Two weeks to go

Out my window: The leaves of the tree outside our apartment definitely turned brown in just a matter of days this past week, it seems like.

Clothing myself in: jeans, brown hooded long sleeve shirt

Around the apartment: Still enjoying the couch...still staying within a few feat of the oscillating space heater...

The hubby: We both happened to have three day weekends, and we were lazy. It was great. It's nice to have a few laid-back weekends before the holidays have us traveling more often.

In the kitchen: Last week was kind of a blah week on food...I burned the crushed potatoes, the steak wasn't fantastic, I didn't care for the taste of the pretzel chicken, and the sliders were a pain because the dough was too thin. With the sliders, I used off-brand biscuits instead of Pillsbury, because off-brand. I'm on a budget, people! There are very few things I buy name brand...Matt's juice and toilet paper are about the only ones that come to mind. For real, I think building up the culture of life, being on NFP and wiping about twice as much as anybody else calls for nice toilet paper.

Anywho...sorry about that...I'm still trying to narrow down meals for this next week. At the moment I'm considering crockpost chicken teriyaki, oven tacos for when we hopefully have some friends over for dinner, and tuscan pasta with tomato basil cream (I love how they can make ravioli sound so posh).

Crafting: I'm thinking the first couple of crafts from this blogpost for the youth group room. I'm pretty sure I have Popsicle sticks from previous crafts on hand, so I wouldn't have to buy too much to make this happen.

Learning: Have I mentioned how happy I am that I just have this week, next week, and then finals for this semester? I'm sorry Aquinas, it's not you, it's me.

Week 13 for school is:
                                One and Triune God: The persons in relation to the essence, the persons as compared to the relations or properties, and the persons in reference to the notional acts
                                Christology: Christ's subjection to the Father, Christ's prayer, and the priesthood of Christ

Reading: One and Triune God is making my head swim

Watching: old episodes of Lost and Phineas and Ferb...An Affair to Remember, as I've always wanted to understand the references in Sleepless in Seattle
 
Bringing me joy: Since we moved the futon into the office, I can hang out on that while Matt unwinds after work on his computer. I have a desk, but I'm not much of a desk person at this point in my life. I usually use one when I'm working on genealogy stuff, but that hasn't happened in forever and a day. After graduation...

Thinking about: Hand, Foot, and Mouth have affected my 1yr old room (even an adult), along with staff infection. When we found out about the latter, we cloroxed everything down in there, and played in the 2yr old room instead. I really don't feel like getting sick, thank you...Winter is upon us. Winter is my favorite season, but admittedly for all the more romantic aspects of it (my birthday, my mom's birthday, Christmas, snow, hot chocolate, fire place, snow angels, music). The cold...meh. At least 'tis the season for layering!

Pictures to share:I'll get back to you...