I just got a pretty rad job out in Victoria. I will be making twice as much there then I currently make here. The hours are great. I will be working in a mental health group home. I am leaving in a week though. My first day is May 9. Wow...thats really soon.

I want to say thank you to all my friends who have put up with me and helped me through a bunch, im going to miss you big time...DH, SK, TN, FM, AM, KB, MC, BR, NS, CF, SC, DS, AW, CW, LN, MP...thank you for loving me and showing me was grace and accountability looks like. Thanks for not giving up and thanks for all the encouragment.

So ya. Im leaving Vancouver in a week...its weird to think that. We dont have a place to live yet...so if ya wanna be praying for that, we would much appriciate it.

Im kinda speechless right now (shock i know!), im sitting here trying to think of something blogable, and am having some trouble with it.

Whats Jesus been teaching me? Well Ive been diggin into covenant somewhat..reading on David and how he restored broken covenant, Jacob, and the classic Hosea.

We serve a great and faithful God eh!

Bittersweet.

Its nearing the last day of work. And its a bittersweet time....but it will all be good.

This does mean, however, that I will have ample time on my hands for the next 14 days. Wow!!! I Move in two weeks...I will have ample time in the next two weeks to do stuff...so start booking me now! Haha...but seriously I want to spend quality time with everyone...so if I havent asked you out for coffee, or to go tanning, or to pray yet, get on me!

But on a different note...
I dont like losing, especially when I was winning. Its one thing to lose, but being at the end the whole time...but its totally worse when you were winning, and then to be caught in the loosers circle.
I dont like losing.

i have been up since friday morning at 6am....it is currently saturday evening at 9pm...thats 39 straight hours...what am i doing writing this post!

well the job interview went great, i dont want to say anything ahead of anything just yet, so keep praying.

our teen cell allnighter kicked butt. i loved getting to know some of the girls on a deeper level...sweet, just in time, right beofre i move...but may God bless them. sometimes i forget how hard of lives some of our teen cell crew have...perhaps it is because of the neighborhood change i dont know...but sometimes i forget these kids are coming from places of addiction and crime, lonleiness and pain...it breaks my heart

we went bowling last night and i just what to empisis that i did infact beat both Aaron White and Andy Mac at bowling, and I won the game with a high score of 142, or maybe it was 147, i cant remeber.

im really tired, i think i have to go to bed soon.
ill write more later
love ya

Im in Victoria again!
I didnt tell many people so I had some people completely floored when they called. Not intentional, it was simply that I forgot to tell...hehe.

Anyways, if you read this post in the next hour, pray for me. I have an interview for a rad job. Great pay, good benefits, fun work.

Tonight, I will be up the entire night! Im so excited...seriously I am. Im such a night owl, and i love having fun. Our teen cell is doing the 30 hour famine for World Vision. Its so exciting to see a bunch of 14 year olds, saccrificing food and sleep for Justice...espessially when most our kids arent saved yet. We have alot of adventures planned...and becuase Im around, probally alot of adventures that will happen, but will be unplaned becuase as we all know...THERES ALWAYS AN ADVENTURE WITH NICOLE. mahaha

Okay, lets go deeper.

I look back over the past year or two and have realised something...well a few things, but I will elaborate on one for now.

My entire life, I have feared "getting in trouble"...as a kid I would do something wrong, yet didnt care what I did, but for a chunk of time, I would be paranoid that someone would find out. I remember spraying water into our new stereo, not caring that what I was doing could possibly damage a new expensive thing, but being stressed, worried and scared that I would get caught. In high school if I was skipping class or cheating, or getting high, I would be so paranoid that I would get caught...so it casued me to hide, close myself off, put a cover on...lie...etc...this is stuff Ive done for the last 20 years....

