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| Banana Bread from the other day |
 The recipie turned out quite well despite it's being minus the sugar. I made two loaves cause I had a whole bunch of bananas. I'll be bringing one to church so people can help me eat it. I don't think I could ever eat that much banana bread. |
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| Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| Kicking @$$ and taking names |
 While doing laundry, baking banana bread and cleaning my apartment, I took a break to find out who it is that is in charge of the property manager here. And I called. The direct supervisor is out of town for a while, but left a number of someone else I could contact before he gets back. And I did. And she was very helpful and took down my information and the situation as it stands and will be discussing it with the lady who is in charge of all housing operations for the place that owns my apartment complex. They will be getting back to me by Monday (due to the holiday weekend and everyone getting 4 days off). I feel empowered to really make things happen. And I feel productive, even though I haven't done all that much, but I did get up at 9:30 this morning. The kitchen is mostly sparkling, my clothes are getting clean, ginger beef w/veggies was for lunch, banana bread made without any sugar is in the oven and smelling wonderful, and I'm about ready to put on some music, plop down on the couch and start another hat order. :) Wow, the smell of banana bread really is a cozy winter smell. Now if only I could kick the cold I feel coming on. I'm off to make some tea. |
| posted by Jen @ 2:29 PM |
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| Sunday, November 20, 2005 |
| Constantly Amazed |
| I am constantly amazed at the way God works and how life changes. Until recent months, my life had decidedly moved in one kind of direction and I would venture to say that I didn't enjoy a lot of it. I felt unfulfilled, alone, and without direction. Somewhere, life took a U-turn (surely at the hand of my loving God) and I'm happy, content, and have a minute amount of direction. More, find good things in the everyday more frequently that allow me to forget about the world telling me to have direction. I am finding myself a disbeliever of all this. I ask to get pinched regularily to be sure this isn't all a figment of my overactive imagination. Day after day, it's real and slowly I'm beginning to realize it. I am enjoying the lack of dread for getting out of bed in the mornings, the peace I feel most days, the general calm in my work environments, and somehow finding time amidst a very full week to spend time with a friend or two. My heart is overflowing. Part of this blessing upon me feels as though I need to bestow some of it upon someone else. I'm not sure how I'm to do this, or in what context just yet. God will show me at the right time. For now, I feel like I'm breathing under water. Covered over by an unfathomable blessing and yet not drowned by it. |
| posted by Jen @ 10:55 AM |
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| Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
| Happy |
| I am happy. I am blessed with so many good things I cannot hardly believe I'm not dreaming. Somebody pinch me. |
| posted by Jen @ 1:08 PM |
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| Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| Etsy order #2 |
This hat will be living out life in our nation's capitol. |
| posted by Jen @ 11:05 PM |
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| Morning has broken |
And my favorite season is sticking around a little longer than usual. I love autumn. And in Minnesota, for the past several years, our autumn has been not only the wrong kind of weather, but way to short on days that were autumn-y. This year has been a sheer delight. Some of the days were a bit toasty, but on the whole we have had a plethora of crispy days. And the leaves, so spectacular. The colors popped all at once instead of being spread way out and the first ones all falling off before the most brilliant of the darker colors could appear. Not only that, only a few stormy days to knock them all down so while I drive the streets this weekend, they are still there, naturally falling from the trees in a slow progression and blanketting the world with color. Yes, winter will come. But according to the local forecasters, I have at least a week or two more to enjoy this completely.
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