Yay for Friday! Here are some things I’m excited about:
1. After reading my post from last Friday about loving my Sharpie pens, my sweet husband went out and bought me a pack that had more colors: purple, orange, and green. He had them laying on my placemat as a surprise when I got home from Cookeville on Saturday. What a sweetheart! I’ve been putting them to work take notes at church this week and I’m still just so amazed that they don’t bleed!
2. Tonight we are having a scrapbook night at church. If you only know me through my blog (and not in real life) then you probably don’t know that I love to scrapbook. I’ve been scrapbooking since middle school and I usually stay pretty current, but I actually haven’t scrapbooked anything since I started this blog (and thus haven’t talked about it much on here) – partly because I’m posting my pictures and memories here, but also because at our house in Lexington, I had a table in the office where my scrapbook stuff could stay laid out all the time, so anytime I had some spare time or we were watching some tv at night, I could work on a page or two. Now that we’ve moved to a townhouse there is no room to leave my stuff out, and I just haven’t felt like hauling it all out then having to pack it all right back up as soon as we want to use the kitchen table again. So, I haven’t scrapbooked anything from July to now (which for me is very behind). I’ve printed out pictures from July to Christmas and I hope to get a bunch of that knocked out tonight.
3. Then tomorrow we are going to Lexington for my friend Amanda’s baby shower. I’m excited to see everyone!
4. Every once and a while I get tired of the same ole turkey bacon and egg routine that I’ve eaten for breakfast the majority of the days since I started being concerned about my health 6 years ago, so I’ll get on a cereal or oatmeal kick for a while. I decided this week that I was ready for a breakfast variation so I tried out this blueberry, banana, and walnut baked oatmeal. It’s just a tad too banana-y for me, but other than that I love it! I have two other flavors of baked oatmeal that I’m looking forward to trying after I finish up this pan.
5. Listening to audiobooks: I love audiobooks and think they are a great way to “read” a book while still doing other things. The summer after we bought our house in Lexington, I spent days cleaning every inch of that place, including wiping down every last blind on the windows, and while I cleaned I listened to audiobooks. I was able to read and be productive! I also always download one to listen to when I have to drive somewhere (like 2 hours or longer) by myself. In preparation for my trip to Cookeville I downloaded a book to read. I then realized that I could also listen to my book at work! A lot of what I do for the professors I work for is data entry, which doesn’t require reading (I can’t listen to a book or music if I have to read anything, but I’m able to do math/look at numbers and listen to books or music). So off and on this week at work I’ve been listening to my books – I’ve finished two and have started on a third. What a great discovery!
And here’s a little bonus fact that goes along with #5. It’s kind of an embarrassing confession: my secret indulgence is reading (or listening to) Christian romance novels. They are so cliche and so predictable, but I love them! It’s always the same: boy and girl have some sort of conflict that keeps them apart, usually one either is not a Christian or has fallen away but finds God during the course of the book, and then they get married and live happily ever after. But I love them! They are so sweet, not at all raunchy, and they have a good message. I’ve read just about every Christian fiction author out there and maybe someday I’ll share a list of my favorites.
Linking up to High Five for Friday.
