What have I been up to lately?
Work. Lots of work. Full-time job work.
Wedding planning. Inching closer to finalizing big decisions like cake, catering, and flowers. Save the dates will be coming up soon. We're at the half-way point of the engagement, basically. Where did the last 6 months go?!
Online homework. That I always end up doing Sunday night before it's due. Old habits die hard. But we're finally getting into meatier subjects concerning bioethics. Excitement.
I haven't had a doing-nothing weekend in more than 6 weeks. As much as I understand that everyone has to put their events on weekends, why is it every weekend in a row? I've been invited to a baptism next weekend, but honestly, I love them to death, but I may finally have to crave to my introvert ways and STOP ALL ACTIVITY for two days. That's all I'm asking for. Two days of no plans.
I'm exercising. This must sound completely silly, but for me, it's a big deal. Every Tuesday and Thursday I'm at the Y for an hour after work on the treadmill. I've never been on a treadmill except for physical therapy for my knee, and now I'm making a habit of it. Since I've been doing it for about a month, it's finally morphing from "Ugh, I gotta go or else I'll kick myself for it and fall out of the habit," to: "I can't wait to lose all the stress from work on the treadmill and walk it off..." Now, the Y is definitely NOT made for introverts. I'm tempted to find a smaller gym, but I have a pass through my dad's work, so I'm not paying membership... So for now I put in my iPod, focus in on Wheel of Fortune, and try to pretend no one else is around.
Teaching religion class with my dad. Juniors in high school. My dad and I have polar opposite teaching approaches. He hardly prepares, but since he's been covering apologetics for the past few years, he can improvise with personal stories and be totally relatable, and completely fill the whole hour without it feeling like it's a whole hour. I can prep for two days in advance, but I'm such a to-the-point, why-don't-you-already-know-this, it's-all-in-my-head-and-I-don't-know-how-to-communicate-it person that even if I try to supplement lessons with extra facts, history, and reading excerpts, I still have trouble stretching a class to even 45 minutes, at which point Dad catches on that I'm running out of material and jumps in with personal stories. For example...Dad covered the Eucharist, which only covers 3 pages in the book, yet he easily took up the first 3 classes with the material. It's also one of his favorite topics to cover...John 6 is his favorite chapter in all the Bible. I had the Canon of the Bible and "Sola Scriptura" and struggled to stretch it into 2 classes, even though I told cool stories about the Jewish history of the Old Testament, and the gnostic Gospels, and the Dead Sea Scrolls...I LOVE all the history, I just can't keep talking on and on! Dad is covering St. Peter right now, who is seriously his favorite saint EVER. The man can talk about St. Peter easily for 3 classes. And I get to cover Mary to wrap up the semester... When we realized what we were each covering, we couldn't help but savor the perfectness of it...we're each covering our favorite theological topics. I just wish I was a better teacher. I realize that there are whole classes over single topics like these, but I struggle to fill two classes with material. I'm just no teacher at all.
Anywho, that's life. Now, back to that homework I've been procrastinating on... (don't worry, I just have to do some citing!)
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