Today I'm thankful for an entertaining twist to what was intended to be a contentedly relaxed breakfast friend date. My friend and I were still contentedly relaxed, but we were approached by staff from the Admissions Office because, well, we were just hanging out in the most happening part of the campus center. We were asked to model some cute winter accessories for a new photo spread to be in Admissions publications to prove to anxious prospective students that we Carls can indeed survive the winter. (I must add we are doing this during the coldest week we have had for a while, so we'd better prove we can survive!). I would never consider myself photogenic, nor do I really ever feel comfortable in front of a camera (partial reason for preferring to be behind one), but I'm thankful for this opportunity to just be ridiculously silly and play around with the hipster mustache finger warmer they begged me to model with following a pair of Valentine's red mittens. So many giggles. And even though my friend and I did not get to catch up about as much as we had hoped, we just added a shared experience to our life story.
I'm thankful for another unexpected but pleasant surprise of a live looping artist's concert over the noon hour in the campus center. It did add another challenge to getting to know one of the new freshmen in the Christian community, but the creativity and coves of Noah Hoehn were pretty wonderful background to a lovely conversation.
I'm thankful to have gotten to watch Grey's in real time upon a decision enacted and implemented in just ten minutes - it was wonderful to veg with one of my best friends and watch our silly show, and was well worth switching from pajamas to real clothes and dashing off to campus in my cold car.
Wow, it really sounds like I did nothing but have friend time today! I was indeed blessed with a lot of friend time, but I so enjoy being able to schedule in friend time around work, emails, volunteering, etc. I am a tired but lucky girl.
Today's inspiration: GOOD ("a global community of, by, and for pragmatic idealists working towards individual and collective progress") encourages you to set aside just one percent of your time to serving your community this year. That comes out to just 20 hours of your life. In a year. Will you pledge to respect and serve not just everyone in your circles, but "the least of these" as well? A little bit of good from a lot of people amounts to a heck of a lot of good. Will you pledge with me to dedicate just 20 hours this year to serving your community?
http://www.good.is/posts/commit-1-percent-of-your-time-to-service-this-year
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