Hello everyone. If there's anyone that even stops by anymore. Except for Ninjanun and my husband. Oh, and you, that person in Nebraska. You know who you are! You're faithful, my friends.
As of Thursday, I started a 7 week break from classes and clients. 7 WEEKS! This is the first time in 3 years that I've actually had some sort of break where I wasn't working 3 jobs, balancing grad school, wifehood, teaching, conducting therapy. I'm going to rock the heck out of this!
In light of this break and a fortuitous purchase of a laptop that arrives on Monday, I plan on blogging several events, past, present, and future. Such posts to look forward to are:
1.) A review of our mission trip to Hungary, and the (second annual) experience of being with Christian leaders in Europe, predominantly Eastern Europe. I always learn so much from them.
2.) A review of the long weekend we spent in Budapest after said mission trip, including what it's like to go to a bath and go out the exit when trying to go in the entrance when everyone who works there only speaks Hungarian. Stupid American!
3.) Some ideas I have about community building and what community is. This will include my recent ideas on narrative therapy, telling our stories, and how this all beautifully ties to the fact that God has given revelation through a narrative as well.
4.) My experience of a week of exploring and learning with some of my fellow grad students at camp in June.
5.) Impressions of Canada based on our upcoming trip to Niagra/Toronto/Buffalo.
6.) The hilarity of my brother's Tennessee wedding in a few weeks.
7.) My first ever Cubs game and trip to Wrigley Field.
Oh, and I'm sure I'll post tons about the two rooms a week organization frenzy I'm going to undertake. That started tonight when I bought my new desk at Ikea and started to put it together. Those FREAKING ANNOYING drawings! If they only labeled the top, then maybe I wouldn't have put it on the bottom and spent an hour fishing misplaced hardware out of impossible holes. And maybe one of my drawers wouldn't be crooked. The smiling man in the drawings only taunts me! Taunting, smiling man, you are the bane of my existence.
Grrr! But what is funny is that the hubby would only agree to let me buy the desk with a pre purchase agreement: he didn't have to help put it together! He's either a wise man or a jerk. Let me just say, there will be no stashing of his stuff on/in my new desk once assembled. Of course we sit maybe 2 feet apart in our little office, so his junk bothers me even if it's on his desk! Packrat! (He admits it.) BTW, his desk cleaning jaunt was inspired by my threat to throw things out with reckless abandon over the next several weeks.
Lastly, today el hubby and I rode our bikes to Blockbuster. You may think, "Oh no big deal." If you think that, you must live in some hippie shan-ri-la and not the Chicago suburbs. Riding the 6 mile round trip isn't a big deal, unless you focus on the big ass SUV's, tons of cars, and non functional cross walk signals. Oh, and there are no sidewalks in the parking lot. You've never felt truly alien until you've been an alien bicycle in the parking lot of Jewel.
All things considered, the bike rides to and fro weren't bad. We're going to try to do this more often, as we could go to Jewel, Subway, Blockbuster, Ace Hardware, Baskin Robbins, a bakery, a bank, or Burger King in this one shopping center. Bubble gum ice cream at Baskin Robbins might just motivate me to undertake a quick jaunt on the bike to pick up some brats instead of riding in the car.
Final note, I was forbidden by my spouse to buy anything plastic on Friday night..at IKEA! This is impossible, or near impossible. He mumbled something about living what I preach all the time about the environment. But it's so shiny, and only $1.99, and it has a cool Swedish name. Oh, except I was able to justify a plastic plate cover for the microwave. It was one item where a wooden substitute just wouldn't suffice. And while he may be a packrat, the hubby HATES a dirty microwave.
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Ignore the newly added Books, CD's and Films. I stole the code from my husband over at http://waspjerky.blogspot.com and didn't have time to put in my own recent perusals yet.
:)
Just so you know, I always read your blog. Looking forward to more posts. Love the story about the desk and WJ's bargain that he not have to put it together. :)
so you're not aiming for absolute zero then? i thought i'd do my part by just reading the rss feed. :)
i vote for #3 and #10.
is the shopping center you're talking about the one on geneva and main/schmale? that one was barely bikeable like 15 or 20 years ago, especially from the north.
damn, i'm old.
That's really creepy, zalm. :) No, it's the one at the corner of Army Trail and County Farm.
Yay, Streak and Zalm still love me. And Zalm may be stalking me.
I updated the movies/books/music to what my actual recent perusals are!
don't forget that i lived in your neck of the woods for more than a decade. and i rode my bike for most of that time.
that said, i never got my bike anywhere close to county farm and army trail.
Nun, dear, your email is far from stupid, and if it's ignorant then I must be really in the dark, because it's made me think and have to reference a few things.
And Zalm, I know, I know. But grocery shopping just wouldn't be the same if I couldn't pretend like you were stalking me. But the people in Jewel are really starting to wonder why I dive behind displays and do the FBI peek around end caps.
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