Good Start (not like the baby formula)

Today was a good day... full of good friends, good food, good deeds, good ideas, good intentions... Seems like a good day to start a new blog. :o)

First, I celebrated finishing a 70 hour work week by sleeping in. That was good... very good. :o) Then, I went to lunch with a good friend, Janel, and we had a good conversation. It's so good to live life on purpose, and from time to time, to have deep conversations with friends about how to do that. Today was one of those chats. And it can be so scary sometimes to live the way that you know God is calling you to. A life of openness and obedience and abiding in Christ. A life that makes Him smile... o yeah, and it's good, too. ;)

This is where the good intentions come in... I intended for this to be the first day of eating healthy. (i'm no longer calling it a "diet" cuz that word is less fun..."healthy eating" has a much nicer ring to it than "bikini-body-for-may-vacation-diet", but the turquoise polka dot bikini will still hang from the back of my door as a reminder of the upcoming beach trip :) I intended to try this calcium-enriched diet that I read in a fun, classy book called How the Rich Get Thin. It made me feel rich to read it and get recommendations of all the places in NYC where you can eat and stay on her diet plan. So, in light of that, I was going to have a salad topped with grilled shrimp at lunch. Which, I am glad to say, I totally did... but then I also had a ton of yummy chips with artichoke dip and a criossant. So much for good intentions, but hooray for good food! :o) Random side note: she recommends water with a twist of lemon or lime in it. I like lemon water, so I thought I'd branch out and try lime water... not quite as delightful as I had hoped. Good lesson. :o)

I had a sweet chance to serve my mom today. She hurt her back lifiting a huge bag of fertilizer, so I got to work on being a servant of all by cleaning bathrooms for her today. It's sweet to get to serve while I spend my last few months at home. I'm on a quest for a little cottage that I can move into this summer. The Lord seems to be opening doors for me change my address. :o) My dear friend Joanna is moving back to be my roommate before we embark on our travels around the globe for Jesus (her possibly to Europe and me to Haiti). In light of the current housing market and awesome mortage rates, it might be a really wise time to buy a house. And it would be so cool to actually do the wise financial thing and get to be in the market at the right time (i feel like i don't usually make really wise financial decisions; it'd be cool to start :)! I'm still praying my way through it, but I have my eye (and prayers :) on two cute little mill houses. I love the thought of taking a sad little old cottage and turning it into a bright, cheery home with a little elbow grease and TLC.

Some random good ideas: I love to travel and have adventures, and I recently came across some fun ideas for trips! Below is a great website for swing dancing around the world:
http://www.swingoutoftown.com/
How fun would it be to lindy hop your way through Scotland?!
I also found a school in southern France that offers French lessons in the morning and surfing lessons in the afternoon. Tres chic! (and i don't know how to say "surf's up" yet in French :). You can find that here:
http://www.bls-frenchcourses.com/course-surf-GB.html

All in all, it's been a good day off. I think it might be a good time to watch a movie, and I hope that you're having a good day!