Leaving My Mark - an awkward way to start my day

I was raised not to air my dirty laundry in public BUT this story was just too funny not to share. However, I feel the need to provide fair warning that this blogpost involves a story about my underwear so if you find that offensive or over-sharing then don't read any further.

For the rest of you who are hooked, here is an awkward little life update on how I started my day ;)
 
(First, a little background info)


I recently bought several new pairs of panties because there was an irresistible deal the last time I went to the mall. That seems innocent enough BUT the problem is I don't own a washer or dryer. As a result, my laundry is done infrequently and in large loads.

I was not about to waste one of my rare opportunities to do laundry by just washing panties. So, instead, I washed them with warm water and soap in the sink in my bathroom to avoid them bleeding their color all over the rest of my clothes and staining them whenever I did do laundry next.

(K, enter the awkwardness of this morning)

NOTE TO SELF/ALL OF YOU: Apparently, washing new panties in the sink does NOT prevent their color from bleeding.

They can still stain your clothes. And also your toilet seat. And even you.

Yes.

I came back from a run this morning and went to the bathroom before I hopped in the shower. Although, I wasn't so quick to hop in the shower because when I finished peeing, I noticed that my toilet seat was black.

And that black spot was in the shape of my rear-end.

Yes, I left my mark in the form of a black butt print on my toilet seat. Real Life.

I was so confused and then I realized that my underwear had stained ME!?! Literally, my body. My entire rear-end looked like a giant bruise from where the black dye of my new panties had left its remnants in my skin... all I can guess is that maybe sweating while running made that happen...?

BUT (butt?), how unfortunate.

My roomies and any visitors to our house would see the mark which revealed more than I cared to share with the world about how big my booty was. [One of my roomies asked if I would take a picture for this post. Haha, funny joke. No.]

Even though I was already behind schedule from my run, I thought I had to clean this up... erase this embarrassing mark before my roomies woke up. With my black butt print staring up from our white toilet seat, I set into my cleaning mode.

I tried to wipe it off with warm soap and water. That was a fail.

Then I thought, oh maybe face wash would do the trick. Nope.

Toner? I'm afraid not.

At this point, I'm getting a little alarmed.

I figured I would just go for the big guns and ran to the cleaning cabinet to get our Clorox spray assuming that surely that would clear it right up.

Even. That. Did. Not. Work.

Flustered, but now 20 minutes behind schedule, I just left it saying a prayer that the steam from my hot shower might help...

Then, in the shower, I had to tend to my rear-end.

I scrubbed. And scrubbed. And scrubbed.

I used a washrag and a loofah.... even a pumice stone meant for your feet.

I tried shampoo, facewash, exfoliating body wash, bar soap.

Alllllllllllllll to no avail.

With my rear-end rubbed raw, I finally gave up and got out of the shower to tackle the toilet seat.

Sadly, it was still as dark as the second I saw it.

And then, I just had to laugh. I mean, really, what else could I do?

By this time, my roomies were up so I shared the story with them and we all laughed.

Sarah Grace had struck again. I don't know how I get into these situations but I do.

We determined that I now have the cleanest butt in town. As for our toilet seat... that is another story.

Liberation Week - Shining light on the injustice of human trafficking

This is next week. It all kicks off tomorrow, in fact!?!

This is also the reason I haven't posted in forever.

I have been consumed by planning this and learning more about the issue of human trafficking and praying for this and the people trapped in modern day slavery. All 27 million of them.

Y'all may have seen my post about Passion Conference and how it affected me back in January. At that conference and afterward, I could not erase the link between spiritual freedom and physical freedom. Over and over again since then, I've seen scripture focusing on freedom. And, then, of course, there was this public declaration from Jesus himself:

¹⁷ and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he [Jesus] found the place where it is written:    

¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
   because he has anointed me
   to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
   and recovery of sight for the blind,
   to set the oppressed free"

                                   - Luke 4:17-18

Passion and scripture like this also affected my boss, some BCMers and another group of students I later connected with called the Justice Team.

Over the last month or two, we planned and prayed to put together the following for the College of Charleston campus and greater Charleston community to shine light on the injustice of human trafficking:

LIBERATION WEEK

• Monday - interactive art on campus
• Tuesday - "Sex & Money" documentary at 7pm in the Education Center, room 116
• Wednesday - Nubawi Nute, a speaker from Myanmar sharing a Christian perspective of her work at the border of Burma to fight human trafficking and also telling of the children's home she has started; 7pm in the Education building (corner of Wentworth and St. Phillip) in the Alumni room
• Thursday - PORNversation, a conversation on porn, the objectification of women and the tie to human traffficking, 8pm in the Alumni Room
• Friday - table-ing in Cougar Mall from 10-3
• Saturday - FREEDOM DAY, 2-5pm in Physicians Auditorium 

Freedom Day is our main event and it includes the following:

• What is it? - Not For Sale representative to discuss the global issue of human trafficking
• Where is it? Even Here - A21 Carolinas representative to discuss how this affects our own area
• How it Affects You - Slavery Footprint activity 
• What YOU Can Do to Stop It - "How to Take Action" panel of students and an ICE agent 
• Closing and donation 

In addition, we'll have survivors' stories being read and items created by survivors for sale (provided by The Jubilee Market and The Butterfly Project) as well as information on organizations where you can volunteer or donate to help bring an end to human trafficking.

As they said at Passion,

Indifference is NOT an option. 

You can see why after reading these statistics from A21 Carolinas: 

We need to shrink these numbers until not a single person is being SOLD in our world today. 

People are NOT property. 

Spread the word about Liberation Week. 

Come out. Donate. Liberate.