Round two of the world's most drawn-out catch-up blogging session:
March 18 - What is it about Spring that makes you want to clean? It sounds cliche, but there's something about those fresh breezes that urge you to freshen your home so its worthy of their welcome push through open windows. If you couldn't guess, we spent most of Sunday cleaning our room. Most days, my house is deceptively clean, until you enter our bedroom, that is. Eek. It should be a place of rest, but usually it just looks like our closets threw up. Hours of organizing, cleaning, etc, and we're almost back to Zen. The rest of the evening, I gladly took a break and plopped myself in front of the TV for the 25th Anniversary Les Mis concert on PBS. It took me a good week to stop singing those songs.
March 19 - With those spring breezes comes cleansing rain. This part I only appreciate if I'm at home, and it's calm. Since I was NOT at home, this did little to improve my outlook for the day. My respite from desk work is my momentary escapes to sit under a tree and when it rains...no tree. But, the showers must come if we want the flowers (you see how philosophical I am? Impressive, I know). To throw myself into a new level of torment, I went to a High Energy Athletic Training class at the gym. It was like PE on steroids. PS: I now remember why I hated PE. PPS: I would secretly like to return to 5th grade PE to show them I am moderately athletic. Take that, you kickball jerks! Ahem.
March 20 - I've said it before and I'll say it again now: when we do potlucks, we do them RIGHT. It is nice (and very dangerous) to have a group of friends who can cook so well. Especially when the theme is Italian. Mother of Cheese, I ate my weight in pasta. And zucchini sticks. And pizza. And meatballs. As you could probably guess, I was in a subsequent food coma for an extended period of time. Not surprisingly, this food is the only thing I can remember about this Tuesday. Ha! Oh, except, Happy Birthday to my first sister, the lady nuts enough to marry my brother, but lucky enough to get me in the package deal ;) I hope I'm like you when I grow up.
March 21- Picnics! Love em. This is the perfect time for it in TX, too, before the army of blood sucking creatures (mosquitoes, not vampires) arrives in full force arm in arm with the sweltering summer heat. In fact, thanks to recent rains, it was almost chilly outside! If you'll remember, though, this was a raincheck from a previously drowned-out picnic attempt, so cold or not, we were going for it. I love these things, in part because I love seeing how good my husband is with the kids of our church. They LOVE him. He's dragged into a game of some sort from the time we get there til we leave. It makes my heart smile and heart all at the same time, but that's a longer post for a longer day. I finished the day in the most perfect way: running my best-timed three miles in a good while, with the kind of music that makes it seem like God is controlling your iPhone's shuffle. I was pushing through one last hill with the lyrics "I'm running to your arms, I'm running to your arms, the riches of your love, will always be enough..." in my ears. Beautiful.
March 22 - Remember when I said we cleaned our room? That resulted in a lot of laundry. It also, unfortunately resulted in a mix up involving good clothes and clothes that were in a pile to be mended. This came to my attention, in timing it seems I have perfected, as I was stepping onto the elevator at work: "there is a hole in my pants." Not a little one, and not on the leg, or cuff or anything, nooo. Right in the smack center of my butt, a tear in the seam. In a throwback to my superb childhood fashion choices, I sported the bulky sweater tied around the waist look for awhile, before I figured out how to safety pin it shut. Everyone should have a blog to write about days like this so I know I'm not so crazy. Speaking of crazy, movies theaters everywhere filled up for the midnight showing of the Hunger Games. I didn't hear any weird stories though, and its probably a good thing. Unlike HP, where people in line might point a fake wand at you and say "Expecto Patronum!", actings out of the HG could get a little dangerous, like say, an arrow shot in your arm.
March 23 - If there is a perfect way to kick off a weekend, I think this very well could be it. The trifecta of a good work day: jeans day, pay day, snack day. A yucky phone call that kept me late at work threatened to ruin the goodness, but I refused to let it deter me! I left work to catch my first Sno-Cone of the year (Tropical Treat, in case you were curious), the Central Market Foodie Truck returning for weekend burgers, and perfect outdoor dining weather with Best Friend. We were back on track! Side note, we have decided to make the sno-cones a weekly tradition. Can you think of a better way to start each weekend? Me neither. We finished off the night with two baseball games (one for the brother, one for Husband). Also, I started playing Drawsomething. I'm absolutely terrible at it. :)
March 24 - Once upon a time, in a land not-so-far-away, I could park my car in my garage. Then I had a garage sale and decided to have it actually in the garage to escape the heat (btw, this is a horrible idea. it was like an oven). Not all of my stuff sold, and I insisted we could have another sale with the leftovers. Fast forward a year and a half and we still had not had that 2nd sale. My garage was still ocupado. Combine that with an overwhelming desire to just get rid of STUFF, we finally had another garage sale. This one went swimmingly! And only a tiny bit of stuff made it back into the garage. Still can't park my car in there, but that's just because it needs a good & thorough cleaning out (the garage. well...and my car). Followed this with a trip to the mall to shop for Best Friend's big girl job, then back home to watch Megamind with our men, and of course, food. Long, exhausting, rewarding day, for sure.
Highlights:
1) God has been teaching me so much through the book of James. I need to schedule an interruption post just to talk about that! The lessons are coinciding so beautifully with the path my life is taking. That's just His way, though, isn't it?
2) I finished the Hunger Games and I LOVED it. Gave it to my husband and he too finished in days. Haven't started Catching Fire, due to the knowledge that once I start I will inevitably be sucked in and unable to accomplish anything else for days.
3) My eating habits: officially unhinged. Too much good food, too little willpower. I am already in course-correction mode. Its not an exciting highlight, but it has consumed much of my thoughts as of late, so it gets a nod here.
Love & Springtime-y Goodness,
K
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