Two pictures from this week

Wanted to post these, now that I've uploaded them...Rachel and April at P.F. Chang's the other night, and Linda holding Etienne. With her awkward hand. :) These are on my facebook too, but I know Mom can't see them there...which you should fix, Mom. You could spy on Linda much more efficiently if you had a facebook profile.

Mostly about food

So, last weekend this dude Peter drove down to see me and it was really fun...we went hiking at Cloudland Canyon on Saturday morning and brought a picnic and then went to the 4 Bridges arts festival and then Coolidge and then ate sushi and then we heard jazz at the Chattanoogan. We talked the whole time even though at Coolidge we sort of just meant to chill out and rest for a second because it was hot and we'd been walking around all day. I even got a little bit sunburned.


Umm, yeah. So I really liked it, it felt easy to hang out with him. He's a seminary dude and so he lives like 7 hours away, so that is sort of lame, but whatev, he has Verizon too. :) I'll probably go up and see him and all my other St. Louis favorites in a couple of weeks.

In other news, I am on call this weekend and I have no food in my apartment. Even the Brita pitcher is empty! I totally need to go grocery shopping, but I haven't been in the mood lately. Usually I get in the mood to grocery shop about every week and a half, so it works out well. Yeah but sometimes you just need to make yourself do stuff like grocery shop so you don't go out to eat for every single meal! Ew. That's weird.

Today my boss took us all out to lunch at Longhorn and I was psyched because I ordered steak and ate the WHOLE thing. Do you know how long steak will fill you up for? You can do other stuff and not even worry about eating again for like 7 hours. It reminds me of when I used to go to that Pancake Pantry when I lived in Nashville and eat this huge salty potato/egg/cheese thing. I'd eat it for breakfast and then not be hungry again until dinner. So I don't know why I'm thinking about food so much right now. I think the steak is probably wearing off. :)

Yesterday I got to see those Lewins again and it was great. Linda stopped by to meet Etienne and then I took some awkward pictures of her holding him. She's got finals next week--can't believe she's going to be a junior in college this fall! That feels weird to me, like I'm supposed to start taking her seriously now or something. :)
Afterwards I went to P.F. Changs with some folks to celebrate April's 25th birthday. We had fun and I tried sake for the first time. It was gross, but that place is otherwise completely delicious. Great, now I'm talking about food again. :)

So while we were at Longhorn today, the owner brought us out complimentary desserts, like this huge chocolate cake with ice cream around it. We were all pretty full so it was kind of like, "mmf, thanks dude" and there was a bunch left over. My boss suggested that we take it back in box "for Marie to eat sometime late next week" and everyone was kind of like, "What? Why her?" And then he goes, "in the year we've had with Marie, I've learned that she is not particularly discriminating about her food" and then everyone started laughing and making fun of me like, "oh yeah! remember that crusty old quesadilla she brought in that one time?" and "didn't you eat potato chips for breakfast yesterday?" Anyways it was pretty funny. And yes, I did eat potato chips for breakfast yesterday. But I had some milk too.

Okay! No more about food. I really just meant to update everyone on Peter Rowan, who is a cool dude. He likes to eat too. I'm still trying to figure out if he has good taste in beer though, because that is important and I can't tell. :)

It's time to hang up your boa.

Well I was trying to post some pictures of my coworkers and I but...blogger's dorked up, as Eric Graves would say, so not tonight guys.

I've been kind of doing stuff all night with the tv on in the background, and it looks like there are tons of scary movies coming out soon. I used to try not to watch scary commercials even but I think I'm over it and they don't really stick in my head anymore. So I watch them. (Let me tell you what the dumbest show ever is: The Search For the Next Pussycat Doll. Doesn't even deserve to be on in the background. Although it does make me wonder if I'm supposed to get bangs that almost cover my eyes. Would I be cool then?)

Okay wow. What a very insightful blog post. Here's what I'm thinking about lately:

---I'm wondering if I should join my church. I'm getting the feeling I'll be around this town for awhile. Maybe I should settle in.

---I need to find a new apartment soon, unless I want to live in this ant-y apartment for another year. Elaine's going to live with me I think. That will be good times.

---I can't sleep in anymore, even on Saturdays. I wake up early thinking about a million things, not necessarily worrying, but going over my day and week a lot. It's a little weird and old-ladyish, but it's been helping me pray, so maybe I should be glad.

---Fireplaces can be very messy. If you have one you should use it anyway though.

---I really like my friends, a lot. I forget how much I enjoy them until I see them again. I'm sort of dreading the loss of April and Rachel this summer. I like them individually but I like being around their friendship too.

---I still haven't gotten to wear my dress.

---I'm happier and busier with stuff than I was 6 months ago. It's good.

That's probably all I feel like saying for now.

Easter was so fun.

So this weekend was great. All these St. Louis types came down for a couple of days and we hung out, and I really liked it. The top picture is everyone who came down (except Chris), then a picture of James, Zach & Chris, then the Thompsons, who are clearly not from St. Louis but came to the Good Friday Cuban dinner party, then Deana, me, Nicky, and Carol with Etienne, then Chris and I, then Steph, Gustavo, & Peter, and finally me and those Cheneys.

It was fun but I was really tired by the time they all left last night.

P.S. it's Chris's birthday today so you should call him. I'm going to bed now.

The smallest Lewin

So here he is, guys. The newest Lewin, who was just born this afternoon. I showed up about the same time as Erica and James and I got to watch big brother meet little brother. So that was really cute. In that 2nd picture of the two of them James is excited because he just ripped Etienne's hat off and tried to wear it. Then he tried to dump Sprite on him. So yeah, we laughed. He's cute for being 3 hours old, huh?