pinky promise

i pinky promised john that i would update tonight.  :-)  here it is.

monday evening, i had coffee with a friend and had worship team practice for the midweek service while having a massive headache.

wednesday, john and i took a mile and a half walking tour of philadelphia churches/ministries along with our main teaching pastor's seminary class.  the highlight by far was lunch...

pat's & geno's are the competing cheesesteak places right across the street from each other, so we got one cheesesteak with cheese whiz from both places and split them.  john ended up being a pat's fan, and i was a geno's fan.  it was a looooooooooooooooong day, and all i wanted to do was sleep after i ate that fat cheesesteak.  we had to go straight from that tour to church that night (without dinner).  the moment we got done singing, we were outta there.  john was sweet enough to drive me 20 minutes up the road to quakertown to go to sonic.  i needed some comfort food.  :-)

thursday, we looked at some more houses.  all strikeouts.  we had calvary directory pictures taken that afternoon.  that turned into a disaster.  well, not really.  that was a little melodramatic.  i thought it was going to be a disaster when i spent time straightening my hair just to walk outside in the rain and wind and had my umbrella flip inside out and break.  stupid.  the picture turned out just fine.  i just had a little added wave and frizz on my head. :-(  we went out to dinner with the lorusso's that night where i had a spectacular filet mignon.

friday, i got the privilege of hanging out with joni boudreaux who was in town from louisiana visiting stephanie allison.  our plans were to go to the king of prussia mall, but due to the enormous amounts of rain we had gotten which caused road closures and sinkholes and backed-up traffic that we sat in for an hour, we decided to surprise john at the office and then go to another mall that was closer.  my only purchase was 2 long sleeve thermal shirts from the gap which have come in handy over the past few days!

saturday, john and i went with joni, stephanie, and sarah to take a tour of qvc's studio park in west chester.

we had some time to blow before the tour began, so john and sarah played mother-may-i? with joni...

 they're neck 'n neck...

 sarah forgot to say mother-may-i....john won.  haha.

 joni vs. sarah in father-may-i?

other than the tour guide being extremely irritating, it was a really interesting tour.  we got to peek in the studios as they were on-air and see all the behind the scenes stuff.  i decided that it'd be awesome to be a set designer.  and then i decided that olivia should move up here and be a product photographer.  and then i decided that david should move up here and be a liaison/translator between the u.s. and german qvc locations. 

 life-size cardboard cut-outs of all the hosts on qvc

sunday, we all went to church, then minus john, we went to a craft fair in skippack (obviously john was more than happy to go home and rest).  the weather was nice (maybe a little on the cool side).  i wasn't too impressed with anything i saw there.  it always seems like craft fairs are geared toward "old-lady" taste.  

i spent yesterday doing laundry.  2 of my 3 loads i forgot to use detergent.  genius.  ups delivered my birthday present from mom and dad...

i wore them all day with my pajama pants tucked in them.  thanks, mom and dad!!!  later that night, john and i had a young adult research team meeting (Y.A.R.T...how catchy.) (i wore my boots to that, too)  :-)

today, john and i drove over to lancaster to have lunch with mary demarco!

good good times!  totally worth the drive over there!  we love you, mary!  :-)

the weather is officially getting colder.  we took the window units out of the windows today, stored them in the basement, and turned on the heat.  our first radiator heating experience.  john had to go to care & share (a thrift store) to buy a jacket.  must i remind you that we still only have our 2 weeks of clothes that we originally came up here with?  i'm going to want to burn these clothes by the time i get my hands on the rest of my wardrobe.