happy day-after thanksgiving :)

here i am at work, getting ready to start the day.



only 2 other people are here, so it will be slow and quiet.  i already got my coffee ready, a chocolate donut, and a freshly burned CD in the stereo. :) life is as good as it can be at work!



thanksgiving yesterday was lovely slash boring.  i had gone to bed early the night before so i woke up around 8.  ryan had wrapped a book to give to me before i left maryland, so the first thing i did was roll over and open it. :)  it was a book called "The Sacred Romance."  being that it was co-written by john eldredge, one of my favorite authors, i spent a good hour cruising through the first 5 chapters.  i haven't spent more than 15 minutes at a time reading any book in the past 4 years, so you could definitely say that i was enjoying it.



once i put down the book, i sat in bed with my cereal and coffee and watched a few solid hours of roseanne.  then a shower and a conversation with my mom.  we talked about some deep stuff and i cried a lot.  i won't go into details, but mostly we talked about dreams and i realized that i have quite a bit of stuff to work through in order to figure out where i'm going from here.  i am torn between duty and desire.  between how i imagined my life and where my life is going.  i haven't figured out how to reconcile the two, so time with God will be important.  anyways, my mom gave me some really good advice which i appreciated. 



after she caught me up on all the family news and we said good-bye, i threw my hair into braids and spent some time in the kitchen making yams and stuffing, which both turned out delicious!  then more eating in bed with the tv.  i watched a movie called "you don't know jack," which i will probably blog about later today.  it was VERY thought-provoking and i really enjoyed it.



after the movie, i called kate and we talked on the phone for five hours.  yes.  five.  haha, quite the horrible amount of time, but it was wonderful.  we talked about her thanksgiving and family, the movie i had just watched, discussed which disney prince is the most good-looking (yes, i know), and reminisced about our friendship and all the stuff we've gone through together.  it was a fun conversation and i was glad to have that time to talk with her.



my thanksgiving was probably quite boring compared to most, but boring is what i needed and boring i enjoyed.  all in all, it was a really good thanksgiving and for that, i am thankful :)