I always feel the need to write an apology and explanation whenever I have a long absence from blogging. If you read my last post, you’ll see that this semester was about readjusting to school life in the USA… but in mid-November, it also became about balancing school, work, and my visitor from Germany! There just wasn’t any room on the full plate for blogging.
Here are some sights of what we have done over the past seven weeks…
Wow! The end of February flew by me! Part of this is because I spent the past two weekends traveling…
A few favorites from this month…
1. This vegetarian chili recipe…which I’m recreating from memory:
Ingredients:
-2 small yellow onions (chopped)
-2 cloves garlic (minced)
-1 yellow and 1 green bell pepper (chopped)
-1 can kidney beans (rinsed and drained)
-1 can cannelini beans (“)
-2 cans black beans (“)
-2 cans stewed tomatoes
-cumin, chili powder, salt (all to taste – I was heavy on the chili powder and lighter on the others)
-canned chili peppers in adobo sauce (1 or 2 peppers, depending on how hot you like your chili, a spoonful of the sauce)
Last week, my roommate and I each bought a carton of eggs on the same day by accident, so we have been eating a lot of eggs lately. Then, she acquired 2 more cartons from an event where they had leftovers from an egg toss. So… we needed to make use of all the eggs! I think this is the most fun way to cook – just start with what you have.
The girls came to visit this weekend! I have known Lauren since preschool, Allison since 4th grade, and Kellye since 6th. The four of us have been best friends since sophomore year in high school. We all went to different colleges and have moved in different directions since then… Kellye is married, lives in SC, teaches high school band, and has a baby boy on the way. Lauren in married, lives in KY, and works with kindergartners. Allison is doing Teach for America in Indianapolis. Here I am in Georgia. Needless to say, coordinating our schedules to be all together in the same city at the same time is a challenge.
Today we had a big Old Testament midterm exam. The past few days feel like a blur of little sleep and prophets and psalms. Crazy how it takes over life. Want to know about lament in the life of Israel? I can tell ya. But I won’t… I’m tired of thinking about it for today. Want to know how many days since my last shower? I won’t tell ya that either!
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If you read to the end you get a life update, but first Monday night’s dinner…
Blue cheese and pear pizza
This is my friend Sara’s creation. She and Caroline and I celebrated Valentine’s together with a dinner, chocolate covered strawberries, red wine, and romance. Ha.
Ok ok, I know. I fail at blogging. At least for the past 7 weeks. But I’m back on the bandwagon now! I’m just going to highlight the big things that have kept me busy and kept me from blogging.
On Wednesday evening, while I was in Birmingham, I got to enjoy dinner with friends Celeste, Lauren, and Stephen. We sat outside, and Lauren and Stephen brought Scrabble and a dictionary. Playing the game sparked some thoughts about this book I’ve been reading. We had some interesting conversation that night and I’ve had interesting conversations in my mind since then.
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