I relish the fact that I can send a private letter to someone special. I don't do it often. In fact Doug and I haven't sent ANY snail mail since before we started dating/courting (whatever you want to call it!). *GASP* "You sent snail mail BEFORE you were dating?", you say. "SCANDALOUS!" Wait, wait, wait! Hold your wild horses. *I* was NOT sending snail mail to anyone. DOUG was. I wash my hands of this accusation and pass it on to my honey. Yes, HE was sending me snail mail. It just happened a few times. Not only did he send me a letter, the first time he also sent me a box completely filled with random Australian paraphernalia. Lydia, my dear room mate, was shocked and appalled. I absolutely loved it! There was a cork hat, Australia flag socks, flip flops (also known in Australia as Thongs *gag*), an authentic Australian flag, a little desk clock in the shape of a boomerang, a boomerang (legitimate, and complete with instructions on how to throw it - thats a different story), chocolate covered macadamia nuts, temporary Australian flag tattoos, and even more that I can't think of now. After receiving such an elaborate gift, I did have some questions about his intentions, but as far as I was concerned I had done nothing to bring on this kind of behavior, so I simply enjoyed it and moved on. As they say, "The rest is history."
On Sunday, Hope came home with me for a few days. We had fun together. Monday turned out to be an extremely lazy day. We accomplished close to nothing. We watched part of America's Next Top Model (terrible in almost every way), and had three hour naps. We intended to run, but it didn't happen.. :-/. So on Tuesday we determined to be more productive. It worked. We went on a 2.5 mile run together in the FREEZING cold, did 300 sit-ups, some pushups, and some squats with weights. We went shopping for some food for dinner. We made a delicious quinoa salad with chicken, cranberries, cucumbers, grapes, and herbs. For desert we had raspberry sorbet and a bit of chocolate ice cream. It was a small treat, but such a nice one. To finish off our meal we had hot yerbe mate tea (a green tea and mint tea mix). What made it so much nicer was the fact that Lydia (the sister Lydia) joined us for dinner after classes downtown and we had some wonderful dinner conversation that was remarkably "Davey-ish" (PS. You will not know what that means unless you are a Davey, but I figure that there are enough of us Daveys to get away with using an inside joke on a public blog. Heck, we probably make up at LEAST half of the people in the world! JK). I love having my red headed sisters over. :) I was missing one of them though. I would have loved to have you over, Sarah! And of course, I missed all my brunette and blonde sisters too. :)
Doug informed me yesterday that he thinks he's sick with tonsillitis. It makes me sad to think of him being sick and not being able to do a thing about it. If this long distance relationship stuff were good for only one thing it would be teaching me how to be more faithful in prayer. Boy, have I learned a lot about that. There's so much that I have to commit to the Lord because of my absolute inability to do anything about it. A comforting thought is that God is there with him and will use all things for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purposes. I'm praying for his speedy recovery. Please do the same!
I've enjoyed keeping up with my sister Maria on her blog "Taking The World Into My Arms". Read and enjoy.
Blessings to my brothers and sisters in Christ.
My intentions were pure!!!
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