A few weeks back, I hosted a cookie exchange with a friend from school. We had a blast! Here were the instructions we mailed (let’s be honest emailed) out!
Here’s how it works…..
1. You pick your FAVORITE family holiday recipe including cookies, bars, brownies, fudge, candies etc. (NO cut out sugar cookies allowed, sorry… we’re afraid [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Musings’
December 16, 2009
Cookie Exchange!
December 12, 2009
Yakademics
I have some good friends in my program @ UT that put together a very fun (and funny!) “mini series” on being in the academy & life as a graduate student. According to their blog: “Yakademics is a video series about the adventures of two doctoral students in the field of communication, Andrew Ishak and [...]
December 5, 2009
What a day
It’s been a crazy day in ATX. It allegedly snowed for like 5 minutes. Of course, I missed it. However, I DID see the hilarious reaction to the “winter weather.” First came the parking garage…I drove up to the garage I park in each day and there was this interesting little note pasted to the [...]
December 2, 2009
TV & Talking
Adventures in marriage this morning…..
To me, TV is background noise to a conversation.
To my husband, conversation is background noise to the TV.
I love you honey!
[caveat~ it is not always like this ~ but man this morning it sure was!!! ]
November 24, 2009
Showered in Blessings
Today is a good day. I feel blessed beyond belief and incredibly thankful for all that I’ve been given in the last 24 hrs.
I spent the morning “cold calling” prisons… yes cold calling prisons. I am doing my dissertation research on prisons and prison “membership”… or “what it means to be a member of a [...]
November 20, 2009
Christmas Memories
I’ve now been lying in bed since Sunday. It is FRIDAY. This means that I’ve had a lot of free time on my hands….I had really hoped to make it back to class today, but I can’t seem to put 3 sentences together with out several hacking coughs in the middle. My amazing friend Abby [...]
November 18, 2009
Bored & Sick
Last week was NCA, or the national communication association conference. It was a blast. I got to catch up with old friends & profs and spend time with some of my future colleagues & grad students! I flew into chicago on Wed and had lunch with my good friends Stephanie and Erika. Erika works for [...]
November 9, 2009
An Amazing Blessing
The last few week have been amazing and frustrating at the same time. I’ve had such amazing news to share but have been unable to share it! So here it is….. drum roll……
I HAVE A JOB AND WE’RE MOVING TO OHIO!!!
I got a call from Ohio University Oct 10th. I thought they were calling to [...]
September 30, 2009
Quote of the day…
I asked my students to write down their favorite quotes today…Here is a sample of some my favorites~ and those that gave me a little trepidation. I am *not* responsible for the cited sources below…I just copied what they wrote down, so some of these might be wrongly attributed. If so, I apologize! Hope you [...]
September 29, 2009
Ramblings
God has been challenging me in really awesome ways this week…
Steve & I are taking a systematic theology class at church and Kevin (one of the pastors) spoke this week on the revelation & inspiration of scripture. At one point in his talk, he referenced the parable of the lost sheep. He talked about how [...]
