Hello everyone!

Wow, it's been a long time!

Since last I posted, I planned my wedding, wrapped up my life in Jackson, moved to Wichita, hung out with my family and friends, moved my stuff to Louisville, flew back to Wichita, GOT MARRIED, flew back to Louisville, and commenced living happily ever after.

Seriously, marriage is great.  Especially when you're married to the most amazing man in the world.

Anywho, this is mainly to inform y'all of our new family blog. I might even post on it eventually.  In the meantime, enjoy the recipe.  It's truly glorious.

that someone, as a prank, changed my xanga site so that my profile picture was of a woman in liturgical garb, preaching, and the background was of an empty sanctuary, just before my alleged ordination.  I was pretty annoyed in my dream, trying to remember if it was April 1, and attempting to track down the pranksters, when I woke up.

Maybe I've been reading too much Father Brown...

So, I'm starting to think maybe 25 is the watershed for whether you really care much about your birthday or not.  'Cause last year it was a pretty big deal, but this year I'm not really all that excited about it.  Except checking my mailbox.  That will be fun.
On the plus side, it is pretty exciting to know that this is the last birthday I'll be celebrating unmarried.  Yay!
On the less festive side, I'm going to be spending most of my time today playing the piano for people.  Which really isn't all that bad, just not much like a party.
But I'm grateful that the Lord has sustained me for another trip around the sun, and for all the marvelous things he has done in my life in the past year.  Truly his steadfast love endures forever!
Here's to 26!

Well, not a lot really.  Actually, my life's been kinda dull lately.  And most of what I've been pondering would not be appropriate blog-fodder.  Thus the lack of posting.

But things are about to get more interesting.  Tomorrow we start interviewing RAs for next year, which I really enjoyed last year.  Then Saturday I fly northward to Louisville to visit my suitor for the weekend (staying with one of his elders and family down the street, just so that's clear), and I come back Monday night for more RA interviews Tuesday and Thursday.

In my knitting endeavor, behold the finished backpack!  Although, I was looking at this website trying to figure out why knitting through the back of a stitch seemed so much harder to me than it needed to be, and the best I can figure is that when I thought I was purling, I was actually knitting through the back of the stitch, which probably means I need to relearn how to purl.  *sigh*  An evening of stitchin' and Austen with Kiersten would probably set me straight, but first we would have to get either me there or her here, neither of which seems likely to happen for several weeks, anyway.  I shall have to settle for video demonstrations in the meantime.  But I am determined to get it figured out, because this site has me thoroughly inspired.  If you are at any level skilled in the ways of the yarn, I highly recommend it.  And it's totally worth having to wait in line for a couple of weeks.

is it the 21st already?!
craziness!

Well, all, it's been quite the month.  My "holiday" busyness didn't really come to a stop until a week ago (.mp3s of AAPC may be purchased here-- always worth it, especially the Jordan lecture and Vespers service!-- and .mp3s of the Wilsons's time with IPC are freely available here), and since then I seem to have been wrestling with a case of what Nancy Wilson calls the January Blahs.  I must say, it was a relief to read that and discover I'm not the only one suffering from a severe lack of motivation.  It seems the only things I've felt like doing lately are reading (I devoured a Terry Pratchett novel in under 24 hours, finally finished The Baptized Body, and am about to start on the above, a Christmas gift from my suitor) and knitting.

Yes, seriously.  Knitting.  I saw another of Kiersten's amazing Fair Isle creations and thought (for the thousandth time) "Oh, I wish I could knit!" Later when I sat down to watch a movie, I needed something to occupy my hands and thought, "C'mon, give it another try.  After all, it is Kiersten's birthday.  What better time to start?"  This is what I've got so far:



Half of what will become a purse/backpack/knapsack sort of thing.  I'm fairly pleased.  Though if I don't get a turn in the laundry room soon, I'm going to have to start knitting new clothes...