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Death of a Snowman

After the great snow of ‘08, I decided I wouldn’t waste one more warming day.  So I built myself a man who’s made of snow.

He’s suave and all - even stood guard outside my door - but I felt like there’s was a bit too much competition going on for the ladies of LPTS.  Thus:

I could’ve saved him.  But we both knew there was only room for one cool dude here at a time.

Snow Yoga

As I sit here eating cookie dough, I’m reminded of how good milk is.  Skim milk.  Is there anything in the world more refreshing at times?  Yes, I’m eating what would be the equivalent of 10 cookies, but this is dinner and that’s ok.  Also, I went to my first Yoga class tonight.  It was at the Y and I’ll hopefully be continuing it soon.  I’ve got a couple of trial times I can go before I need to start paying.  It is called Fitness Yoga but I thing the “Fitness” part is just marketing redundancy.  The class was in fact half newbies like me and nothing was overly difficult.  For some of you out there who find yoga very hard, blame it on your instructor.  Mine was uber-nice and didn’t push us hard at all.  Also, I’m not inflexible so I could at least get into all the basic positions we did.  Besides not really being able to hinge from my hips while keeping my back straight, I felt great the whole time.  I hope to keep this up consistently for quite some time.  The Y also has Aqua Aerobics classes that I want to attend.  If that doesn’t get my endurance up I don’t know what will.  Whenever I get the membership set up, I plan on going to the Y four times a week.  I REALLY need this.

As many of you have had the past couple of days, Louisville is blanketed with snow.  It is really nice to have at least one good (more than 3 inches) snow storm every now and then.  But this crazy weather will melt it all away before the weekend is over.  (For goodness sake, my last post was about a summer-like storm with tornadoes!)  We had a snow day Tuesday which meant that the seminary had no scheduled activities.  Because Tuesday is my longest day, that didn’t bother me too much.  I was however looking forward to my first group supervision for the counseling program.  Alas, next week will be my first.

Let’s see, what else is going on.  Well Obama and McCain seem to be doing nicely in the primaries.  I went to Lex this weekend to enjoy fondue and game night as well as some much needed conversation and church.  I broke Lent when I purchased a food item: one roll of cookie dough.  I figured out how many meals I had in my apt left, and it was way short.  So one roll of Pillsbury will yield about 8 sad meals but I’ll get enough fat, calories, and carbs to get me through.  Also, I’ll drink more milk and that fills me up too.  I’m taking a multi-vitamin so I won’t get sick and die.  UK and UVa both lost tonight in bball.  Oh yeah, and happy St. Valentine’s Day to you all!  And especially you.

“Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.” - Unknown

Tornado Fasting

Well, I suppose you can’t fast from what the insurance people call “acts of God” so that’s off my list for things to fast from during Lent.  But yeah, right now in the city of Louisville, we are under a Tornado Warning.  The sirens letting us know this is for real and urgent.  I for one am irrationally calm.  Perhaps it’s the illusion of safety I have in my life and in this concrete apartment building I live in.  Perhaps I’m still young and stupid enough to feel invincible against the unknown.  Perhaps I know that IF it’s my time to die then so be it.  I’m okay with that.  I’ve been looking forward to Heaven since I was 12.  Otherwise, I’ll be safe in my very solid concrete bomb shelter of an apartment.  The sirens just died down so I guess I’m fine now.   I love the summer-like thunderstorms we’ve had the past week.  I would have my windows open but the siren actually going off clued me that I should at least take that precaution.  Now it’s back on.  I can hear the intense wind whipping the rain in and between the buildings.  The rain is almost sideways and stuff is blowing around out there.  Trees are paying homage to the power of the storm.  Some are even breaking apart.  There is a river of runoff flowing through the big field that would be called my back yard.  I just saw lightning light up the sky to show off a rainbow!  I do love storms.

Today is now Ash Wednesday which means that this is the day when people all around the world fast from certain things.  Fasting is meant to focus your energy on God and aways from this world.  It is also common to use the money you would spend on whatever and give it either to the poor, a charity, or to the church.   I’ve decided to do something for Lent as well but I haven’t really decided what it will be yet.  Right now one of the front runners (for all you SuperTuesday fans) is fasting from all food.  I’ve always wanted to do it and there’s no reason not to right now.  The only annoying thing about that is the food I still have in my fridge.  So what I really might do is not spend another penny on food and live off of what I have already.  This will enable discipline and be more responsible than letting some of it go to waste.  Also, I will be able to more tangibly know how much money I will give away because I know how much I spend on food.  So this includes eating out of course and accepting people to pay for my meals.  Since part of this is to not let food go to waste, if I am out at a restaurant and someone is not going to take their left overs home with them, then I may partake (but no more than one half of what is there).  Also, if I am at a social function and the hour is getting late with plenty of food still left over, I may also consume some (but no more than a third of what is there).  I’m giving myself until midnight tonight to decide for sure on something but I won’t be spending money on food just in case that’s what I go with.  Any thoughts?  Click on COMMENTS.