Yup. I'm home.

Dad: "Something smells hot. Oh, that's right. You said you were thinking."

Oh, Dad.  But I suppose that just goes along with the job description.  :)

Tidbits

 

Google usually comes up with some fun art around Christmas time. I like it.

I also like the fact that the sky is no longer clear blue. It is also a little windy today. The gray sky is much more Christmas-y since we can't have snow. Some morning fog or rain would make the day perfect. I hear they are getting quite the storm back at school. It will be interesting going back in January. I must say it is nice to be able to jump in the car here and not even have to THINK about the possibility of ice on the roads.

Have I mentioned that I'm happy to be home? It was so nice seeing everyone at church yesterday. I missed my church family while I was at school. It is REALLY nice to have a brother around again too. :) Peter's random movie quotes keep me laughing and I missed our conversations together too. And, of course, there's the teasing. Brothers. Gotta love 'em.

Saturday pizza. It's tradition.

Tonight I am making pizza for the first time in over FOUR MONTHS.  Whoo-hoo!  Garlic!  We need more garlic in the sauce!  Mark and KT will be joining us along with another friend from church, and we will be watching our more recently added Christmas family tradition of "Home Alone."  It gets funnier every year.  :)

Home sweet home

Enough said.

Brrr!

The forecast for tonight is calling for a low of 17*. (Good thing I put on my down comforter today.) The low for tomorrow night is supposed to be 36*.

And that's only because tomorrow night I will be sleeping in California weather.

Roomies

... Up until August I never really had to share a bedroom with anyone. (I might have when I was really little, but since I am the only girl in my family with three brothers, it was the boys who shared and I had a room of my own.) This semester there have been three of us together in a room. And what fun it has been! But now I find out that there is a possiblity that I might be losing BOTH of the girls next semester. Becka is getting married, so we knew she wouldn't be around the whole year, but today Jenna shared with me that she might not be able to come back in January because of finances. The thought of having a room all to myself makes me feel lonely. It has been such a joy to get to know these girls. We have had plenty of fun and laughs together over the last several months. As you think about it, please pray that things will work out for Jenna to return next semester. It was really sad watching her pack up all of the things today "just in case." But God is a whole lot bigger than the initial payment that is due January 1. So I pray.

...for a Christmas party!

It was beautiful!








My dear Hungarian friend, Edina.



This is a VERY typical Lindsey pose.



I want to bring them home with me!!!



My wonderfully, fantastic dorm! (minus two who were unable to be there) The number of camera flashes going off was a bit overwhelming. Hanna said it was the most embarrassing thing that's happened to her all semester. (hee, hee!) You would have thought the paparazzi were after us or something.

Preparations...

Emerging Church assignment

"For this assignment each student is required to write a two page paper that explains how the Church would look in a postmodern culture. Each paper will be graded upon the student's ability to explain the issues of contextualization and syncretism.

"There must be a clear distinction between what is acceptable as culture and what deviates from the Biblical worldview. Your job is to evaluate what you know about Postmodern culture/Emerging Culture and put the church in that context."

This is going to take some major brain power. I'm not entire sure how to even begin. The assignment is for the Emerging Church elective I have been taking. Good class. I really did not know anything about the Emerging Church movement before.

And now for that paper. Hmmmm.....

Woo-hoo!

I'm so happy.  They had EGGNOG at lunch today!!  And the snow is flurrying again.

It's the little things in life.  :)

More weather related

It is foggy today. And rainy. We usually don't have those two conditions at the same time back at home.

Last night's storm was not too bad after all. The snow was pretty light, but I did have a good layer of ice to scrape off of my windows before I left for church this morning. I wasn't too comfortable about driving on the roads yet, but thankfully my dorm mate Liz drove with me to church (I let her sit behind the wheel), and I felt better about driving home later on. Whew! We'll see how it goes after the next storm.

*Edit*

It's amazing how a simple note scrawled on a scrap of construction paper can totally make your day. :)

Happy for gnomes

The radiators are pounding and I am rejoicing! For some reason, they did not turn on all day. (And here I thought I slept through the racket this morning.) We usually enjoy their serenade several times throughout the day. It stayed in the upper 20's all day, so needless to say the dorms were pretty chilly. My two roommates and I like our room on the cooler side, so we keep the valve on our radiator closed tight, but I think we'll make an exception tonight.  :)

I am told there is supposed to be a big storming coming through tonight. I hope it waits until Monday or at least until tomorrow afternoon. I am scheduled to work in the nursery tomorrow, and I haven't yet learned how to drive in the snow (or ice). With the exception of the pictures I posted from last Monday we haven't really had any snow that would make driving an issue for me.