Odds and Ends

*Anytime I see a word I don't recognize, I sound it out backwards in case it stands for something else.

* Here are a few recipes I'm looking forward to trying out in my near future: soup, lasagna, black bean salad.

*I bought 2 new CDs last night that I am super exicted about. #1: Shane and Shane's new Dare 2 Share worship album. While I don't typically condone exchanging numbers for words, this CD is worth the oversight. Plus, I firmly believe no one can have too many versions of The Revelation Song on their iTunes. #2: Mandi Mapes. I don't remember what it is called. All I know is that it is heaven to your ears. Literally. Her voice is so great....and lyrics are cleverly Jesus focused too. She is one of the worship leaders at David Platt's church in Birmingham.

* I watched up Step up 3 last week. Might I say that I liked it better in non-3D format? Cuz it's true. Somehow 3D made a classicly cheesy dance movie almost unbearably cheesy. Glad to see it has redeemed itself on DVD...and will soon be making it's way into my collection.

*Pizza that is cut into squares instead of slices makes it infinitely easy to eat too much since there is no easy way to track 'slices consumed'.

*I had someone ask me last night if I was highly intuitive...like psychic...and he was serious! It just made me chuckle on the inside and remember Court and I trying to be psychic with each other in high school (whispering through the top window down to the gym). Last night, we were playing the game Taboo and the person giving me the clues weren't forth coming with words. So in an effort to win at any cost I would start guessing the first random words that came to mind. And apparently I was startling close a couple of times. I should've told him yes just to spook him out. Ha ha.

*Reading update: I'm half way through book 4 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia. I think they should make 'The Horse and His Boy" into a movie. It would be great. Oh, and I so love the picture of Jesus in Aslan. But I guess that's a given.

*My buddy the laughing duck has returned to his life in the pond outside my window. Do you know about him? He is one of the highlights of my new apartment. It is this duck who lives in the pond directly outside my window. I've loved ducks for a while (right Meghan?). Anyway, this one doesn't just quack. He cackles like he has been told the funniest joke. I've never actually seen him while he's making the noise, but I picture him throwing his beak back and letting out a good belly laugh....like he's losing a tickle fight. I can't help but smile when I hear him...even when he throws an all night party like he did last night. I imagine it is still most too cold for him to be back for good, so I'm guessing he just stopped in to pick up some clean undies before heading back South again. Either way, it was so funny to hear him while I got ready this morning.

OK, guess I should get some work done today.