Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Spring Break 2010
Friday: Crashed after the longest 4 day week I've ever had. Holy Holy Week Batman!
Saturday: Brunch with Stephanie, Josh, and Paul, friends of Grant's from high school. A rare experience of high school memories. A brief walk through the farmer's market. We now have friends to visit in Santa Barbara - a perfect starting point for an excursion to the Channel Islands. (S&J are you ready for us in June?) Then I worked on the perfect jewelry supplies order - every thing left that I need to start soldering. However, the most important part, the solder, is backordered. Last, I made a to-do list.
Sunday: Jesus Rose from the Dead. This seems to be an annual occurrence on my Spring Break. Secular school district still follows the Christian calendar. Much celebration at FCCO, followed by a lovely dinner at Sarah Eve and Jordan's home, and then a movie with Ryan and Molly at SaltHouse.
Monday: Started with an acupuncture appointment. We're about done with my ankle, now working more intensely on sleep issues. Figured out how to back-up my phone on my computer and download podcasts to the phone. These are trivial things to most folks, but I've only recently had a reason to do this - more bus riding and opportunity to listen to podcasts! Yoga. Dinner. House meeting.
Tuesday: Cleaned the bedroom! Farmer's market and ate pie at Crixa. Then a book discussion group with Seminary of the Street on The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Clairborne.
Wednesday: Lunch with Marisa, pie at Crixa (again!), shopping for backpacking trip, yoga, dinner, dancing with Emily!
Thursday: House breakfast, acupuncture, lunch with Molly as I was cooking Dinner (early cooking because of leaving for Point Reyes backpacking Trip!)
Friday: Stroll along the beach. Sleeping in the warm afternoon sun. Reading about a revolution and contemplating my "in."
Saturday: Woke to threatening clouds and quick winds. so we packed up and headed to Bovine Bakery, then slowly made our way home to where I am currently blogging from. Tonight - Beer Revolution.
Sunday: School Work - so sad. But I feel great that I got to do so much during my break. Now, 10 more weeks of school. The count down in on.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
On Vacation
Sorry for the lack of posts around here. We have been very lucky to have Grant's parents visiting us from Michigan for the holidays. We spent the last couple days in beautiful and wintry Yosemite National Park -- pictures to come soon. Today was spent so far enjoying a Kwanzaa worship service this morning and cleaning the apartment for my birthday party. Soon we'll be heading out to a play, dinner, and stopping by my church for Singing for Your Life - an amazing 12 hours continuous circle singing event.
For New Years and for my birthday, which is on Tuesday, I'm having a party and I am challenging myself and others to complete an old tradition of 108 Sun Salutations to welcome in the new year. For my distant friends who can not join me in person, you can still join in for the sun salutations. Do as many as you can or desire. Give up some thank-yous for another year ending and a new one beginning. Do it as a meditation and prayer, reflecting on who you were in 2007 and discovering the path you want to take into the new year. Do it as a celebration of your beautiful God-given body.
I'll be turning 27 on Tuesday, January 1, 2008. 27 is the natural number following 26 and preceding 28. Twenty-seven is the smallest positive number that requires four syllables to say in English though it can be defined in just two: "three cubed." (3x3x3) It is odd and has many odd friends like 1, 3, and 9. It is a perfect cube. It is the number of books in the New Testament. It is the 28th (and 29th) digit of pi. It is the number of moons of Uranus. 27x4=108, a significant number in many traditions, and therefore the number of salutations I will try to complete.
Believe it or not, there are actually several people who want to do this with me!
And then there are the others who will be just coming for dinner after... yummy fondue!!
For New Years and for my birthday, which is on Tuesday, I'm having a party and I am challenging myself and others to complete an old tradition of 108 Sun Salutations to welcome in the new year. For my distant friends who can not join me in person, you can still join in for the sun salutations. Do as many as you can or desire. Give up some thank-yous for another year ending and a new one beginning. Do it as a meditation and prayer, reflecting on who you were in 2007 and discovering the path you want to take into the new year. Do it as a celebration of your beautiful God-given body.
I'll be turning 27 on Tuesday, January 1, 2008. 27 is the natural number following 26 and preceding 28. Twenty-seven is the smallest positive number that requires four syllables to say in English though it can be defined in just two: "three cubed." (3x3x3) It is odd and has many odd friends like 1, 3, and 9. It is a perfect cube. It is the number of books in the New Testament. It is the 28th (and 29th) digit of pi. It is the number of moons of Uranus. 27x4=108, a significant number in many traditions, and therefore the number of salutations I will try to complete.
Believe it or not, there are actually several people who want to do this with me!
And then there are the others who will be just coming for dinner after... yummy fondue!!
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Thanksgiving Day Report
Just like all other bloggers out there, I must tell you about my Thanksgiving.
First: the place. Our dinner was held in the home that a friend of ours, Paul, is house-sitting for the next month. Before dinner, we sat outside and watched the sunset and we saw...
Second: the people. Neither of us have any family out here and we would rather not travel during the busiest travel weekend of the year. So we either joyfully gather with friends or go camping for Thanksgiving. This year we did both, we just left for camping on Friday morning. But on Thursday night, 8 of us brought together by our hostess, our very dear friend...
ATE and ATE and DRANK and DRANK. Grant and I made biscuits and smashed root vegetables. Other people brought sweet potatoes, greens, cranberry sauce, salad, brussels sprouts, and pies. Everything was great, even the nibble of turkey that I tried... until I got tired and needed to go home so that we could rest before our cold camping trip.
(As always, click on the photos for more photos!)
First: the place. Our dinner was held in the home that a friend of ours, Paul, is house-sitting for the next month. Before dinner, we sat outside and watched the sunset and we saw...
Second: the people. Neither of us have any family out here and we would rather not travel during the busiest travel weekend of the year. So we either joyfully gather with friends or go camping for Thanksgiving. This year we did both, we just left for camping on Friday morning. But on Thursday night, 8 of us brought together by our hostess, our very dear friend...ATE and ATE and DRANK and DRANK. Grant and I made biscuits and smashed root vegetables. Other people brought sweet potatoes, greens, cranberry sauce, salad, brussels sprouts, and pies. Everything was great, even the nibble of turkey that I tried... until I got tired and needed to go home so that we could rest before our cold camping trip.(As always, click on the photos for more photos!)
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