Yesterday my new laptop bag from my mom and dad arrived:
I loooooove it! I really needed a new one since my old one resembles a diaper bag (I’m told. For the record I highly disagree), and is exceptionally well-loved – so much so that its been mended 3 or 4 times, to the point where it cannot be sewn again and it is so worn that you can’t even tell on some places what color the bag actually is. It was my first laptop tote for my first laptop and I dragged that thing all over the country with me for four and a half years. Let us all take a minute to mourn my loss. Thank you. But I really do love this new one. I like its versatility, gazillions of pockets, color, and that it can be worn as a side sling messenger bag. I love that it is just a bit different from the norm (naturally) in terms of laptop bags. So, thanks mom & dad!
I finally (I know, get with it Lara!) discovered the macro and super macro setting on my camera, so in a fit of joy I went on a detailed glamour shot binge:
Pretty heavenly for a point-and-shoot, right? This will not be the last of my super macro endeavors.
Today in my slow cooker experiments I made a beef stew. It smells amazing and I can’t wait to try it after we get home from the Thursday night Marriage Matters series at church tonight! I took a basic stew recipe with potatoes, stew beef, carrots and onions (among other ingredients) and added peas, red wine, and thyme to it – nothing too special, but I’m sure it’ll amp up the flavor. I love tweaking my ingredients. Ted says this means I am definitely a cook and not a baker. I’m positively okay with that. I’m also proud that my carnitas and pulled pork shenanigans inspired my mom to request the recipe and interested my sister enough that she made her own pulled pork carnitas the other night! That’s pretty neat.
I’m not sure what got me thinking about this, but today I remembered a game we used to play when I worked at Magik called Friend Olympics.
I wasn’t introduced to it until I’d been working there for several months already, but once I really got to spending more time with my crazy co-workers in the middle office and becoming better and better friends with them, the game came up. Essentially it consists of acquiring useless knowledge about your friends so you can blurt it out randomly and boast about your triumph with a smirk saying “Friend Olympics” when others gaze upon you questioningly and recollect their jaws from the floor, stunned by your awesome friendship skills. It goes something like this:
A: (speaking to C) Hey! Did you know that…
B: (B enters the room) Tommy has webbed feet?
A: (stunned silence)….He does!?
B: Friend Olympics. (exits)
There’s other ways to play too, like in a group. Someone asks who has a phobia of bagels, and the person who actually knows the right answer because they’re an awesome friend (or because they have killer investigative skills) blurts the name of the person. Or if you mention something interesting about someone in conversation and it is information that the other person didn’t know and the other person is like “what!? really?” you simply say “Friend Olympics” and continue on with the conversation. It’s a simple, dumb game, but really effective and funny when played randomly like the scenario above. I kind of miss playing that game. So, that’s my show & tell for the day. Pass it on!
