iPhone, busy weekend.

Well this weekend saw some busy days, and I feel like I need a break. Cor and I have decided to have a “Vacation from home” weekend coming up, which should be simple (but not necessarily easy) for us to do. Reading, Scrabble, etc. It shall be marvelous.

I got my fancy new iPhone, which is nice to have (I love having an iPod and games and all my contacts and the interweb) and I got to see friends old and new, and spend some time in the pool acting like a five-year-old. It was excellent. Listed on the “never to that again” list from this weekend: make 2 lasagnas in 90 degree weather. Check, got it, thank you Universe. 😉

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My new phone!

This week, to do:

  • Finish Catch-22, the book club book for July
  • Laundry
  • Eating through the leftovers in my fridge
  • Clean my room
  • RELAX.

How are all of your mid-Julys?

5 Good Things: Thursday Edition

1. I have started to search for Nine Days CDs again, and am discovering they might release a new album, soon!

2. It is Thursday, which means tomorrow is Friday, and the start of the weekend!

3. I get to go back to MI in a little over a week!

4. I get to go to a 3eb concert a WEEK from today.

5. Big Momma.

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When Big Momma makes the world, she doesn’t mess around.

“Earth, ” she says, “get over here.” And it does.

Dream Post: Africa

I had a crazy dream last night!

I was on my way to work  (I still worked at the Toy Store) and I was on the subway, and when I got to work it looked like a different store.

Then I was working with my friend R, who turned into my sister. She and I were going somewhere suddenly we were in Africa with a group of people, including a coworker, E. He was making sure we did what we were told, because apparently we weren’t approved to be wherever we were. We were traveling to a village, and my sister mentioned that no one had told us, but we had to leave right away because there was going to be an attack on the village we were in. We were in a building that was made of straw and had two floors,  and we were trying to get to the second floor when we heard commotion and a crowd outside. We ran to the second floor, which was the out, and there were US soldiers there who were going to help us get out. We were so relieved to see those soldiers, and the one who opened the door had been a lovely young woman. They were all dressed in camouflage but their name tags looked old, as though they had been printed in the 50s or so.  As we were meeting with the soldiers, my sister turned into my friend Cor.

THEN: Cor and I were then sitting in a room with her husband. We were explaining the event of escaping to him, but we knew it had been a dream, and we had both had the same dream. He didn’t believe that we knew all these things about each other’s dream, but as we continued on we convinced him that we had actually had the same dream.

Then I woke up.

Reasons? I was setting up “faces” last night on my iPhoto, which lets you put people’s names into iPhoto and then it finds other pictures of that person, and iPhoto kept thinking Cor was my sister, and vice versa.

Also, I am reading The Poisonwood Bible which is about a mission to Africa.

La Fin.

Finished: The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant.

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4 of 5 stars. The second half of book felt a bit rushed, but the story was beautiful, the characters rich, and the scenes amazing. I loved hearing a biblical story through the eyes of a woman. It is interesting to read of midwives, of women as sisters and wives, of lovers of their own gods, of lovers of their shared husbands. It was a story that all women could relate to, and a story that teaches us all about the miracle of motherhood.

You should read it.

New Love Monday

1. The Fray’s new album, even though it’s self titled. (Which I, personally, think is tacky after CD 1.)

2. The fresh orange flowers on my desk, left over from an event on campus.

3. This new styled burger I made and ate this past Friday, which was delicious.

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4. My new love of Eric Hutchinson.

5. New beginnings. New books finished. Like this one.