Yay! I've been tagged!

The Contents of my Purse:

The trick is, I've been carting around two substantial bolsas this week, just trading out my wallet when necessary. So...

Work Purse:

1. Love cartoon from David (in Spanish)
2. Empty fruit snacks wrapper (now it the garbage)
3. Four tea bags
4. Small bottle of ibuprofen
5. Sparkley lime lip gloss
6. Trident white gum
7. Albertson's card
8. Clean pair of socks
9. A bar of cherry almond soap (Christmas gift)
10. Bluetooth
11. Flashdrive
12. Another Albertson's card (?)
13. Bottle of Airborne
14. Nivea hand cream
15. CO Begelow Mentha lip tint (bright red)
16. More Trident white gum
17. Wedding to-do list (unlooked at)
18. Ipod sans headphones
19. Chapstick
20. Hairband
21. 2 ballpoint pens
22. Miscellaneous receipts
23. Manila folder with miscellaneous documents (mostly important)
24. Four periods worth of exams from Tuesday in a blue folder

Sigh. I need to clean my purses.

Fun purse:

1. Wallet
2. Tahiti Sweetie lotion
3. CO Bigelow Mentha lip shine (uncolored)
4. Body Shop lipstick
5. Tiny LED flashlight
6. 3 pens
7. Cover up (I thought I lost that)
8. Sucrets (Maximum strength, black cherry)
9. Small notebook
10. Half-eaten organic chocolate bar
11. Valentine from Ellyn
12. Drawings from David's niece
13. David's mom's business card
14. Penny
15. Toasted nuts 'n Cranberry Luna bar
16. Heart-shaped Reeses
17. Bobby pin
18. Crochet hook (4.0 mm)
19. Check from David's mom for wedding expenses
20. Laffy taffy wrapper
21. Triple Play coupons

I tag Miranda, Christina, Bianca (and Jeni, if you've started carrying a purse)

Photographer. Check.

The more of his work I see, the more blessed I feel that we snatched him up.

winter woes

Ok, here's the deal. Two winter complaints for two winter happies.

Complaint 1: It snowed 4" again before the chunky ice on the streets melted.

Complaint 2: It's supposed to snow again tomorrow.

Happy 1: A thaw in the forecast! 40 degrees on Friday!!

Happy 2: Yoga is fun. I went for the first time in an attempt to make my new gym membership worth the ridiculous money I paid for it. It was intense. I kind of thought yoga was for sissies, but I was way off. I'm going to hurt tomorrow.

Malawi Memory

I was looking through some pictures from Malawi, and ran across this:



You'll notice he's not wearing pants.

That is a minor detail I did NOT catch when I got distracted by his hand-hewn canoe and shiny fish.

And what a fascinating disconnect to find beauty and pain so close to each other.

Tidbit

I stumbled across this baby in my internet wanderings. Happy travels!

Confronting Whines

Things I whine about regularly:
Being cold
Snow
Winter
Darkness
Getting stuck in the snow
How it snows more and more
Being wet because the snow comes up past my knees
Being tired
Moron students

Things I should talk about more:
How much I love David
How nice he is to me even when I whine
What I read in my Bible
What I read for fun
Music I like
People I like
Giggling with my roommates
How liberating it is to just Stop Doing My Hair. Or brushing it.
How glad I am to have a car even if it gets high-centered on the SnowIce or doesn't start or the alarm goes off accidentally
How much fun my job can be
How I make my students do/say silly things just to make me secretly laugh at them
The fun people I work with
Yummy food
How glad I am to have health insurance
Two snow days that we don't have to make up
The fun party I get in June
The fun vacation I get after the party

P.S. Do I need your address for an invitation? Email me!