wow. what a week!! well tuesday was nothing exciting. i didn't feel well so i watched a lot of tv, including a&e's hoarders, which then made me feel like a mega-lazy bum in a dirty house... even though i didn't feel good, and our apartment is uber-clean. also shelley came over that night and we are going to try to hang out every tuesday! i hope so.
wednesday i signed up for a bible study... "how to study the bible"... i think it will be really good. i'm really looking forward to it and growing with God through this. i also signed matt and i up to serve at church on the welcome team the first saturday of every month. after i signed up, i just got this amazing, God-given peace about everything from not having a job to realizing i was given this time off for something good. everything just felt like it was exactly how God wanted it to be going.
well, five minutes after i talk to matt about all of this on the phone, he calls me back and says that his boss wanted to put him on a project that is based out of the UK, and if it all worked out matt would have to be in london for 3 weeks... but i could go, too. work is supposed to start monday. YES. this monday! so at first we are all excited, but then i start getting this nagging feeling that we should not go because of my previous paragraph. and then i started thinking of all these other reasons not to go, like... how could we not see our friends for THREE WEEKS??? i mean i know some people could go that long, but we hang out with our friends at least 3 times a week and we are really close to all of them. plus even if his company paid for my ticket, we would be spending so much money, and i would get lonely during the day while he was working, and he'd be working probably 12 hour days, and it might get extended to a full month... so even though it does seem like the perfect opportunity, because we don't have kids, and i'm not tied down to a job, i really don't think it's what God wants for us at this time. plus... i honestly and truly have never cared that much about going to london. but anyway, that has been a big part of our week.
wednesday night we took my car over to matt's parents' house and he fixed it... i think. the air conditioner runs but it's finicky when i first start driving. it takes about 5 minutes for it to finally be consistent and that sucks. i guess it's better than having no a/c at all though. we went to david and faith's to show them after matt fixed it, and we ended up staying there for a long time... well... it was a long time for just stopping by and for 10 at night. still, it was fun :).
thursday morning jenny came over and that was so fun. we just talked a long time and then we went to corner bakery for lunch... mmmmmmm tomato basil soup and uptown turkey no tomatoes... after she left i watched plain truth with mariska hargitay that was made out of the jodi picoult novel, plain truth. it was pretty good. then i got this huge chocolate craving and i made brownie cupcakes. OMG. they were fantastic. well, the recipe only made 12, but i still didn't want 12 cupcakes lying around so we took some to luke and amanda, and stayed there for a while talking. (see? we DEFINITELY see our friends a lot!) also yesterday we went to barnes and noble and i got the first book in the charlaine harris, "sookie stackhouse novel" series. these books became trueblood on HBO. i haven't watched the show, because deanna told me there was a lot of sex in it, but i've heard the books were really good. i just got one in case i don't like it. if i do, though, there are quite a few books in this series, and she has written many other books. that will be fun :).
today i am going to go shopping with deanna, and tonight we are going to take david and faith to chuy's for dinner to thank david for helping with my car so much. then we might go to la duni for some delicious cake or sprinkles for some cupcakes. it all depends if we want dessert by then. tomorrow we are going to matt's manager's house for a work party. we have to bring something, but i don't know what to bring. it goes against my principles to go buy something for it, but i don't really want to bake- they never say thank you even when i make something specifically because i was asked. i guess i take after my grandpa with this kind of attitude. then saturday night we start serving on the welcome team at church. thennnn we will probably go to dinner with our friends. (see? this will be the 6th time with them this week, and that does not include phone calls and texts that would not be made if we were overseas because of the unbelievable charges.) i don't really know what we will do sunday- maybe visit my family- but then monday morning we are going to matt's parents' i think. i am not actually sure. it would be fun for matt and i to go on a date this weekend since it's 3 days long. there are a lot of movies i've been wanting to see.
ok here is the recipe for brownie cupcakes. it was really easy and you probably already have everything in your kitchen... i did!
oh my goodness. there is CHOCOLATE on the bottom of this cookbook!! ha aha ha. that's a good sign i think. it's 500 cupcakes by fergal connolly. matt's brother, justin, gave it to me for christmas two years ago. it has some good stuff, but some weird stuff too. this recipe was fairly simple.
Chocolate Brownie CupcakesIngredients:3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips (i used milk chocolate, because it's what we had)1/2 cup (1 stick) sweet butter (we didn't use sweet butter, we didn't have it)2 eggs1 1/2 cups superfine sugar (i used regular sugar)1 tsp vanilla extract1 cup all- purpose flourpreheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Place 12 paper baking cups in a muffin pan. Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler or medium bowl set over a pan of simmering water, stirring until melted. (i just put it in a microwave safe bowl, put it in for 30 seconds, stirred, another 30 seconds, stirred, until smooth). set aside to cool. in a medium bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, and vanilla until pale and thick. fold in the chocolate and then the flour, mixing until well combined.spoon batter into cups. bake for 25 minutes. remove pan from oven and cool for 5 minutes. then remove cupcakes and cool on a rack.you may serve it with vanilla cream topping, but i did not think that was necessary. however...Ingredients:1 cup heavy cream1 tsp vanilla extract3 tbsp confectioners' sugar, siftedFor the topping, beat the cream in a medium bowl until semi-stiff. fold in the vanilla and confectioners' sugar. place a dollop or two on each brownie.store without topping in an airtight container for up to 2 days.makes 1 dozen.
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