Workin for the weekend

I came in three hours late to work today after I called my boss and told her I needed to sleep in to catch up from my weekend. The awesome thing about my boss is, she totally understood and said to come in whenever I felt rested!

There are two kinds of weekends I relish:

1) the "lazy" weekend - David and I will sleep in until noon on Saturday, watch some TV, run our weekend errands (Target, Costco, etc.) and then come back and watch a movie

2) the "jam-packed" weekend - I go from event to event, trying to cram in as much socializing as possible

This last weekend fell under category #2. It began with a Threshold ladies night on Friday evening, complete with tons of delicious food provided by Chris Pineda (always a gracious host) and lots of good conversation. It was a great time of getting to know the other women in the group more deeply.
After a few hours with the girls, I left to spend the rest of Friday night with my hubby. We got out the necessary 'movie snacking' food (popcorn and Sour Patch kids) and watched "For the Bible Tells Me So", a wonderful documentary about the Christian faith and homosexuality. It was a poignant and well-done movie that showed the experiences of 5 different Christian families who had gay sons or daughters and discussed the journey they all had been on to learning to embrace both their faith and their gay family members. I would HIGHLY HIGLY recommend it.
Saturday came and after studying and completing an online quiz for my Abnormal Psych class, we ventured to Home Depot to look at paint colors. David and I have made a resolution to have our bedroom and bathroom painted before we possibly start grad school in the fall. I have never thought of yellow as a color I would like to paint a room, but I had a sudden realization that I really want to paint our bedroom some muted shade of yellow to give it a warm, sunny feeling. Surprisingly, David seemed ok with the idea, so we'll see...maybe our room will look like this?

I was then off to meet up with Bronwyn and Jarrod, to carpool to Kassey's goodbye party in San Francisco. What is a farewell party for Kassey without a huge gathering of all her friends in SF? I have to admit, I was looking forward to meeting her SF small group friends, since I constantly see pictures of these people all the time on Kassey's Facebook page ( she adds a new album almost every day it seems!). I really am invigorated by seeing old friends and meeting new ones and this was a perfect setup to do so! I'm also glad I was able to see Kassey before she heads off to pursue her dreams in NYC, it's always fun to watch friends take off on a new adventure.
After getting to bed at 3 am, getting up for church on Sunday was a little painful. But I'm so glad I went. Threshold is participating in a really cool series about Race & Faith during their Sunday morning adult ed class, and this week's session was really interesting. I think it's important to focus on racial reconciliation from a Christian perspective and how we as a church can be part of the reconciliation process. It helps that our class is so diverse and so there are lots of insights on the issues that are brought up.
After church, I had some downtime so I went to my parent's house and took Milo on a walk. This is one of the simple joys in my life, watching Milo run around in the greenbelt by my parent's house. He's a feisty little dog when it comes to racing around in the grass! Later on in the afternoon, David and I went over to the Howards to partake in some Super Bowl gluttony. I didn't really care about the game at all, I was more interested in watching the new "Office" episode after the game! It lived up to the hype, it was a hilarious episode. Favorite quote from Michael Scott helping recessitate Stanley from his heart attack: "Stanley! Barack is president! You are black Stanley!"
Well, the night got even better when the Howards reminded us that they now owned Rock Band....thus began a jam session that lasted well until 10 pm! I have to say though, I never want to sing Hole's "Celebrity Skin" song again, once is enough! All in all, another great weekend.