purchases aren't working

1 Mrs. Baird's pie and 4 dvd purchases later, I'm seeing that you can't have everything. it's just a fact. you have to give up some stuff and move on. it's almost never the end of the world. i don't know why i say almost, but I guess at some point it seems that way. I need to be at peace with restraint and making good choices. Go on in humility and swallow the loss. Make it a good day. Here's to a good day.

u2 dreams die

U2, I can't afford you. But it doesn't mean I love you any less. 29 1/2 hrs to showtime. Light up the stage boys.

A day at the fair

Not just any fair...the Texas State Fair. I took tons of pictures only to realize that when my sister handed me the camera, it had no film in it. Then the pictures I did take went thru the scanner at the airport and they got all fuzzy. Well I can't seem to get any more of them on this post anyway (besides that one up there of the swings - which I will say that my brave nephew Jackson - 4 yrs old - rode). But it was good to see Big Tex, and eat cotton candy and funnel cake, and play the games and win enormous soccer balls, and ride a mini-rollercoaster with my neice and nephew. We kept our hands up the whole time and laughed our heads off.

I wanna go here

(it's not a cooking school)
"Each person who comes to L’Abri ...participate in the daily reality of an extended family, with all it’s mundane chores to be done and the beauty and confusion which children and animals bring, they will be participating in a way of life where faith and occupation are integrated. Where work, study and prayer are all of one piece in the fabric of human experience lived out under God."

I wanna go here. read, study, think, question, play, listen, walk outside, work in the garden, chop some wood, see God.
Basically a bunch of people just come and live together for a while hashing things out and work and eat and play together. -but no longer than 6 months. To live on a hill with sheep and some swiss people..count me in.
http://www.labri.org/swiss/video.html - video from L'Abri Switzerland, but I think the England one would be cool too.
(and it's cool bc i heard Lewis, Shaeffer, and Tolkien used to sit around and talk about their writings and thoughts here with cigars in their mouths. i don't know, i just heard it.)

today

Today I drove in traffic for about 2 and a half hours. Not all together, but enough to almost lose my mind if it weren't for the distraction of the chilly air. I unclipped my hair on the way home from work to avoid a headache and it seemed to unclip my whole self. I rolled down the window and to feel the cold air and turned the heat on to some melancholy Cold Play. I was still sitting on 635 bumper to bumper, but it didn't matter as much since my hair was everywhere and kinda matted from two days of curls and hairspray. Free, it was free.

The only other thing worth mentioning from today is that I was talking to Millie on the phone and she was getting ready to leave Starbucks, but then she couldn't find her phone. She was like "I lost it in this chair LAST time!!!" and I was like "Melinda!!! gaah." So we were both distressed at the loss of her phone...genuinely. Until she started laughing and said that I shoulda pointed out that she was using it. We must be idiots.

Happy Fall Saturday

Just a little picture for this fancy free Saturday. I hope everyone is doing nothing but fun today. I woke up, checked email, Mom trickled in, we looked up our super cool hotel for a trip we're taking in Nov. She's in the kitchen making cinnamon rolls and I made a big pot of coffee. Mmmmmm, freedom on Saturday morning. I love it.