so it is about time for a random post --- let's see:
Today has been a good day, a day different from my normal routine, but then again I don't really have a normal routine as of yet on the weekends, and the past two Saturdays I have been out of town.
This morning at my church there was a breakfast to welcome and meet our new Senior Pastor and his family. What struck me were the questions that the "church people" asked when the floor was open to a time of questions (seems a redundant use of the word "question" there)!! This is the first time that we, as a congregation, have had the opportunity to meet the Pastor and to hear his heart - which he shared prior to the floor being open... - well, we had questions such as "what do you think of small groups?" Now, this man was hired and approved, etc by both the Elders and a Search Committee, we as a church have include small groups in our mission statement, and as a church small groups are viewed as a vital part of the church life -- so the incoming pastor isn't exactly going to answer that he doesn't approve of small groups, or that he is going to change them as soon as he gets on board officially. Then someone asked him for his career profile, which I suppose isn't that strange of a question - but STILL!!! Another asked the question, "What is his plan to get teenagers/youth coming to church?" I have to give it to the guy, he answered graciously and sincerely, but I do have to wonder being a PK myself will he have gone home to his family and offered a little chuckle over the questions. Part of me was thinking that I wanted to ask a question such as what drink does he like at Starbucks, or what is the family's favorite restaurant? Or how often does he train for triathalons? (He is an Ironman competitor!!) It just strikes me as "..." (I can't think of the actual word that would best describe it, it is on the tip of my tongue...) but basically as being super spiritual -- needlessly so, as if the questioners have to prove that are religious and spiritual and can ask these questions that really don't have concrete answers, and merely afforded the new guy the opportunity to talk and tell stories. Please, don't misinterprete me - I am all for knowing where the new pastor's heart is in terms of the current ministries, but I do also trust the Elders and the Leadership and they wouldn't have chosen someone who doesn't have a vision for the lost, ideals for the youth, a heart for small groups, etc and really we now don't know too much about the person "NAME." What does he like to do besides be a PASTOR -- that is NOT who he is, it just as a definition of what he does.
Following MORE grocery shopping, but although I spent just shy of $40 I also saved just over $20 - and only bought the things I had intended to buy, so that isn't too bad!! The joy of living "alone." This joy found in having to clean the apartment today -- the hardwood flooring, the kitchen, and really my bedroom and bathroom - but I didn't actually get around to finishing that. However, I did feel a sense of accomplishment in getting my front part of my dwelling place in order. I was distracted doing my room, because I put on the movie "Little Miss Sunshine" which was entertaining, and completely different from other movies. Speaking of different, I am also reading through "Not A Chick Lit," which is a compilation of short stories by women authors, that do not fall into the genre of "Chick Lit" -- there are some well written stories, some are a bit odd, and some a bit too short!!!
Oh, and then the day continue - this isn't very interesting is it?! I went to see "The Queen" this evening with my baby brother -- a well made movie for the most part, I thought Helen Miren did an excellent job with her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II. It was also very sad picture of the royal family, being English myself it was rather strange to watch the movie in a theatre fall of Americans. Many of the traits of the Royal Family, are also inbred traits of most English families -- a very stoic approach to life, perhaps not so much now, but certainly if your parents were raised by parents who lived through the war, and parents who themselves felt the aftereffects of the war. One scene, for example, the Royal couple get annoyed that the tea gets cold, the Americans in theatre scoffed at the complaint; but to me it was something I could connect with. Growing up whenever there was a problem, you would put the kettle for a cup of tea, and you drink your tea hot, THEN comes facing the issue over thehot cup of tea - usually with a dippy biscuit or two or three or....
MOVIE over...home and I spend, I don't know, about 45 minutes trying on clothes trying to decide what I am going to wear to church tomorrow -- I don't usually go in the mornings, and so therefore it is an opportunity to wear more of dressier clothes. See the dilema rests in the fact of having to shave my legs if I wear anything but pants, and well I have dark skirts in the wardrobe, and I haven't worn them at all this year, and so I feel if I don't I really should get rid of them, and I would like to wear them, but then I couldn't decide on a skirt or capris, or what shoes, and then the shoes that I want to wear are a dark pink, but the top I am most comfortable in (I tried on a handful) is a light pink so I am not sure if it goes...I NEVER spend this much time on choosing what to wear, and to be honest I shouldn't have tonight, but oh well, at the moment without school to preoccupy myself with, I am left to the mercy of my own whims!!!
Tomorrow is the SUPERBOWL, and I am going to my San Jose family's house to NOT watch the game, but eat the smoked house ribs -- yum!! But someone else is going who I think I could "like" down the road, well my endearing family had the same idea themselves, and know that I could also "like" him and so Lisa is just coming so she can watch us -- which is a bit intimidating, because since last weekend where talk of the said individual became too heady and too not reality, I have tried and sort of succeeded in putting him out of my mind -- everything is a choice...
And well, right now I am choosing to sign off, change out of the skirt and shoes (I'll let you know tomorrow what I end up wearing :)), and demolish perhaps a second piece of oh so yummy chocolate cake and enjoy a hot cup of tea...
GOOD NIGHT!!!!!!
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