It's the Weekly Recap!

* Last Sunday, as you know, I had my first ever Pancakes with the Princess lunch at my house. Inspired by my friend Jenna and her husband, who host Pancakes with the Pastor regularly, I was excited to get back into entertaining again. My friends who came over were so much fun, and I've declared round one to be a success! Already planning round two....


* Did you enjoy a day off work Monday? If you did, then I'm jealous, party of one! I not only went to work, but it was one of our big campus visit days, so I had to iron extra dressy clothes and wear heels and everything! It was like the anti-holiday! But I do love the big visit days - so much fun to meet with prospective students who are excited about college! That is one aspect of my job I absolutely adore.


* Tuesday I went to lunch with my Monday lunch date, Jenny. (Yes, you read that right.) We went to Fazolis (ever have a day when you just need carbs?) and I tried out their new mini bakes. Pretty much shown actual size here. :) I was excited about it because their regular portions are always too big for me, so this was Bekah-sized food. But it CRACKED ME UP when I sat down with my tray and looked at my broccoli chicken mushroom alfredo. There were these three itty bitty spriglets of broccoli, four shriveled up mushrooms, and two (maybe three?) token pieces of chicken. So of course I had to take a picture.

Funny - but truly delicious.

Almost lost my life on the track at school after work. It's a two-lane indoor track, and walkers are supposed to take the inner lane so runners can use the outside for a passing lane. I was jogging and came up behind a walker. I looked over my right shoulder to see if I had any hard core runners rounding the bend before I passed her, and seeing no one, I looked ahead again, only to find the walker was doing some sort of lunge exercise! She'd come to a dead stop on the (very busy!) track. I almost tripped over her but I was able to step sideways in time.

And then, to round out the day, I went to a (blog anonymous) friend's house to watch her baby for a couple of hours. Much cuddling and sleeping (on the part of the baby...I was not sleeping on the job), and just a little bit of playing with stuff like this:

(And yes...I played with it more than the baby did. Kid toys are way fun!)

* We had a surprise ice stormlet Wednesday. Nothing compared to ice storms I've seen in years gone by, but since we weren't really expecting it, it made for an interesting commute (skate) to work. Where are the triple lutz skills when you need them?

* Early last year, I worked out a few times each week with a friend I met at work. Her name is Kristy. Neither of us were good about going to the weight room alone, but we enjoyed going together. Then she got engaged, and I went into my desert, and we quit going to the gym. So now, we go to lunch every now and then instead. LOL! Thursday we had a lunch date at Moe's. Chicken quesadilla, baby!

It snowed on Thursday (because, apparently, we'd not had enough fun with the ice on Wednesday) and when I came out of work, someone had scraped my car for me! That was the nicest blessing. I was admittedly in a bit of a cantankerous mood after work that day, so it really perked me up!

And this will crack you up. To preserve my dignity, I did not take a picture of this. When I got home from work, I knew I needed to shovel and I also knew I should do it before I got all toasty warm. I'd worn a sweater dress to work, so I needed to put on something warmer before going outside. But I didn't want to entirely change clothes. So here's what I wore to shovel: brown tights with red and blue warm up pants over them, my brown "hooker boots" (which are NOT snow boots), and my green sweater dress (over the warm up pants but peeking out from under my coat). It would have served me right to fall down and need medical assistance while dressed as a What No To Wear special.

* I needed a low-key weekend, so I was actually excited to not have many plans. Friday night after I worked out (and that included nearly losing my pants on the track...they weren't tied tightly enough and oh goodness did that almost lead to disaster!) I went home to this scrumptiousness:

I'll definitely be making this again - cheesy tortellini in the slow cooker. I'll post a recipe for you next time. (I even boiled eggs and made croutons for the salad earlier this week!)

* Yesterday I enjoyed a beautiful day that alternated between pathetically lazy and blissfully productive. I had some chores to do and I did them...but I also took full advantage of the opportunity to rest and enjoy. (Which was good, since it was blessed cold and I spent a good chunk of the day in my jammies and pink fuzzy bathrobe - sporting TWO pairs of socks.)

When I did venture outside, I took this:

Favorite God Moment of the Whole Week: I had a variety of moments this week when God nudged me to understand that something taking place right then...would become wildly significant to me later. I don't understand what will unfold, but I believe in the unfolding. And to punctuate that point, while in a meeting at work this week, the presenter referenced a position that had been eliminated this year. It was a job I'd wanted when I heard about it a few years ago. I was disappointed then that it didn't work out, but this week, God made sure I heard that sentence and reminded me that He was orchestrating NOW...then.

Books I'm Reading This Week: I am loving Sparkling Gems from the Greek. Still reading Believing God (studying with Olivia). FINISHED In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. Loved it. Definitely came away challenged.

Goal Update from Last Sunday: I'm excited that I finished one of the books...goal met! I also had the chance to do some writing - both yesterday, when I had a free day, and also on a couple of lunch hours when the weather was too nasty to bother leaving work at lunch time. I took my computer to work with me, shut my office door at lunch, and wrote until the hour was over. (Why is that always far too soon??) I even got some unexpected scrapping in this week!

Goals for the Coming Week: I'm very busy this week with projects and commitments, so my goal is to NOT add anything to my calendar that isn't already there at this very moment. I have extra time...but I also need to keep that time open to rest. So the goal is essentially to exercise the word NO. (oh boy.) Also going to try my hand at keeping a food journal. (Challenge from a friend.) We'll see how that goes!