Decks And Things

So, the past few days have been really hectic but really good.

I'd like to thank everyone who's either offered to help me move, or has helped me move, or has stored some of my stuff...you people are simply wonderful, and help make the big scary world a bit smaller and more personable.

Today itself was a pretty low key day. I got up and went to Mass at one of my favorite churches ever - the building itself is beautiful and I really like the "feel" of the community there. The priests usually give pretty insightful homilies. The homily today was about waiting (as in, the Apostles' waiting from the Ascention till Pentecost to find out what exactly they were supposed to be up to.) Fr. pointed out that waiting is usually a good thing, because sometimes when we're forced into longing we end up refining our longing - we figure out what we actually want or what actually makes sense to do.

That has a really good application to my life right now. I decided to promise myself that I'm not going to get into another relationship for (at least) a couple months, for a lot of reasons that are probably blatantly evident to most people who read this.

After Mass, I came back here and proceeded to nearly burn the apartment down. Actually, it wasn't as bad as it could've been (no smoke alarm this time) but I did make a hell of a lot of smoke and apparently one of my neighbors could smell it, too. It turns out that making lasagna in a pan that is simply too small is actually a worse idea than one might think - the lasagna itself actually turned out damn good, but it bubbled over and made a hell of a mess in the oven.

So, I dealt with that and then ran some errands. I watched a few episodes of Reno911 with a friend of mine that I hadn't seen in awhile, which was really good. Reno911 is hilarious and I enjoyed the break from online company... Then Kathryn called and I talked to her on the phone for a LONG TIME. We talked about a few different options for my annual "trip to Dayton" weekend, and caught up on life. Then I ate dinner, and did some reading, and here I am...

If you haven't noticed, I'm really enjoying just living what at least feels like a normal life. Bye bye CMU stress, at least for a few months. Yay!