Over the past two years though, I have been placed in a community..for the first year and a half I still had this "I have to hide" attitude, and when I would let myself out of my shell a little bit, the fear of being completly naked before the fellowship brought me into a place where i reverted back in, and hide for a longer amount of time....untill recently this has been a commen thing for me, yet lately i have found so much joy in the authnticity of being real...by lying myself out there i have seen and received the love the body has for me...i am being picked up, lifted up, encouraged, corrected, and it feels good. its funny my biggest fear has turned out to be my biggest joy. I am learning to find the balance in Grace and Accountability.

Be Blessed today all of you.!

Well, I promised everyone an exciting post today didnt I...well here you go.

We spent 5 staight hours applying for housing and jobs...oy vay! I mean it wasnt terrible, but I have never had to apply for housing before in my life, so it was an experience. We found a few cool places. My favourite is called The Loft, and the address is 614 Esquimalt Road. There was this other basment suite that was cool aswell. Then there are these really great apartments in a really great area, with a really great price...but we might not fit the criteria for application.

Dont worry this post will get somewhat more exciting.

Then we went to the mall and ran into our friend Curt...wait I forgot one cool story from earlier in the day.

So as we were applying for housing, we ran into my friend Ashley, and she was like, what are you doing, and I was like looking for a place to live...she was like where...and I was like Esquimalt and she was like...why would you wanna live here, with all the alchoal, drugs, stabbings and murders...and we were like...thats exactly why we wanna live here!!

So we went to the mall and ran into our firend Curt...then we went to Maccarroni Grill for dinner, and we were goof balls there...this fancy restaurant and man we were silly!!!

Then we desided to have a crazy adventure and played hide and seek (well sardines, but for those of you who dont knwo what sardines is, it is a game similar to hide and seek) and we played that in The Empress Hotel...victoria style. That was fun. Then danced in a feild, then drove around and watched a huge cop bust then went home....I love Victoria.

I was thinking about how much I love Victoria that I think im going to pull up some summer archives for good summer memories.

Andy Mac...this is what you can expect for the summer.


I made a friend today. Thortin is her name. She is beautiful. A shy girl, but broke out of her shell after a few minutes. I started talking to her because she had a crow on her head. Yup...I real live crow...her crows name is Jewels (its a little freaky when you think about it) this crow had blue eyes...they were nice eyes. I touched the bird. I then washed my hands. This crow was from the wild, Thortin rescued it, and the crow hasnt left her since. Its like a friend always carrying around a rat, but this time it was a bird, come on does that make anyone else cring...a crow, just planting itself on some chicks head. Theres some witchcraft involved...but hey Ive got my sheild up high, and besides Thortin is really sweet...she may be a witch, but she's still great.

It began with an awakening from the Holy Spirit at 5am then an awakening from Andy Hunter at 8am. Then I went to another nursing home and led some songs and gave a message...it was tough. Then I went to the Salvation Army soup kitchen and served. Then one of the guys that went through the line was someone I knew from living in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, which was pretty neat. Then I went and hung out at the equivilant of Openhiemer Park and met a bunch of cool teens. Becuase I am new to town 2 of them, Dicky, who is a homosexual and quite frankly proud of it, and Thompson who is a chick and just moved here herself about two months ago took me for a tour of downtown Victoria, it was really nice...I invited them to a bonfire we, Victoria Citidal and High Points youth groups, are having...which they seemed quite interested in attending. Which will turn out quite humerous if they do, becuase its like this you see, Thompson and Dicky will more likely then not bring a bunch of friends along with some alcohal and narcotics and the two youth groups will be playing stella stella olla or something. Ill let you know of the outcome tomorow. Then I went to the mall, and looked at a bunch of stuff, but then relised I have no money and left the mall and went home on a double decker bus. And tonight Im going to watch some movies with a few teens...which really is a sacrifice on my part becuase I DISPISE movies!!!! Ahhh what a waste of time...but hey its all kingdom eh! HahaIt was a good day.

So I was on the news the other night...

But the real reason for this post is simply...I love Victoria.

Did you all know Im moving here in a month...Crazy!!!

But I do love the city. Its so beautiful. Im having a blast out here too with some friends. I am adventurus so what did we do...have an adventure of course.

