catch-up

 

here i am again at the end of the weekend with a week's worth of blogging to catch up on. this week was good, busy, crazy, nice, stressful and full of all the reasons i love living in downtown portland...especially in summer.

okay, so there's a good ten days before it's really summer. but in portland it's 'summer' once rose festival rolls around. (well, really cinco de mayo, since there's a big carnival on the water front for that too, but the weather's usually pretty wet still in may.) last weekend was the starlight parade (at night - hence the name) and yesterday was the grand floral parade. i attended neither, but love the influx of people downtown to enjoy the festivities with family and friends.

instead of going to the parade yesterday, i stayed in bed late (very late!) and then caught argentina kicking the ivory coast's butt. i'm so glad the spanish chanel comes in on my flimsy antena. i'll watch soccer (football, fútbol, futebol, fusball...whatever you want to call it) in any language, we just don't usually get games here on regular broadcast tv. another plus about moving to europe!

later i met up with the chick posse for some much needed sit-and-chat over an array of deep-fried happy hour munchies. we had to pop over to the store to look for a few thing, but no, we didn't end up buying any sunglasses. life's been pretty hard for one of the girls, so it was nice to just be, to just relax and laugh. not that we don't always laugh anyway, but the point was to enjoy eachother's company. that we did.

and then i stayed up til 5am reading a book. it was a really good book called kissing adrien by siri l. mitchell. christian romance would be the classification, but the christain part and the romance part were secondary to the heroine's self-discovery. i highly recommend it. well, if you're the type that likes travel and chick-flicks. (mitchell also wrote another great read called chateau of echos.) i had never in my life stayed up all night to read a book, until about two months ago. now i've done it twice. i better not get into a habit of this!

which brings me to today. church, lunch, laundry, nap, tv, email, blog. that's my day. that's my week. not too quiet, not too dull.


(...oh, i should add that i got to talk to jben this week. deifnately a highlight!)