Ridiculous Shipping I decided to take the day off of work so I could ship all of my garbage to the United States of America. I’m ready to say that moving to another country is the most terrible thing a person can choose to do
Ridiculous You May Eat a Human I've taken to treadmill running recently. I go through phases every once in a while where running along the road somewhere seems about as fun as spending the
Ridiculous Pictures & Weekly Distractions Dear Strangers out there in Strangerville: happy Friday. Two weeks from today I'll be departing from the land of coconuts. With each passing day I become more excited
Ridiculous A Conversation About High School An Insightful Conversation on High School Island Life with Two Palauan Girls I Gave a Ride Home Last Night from a Church Youth Activity Palauan Girl 1: Brother Eli? Did you know that in Japan you have to be looking at the clock all
Ridiculous Hobbies When we first moved to Palau and Daniel had basically nothing to do all day but spend an absurd amount of time waiting for the paperwork for his employment to be processed, he began aggressively developing new hobbies. And I mean like one to
Ridiculous Pictures & Weekly Distractions Three weeks from today I'll be leaving Palau. Daniel will ABANDON me this weekend. Things are wrapping up and it all feels so strange. Like I'm
Emails PTA Emails One Stranger, Cheryl, recently asked me to help inflict some pranking revenge against her sister, Tami. Apparently Tami spent the better part of her teen years convincing Cheryl that she
The Siblings Meow That Tune While Krishelle was visiting Palau the best part of the day was when Daniel and I would go and wake her up at about 6:45 in the morning. I was sleeping in Daniel's room while she was here so she could
Ridiculous Nationally Syndicated Column There are two newspapers in Palau: The Island Times and Tia Belau. They are glorious beyond all description. Typically filled with stories about people we know, separated by racist or
Church Pictures & Weekly Distractions Happy weekend, Strangers. It's rainy today in the land of coconuts. Actually, it has pretty much been raining non-stop for about three weeks. I haven't minded
Ridiculous Curry Pancakes The other day Daniel and I went to dinner with a couple of friends. Now I know it seems like I'm spending a lot of time lately complaining about Daniel's very questionable decisions. I prefer the word "informing."
The Siblings Video Proof that we Sometimes Get Out During the course of the last year there have been a bunch of videos I have wanted to record and share with you. But since I live in Palau, the land where the Internet goes to die, sharing these videos has been almost completely
The Siblings Daniel is Driving me CRAZY. Have you ever lived with another person under the same roof? You have? Well this post is probably for you! Daniel is driving me CRAZY. And I think this is one of those things where I turned a blind eye to a lot of
Ridiculous Sea Turtles On Saturday I went diving with some friends. I would probably be permanently done with diving by now if it wasn't for the sea turtles. This is because there are animals that live ALL OVER in the ocean. And I really think
Church Talking About Sex, Part II On Monday I told you about the horribly awkward conversation [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2013/07/talking-about-sex.html] I suddenly found myself in with the teenage boys at church on Sunday. Last night I saw the boys again. You know how they always say
Yahoo Answers Yahoo! Answers X Dear Strangers: You look like you could use some Yahoo! Answer advice today. Twice up the barrel, once down the side. Question 1: How much cat food should I leave
The Siblings The iTunes A very terrible thing happened to me. I owned one of those what the kids are calling "the ipods" and it is now missing. I left it at the massage place on Saturday because I was in a really big hurry to
The Siblings Meow A Conversation with Krishelle and Daniel about a Phone Call Krishelle: Who are you calling? Eli: This salon/spa down the street. I'm making some appointments for us today. Krishelle: I will NOT be getting a body scrub [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/
Church Singing in Palau Last week I posted about my upcoming plans for my life, which are a very big deal. And I was so excited to share with you what was going on and what’s up next for Stranger. And you guys were all like, “ok.
The Siblings This is a Very Small Island A Conversation at a Bar During Lunch Yesterday Daniel: What are we doing tonight? Eli: Well Mark invited us over to his place for ice cream so we'll be going to that. Daniel: Sweet. And . . . is that my shirt? Eli: Huh? Oh
The Siblings Sneezing My sister Krishelle graced the land of Palau with her presence last night. Daniel and I picked her up at the airport after dark and then both simultaneously spoke at 700 words per minute on the entire drive back to our place, explaining every
Ridiculous What the People Want to Know This is basically the laziest post of all time. I know this. It's been a busy week. There was tv to be watched. I was googling something earlier
Church Youth Conference This coming Saturday is the dreaded "Youth Conference" with the church kids that we've been planning for a few months. And when I say "planning for a few months," I mean "knowing that it's coming
Ridiculous Squalor As it turns out, I'm kind of a slob. I've never really known this because I've never lived alone before and my consideration of others is apparently a greater motivator of my actions than my laziness so I
Ridiculous Life is in Session! I've been meaning to write this post for a long time but just haven't gotten around to it because LAZINESS. As you might remember, if you
