It's a gift, life's a beautiful thing. So don't waste it, doll

Picture: My dad's office. Not a bad view, eh? The snow's off the ground now, but the mountains will never stop being beautiful. I love mountains and water - preferably in one view. I think the closest I'll ever get to that is living 25-30 miles from one of the Great Lakes. Oh well - at least 2/5 of my family lives in the Northwest where mountains abound and water is plentiful.

Last night I didn't have sweet tea before bed and I slept like a BABY. This morning when I woke up 100% refreshed I attributed my restless night (and henceforth dragging mornings) to the oh-so-delicious southern beverage I've been drinking...on a nightly basis. Okay. That's got to stop. Side note - it also could've been because I caved and finally set our window fan up which 1) kept a cool breeze flowing through the room and 2) provided some awesome white noise.

Today at work we had a "lunch meeting" which meant I went to get pizza and everyone eats hastily before a 1:00 meeting. After two mugs of pop, two Sandie's Shortbread cookies (which are the bomb) and a piece of pizza, I'm sitting a liiiiittle heavy. This too shall pass. (That wasn't intended to sound as gross as it did. I apologize.)

Kristen has a doctor's appointment soon - at which time she'll set up an ultrasound appointment and me and Mandsy will find out if we're having a precious 'lil niece or nephew! I can't wait to hold a baby. In the last year or so my maternal instincts have kicked in hardcore. Unfortunately, I live in a slight ghetto (yet cozy) apartment complex and my husband is currently unemployed. Those two situations don't bode well for bringing a life into the world. All in time, Heidi. All in time.

Me and Dan are going to come in under our weekly budget this week! Because of this awesomeness, I'm struggling with this decision: Do I try to keep under-budget and be proud of us? Or should we spend our last bit of budget going to see Date Night at a $5 matinee showing on Sunday? What to do, what to do?

Last night I watched part of SNL 2000-2010 and it was quite the delight. I wish our DVR would've been working so I could watch the last hour of it. Sadly, since the sweet tea wasn't in the equation, my fatigue won me over at 10:00. Maybe I'll just have to start watching SNL on SN instead of relying on monumental clip shows to fill me in.

A snip-it of my devotions this morning:

"God knows just when to withhold from us any visible sign of encouragement and when to grant us such a sign. How good it is that we may trust Him anyway! When all visible evidences that He is remembering us are withheld, that is best; He wants us to realize that His Word, His promise of remembrance, is more substantial and dependable than any evidence of our senses. When he sends the visible evidence, that is well also; we appreciate it all the more after we have trusted Him without it. Those who are readiest to trust God without other evidence than His Word always receive the greatest number of visible evidences of His love." - C.G. Trumbull

Hallelujah, I found time to journal this morning!