I Don't do Lent.

Jesus doesn't want you to give up Facebook for Lent. Or meat. Or sugar. Lent isn't mentioned in the Bible. So if you break it down it's just another man-made holiday.

Yup, I just compared the thing that's depriving you if your morning donut to Groundhogs Day.

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People have been asking lately "What have you given up for Lent?"

Weekend Awesomeness

Good Monday, and St. Patrick's Day!

This weekend was pretty awesome- consisting of a Friday night vegging out (Tom was at an evangelism conference in South Carolina), hanging with good friends and (starting to) plant my urban garden, and ending with a date with Tom after church on Sunday.

Gorgeous day! Picking up seeds at the Home Depot.

Five Things on Friday

Happy Almost weekend!

I've had an awesome week, and here's five things that helped make it that way:

Pacific Coast Dreaming

Ack. Sick all this week, I'm blaming the (recently wonderfully warm) weather, the weather I can't enjoy. I'll survive but I'm ready for May 1st.

To quote Mama Cass:

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey

I've been for a walk on a winters day

I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.

California dreamin', on such a winters day.

  "California Dreamin'"

True that.

We're flying to Los Angeles and taking a cruise up to Vancouver, and then Amtraking back to Seattle.

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Weight Loss- Introduction

Hello World!

No one really knows this (other than Tom), but I've been monitoring my food and intermittent fasting for about a month. Since it's going well (and the 1 month point has passed without my dying- I know!) I wanted to show the progress and keep some form of accountability online.

Dear 18 Year-Old Me

Dear Me,

It's September 2005, and you're a senior in high school. I remember you and your 16 hour days. Wake early, walk to school, leave for medical office training, and then working at Wendy's until 10. You have so much energy, enjoy it. A schedule like that will wipe you out 10 years from now.

You're doing okay, but in the hurry to get to your future, you missed some things.

Pathetic Woman That I Am

It's about that time..... to put it bluntly it's shark week.

And I've turned into the most hormonally unbalanced woman.

In an email to Tom:

Why Did I Miscarry? Blood Results

Part 1, here.

If you've ever had a miscarriage, you know the things start going through your mind. Things like "maybe I didn't eat well enough" or "maybe I was too stressed from work". But then this God-sent article (and a doctor friend of ours) helped put those feelings to rest. They just happen. Try again. Nothing you did caused this.

Valentines Day

This year was our first married Valentines, and it was remarkably similar to our first dating Valentines (not counting long-distance). Let's recap, because why not?

2011
Our first Valentines was when I had been living in New York City for about 6 months, and we had no expendable cash. I decided to buy some red candles and bake sugar cookies. I do remember that I nearly wiped out my checking account to buy the baking sheet, rolling pin and red food dye to make them. (I do not miss those 'trying to make it in NYC on a shoestring' days.)

Snowtubing at Camelback

Good Morning!

This past weekend, Tom and I took the in-laws to have their first snow tubing experience at Camelback Mountain Resort, in Tannersville, PA. Good times were has by all, despite there being little documentation of it.

Highlights: