Home Again in Indiana

This Thursday I come to you blogging from Windermere Apartments, sitting at my laptop while Josh cooks sausage for our omelets I am about to go make. We were going to have grilled cheese & tomato soupd, but the bread was moldy. I digress.

Only a couple days ago, I was in Atlanta Georgia at the ResNet Symposium. Lots of neat things were there, including interesting people, useful presentations, good food, and visits with family and friends. I came back with good ideas for next year's Installfest that I will have to bounce off my fellow COS Club leaders. I'm excited.
Work has been somewhat quiet as I have been slowly getting back into things. I'm working on a new project that is challenging.

I'm glad to be home.

I'm back...

...with not much to say. I would love to write about the exciting things going on in my life or interesting thoughts or questions that I have been pondering. Sadly, nothing exciting has been happening in my life.

As I write this, I am at work waiting for a file to load onto a client’s site. As big as the file is, it takes forever, and therefore I sit here watching the percentage complete slowly get closer to 100. Welcome to my job. Not that I can complain (too much) - it isn’t always like this.

As far as interesting thoughts of mine, I really don’t have any. I am getting through my personal reading list for the summer and am reading a biography of John Adams (by David McCullough) . Great book. But I have no thoughts of my own =P. Just living life day by day and not doing much of anything exciting.

I hope you enjoyed the news of my life. Not sure what next week will hold. Hopefully something more interesting.

Different types of Thursdays

This Thursday you will not get a weekly dose of musings from either Joanna or Kristen but me! By me, I mean Matt... one of Kristen and Joanna's friends from school and currently work. So this is a different type of 'Thursday post' and this is a different type of Thursday for me. During the college (I just graduated) I worked for the student news paper. Thursday was our big production night, were we'd stay up until the small hours of the morning putting together the next edition of the Echo. This Thursday what am I doing? Well, I need to go to the grocery store to get some lettuce and bread and etc. Other then that... I don't have to much planed.

It seems like Atlanta is the place to be. Ashley lives there and Joanna and Alisse are going there for various reasons.

For something a little more serious, the Supreme Court ruled that the government can seize land for any reason. This is somewhat disturbing and I think it has a huge potential to be abused.

Next week: your regularly scheduled bloggers

Scattered thoughts

I don't know what to blog about so that is what I am blogging about: the things I can't decide on for my blog today.

• I now know which I like more for Thursday night activities: sports over The OC. I was excited when plans fell through to watch the OC with a friend and now I get to watch the NBA finals!!
• God is awesome!! I could go on and on about why and what all He has done. If you want to know, ask me and I'll tell you.
• I am a woman and that is a wonderful thing. I have been called by God to fulfill a role that only I, as a woman, can fill. (I just started "Captivating"- so far, so real!)
• I am changing my major! Well, I still have to run it by the parents, but I am 100% ready to change. Once again, for the story, ask me. Or check my other blog- I plan on blogging about this there sometime.

Well, those are the topics I considered writing about and now I am able to write about all of them. Have a great week!!

Romanced

A couple weekends ago, I read the book Captivating by John & Stasi Eldredge. This is a passage from the chapter entitled Beauty to Unveil:

We have all heard it said that a woman is most beautiful when she is in love. It's true. You've seen it yourself. When a woman knows she's loved and loved deeply, she glows from the inside. The radiance stems from a heart that has had its deepest questions answered. "Am I lovely? Am I worth fighting for? Have I been and will I continue to be romanced?" When these questions are answered, Yes, a restful, quiet spirit settles in a woman's heart.

That's a good description of me in the last week. I've known I am loved, and I haven't stopped being in love in the last month, but my love has come home, and I have been radiating ever since. I definitely feel like I have a more restful spirit now that I can relax with my love. It is wonderful.


So, Josh is home. It has beene a VERY, very happy week.

My addiction

While I could comment about how my new job is going (though it is pretty much what Joanna said), I want to take this time to admit one of my addictions.

Hello, my name is Kristen and I am an OC-aholic. It began over a month ago when I wanted to go workout with a friend of mine (name withheld for her protection) and she said "Well, I am watching the OC at 8pm but I can go at 9." Since I had nothing better to do, I decided to watch this show with her.

That night changed my life. I was hooked from just that one episode. Each week until school ended I sat down each Thursday with this friend and we watched the OC. We would not just watch, but engaged as we pleaded with the characters to do the right thing, not just the easiest, and cried as the season ended with the death of one of the characters we loved.

Now that school is over, I have continued watching the re-runs of the previous season (showing this summer) to catch up on all I missed. Even this very Thursday, I am driving to my friend's house to watch it with her.

That is my confession: please do not judge me in any way for my behavior. I blame it all on my friend. (j/k: I enjoy watching it and also spending time with her)

Much anticipated Thursday

Today is a day I've been anticipating for quite some time- the day when I can say to Josh 'See you tomorrow!' He (is supposed to) get back from his month-long storm chasing trip late tomorrow, and I am a very excited fiancee. On my phone this morning, I had a text message from him sent at 12:01 this morning that said "its thursday", so I think he might be excited too.
Hooray.
(The caveat on him getting back tomorrow is, if there are really good storms tomorrow, they'll chase them and not get back till Saturday. I'm not as happy about that. Especially since it looks like there MIGHT be good storms tomorrow.)

In other news, I've hit the ground running at my new job, finally, after a week and a half of training. Not that I quite feel ready to jump into things, but, I'm trying. I'm sure I'll continue to be overwhelmed and feel disoriented for a while. There feels like there's so much to learn! And I'm only here for the summer!