Well we are applying for housing and employment today....please pray for favor....

Hmmm, i dont know what to blog about right now...I remember saying, "thats blogible" and I cant remember why...Oh well.

Oh, on a different note, my 6-year old friend was taught in public school by her teacher that Easter is because Jesus died on the cross. Thats awesome!!!

Okay, I will make sure I have a great adventure today so that I can blog about something exciting.

I love you all!

Hey I am now a movie star

But for real, you can watch me on TV tomorow night, or likely for some of you reading this on Thursday, you can watch me on TV tonight. 6:00 news. Station...cityTV. They said it will air at like 630-640

Anyways, if you have a tv and you wanna tape it, go for it, becuase i dont have a tv, and im busy at that time, and i wouldnt mind seeing it...

but blast the camera adds 10 pounds so i here...boooo

and yes, i am available for autographs

Who says crazy things dont happen anymore?
Oh thats right, I never did!
Check out this cool thing.

So a couple of the girls in my teen cell were talking on MSN.
One girl Dom... a Christian, her MSN name was "Jesus Saves"
The other girl Aysha...a buddist, her MSN name was "Gabe" (which is her boyfriends name)
So as they were talking it would go something like this

Jesus Saves: Hey
Gabe: Hey how r u?
Jesus Saves: good u
Gabe: Im good.

And Ashya was like...wow thats so cool, look Jesus Saves Gabe....
First thing, thats pretty rad right there, that one of our girls who isnt saved, thinks its cool that "Jesus saves Gabe"
Then after they got off MSN, Ashya started praying for Gabe.
Second thing, thats pretty rad right there, that one of our girls who isnt saved, started praying.
Then Ashya testifies that she didnt light insence, but after she was praying for Gabe, her room smelt so much like insence that she had to spray fabreze!!!

Come on! Thats rad! One of our girls, who isnt saved, and is infact buddist aswell, prays and her room fills with insence.

"The prayers of the saints is like sweet smelling incence" Revelation.

It wont be long till salvation springs up from the ground.

Man, im so pumped!

Time for the awaited return of "Theres always an adventure with Nicole"

I am going to tell todays episode backwards, and say the result and then say the event.

So the result is I have a $173.00 fine.

How I got it is as follows...
So i was on the skytrain this morning, and I did not pay. And there were cops also on the skytrain, who asked me if i payed. I told the truth and said no, but tried to make exuses out of it. The penelty for this is $173. So then he askes me for ID, and of corse i dont have any on me, but I give him my information.

Turns out there is a Nicole Brindle born in 1985 (thats like me) who has a warrent out for her arrest. The only differece is that her middle name is Elaine and mine is Serenity. And that her birthday is in August and mine is in June. Crazy eh. I asked the cops if they were saying that to scare me into carrying ID with me and stuff, and they said the only thing they dont joke about is arrest. The cops said they could have taken me in based on that but let me go and said I need to keep ID on me at all times.

Anyways, I am disputing this outrageous ticket. So Ill be back in Vancouver for a court trial in 6-12 months!

We just multiplied our girls cell this past week, making the groups smaller and more intimate. The girls generally open up, but there was so much more freedom to this week. We prayed for eachother, and where usually in the large group the girls are shy to pray, they were praying as hard as they could for their cell mates. Then we did listening prayer and Jesus told a couple of my girls not to do drugs. Good wisdom for sure, but the fact this issue is coming up with my 10 year old girls, somewhat concerns me. I mean Jesus wouldnt bring this up if it wasnt currently an issue or soon to be one eh?. and Im not surprised, due to the generational and territorial spirits of addiction in the area, but FRIG! Enough is enough, SATAN...STOP MESSING AROUND WITH MY KIDS!

Its seems forever ago when I was 10, but looking back, when I was in fifth grade I had allready experiemented with smoking and pot and stuff too. Hmm, but when I was 10 I was not tied into community or cell groups either, I was not intune with the spirit and I was not being discipled. Cool.