zeal, Zephyr, and Zygotic.

Flavors of Me

Ok, ok, last blog for today. Or is it? So...how is it that Maria can be such a divided person? Ha, trust me...
On one hand, I'm the down-shome country gal whose constantly listening to Cash and Daniels. And yes, I've three pair of boots, chaps, spurrs, and a hat. And I love to ride bareback. I love the USofA, politics, and if you even think about disagreeing with Uncle Sam...well, you can take your traterous liberal butt to France, and Canada works as well. I am a firm believer inRKBA, and the peace sign is the footprint of the American chicken, if guns are outlawed, I'll be an outlaw. I am so not into environmentalist, tree-huggin, PETE joined, "I don't want to wear animal hide", "keep Portland weird", vegetarian hippies. And yes, tractors are sexy...and I want to paint my room in John Deere Green.

On the other hand, I love to dress up. Travel (including road trips) is amazing. Art, history, museums are incredible. French food is fantastic, and yes...including escargot, calamari, and caviar...yum! I like hotel hoppin', going to cocktail parties, dancing, playing poker, poetry, Dean Martin, VanGogh and Monet. World maps are um...wondrous. Operas, Broadway, and theatre is intense.

And then there's a small percent of me who would listen to Christsafari, run barefoot on a white beach in Jamaica, and sip some rum. (ok...that I made up...how bout kayaking instead)

And an even small percent of me could occasionally by a red Ferrari with tinted windows and headbang to Akon or Ludacris...while I drive to a ghetto dance club. ha.