my dear lady disdain. are you yet living?

Amazing weekend!

Friday night I went to Jon Lumpkin’s birthday potluck. There was so much food, I met a bunch of people, and Jon’s new floors look fantastic.  Afterward Dan and I went to Kira’s house for pre-Valentine’s Day hangouts and pretty pink cookies.  Sean put his creepster face into yet another picture of me (by the wonderful Jake Lyell).

Yesterday we went antiquing in Petersburg and found exactly what we were looking for.  So we have almost all the materials for our wedding centerpieces marked off our list.  Afterward we had a lovely dinner at Mamma Zu and then watched Much Ado About Nothing.  Re-watching that was wayyyyy overdue.  So many hilarious lines!  Then we headed to Toad’s Place to see The Imaginary Boys, who blew my mind as usual.  Justin was more Robert Smith than Robert Smith.  It was incredible.

This morning we met up with Brendan (the new bass player for The Blue Letter), his girlfriend, and his girlfriend’s sister for breakfast at 821.  They cracked me up the whole time, and I’m looking forward to getting to know them better.

Right now we’re watching The Ordinary Radicals, for which The Blue Letter contributed a soundtrack song.  All good stuff, but news flash!  Others have been saying the same thing for years (about mercy, social justice, hugging trees, etc.).  But I suppose there’s nothing wrong with hearing a good message yet another time.  Also, they’re emphasizing a more literal interpretation of the Bible, and that clearly the point of this faith isn’t to convert people, it’s to love them and build a community with them.  And I guess that’s a pretty radical message to a lot of people and their preconceived notions about Christianity.

I think we’ll spend the rest of the day vegging out, since things have been so busy.  Hooray for leftovers from Mamma Zu!