saturday was a day of cooking. i made some of my favorite oatmeal cranberry walnut muffins, perfect for the fall. also great for a hearty hike, though i haven't conquered any of those lately. i studied at c&p for a few hours after that, they have such delightful cappuccinos, and all their drinks are already doubleshots! i got a little bit of work done, but ended up spending quite a chunk of time browsing through realsimple.com for recipes. i also ended up having a cool conversation with a random guy there who was filling out some adoption paperwork. being from texas always seems to come up in some way or another, and he ended up inviting me to his church when he found out that i just moved here. i appreciated the invite, way to be the body of christ and actually invite people into community!
when i got home i had the house to myself, so i cranked the tunes and cooked up a tasty creamy butternut squash soup. it had leeks in it, which i've never used before, but think are really cool:
it was a rainy afternoon of cooking and singing along to norah jones. clearly, as you can tell by the picture below, my soup wasn't any good at all....
though i really did get carried away with the cayenne pepper. oops.
i also made some pumpkin cream cheese sandwich bites for the upcoming halloween party. here they are mid-process:
cute, no? they were a hit. i think i ate like 10 of them just as i was baking. but then again, that's how i do. the batter and warm cookies are the best part of the whole thing!
sunday was a beatifully sunny day, much better than rainy saturday. and rainy today. i walked to church and hardly even needed a cardigan, it was wonderful! and afterwards i headed home to put on my sweet 90's workout costume for our community group halloween party, which ended up being a blast. we walked around the neighborhood and invited people around 3, and friends and fellow church members started showing up around the same time. there was lots of great food and tons of laughing, as always.
and then a spontaneous dance party to some classic oldies and some hits of today. there was some organized dancing (i taught nicole and dorina how to do the cotton-eye-joe), but mostly just the freestyle kick your feet around and throw your arms up kind, where nobody really knows what they're doing, but they're having fun doing it.
westin and dorina reminded me of top gun every time i saw them.
everyone was in costume, and the cast of the adams family even showed up! i stayed for a few hours, then headed home to get internship things ready for today. i was seriously craving some vegetables, because all i ate at the party was junk food.
i've been reading, especially on thursdays when i get allergy shots. in my mind, if i'm going to get poked, i at least deserve a break from studying for an hour to read what i want to read! here's a quote from a severe mercy: "over-valued possessions, we decided, were a burden, possessing their owners. we decided to own nothing that we couldn't be comfortable with- reproductions, not originals, cheap bindings, not rare editions. this idea of the burden of possessions we held to- and years later when we got our first glossy new car, we hit it severly with a hammer to make it comfortably dented."
truth. i laughed audibly in the waiting room.
other news: the ymca very graciously gave me scholarship to be a member of their gym!! $14 a month, when the normal membership fee is $58. whew, thanks ymca, for allowing me to be fit in the wintertime and attend all your classes on a budget. i went to a spin class this morning- there were 15 bikes in a tiny little upstairs loft room, probably no bigger than 15x15. it was cozy, and we were all sweaty. great workout.
came across this the other day: "through christ, god reconciled us to himself" 2 corinthians 5:18
it made me think. you may have heard the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation explained as the fact that forgiveness only requires one person, while reconciliation requires the active work of two. forgiveness of one another is required of us as christians. but if a relationship is broken, and only one person forgives, there cannot be true reconciliation. sometimes this is okay, and even better. anyways, i thought it was really neat how this verse was worded: god reconciled us to himself. he did the work of BOTH parts, both by solving the problem of our sin through his provision of a perfect sacrifice to atone for it, as well as by filling us with the holy spirit to draw us to him and give us the desire to even know him so that we can partake in this reconciliation. how cool is that??
what else. driving through downtown today there was a man playing his clarinet on the street corner. susie and i were on our way home from a class, or i would have stopped to listen. i like those kinds of things.
also, i indulged in the halloween sale festivities and bought one of my favorite treats at qfc...
every bite was worth it.
tomorrow is my first day of my new rotation- long term care! i'll have plenty of time to mentally prepare myself....it's an hour drive to get there. but on the plus side, i don't have to be there until noon!
and now, susie fixed pizza for dinner. and it's calling my name.
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