quotes from the weekend:

Regarding setting up two friends of ours…

A: Mostly, I think they’re the right height each other.

B describing J’s questioning of his long distance relationship…

B: She was fishing for information, but it felt more like spear fishing.

Filed under: Friends

morning runs

I am not a runner. Nor would I ever think of getting up at the break of dawn (or let’s say 7:30am) to run 5 kilometers with a thousand other people.

All that to say, I did NOT run a 5k this morning. But my friends did! By the time Andy and I rolled out of bed at 7:23, threw on some clothes and made it up to Franklin Street, Scott and Anna had already started the race. We got up there at 7:33 and a few minutes later we saw the first runners come over the hill. As the leaders went by, we saw Scott was one of the front runners! Literally!

We cheered on Anna and made our way to the finish line just a few blocks away. By the time we got there, Scott had already won the 5k!

We cheered Anna to the finish line, along with the winners of the 10 mile race.

We had a great time cheering on friends and people we didn’t even know. It reminded me of the time we cheered Joie L. and Carrie M. on during the Lincoln Marathon. Good times!

Filed under: Around town, Friends

life’s soundtrack

This post was inspired by Liz’s list on Facebook about 15 albums that changed her life. I wouldn’t exactly call this a list of albums that “changed my life” or even my favorites, rather it’s a list of albums that I listened to over and over again at certain points in life. (And those that come to mind at one in the morning)…

1. New Kids on the Block, The Right Stuff. Yup, 1990, I was overly preoccupied by the boy band, and particularly Jonathan Knight.

2. DC Talk, Free at Last & Jesus Freak. These guys were my first foray into Christian music around 1998. Rebecca and I went to at least two of their concerts and had a BLAST! At one point, I remember making serious eye contact with Kevin. He quickly became my favorite.

3. Audio Adrenaline, Don’t Censor Me. After meeting the band at a DC Talk concert one year, they became a new favorite. I heard “Big House” the other day while I was flipping radio stations. Man, I love that song.

4. Jars of Clay, Jars of Clay & Much Afraid. I was introduced to these guys at Horn Creek in, I’m guessing, 1999. I quickly ditched my former childish ways for the much deeper Jars of Clay. Admittedly, I still enjoy their stuff.

5. Cake, Fashion Nugget. My love affair with Cake started in college when I borrowed this from Rhett and kept it for a really, really long time.

6. Texas, White on Blonde. This album will forever take me back to France in early 1999. Bryonie introduced it to me and can picture us listening to it in the sunlight of her room.

7. Indigo Girls, Rites of Passage. In 1999 and 2000, I have no idea how many times this was played while living in the Big House at Covenant. This and Tracy Chapman’s song “Fast Car.” (Yes, Jeannette, I’m thinking of you right now.)

8. U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind. This was the first U2 album that I waited in expectation for its release.

9. U2, Achtung Baby. While I had had this album for a while, it wasn’t until the summer of 2000 that I think it invaded my soul. I remember one night out on the porch with Brent, John, Megan, and Paige with drinks and smokes and listening to “One” and “Until the End of the World.” That was a great summer.

10. Destiny’s Child, The Writings on the Wall. This was another summer of 2000 memory, but I took it to the Philippines in 2001 and found Filipinos loved them and J.Lo.

11. Patti Griffin, 1000 Kisses. This will forever remind me of Joie in 2002 (?). One day in her car the song “Rain” came on and I asked her to play it again…. and again, and again…

12. Eddie from Ohio, Andy’s Mix CD. One of ventures at The Grand was creating a mix CD exchange. By design, Andy and I were in the same exchange group. He made a whole CD of Eddie from Ohio songs. I liked him a lot.

13. U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. See a theme here? Andy and I listened to it on our first date in 2004. And then went to the concert as a married couple in 2005.

14. Over the Rhine, Drunkard’s Prayer. I had seen them live in 2002 (?) and loved them, but wasn’t taken by their most current release at the time. Thus I was a little slow on picking this album up in 2007. But once I did, I couldn’t put it down.

15. I don’t really have a current soundtrack. I’ve gotten some good leads and am trying them on for size.

Filed under: Art, Friends, in process

wisdom

This weekend was the first in 3 years that all five of the Horn Creek Cabin #2 girls were able to make it to our annual Labor Day reunion in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. It was great. With lots of words of wisdom:

B: I don’t know anything about Grey’s Anatomy. Tell me about it.

A: It’s very realistic. Because when you’re a resident you sleep with all the doctors and nurses and usually do it in a closet when you’re on call.

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