beautiful week-end

FRIDAY:
1. got off work-always a good time.
2. headed to zanzibar's to read & write-ended up perusing the recent Metropolis magazine. drank one of the best lattes in dsm (amazing creme) & a gigantic homemade pumpkin bar, cream cheese frosting. front & back door open-warm fall breeze blowing through.
3. wade joined me & we chatted about inspiration, confession, belief and 'blue like jazz'. he drank a mocha & finished my pumpkin bar. he drew a picture of me (a little tikes character) in my own spacesuit flying to the moon.
4. the cute older man barista commented on how much he likes my hair-and asked, 'have i told you that before?' and i smiled & said, 'yes' and 'it's ok-you can tell me that as many times as you like.' his name is kim, he has a beard, glasses & shaved legs cuz he's a biker.
5. we mosied over to bill & gabe's place once wade decided he wasn't going to work-but play texas hold-'em. i watched & learned. they live in an old house with a beautiful wood staircase. i walked up it just to hear it creak and crack. a jewish man with his christian wife was there. he was beautiful. warm & loud & welcoming. steph kept joking about me working @ big earl's. i couldn't stop blushing. gabe danced like a striper to some jazz fusion & maternally loved danger. danger is a puppy.
6. the first game lasted over two hours. i went home & went ni-night.
SATURDAY:
7. woke up early, had some pb toast & a little bit of the gospel luke. and went to yoga. i completely forgot how much i love this. found myself right back at home atop the purple rubber-like mat. amongst fellow yogies. mostly older than me-more fit. i want to be like them when i grow up.
8. had an encounter with my Heavenly Daddy while laying in shava-asana: corpse pose. don't tell me He ain't in all things. an image of Him kissing me...on the forehead, on the cheek, on the lips, on the shoulders & down my arms--we rolled onto our sides, in the fetal position & i felt Him wrapping around myself...i cried like a baby, but silent.
9. continued to be ravaged by His love while driving in the car, through the drizzley greater dsm area. the violet burning helping to remind me of the fact that He is all-everything else is just bonus.
10. picked up lavender bath salts, sage essential oil & apricot kernel oil-i mixed the 2 oils to make my own concoction for a bath later. and a also picked up a tomato.
11. drove home. changed shoes & went for a walk. cool breeze, overcast sky, leaves still changing-mostly yellow now. breathed in & out and thanked Jesus for my new friendships, for His compassion on me. for the patience of my family with me. for the promises He's been placing in my heart. for the loss of anxiety. for the assuredness of my inheritance. for His provision. for my health. for the gift of healthy boundaries. for what wade hit on the head 'wanting to be more like mary than martha.' decided it's ok to take relationships slowly.
12. cooked an egg, warmed a tortilla & cut up my tomato. watched the food channel. ran hot water, poured in my oil conconction, lit a candle. put on 'baroque for bathtime.' stayed in there for about an hour. fell asleep. got out-put on lotion, went back to bed.
13. woke-up a couple hours later & got ready for my night. drove over to sherman hill to pick up wade. off we were to johnston to taste some wine. scott & steph hosting a 'traveling vineyard' party. not sure i've had so much fun since senior year prom. yes. i had fun at prom. we tasted wine all night for goodness sakes!
SUNDAY:
14. woke up and drove to friedrich's to get a double short cappucino and a zucchini, walnut muffin. it had raisins and chunks of shell in it. i won't have it again.
15. drove to waukee to get my fellowshiping on...went a little early to pray with some folks. sometimes i just listen. dave wrapped-up his teachings on the gospels. reiterating freedom that comes in servanthood, sacrifice, submission. this man's teaching has changed my life. forced me to look at myself in the mirror and admit the things that i was running from. he causes people to have crisis of belief. he calls a spade a spade. and he teaches from the word & about Christ mostly cuz he says, 'that's the only thing with life.' he's not concerned with us being only concerned with ourselves. he wants more for us.
16. had lunch @ ponchero's with the fam.
17. spent a little too long looking for new shoes at a big mall. finally found what i was looking for-earth shoes-in a small store. sold by a young salesman who seemed very nervous/anxious. i said thank you quite a lot. hoping to calm him down. it didn't work.
18. headed home & laid on the couch. checked my email & typed with erich. he sat on my lap for a while. if i don't say anything about loving him or him being on my lap, he stays there longer. he's four now. very grown-up. i stayed silent. holding on.
19. headed over to wade's apartment. we had a list of great things we were going to do: eat pizza. we got tomato & basil pizza from big tomato. herb crust. picked up the movie, 'life is beautiful.' drank a billy porter (boulevard) beer. i think this one is my new favorite. talked about religion, how it gets in the way. talked about us christians first confessing before expecting others to confess. flipping things upside down.
20. after we were good & full he got the eyeball out of the fridge. yes-a deer eyeball. from one of his hunting ventures. he saved it so someday he could cut it open. i had the pleasure to join him in this. at first all i could think was, 'it's looking at me.'
21. we turned on portishead, drank beer & cut open this eyeball. it was absolutely mesmorizing. metallic blue on the inside, squishy & deflated. hard cartiladge-like outer shell. we got ahold of the lense. it was like a very small, clear gummy bear. i chopped it up into bits. we took pictures of the eyeball along the way (see picture-that's the inside)...video too. i touched it with my bare hands several times.
22. cleaned-up the deer eyeball & wade took it out to the trash. i sat & listened to muse while he did this-looking out the window. deciding to be a good girl & not snoop.
23. we listened to more music, he showed me pics of all sorts of things. MoMA, katie, bill, jim, steph, his nephew, his biking buddies, colorado, caves, paintings, salt & pepper shakers being inappropriate.
24. we made root beer floats & watched 'life is beautiful.' i had no idea of how gorgeous that movie was. i fell in love with that man. with his wife. with their son. their son lit up my heart. joshua. yoshua.
25. went home & went night-night.
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