work

today I went to work and we had a menu tasting. Duck, rabbit, tortellini, salads, dark chocolate forest cake, cheesecake,  delicacies of that sort. I love my job.

strange and adventurous day.

11:34 wake up!

-feel wonderfully rested but wonder how in the world I slept that long

12:00 bike to the grocery store about 2 miles more or less

-I cut my thumb in the store, slightly gushing blood, I don’t know what to do.

-come out of store with my bloody thumb, and haggard Mexican slightly young man is hanging out next to my bike. I call my brother, so that I can have an excuse for not talking to him (I learned my lesson from last time, that no matter how much you want to talk with someone, as a young girl by yourself you should NOT talk to haggard older men.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(my faithful bike has a basket and a bell!)

=bike home

 

-eat a bit of soup, and wrap care package )cut my self on accident with a knife (what in the world!)

2:00o ish: start biking to post office

-not in any way biker friendly roads, less than a foot wide bike lane (sorry cars!)

-love biking, through woods area and neighbor hoods with my basket containing a paper brown package wrapped with a hemp string, and a bell that says I love my mom. 

-get lost and call mom

-bike up many many hills, get tired and walk

-POST OFFICE!!!! take victory picture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-ship package for more money than I would like, but figure it’s worth it.

-call mom for directions, that end up not working

-use my directional abilities to find my way home, with a pit stop at a shady market across from a bird boutique. Buy cold coke and bike home.

4:00pm ish make it home. ridiculous day,

Biked over 10 miles + lots of hills+blood+sweat+haggard mexican man+muddy legs+30 or so bucks= Jesus and I freakin loves the recipients of my package.

care packages.

I love this also. Not only are they really great to receive, but so much fun to send. I might actually like sending them more than receiving them. There is so much pleasure in knowing someone you love is receiving something good, that they will love. I just find that pretty fulfilling to some degree. Anyway I made some care packages for a few friends this weekend and I’m excited to send them!

St. Augustine

I am trying to finish Saint Augustine confessions and came upon this passage that I think is sweet and beautiful, so I thought I’d share.

“Come Lord, stir us up and call us back, kindle and seize us, be our fire and our sweetness. let us love, let us run. Surely many return to you from a deeper hell of blindness than Victorinus.”-St.Augustine

knitting into the night

This evening my mom took me to her knitting club. My mom HAS a knitting club. I know it’s great. Anyway, I sat with 6 or so other women, learned to crotche and listen to them gossip, and curse (which I wasn’t expecting) about life . They talked about big time knitters and this website that has a million different pattern…… It was pretty fun, except that I had a head ache the entire time and was trying to learn something slightly foreign and that took great great focus, so that wasn’t a great combo. Well at least I’m on my way to making a hat, and who knows maybe I’ll up to an event one day wearing only knitted or crotched pieces.

dancing the night away

Just wanted to say I’m a big fan of swing dancing. Went last weekend, soo good. I thought it was going to be all hip, so I got nervous because I’m not, but then when I got there it was like I had showed up to an old time church dance, minus the modesty and lack of closeness (cause there was plenty of that, trust me, I saw those old timers). There was a live band playing good swing music, and plenty of old folks. I had a ball, and even learned a few things, and made a few friends. I’m excited for my next night out on the town .

revamped bicycle

My mom and her friend chuck fixed up her bicycle and gave it to me, seeing as I don’t have a car. When I received it I discovered and interesting new addition, which I think is probably the shinning glory of my bike. It is a bell, and on that bell is a sticker that reads: .

Dinasours

So I went over to Sir Robert and Johanna’s for dinner this evening, and Johanna was showing us this coloring book that she got at a Christian store. Good ol’ Christian coloring books. I have to say this is one of the best I have ever seen. It was of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs and Christians you say, how does that work? Well let me tell you. This coloring book included pictures of naked Adam riding on top of a dinosaur and Eve nurturing a baby dinosaur behind a fern bush. The book described how sin effected the dinosaurs and they turned mean and begin to bit each other, with pictures included of course, this is a coloring book. So next time your looking for a good coloring book……

Day #1

totally awesome. Get out of bed 10:45 2hrs later than I intended. Read a little, took shower got dressed, unpackes a little. 11ish jared and freya came over, we go to mom’s for lunch. Mom makes great lunch, I meet her boyfriend Chuck. We have great conversation over lunch about God, I get to speak truth about who God is into Chuck’s life, while also learning about what he thinks about God and where he is coming from. God is awesome! We then spend atleast a half an hour trying to figure out a riddle. 1ish we leave and pick up job applications, and I get unexpectedly grilled by the hiring manager at mad hatters bakery (he wasn’t even wearing a hat). more applications, then head home. Look at the 100+ small groups that grace church is having this next season, and pick out which ones I want to go to before the job fair tomorrow, my top choice :doing life well. A small group for women, basically on how to rock at life, biblically. I’m psyched. Finish the evening with a bowl of rice pilgrims progress, a little bit of game night, some more pilgrims progress on our giant luxurious suede couches curled up with a blanket, some blogging and then bed. Things are going well. I like it here so far, and am just trying to
take things one step at a time.

arrival

arrived at 9ish, got lost getting to my new apartment. Got to apartment, and realized apartment was more the size of a house. Spacious living room, dinning room, bedroom, own bathroom, everything looks more than great! Got a welcome present from the Jesus corps, which pertained of dried mangos ( probably my most favorite snack), peanut butter, yougurt, granola, one necturine, and a small bar of maya dark chocolate. It really couldn’t have been much better. By the way, I now sleep in a queen sized bed, total upgrade in sleeping arangment.

p.s.- I like my roomates!