1. Taco Tuesday in my apartment. (It was epic…the food was wiped out in fifteen minutes)
2. Videos featuring Nigel Thornberry on YouTube.
3. New lipstick.
4. Hot tea.
5. Finally heard back from a contact about an internship…say a prayer for that one! I’m really hoping for it.
6. Maple and brown sugar oatmeal sent to me from home!!
7. Anna Johnson—a beautiful, loving friend who has been so good to me this week.
8. My spring break trip is officially booked. Corfu Island, Greece, here I come!
9. Almost finished with a jewelry piece that I’m actually proud of!
10. Got an email from my poetry professor asking if she could feature one of my audio pieces on the Apogee website (Apogee is HPU’s literary magazine).
11. Super Bowl party! It was such a late night, but worth it.
12. Received a letter from my Granny! She’s the best.
13. Cappuccinos (always)
14. CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL STARTS NEXT WEEK. It will be, conveniently, right around the corner from my apartment. This is real life.
I haven’t blogged in a few days, mostly because I haven’t had much to say. It’s strange how things have become normal here. I’m not sure if that is good or bad, but things that I used to be excited about are just everyday life now. On one hand, I feel extremely blessed. On the other hand, I think I might be beginning to take things for granted.
I’m reading a book by John Piper right now called, "Desiring God". Sometimes, it’s not an extraordinarily fun read, but I’m enjoying Piper’s ideas/reflections. Yesterday, I re-read a part that had kind of been sticking out in my head for the past few days. The quick and dirty version of what he says in this chapter is that God “is the end of our search, not the means to some further end.” Sometimes, I start to think of God as a instrument for getting what I want [Does everyone do that sometimes?]. After all, he does say “Delight thyself also in the LORD and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” The hard part of that, surprisingly, is the part about delighting in the Lord. I guess the point [not a new point, but one that's hard to remember] is that when we delight in the Lord, He becomes the desire of our hearts. He isn’t a means for receiving the joy and love [or whatever] we want, He is that joy and love that we want—complete fulfillment of our desires.
Why is that so difficult sometimes?
On a different note, I am falling madly in love with cooking. Here’s a taste of what’s been happening in my kitchen lately:
1. Eggplant Parmesan
2. Parmesan baked tomatoes
3. Stuffed bell peppers (most of the credit goes to Alex for that one)
4. Stuffed Zucchini (we had more stuffing than peppers, so of all our vegetables got stuffed)
5. Bruschetta
6. Quite a few variations of pasta with pesto or pomodoro
7. Stir fried veggies with pineapple and curry
8. Mushroom and mozzarella panini
Tonight, I fixed baked eggplant with pasta...
Something about cooking makes me so happy. I think it’s either that the kitchen gets warm and I don’t have to walk around in a blanket anymore or that I love being creative with what’s around the kitchen and making something good with my own hands. If there’s any American food that I’m craving, though, it’s wings. I could really go for a big plate of hot wings from Waldo’s in Winston-Salem…with some ranch on the side…mm mmm!
Who’s hungry?
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