pens

ok, i just need to share this with someone, so what better place, than here on my blog?

ok, in my journals (i'm on my second, i started it may 4th), i alternate writing in blue and black ink (easier to tell the days apart). i am still on the same blue pen that i have had since we arrived to bratislava. i am now on my third black pen, and even it is not quite performing like it used to!! random, right? well, what about when you consider that all of the black pens i've been using are somehow connected to lutherans/lutheranism?? that's right, not so random anymore, is it?

ok, so the first one is technically a decorah chick hatchery pen, but everybody knows that's like going to jerusalem and saying that the israel museum isn't connected to jews/judaism!! for better or worse, everything in that country is connected to judaism!!! even the churches and mosques!!! so, the first pen is my decorah chick hatchery (i've now gone through two in my life...they're wonderful pens and i really like them...you just can't replace the inside part of them...so if any of you go to the hatchery, i'd be everso grateful if you could snag me a pen :-D), one of the top two attractions in the lutheran holy land...i mean decorah...

the second and third are both from elca global service...conspiracy? give your volunteer missionaries great pens that they really like, but that will run out so that they have to come back to the usa to get more from you? yup, that's right. it's a global lutheran conspiracy. giving out black pens that will run out so that people will always keep coming back...

here's hoping this pen lasts until i'm safely back in the usa, because if not, i'm not sure where i'm going to get another black pen in blue pen-filled slovakia :)