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After my run yesterday (a hard one–my knee hurt from wearing heels all day), I found out that Runner’s World has an online training log for runners. You can keep track of all your runs, distances, times, and you can even record the routes. I wish I had found this about three months ago when I got back into running, but I’m glad to have this now. It should be interesting to see how many miles/minutes I’ll spend running in the month of January.
Bonjour, mes amis! I’m back to “work” today after the holiday. Currently, I am enjoying a Peppermint Mocha from Starbucks. It is indeed hitting the spot.
Yesterday, Adam and I went rental-house hunting again and found one promising prospect that we’ll hopefully be able to look at on Sunday. The house is cute as heck and right in the part of Mobile where I want to live, so we’re crossing our fingers.
It’s been dreary here lately, but the temperatures finally cooled down. I haven’t been out for a run in over a week, and I think today I might get out there. Adam’s home today cooking a chicken for dinner, and we may head to Alltel to inquire about getting cell phones through them. Mostly, we’ll probably be lazy and make popcorn in our new popcorn maker, then watch the tube tonight. We lead adventurous and exciting lives, n’est pas?
This week I’ve been a lazy blogger. I’ve been lazy in other areas too–ahem, exercising!–but I suppose that is how the holidays go. Yesterday, Adam and I saw Sweeney Todd and we both really enjoyed it, though it was different from what we expected. I laughed when I saw that Sasha Baron Cohen was in it (he was Borat, a hilarious movie indeed) and I kept trying to figure out if the kid who plays Anthony is the same one from Love, Actually, but it’s not. They just both have the asexual British look. Sweeney Todd is not for the faint of heart though. The gushing geisers of blood and dark overtones are disturbing to say the least. One lady in the theater left in the middle of it. But if you can stomach it, it’s worth seeing.
Today, Adam is working as he is on Christmas day. Thankfully I have homes to visit Tuesday so I won’t be here alone on Christmas. And a whole bunch of presents came yesterday that we’ll open tomorrow since Adam will be gone Tuesday. I think his parent bought us a stovetop popcorn maker and I’m very excited about it.
Enjoy your Christmas. I’ll be back later this week!
Haven’t blogged in a while, but here’s the scoop:
Monday, I had a very important meeting that went very well. I can’t disclose much more right now, but stay tuned for an important announcement. Also watched The Nanny Diaries. It’s not as good as the book (what movie ever is?) but it was better than I expected. It was a bit short and I think they could have expanded on the ending, but I say this having read the book, which was excellent by the way.
Yesterday, Debbie and I purchased gifts for the children of our clients who can’t afford their own Christmas presents. It was a lot of fun to buy toys and games and see how cheap you can buy Sorry! at Wal-Mart. Then we had our office Christmas party and no one but Debbie at my lumpy hummus. Our blender broke before I had time to smooth is out and also, Joe informed me that “we don’t eat that stuff in the South.” Well, excuse me. Last night, we met an older gentleman who’s befriended us at Wintzell’s and he gave us satsumas from a tree outside his house. They are delicious.
Today, we have to take Penny to Debbie’s this morning, run a few errands, pack, and head to Destin, FL, for some Christmas fun.
This week is shaping up pretty well. 
I was pleasantly surprised to find a few nuggets in my Google reader this morning:
Here’s an article from World Magazine about why Christians should be better educated than non-Christians. As a former Christian educator, I emphatically agree!
At Think Christian, thoughts about finding Christ in Christmas (quotes from the Wittenburg Door).
Also, the late (great!) Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 tips for writing fiction.
Take a minute to scroll through this blog entry about the connections among Pixar’s animated films. For example, the rubber ball that appeared in Pixar’s first short Luxo Jr. (you know, the one with the lamps) appears in every feature-length Pixar film. Go check it out.
I just posted this semester’s grades calling this thing officially done! Yipee. Now I must scamper off to work and the library before coming back home for a night with Jack Bauer.
I (finally!) finished reading Nancy Pearcey’s Total Truth this weekend and haven’t been able to shake something she wrote that Francis Schaeffer had originally said:
Imagine that you were to wake up tomorrow morning, Schaeffer says, and that by some magic, everything the Bible teaches about prayer and the empowering of the Holy Spirit was gone–it was erased from history and had never been said. Would that make any difference in practice in the way we run our churches and organizations? The tragic fact, Schaeffer says, is that in many Christian organizations, “there would be no difference whatsoever.” We function day by day sitting in the naturalist’s chair, as though the supernatural were not real.
How often have I been guilty of just this–ignoring God’s supernatural strength in favor of my own? Lots of times. I pray, but I’m not always confident in God’s abilities so I try to do things in my own strength and abilities. This is a crazy, ridiculous statement. How can I not be confident in the abilities of the living God, creator of Heaven and Earth? Yet, somehow, I continue to live my life in my own power. I continue to see only the natural world around me, instead of taking hold of and trusting in the supernatural world that is just as real as the natural. I know these things in my head, yet they don’t translate in my life.
This week, Schaeffer’s comments have been rattling around in my head, convicting me of selfishly ignoring the supernatural that exists all around me. Particularly, in one area, I’m having a hard time letting go to let God work things out for me. So, I’m having to daily pray that God will help me lean more on him and less on me. Honestly, it’s a scary proposition to give up control. The funny thing is that I never had control in the first place.
Let me begin by saying that the past couple of weeks have been weird. Since Adam began working every third day (24 hours on, 48 off) with additional overtime, our schedules are crazy. I knew this would be tough, but it makes our time together feel exceptionally precious.
That said, we spent our exceptionally precious time last night watching Superbad after I got home from yoga. Superbad is super-awful. Don’t watch it. Don’t think about watching it. There is nothing redemptive in it whatsoever and I feel like a dolt for actually sitting through the entire thing thinking it might get better.
I read this post this morning about setting writing goals for 2008. It’s worth taking a gander, even if you’re not a writer.
Also, I’m deeply saddened about the shooting in Colorado. Thankfully those kids knew Christ.
We’re losing the point of poetry in the classroom, according to the books blog.
Adam and I are headed to the artwalk tonight. The weather should be good–not too cold. Then back home for a blockbuster night. Yay, Friday!
